A/N: I tried to make this chapter more on track with the actual plot. This chapter will actual start the real story. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own TNBC or VK. Tim Burton and Ellen Schreiber still haven't answered my emails for ownership…

Chapter. 3

Finding Out

The next day felt seemed to drag on and on for Raven Madison. She woke up a little after noon and had been lounging in her room waiting for dusk to settle. Billy Boy had gone off with Henry for some computer stuff and her parents were at work. And to irritate her more a tune she as sure she'd never heard ever was repeating itself in her head. "Ugh." She sighed falling back on her bed making Nightmare 'mew'. It was barely 5 and the sun wouldn't start setting for another hour. She stared at herself having a rather pointless staring contest with her reflection when her eyes wandered to the blue mark that stained her rather high cheekbone. 'Where had she gotten it?' It was a thought she always had; she'd asked her parents and both had said it was a birthmark. But Raven had looked up birthmarks in what little medical books were in the public library and none were said to be blue, especially not powder blue. "Forget it." She muttered and stood up to get dressed. She pulled her striped corset type shirt from her top dresser and a pair of capris with chains attached to each belt loop. As it had almost all day, her phone went off and demanded her attention. She ignored it knowing very well it would be the same person, or people, that had been calling for two days straight. "Leave me alone!" She tried to keep her voice level but it was coated with annoyance and strangely was melodic. Raven was obviously not one to let frustration, unless it was a certain soccer snob, get in her way. Without much thought she pulled on her outfit along with her cuffs before noticing the sun settling behind pale clouds. Quickly she pulled on her scuffed boots, skeleton hoodie, and was out the door.

Something was off as she hopped onto her bike and made her way to Benson Hill. She could feel the disconcerting feeling of dread settle in the pit of her stomach. Had something happened to Alexander? The thought only made her peddle even faster until she was outside the rot iron gate and up the mansion steps. She only knocked once before the door creaked open, but it wasn't Alexander who answered. Jameson stood there with an expression more exhausted then usual.

"Miss Raven? I wasn't expecting you here." He opened the door leading Raven into the hallway and drawing room. Said room was colder than usual and Raven suppressed a shudder.

"Where's Alexander?" She cocked her head but the butler didn't say anything, dismissing himself to another room. Now Raven was more than annoyed. Instead of waiting like she was suppose to, like she usually did, she creeped her way down the hallway and up the stairs. Why was everything so much louder when it was a necessity to be quiet and stealth? As she made her way down the upstairs hall, without being caught, she could hear someone talking. Alexander's attic door was slightly open and she could hear his sweet voice drift through with the same annoyance she felt.

"What do you…But…" She could hear his very audible sigh as other bots came to her ears. "I understand. I know if they find the child it could only end with disaster." A long pause. "I know. Thank you, Constantine." And the sound of a phone being shut. As quickly as she could in her boots, Raven ran down the stairs and made herself sit in one of the velvet chairs. She pretended to be busy tracing the pattern on the soft seat as Alexander gracefully made his was down the banister and to stand in the doorway admiring his gothic beauty. "Hello love." He walked over and held out his hand. Raven took it and wrapped her arms around his neck. "How long have you been waiting?" He put his own hands around her waist.

"Only a few minutes. No worry." She put a happy-go-lucky smile on and kissed his cheek. The want to know who and what he was talking to was gnawing at her. But she couldn't let him know she'd been ease dropping. They decided to spend the night in and pursued to watch Interview with a Vampire for the millionth time. Alexander was watching Raven too much to even acknowledge the ongoing film and Raven…She was to engrossed in her own thoughts to know either. All she could think of was 'the child' Alexander has mentioned. What child? And who was Constantine? She was sure she'd heard the name somewhere, she just couldn't place it. And those three people she'd be cornered by in Hipsterville…what did they want with her? Too many things were in her mind causing a migraine to etch it's way slowly behind her eyes.

"Something the matter?" Raven shook her head being brought back into the real world by his voice. She began picking at the zipper on her sweater as he watched her for a response. "Is there something you aren't telling me?" Raven was going to say no, it was somewhat the truth after all. But with the gaze Alexander was giving her made the words catch in her throat. "Raven."

She sighed. "I heard you on the phone earlier." As she said this Tom Cruise as Lestat was changing Kirsten Dunst into an immortal child. "And I heard you talking about…" She hesitated. "About a kid." A flash of worry came across Alexander's eyes and faded into a look of being caught. He couldn't tell her, he had promised his father he wouldn't tell anyone. And he loved Raven too much to bring her into the troubling affairs of his world.

"I was on the phone with my father, Constantine." He began carefully choosing what to say. "And the child is my…cousin." Raven caught the slip but decided to let him go on. "And she and her mother are in hiding." The words trailed out of his mouth seeming like the truth. And raven believed it. "They exposed themselves to a village they had been living in and are with my parents." He answered the question before Raven could ask it. Raven accepted the false truth and curled herself back against Alexander. But Alexander on the other hand was slowly filling with guilt. He couldn't believe he'd just lied to the love of his eternity and she had believed him. He knew this wouldn't end the way he wanted. Also that he needed to find the child before anyone else. All he knew about this child were two things: 1. that the child was the heir to the Halloween Town throne. And that he or she needed to die before Halloween.

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Oh and in case you're wondering, or love spoilers like me, Alexander lied!