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"You'll be fine, why don't you go up to bed?" he asked kindly stepping out of the doorway. Luna nodded smiling faintly at first Vivian then Gabriel and left the room. Vivian waited until Luna was far from earshot before she sighed deeply,
"I thought Vampires were just a bedtime story to scare the children." She said, Gabriel nodded his eyes thoughtful,
"I did too, but in a town awhile back, their was a girl found in the woods. They thought a snake bit her when she was sleeping, across the wrist, maybe it was a vampire trying to hide their trail." He said quietly.
Chapter Three
Village Secrets
Gabriel's thoughts raced in his mind. He turned onto his side wrapping his arm protectively around sleeping Vivian beside him. She let out a soft child-like sigh in her sleep, bringing a small smile to his face.
He didn't understand how, after everywhere he had traveled in his life he was only hearing of vampires now. In this quiet peaceful town that his pack and his beloved Vivian now inhabited and called home.
The room had become gray with dawn, and he groaned softly. He hadn't slept at all during the night and he still didn't feel the least bit tired. He sighed and slid out of the bed, careful not to disturb Vivian, she'd sleep long into the day like the rest of the pack always did after long runs. He crossed the room careful to avoid the squeaky board and grabbed his jeans off the back of a chair, pulling them on and quietly leaving the room.
He climbed down the stars to the level just below there floor were the former members of the five and Vivian's mother lived.
He tapped on Fin's door with no response.
"Fin open up." Gabriel growled, knocking on the door. He heard Fin get up and a thud flowed by a curse, then the door swung open. "Damn it Fin what did I tell you about putting something on before opening the damn door?" Gabriel snapped quickly looking away from the naked younger man into the darkness of his room where his current girlfriend glared at him from her sprawled position on the bed.
"Your own fault Gabriel, your kind of interrupting this better be important." Fin told him
"Oh it is. Put some clothes on." Gabriel snapped grabbing the door handle and closing Fin inside his room. He turned and went to the next room, Willem. The twins and become two of his most trusted friends, wise as well. Willem had recently admitted to the Gabriel and Vivian and the rest of the pack that he was gay soon after Vivian tried to set him up on a blind date with a well endowed bouncy blonde girl.
Gabriel tapped on the door, and heard a growl from inside, light flooded into the hallway as the door swung open, Willem blinking sleep away from his eyes.
"Come talk to me and your brother in my office?" Gabriel said hardly making it a question. He turned away from the young man, and walked back down the hall to his office.
No sooner had he settled into his large desk chair then a tentative knock came at his door.
"Enter." He called, pulling a notebook in front of him and writing "Pack Threats" over the top of a blank page. Ulf stepped into the room sitting down in the chair across from Gabriel. "Couldn't sleep?" Gabriel asked him raising a questioning eyebrow.
"I'm a light sleeper. I heard you get up. What's happening? You usually don't get up for another few hours." Ulf asked, settling into his chair. He had become more outgoing since Gabriel had taken him under his wing, treating him like a little brother. Gabriel studied the boy for a minute before answering.
"Ulf you go to the town a lot right?" He asked, Ulf nodded with a small grimace.
"Of course I do. I go to the community college, so do the twins and Viv."
"Have you made any new friends?" Gabriel asked calmly staring at his fingernails.
"Listen Gabriel if this is about my social life it really doesn't matter… and I don't see why you should give a shit." Ulf said almost sharply, Gabriel looked up from his nails, slightly shocked. Had Ulf just talked back to him?
"It has nothing to do with your social life… but perhaps we should talk about that one of these days." Ulf looked down, a small flush rising in his cheeks.
"Fine, if it's not about my social life then why do you want to know about the locals? Ask Maria, she works for you after all." Gabriel glanced out the window that looked down on a scenic pond surrounded by a grove of colorful trees. He'd never talked that much to Maria. She was a human they hired to work at their front desk along with her sister. He thought that perhaps he scared the girls, they were young, Maria the elder of the two a senior at the high school and her sister a junior.
Gabriel sighed,
"Does she talk to you?" Just then the twins walked threw the door.
"Who? … Does Ulf have a little crush?" Fin laughed, punching off in the arm. Ulf growled and glared at the older boy.
"Shuddup Fin." Ulf snapped before turning back to Gabriel, "sometimes, yeah…. Why?"
"Go get her for me, k?" Gabriel asked, Ulf nodded, vacating his chair which Fin promptly took, Willem taking the other seat.
"Who's he going to get?" Willem asked, sliding down in his seat and lazily closing his eyes.
"Maria, I have a few questions to ask her about this place…" at Gabriel's words Willem's eyes snapped open and he glanced at his twin.
"The rumors?" Fin asked and Willem nodded.
"So you two knew something and didn't come to me?" Gabriel asked his voice now dangerously quiet.
"Keyword here Gabriel… RUMORS…we didn't see anything….. nothing to really beleave…. We thought that was all they were…." Fin told him, glancing up at the door when Maria and Ulf walked through the door.
Maria smiled shyly at the boys, and stood nervously at the door,
"You wanted to see me?" Maria asked, glancing from one boy to the other.
"Fin, up." Gabriel commanded, Fin glared at him then stood leaning against the nearest wall, Gabriel extended his arm in a way that said, 'sit' and the girl did, blushing slightly as she noticed Gabriel and Fin weren't wearing shirts. "I am Gabriel, as I don't know that we have ever really met." She nodded,
"Yes I know who you are. What do you want?" She asked a question that coming from anybody else would have been rude.
"How long have you lived here?" she frowned at his question, glancing at Ulf who gave her a reassuring nod.
"Since I was 3, why?"
"In all that time have you…" Gabriel paused and coughed once before continuing, "have you ever witnessed anything … strange?" To his surprise she laughed at his question,
"Of course I have. I wouldn't be working for you if I hadn't." She paused then added, "Look at the town I live in, swarmed with werewolves and vampires." Gabriel's eyes grew wide in astonishment at her bluntness, he glanced at the other men who had identical looks of surprise plastered over their faces.
"You know what we are?" He asked she smiled and nodded,
"There aren't many people in this village who don't know about you all, or aren't one of you. My sister and I come from a long line of Seer's, we don't possess the powers of our grandmother, but she was the one who raised us. She taught us to believe in the unbelievable. I never feared werewolves or vampires, vampires don't ever feel the need to drink the blood of my family line, there is something in seer's blood that disgusts them." She stopped realizing she was babbling.
"Do you know any vampires?" Gabriel asked her, she nodded with a small smile.
"Sure most of them are nice enough."
"Most of them?" Gabriel asked,
"Just like all creatures, there are the vampires of dark and the vampires of light. Don't get in the way of those who choose the darker path and you should be able to live with out two extra holes in your body." She told them and gave a dark chuckle.
Sorry it took me so long to write a chapter! Really it's been a REALLY long time. I know I said don't get attached but I really did have plans on finishing it… or at least writing more then two chapters. So I am going to try to continue writing now. I don't know how often I will update but it will be sooner then next year! (haha) –Thiail Trayai
