Hi here is Quinn and Rashels sorry if it's no good I tried
I own nothing by L.J Smith
Gillian stood from the sofa were she was squished between David and Mar-Lynette, who didn't look happy sitting next to Ash, picked up the book and handed it to Poppy.
"Thanks, Gillian" Poppy said then she leaned back seeming to forget she was on an ataman and lost her balance. James caught her before she fell.
"Thanks" she breathed in relief. Her friend might be a vampire but he was still her friend. James smiled at her and settled back in his place next to her.
Poppy opened the book "Chapter one. It happened at Rashel's birthday when she turned five years old."
Rashels breath hitched at the beginning sentence she didn't want to relieve this memory.
"I thought this was Quinn's story" Ash complained to Keller.
She grinned, "It is" she said "Did you ever wonder why there are three books with nine stories in all when there are eighteen of you. These books are prophetic they're your future. There are two people's future in the books this one happens to be Quinn and Rashels."
Quinn and Rashel glanced at each other. Rashel scowled and looked away she didn't know how she felt about being in a book with a parasite. Quinn grimaced but couldn't help but admire her courage, an eighteen year old who was brave enough to face down vampires and more importantly brave enough to actually hit him. He turned back to Poppy as she started reading again.
"Can we go in the tubes?
"What are the tubes she is talking about" Delos asked. Some one sighed. Humans looked at him curiously.
"It's a huge structure that is usually built out of plastic tubes. They go up and down and basically any way they were built. There are usually different things in side of them for kids to play on like a ball pit or rope webs" Mary-Lynette said as Ash rolled his eyes.
She was having her birthday at a carnival and it had the biggest climbing structure of tubes she had ever seen. Her mother smiled "Okay, kitten-"
"Kitten?" Quinn asked and smirked
Rashel frowned at him "Yes, kitten her pet name for me before she was murdered" Rashel said coldly. Quinn stopped smirking and the girls in the room sucked in a breath many knew how it was to lose a mother or father.
"I'm sorry" Mary-Lynette said and Hannah nodded. Rashel just queued for Poppy to start reading again.
"But take care of Timmy. He's not as fast as you are.
Quinn frowned who was Timmy? Wait why did he care? He resumed listening to the story
They were the last words her mother ever said to her. Rashel didn't have to be told thought. She always took care of Timmy: he was a whole month younger than she was, and he wasn't even going to kindergarten next year. He had silky black hair, blue eyes, and a sweet smile. Rashel had dark hair, too, but her eyes were green- green as emeralds Mommy always said. Green as a cats."
Quinn glanced at Rashels eyes they did look slightly cat like. Ash and Morgead noticed him staring. Quinn looked away.
"As they climbed through the tubes she kept glancing back at him, and when they got to a long row of vinyl-padded stairs- slippery and easy to slide off of- she held out a hand to help him up.
Timmy beamed at her, his tilted blue eyes shining with adoration. When they had both crawled to the top of the stairs, Rashel let go of his hand.
She was heading toward the spider web, a big room made entirely of rope and net Every so often she glanced through a fish-bowl window in one of the tubes and saw her mother waving at her from below. But then another mother came to talk to her and Rashel stopped looking out. Parents never seemed to be able to talk and wave at the same time."
Some of the teens nodded remembering when they were younger waving at their parents from those kinds of tubes and seeing their parents talking to someone else. Others wished their parents had carried enough to actually take them to one of those playgrounds.
"She concentrated on getting, which smelled like plastic and old socks"
Some of the girls scrunched up their noses
"She pretended she was a rabbit in a tunnel"
The boy snickered and Rashel glared at them. The girls closest to the boys smacked them.
"And she kept an eye on Timmy- until they got to the base of the spider web. It was far back in the climbing structure. There were no other kids around, big, little, and almost no noise. A white rope with knots at regular intervals stretched above Rashel, higher and higher, leading to the web itself.
"Okay, you stay here and I'll go up and see how you do it," she said to Timmy. This was sort of a fib."
"It's not okay to lie," Ash said in a mock parental tone. Rashel glared at him James shook his head at his cousin.
"Shut it, parasite" she snapped
"Parasite?" he asked getting angrier.
Rashel just turned away from him and Poppy continued to read
"The truth was that she didn't think Timmy could make it, and if she waited for him, neither of them would get up."
Guilt turned in Rashel if only she had waited for him he might be here today.
"No, I don't want you to go without me, Timmy said. There was a touch of anxiety in his voice.
"It's only going to take a second," Rashel said. She knew, and she added, "No big kids are going to come and push you"
Timmy still looked doubtful. Rashel said thoughtfullt, "Don't you want ice cream cake when we get back to my house?"
It wasn't even a veiled threat.
Rashel sighed a threat was the last thing she said to Timmy. Quinn looked at her he, strangely, he wanted to make her feel better. He tried to probe her mind but it was blocked. Such a strange human, he thought, yet he felt… Quinn frowned. It didn't matter what he felt she was human.
Timmy looked confused, then sighed heavily and nodded.
"Okay I'll wait."
And those were the last words Rashel heard him say.
"Timmy was killed too?" Hannah asked. Rashel nodded
"By the same vampire."
"A vampire killed them both." Jez asked her "Did you ever find out who it was?" If Rashel hadn't found him Jez would and stake him for doing this. It had been almost a year since she had left the gang and became a vampire hunter. And Morgead seemed like he still wanted to ask, or more likely yell at her, about why she left, but since there future selves said there was a book about each of them Morgead would probably soon find out why she left.
"No" Rashel said solemnly. Poppy started to read again.
She climbed the rope. It was even harder than she'd thought it would be, but when she got to the top it was wonderful. The whole world was a squiggly moving mass of netting. She had to hang on with both hands to keep her balance and try to curl her feet around the rough quivering lengths of cable. She could feel the air and sunlight. She laughed with exhilaration and, bounced, looking at the colored plastic tubes all around her."
"That sounds so fun!" Jade squealed with excitement. Kestrel rolled her eyes at Jade's giddiness.
When she looked back down for Timmy, he was gone
The girls sucked in a breath.
Rashel's stomach tensed. He had to be there. He'd promised to wait.
But he wasn't. She could see the entire padded room from here, and it was empty.
Okay, he must have gone back through the tubes. Rashel made her way staggering and swaying, from one handhold to another until she got to the rope. Then she climbed down quickly and stuck her head in a tube, blinking in the dimness.
"Timmy?" Her voice was a muffled echo. There was no answer and what she could see of the tube was empty. "Timmy!"
Rashel was getting a very bad feeling.
"Even back then you had the instincts of a vampire hunter" Quinn said
"Yes" Rashel answered "And they still come in handy today"
In her head, she kept hearing her mother say, Take care of Timmy.
But she hadn't taken care of him. And he could be anywhere by now, lost in the giant structure, maybe crying, maybe getting shoved around by big kids. Maybe even going to tell her mother.
"That's what your worried about" Morgead asked cracking a smile
"I was five!" Rashel defended herself
Quinn wanted to hit Morgead for some reason
That's when she saw the gap in the padded room. It was just big enough for a four- year- old or a very slim five-year-old to get through. A space between two cushiony walls that led to out side. And Rashel knew immediately that's were Timmy had gone. It was like him to take the quickest way out. He was probably on his way to tell her mother right now.
Rashel was a very slim five-year-old. She wiggled through the gap, only sticking once. Then she was outside, breathless in the dusty shade.
She was about to head toward the front of the climbing structure when she noticed the tent flap fluttering.
The tent was made of shiny vinyl and its red and yellow stripes were much brighter than the plastic tubes. The loose flap moved in the breeze and Rashel knew anyone could just lift it and walk in.
Timmy wouldn't go in there, she thought. It wouldn't be like him at all.
"It doesn't sound like him" Jez said, "He probably wouldn't go in there unless he was
lured."
"He was Rashel agreed. Not all these vampires in here are bad, she thought. Although she wouldn't mind staking Ash or Morgead. She still wasn't sure why she was in a story with Quinn, one of the most dangerous made vampires. Or what she had to do with him.
But somehow Rashel had an odd feeling.
She stared at the flap hesitating, smelling dust and popcorn in the air. I'm brave, she told herself, and sidled forward. She pushed on the tent beside the flap to widen the gap, and peered was to dark to see anything, but the smell of popcorn was stronger. Rashel moved farther and farther until she was actually in the tent. And then her eyes adjusted
Human's eyes don't adjust that fast, Keller thought
"And she realized she wasn't alone.
There was a tall man in the tent. He was wearing a long light colored trench coat, even though it was warm outside. He didn't seem to notice Rashel because he had something in his arms.
The Night Worlders had caught on. Both Keller and Galen were frowning, James shook his head at eating a little kid, Ash and Morgead didn't care, Thea was repulsed, Rashel and Jez grit their teeth this is why they became vampire hunters to rid the world of vampires like this, Quinn found he actually cared that Rashel felt sad about losing her friend.
"And his head, and his head was bent down to it, and he was doing some thing to it.
And then Rashel that the grown-ups had lied, when they said ogres and monsters and the things in fairy-tales weren't real.
Some of the Night People laughed Thea and James mouth twitched.
"They didn't lie" Thea said, "They just didn't know, and ogres aren't real"
"I know that now" Rashel huffed
"Would you all shut up?" Quinn yelled surprising everyone including himself. The laughter died and they stared at him. Keller and Galen smiled. He just didn't like them laughing at Rashel. What is wrong with him?
"Looks like the soulmate principle is taking effect" Galen thought to Keller
"And its so hard to ignore" she thought. Galen smirked.
Quinn just signaled for Poppy to continue
Because the tall man had Timmy, and he was eating him.
Poppy grimaced the humans were kinda grossed out."Who wants to read now," Poppy asked.
Jez raised her hand she wanted to know what this vampire looked like. Poppy got up from the ataman and walked to were Jez sat between Morgead and Thea, who didn't mind sitting next to Eric, on the other couch.
"Chapter two" Jez said
Well there it is please tell me what you think
