A/N: Wow, now I have fifty-two reviews. I'm kinda stumped on the next few chapters. I have ideas, but not sure where to put them. I'll figure something out.
Summary: Freddie goes missing one night, and Sam finds him the next day, bloody and laying unconscious on the ground. But then he starts acting strange, avoiding the sun and Sam at all costs.
Chapter Summary: Freddie starts training. Sam is mad and worrying about Freddie.
Warnings: Character death [sorta], cursing, mild sexual situations, oocness, OCs (original characters).
Disclaimer: iCarly does not belong to me. Why would I be writing fanfiction if it was?
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iHave Been Bitten
Chapter 6: iTrain
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Sam looked skeptical, glancing towards Freddie before back at Grace. "Whatever you say," she huffed. "But I'm taking Freddie back home."
Grace shook her head back and forth quickly, and Sam was sure there was something wrong here. She had never seen Grace before. Why was she hanging with Freddie? Why did she seem so worried about Freddie?
"He... he can't be around family or friends right now," Grace told her, not wanting her to take Freddie home, because he needed to start training, now. He also needed some blood, because he was thirsty, and she doubted letting him around all of his family and friends was a good thing. "He's... a bit sick. It's...contagious."
"Ew, you could have told me before I slammed him into the wall!" A look of disgust crossed Sam's face before she took one look at Freddie. "You better come back later, loser."
Ooh....isn't that a little harsh? Grace thought to herself, looking back and forth between the two. Freddie didn't same phased by the insult, as if he was used to them, which he was, but Grace didn't know that.
"I...I'll be back," he promised her, looking right at Sam for a moment before back towards the ground. Sam sighed. She guessed she wouldn't be finding out what's going on now, but she sure was determined to find out one way or another.
"Fine, and I want an explanation out of you when you do return, Benson." She looked at him, then at Grace, before departing.
Grace looked at Freddie. "Is that a usual thing?"
"What?" Freddie blinked.
"She called you a loser."
"Oh yeah....we've hated each other from the moment we first met," he explained to her. Grace frowned.
"But you don't anymore," she said.
Freddie shook his head. "I see," Grace said with a small smile. "Well, we should get some blood into you."
Freddie made a face. "It doesn't taste disgusting, does it?"
Grace laughed. "Some of it does, yes. Depending on the animal or human. Just like food and humans with their tastebuds. You'll see what I mean. Deer usually have good tasting blood, and they are easy to catch for a vampire. So, let's be off, shall we?"
Freddie nodded. "Are the others gone?"
Grace walked over to the door and peaked out. She saw Sam talking to Carly, Spencer and Mrs. Benson not too far away from the building and shut the door. "No. But they will be soon, so we'll just wait a few minutes."
Freddie nodded. Grace looked out once again about ten minutes later, and found them retreating from the building and towards the Bushwell Plaza. Grace sighed.
"C'mon. Time to make our getaway."
"You make it sound like we're criminals," Freddie said, and Grace couldn't help but laugh. Freddie was starting to grow on her...
She shook her head, and the two ran towards the forest. It wasn't too far away, not even from the building.
"Now," Grace began, making Freddie look at her. "I want you to sniff around. You've probably already figured it out that you have a heightened sense of smell, right?" After his nod, she continued. "Use that to smell for any deer that might be nearby, or any creature at all. Then, follow it's scent. It'll lead you right to it."
Freddie nodded again. "Alright." he said quietly as he closed his eyes, and took in a deep breath, using his nose to smell around him. He smelt everything, things he would never even smelt as a human, some things that he'd rather not say or smell, and finally, in all of those scents, he had found a deer.
He concentrated on that scent and that scent alone, and Grace watched as he took off into a run after it. She followed him, and within moments, Grace found Freddie having his first snack as a vampire.
She smiled. Though it may seem disgusting to humans, doing this, it wasn't so bad to people who actually had to do it for a living. She wondered if Freddie would develop a special ability like her. She could read minds, and all vampires each had a different ability to call their own.
"How does it taste?" she asked him, approaching the near dead deer and Freddie. She wouldn't be surprised if he drained the deer of its blood completely, because when she first became a vampire, she was so thirsty and quickly developed a thirst for blood that she drained at least the first two deer, and it felt like she was never satisfied until time went on. The craving was never fully satisfied, though.
Freddie licked his lips as the he let the deer fall to the ground. A small smile slowly came onto his face as he looked up at Grace.
"It tastes good."
A/N: I'm sorry for the wait in an update, and the slight shortness of this chapter, but I had a bit of writers block. Hope this chapter makes up for it. I also have one more thing to say.
My chapters are short. I CAN'T write long chapters, so deal with it, please. Plus, I can barely stand reading incredibly long chapters, I like em short and sweet unless I -really- get into the story.
