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Chapter Six- Anberliegh

You're out all night
How long can I wait?
To justify another cold embrace
Your love is a lie
And I can tell by your face
I've made up my mind
And I've accepted our fate
(Somehow) I can read between the lines
(Two wrongs) couldn't ever make it right
Now I'm gone gone I'm gone
Yea, I'm movin' on
Ooon, I'm gone
Yea I'm movin' on

Gone: My Darkest Days

Since the 'talk' with my father Luke had been acting unusual. Spending long periods away from home and never telling me where he was going. I'm going out, was all he would say.

He made me promise to never read his mind, but each day he sat in the living room just staring out the window drove me mad. One morning I decided it was time to change it.

Luke was again sitting in the armchair that faced the window. A blank stare on his face told me he was as good as asleep. I opened my mind to him, slowly at first only allowing myself to read his mind and not see his future.

What do you do when you find out that the person you spent most of your life living with was lying to you?

His thoughts were about an upcoming meeting he had today. With my father.

I shut off his mind not wanting to know anymore, and snuck back to my room.

How to go about this? Denial, that wouldn't help anything. I could confront him, he would just lie and use my love for him against me. I could follow him to this meeting. After an hour of thought I decided that would be best.

I feared the worst. I was staring at the words in a book when Luke came up to tell me he was leaving. He placed a kiss on my cheek and I waited until I heard the front door to shut before I disappeared.

Following him was easy, only because he didn't try to hide it. We walked to the park across town and sadness swept over me as he walked straight up to a man standing by a fountain.

My Father.

I hid behind a tree, close enough to hear everything.

"We think we found one to do it," My father said casually.

"Are you sure?" Luke asked and my father looked at him.

"Luke, don't tell me you have developed feelings for her."

"Robert don't be ridiculous. I knew the job when I started and I still do. I keep her occupied until we find someone to bite her," My heart broke more and more at every one of his words.

I thought he loved me.

"Right. You very well know she will probably die, a sacrifice we are willing to make. She is a failure anyway."

I let myself read Luke's mind a little. My heartbreak turning to anger when his thoughts mimicked his words.

I was not an experiment for them to play with and dispose of as they please. And I would prove that to them. Who cares what I was 'bred' for. I was leaving now.

I raced home and packed a few things that I knew I would need. I kept my shield up and decided that I would just get used to having it up. After things were packed I went to the study to write a letter.

Dear Luke,

I am leaving. I know you don't care, you never did, I just figured I would tell you so you don't look for me. You will never find me, and now you don't have to pretend to love me. I apologize, but I will not be an experiment. I am going to find the man that killed my mother and end him.

You will never see me again,

Anberliegh.

I wanted to cry. No he didn't love me, but I had spent over 95% of my life thinking I was in love with him.

I left the house and a sickness overtook me. Where would I go?

I thought about the future, and small pieces started to flicker before me. I needed to return to my mother's grave. It has been too long.

I also saw a young man, a preacher's son. A man who would change the world.

Knowing my path I set off.

Realizing you can't trust anyone.

Luke…

"Annie." I said as I came through the door. She felt gone, but it was common for her to do as she slept.

It was official, her father wanted her dead. I wouldn't allow it. Feigning disinterest in her when he was around was killing me. The only thing that kept me from insanity was knowing I would come home to her.

After tonight I knew what I had to do. Tomorrow her father was coming here with a few other vampires and they would take her away.

I had another plan. Tomorrow he would get her to an empty house and we would be halfway around the world.

I loved her too much to ever let her be a part of this.

That is why I asked her to stay out of my head, but tomorrow I would tell her everything and she could let herself in my mind to feel how much love I had for her.

I rounded the top of the stairs and glanced in the study. She must be in the bedroom, I thought.

I opened the door to an empty bed. Panic wanted to cripple me, but I told myself that she was here. She promised she would never leave.

I walked quickly to the top of the stairs and into the living room. Nothing. Kitchen, nothing. I was panicking now and ran outside. Doing one lap around the house I flew through the front door leaving it open as I ran back up stairs.

I stopped in front of the study. I hadn't noticed that small piece of paper on the desk before now.

If her father came to take her early, I'd kill him. She could be scared or hurt, they can't kill her. A fact that I never bothered to tell him.

I read the note and didn't understand it. I read it a second time and my body caught on, my knees buckling beneath me causing me to sit on the study floor.

I read it a third time, but the words just didn't work together. After reading it numerous times my mind finally comprehended one sentence. You will never see me again.

I stayed like that until the morning of the next day, and into the evening.

In that same position was how Robert, Annie's Father, found me the following night.

"Luke, what is going on?" He said as he took in my frozen form.

He snatched the note from my hand and I didn't move, couldn't move.

"Luke, you messed up and ruined the entire plan. What did you do? Why won't you… talk… Luke you lied to Me," he stated and I shut my eyes.

"You did love her," He said as if it was an absurd notion.

I flew to my feet grabbing his throat with my hand.

"Of course you insensitive monster. Anyone who met her fell in love with her. She… loved me back, and you destroyed it," I screamed.

He laughed. "Well she doesn't love you anymore. Now are you going to help me find her, because if she finds the man who murdered her mother, I can assure you she will find her death."

As much as I wanted him dead, I knew I would never find her if I didn't have his assistance.

I nodded and he smiled. "Good, maybe by time we find her, you will be over this infatuation. I will be back in the morning, be ready."

Then he left. I spent some time boarding up windows and covering furniture. I cleaned everything and put things back in their rightful spot. Then in the early hours of the morning, I crawled into her side of the bed and laid there. Silent sobs leaving me until the sun rose.

1667: Anberliegh…

There he was. Getting ready for a raid. Torch in one hand and a wooden steak in the other. If they only knew. These people never learned, and they never met a real vampire either. He whispered orders to a few men and they took off. The rest of the mob splitting into groups leaving him alone.

Tonight was going to be his first raid, and his last. Tonight he was going to meet a real vampire.

I had seen it a hundred times. He sees the vampire and slams the steak into his chest leaving it splintered on the ground. The vampire will throw him into a building causing him to be impaled. At this point I am with three options.

I could let the vampire kill him, and his compassionate and brilliant mind would go to waste. I could call for help, he would be paralyzed the rest of his life, marry a girl, never have children, and live with depression for twenty years before he passed away.

Or I could change him. He would go on to become a brilliant doctor, and one day cure a disease that will murder hundreds of people, cancer.

I did not know if I had the ability to change someone. I never have had venom like Luke did or any other vampire. But I knew that by the end of the night he would begin changing.

I heard a noise and so did the man. He turned to face a tall cloaked creature and everything played out like I thought.

Once the scent of blood hit the air, the vampire went crazy. Now it was my time to act. I shot across the small distance and slammed into the vampire. He fled without ever looking at me afraid of what I was.

I took the man and removed the object that was through his abdomen. And just like it was second nature I bit my wrist causing me to bleed.

I placed a small amount in his mouth and a larger amount on his wound. Finally filling my own mouth with my blood and biting his neck forcing it in. I knew it would work, so I picked up the man and took off.

People would count him off as one of the many who fought bravely against the war on vampires.

While the normal transformation took three days, I was not a normal vampire. It took five days, but the pain was only a fourth of what it usually is.

I walked into the room I had him staying in. A canteen filled with animal blood, a bath and fresh cloths ready for him.

As his heart gave its last few beats his eyes opened and I smiled.

"Hello Carlisle. My name is Anberliegh. I have a few things for you. When you are ready, come downstairs and I will explain everything." I told him and walked out the door.

I couldn't wait to meet him. The only man that will ever be a father to me.