Grandparent Trap

" What is it Sam." I snap as Sam jumps on my bed above me. My tolerance for his goofing around during the day waking me was very low.

" Remember we have to corner grandpa? Or did you forget that you big but hole?" Sam was staring at me with a blank look.

" Oh." I pulled myself from under the bed with a grunt. " Guess we better do it then.

" Yea." Sam grabs my sun glasses from the night stand and hands them to me.

" Thanks." I was groggy as I stood, at first a little wobbly. " You might have to help me a little."

Sam nods and lets me put an arm over his shoulder, I was to out of it to walk on my own this early, weakened by sun light and need for sleep.

We both head down stairs, Sam pulls from under my arm and creeps to the room of animal mutilation and then waves me over, grandpa was inside.

" Hey grandpa?" Sam asks, causing grandpa to turn around.

" What you need Sam, Micheal?" Grandpas' look had went from warm to questioning when his eyes went from Sam to me.

" We have some questions, like what is a wild One?" Soon as Sam asked that, grandpas' face sort of slacked, like that was the last question on earth he would want have asked.

" Yea, I herd you yesterday talking to that Howard guy, what does her want with mom, what are you planning and what's all this about Sam and needing to know?" I had asked, getting a look of reluctance from grandpa.

Grandpa sighs. " Come in, close the door."

We did as asked, me leaning on the door, trying not to pas out for this explanation.

" Wild One is a name for vampires, one's that are inhuman, animal like, they keep to packs and avoid human socializing, except to turn them or feed. A Wild One prefers to keep to abandoned buildings on the outskirts, mines, caves, houses on lonely roads, anywhere humans don't go, they make their dens in such. They are also very aggressive vampires when confronted, more than other breeds of their kind, making them very dangerous to cross... They are also sadistic without mercy." Grandpa gets interrupted by Sam.

" Wait, so there are other breeds of vampires?" Sam asks.

" Yes, there are, Micheal though is most certainly a Wild One as I mentioned. They're old creatures and Micheal shows pure traits of them, they are drawn too their packs, but he still retains much of his human self and still will after fully turning, He has an aversion to holy objects and no reflection, but his group or pack acts more like animals than demons, basically a old more primitive branch of vampire that other vampires originated from." Grandpa looks amused at the look I give him for saying "primitive"

I am not primitive... I'm not dumb and The Boys are certainly intelligent, even enough to say more intelligent than humans. I huffed.

" Not saying that as meaning you're less than any other vampire creatures, just what you are now is a creature with very basic and not complex needs and desires and as much as you have your human mind, you're dominated by instincts, like an animal. What kind of animal I'm not sure, but flying vampires are very uncommon, most vampires can't fly, so the one's that made you this must be from a very old bloodline, so likely a pure vampire or original vampire line that started the other vampire lines. " Silence fills the room after grandpa says this, making it obvious that he has decided to stop it here.

" What about the bit of a mix?" I wanted to know what that meant.

" You have a leader and follow him like a pack animal, yet you fly. You're also still very much human, just dominated by your changing nature and instincts and needs. Makes me think your group doesn't favor one animal nature over another. That is all I know about Wild Ones, the other types I don't know anything about as they wouldn't come to Santa Carla. Most other vampire breeds will avoid a Wild Ones' territory because of the vicious nature they have. They typically attack anything they decide a threat to them or their territory." Grandpa shrugs and starts working on his animal corpse.

" That was interesting, how did you learn this grandpa? Oh and don't forget, I want to know what is going on, why the secrets, what is it I need to know?" Sam blurted out all at once.

" Ah, well that is something you'll have to wait on, Howard will help you with that, don't worry Samuel and don't be scared, but he shall be talking to you tonight, just be patient." Grandpa seems to have decided to no longer provide the information we wish.

" Grandpa?" I say, my tone questioning.

" Yea Micheal?" grandpa stops his work on his corpse momentarily.

" Why don't you tell us anything?" I was frustrated, grandpa knew so much and just didn't tell us anything unless we came to him and asked outright. " Also what is it that you understand well of what happened with Howards' dad?"

" That old bastard hasn't forgot." Grandpa must mean David, he looks a little unnerved by me popping the last part of my question up. " I'm sorry, I just couldn't say everything or I would have, it wouldn't have done any good as I said before, it's better not risk the whole family unless there's no choice and you have to kill the head vampire, I knew Max was, but there was no way for me to ever touch him, it was a death sentence to go near him. Also if I said anything I'd not been believed and by the time I would have been believed, it would have been to late anyway." Grandpa looked a little tired and weary. I'm guessing his decision to allow me to be taken by David had been very hard on him, he just hid it well... I'm still sticking by him being insane though.

" Anything else will be revealed by Howard, I left that up to him, he might be able to explain better than I, I just don't have the knack for that." Grandpa had been looking at Sam and then looks at me. " You will have to go easy on him, he really was meant for Lucy, she just didn't understand and I couldn't tell her then, she'd not been able to handle the knowledge." Grandpa shakes his head at the confusion and questioning looks both me and Sam give him. " He will tell you, but as I said, go easy on him and his son, his boy has no knowledge about vampires beyond movies." He grunts with amusement at mentioning vampire movies.

Great, Howards' son is coming here and is going to have to have a crash coarse in dealing with me, hopefully this wouldn't be to bad, but what all did he know vampires are real? It sounded at least like the guy would believe them real if Howard knew. So if this guy knows about vampires or what I am, but only has knowledge threw vampire movies, things will probably become awkward... Especially if he expects me to be wearing a cape.

There was something else up, something wrong, but I couldn't figure it out. I think grandpa is just setting things up, why now? Why after our move here, then my turning, why suddenly this Howard guy? Why couldn't grandpa just say it himself, even if he wasn't great with words, why have someone not family come in? I didn't get it, I could sense something more to this, something more than him just not wanting to deal with things himself. Grandpa just never came off to me as the guy who left important things up to someone else, he just didn't pass things off to some other person. Why did grandpa call this Howard guy here, cause I doubt it was just coincidence he showed up, there was something up with that.

One look at Sam told me he was likely thinking similar things, there was just much more to this and grandpa didn't want to tell, something just wasn't right about the situation. At least tomorrow Howard would be giving answers to what we needed to know about him and what it has to do with Sam and what this secret is they have going.