Hey! Sorry I took so long to update. I've just had a lot of thing I've had to take care of. Also, I'm going to Erie P.A. this Saterday, so I wont have internet acsess for about 2 weeks. (Hopefully I wont die from internet deprivation ;) Here's a quick update to reward you all for being so patient with me. And thank you all for your reviews. I can't express how much they mean to me.

All was quiet inside. But no matter how quiet I tried to be, the front door was old and with a resounding creek gave away our presence. A loud, shrill barking soon flooded the house as my black lab, Rosie, came bounding down through the hallway, and without stopping, jumped up to reach my face.

I had missed her though. I'm not the type of person to show my feelings openly, mainly for fear of being told that I'm wrong for feeling that way. She was the only one I had trusted to listen to my sorrows.

A wide smile spread across my face as she continually attempted to lick my face off in frenzy. But all her excitement didn't go unnoticed.

Hearing the noise, my mother came walking out into the living room, rubbing her eye in an attempt to ward off the effects of sleep. She soon went wide-eyed when she saw Eddie and I standing in the room.

"Kelly! Oh my god! Kelly!"

She rushed over and grabbed me in her motherly embrace, pushing Rosie to the side.

"Oh, Kelly, we had thought that something terrible had happened to you. We sent the police out, but the couldn't even find a trace of where you had gone. Not even a dog could find even a sniff of your scent. It was like you had simply disappeared off the face of the earth."

Not long after my I had been reunited with my mother, my father came bounding out of the hallway. A smile of pure relief came over his face as he saw me in my mother's arms. But that soon changed when he saw Eddie standing behind me.

"Who the Hell are you? Are you the Bastard that took Kelly?"

My mother finally looked up and noticed Eddie, a frightened look plastered to her face. Her motherly instinct must have taken over as she began to pull me over to my father, and, initially, away from Eddie. Keeping a protective arm around me, she glanced up to my father, as if asking him what we should do. I didn't take him long to assert his authority, though.

"Well? Are you gonna explain yourself as to why you show up now with my daughter?"

"As I don't have much time to spare, I'm going to make a long story short. Yes, I did kidnap her, but I did it for love. And I'm also a vampire. But, unfortunately, we've gotten into trouble with another vampire, and if we all want to live, Kelly and I must go take care of this matter. A conflict within vampires, though, usually takes extremely long amounts of time to clear up. I brought Kelly here so that she could say goodbye to both of you. And I am sorry that it has come to this."

"I don't care what you are or what you think must be done, we're not letting Kelly go with you!" My father screamed at the top of his lungs at whom he deemed, an intruder.

"There is no way in Hell she's going with you!" My mother chimed in, obviously growing in anger.

I knew though, that no matter how much they protested and yelled, I would still have to go with Eddie. I just hoped that he wouldn't have to use force to do so. I looked back at my mother's face, which had the most stubborn look of defiance I had ever seen. I knew that I would have to try and calm them down, so I could at least say goodbye properly.

"Mom, he speaks the truth. That other vampire that he spoke of tried to kill me when I was lost in the woods. If it weren't for Eddie, I would be dead now. You can trust him to take care of me. And I'm not about to let you two pay with your lives for my mistake."

She stared at me with a look of disbelief.

"How can you talk like that? Do you actually believe that after loosing you once, that we would willingly loose you again?"

"Mom, you have to trust me on this one…"

"No! You are NOT leaving with this man, who is obviously insane. I mean, he thinks he's a vampire!" My father boomed at me.

Giving me no chance to respond, my father turned his attention back to Eddie, who surprisingly, stood as calm as if we were all playing chess!

"And you, she's not going with you even if the world was coming to an end. And if you as so much as come within 100 feet of her, I will not hesitate in killing you." I looked up at the look of determination on my dad's face. Even in a situation where he felt his family was threatened, he still had the courage to look the intruder in the eye and mouth off to him. I couldn't help but be proud of my dad's strength.

Eddie sighed, and closed his eyes for a moment, before looking both of my parents square in the eye.

"I am sorry that it had to come to this…."

As soon as he had spoken these words, he moved so fast that it looked as if he had disappeared. He swiftly moved over to me and took me from my mother's protective arms, moving back to where he stood a moment ago before my mother had even realized what happened.

Eddie stood firm, grasping my arm so that I stood close to him. My father figured out what had happened before my mother did. He quickly reached behind a bookcase close to him, and pulled out a cocked and loaded gun. Using all he knew about aiming, he pointed the barrel straight at Eddie's chest, and fired out a single shot.

I screamed when I saw Eddie move back and lean against the wall behind us.

"Told you I wouldn't hesitate." My father said blankly.

The shot had scared my mother, and she had fallen to the ground with her hands over her head. I immediately put my hand on one of his shoulders, looking at the mark in his shirt where the bullet had hit. His head was slumped to the side as his feet came out from under him and he slid down the wall. My mind went so frantic, and my instincts told me to try and keep him alive.

My hand went to the bullet mark, instinct once again taking control as I tried to suppress the bleeding that would naturally come with a bullet wound.