A/N: Sorry for the delay. I'm still stuck in Michigan but I thought I owed you all a new chapter. My plans for this story are at home. And as for the question, you will find out in this chapter. We go into depth in Sebastian's past and why he is the way he is now. By the way, Kendall is a girl.

Psychological Distress:

Inspired by Waveripple of Team Sunrise's Hearts of the Night.

Chapter 8: Execution

"On the ground I lay motionless in pain, I can see my whole life flashing before my eyes…I will not die. I will survive. I will not die. I'll wait here for you. I feel alive when you're beside me. I will die; I'll wait here for you, in my time of dying."


"I told you. Clearly. Don't involve May in any of this." Drew spoke to Paul through clenched teeth.

Paul looked his companion in the eye, "Jimmy and I couldn't take any chances. Okay, Misty and Dawn and you, the three main people May loves, are vampires. She'll want to be turned. Or she'll pull a Dawn and change herself. It's just a precaution."

"I don't care!" Drew yelled. "I fucking told you and Jimmy to fuck off. I told you to leave May alone. What if they vote no? Huh? She'll die unnecessarily!"

"So you do care," Paul smirked.

"So what if I do? It's injustice to kill her for no reason."

"Look Drew. Here is the vote: those loyal to you will vote yes while those who aren't will vote no. And then we have people like Fiona, Dakota and Logan."

"Explain." Drew did not believe anything. Not while May's life was on the line.

"Fiona will choose what she thinks is right. Dakota will go based on Natalie but sometimes she will express her own opinion. And Logan votes on the similarities the one being judged has on others and previous vampires who have fallen."

"So why does the choice of May's death lay in my hands?" Drew asked sarcastically.

"This all has to do with you Drew! You declined to be part of The Guard so those like Natalie and Logan are still resentful towards you. And Sebastian thinks you have betrayed him!"

"Because of what happened with Kendall? He thinks that you and Ash have betrayed him as well! But he still voted yes for Dawn."

"Yes," Paul's eyes grew soft, "But she would live anyway. I'm going to marry her. But for you and Ash, he wants the both of you to suffer like he had to for betraying him."

"So he will vote to kill May because Kendall was killed. You betrayed him as well! Where's your punishment. I don't see Dawn's head being passed around!"

"Sebastian will never trust me again."

"If something happens to May, I will show no mercy. On anyone," Drew huffed before returning to May's side.


May's POV:

"WAHHHHHHH!"

I wailed. Why was this happening!

Dawn rubbed my back. Marina and Leaf were cooking all sorts of food to cheer me up. Misty was pacing the room, trying to come up with a plan to get out of this.

"I'm going to die!"

All four of them looked at me.

"No." was all Dawn had to say.

Leaf nodded, "This is unfair. They can't do this."

"We've never done this before. So why now," Marina was pondering.

"I can't vote. My vote can help save May! What the hell!" Misty yelled.

Dawn looked me in the eye, "Look May, we won't let them take you. I promise."

Suddenly Drew burst through the door, looking pissed.

"Get. Out. All of you."

Marina looked mad, "Don't barge in here and tell us what to do!"

"I'm not saying this again. All of you except May, out of here." Drew was looking straight at me.

With a "How Rude!" Leaf, Dawn, Marina and Misty shuffled out the door.

Drew immediately came over to me, "I won't let them hurt you at all."

I tried to comfort him. "I know you won't." Drew came and took me in his arms.

"Look at me May. I will kill anyone who stands in the way of us. I'm not letting you go. You are not going to die."

A teardrop escaped from both out eyes. Drew quickly swept his away and kissed mine.

"I love you Drew."

He smiled and took a rose and pushed it behind my ear.

"I love you more than anything in this world."


Logan met Misty and Gary in the forest at midnight.

"So explain to me about Kendall. What happened that caused her death?" Misty asked Logan.

"Yeah, I don't believe Kendall would commit treason." Gary opened a galleon of ice cream that was filled with flood instead.

"Sebastian is the reason she's dead."

"But weren't Sebastian and Kendall engaged?" Gary asked. Misty gasped. She couldn't believe that Sebastian killed his own fiancée.

Logan rolled his eyes. Gary was starting to bother him. "Misty, let me tell you the whole story. Sebastian was surprisingly a fun caring guy. Then Kendall came around. She was a newborn vampire and her creator was nowhere to be found. Sebastian immediately fell for her, like love at first sight. Anyway we, The Guard, had voted to kill her but Sebastian stepped in at her execution and said he would marry her. Natalie, Dakota and Fiona all has bad suspicions about her, which is why she was made part of The Guard, for them three to look after her. They confirmed the suspicions that we all had: Kendall was using Sebastian to avoid dying."

"She's terrible!" Misty yelled.

Logan held up a hand and continued his story, "But Sebastian was completely in love, that he was blind to that obvious fact that she was using him. Kendall was good but bad; in depth she was evil but also good-hearted. But she was such a brat. We already Natalie, another brat was not needed. So anyway, recently Kendall took on a lover. A boy, a little older than her, and she changed him into a vampire. We have strict rule of no turning people into vampires unnecessarily, but some cases are okay."

Flies were starting to buzz around Gary's head. He growled, "Come back here you stupid fly so I can slap the shit out of you!" Gary turned to Misty, "Wanna know why they are crowding around me?"

Misty looked sympathetic. "Could it be that you haven't showered yet today?"

"First of all I took a shower and second of all it's because they are attracted to the orange paint!" Gary huffed before getting up and leaving.

"Thank God, I was beginning to think he would never leave!" Logan shook his head, "Anyway back to my story without interruption, so she broke the biggest rule and her engagement to Sebastian. Sebastian was the only reason she was alive and the new vampire she created went on a killing spree and was causing havoc so we decided to kill that kid, Josh or what's his name and Kendall. Kendall was charged with treason and Sebastian was heartbroken. Sebastian looked to Ash, Drew and Paul because the three of them had gone so many centuries without loves. But what he found was Ash and you, Drew and May and Paul and Dawn. He was counting on them to help him but after seeing you girls, he felt betrayed. So don't think of him so terrible. He just has something he needs to get over."

"I actually feel really bad for him." Misty felt a pang of sympathy for Sebastian even though he wanted her dead.

"I might watch that sympathy. You're taking Kendall's spot in The Guard. He's not very happy about that. Even though there will always be an equal amount of guys and girls, The Guard is very male-dominant. So Gary, Jimmy, Paul, Sebastian and I voted to admit you to The Guard and Sebastian was the only no. But you can't vote in May's trial, since we just appointed you."

"Well what's your story?" Misty yearned to know Logan's past for some reason.

"Me? Nothing special. There was a terrible disease. And I was seventeen and I caught it. I was going to die. No one could save me. Fiona was a nurse then, she was trying to attend to me but something caught me about her. She was beautiful, you can believe that. But I had a feeling she could save me in another way. So I asked her to save me and she did. She was part of The Guard and they asked me to join. Paul was the most supportive of me. He and I are very good friends."

"Fiona huh?" Gary came back with Paul.

"How's May?" Misty asked Paul.

"She's better; she's getting ready for her trial. She's strong and Dawn is being supportive. Drew refuses to leave her side." Paul answered.

Gary looked back at Logan, "Fiona."

"What about her?" Logan asked defensively.

"You like her," Paul put it bluntly.

"So? We all know Dakota likes Sebastian." Logan rolled his eyes.

"Whoa, what?" Misty laughed. "This is like a soap opera on crack."

Gary chuckled, "And Natalie is obsessed with Paul. She loves him and will do anything to be his wife. She scares away any girl near him and she'll do anything to steal Paul's attention."

Paul muttered something under his breath. Misty was pretty sure he said 'crazy bitch'.

Misty smiled, "But Dawn has nothing to worry about, right?"

It was Logan who answered, "Not at all. I don't think I've seen Paul happy since…well I've never seen Paul happy."

"No," Paul answered Misty, "She has nothing to worry about."


Logan raised his voice, "Time for May's trial."

"What are your talents," Natalie asked, bittersweet.

"I don't really know," May shifted nervously.

"Let's just vote," Sebastian sighed.

Paul nodded, "Yes."

Marina smiled, "Yes."

Gary began to weigh his options, "Sure."

Drew went up to stand with May and held her hand as it was Sebastian's turn to vote.

"No."

Fiona sneered at Sebastian, "Yes."

Natalie was filing her nails, "No."

Dakota was quirk. "No."

Logan glared at Drew, "No."

Everyone turned to Jimmy. "No," he drawled.

Gary who was drinking water spit it out on Sebastian's face.

May gasped. Drew clenched his teeth. Dawn and Misty urged Paul, Gary and Marina to do something with looks, and frantic waving.

Marina put her hand to her mouth as she stared at her lover. Paul raised his eyebrows.

Leaf put her arm around May. Fiona put her hands in her face.

Ash shouted at Jimmy, "What the hell! You're supposed to be on our side!"

Natalie smirked and Sebastian looked victorious. Dakota smiled. Logan looked at the emptiness filling both May and Drew's face.

Sebastian walked over and stood in front of both Drew and May. "Drew, I win."

Natalie looked over at her fellow members, "So how shall we execute this wrench?"

There was a crash as both Leaf and Dawn threw themselves at Natalie with Paul and Gary holding them back.

"You witch," Leaf hissed.

"Say that again and even Paul won't be able to hold me back." Dawn was furiously trying to fight Paul's grip.

Logan stood looking at Drew, "Wait. He won't execute May. She isn't vampire so Drew has committed no crime. But if she is turned, then and only then will she be executed."

"What?" Sebastian yelled. Drew growled and lunged for him with Ash and Logan holding him back.

Misty and Logan exchanged a look.

Misty's anger boiled over. Way over.

"That's it! I've had it with you!" Misty grabbed Sebastian and dragged him, by the collar, outside.


"What do you want?" Sebastian spat.

"To teach you a lesson on how not to be an ass. Logan told me about Kendall, alright?"

Sebastian's ferocious scowl lightened then returned. "What the hell do you understand?"

"I may not understand how you're felling but that's no reason to ruin the happiness of others! Okay, if you executed me and Ash. We would have died together! And that would have been enough for me. Even if I've only known him for eight months! Kendall betrayed you. That must have been awful. I admit I don't feel your sorrow but I know if you move on there, you can find love again."

"How do would you know? You and Ash will always be together because you're in The Guard now."

"You're mad at me because I took Kendall's spot. Okay be mad at me. But don't you dare take any of this on innocent people like Drew and May! Think of people who have one-sided love? Like Natalie for Paul. She gets to watch Dawn and Paul act all mushy-mushy now. And Fiona still has no idea that Logan is crazy for her and Dakota. Poor Dakota like you and just has to sit there watching you not get over Kendall."

Sebastian's eyes grew soft, "Dakota?"

Misty looked at Sebastian. Really looked at him and saw the way he was before Kendall. The good guy that Logan knew.

"Love comes in many forms, infinite times for those who really deserve it," Misty told him.

Sebastian stood quiet. Misty spared him one look, "Maybe you could deserve it, if you saved love like maybe May and Drew."


Jimmy came over to where Marina, Dawn, Paul, Leaf, Gary, Ash, Misty, Logan, Fiona, Drew, May stood under the vampire tree.

"Does everyone still hate me?" Jimmy asked timidly.

"Yes so go the hell away." Gary answered Jimmy with a glare.

"What about Logan? He said no too," Jimmy defended himself.

Ash looked at Misty and Fiona. "Logan gave us his reason and realized he made a mistake by taking his enemy in Drew and impacting May with it."

May stood and took Jimmy's hand, "Jimmy. You don't have to say anything. I forgive you."

Drew called over to them, "Don't think just cause she forgives you that I do too. Cause I don't."

Jimmy smiled at May as Marina came to his side.

"Thank you, May."


End of this short chapter. Misty really let Sebastian have it. :P

Big events happening next chapter.

Next chapter: Sebastian sees the error of his ways. Logan asks Fiona on a date. Dawn and Paul make wedding plans. Prom approaches and May is finally turned into a vampire. But the decision that was made comes back to haunt them.

Please review! And the question this time is

How do you feel about Sebastian?

And when you saw the title of this chapter, did you think May was going to die?

I'll be updating soon. One chapter left! And an epilogue. So two chapters left!

Till next time!