Betrayal for the Better- Chapter 8

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Mary-Lynnette awoke in her bedroom, her forehead beaded with sweat. She rubbed her eyes, trying to remember how she had gotten here when Bunny's party resurfaced to the front of her mind.

"Ash!" Mary-Lynnette gasped, sitting up straight and leaning for the lamp. It seemed ridiculous that she should care for Ash's well being more then Jeremy's, but Ash was… special to Mary-Lynnette.

The lamp flooded yellow light into her room and Mary-Lynnette's eyes were immediately drawn to the figure on the very edge of her bed.

"Ash, oh, Ash!" Mary-Lynnette threw her arms around his neck and held him tightly.

"How are you feeling?" Ash asked as they leaned away from each other slightly.

"How am I? How are you?"

Ash smirked halfheartedly. "I asked you first."

Mary-Lynnette couldn't help rolling her eyes. "I'm fine. Now how are you?"

"Fine is a vague term." Mary-Lynnette noticed Ash's eyes had mostly stayed within the rage of darker colors.

Mary-Lynnette wrapped her arms around Ash's neck again and brought his lips to hers.

There it was. The electrical current that appeared to be connected to her central nervous system. The same pleasant jolt she got whenever she touched Ash. Only now it was intensified. Extremely intensified. Mary-Lynnette could vaguely make out a sort of pink fog around Ash's profile.

"Listen, Ash, I don't care if you're a vampire. Honestly it doesn't really surprise me, and you've probably been one for a while-" Ash's mouth quirked at that, "- and… how do I say this…? If that's what you've been- then it's what you are; it's you, and I love you." Mary-Lynnette said, looking into his eyes.

Ash held Mary-Lynnette tightly and kissed her passionately.

When they parted, Mary-Lynnette found herself under the gentle force of his weight.

"Ash…" Mary-Lynnette started, knotting her fingers in his soft hair.

"Yeah?" Ash mumbled, nipping at her earlobe.

"What… Happened to the others?" She couldn't bring herself to mention Jeremy's name.

"We're right here!" Maggie said from near Mary-Lynnette's bedroom window, Delos's arms around her waist.

Mary-Lynnette gave a short scream. "Oh, how long have you guys been standing there?"

"You really want to know?" Quinn smiled charmingly.

"Wait, you weren't there last night…" Mary-Lynnette trailed off in confusion and a crease appeared in her forehead.

"He and Rashel got a little… tied up." Ash moved off Mary-Lynnette and gave Quinn a devil-may-care grin.

Quinn scowled at Mary-Lynnette's carpet and Rashel laughed, putting her arms around Quinn's waist.

"Got tied up?" Mary-Lynnette raised her eyebrows.

"Yeah," Hannah giggled. "We found Quinn hog tied and Rashel sitting next to him, talking with a stake in her hand."

"What?"

"Well I'm a vampire hunter." Rashel explained.

"Oh… So when did you all find out?" Mary-Lynnette asked Maggie and Poppy.

"When we ran after you, Kestrel and the guys." Poppy admitted.

"Yeah…" Maggie trailed off, leaning on Delos, and paling a little.

"'We' being Poppy and Maggie. I went after Quinn and Rashel. They looked pretty… heated when they left…" Hannah said.

Mary-Lynnette shuddered, remembering what she had witnessed of the fight. "You are all okay right?" She asked earnestly, looking from one vampire to another.

"Oh, yeah." Ash said carelessly and leaned back on Mary-Lynnette's pillow with his hands behind his head

"We heal quickly, except for wounds from wood." Thierry explained softly.

Mary-Lynnette nodded slowly.

"We're also telepathic." Quinn grinned mischievously.

Ash chuckled and continued, "We can read minds, put thoughts in your head, and knock you out and erase your memories with a single thought."

Mary-Lynnette giggled involuntarily, remembering the quote "I can kill you with a thought" from a video her and Hannah watched one day.

Ash gave her a strange look and Mary-Lynnette felt a sort of... presence in her head, like she wasn't the only thing in her head.

"Relax. It's just me." Ash said with a slight look of concentration in his blue eyes. The look disappeared and Ash smiled at Mary-Lynnette.

"So… What about werewolves?" Mary-Lynnette asked quietly.

"Werewolves are affected by silver like vampires are for wood. They aren't very telepathic and that's pretty much all you want to know." James smiled gently yet jokingly.

"And they aren't very smart." Ash added.

Mary-Lynnette elbowed him gently.

"Really they aren't." Quinn agreed.

James rolled his eyes and seemed to tighten his arm around Poppy. "Vampires and werewolves are natural enemies."

"Always have been." Thierry said.

"Always will be." Ash concluded.

Mary-Lynnette suddenly remembered something else. "I have a question." Force of habit made her raise her hand slightly as she spoke over the other conversations that had started.

"Shoot." Ash smiled. "Bullets won't kill me."

Mary-Lynnette gave him a chided look and inquired seriously, "What's the Night World?"

Ash froze and his eyes darted to Thierry.

"As the Lord of the Night World, I give you my permission to tell everyone in this room who doesn't already know about the Night World." Thierry held up his right hand in a pledge.

Ash turned back to Mary-Lynnette, "Okay, so the Night World…."


Mary-Lynnette walked through the cemetery with a dozen purple irises in her hand. Irises. Her mother's favorite flower. The flower representing the vampires.

Ash had assured her it was just a coincidence, he had checked her ancestry and concluded that Mary-Lynnette was one hundred percent human.

Finally Mary-Lynnette reached her mother's grave. It had been two months since the funeral. And in those two months, Mary-Lynnette's life changed drastically.

She went from being engaged to Jeremy Lovett; to being engaged to a werewolf, to be in love with Ash Redfern; to being in love with a vampire.

The best part about loving a telepath was Ash let her into every nook and cranny of his mind, to just show her that he genuinely loved her too. Somehow the sparks still managed to intensify further. The Soulmate Connection. That's what Ash had called it. Soulmates, the other half, the missing piece, the moon and the night sky, Mary-Lynnette could go on forever.

She was now living in Burdock Farm with Ash and his sisters, Rowan and Jade.

Jeremy is still alive. No matter how much Ash really wanted to lodge a silver bullet in his chest. He's still living down by Mad Dog Creek with Kestrel. They had turned out to be Soulmates too. (Much to Ash's fury and dismay.)

Rashel and Quinn, Maggie and Delos, James and Poppy, and Hannah and Thierry ended up being Soulmates also. It was hard to believe that they felt they same thing Mary-Lynnette felt when she touched Ash, but then again why not?

"Hey, Mom." Mary-Lynnette sat near her mother's headstone and placed the flowers at its base. "Sorry I didn't come visit sooner."

Mary-Lynnette told her mother everything that had happened. Excluding the Night World. There were to many places to hide in the cemetery so it was too risky to talk about aloud.

She knew that Adelyn wouldn't reply to her. She knew she probably looked crazy talking to empty air. But she wanted to tell Adelyn about it and had a lot to talk about. Adelyn was always the person Mary-Lynnette could talk to. Mary-Lynnette vowed that wouldn't change. Even if Adelyn couldn't provide a wise saying.

"I listened to my heart. Even though it does sound extremely cheesy." Mary-Lynnette smiled, but it wavered quickly. "I wish I could have really gotten the chance to say goodbye. It's hard to believe the last time I saw you was when I graduated. It seems like forever ago." Mary-Lynnette felt wetness on her cheek. "I can't believe any of it." Mary-Lynnette ran her fingers on the smooth marble of the headstone and traced her mother's name.

The sky above thundered and Mary-Lynnette felt a rain drop on her head.

"Well, I'd better get going. I'll be back soon. I promise." Mary-Lynnette stood up. "I love you Mom." Mary-Lynnette said before walking back toward the gate, tears streaming freely.

She found Ash leaning on a statue of a miner, indicating the site where the gold diggers from the gold rush were buried.

She didn't even hesitate as her arms wrapped around his middle.

You okay M'lin? Ash asked her silently, his cheek most likely resting on her head.

Mary-Lynnette didn't reply she only tightened her arms around him as the rain came pouring down.

"Let's get out of here." Ash led Mary-Lynnette over to his way-too-expensive-for-a-small-town car.

A nice warm fire in the fireplace greeted Mary-Lynnette when she and Ash made it home.

"I'm going to go dry off." Mary-Lynnette slowly made her way up to the room she shared with Ash and changed into sweats and a fresh t-shirt.

Ash was reading down stairs on the couch when she shakily walked down the stairs.

"You okay M'lin?" Ash set down his book and wrapped his arms around Mary-Lynnette pulling her down on his lap.

Mary-Lynnette rested her head on his shoulder and marveled in the feeling of his warm hands rubbing her arms.

"Yeah, I'm just a little…" Mary-Lynnette sighed. "Just trying to grasp the reality of it all."

"It is a lot to take in isn't it?" Ash murmured.

"Yeah." Mary-Lynnette laughed shakily and snuggled closer to Ash.

"Sorry." Ash apologized.

"For what?" Mary-Lynnette lifted her head slightly to look at him.

"For dumping the whole Night World thing on you after everything that happened."

"It's fine. There was going to be a change anyway, might as well have been a big one." Mary-Lynnette said, placing her hand on his shoulder and rubbing her nose against his.

Ash smiled sympathetically at her and brought his lips to hers.


I'M SO, SO, SO, SO SORRY FOR THE DELAY!

I know! I'm terrible!

Also… This is the last chapter… But don't worry! I'm doing and epilogue!

And I just, you know, might be able to, uh, do a sequel… If you want me too.

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Once again, I'm so sorry for the delay and the fact that this is so short!

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