Author Note: Hey everybody. I hope there are still people reading this! I know that I haven't updated in like forever, but never fear! School is about to start up (sadly) and that is when I most likely get the creative juices flowing. So hopefully there will be more updates. If you guys are wondering why I didn't use Flint and Nigel in this story is because I couldn't find a place for them in the story. And if you don't know who these two characters are, they are Lord McAshton grandsons. I love the part where Tony is following Rookery and Lord McAshton into the tomb and he runs into them and is all like 'Crawl to your room and get under your beds and stay there!' Hi-larious!

Disclaimer: I can't and never will own the little vampire . But if I could, I would share him with you guys!

Chapter Ten

After my heartfelt moment with Rudolph, he flew me home and I went to sleep after hours of trying to bury the long forgotten memories of the horrible night. Waking up at the ridiculous hour of eight o'clock (it's ridiculous for teenagers!) I walked down the creaky stairs and sat at the table with a grunt.

"Good morning sleepy head!" My dad said with a cheery smile.

"Mmmhh." I looked at him from underneath my bed head. He was sorting through paperwork from McAshton when I suddenly remembered that I was supposed to help the Sackville-bagg family become human once again.

"Hey dad?"

"Yeah kiddo."

"Do families have stags on their family crests?" I tried to be discreet.

"Yeah, actually lots of families have them on their crests."

"Lots?" My face fell. This would take forever! And they don't have forever! Will, they do. But that's not the point!

"Yeah, it means they are descendants of hunters."

"Why so interested in crests all of the sudden, Toni?" My mom asked.

"Uh. . . ." I looked around the kitchen to try and come up with a lie.

"It's sort of a new hobby." I gave her a weak smile.

"Toni?" My looked at me like she didn't believe a word I said. That's why I loved talking to my dad because he never picked up on those kinds of things.

"Lord McAshton has stags on his." My dad, totally oblivious that mom was about to grill me, handed me a piece of paper. And up at the top of that piece of paper was the very same crest that I saw in my vision last night. I had to refrain myself from doing a victory dance because of how easy it was.

"Hey dad? Can I keep this?" I asked, still mesmerized that I found it.

"Sure." He said, not really paying attention.

"And dad, can I go to work with you tomorrow?" That got his attention.

"Yeah, it's Saturday." He looked up, shocked.

I smile at him and take the letter with me and run up stairs to wait for night to fall so I can be with Rudolph again.

(TIME SKIP)

"I figured out where the crest came from. It comes from my dad's boss, Lord McAshton. I am going to work with my dad tomorrow to search for the stone."

"What? No! It's too dangerous to go by yourself. What if Rookery is there?" Rudolph said.

"Well, you guys can't wait another three hundred years to turn human-"

"But you aren't immortal. If get killed-"

"Then I get killed." I look him dead on in the eye. When it appeared that he didn't have any more to say, I turned back to Fredrick.

"I will find the stone tomorrow." I nod at him and give a smile to Anna and her mother.

I head up the steps that lead to the exit where my bike awaited to be ridden back home. I looked back and saw that Rudolph started to follow me.

'Oh great.' I thought.

"Toni! Toni wait!" He called out to me.

"What?" I already had one leg swung over me bike and was half on half off my dark metallic purple mountain bike.

"I don't want you to go tomorrow."

"Why not? This is the only chance for you and your family to become human again! You guys have been searching forever for that stone and you guys are going to find it if it is the last thing I do! I am not going to give Rookery the satisfaction of winning-" I was suddenly cut of as Rudolph pressed his surprisingly warm lips to mine. I was even more surprised when I stared kissing him back. He put a hand at the back of my neck and wrapped an arm around my waist and pulled me close to his muscled body. I put one arm on his shoulder and the other around his forearm.

"I don't want you to go tomorrow." He said after he broke off the kiss. I opened my eyes and looked him in the eyes. There was a certain darkness to his eyes that said he was hungry. And it wasn't for my blood.

I just smiled coyly at him and said, "I'll see you later." I pulled out of his embrace and picked up my bike that had fallen down. I look back and saw that he had disappeared.

"Bye Rudolph." I said softly.

Since there was no direct path through the cemetery, I just navigated through the headstones toward the ominous gates. I just really hoped I didn't ride into one of the older graves were the caskets used to be made out of wood and had rotted and collapsed. I really didn't want to ride home with the dead on my bike. Literally.

And odd sound caught my attention and I looked over to my left and saw that Rookery was up to no good-again.

I jumped off my bike without stopping and it crashed to the ground with a less than quite racket. I saw him bring up an elderly man that was not moving. I recognized him as the care taker that Rudolph and I had hidden from him on multiple occasions. He looked dead. I ran back to the entrance and saw that Rookery had dropped a bright light that was burning my eyes. I heard Rudolph and his family screaming in pain.

I looked around frantically for something and saw a softball sized rock and picked it up and threw it with practiced aimed at the light. It shorted out and the light sputtered out.

I yelled out in victory before clamping a hand over my mouth. I faintly heard Rookery say, "Who did that?"

I saw Frieda (I think that is her name. Please correct me if I am wrong!) assist Fredrick to sit on the steps. I saw how weak he was and realized he looked worse off than Rudolph did when I first met him.

"I think I know what you need." I smile at him.

{SCENE CHANGE}

After showing the family to the barn where I had taken Rudolph, I learned my lesson and stayed close enough to not really here them, but so I couldn't get flatten by a monster truck.

"We cannot go back to the cemetery. He knows where we are."

"You can come to my house." I said before I realized how dangerous and stupid that was. But it was too late now

"We need darkness and decay." I thought about the layout of my house. And then I remembered when I first walked downstairs to the cellar to drop off packing boxes.

"Then you need our cellar."

{TIME & SCENE CHANGE

After letting them get situated in the cellar I got in a big comfy sweater and my short-shorts that I wore when I used to do gymnastics. I was just about to pull the covers back when I heard my dad open their bedroom door and start walking towards mine. I frantically pulled them back and all but jumped into the bed. I had not even had the covers pulled up to my chin and squeezed my eyes shut when my door opened.

He walked close up to my bed and peered over. After watching me for awhile he seemed to want to go back to bed more than check up on me. When I was sure he was gone, I jumped out of my bed to pull my hair out of the ponytail and kick my shoes under my bed and throw the dirty clothes in my hamper when I heard a noise in the hall by my room.

I jump back into my bed and pulled the covers back and waited for my dad or mom to pass by. But one of them opened my door and sat on the edge of my bed.

"Toni." A voice whispered.

I woke up and pretended to be disoriented, but when I saw that it was Anna, I sat up.

"Sorry, thought you were my dad checking up on me again."

"Do you know how to whistle?" She asked.

"I guess so. Why?"

"If you are ever in trouble, just whistle, and we will come to help you." I thought she was playing a trick on me, but the seriousness in her face and voice told me she wasn't. She demonstrated how and it was beautiful and enchanting.

I tried and it came out broken and dry. She did it again. I tried again, and it still came out ugly.

"You keep practicing and here is something for good luck. It's from the old lands." (I think that is the right line) I opened up a handkerchief and inside was a . . . dead mouse.

"Uh . . . thanks?"

Author Note: Sorry it has been so long since I've updated. I was going to update a few weeks ago but my great-grandmother passed away and it got me all in a funk. And on top of that when I get home from school and get my homework all done, I'm so tired and cranky that I don't want to do anything. So I'll try and update even if I'd much rather talk to my brother who I have a bad relationship with. See you later and reviews are appreciated!