"Reports just coming back from Africa and South America, the clans haven't seen Noel. They send their apologies and the clan leader from Brazil was wondering when you were going to meet her for tea." William stared at Kathleen as a smirk spread across her face.

"What's so funny?" He grumbled out.

"She's been trying to get into your pants for years." She muttered. "Of course, an alliance with Brazil wouldn't hurt." William grimaced.

"I don't want her, I want Noel." He insisted like a child. Kathleen rolled her eyes.

"Come on William, we've had no sign of her anywhere in the world! Our best guess right now is that she's been killed by vampire hunters. Face it, Noel is dead." William catapulted his chair across the room, causing it to shatter into slim splinters.

"How could she be dead? Noel's a smart girl…"

"If she were a smart girl, she would have kept herself in line and wouldn't have gotten herself banished in the first place. Come on William, Noel was rebellious and an idiot. She's probably gone off and gotten herself killed…or maybe she is a smart girl and just asked somebody to kill her. That would be the smart thing to do, just end it all." Another chair was quickly brought for William, this time one made of soiled metal.

"Noel is not dead." He insisted.

"Then where is she?" Kathleen asked. William stood up, sweeping back his robes.

"I don't know, but clearly I'm going to have to go and figure that out for myself." Kathleen's eyes widened as William casually walked out of the room.

"Sir, you can't be serious. You never leave to do such meager work. You should leave this to somebody else."

"I have allowed others to take care of this and I'm not satisfied with the results. Obviously, I'll have to take care of things on my own." Kathleen scrambled after him as she strode down the long hallway. He started calling at his advisors, informing them of the impending trip that would take place immediately. "Oh, and you'll be coming with me as well." He told Kathleen over his shoulder.

"Sir, please!"

"Don't worry, just a quick trip to London and we'll be back before you can even miss this place. Besides, it would do us good to visit the English clan, we haven't talked to them for quite some time." They walked down a winding staircase into the well lit main lobby. They now traveled in a group of six; William, Kathleen, Paul, Joshua, Antony, and Gretchen. They packed nothing, wearing the clothing on their backs and black matching cloaks.

"If we travel quickly and break during the day to avoid being seen, we should get to London in a few days." Paul observed as they stepped outside into the early morning air. They wouldn't be able to travel far, but they could at least start running and then find a place to hide for the day. They were of an older generation of vampires that was used to hiding in a coffin from the sunlight. Even though they had evolved, they still clung to their old habits.

William smirked as they picked up speed, leaving behind their small village and entering the woods.

"Right, let's go."

"She's so weird."

"I know, look at her skin, it's like marble, so creepy!"

"do you think that she does that to her hair on purpose?"

"Well it's not like she as any friends to tell her how hideous she looks."

"She has Longbottom!"

"OMG, like Longbottom would help!"

There was a loud chider of laughter and Noel felt the intense urge to crush somebody's skull.

School could go suck it.

The sooner that she finished here, the sooner she could skip town. Maybe Spain…or possibly somewhere in the Caribbean. She just wanted to be somewhere warm and where she could come and go as she pleased.

It was a cloudy October day. Rain was a frequent happenstance throughout the days. Noel was missing the sun. Although she was supposed to be repulsed by the sun and hide from it, she always felt so calmed by the sun. She felt like a cool lizard sitting on a flat rock and waiting for the sun to warm her alabaster skin. But sun was also bad. Yes, it was partially the reason why she was here in the first place.

Her breakfast was brought quietly, but it also came with something that she didn't expect.

"Good morning, Noel." Neville sat down with his porridge and his biscuit. Noel quickly began to drink down her breakfast. Ew, wolf, and it was cold.

"I thought that you were going to stay away from me." She said between a large gulp.

"Do you prefer to be alone?" He asked, purposely avoiding the question. He rolled up his sleeves and Noel doubled over. He had showered, his skin was clean and the blood under his skin was coursing quickly.

"Please roll down your sleeve." She muttered as calmly as she could manage. Neville quickly rolled it down and watched as Noel clutched her glass. It suddenly cracked under her tight grasp and made him jump. "You have no idea what you do to me." She whispered before downing the rest of her blood, no matter how disgusting she found it.

"I'm sorry." He said. Noel shook her head as the blood started to course through her body.

"Don't worry, it's not like you can do anything about this. You didn't choose to be my blood soul." Neville nodded as he carefully picked up his spoon and started to slowly stir his porridge.

"What are you going to do with me after you're done with school?"

"Leave you here and let you live a normal life." She replied without even thinking. "I'll probably skip off to some tropical island where I can live in a hut."

"But…aren't you supposed to do something with me?" Noel smirked.

"Do you want to become a vampire?" She asked with a raised eyebrow. Surprisingly, he stared her down.

"It would be better then being eaten." He replied without even blinking. Noel laughed.

"I had no idea that you could be so serious! Believe me Neville, you don't want to be like me. This is no life for anybody to be living."

"You're a vampire." He retorted.

"Yes I am, but it wasn't my choice." She slouched slightly and began to trace patterns on the table with the tip of her finger. "I had always dreamt of getting married and having children…even if somebody had offered me eternal life, I would have turned it down. I wouldn't have given up my chances of having a family."

"What happened to your family after you got turned into a vampire?" Noel sighed.

"They never found out about me. They thought that I had been kidnapped…that's all that I know, nobody would let me find out anything else about my family or what happened. It's a rule…but I heard rumors that my parents had a funeral for me; there's a gravestone and everything."

"Have you ever seen your gravesite?" Noel shook her head with a small laugh.

"No, I haven't left Italy since I was first bitten…but now that I'm here, I would like to go. And I'd like to see what's become of my home, see if it's still standing." Neville nodded.

"I'll take you." He suddenly offered. "How about over holiday break?" Noel smirked, but shook her head.

"Thank you for the offer, but I don't think that I should do anything with you. You shouldn't be around me."

"What's wrong with me being around you? Why can't we be friends?"

"I'm bad!" She exclaimed through clenched lips. "I could kill you without a second thought and feel no remorse for you! I'm not…"

Noel suddenly stopped when she noticed that Neville's gaze was focused somewhere other then her face. She looked down to where his gaze lingered and she began to panic. The sun was shining on her hand, causing it to shimmer like glitter. The clouds were parting and the sun was starting to heat Noel's skin. The hall was silent as every part of her bare skin began to glitter. Nobody knew what to say or what to think. Here was a vampire in the sun, and instead of burning and turning into a pile of ashes, she was sparkling. She stood up slowly, tucking a black loose curl behind her ear.

"Believe me, you don't want to be a freak like me."