Hello again! How've you all been? Good I hope. I started writing a new fanfic story as you can see on my newly updated profile. Heehee. That, however, does Not mean I will forget about this story. It just means that it's gonna take a tiny, shmeansy weansy bit longer for me to write the chapters since I'll have two sets of chapters going on. By the way, last I looked I had 5487 hits! Wow. I never thought I'd have THAT many! Well, anyways, thank you to all of those who have stayed true to my story and read all of it. And thank you to my absolutely wonderful Beta, Ecco51, my bestest friend in the WORLD. You have made this absolutely possible! Okay, moving on now to the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter. If I did, well, the plot would revolve around me and Harry being together forever, and I don't believe that's ever really going to happen. Sadly.

Only to see that Adina, Walt, and a few others had joined us, and were listening to Evan.

I slowed my pace and fell into place with Walt. I wanted to see if he would laugh at a joke, or if he was as emotionless as the guards at the London Tower.

"Yes, Emily, I do show emotion, just not when we are on the hunt. Emotion can send vibrations to the animals we drink from and scare them off. Leaving us hungry, and some of us ravenous." Walt said, sounding a little amused at my questioning thoughts.

I was somewhat taken aback by his knowledge of what I was thinking. I began to wonder if I would ever be able to conceal my thoughts around him.

"Yes, you will be able to conceal your thoughts from others once you fully change and once you learn Occlumency." he said, knowingly.

"Oh." I said, and then added, "How long will it take, for me to change, that is."

"You'll start feeling different after tonight, and tomorrow Evan will set you up with your new classes." He said, and then, seeing as I was going to ask another question, he added, "For now, hush. The hunt is beginning."

I stayed up with Walt for a few seconds, and then decided to try and catch up with Adina and Evan, who were in the very front of the pack and looked as if they were arguing about something.

"What! That little runt is supposed to be the leader? She's a pipsqueak! She doesn't even know anything about being one of us! She doesn't even know about Count—" Adina said in a loud whisper. Then she noticed me behind her, listening to the conversation.

"Oh, pardon me, Emily. Don't you know it's not polite to eavesdrop?" She spat out, snidely.

"I wasn't eavesdropping. I could hear you from where I stand, Adina." I said forcefully, putting emphasis on her name.

"Girls, lets not into a fight on the first hunt. We need to help each other now. Not fight each other." Evan said to us both, and then added, "Adina, we will discuss this tomorrow. For now, we need to concentrate on getting some food."

Adina and I glared at each other for a moment. Then I, trying to be the smart one of the two of us, reached out my hand for her to shake it as a sign of truce. However, I hoped she couldn't read minds as well because I wasn't going to be talked about behind my back by some, some…well, her. Adina didn't take my hand in truce. Instead, she turned around in a huff and ignored me. Behind me I heard someone trying but failing to stifle a laugh. I turned around only to find that it was Walt. He must have been listening. Adina turned around sharply from her place beside Evan and glared at Walt intensely until he shut up.

Great, so I already had enemies on my side of the frontier. Excellent. I was trying to decide who was on my side and who wasn't when a girl, who looked to be a little older than me, with long ember colored hair, pale skin, flecked with freckles, and deep brown eyes, walked up beside me.

"Hi. You must be the new girl." she said, a curious gleam in her eyes.

"So I'm told." I said, unenthusiastically.

"I'm Samantha Borealis," she said as she reached out her hand for me to shake it.

I took her hand and said, "Hi Samantha, my name's Emily."

"Wow, I'll remember this day forever." she said excitedly.

"Why, exactly, will you remember this day?" I asked, already fearing the answer.

"Why, the day I met the new Queen of the Vampires, silly!" she said, adding a brushing hand gesture to make it seem so common for her to meet the queen.

"Oh, I was afraid you were going to say that." I said.

"You two! Hush! We're closing in!" Adina yelled at us from the front.

"What's up her butt?" I asked quietly, angry that Adina kept treating me like a dim witted child.

This, of course, sent Samantha into a fit of laughter, which caused Adina to march straight back to us, steam practically puffing out of her ears.

"Did I not just tell you two to SHUT UP!" she yelled at us.

"Yes, your royal pain in the butt. Would you like anything else? Oh say, that stick up your butt a little further?" I said, my voice calm, but anger dripping off each word.

She looked confused for a moment. As if she had never heard the phrase before. Then, she did the oddest thing. She actually turned around to see if there was a stick up her butt. This sent me and Samantha into raging fits of laughter. We didn't stop until about ten minutes later when Evan came to where we were to see what the problem was.

I cleared my eyes from the tears that should have been in my eyes after all my laughter, had I still been human. I looked up at Adina to see that her cheeks had turned a shade of red.

"What's the problem back here? There's too much noise going on and—Adina, why is your face red?" He asked, curious.

"I—they—do I have a stick up my butt Evan?" she said as she turned around, the butt of her dark blue jeans facing Evan.

Evan struggled to keep from laughing but failed. Some seconds later Evan was able to respond.

"No," He said as he laughed a little, "there isn't a stick up your butt. It's just a phrase," He said, and then chuckled, "Come now, we must lead our pack to food. We must go deeper into the forest."

They turned and walked away, to the front of the group.

"So…what's with those two?" I asked, trying to figure out who was the couple, Adina and Evan, or Adina and Walt.

"They're the pack leaders. Prefects. Lovers. Whatever you want to call them, they are." Samantha said, nonchalantly.

"Oh. Well, what about Walt? What's he to Adina?" I asked.

"He's her first." she said.

A few thoughts ran through my mind before my sentence came out of my mouth, "I didn't know Vampire's could have kids."

Samantha giggled, "Uh, we can't. We're dead, remember? She changed him. When he was about your age." she said.

"He was left near a dumpster, as an infant, in mid-winter, in a dark alley. His parents didn't want him, I guess. Adina was hunting one night when she heard him crying. She picked him up and saw that he was going to die of malnutrition and hypothermia. She found a wet nurse for him, since she couldn't take care of him, herself, and raised him. Until he was old enough, he believed that Adina was his sister and that the wet nurse was his mother.

"Then when the time was right, Adina told him the truth, and that he needed to go to Hogwarts, and what he would become once he got there. At first he didn't believe, but once he was changed, it was miserable. He would try to throw himself off the top of the stairs at times, and he would stand in front of cars, in the city. It was horrible, but once he accepted who he was, all was fine." she said, proud that she had remembered every detail.

I blinked, "wow."

"Yep, that's what happened. We'd see him all splatted out on the floor in the common room with his bones sticking out in all sorts of weird ways and had to take him to Madame Pomfrey loads of times. It wasn't pretty." she said.

I shook my head a little and came back to the real world.

"So, what are we hunting?" I asked.

"Oh, you'll see." Samantha said, a hungry gleam in her eyes.

BUM BUM BUM! so, what'd ja think eh? I'll know if you send me reviews! Haha. I hope you all like the story. Be honest with me people, b/c this is still bugging me, did you not like chapters 7-8 or 9? I really didn't get all that many reviews and i would like to know why so that in later chapters i don't do the some thing that no one liked. Well, i thought i'd post this earlier than i was going to b/c i was going to post this thursday b/c of my oh-so-lovely hectic schedule but i decided now would do. heehee. Thank you all for reading and i'm wondering if anyone will offer to beta The Final Night? My Twighlight story. The only requirements are that you can read english (duh) and that you have read the first two books. Thanks! have a pleasant read!

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