9-Consequences

Part 2

"Have you noticed that since you've been back, that you don't love Duncan as much?" Geoff asked and Courtney thought for a moment. Had she loved Duncan any less?

"No." Not a lie. If anything, Courtney had loved Duncan even more.

"Good try, but she's a type two." Duncan told Geoff, who nodded his head in agreement.

"Can we all just use simple terms that I understand?" Courtney asked. "What's a type two?"

"There are two types of the living dead." Geoff explained. "Type one is like a vampire, can' age, can't die and doesn't have feelings." Courtney nodded. She knew what a vampire was. "Type two is like you, you can't age, but you do have feelings and you can die." Courtney stared blankly at Geoff for a moment. "Have you noticed that you look younger now then you did before?"

"I've been told that." Courtney mumbled, looking over to Duncan who held his hands up defensively. "But, what does that mean? What does it have to do with anything?"

"Well, I'm sure Kaly and Layona explained all the health and safety issues and porblems and complications there can be when bringing some one back from the dead."

"Yeah, that's why they can't bring everyone back from the dead, there is too much of a risk problem." Courtney said. Sometimes, having Kaly stalking you wasn't such a bad thing. Courtney had learned quite a lot from her, actually.

"Well, there was a complication when you were brought back." That she didn't know. "Your age didn't register properly, so you're mind thinks you're a little young then you actually are."

"That doesn't bother me." Courtney admitted, and it didn't. "I know I'm seventeen. Is that what you were arguing about?" She asked, turning to Duncan and Gwen.

"No...I actually did not know that." Gwen said, not looking up at Courtney.

"You should also notice the mood swings." Geoff continued. Everyone else around the group were listening, but staring down at the floor the whole time.

"Kaly said that was normal, my body needs time to adjust from the...previous state." Still not wanting to talk about it, Courtney refused to say anything.

"Your mind isn't used to being in control." Geoff told her and Courtney nodded her head. She knew her mind wasn't used to being in control. When you're dead your mind is...

"What do you mean?" Ellie asked, looking up at her older brother. Courtney sighed.

"When you die, you're just kind of...there." It was the first time she had ever talked about the time when she was dead. "And anytime someone thinks of you, you show up at their side." Ellie looked even more confused than before. "They can't see or hear you, but you have no control over what you say or do. It's like someone is controlling your every move, telling you what to say, telling you what to do."

"So, that's why you seemed so out of it." Duncan said and everyone looked at him. "In the dream, you weren't exactly yourself."

"That's why, I had nothing to do with whatever I told you..." Courtney looked back down to the floor. "I don't even remember it..." Duncan pushed the linked hoops, that he always kept in his pocket, into Courtney's hands.

"That bit I can remember." She smiled, clenching her fingers around the interlinked hoops.

"What are you talking about?" Leah asked.

"You don't honestly think I knew about the hoops from own mind, did you?" Duncan smirked. "Like I said, it came to me in a dream."

"You can go into people's dreams?" Bridgette asked, sounding shocked at the fact.

"Yeah." Courtney nodded. "I can't remembering then now...But it was fun." Courtney then turned back to Geoff, signalling for him to continue.

"Okay, here's the thing Gwen and Duncan were arguing over...The hard part..." Courtney shifted in her seat and Duncan and Gwen gripped her hands tighter with their own. "After the war..."

"What's going to happen after the war?" Courtney asked eagerly, but, at the same time, annoyed that no one could tell her.

"Well, remember we said there was only one way for you to die?" Gwen asked and Courtney slowly nodded her head. "That wasn;t exactoy truthful..."

"When someone is bourght back to life," Geoff once again explained, "it's for a prupose." Courtney wasn't quite sure if she understood or not. "Once that purpose is fulfiled..." Now she understood.

"They die..." The young girls eyes started to tear up and Duncan wrapped his arms around her in a hug, letting her rest her head on his chest. "What's my purpose?" She asked, cdlosing her eyes and letting the tears fall.

"To help us win the war..." Duncan mumbled into her hair, but she heard him. She understood why they had brought her back. Without Courtney, they weren't going to win the war. The team was a mess and they had no stratedgy. With Courtney's help, they would be unstoppable. However, Courtney still wished they hadn't brought her back if they kne she would only die again.

"So, if we win the war, I'll die again?" Courtney asked, moving away from the hugh and wiping her eyes free from the stray droplets.

"We're sorry, Courtney." Gwen apologized, squeezing her hand with her own. "But we had to do it."

"Does dying hurt?" Taylor asked, as if it was everyday question you'd ask someone. Courtney shook her head, anyway.

"It happens faster then when you fall asleep." She told her cousin-in-law.

"So, what happens after you die?" Ellie asked. Everyone had so many questions to ask Courtney, and she was finally going to answer them. So, they were all going to ask.

"Your soul is still there, I watched the whole thing happen before my own eyes." Courtney told the group. "But, eventually, you have to leave. Somehow, you just end up at this place...I'm not quite sure what it is...But you see everyone else whp's died, and, shockingly, it's such a happy place."

"Shouldn't you know this, Tayl?" Duncan asked his cousin. She was a vampire after all.

"Well, she died a different way to me." Taylor shot back.

"Why?" Courtney asked.

"Well, like you, we died...But, we all died from a single bite. We go into a place of darkness for what seems like forever, but it's actually only a few minutes. You get this tingling, burning sensation ripping through your body, and then, like you said, we go to this place where everyone is...But, like you stayed there, we came back to our bodies."

"When you wake up, you're a vampire." Taylor finished.

"I have always wanted to know that." Bridgette said, resting her head down on Geoff's shoulder. No one knew if she was being sarcastic or not.

"Well, now you know." Duncan said, he was being sarcastic. Duncan removed the dog coller from around his neck, revealing two circular marks. They were bright red, as if only recently done. They did look painful, though, with lightly bruising around the area.

"How many years old, and still burning red?" Gwen asked, shocked that the bite mark looked brand new.

"It was pretty painful." Duncan admitted, as Courtney ran her finges over the marks. But Duncan didn't flinch, his whole neck was numb to him. He couldn't feel a thing.

Gwen rolled up the sleeve to her top, revealing two marks that looked just like Duncan's, only a lot less sore and painful.

"Mine didn't hurt, but, then again, she was only a newbie." Gwen told Duncan. After the whole time they knew each other, they had never swapped biting stories.

"Yeah, try Marco Delacore." Duncan said, putting his dog coller back around his neck.

"NO WAY!" Taylor yelled. "That must have hurt!"

"Yeah, he was a killer!" Gwen added.

"How the hell did you end up getting bitten by him?" Taylor asked, now on the edge of her seat. Everyone else was too, they were interested in how Duncan became a vampire just as much as anyone else.

"I was on the run from Jonny and his gang-"

"In what year was this?" Courtney asked.

"-And I ran into Marco." Duncan continued, ignoring Courtney. He didn't want anyone knowing how old he was. "He said I had to pay him to get past, but I had no moeny on me. I started to pick a fight, not knowing he was a vampire, and he came staright at me..."

"You walked straight into that one." Gwen told Duncan, who nodded in agreement. "So, you were alone when you woke up?"

"Yeah, you were at the hospital, weren't you?" Gwen nodded her head.

"Mine was an accident. Anne Boleyn was a newly formed vampire and-"

"Anne Boleyn, as in, Henry the eighth wife, Anne Boleyn?" Courtney asked, starting to pay attention. Courtney had loved History in school, she was always facinated by all the kings and Queens and the cruel methods they used. "Anne Boleyn was a vampire?"

"Yeah, she was...She was also my best friend, who was an accident prone, tripped over her own feet and bit me!" Gwen told the group, who were just as shocked as Courtney. "She then died when she got beheaded...That's the only way to kill a vampire, rip off their heads and leave them to burn in hell for the rest of eternity."

"Look at you, the accidentla vampire." Duncan joked, and everyone joined in with a laugh. They could all do with a laugh, they didn't get much of it with the war coming it. It was stressful, and, now, Courtney had nothing to look forward to.

A/N: Well, wasn't that a nice long chapter for you?

LOL! I hope this has got you on the edge of your seats...Praying for Courtney's survivol ;) LOL! Ah, can't keep all the good ones...Or can you? Hmmm...Wait and see what'll happen next :)

I just decided you need a bit of background info on the vampires and stuff...So, there you go ;)

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Oh my...What will happen to Courtney now?

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