A/N: Sorry I didn't update this sooner…Major relationship issues going on right now. Anyway, here's the next chapter. Hope you guys like it.

Serena gasps and drops her pen from the shock. She has no idea what has just happened, and she knows that it cant' be good. This has never happened before and for a second she thinks she's imagining it.

Just then, something in the back of her mind clicks, and she quickly springs from her chair and out the door of her office. She avoids any collisions with the scarce amount of people who are left in the office as she makes her way to the elevator.

"Come on…come on…" she mumbles to herself as she continuously presses the button that summons the elevator. Feeling that it is going to slow, she groans as she realizes her other option is to opt for the stairs.

Serena bursts through the door to the stairway and groans as she begins to make the five flight decent. Sure she can easily do it with 'vampire speed' and everything, but that doesn't it make it any less inviting.

"No…no…no…" she mumbles repeatedly as she bursts through the stairway door once more, finding herself on her desired floor. She quickly runs down the familiar hallways and around the familiar corners until she comes to her final destination.

"ALEX!" Serena shouts quickly s she barges through the door. She looks upon the two blondes occupying the room and who seem to be going over a case file. Amanda turns around in her chair, while Alex takes several unneeded breaths as if to calm herself.

"What…?" Alex responds, finally gaining her composure back once again.

Serena nervously chews her lip and tries to think of several things at once in order to keep Alex out of her mind. She knows she succeeds when she sees the elder blonde make a disgusted expression and shake her head as if to clear away the thoughts.

"Um…I need to…Liv called, and said that she really needs Amanda back at the precinct." She lies quickly hoping that both women will buy it.

Amanda checks her phone curious as to why Olivia hasn't called her but complies seeing as duty calls first.

"Right….well I'll just go." The detective says standing from her chair. "Alex, are you alright? You don't look so good."

"She's fine…just…long day is all…" Serena interrupts shortly. "Wouldn't want to keep Liv waiting now would you?" she says as she quickly tugs Amanda out of the room only to return seconds later.

When she first walked into the room she couldn't help but notice how black Alex's eyes were. They were the color of thirst and death and Serena knew she had arrived just in time.

Alex sighs and lets the smell of the room fill her nostrils, a smell that is not tainted with Amanda's blood.

"Serena, you close I was to-"

"I know." Serena interrupts once again as she relaxes against the door.

Alex makes a face and tries to read her best friends thoughts only to be met with the same clouded and disoriented mess that she was a few minutes ago.

"Stay out of my head Alex…and don't ask me how I knew…I just…saw it. If I didn't come in when I did, you would've drained her…"

Alex lets her eyes close as the venom finally disappears from her throat. Part of her is wondering how Serena 'saw' what she was going to do, but most of her struggles with her new recently acquired addiction.

"I wanted to. For the past hour we were working, I've wanted to. She just smelled so good, I felt myself control quivering and I had to taste her."

Serena shakes her head and begins chewing her lip nervously. She knows how it feels to have a lack of self control, but still as a newborn, that is expected from her. From a vampire as old as Alex, Serena would have thought that she would have had a greater amount of control than she herself did, not less.

"Alex, when's the last time you fed?" she asks curiously.

"In what sense of the word…" Alex grumbles in response.

"On a human?"

"The evening before last…I think. There have been so many I can honestly say that I don't think I remember."

At this, Serena gasps audibly. Feeding on humans for one thing is bad, but feeding on enough that basically render your memory on how many they are is down right horrifying. Alex has a problem.

"Oh my…what…why? Why so many and why lately?" the younger blonde asks, her voice showing genuine concern.

Alex shakes her head and lets it rest on her desk. "I don't know…if I knew, I would tell you. Whenever I descend on one, I don't feel like myself anymore and I want their blood more than anything."

"What about Casey? Do you want her?"

"Almost every time I'm with her and it takes everything in me and then some to be with her or around her. It's just…how do you do it…be around the person you love with out wanting to kill them?" Alex asks sighing once more.

Even though the question is rhetoric, it still leaves a sense of emptiness and vacancy in Serena.

"I'm afraid, for obvious reason, that I am not the one you should ask about that…"

Alex sighs once more and sinks further down into her chair. "I'm sorry…I didn't mean anything by that."

"It's fine…come on…it's dark, and I think a nice talk would do the three of us some good."

Woods

"So you're having visions now?" Abbie asks curiously.

Serena shrugs her shoulders and kicks a rock clear into the distance. "I don't know…I just know that I saw Alex was going to kill Amanda, and sure enough, when I went down there, that's what was going to happen."

Abbie hums in response not sure on whether or not it's a good thing that Serena has a clear insight on things to come. It could be good yes, but at the same time, it could have many downsides. It is then that she notices how quiet Alex has been.

"What's on your mind Blondie?" she inquires curiously.

Alex sighs and leans against the tree trunk as if it is her only means for support. "Casey wants me to change her…"

Silence is all that she gets in response and she's actually afraid to look up to see the look that her friend's are giving her. Maybe she should have eased into the topic instead of just dropping it on them like that.

"Why?" Serena asks utterly dumbfounded by Alex's revelation.

Alex sighs and runs her hand through her hair out of frustrated habit. "She says so it's that we could be together forever, and that I wouldn't have to worry about risking losing control around her…"

"Well you told her no right?" Abbie interjects as if it's the most obvious thing in the world.

Alex uneasily makes a notion with her head that is a fusion of yes and no. The gesture is unrecognizable by both of the other women and it slightly irritates them that Alex is beading around the bush.

"Not exactly….I gave her four months to think about it...and I said I would if she still wanted me to."

Abbie's jaw hits the ground while Serena crosses her arms over her chest as she appears to be thinking.

"Well it is her choice…" the youngest of the three says after a very long awkward silence.

Abbie however disagrees completely. "It's her cho- why would she want this?! And why would you give it to her? Do you not remember how painful it was to be come…this?!"

"Yes Abbie, I remember, in fact, it's something that I will probably never forget. But what was I supposed to do, refuse her completely?"

"Uh, how about yeah? Do you really want to see her go through all that pain? And on top of that, it's just a bad idea for both you and her."

Alex is about to say something of her own, but instead she looks to Serena for her input on the situation. Serena senses this and begins nervously biting her lip trying to come up with a response.

"Personally…I think that it really is Casey's choice on what she wants, and neither of you have the right to decide for her…" she says softly.

Abbie scoffs loudly and folds her arms. "I can't understand why she would want this…we're monsters and we..."

"We are not monsters…"

"Yes we are Serena! We are monsters and we are pretty much a danger to anyone in society just by walking into their world. I want my mortality back; I want to be able to do the things that normal people do, not continue to be damned in to eternity by being this…thing!" Alex cuts in, in response. "And just because you still maintain your innocence. Quite being so oblivious and naïve and open your eyes to the things around you Serena. We are monsters, and you're one of us."

Anger flashes in Serena's eyes and for the first time ever she gets in Alex's face, grabbing the taller blonde by the neck and roughly backs the taller blonde into a tree, pinning her there in success in keeping immobile with new found strength.

"Just because you have been around longer than I have does not make me any less superior to you, and I will not let you talk to me that way. I am not a monster, and just because you feel like one I am not going to let you sit here and attack me. And you think you have it hard? You want to talk about innocence? Have you forgotten that I was practically raped of my mortality? You think that I don't wish every night that I had the fucking choice to become this? That I would have at least liked to have been given an option? If you want to change Casey, then fine, if you don't that's fine as well. That's between you and her, but I will not sit here and allow you to feel sorry for yourself and then try to cope with that by attack the other people around you."

For a split second Alex actually thinks Serena is going to hit her. She sees a fearsome anger in the younger blonde's eyes that she's never once seen before and it actually takes her by surprise.

Serena actually does contemplate hitting Alex until she feels Abbie tugging mercifully on her arm to back off. She gives in to her girlfriend's wishes and steps away from her elder who is standing pin straight against the tree.

"We don't need to argue with each other. It won't solve anything." Abbie says solemnly, as she feels slightly wounded from Serena's earlier words.

Neither blonde's say anything as the threesome stand in an awkward silence. Finally Serena lets out a puff of unneeded air and speaks.

"You should hunt…for something that isn't human." She says curtly, her words directed towards Alex but her gaze is fixated on the ground.

Alex opens her mouth to say something but realizes it is probably best that she doesn't. After another moment of silence she speeds off to satisfy her thirsts before she wants to take time and visit Casey.

As Alex disappears, Abbie cautiously walks over to her girlfriend and places her hands on her shoulders. She recoils slightly when she feels Serena flinch under her touch and literally push her away.

"Don't touch me." The blonde murmurs before she continues to walk away from Abbie who is staring after her with a confused and pained expression while Serena wonders if she is in fact what Alex said she is; a monster.

Casey's Apartment

Casey sighs as she sits down the manila folder she has just finished reading through. She feels as if her eyes are about to shrivel up and just plain fall out of her head. Long story short; she's tired, and she knows it.

Ever since Alex took her back in time, she's thought longer and harder about wanting to be changed. Of course it's still what she wants, but just the thought of going through that much pain scares her.

She knows that Alex would be there with her through it all though, and she loves her even more for that. But she still often finds herself wondering about 'the change'.

Casey is about to pack up her stuff and head to bed when she hears a frantic knocking on her front door. She glances at the time and deems it to be a little late for visitors. She knows its not Alex, because since when does Alex knock?

Placing her files on the coffee table, Casey gets off the couch and makes her way through the foyer and to her front door.

She opens the door and is met with a woman she's never seen before. The woman is about her height with slick black hair, paper white skin, and piercing green eyes. She's dressed in a black v-neck shirt and black jeans that hug her figure perfectly. She also looks to be in her early twenties but Casey can't be sure.

"Um…can I help you?" The redhead asks curiously as to who the stranger is at her front door.

"Yes, you're Casey Novak, right?" the woman asks wanting confirmation.

Casey slowly nods her head, her curiosity spiking by the second. She watches as a grin spreads across the woman's face and seconds later she feels a cold, frozen hand tightly covering her mouth. The woman's eyes then slowly turn the crimson shade Alex's had whenever she confessed to drinking human blood.

The woman's sadistic grin widens as she then places her hand on Casey's neck. "Good…because you're just who we've been looking for."

Casey struggles against the woman's firm grip on her mouth but as soon as she feels that cold hand on her neck, her limbs go limp and everything fades to black.

C'mon, you guys didn't think I'd kill of Rollins did you? And EEEK accidental cliffy here! Who is this woman!? Leave a review!