Immortality is an easy thing to take for granted. You figure: you got forever. What's a little mistake here and there? But that's the thing about forever. The choices you make, the people you lose, your mistakes are indelible, with no sweet death to erase your own memory. You may think the greatest reward of eternal life is the power it gives you. You're untouchable. The power is a perk, something to make your endless passing days more bearable. But to rule the world alone…is worthless.

-James Bishop

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I trotted next to Bobby through the outskirts of Boston. He was a yellow lab with a white fur collar.

That was stupid of you to send a vampire to our meeting place. Bobby said.

I knew you wouldn't hurt him. I said. Cause if you did hurt him, then that would be like hurting me and you know what happens when people hurt me, don't you, Bobby?

Of course, Glaceon.

Anything about Bishop trying to drive you guys out of town?

The vampire elders are here. I stopped and looked over at him.

How do you know this?

I had Banktail go and play spy. He overheard your vampire boyfriend and Bishop talking about the elders.

Bobby, I don't know if you not thinking straight because of the crazy idea of Bishop trying to drive you out or if you're just plain stupid! Do you have any idea what Bishop will do to Banktail if he finds out that Banktail was spying on them?

It's fine, Glaceon. He wasn't spotted.

You don't know that, Bobby. Do you have any idea what kind of pressure will rain down on me because Bishop knows that I'm associated with you and the pack.

Glaceon, we have to make a move before Bishop and the elders do. The pack is starving. We need to eat.

Try eating human food for once in your pathetic lives. I turned and stormed off. As I passed the alley beside the house, something grabbed me by the scruff and slammed me into the trunk of a car.

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"Glaceon!" I woke up with a start and got to my paws. I looked around to find myself in a cage and a basement. "Glaceon!" I looked to the left to see Josh in a cage too.

Josh? What happened? What are we doing in cages like we're some kind of rabid dog?

"Really, Glaceon?"

It's true!

"I love your fur." A man said. I looked behind me to see an old man. Kind of on the chubby side. "It looks like silk, pure white silk. Your hind legs seem strong. You have a strong jaw line. Your tail lays perfectly on your back, giving you that royal posture. The red line from your head to the end of your back gives you the warrior look." I looked back at Josh.

Who the hell is this crazy man?

"My name is Douglas." I look back over at the man.

You can hear me?

"He's a werewolf, Glaceon." Josh said.

Shut up! You're a werewolf? Why are we down here?

"They want to put us into a dog fight. Two werewolves fighting over prey."

Prey?

"Glaceon…you're the prey."

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I had my head on my paws when the door opened. Bishop and four other men came into the room. I took a step back when I remembered the faces of the elders. I took another step back when I saw Aidan behind them. Bishop came over and unlocked Josh's cage and dragged him out of the cage. I dared not make a move as Bishop past my cage. He and the elders were the only things that frighten me. Douglas got up from his desk and stood in front of the four men. Bishop placed Josh right next Douglas.

"Take off your clothes." Bishop said. Douglas immediately obeyed but Josh had second thoughts.

"No." Josh said.

"Take off your clothes." Aidan repeated Bishop's order. I leapt at the cage, rattling the metal, and snarled.

Don't do it, Josh! I am going to rip his lungs out! I am going to tear his skin off and then allow him to drink so he can heal only so I can rip his skin off again! Aidan's jaw muscles tightened as if the loudness of my barks and growls were enough to tell him what I was thinking. Josh began to take off him clothes. One man began to inspect Douglas's teeth and face and another man did the same to Josh.

"Bend over." I howled out my anger. Douglas obeyed.

"What?" Josh questioned him.

"Bend over."

I swear to god, Josh, I am going to kill him! Traitor! God, I can't believe I loved him! I am so stupid! Josh reluctantly obeyed. One man ran his fingers up Douglas's and Josh's spine and stopped at the nape of their necks.

"I think we have a winner." The man, as I remember as Hegeman, said. Bishop and the men headed out the doors first. Aidan slowly followed after turning to me and mouthing sorry. I leapt against the cage again and howled my disapproval.

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"You knew one of them." Douglas said, flipping the pages of a journal. "The vampire, you knew him.

"I…did."

"You loved him?"

For a while, I thought he was the love of my life. Now I can see that I was just being naïve. There's no such thing as love.

"Well…that must complicate things for you."

"I'm sure there's a good reason." Josh said. I paced the perimeter of the cage and scoffed.

And I'm sure there's a good reason to life. A time for everything and to everything it's place. Return what has been moved through time and space. No reaction happened to my spell.

"For his inaction?" Douglas answered Josh's question with a question. "The company he keeps…they're savage, heartless. But you know that. Better stop with the spells. This place is magic proof."

"We're strong." Josh said. "We're strong now. We're strong now. We can get out of this. We can jump the guards and get outside. I mean, this is a funeral parlor, right? It's not freaking Alcatraz!"

"Sure. We could do all that. Maybe get outside when the full moon's the fullest, run into a mother of three, who we proceed to rip apart."

"That's why they didn't even lock you up. Cause they've got you brainwashed into thinking you're as monstrous of they are!" Douglas got up from his seat and walked over to Josh.

"They don't lock me up…because they know I would no longer try to escape. Out there, I could hurt someone. You'll see." Josh shook his head. "You live out there long enough, you turn someone."

"Not if you're careful."

"I always thought I was. It's safer here."

Safer my ass.

"Here it's contained." Douglas walked back over to his desk.

"What are you doing with all those notes?" Josh asked.

"Probably nothing." Josh sighed.

"I have a notebook, too. I was going to med school…before. I thought I could start to isolate the transformation, learn to stop it."

"And?"

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A whooshing noise sounded behind Josh and I looked over to see Sally.

"Josh!" She exclaimed.

"Hey!" Josh stood up and faced her.

"There are vampires here. A lot! And they are not respectful of ghosts. I just popped in upstairs, and they tried to dissipate me with a fire iron. Not pleasant! We need to get you two out of here!"

"Sally, this is Douglas."

Screw Douglas, you got any plans, Sal?

"Aidan has a plan." Sally said. I snarled at that traitor's name.

It sure the hell didn't look like he had a plan. He's gone insane! He's gone and betrayed us!

"What's she saying?"

"Uh, she's saying that Aidan betrayed us." Josh translated.

"No, he's trying to be good, Glaceon!"

Horseshit!

"She doesn't believe that." Josh said. "And frankly, I don't believe that either. Douglas's a werewolf too. They're going to make us fight each other for prey. Glaceon being prey."

"What?" Sally exclaimed.

"Yes! That's the leave of shock I was looking for."

"Ok, we need to psyche you up so you do, really, really well. Yeah, Josh, he's old! You can take him."

"Yeah, he's old. He's stronger. They've been keeping him down here for fifteen years, Sally. This fight is all he does! And there's no doing well. There's winning or there's dying. And in Glaceon's case, it's just dying."

Thanks for that reminder, Josh.

"I have to kill a man and my best friend. It's not who I am. I can't do that."

"I think you have to." Sally said.

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Marcus shoved me out a door and into an arena with iron gates that reached from the floor to the roof. Sand covered the ground. People surrounded the pit, yelling, cheering. The noise frightened me. I spotted Aidan in the far left corner with Bishop. The door opened and Josh was led out and strapped into a chair. I let out a whimper.

I have a plan.

"What?"

Remember when you had to change in the house?

"Yeah."

I remembering whimpering outside the door and the wolf whimpered back at me.

"What are trying to say?"

I'm saying your wolf likes me. I don't think he will hurt me.

"You can't be for sure."

It's the only theory we got right now. Josh let out a scream and I knew the transformation was beginning. The growling intensified as Josh broke free of the restrains, growling in a large, five foot tall, gray wolf. The wolf walked over to me and I laid my ears back. He sniffed me and I crouched, preparing myself to be ripped apart. But I wasn't. The wolf nosed me and whimpered. I looked him in the eye and for a split second, I thought I saw Josh. I howled and the wolf howled back. The door reopened and another wolf walked in. Douglas. He was like twice Josh's size. Josh growled and they circled each other, me always staying behind Josh because I knew he would protect me. Douglas leapt at Josh's throat. Just before Douglas reached Josh, I jumped over Josh and as soon as I slammed myself into Douglas and snapped my teeth on his ears, I knew I had just committed suicide.

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I laid on Josh's bed, head on my paws and my right hind leg sticking out awkwardly fore Douglas had broke it. Josh sat on the floor beside the bed, looking through Douglas's notes. Aidan was in a chair beside Josh and Sally stood in the doorway.

"I don't know how to live with myself." Josh said.

"It stays with you." Aidan said. "The first time I…"

What? Broke a girl's heart?

"I couldn't even blink without seeing the guy's face."

"Why didn't they lock me up like Douglas?" Josh asked. "What did you do?"

"Something that was gonna catch up with me anyway." I lifted my head off my paws.

What the hell does that mean?

"Yeah, what Glaceon said." Josh said. "What the hell does that mean?"

"I have to go back to them." I stumbled to my paws, leaning on my left side.

What? Traitor! I knew it! I knew it! He's a goddamn blood sucking traitor!

"Calm down, Glaceon." Josh said.

"I know you're angry, Glacey." Aidan began. I flattened my ears and growled.

Angry? Angry, Aidan?! Really? Angry doesn't even come close to how I feel right now! Right now, I feel like I want to shove a damn stake through your sorry excuse for a heart!

"What is she saying?"

"You really don't want to know." Josh said.

"You'd go back there?" Sally asked.

"Bishop, he did me a favor, and I have to do this for him." Aidan explained.

You know what you have to do, Aidan? Kill the damn bastard! Problem solved!

"Glaceon, you're giving me a headache. Indoor voices." Josh said.

Oh, trust me this is my indoor voice.

"It's a code of honor between me and him."

Code of honor my ass.

"Where exactly is the honor is that?" Sally asked. "In them?"

"You should know, Sally, that what you said…it mattered. I was scared, I was scared I was going to lose my best friend and the love of my life. I was selfish even. It's really you who saved Josh and Glaceon."

"And doomed you? Aidan, no."

"Sally's right." Josh said. "What I saw in there…How could you…do that? How could you go back to that? When all this, this house…it was all you idea in the first place! I mean…God, Aidan..." I sat on my left side, letting my head and shoulder sag.

What are we supposed to believe in when we can't even believe in you? Josh? Josh translated the thought to Aidan.

"You can." Aidan declared. "I just hope that you guys can forgive me."