I Can Only Protect You
The war was about two weeks away when I had Cat invite her friends over to my house. I was going to tell them what was going to happen.
Cat and I were in my car with Robbie, Andre, and Tori in the back. Tori was behind the passenger's seat, Andre was in the middle, and Robbie was behind me with Rex in his lap. Rex kept asking what was going on. When I became annoyed with it I yelled for him to "Shut the fuck up." Cat giggled, looking at me.
When I made it to my house I told everyone to get out as Beck pulled up in his truck with Jade next to him. Jade got out and mouthed to me if I was sure we should do what I wanted to do. I nodded. Cat ran over to my side of the car and took my right hand in her left. We walked inside and Jade dragged Beck to my side.
"Are you sure you're sure?" Jade asked in a whisper.
"If we don't, what are they going to do? You want them to be safe, right?" I asked.
"Beck yeah, but I couldn't care less about the others," Jade answered.
Cat looked over at her kind of shocked. I smiled down at Cat and said, "I care about you, Cat. Don't worry." I had become soft toward her. And I didn't care anymore.
Cat smiled up at me, happy once again. We brought everyone inside into my living room. The furniture was classy, like it was for rich, snobby people. It was the classic wealthy douchebag living room.
Everyone sat down while Jade, Cat, and I stood in front of everyone. Cat was looking up at me as I was looking at everyone on the couches and chairs. She was looking up at me interested in what I was about to say even though she had heard this talk before.
"Jade and I are Vampires," I said plainly. Everyone on the couches and chairs, except for Beck, looked at each other then started to laugh. I was serious and they stopped after realizing that I was. Jade and I grew our fangs out, looking at everyone. They all looked at us shocked that we were telling the truth. The fear that shown in everyone's eyes, except for Beck, was priceless. It almost made me laugh. "And there is a war coming up," I continued, "So, in the next two weeks we want you to get your immediate families together so you can hide out with one of my friends."
Everyone, including Beck, started talking to everyone around them. They were confused.
Beck stood up and walked to Jade slightly hunched, "Jade, is there really going to be a war?"
Jade nodded, "Yeah."
"And you weren't going to tell me about this?" Beck asked standing up straight.
"I was, but I just didn't want to," Jade sighed. Beck and Jade started to talk more and more, so they had to leave for a minute.
Everyone else was stuck with me. They asked me all of these questions and I answered them truthfully. The werewolf, that I found his name out to be Gerald, walked in, not realizing that there were humans about.
Everyone looked at him and gasped, trying to back up, away from him. He held a platter of food in his paws.
"Gerald, these are Cat's friends," I said. Gerald nodded then brought the platter over to the coffee table.
The signed to me, saying, "I made this when I heard you walk in. I will make more for your friends."
I thanked him then he left. The platter had fancy cheese and crackers. I told everyone to eat if they felt like it. Andre dug in, of course.
Gerald walked in later with more. I introduced him to everyone and they got used to him quickly after Jade and I came out. Gerald then asked me if I wanted him to leave. I told him he could go anywhere he liked, except for my room. I didn't want him going in there without me in there. I had important stuff in there.
Even though he was a good guy, my stuff should never be touched by someone else. Cat was never going to touch my stuff because I told her to never do it and she listens to me.
"You're going to hide out with us right?" Cat asked, holding my right hand with both of her hands. I looked down at Cat and she smiled, hopeful. I gave her a sad, but serious, look. Her smile faded and she pulled her hands from mine. "I see," she turned her back to me. "So, you're just going to leave me?"
"I have to so I can protect you," I answered. "I'll be back to be with you after the war is over." It was possible at that time for it to be a lie. I was going into very real danger and death was easily achieved in a fight like a war. Cat didn't turn back around. I hugged her from behind. "This is the only thing I can do to protect you, Cat."
Cat turned to me through my hug and she said looking up at me, "You can stay with me and take care of me that way."
I leaned down and kissed her softly. When I pulled away she looked into my eyes looking adorable. Even if it was at the wrong time, she was absolutely cute. "Cat, listen, I can't just stay with you. This fight, it's important to my kind. If I don't fight I'll be called a coward."
She looked at me. It was like I was being stared down by a cute little devil with the way she was staring at me. Her big brown eyes hurt me when they were sad. I leaned down again, closing my eyes, to kiss her once more. She closed her eyes and kissed me back.
When I pulled away I said, "You'll be with a good friend of mine. She's not fighting so she agreed to take care of you and your friends for me."
"Why isn't she fighting?" Cat asked.
I answered, "She had an accident in the last war and can't fight for a long period of time like she used to. But she can take care of you and your friends."
Cat gave me a hug and I smiled at her. Cat sighed and said, "I don't want you to get hurt."
I put my arms around her. "I know you don't. But I'm not all soft and mushy like you are. I can protect myself."
Cat smiled, pulled away from me then poked my stomach. "You are soft and mushy, though," she laughed.
I smiled down at her and hugged her tightly around the shoulders. "I love you, Cat. And I will come back to see you."
It's true that I did love her. But, like I said before, the coming back part could have been a possible lie. I mean, Vampires were very strong and because of a really old medicine that allowed our kind to walk in sunlight we've had some moderations in our DNA. My spit, for example, didn't have healing properties until I took the potion. Some people had additions to their body like a tail of some sort or extra fingers and toes. Luckily, I had something useful. Tails could be useful, but not the fingers and toes.
I started to pack some things for a trip to a meeting that I had to be at. Cat was sitting on my bed watching me pack a side pack with some clothes when Jade tapped at my bedroom window. I looked over at Jade and sighed, dropping what I had in my hand and going over to the window to let her inside. She climbed in and walked over to my bed. Jade sat next to Cat and put her arm around her shoulders smirking at her.
"You gonna be ok while Willa is gone for a couple days?" Jade asked.
"I'll have Gerald," Cat smiled up at her.
I stopped packing for a second to say, "About Gerald, Cat." Cat looked up at me. "He's going to be with me."
Cat's smile faded. "Then I'm going to be alone?"
"No, of course not," I answered her, sitting on the other side of Cat. "I'm having a friend take care of you."
"Who?" Cat asked.
There was a knock coming from down the stairs. "That's probably her," I sighed. I got up and went down the stairs to open the door.
Caroline was at my door, wearing normal clothing. I asked her if she wanted to come in and she smiled at me and entered my home. Immediately she stopped once she was inside. She looked up at me with her fangs out.
"Why is there a wolf in your house?" she asked.
I sighed, "You see, there's this wolf and he's kind of on our side now." Caroline put her fangs away and looked up the stairs at Cat and Jade who stood there. She looked back at me with a questioning stare. "Caroline, that's Cat and Jade," I said pointing at each of them.
Caroline smiled at me. She gave me this smile that was like she knew what I did. Cat walked down the stairs and took my hand then, with her free hand that had the long sleeve of my dark purple jacket covering it, covered her mouth and bit down on the sleeve. It was cute.
"You're the girl she came to see me for huh?" Caroline smiled at Cat.
Cat giggled. "Are you going to stay with me?"
Caroline looked up at me and I nodded down at her. "I guess I am."
"I just need you to take care of Cat while I'm gone," I said.
Once I was ready to go, Gerald and Jade followed me to the outside of my house. It was late at night, so Gerald was allowed to leave the house. I kissed Cat good-bye and we were off. Jade and I each had side bags with clothes in them just in case we would have to stay the night. Gerald didn't need clothes seeing as he was covered in hair and clothes would irritate him because of all of the hair. We ran down streets and jumped on the occasional roof. When we made it to the house that the meeting was to be held all of the vampires around the house looked at Gerald and hissed at him. I told them to stay back and walked Gerald inside with Jade and me. Once the meeting started I walked into a large room and stood in the back with Gerald and Jade next to me. My arms were crossed and a scowl was spread on my face. The oldest member of the meeting stood from a leather chair at a desk at the other end of the room.
"Willa!" he called. Looking at him, I grunted telling him I was listening. "What is that," he then pointed at Gerald, "doing here?"
"He has a name," I sighed. "And he works for me now."
"And how do you know he's safe?" the elder asked, glaring at me as if I had done something wrong which I had.
"If he goes back to his kind, he would be killed. He's a traitor to his kind and can't speak because of it," I answered. "He's been nothing but loyal to me."
The elder snorted angrily, "Fine, but keep it away from me."
I looked up at Gerald to see if that talk between the Elder and I had fazed him. He looked down at me and thanked me for protecting him.
"Anyway, this war, it's the only way to keep those damned dogs out of our side of the world," The Elder spoke, sitting down once again. "The King is with his attendant in Seattle right now and he's sent a few bats telling us that he's conducting the main battle there. But he knows that there are wolves in other parts of our side of the world so he wants groups outside of the main battle to fight them. Kill as many as you can. Don't hold back."
One man shouted, "For the King!" and so everyone else did too. Jade, Gerald and I looked at each other however. When I looked back to the Elder he had a map out and a list of names and where they were going to be in the battle.
Jade and I were in the same group. It was in a residential area of LA and we were just supposed to wait there for werewolves to walk by.
The Vampire community in LA televised the war being in place two days before it started. The humans were told to evacuate to the nearest shelter where the vampires would take care of them. Most of the humans were skeptical of the vampires taking care of them, but the authorities of LA who had been working with the Vampires for a very long time told the humans to do what the Vampires said.
A/N: There. That's a much better chapter, yes? Yes. Anyway, please review. It makes me happy to see that I have them. Um... Yeah. I've been writing a lot lately. I even have the next Chapter and I will post it right after I post this one. :P I'm awful for making you wait for this one, though. If you even like this story. I hope you do. I like it when people like my hard work.
