Abby didn't know exactly how she felt. She knew she was dead- that much was obvious. She just didn't know why. Why she had died. Why Ashlynn's friend couldn't have saved her. Why she was still on earth even after she bled to death in her own kitchen.

She stared down at her body. It was so cold, so lifeless. So unlike Abby herself. She didn't remember the reason she stabbed herself. All she knew was that it hadn't been her choice.

Abby turned away, too horrified to stare at her body for another second. She closed her eyes, dreaming she was at home in her bed instead of here in this horrible morgue.

She felt something. Something like a gust of wind around her. As soon as she opened her eyes, she was back in her own house, lying down on her soft mattress. She thought for a second that everything that happened had just been a dream. That she was alive again, waking up from a horrible nightmare. But as soon as she glanced in the mirror across from her bed and saw nothing, she knew what she was. A ghost.

There was nothing Tyler hated more than waking up to the sight of a ghost. The really confused-looking ghosts were the worst, too.

He groaned and covered his head with a pillow.

"Go away!" he growled, his words muffled.

"You can see me?" she asked, completely baffled.

Tyler briefly considered pretending to be asleep, but he knew it would be useless. Tyler was part Seer. A Seer was just what it sounded like- someone who saw and communicated with the dead. Whenever someone died in the area and became a ghost, they would be sent straight to him as soon as they figured out what they were. It was his job to help the ghosts find what their purpose as a ghost was so that they could move on to their afterlives.

Ironically enough, Tyler's father had been an Incubus. Incubi were similar to vampires, except their life force was not gained through blood-drinking, but through sexual intercourse with a woman. Tyler literally needed sex to stay alive, but every time he slept with a human woman, he would steal her life force and she would die. Then, of course, she'd become a ghost and he's have to deal with a very angry female.

He desperately hoped this girl was not one of his victims or else he wouldn't be getting sleep for the rest of the night.

"Please, if you can hear me, tell me," the girl went on. "I need your help. I don't know how I got in this room but I don't think it was a coincidence. I think someone got me to kill myself and I don't know what is going to happen to Ashlynn. She's all alone now-"

Tyler shot up, throwing his covers aside.

"Ashlynn? What about Ashlynn?"

The girl looked beyond startled by his explosion. She was dirty blonde with round, blue eyes. The horror and pain in her eyes effected Tyler in a way that most ghosts couldn't. She had an innocent quality about her that made her pain seem more devastating.

"You're Ashlynn's sister, aren't you?" he asked carefully.

The girl's eyes brightened. "You know Ash?"

"We're… acquaintances, yes," Tyler explained a little awkwardly. "Look. I'm sure you know by now that you're a ghost, right?"

She nodded. "My name's Abby."

"Good for you. Now shut up and let me explain." She was so confused by everything that she actually obeyed. "Now that you know that ghosts are real, don't freak out when I mention things like witches and vampires, okay?" The girl- Abby- nodded somewhat hesitantly. Tyler sighed, trying to figure out how to put this as clearly as possible for her. "So, do you know what a succubus is?"

"Those demons who have sex with men while they sleep?"

Tyler grimaced. "Not exactly. Well, um, sort of. So, there are two forms of this 'demon'. Incubi and Succubi. Succubi are the female version who seduce men into their beds and then steal all their energy through sex. It gives them life, keeps up appearances. The thing is, a succubus has no idea they are a succubus until they have sex for the first time. Then they start to… need it in order to live. The need sort of takes over. Your sister, Ashlynn, is a succubus."

"That's impossible-"

"No, it's definitely possible. She just doesn't know yet because she has yet to have sex. But the… urges will start soon." Abby gave Tyler a look. "Trust me, I'm explaining this in the least awkward way possible."

"So, soon my sister will have sex and become some sort of monster?"

"…Essentially."

"So, can we just tell her to not have sex?"

Tyler sighed. "No. It's in her nature to. She can repress it for a while, but eventually, she won't be able to hold it in." Abby grimaced at his poor word choice. "Well, the problem obviously goes beyond that. I'm hoping you know what a vampire is?"

"Someone who drinks blood."

"Yes. So, to put it simply, there's a vampire after Ashlynn."

Abby narrowed her eyes. "What? Why?"

"What we are assuming is that he wants to mate with her."

"We?"

"Me and this witch. Ashlynn's friends, Lys. You probably know her."

"Lys is a… witch?" She stared down at the floor with disbelieving eyes. "This is crazy. How is Lys a witch? How is Ashlynn a whatever-you-call-it. I was a normal human."

"You are the older sister, right?"

"Yes."

"Is your father, by chance, dead?"

She didn't answer, but that was answer enough for Tyler.

"So, I'm guessing your father slept with your mother and had you, then slept with a succubus who later had Ashlynn. That's probably what killed him." His brow crinkled. "I wonder why the succubi would have given Ashlynn to your mom, though. If she was able to reproduce, she had to have been part human so I guess that part gave her a guilty conscience. Most succibi just dump their children on the side of the road. My parents did that to me." Tyler grimaced when he accidentally let that piece of information out.

"You're a-."

"This isn't about me."

There was a long pause in the room. "How did you survive?"

"A woman found me," was all Tyler responded.

Abby cleared her throat, ready to change topics.

Tyler was more than happy to do just that.

"So, basically, this vampire wants her as a mate because he had this… connection thing. I don't know. Succubi and incubi often mate with vampires because since a succubi is immortal, the vampire can drink blood from a her without killing her and since the vampire is immortal, the succubi can get energy through sex without killing the vampire. It's sort of nature's way of saying 'monsters can have true love, too'."

Abby raised her eyebrows. "So let Ashlynn 'mate' with the vampire."

Tyler sighed. "It's not so simple. This vampire is bad. Just like ninety-nine point nine percent of vampires. He's destructive and he's not mating with Ashlynn so he doesn't have to kill other people. He has no problem killing others. He's doing it because he wants Ashlynn. It's a sort of possessive thing. His destruction has even led a hunter into town. Chase Caulfield. He's one of the big hunters-."

"This vampire killed me, didn't he?" Abby interrupted in a broken voice.

Tyler paused, unsure of how to continue now. "Um. That's what we think happened."

Abby nodded, eyes filling with tears. "Is he going to kill more?"

Tyler stood and walked towards her carefully. "That's what we're trying to stop."

He decided to leave out the part where Lys had to bribe him into helping Ashlynn out. This girl was just too fragile for Tyler to tell the truth to.

Tyler had only one way to get rid of his ability to see ghosts: by taking the power away from a succubus. The only way to do that would be to sleep with a virgin succubus. To sleep with Ashlynn. Then he could stop seeing all the damn ghosts that haunted him every night. Especially the ones he had killed.

Abby's back? Tyler has a soul? What do you think? :)

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