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This is the last chapter, which is why it's longer than all the others. Read on about Seth and Katy for the last time...

Seth's POV

It happened not long after Leah finally drifted off into a troubled sleep.

I was sitting upright, alert, and ready to spring into action if the bloodsucker came back or something else came along.

I couldn't help turning around, my eyes drifting to Katy every so often. I don't know if I was imagining it, but Katy wasn't thrashing around very much at all, very different from when we'd arrived.

Every second I saw her pain, I felt it echoed a thousand times because I couldn't do anything to stop it. I was completely helpless to end her suffering, and I knew it.

So, I sat in the meadow, when a voice came from behind me, a voice so familiar yet so alien. I froze.

"Seth?"

In an instant, all my depressed thoughts evaporated, along with the dull, throbbing ache that had dwelt by my heart ever since that fateful phone call. Emotions exploded within me, joy and love and happiness spinning with anger and hate, a desire for revenge underlying everything else.

I carefully unlocked my joints, and swivelled my head around slowly, scared of what I would see.

She still looked like Katy, as if she were a cousin, or other relative. Her light brown, wavy hair was the same, she was the same height, but the worst thing was the difference in her face. It was beautiful, but it wasn't a face that fitted Katy. Her freckles were gone, her tan was gone, and her eyes, her wonderful sea-green eyes...

I closed my eyes, not wanting to see the horrible scarlet things that had replaced them.

She was still Katy, I still loved her, she was still my imprint and she would always be the most beautiful person in the world to me.

"Seth? What happened to me? What's going on?" Katy asked, in a voice that wasn't Katy's voice at all.

She's woken up! I heard Leah say in an awed whisper. I hadn't noticed that my sister wasn't asleep anymore.

I couldn't speak in wolf form, but I wished that I could.

Don't you dare phase! Leah said. That bloodsucker might still be hanging around!

"Seth?" Katy repeated.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps came eerily from the surrounding trees. They seemed to echo from several places at once. The three of us instantly took up a defensive stance. I let a growl rip from my throat, as I scanned the trees for any movement.

I didn't need any of my werewolf senses to know who it was. I just wanted her to come so I could have my revenge for doing what she did to my Katy.

The leech would try to surprise us, I guessed. It needed Katy, but wanted to avoid a fight.

Over there, by the stream! Leah warned me, a second before a nightmarish monster erupted into the meadow. It was the leech that had changed Katy, but smothered with dirt, leaves, and...Blood.

I hated how the quest to find Katy and bring her home had turned into one filled with blood and violence.

I realised the reason for the layer of blood smothering the bloodsucker. It was intended to send Katy into a feeding frenzy, distract her. I watched, horrified but helpless as the scent reached Katy. I braced myself, but I wasn't sure what for. To control Katy? The seconds ticked past, each one seeming to last for years. I waited as the seconds turned into minutes, but Katy didn't show any sign of sudden bloodlust. In fact, it was if she'd never smelt anything at all.

Never smelt anything at all... That was it! I remembered standing on the beach, with Katy. I remembered how I'd asked 'don't you love the smell of the sea, Katy?' I even remembered exactly how she'd replied. 'I can barely smell it. I have a problem with my sense of smell. It doesn't bother me, I've had it all my life.'

Maybe Katy's lack of smell had lasted through her transformation! That explanation fitted perfectly.

I enjoyed watching the expression on the blood-covered leech as her plan failed. It went from smug to puzzled to annoyed to furious.

"That's impossible!" the bloodsucker muttered, too quiet for anyone with human senses to hear. "A newborn resisting fresh blood!"

Then she plastered a fake smile on her face. "Hello, I'm Clara," she said, addressing only Katy. "You must be wondering what's going on, I expect it all feels very strange." Clara's words sounded so much like an ad that I half expected her to say something like 'don't worry anymore! Buy this, and all your troubles will be gone!'

"I was snatched from my bed at night, somehow ending up in a forest, survived some painful torturous thing, and woken up to find two massive wolves and a blood-covered person in the same clearing as me. It is a bit confusing," Katy said sarcastically.

Clara looked taken aback at her confident retort, and I felt a rush of pride for my imprint. "Uh, well, you also might have noticed that you look different and feel different, and your senses are sharper."

"What?" Katy was surprised. "My looks have changed?" She felt her new face uncertainly. Her eyes hardened. "What did you do to me?"

Maybe the transformation had changed more than Katy's body. She wasn't acting like she used to, shy, quiet but determined and willing to do anything for me.

It didn't matter, I told myself firmly. It still doesn't.

"There are some people who look normal, but they aren't human. It's time to start believing in the myths, Katy."

Katy frowned. "I already know about werewolves. And how do you know my name?"

Clara may have looked taken aback before, but now she was frozen with shock. After a little while, she organised herself, and gave a soft and sinister laugh. "Oh, I know a lot about you Katy. But where did you find out about werewolves?"

"Why should you care about werewolves?"Katy answered Clara's question with one of her own. "You aren't one of them, you're far too cold and hard." Katy swallowed, before asking one final question, the most important one. I could read in her face that she wasn't sure she wanted to know the answer to.

Before Katy could even open her mouth to ask, Clara answered.

"Yes, Katy. You are a vampire."

I scrutinised Katy's new unfamiliar face carefully, trying to gauge her reaction. Against my instinct, I padded over to her, brushing alongside her. Unexpectedly, she wrapped her arms around me tightly.

"Help me, Seth! I don't know what to do!" Katy whispered into my fur.

I know what to do! I said to myself, forgetting about Leah.

She snorted. Yeah, of course you do, little Sethy.

Leah's remark stung me, until I realised that she was just trying to conceal how lonely she was, and jealous of me, for having an imprint.

Get out of my head, Seth! Leah spat.

I took a deep breath, and let memories flow through my mind, ones that I'd tried to banish from my mind. The first bloody clearing, Liam's body, Katy during her transformation...

Horrible images, images that did their job well.

I let the raging fury that they generated fill me up, until I was ready to burst.

With a howl, I exploded, tearing myself out of Katy's arms and at the bloodsucker for the second time. This time, she wouldn't survive the confrontation.

In a matter of minutes, the creature that'd been Clara was in pieces disintegrating in a crackling fire that cast dancing shadows over the grass and tumbling stream that no longer reflected the moon.

I was so glad that she'd had carried a lighter!

Katy and I watched the sun rise together.

We were through the horrors and sorrows of the long night that had seemed endless, and now everything was going to be fine. The future was sunny, as bright as the light that sent millions of tiny sparkles bouncing off Katy's skin.

"Oh, Seth..." Katy sighed, and turned to look at me. "That was awful!"

"I know," I replied, happy that I could finally speak to her in human form now that Clara was gone. "It's never nice destroying a blood– I mean, vampire," I hastily corrected, seeing Katy's expression.

Katy shook her head, sending shimmering reflections onto me. "No, it's not that, although that was horrible too." She shuddered at the memory. "I meant talking to Clara, putting on a brave face. Inside I was terrified." She gave me a ghost of a smile, her eyes shining with grief. "And Liam..."

I bowed my head at the mention of her brother, If I'd gone faster, then I could have saved him.

"It wasn't your fault, Seth." Katy eventually broke the silence. "You couldn't have..." She broke off, struggling to control her sorrow.

I don't know how long we sat together, hands clasped. I was getting used to the new Katy, and enjoying her company so much more than before she was changed. Before she was changed, I'd never even come close to losing her forever...

"As long as we're together, everything will be fine," I said, drawing spirals on Katy's sparkling arm. I looked up to meet her scarlet eyes that no longer repulsed me.

Katy's POV

As I watched the sun that did strange things to my skin, and Seth's fingers tracing patterns on my arm that lay across his lap, I thought back over the past few days. None of it seemed real, now that I was safe here with Seth.

All of the problems that might happen in the future, like me going back home with my altered appearance seemed irrelevant now. They were things to be solved another day, a later date.

Seth was right.

As long as I had Seth, and as long as he had me, as long as we had each other, my future as a vampire wouldn't be so frightening and strange.

As long as I had Seth...

The End

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