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I ran around the campus at a steady pace, totally at ease. The cool air brushed against my skin like fingertips. I hadn't slept for a couple days. Not that I needed to. However, it was rather boring.

Just sitting around, fantasizing about what I would do to the human. I began to feel caged in again. Not to mention, I was beginning to get hungry again and it was getting much much worse. My stomach was like an empty pit eating away at itself.

Especially with the way the little human seemed to be following me everywhere. I can smell her now. I've noticed the smell of vampire on her. As faint as it may be, it sticks out like a sore thumb. And it pisses me off. It's like a taunt. Since she has no sense of self preservation, I'll answer it.

I could feel her eyes on me. She was lurking in the darkness as if I couldn't hear her wet heart thumping in her chest. Marie had been texting and calling me nonstop. She didn't understand why I wouldn't talk to her but most of all, she wanted to what was wrong with me. I found it hilarious at first and then that turned to overwhelming annoyance.

Footsteps pattered behind me and I stopped running abruptly. My lips pulled into a smirk and I turned around to see her standing there like a deer in headlights. I licked my lips. My stomach ached with hunger and pooled with desire. I've found nothing more sexy than frightened prey.

Before she could blink I was in front of her, cutting her stuttered questions short.

"What the fuck," Marie exclaimed, stumbling backwards. I titled my head. "Never mind. Just tell me what the hell is going on. What happened to you?"

"I warned you, Marie, but you didn't listen to me," I said ominously. Her fear tasted sweet on my tongue. "But I'll give you your answers-"

Marie sighed in relief, clutching her chest. I almost laughed. The human capacity for trust is their downfall.

"-But not here."

I picked her up quickly and threw her over my shoulder. She had no time to scream before I was running at full speed off the campus and into the woods behind it. She kicked and thrashed to no avail. It only made me more hungry. Any rational thought that I had before was gone. All I wanted was her flesh. That delectable scent wafting off of her didn't help at all.

"Ivy, let me go! Please! I'll leave you alone," Marie cried, clawing at my back. It might as well have been white noise to me.

"It's too late for you."

I kept running, ignoring her sobbing. A barn came into view and I farted towards it. The perfect place to begin my feast. Once inside, I dropped Marie immediately. She crying and snorting all over the place. Disgusting.

"What do you want from me," she cried, backing away from me. I rolled my eyes.

"You asked what I am. I'm going to tell you and then I'm going to show you. I mean...that is what you wanted right? You've thrown yourself at me since high school."

Marie's eyes widened and she stopped moving. I laughed aloud, making her flinch.

"Ivy didn't notice but I did. She always wanted to be fucking normal. To live and die as a weakling like you. Oh and maybe you aren't as much of a weakling as I thought. Even though Jacques and Helena seem to disagree."

"What? How do you know my family," Marie whispered in fear.

"Vampires and werewolves didn't always get along but my mother is exceptional. Jacques and Helena have known her since before I was born. Which...says a lot," I said casually. Marie stared at me incredulously. "Don't act like you didn't know they were vampires. You're too smart."

Marie was silent for a long time. She stared at the ground like a mannequin. I could almost hear her loud thoughts. I watched her patiently. She was intriguing. I noticed how much she looked like her vampire predecessors and it brought about questions. However, my mind wandered back to hunger. Her lineage didn't matter, only her flesh was of importantance.

I shot forward and wrapped my hand around her slender throat. She tried to scream but only choked noises reached my ears. I licked a stripe up her neck, moaning as I tasted her sweat. I wrapped my around around her body and nipped at her skin.

"I-Ivy, you don't have to do this," Marie stammered. Her body shivered against mine. To my surprise, the smell of her arousal flooded my nose. A growl rumbled in my chest. "Ivy! I know you can hear me. Please stop this!"

I ignored her nonsensical ramblings and started to tear at her clothing. The only thing on my mind was Marie. I wanted everything that was her. She called to me like a siren. So much so that I was on autopilot, completely controlled by desire.

"Ivy...I'm warning you," Marie whispered dangerously. If I had been in my right mind I would have been startled by her change of tone.

"Mine," I growled. My eyes inked into blackness and my nails began to lengthen.

"No, I'm not."

Suddenly, my feet weren't on the ground. The air rushed past me for a second before my body was crashing into the far side of the barn. I grunted as I hit the ground, completely in shock of what just happened. I righted myself quickly and watched as Marie backed away from me. She looked to be surprised at her own actions.

"What are you," I snarled at her. "You've been lying to me this entire time."

"I don't know what just happened! Please believe me," Marie pleaded, backing away as I advanced.

"Lies. Whatever you are, you'll taste nice."

Marie darted out of the barn faster than I've ever seen her move before. It was almost vampire speed. I followed quickly, dodging fallen trees and roots as I chased her down. My apex predator instincts were completely awakened at this point.

She could never beat my speed but I enjoyed the chase. For no other reason than the hunt. Just as she started to slow down I smirked evilly, pouncing in her like a big cat. We went down rolling across the forest floor. Marie fought against me as hard as she could, scratching and biting, but she wasn't strong enough. I pinned her arms to the ground.

"I have lived for over a millennia. Did you really expect to escape me," I snarled.

"Fuck you," Marie spat in my face. I scoffed in disgust and wiped my chin before striking her across the face multiple times. The sound resounded through the trees.

I watched the cuts on her face slowly knit itself back together in awe. I felt cheated. I felt betrayed. If only she had told me what she was we could have been the perfect mates.

"I'm done playing games with you. If you want to kill me then do it," Marie said exasperatedly. Those blue eyes watered and overflowed. "Just know that I did love you, Ivy. I won't ever stop loving yo-"

"Shut the fuck up!"

I struck her again and again, harder than before. She had no right to say these things to me. It was her fault I was even doing this. She brought this fury down upon herself. If only she could have stayed with me. If only she could have left that human bitch alone that night. A scream built up in my chest and I gripped her bloody face in my hands.

"Why did you lie to me? Why did you leave me? Huh? Talk to me."

Marie coughed up blood. Her face wasn't healing as fast as it was before and now horror was finally setting in for me. Her eyes were swollen almost completely shut and her lips were split open. Something inside me broke apart into a million pieces.

"Oh fuck, come on Marie. Come on. I'm sorry. Please don't leave me," I whispered frantically, holding her in my arms. "What can I do to help you? Do you need blood? I can go get you some."

"..I'm just sleepy," she muttered. Tears streamed down my face and I shook my head. "But I never told you...never told you.."

"What didn't you tell me, Marie? You can tell me now," I said quietly, rocking her back and forth. She gripped me weakly in return.

"I-I didn't want to leave you...you're my mate, Ivy. I knew when I first saw you," she choked out, clutching at my face.

I froze up. Any hunger I had was stamped out. Never once did that thought come across my mind. I gave up on mating a long time ago when the African sands of the desert clung to my feet. But now I see the signs.

Suddenly, I was not one the most deadly predators on the Earth. I was a fragment of a person holding my broken heart in my hands as it bled out. Marie's eyes were slipping closed when I finally snapped out of my stupor.

"Wait! I'm going to find an animal for you to drink. Just hold on," I said shakily, laying her back down on the ground. I did not want to leave her. It took everything to just stand up.

"I'll be right back. I promise."

I turned around to leave only to be tackled to the ground by some invisible force. I grunted as my back dug into the ground. Looking up, I saw that it was Jacques. I growled ferociously and fought to kick him off of me. I fought in vain. Helena was on me as well, wrapping her arm around my throat.

"What did you do to her," Jacques snarled. I choked as my windpipe was crushed. He rained blows on me with the force of a god. "How dare you harm my daughter!"

I went limp as they beat me to a pulp. I didn't blame them. If what he said was true, they had every right to kill me. I had harmed my mate. I had betrayed her irreparably. I felt it was my time to go. I've been given too many chances. I've lived too long to have not learned basic control.

I've committed the worst crime. I've failed my mate. As Jacques' teeth sliced through my skin, I knew it was over for me. My time, for the first time in life, was limited.

Suddenly, I was lying in the cold hard ground. The sounds of fighting going on around was muffled as my injuries were dire. I could feel a fire coursing through my veins.

Through the pain, I could hear my mother and brother fighting. I could hear Marie's heart thumping heart begin to slow down to a dangerous rate. I closed my eyes and allowed tears to roll down. I could find no one to blame but myself.

"Oh my god...she's been bitten," I heard Alyson exclaim. Her cold hands sent my hellish body into shock. "Fuck, I'm sorry. I should have been here."

"Help Marie. She needs blood. Leave me," I gritted out.

Alyson looked at me incredulously but she listened nonetheless. She kissed my head and left me lying there. Above me, my mother and brother stood looking down. Their eyes were sad but even worse, disappointed. I prayed for the venom to hurry on its path to my heart.

"I'm sorry, sis," Zeke whispered, holding my hand. I held in a scream as the venom scorched through me. "I love you."

My mother kneeled down before me and smoothed my hair back. My blood smeared on her hand but this didn't deter her. She gripped my head in her hands firmly and I understood what she wanted to do.

"Your time had come, Ivani. Do you wish to suffer? Or do you wish for me to take you out of this world as I brought you into it," she asked me calmly. Tears welled in her eyes but she knew I was ready. I had always had a very hard time with this life.

I watched as Alyson pulled a deer over to my mate and I didn't have to think any further. Zeke covered his mouth and walked away from me but I couldn't blame him. He would be the one to take my death the hardest. Our beings are one. Our souls never made it in their goal to separate. I could feel his pain.

"Yes.."

My mother pressed her forehead to mine for one last time and I knew I only had a few seconds left. But I was not afraid. The Earth had thrived millions of years before I was born it will go on just fine after I am gone. I just hope Marie will be as well.

"Goodnight, my little moon," she whispered.

The last thing I felt was my mother's hands tightening. The last thing I heard was the slurping of my mate as she drank her fill of blood. As life is taken from me, it is given to the one I almost took it from. The darkness that embraced me before birth wrapped it's comforting arms around me once again.

And just as one falls asleep, I fell into death.