(Jasper's pov)

I checked in on Maxxie and Kyle before going to bed myself.

It was a habit I picked up whenever Kyle stayed over. He and Maxxie have a shared room since neither of them is here full time so I knew logically that he'd be fine but I still checked.

I poked my head round the door to see him fast asleep on the bed. Maxxie gave me a nod of acknowledgement then went back to the book he was reading. He was sat on the windowsill reading by moonlight like he did most nights, I really can't imagine what not sleeping is like with all of that time to try and fill. I think about it sometimes, how it must be for Maxxie, "just takes a little getting used to" is all he says about it.

I quietly close the door again and make my way to my room.

We didn't have to put any wolves down tonight. It's safe to say I was relieved, if there's one thing I hate about being a hunter it's that sometimes you have no choice but to put down an innocent creature. It weighs heavy on your mind at times but it something you have to get used to and deal with. The way to think of it is that by putting them down you're saving countless others but that doesn't come as much of a consolation.

I kick of my shoes and shrug out of my jacket before flopping onto my bed letting my mind wonder.

I think about Katie. I think about Rory. Why are things so god damn complicated? I mean really, do all teenagers have this sort of internal conflict? I assume not since most aren't hunters with a dead boyfriend and a girl they really like.

I sigh, closing my eyes to try and rid my mind of any thoughts. Not that it's working mind you but I suppose it can't hurt to try. After a good fifteen minutes I still can't stop my mind going into overdrive and eventually stand up and make my way to Katie's room.

Naomi was right I need to talk to her; it's the only way to get rid of this feeling like I'm doing something wrong. Luckily for me she told me that she'd explain everything to Emily so that I could have this particular conversation with Katie in private.

I quietly opened the door and entered the room, closing the door just as quietly as I opened it. I walked over to the bed and softly sat on the edge. I can tell she won't be happy when I wake her but if I don't do it now there's a good chance I'll chicken out altogether. I gently place my hand on over hers.

"Katie" I whisper softly "wake up, I gotta' talk to you."

She stirred a little before slowly opening her eyes and looking at me.

"What's up?" she asked sleepily.

"I need to explain some things and I have to do it before I chicken out" I told her.

She nodded and sat up taking my hands in her own "go for it babe."

I exhaled loudly "right, where do I begin?" I said more to myself than her but she still answered.

"Wherever you want, yeah?"

I nodded "okay, so Rory was my best friend and my boyfriend…" she gave me a look for me to carry on "he was also the first person I was in love with and when he died it broke me, like a piece of me died with him you know?" she nodded her understanding so I carried on "when it happed I locked myself in my room for two months, I didn't go to school, didn't go on patrol, didn't go to training, barely spoke to anyone apart from Naomi and even then I didn't say more than a few words… Cook would come round, sometimes he would speak and other times he would just sit with me so I wasn't so… alone, I suppose. It was nice to know that he was there but I still felt completely and utterly broken… I blamed myself, felt like it was my fault" I let out a nervous laugh "still do sometimes".

"It's okay" she said gripping my hands tighter "you don't have to keep going if you don't want to" she told me softly.

I shook my head "you need to know Katie and I have to let it go" I let out another little laugh and she looked at me like I'd gone mad "Naomi said that earlier and I was just thinking about how she's always bloody right." She smiled a little at that "so now we're at the bit where I try and explain how he died because that's the part in all this that makes me nervous about liking you Katie" I sighed "I don't want what happened to him to happen to you."

"Hey" she said kissing me on the cheek "just tell me yeah, it's not the same okay and if you tell me than we can avoid it or at least try our best" she smiled at me. I couldn't help but smile back at her, she has to be one the most understanding people I've ever met and yet some people think she's a bitch. Well okay she can be but she's never like that when she speaks to me so I guess I must be lucky.

"It happened because I wasn't being as attentive as I should have been" I started "we'd been hunting a sorcerer who'd been hiring demons to create havoc around the area. The guy went by "Callous" and we were doing everything we could to track him, extra time at the cabin, more patrols and whatever else we could think of. Turns out he had a bone to pick with a member of the higher council and thought a good way to get back at them, or at least grab their attention would be to kill a hunter." I paused "Naomi and me where always at the cabin, usually leaving school early because killing Callous was our first priority because the more time that went on there would be more people put at risk. Turns out he had spies watching us that we never noticed… too focused on searching for him to think about anything else… his sources told him that the hunters in Bristol were a man, teenage girl and a teenage boy. So he bided his time, waiting until he saw one of us and when he did he would strike." I slowly let out the breath I was holding "Rory was coming to the cabin to see me, Cook already lived there and was helping us out the best he could with maps and stuff so Rory offered to come too so Naomi, Markus and I could be out there doing our job… but Callous saw Rory and since he knew one of the hunters was a teenage boy…" Katie pulled me into a tight hug as I whispered the last of what happened "he though Rory was me… so he killed him… in cold blood."

"It wasn't your fault" she told me pulling back from the hug "you have to believe me when I tell you that yeah" I nodded as she pulled me back to her in a heated kiss. She ripped off my shirt as she pushed me back into the bad, "we shouldn't" I told her breathlessly as her hands wandered.

"I think we need to" she said taking off her own shirt. Well who am I to disagree with Katie fucking Fitch.

Look at that backstory.

And there's even some sexy time going on, not that I wanted to write it so I implied it instead. Ahh the power of suggestion.

But anywho, until next time xXx