"So you got really close before, didn't you?" Peter asked.

"Yeah, she did." The cold voice came from the doorway. It definitely wasn't anyone that Peter knew, so he moved protectively in front of Annie. Though as soon as she was behind Peter, Annie pushed past him to see who was at the door.

Peter looked to. It was a girl, but she wasn't like any girl he'd seen before. She was extremely pale, which created quite a contrast with her jet black hair. She had dark grey eyes, causing her entire face to look grim. It looked like she was wearing a lot of dark make up too.

"Odette?" Annie managed to whisper.

"No, really?" The girl answered sarcastically. Her voice pretty much defined monotone. "How many other people do you know who look like me?"

"Odette!" Annie exclaimed. Another tear ran down her face, but Annie was smiling now. She embraced Odette, which Peter didn't think anyone should ever do (the girl didn't look like much of a touchy-feely person). Odette didn't seem to mind though.

Odette pulled away from Annie's hug after a moment. "So, where the heck have you been the past few years? I heard that the Witch caught you." The girl's tone remained monotone. Then she looked over at Peter. She glared at him, though Peter could barely tell the difference between her glare and her normal expression. "Who's he?"

"Odette, this is Peter, the High King of Narnia." Annie answered. She remembered that she had been crying, and wiped her eyes on her sleeve.

The gothic girl raised an eyebrow at Peter before looking back at Annie. "You can't just pick normal people, can you?" She had known Annie long enough to understand what Peter was to her.

Annie chuckled. "I guess not." She paused, the happiness from her expression fading. "Why are you here?" She didn't mean it in a rude way, but the only reason Odette would have tried even harder to find Annie than she had tried before would be to warn her about something.

Odette grimaced, the closest she ever got to a true smile. "I was waiting for you to figure out that there was bad news." She said. "Jadis knows that some people in Narnia are getting sick,"

"So she's going to attack us while we're weak." Annie finished, staring off blankly.

"How soon?" Peter jumped into the conversation.

Odette looked at him and Peter felt like she was glaring at him, even though the girl's expression was literally apathetic. "Probably a month. She wants to wait until more Narnians are sick."

"But how do you know that?" Peter was starting to feel suspicious.

"Because my family, the royal family of the vampires, has formed an alliance with Jadis." Odette was clearly unhappy about this. She saw a clock on the wall. "Crap, I need to go home."

Annie tilted her head to the side. "Since when do your parents care if you're home or not?"

"Since they realized all of the crap I did as a kid. As soon as they formed an alliance with Jadis, the stupid witch told my parents everything about you, me and Mitch. Now they watch me like their lives depend on it." Odette said every word with disgust.

"Odette, is Mitch's br-"

Odetter cut Annie off, not wanting Peter to know what they were talking about. "He'll be revived in between ten and twenty years. Until then, there's nothing we can do."

"Right." Annie paused, looking at her vampire-friend. "Will you come back."

"Whenever I can." Odette flashed another grimace at Annie. "See you later, King-Boy." The vampire princess waved her hand and vanished in cloud of purple-black mist.

Peter got a chill when Odette called him King-Boy. "How did she know about that?"

"That's the funny thing, she didn't." Annie couldn't help but grin. "She has a way of doing things like that. Creepy coincidences are Odette's specialty."

"Great." Peter muttered sarcastically. "So we're going to be attacked in a month." The reality of that part was still sinking in.

"I'm as ready as ever. You picked the perfect time to set up that training camp. The rest of the army is going to be so much better. And you'll have me and my friends. I'm sure they'd love to help-"

Peter cut Annie off by grabbing her shoulders. "You're not fighting when Jadis attacks."

Annie's eyes widened. "Why not?" Her voice was defiant and strong.

"It's just like you said, The White Witch is still trying to kill you. I refuse to let you go out there when she's just going to target you." Peter kept his tone stern, like a parent laying down the rules for a child

"And what makes you think that you have a choice in the matter? It's my life; I'll put it on the line if I want to." Annie moved a bit closer to Peter as she argued.

"Annie, the part that you don't get is just because it's your life doesn't mean that other people don't care about it!" Peter couldn't believe that she was blind to this. "How to you think everyone else would feel if you go hurt, or worse, killed?" He had leaned in without thinking about it and their faces were now only an inch apart.

Annie glared at him. "And the same goes for you! How do you think your siblings would feel if you got hurt or killed? How do you think I would feel?"

Dante walked past the room where Peter and Annie were arguing. He had no clue what was going on, but he heard Annie sounding angry about something, and he saw Peter grabbing her shoulders. Plus they were barely an inch apart from each other. Dante literally had an 'anime tweak moment'.

He barged into the room, grabbed Peter by the back of his shirt and spun him around. "What the heck do you think you're doing to her, punk?"

Peter was caught totally off-guard. "I was telling her that she can't fight in the next battle." Peter explained about what Odette had told them.

Dante turned to Annie. "Odette's alive?"

Annie nodded. "Dante, I have to tell you something later, so remind me."

Dante nodded. "I'll see you later then." He flashed on more glare at Peter before leaving.

"I can't believe he thought I was hurting you." Peter's voice came out quietly. Then he remembered something. "Hey, you told me to remind you to tell me something, what is it?"

"Uhhh," Annie racked her brain, trying to remember. "Oh yeah! I never told you about Dante. He's my older brother."

"Yeah, Dante kind of told me that. It would have been nice to know though."

Annie chuckled. "Ah well, you know now." She grinned her 'I know that I screwed up but please don't be mad' grin. She used this expression after she played pranks, a lot.

"Come on; let's go get something to eat." Peter smiled gently. He held Annie's hand as they walked out of the room.

Okay, so I have returned from being MIA. If you guys ever want to know my plans for updating, just check my profile. Sorry about the wait.