AN: Warning. You are going to hate me, but I have big plans ;) I guess this just means a sequel is coming up after, huh?
What are words
Victoria stared at Drake with a glare and he shrugged his shoulders lightly, walking away from her and towards the windows. He seemed to be in deep concentration and she tilted her head to the side, joining his side immediately. "What is it?"
"There's something not right..." He began and the beauty raised her eyebrows. "It smells like... a lot of blood was-" Aurora jumped through the door quite quickly and Drake's eyes widened, Victoria, however, gasped from fright and her heart started pounding a million miles an hour against her chest, "Do you smell that too?"
"Yes." Aurora stated and he nodded his head. So I'm not crazy, he thought with a sigh of relief, "I think we should go check it out Drake... someone could be seriously hurt."
"And I care... why?" Drake asked as he crossed his arms over his chest, "The person who's hurt has no affect over my existence. Why the hell should I care?" With this, Aurora grew angry and she placed her hands on her hips.
"Because someone else cares about them, and even if you don't, someone will be at a great loss!" She had a point and Victoria left Drake's side, only to join Aurora's. Drake's eyebrows shot up and his amber eyes fixated on his childhood friend. "See. Even your love agrees."
"SHE'S NOT MY- Ok, this is getting really annoying." Drake growled and leapt on top of the window ledge, "If I go and someone points a wooden bullet gun at me, I'm coming after both of you." Aurora smirked and followed his lead, leaving Victoria's side immediately. The young vampire tilted his head and looked at her for a moment, "I would say guard the house... but..."
"Hilarious." Victoria muttered and walked over to the young vampire's side. "I'm coming with you."
Aurora and Drake exchanged looks and he shook his head. "No. No way, it's way too dangerous out there for you to be-"
"And it's better being in here? Unprotected? What if something comes in here." Victoria did have a point and Aurora nodded her head, agreeing with the young woman...but Drake thought of something as he leaned against the window and smirked.
"Yes, well... Let's talk about that little witchy, juju thing you did with me." The human's eyebrows rose and his smirk only grew, "You know, the fun one where my brain bursts into flames."
"Ok, yes, I can protect myself... but I want to go with you." She stated firmly and once Drake opened his mouth to argue, Aurora opened the window he was leaning on, making him fall out. Victoria gasped and the female vampire laughed as he hit the ground. "W-What did you do that fo-"
"He's fine, Victoria." Aurora stated with a slight giggle, "C'mon. I'll take you down there." The brunette nodded her head and she stood on the windowsill, glancing towards the ground as Aurora picked her up. "Ready?"
"Not really, but go for it." She replied and Aurora smiled warmly as she gracefully jumped from the window, onto to green summer grass. Almost immediately both their eyes went to Drake, who started clapping in a rather sarcastic way.
"That was good." He grinned and Aurora rolled her eyes, "But if you ever do it again... your heart will be across the room."
"We'll see about that." The female vampire challenged and Victoria laughed softly, grinning over to Drake, "I'm stronger than you."
"Really?" The young vampire asked, knowing that drinking human blood made vampires stronger than drinking animal blood, "When was the last time you had something stronger than a bunny?"
"Can we cut the sarcasm, hmm?" Aurora asked and started walking ahead, following the scent of blood. "They're close..." She murmured, "I could sense it..."
"Great..." Drake stated and kept his arm around Victoria, as if to protect her from anything out of the ordinary, "Breakfast."
"G-Guys... I-I'm loosing..." Ayden began in an extremely weak voice, and Danny and Cole looked over to him with a frown, "A-a lot...of-"
"We know, Ayden, as soon as we find a house, we'll use a phone... unfortunately... our cells don't work out here." Alison stated, patting his head comfortingly, "The shirt should hold the blood until we get to a hospital... I'm sure regular people have one."
Nick nodded his head as he carried a sleeping Shayna in his arms, and he heard Ayden start coughing. This wasn't a good sign, the blond boy was weakened, but with all this blood lost, death was possible. "We need to hurry!" The youngest boy exclaimed as he picked up the pace, "If we don't, we can loose him!"
"Yes, you can." A voice answered, but it wasn't anyone from the group, and this made them all stop. They knew the consequences of being in the normal world, and vampires were apart of that. A young man with light olive skin, straight dark auburn hair, and amber eyes walked out from the shadows, but he was by himself. "Unfortunate for you, you ran into me."
"WAIT!" A familiar voice exclaimed and a girl ran to the young man's side. The beauty had long curly, brunette hair, fair skin and greenish blue eyes... Victoria Morlet.
"V-VICTORIA?" Nick gasped, dropping Shayna on the floor. The pale blonde groaned a little, but didn't bother getting up, she was too weak and she needed food and sleep. "YOU'RE ALIVE! AND... AND SCAR DIDN'T ATTACK YOU!" He ran over to his sister and this made Drake's eyebrows scrunch together. Watching as the teenage boy who had dark brown hair, light blue eyes and fair skin run to Victoria and wrap his arms around her. Nick? He thought, and Victoria smiled as she hugged her little brother. The young vampire's eyes watched as he remembered the others from his group, and he put their small faces to the older ones; but his eyes landed on one person in particular. Cole Archer.
"So who's dying?" Aurora asked as she made her way over to the little group. Drake continued glaring, but the dark haired woman saw a blond boy held by Danny and Cole and she went to his aid immediately. "Who did this?"
"Who are YOU?" Cole asked arrogantly and Drake growled, walking over to Aurora's side, hoping to pick a fight.
"Don't worry about it." He answered for Aurora in a rather acidic tone and the female vampire raised her eyebrows. "You should just be thankful she's here to help your little friend get better COLE." During this confrontation, Aurora had bit into her wrist, giving Ayden the vampire blood he needed to stay alive and heal, but she grew distracted when Drake said a certain name... Cole... The one who gave him the blood.
"Whoa... Dude... How do you know my name?" Cole asked as he placed Ayden on the floor, and Danny walked over to Shayna and Alison with wide eyes, not wanting to get involved.
"Dude? REALLY? Dude?" Drake asked as he began walking closer to the darker teenager menacingly.
Victoria's eyes widened as she let go of her brother and at the same time, her and Aurora yelled, "DRAKE, DON'T!"
"Oh come on!" The young vampire grinned, looking back at them, "Who's gonna miss this idiot?"
"Wait." Nick started and he went over to Drake with wide, light blue eyes. "Drake? As in... Drake Ashburn?" The young vampire stared down at Nick in silence, but soon after that, he nodded his head and the younger boy's eyes went wider and everyone froze, including Cole. "I-I can't believe it! I-I thought you were dead!"
"Yeah, that's the story." Drake answered with a roll of his eyes and Aurora took her wrist away from the unconscious boy, watching as his leg began healing. "But technically... I am dead." Everyone tilted their heads to the side and Nick shook his.
"What are you talking about?" The confused boy probably went through hell today, and once Victoria made it to Drake's side and opened her mouth to explain, the young vampire placed a hand over her mouth gently, smirking over to Cole.
"Why don't you ask your FRIEND over there." Drake said in a rather sarcastic tone of voice, "I'm sure he'd LOVE to explain it." With this, Nick glared over to Cole, crossing his arms over his chest. The two never really have gotten along, and this only topped it all off.
"I'm so lost..." Alison began with a frown and Danny glanced over to her with wide eyes, "So you're dead but you're not?" Drake shot her a charming smile and nodded his head quickly. The girl grew dizzy and giddy because of how extremely good looking he's become, and she started fanning herself. "Well... In this case... I'm glad you aren't dead." The sweet eighteen year old giggled and Victoria shot her a glare. "Whoops... I didn't know you two were a thing."
Drake raised his eyebrows and glanced over to Victoria, who pretended as if she didn't know what they were talking about. "WAIT HOLD ON." Nick started, turning his face away from the silent Cole, "You two are DATING?"
"No." The young vampire growled and rolled his tired eyes before fixating them on Cole, "So... Are you going to tell the story, or do you want me to? I mean... If I tell it, I'll just make you sound even more like a jackass." Cole hung his head and Drake grinned lightly, "Be prepared kid, until the day you die... I'm going to make your life miserable."
"I-..." The darker boy started and Victoria crossed her arms over her chest, then everyone seemed to follow her lead. "I knew Drake was alive." The young vampire smirked lightly and motioned him to continue, "B-Because I gave him the vampire blood... and... he turned."
"Turned?" Nick asked in a confused manner, "Turned into what? A VAMPIRE?" Cole nodded his head and Nick took a step away from Drake... everyone did, including Cole. Victoria went to Drake's side and everyone thought she was crazy. "Vee, get away from him!"
"Nicholas, you are my LITTLE brother, I don't have to listen to you." She stated and Drake grinned over to her, "Besides... He's still the same guy he's always been! Just... a little more dangerous..." The beauty repeated exactly what she had told him earlier, and gave Drake a flirty wink, which made his grin only grow, showing everyone his pearly white teeth.
"Ugh, oh God. I'm not going to be an uncle anytime soon, am I?" Nick asked sarcastically and everyone started laughing, aside from Cole, Victoria, Drake and Aurora. The brunette grew embarrassed, but Drake and Aurora exchanged looks, only because they knew he couldn't give her children even if they were together, it wouldn't be safe. This whole thing is a bad idea, isn't it? He thought to himself and frowned deeply."Wow, and no one denies it." Nick said with a grin, "I think I'm psychic."
"I think you're a pain." Victoria groaned and turned her red face away from everyone. Drake glanced over to Cole who's eyes met the ground, a frown permanently implanted on his lips... Half of him felt like Cole wasn't telling the whole truth, but this sudden mood happened when Nick made his comment. The darker boy wants Victoria for himself... and this made Drake grow even more angry. "Maybe we should get Ayden and Shayna inside..."
"What happened to Shayna?" Drake asked with a tilt of his head, as if realizing she were just there. "And how did this happen to Ayden? What the hell did he get himself into?"
"Scar happened to both of them." Nick frowned and the young vampire looked at him with shocked eyes, "Ayden was trying to climb... you know, to get over the sealed gate and Scar stabbed him in the leg with a knife and stated sawing." Victoria and Aurora made a face and winced as they looked down at the unconscious and healed boy. Thanks to Aurora of course. "As for Shayna, we don't know what's wrong... She turned into this... PANTHER LIKE THING! Except... her teeth were long as hell!"
"A werecat?" Aurora asked and everyone looked at her with confused eyes, "S-She's apart of the werecat family... She's a werepanther. Believe me, I've seen a lot of them, except I heard that they're becoming extinct. People want them dead... but it's good to have her on our side."
"Our side?" Cole asked as he moved over to Danny and Alison, away from the vampires, "Since when are YOU on our side? You're a vampire!"
"Cole. Don't give me another reason to want to kill you." Drake growled and the boy smirked, giving him challenging eyes... Stupid move, Drake thought, "What? You don't think I'll do it?" The darker boy shook his head, and Drake took a step forward, only to feel warm hands slide around his arm. Glancing back, he saw that it was Victoria and he gave her questioning eyes.
"Stop it, Drake. If he wants to be an asshole, he can. Aurora is with us whether he likes it or not." The beauty looked over to Cole and glared, "I can't believe you didn't tell me that you knew this entire time. What? Did you think I wouldn't find out that Drake was alive?"
"YOU WERE OBSESSED." Cole yelled, making Alison jump. "YOU THOUGHT HE WAS DEAD... YET YOU WOULDN'T GIVE UP. WHAT WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO? TELL YOU THAT MY FUCKING FATHER PLANNED THIS WHOLE THING OUT AND TOLD ME TO GIVE IT TO HIM?" Mouths dropped and Drake was over by Cole in an instant, pinning the boy against a tree.
"Why did he plan this entire thing out, hm?" Drake asked, keeping his hands around the eighteen year old's throat, "Why did you LISTEN?"
"B-BECAUSE I WANTED V-" He started gasping and Drake let go of him slightly, so he could breathe and talk, "I wanted Victoria... and I didn't care who payed the price for it... I wasn't going to do it at first, but she was falling for you even THEN. I didn't know what vampire blood did, for all I knew... It would poison you..." His dark eyes glared at her and Nick joined his sister side, glaring at him, "LOOKS LIKE I CAN'T EVER FUCKING WIN."
"No, you can't." Victoria stated, and Drake swore he saw a tear leave her eye right before she turned around, walking away towards the boarding house. Aurora sighed gently and began walking towards her, but Nick shook his head.
"I wouldn't..." He began and Aurora lifted her eyebrows, "Give her some time to cool off..."
The young vampire let go of Cole and quickly walked after her. Nick went to stop him, as he did to Aurora, but the female vampire grabbed the younger boy's arm and shook her head. "Give them time together... she wants that."
Nick raised his eyebrows and grinned over to her. "You know... you aren't bad." He paused and her eyebrows rose, "For a vampire."
"And for a human..." The dark haired vampire began with a slight sigh, then a small smile played across her lips, "You aren't bad either."
"Victoria!" Drake called after her, watching as she shook her head, not wanting to be bothered. He stopped in his tracks for a moment and sighed, just before using his supernatural speed to run over to her. The young vampire grabbed her arms and looked into her puffy eyes, which seemed to be looking every which way besides at the one person she shouldn't hide from, "Hey, look at me..." She shook her head and he grabbed each side of her face, making her eyes look right into his, "Why are you crying?"
"B-Because." Victoria began and placed her hands on his, removing them from her face, "I-I feel like this all happened because of me! I-I feel like I betrayed you because I went out with him... Seriously, Drake... I didn't know he was the key to this all-"
"Victoria." Drake sighed lightly and her light eyes focused on the floor, "You didn't betray me... Hell, you've never even forgot about me." His fingers touched the little ring that continuously hung around her neck, "You aren't the cause of this... besides..." He allowed a tiny smirk to play across his lips, and with that, she looked up feeling confused, "Would you rather me be completely dead? At least now you get to see me, and you know I'm alive and I'm ok..."
The beauty wouldn't even crack a smile, and the sadness in her eyes truly started to get to him. His smirk even faded and the vampire sighed heavily, "That sounds like a goodbye, Drake..." Victoria began and Drake's eyebrows scrunched together, "You're acting as if we'll never see each other again." In a way, she's right. He thought with a slight frown, but the tears that flooded from her beautiful eyes made his heart crack in half. "I... I don't think I can be apart from you anymore..."
"Yes, you can..." Drake frowned and she started shaking her head over and over, "Vee, you're human... one STRONG human. I'm a vampire... It can't work-"
"THEN TURN ME." She exclaimed, grabbing his hands. The half vampire shook his head, "Why? This is what I want! Turn me!"
"This isn't what you want, Vee!" Drake growled, "This isn't what anyone wants! You're going to want to grow old... have children... I- I can't do that for you... I can't-"
"I DON'T CARE ABOUT ALL OF THAT!" Victoria cried, with simple shakes of her head. "Drake, it killed me when I thought you died... EVERY TIME I THOUGHT ABOUT YOU... I CRIED... AND I CRIED UNTIL MY EYES WENT DRY..." The young vampire glared down at the ground, mainly because he had forgotten about his human life, but that never meant he didn't care about her, of loved her... and he decided that he was going to be the first to admit it... even if she isn't able to return the feelings. "I can't do this again! Yes, I am strong... but even the most strongest of people have weak points. YOU are my weak point." With this, Drake knew it was time, he lifted his eyes from the ground, staring right into hers, holding her gaze, ready to compel her. She must have felt something, but was unable to look away, "W-What are you doing?" She asked and he frowned deeply, continuing to gaze into her unblinking eyes.
Aurora looked at him with a warning expression, "Just remember not to make such selfish decisions when you're more on your own, I can't tell you what's right and what's wrong when you are of age, Drake... But you'll know and understand when your being selfish, and when that happens, I want you to stop it..."
Then he remembered exactly what Aurora had told him earlier this morning, "Annabelle was able to get any man she wanted, she was beautiful and charming and elegant, but behind closed doors... she was a true bitch. She stayed human though... William didn't want to turn her, he said that he loved her so much that he didn't want this for her... you know... the undead... immortal life. She said she wanted it if she could be with him forever, and she would do anything in her power to get it, but he over ruled her."
"You just need to hear what I have to say." He began in a broken voice and she stared at him with her eyebrows scrunched together, "Because it's probably the most selfish thing I've ever said in my life... " He paused for a moment and she continued to stare blankly into his eyes, unable to move, "I love you, Victoria... and it's because I love you that... I can't be selfish with you." His entire body felt weak... this was the woman he loved, the one he wished he could turn, but like William... he needed to let her go. "I don't deserve you... and you don't deserve this life. Your life should be long and happy... You should grow old with the man you marry and watch as your children grow with you. Victoria I can't give you that... and even if you say you don't want it... I know that you're lying." She continued to gaze ahead unblinkingly and he stared into her eyes lovingly, but stepped forward giving her a warm kiss on her forehead with his wet eyes closed. As he stepped back, the vampire reopened his eyes, "God, I wish you didn't have to forget this..." A small tear rolled from his amber eye and she watched in amazement, "But you do. Your heart is free of me, you only think of me as your best friend..." He paused and his voice broke when he added, "Nothing more."
With that, Victoria blinked and glanced around seeing nothing but the darkness from the outside, while scanning the area, she grew slightly confused as to what just happened. One moment, she was pissed off at Cole, the next moment she ended up here and couldn't think clearly. The rest of the gang, aside from Drake and Aurora, ran towards her, even Ayden was up and running, but Shayna was still in Danny's arms. "Hey, are you alright?" Alison asked running over to her and she nodded her head.
"I'm... perfectly fine, actually." She stated with a tilt of her head. Why was she fine? This isn't right. "Where did Drake and Aurora go?"
"I thought Drake was with you." Nick frowned as he crossed his arms over his chest, "What? He just left you out here?" Victoria shrugged and looked towards the boarding house.
"It's not a big deal... I've been staying here anyway." She replied, looking rather nonchalant, "Maybe they went back. C'mon, I'll show you guys around the place. It's huge! You'll like it."
"W-What about getting help?" Alison asked and Victoria motioned towards the house, "Right... Drake can help us... but will he go back? I mean, with his condition and all..."
"Oh, I'm sure he'll be fine." Victoria rolled her eyes and began walking towards the gigantic house, "There are plenty of rooms, we can each find one and sleep there until we convince prince charming over there to go back to the castle and take back what's rightfully his."
The gang all glanced at one another, there was something off about the brunette, but she turned around and looked at them with her eyebrows raised, "Well? Are you guys coming? Or are we going to sit here looking all pouty?"
"Of course not..." Ayden stated, "Let's go... Besides, I want to see Drake for myself. I haven't seen him since he was a kid."
"YOU COMPELLED HER?" Aurora exclaimed with little shakes of her head, "WHY? I thought you were both going to like... get married. I thought she was the one you loved!"
Drake leaned against the wall as he sat on his bed, tears still filling up in his eyes. "I did what I had to do, Aurora." He stated and she shook her head, "You're the one who told me not to be selfish, you told me about what William did for love. If I turned her, I'd be worse than him!"
"No, if you turned her, you'd know what it's like to have love. William is incapable of LOVE, the only one he ever showed it to was Annabelle, but she's dead, and I'm on the run because of him." The female frowned, "You shouldn't have done it."
"I needed to, whether you believe it or not." He replied with a sigh, "She need's a life... since that's something I can't give her, I'm not willing to keep her all to myself, when she could have someone amazing sweep her off her damn feet... Aurora, please... understand this..." Drake frowned and more tears rolled down his cheek, "I-I had to let her go... I just wish someone could compel me."
AN: They haven't kissed... He compelled her to forget that she loved him, the only thing they are, are best friends. [Slaps Drake] ): This make me incredibly sad and I didn't want to write it, but it fits into the ending so well, and I've talked to some people and they all want a sequel. If I wasn't writing a sequel, I would have made it a Drake and Victoria ending right away :) I guess we'll see what happensssss.
Cole Archer: I still don't like him, but maybe he'll change. Ayden is thankfully ok, Shayna... We still don't know if she'll be alright, but we now know that she is a shapeshifter werepanther ;) That is so wicked like... I wish I was a werepanther LMAO xD Nick's reaction to everything... is priceless, I love that kid.
PROPS TO The Rogue Lion for giving me the idea to use this line for Nick: I'm not going to be an uncle anytime soon, am I?
I like when Drake fell out the window XD and when he realized who Cole was, and Cole was all :DUDE HOW DO YOU KNOW ME?"
And Drake was all "Dude? Really? DUDE?" And Victoria and Aurora were like "Drake no!" And he goes, "Oh come on! Who's gonna miss this idiot?" XD
Aurora wants Drake and Victoria together... but we'll see... Was it just me or was Nick and Aurora flirting? ;) hmmmmm. XDDD Guess we'll see where that goes.