Chapter 25

Chapter 25

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Heather looked around at everyone in the bedroom. Danielle and Nehal were laying on the black carpeted-floor breathing deeply. Oliver was laying next to her, she couldn't see his face but she assumed he was sleeping. Who wouldn't be at 1:30 in the morning?

Heather couldn't even remember how long she had kept them here. She couldn't fall asleep after what happened earlier with psycho Dorian trying to kill her. She sat up in the bed. She felt Oliver stir next to her. Heather looked over at him and he sat up too.

"Sorry for waking you" whispered Heather.

"Its okay, I'm not tired" Oliver whispered back.

Heather sighed and glanced around the room again. "I'm being unbelievably selfish aren't I?" She asked very quietly. Oliver pulled her onto his lap. She sighed and wrapped her arms around him and curled up carefully. He pulled his arms around her. Heather felt comforted and cuddled in his arms.

"No Heather your not" Oliver tried to convince her, but seeing everyone sleeping peacefully made Heather feel worse. She pulled his arms off and Oliver let go. She slid off the bed and walked over to Nehal and Danielle. She gently shook Nehal's shoulders, her eyes popped open making Heather jump back slightly.

Nehal sat up and glanced around the room before her eyes landed on Heather's face. "HEATHER!" yelled Nehal waking up Danielle. She pulled her friend in for a big hug. "Are you alright? Oliver told us what happened. If I was there…" Nehal's jaw clenched. "I would have punched that fucking bastard to hell and back."

Heather laughed lightly. "I'm okay now."

"Is there anything we can do?" asked Danielle concerned.

Heather shook her head. "There is nothing I can think of right now…" She looked around her bedroom once more, looking for something.

Oliver noticed this and joined the three friends on the floor. "What's up?" He wrapped an arm around Heather's shoulder protectively.

"Where's Jackie?" asked Heather.

"She's gone." said Nehal softly looking at the floor.

"GONE!"

"Yeah gone!" repeated Danielle.

"GONE!"

"Yes she's gone…"

"GONE!"

Just then the phone rang.

Danielle walked out of Heather's room and answered the phone by the third ring. "Hello."

"Hey there, it's me." said Jackie.

"Oh my! Hey Jackie. Where have you been?"

"At Peyton's house."

"Okay were coming to talk to you!"

"No-"But Jackie got cut off by Danielle hanging up the phone.

"One, two, three…go!" counted down Nehal and the three friends apparated in front of Peyton's house.

Danielle taking charge of the situation knocked on the door.

Jake opened the door looking confused and a little puzzled about the fact that there were three hot girls standing outside his door. He scratched his head. "My birthday isn't for another three months…"

"GONE!" said Heather.

Nehal rolled her eyes at Jake and she and Danielle pushed their way into the house.

Jake looked at Heather who was trying to hide Vlad's coffin in their front yard rose bushes. "Uh…you stay out here." He closed the door.

Suddenly it started to rain outside and Heather sang her heart out.

You're gone...
You're gone...
Baby you're gone
Girl you're gone, baby girl, you're gone...
You're gone...
You're...

I don't wanna make excuses, baby
Won't change the fact that you're gone
But if there's something that I could do
Won't you please let me know?
Time is passing so slowly now
Guess that's my life without you
and maybe I could change my every day
But baby I don't want to

So I'll just hang around
and find some things to do
To take my mind off missing you
and I know in my heart
You can't say that you don't love me too
Please say you do

Yeah...

Inside the house…

Jake said, "You're here for me right…"

"No were here for Jackie!" corrected Nehal. She looked at Jake and mumbled. "Perv…"

Jake laughed nervously. "Alright I'll go get her, make yourself at home." With that he went upstairs.

"Wow this place is kind of small…" said Nehal rubbing her arms awkwardly.

"Yeah and a little on the messy side." addressed Danielle as she almost stepped on one of Jenny's Barbies. The Barbies and the rest of Jenny's toys were scattered everywhere. It was like a tornado came right through the household. Danielle picked up the Barbie. She looked at it before singing and making the Barbie dance, "I'm a Barbie girl, in a Barbie world…"

Nehal laughed out loud at Danielle's childless antics.

By this time, Jackie had come down the stairs and just stared oddly at her friends.

Danielle made the Barbie wave to Jackie.

Jackie cocked her head to the side.

Danielle slowly put the Barbie down and put on her serious face. "Hi."

"You didn't have to come get me you know?" replied Jackie taking a step forward. "I'm only going to stay here for a couple of days." She had to admit she was a little flattered by the fact that her friends cared enough about her to come retrieve her back.

"Jackie, you should come back." suggested Nehal warmly.

"What-would you do if I stayed here?" asked Jackie seriously.

"We'd take you back EN FORCE!" shouted Danielle pointing her finger to the ceiling.

Jackie did not find it funny. "You guys don't understand…"

"Oh do I have a story for you." said Heather opening the front door and inviting herself in to the house. "Dorian tried to kill me, but then Draco Malfoy saved me and now Vlad, Oliver and I are going to live together." Heather laughed cheerfully. "It's going to be pretty interesting I'm not gonna lie."

"See he is a good guy!" exclaimed Jackie.

"Is that why I found him with another girl at his beach house?" asked Nehal staring at Jackie with a sad expression illustrated on her face. She didn't want to have to tell her friend this type of information, but she felt it was necessary at this point in time.

"Who?" said Danielle her eyes widening.

"It's true…" replied Nehal. "But I still think he has feelings for you. He seemed concerned when I asked if he knew where you went off too." She shrugged her shoulders.

Jackie rolled her eyes and placed her hands on her hips. "Whateves."

"It's his loss anyway…that dumb fuck." said Danielle trying to lighten the gloomy mood. "Anyway we should get going, but we hope that you'll change your mind and come back soon." She smiled at Jackie.

"Alright I'll think about it. Bye guys!" Jackie walked them out the front door and with that Nehal, Heather and Danielle disapparated from the place.

"What did they want?" asked Peyton coming down the stairs.

"Drugs." answered Jackie simply. "Though they didn't have enough money for the good shit."

Peyton just stared at Jackie as if she was a totally different person.

"Joke! It's a joke P. Sawyer."

"Oh right…so I appreciate you picking Jenny up from school today. I have so much to do at the office for the Lauren Conrad article. So many calls to make, so again I really appreciate it." said Peyton honestly.

"It's cool. I mean it's the least I can do for you letting me crash here for a couple of days." replied Jackie.

Peyton laughed, "Yeah, so I'll see you later."

Jackie smiled at Peyton playfully. "You can count on it."

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Nehal walked into Jamie's office. "Hey Jameson." She said teasingly.

She knew he hated it when people called him that.

Jamie looked up from the paperwork he was working on. "Ha! Very funny lady." He went back to his work, and then he looked up quickly. "Oh by the way Jackie dropped by here yesterday to apologize to me."

Nehal sat down across from him. "What did you say?" She glanced at Jamie curiously. Something Jamie had said had affected Jackie.

Jamie sighed, "I just warned her about Malfoy and how dangerous he is. Needless to say, she didn't listen."

"Or she doesn't want to listen." corrected Nehal.

Jamie shrugged. "Same thing."

Nehal smiled. "At least you tired. I really appreciate you trying to help her out. I'm worried about her." Nehal let out a sigh. "I think I'm losing my faith in humanity."

"Think you can narrow it down for me?" asked Jamie trying to help Nehal out.

Nehal looked at Jamie for a long time before saying, "I guess I wonder sometimes if people ever stay together for good."

"You mean like couples?"

"Yeah, like people in love."

Jamie took a breath before saying, "In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what you have, the right person will still think the sun shines out of your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."

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Danielle met up with Eli at the auto shop on his break. She immediately gave him a hug when she saw him. "I'm so happy to see you. It's been awhile." She giggled nervously. "I've thinking about you all day long, even while I was giving one of my clients a bikini wax."

Eli gulped. "You gave another woman a bikini wax and you thought about me?"

Danielle laughed and playfully hit him in the shoulder. "I'm just kidding. I knew that would get your attention though."

"Damn right it did…you tease."

Danielle stood on her tippy-toes before kissing her boyfriend. "You know you love it."

"Danielle McLeod. You an official here? Cause you've officially given me a boner!" said Eli with a wild smirk on his face.

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Heather and Oliver sat on the couch watching a movie, feeling awkward because they were sitting so far apart. They were also really bored too, but both of them felt like they didn't have the right to go out because of the cheating.

Heather's bored gaze switched from the television to the window. "The sun's setting."

"What does that mean?" asked Oliver.

"Vlad's going to come out." said Heather happily.

"What does that mean?" asked Oliver staring at Heather carefully.

"Vlad's going to come out!" Heather looked at Oliver puzzled. Why didn't he get it?"

"Oh…I hope he isn't going to stay here." Oliver folded his arms over his chest and crossed one leg over the other.

"Don't be a dijion! He lives here now, he can stay if he wants! And even if he didn't live here, Vlad can do whatever he wants because he's a vampire and can easily kill us."

"Remind me why he's staying here then." growled Oliver. He hated having Vlad live in his place. He liked having Heather, but not Vlad. Three's a company.

It sounded suspiciously like the start of another argument so Heather sighed and she too folded her arms over her chest and crossed one leg over the other. "He's going out with Antoine."

"Who's Antoine?"

"Another vampire…" replied Heather making Oliver gulp nervously.

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Peyton and Jackie walked home from work together. The weather was pretty cold even though it was fall. They were wearing warm coats, scarf and gloves on.

"So work was a bitch today." reported Peyton.

Jackie laughed agreeing with Peyton.

"Mrs. Sanchez was like a tornado of anger."

Jackie laughed again.

They walked in silence for a minute. Peyton looked over at Jackie. "Seriously, you have to tell me why you're staying at my place."

"Um…well…" said Jackie feeling a little off guard. "Um…I got into a bad fight with Nehal and, yeah um…so I just kind of needed to escape from the drama…"

"What was it about?" asked Peyton.

Jackie swallowed before speaking, "Well…um…I…you see, Draco just broke up with me recently and he's….a criminal. So Nehal, me and her friend, who are both…police officers…, went to this, um…criminal pub and Draco was there! So all these other bad guys were attacking us and Draco came in and saved us. Then the police got mad at Draco. The end!" She ended happily as if she told the greatest story ever.

"So Draco's a criminal…and your friends are police officers?" asked Peyton trying to comprehend the whole situation.

Jackie couldn't tell Peyton the truth because she was a muggle. She felt bad for lying but it was necessary. "Uh…yeah." Jackie did the shifty eye thing.

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The sun set completely and there was only a red tinge on the horizon when Vlad's coffin started opening.

Oliver let out a yelp.

"Calm down home boy, it's just Vlad. Wouldn't it be cool if you guys became friends?" replied Heather rather enthusiastically.

Vlad hopped out and smiled at them.

Heather stood up and took Vlad into the bedroom. "I'll be right back." She mouthed to Oliver. Ever since yesterday it felt like they could never let each other out of their sight. Mostly that applied to Oliver for keeping an eye on Heather. He really did love and care about her, he just had a tough time showing it. Stupid manly exterior.

"Vlad!" Heather hugged him tightly. "I wish you could have been here for when Dorian tried to kill me." She laid her head on Vlad's hard and cold chest. "It was really horrible and scary."

"I would have ripped out his heart!" answered Vlad angrily.

"Yeah. Well, Malfoy saved me! Can you believe it? Now Oliver and I are trying to save our relationship."

"So you still love him?" asked Vlad cautiously.

Heather shrugged her shoulders casually. "I personally can't really see a future with him, but I don't know what to do."

Vlad pouted. "Alright. Fine. I'm leaving."

Heather sighed as Vlad left. He was still really mad at her. It wasn't like it was her own fault that Vlad got killed! She went back over to sit on the couch with Oliver.

Oliver just stared at Heather accusingly.

"What?" snapped Heather. "I didn't do anything with him."

"Right and I'm supposed to believe that from a cheater…" mumbled Oliver angrily. He got up and left.

"Great. I'm sleeping on the couch, am I?" retorted Heather pissed off.

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Ding Dong! Draco ran the doorbell of Peyton and Jake's house.

Jenny answered the door. "Hello! Would you like some fries with that?"

Draco smiled at Jenny's cute comment.

"Daddy! There's a strange man and he smiled at me."

Jake sprinted to the door as if the house was on fire. He glared evilly at Draco. "WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT?"

"Uh…I'm looking for Jackie. Her friends said she was here." replied Draco.

"Oh…yeah come in." said Jake opening the door wider for Draco.

"No I'll just stay here…" answered Draco. He had no intentions on entering that muggle household whatsoever.

"You sure?"

"Yeah."

"Alright come inside Jenny." Jake took hold of his daughter's hand.

"I wanna stay outside!" cried Jenny.

"Okay fine, uh can you watch her man? Just look after her and make sure she doesn't run onto the road."

Draco opened his mouth to say something but Jake interrupted him, figuring it would be okay if he watched Jenny.

"Okay great! I'll be back."

"What's your name?" asked Jenny. She was taught not to talk to strangers but she really didn't care at the moment.

"Draco Malfoy."

Jenny cocked her head to the side making her blonde pig-tails flop.

Draco chuckled. He thought Jenny was adorable, even if she was a muggle girl.

"I can tie my shoes and count by twos." announced Jenny nodding her head.

"That's always nice."

"DRACO!"

Draco jumped. Then turned around. "JACKIE!"

"Oh my god Draco. I can't believe you're here!" said Jackie shocked. She never expected this. When Jake told her another friend was here she thought it might be…well out of all people she never thought a muggle-hater would show up to a muggle household.

Draco wrinkled his nose in disgust. "Me too."

Jackie narrowed her eyes at Draco. "What are you doing here anyway?"

Draco put his hands in his robe pocket and tried to act as smooth as possible. "I just wanted to ask if you left because of our kiss."

"Ooooooh a kiss." said Jenny teasingly looking at Jackie.

"Hey Jenny!" said Jackie bending down to her eye level. "I think Peyton needs some help in the kitchen…" She smiled sweetly.

"Yay kitchen!" said Jenny skipping off into the house.

"Answer my question Jackie." said Draco coolly.

Jackie rolled her eyes. "I didn't leave because of our kiss. I left because I am really stressed right now and just can't handle all the crazy drama and shit."

"Woo hoo! Score for Draco Malfoy!"

"And Vlad's threat totally freaked me out." replied Jackie making her shiver in fear of Draco's safety.

"What? Threat? Who's Vlad?" asked Draco puzzled.

"Um…nothing." Jackie looked down at her feet nervously.

"But nothing!" said Draco. "Jackie I miss you."

"Yeah, well. You also got in the sack with some other chick. So why don't you guys just go collect bread crumbs together!" Jackie was about to slam the door but Draco caught it and held it.

Draco said, "I was WONDERING if we could be friends."

Jackie thought about it for a minute or so. "Sure why not." She knew it was going to be quite the challenge because she and him had never actually been friends before. They either loved or hated each other.

Draco and Jackie bumped fists in agreement.

"Well…" said Draco. "I should be going now…I have death eater shit to do, but I'll see you around. Take care."

"Yeah, you too." replied Jackie softly. She closed the door and closed her eyes shut. Why was she still having feelings for him while he was with some other girl? It was not right.

Just as Draco was about to apparate an owl FLEW AT HIS FACE!

"Argh!" yelled Draco. He ripped the envelope out of its break and ripped it open. It was…a thank you card.

Thank you

For giving me a second chance

Heather

The next day Heather went to work. It was all chaos and people running everywhere like their heads were chopped off.

Heather reached out her arm and stopped a guy and asked him what was up.

"There's a killer on the loose!" he screamed. "We're all going to die!"

"Calm down." Heather tried to reassure her co-worker.

"I bet he's a vampire." replied the guy. "Mina Harker's dead! And so is Steve!"

"Oh…them." said Heather, feeling guilty. She chewed on her bottom lip nervously.

"Ahhh!" screamed the guy.

"It's okay people!" Heather tried to calm everyone in the office down. "We just simply go back to work." She said in an serene tone of voice.

"Back to work! That's brilliant!" said someone else. And everyone went to their respective offices.

There was a loud voice that echoed. "COULD HEATHER REID COME TO THE SENIOR VAMPIRE DEPARTMENT ROOM, HEATHER REID. THANK YOU."

Heather thought, "Oh no, am I getting fired?" She walked down the hallways, trying to appear as cool and collected as possible, which was a hard task for a hyper girl like Heather.

"Ah, Ms. Reid!" said a guy with dark hair and a pointy nose.

"Uh…hi sir." replied Heather nervously.

"How are you?" said the boss.

"Fine…" said Heather.

The boss smiled generously. "That is good to hear, seeing as Mina has mysteriously disappeared…"

Heather froze and tried not to look guilty.

"We're promoting you!"

It took Heather awhile to regain her composure. So she wasn't getting fired. "YAY!"

"Yes it is most excellent news indeed. Oh by the way my name is Dylan Andrews." He shook hands with Heather.

"DARYL!" exclaimed Heather excitedly.

"No Dylan…"

"Yeah!"

"Okay," he said feeling confused. "Well get back to work in your new office. Its two doors down from me. Take Care!"

"You too." said Heather giving her new boss a quick smile. She walked two doors over and opened the door to her new office. It was much bigger and she had more space to do her research. She even had a built- in fire place. There was also a guy with really bad hair and a lab coat standing in the room.

"Hey, I'm Jez. I'm your research assistant."

"I'm Heather!" said Heather shaking Jez's hand politely.

"I'm also your new desk buddy."

"Cool…well I gotta go Jez." Heather started to walk out.

Jez raised his eyebrows. "Where are you going?"

Heather spun around. "I have some thinking I gotta do." She smiled at Jez and he smiled back understanding. She apparated back to her place with Oliver and Vlad. It was quiet. Too quiet.

Vlad was safely asleep in his coffin and Oliver wasn't around. Quickly Heather grabbed a suitcase and stuffed everything she owned in it.

Heather thought to herself, "Maybe I shouldn't do this." She couldn't just leave when she promised she would try to work things out with Oliver. She had a commitment to him. Although, it was hard. Extremely hard. She was having a tough time dealing with everything and adding Vlad to the living arrangements complicated things. Heather let out a final sigh, looked around at her surroundings, closed the condo door and walked over to the girls' condo across the hall.

The bridges are crumpled,
The water soaks into rocks,
That fell at the bottom of the road. (At the end the town)
The town that we lived in.
The memories shakin apart from the weeds that grow.

Over the sidewalks,
Running away from the streets we knew,
Sidewalks,
Like the time we thought was made for you.

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