A/N: Long time, no update, yeah? Sorry about that guys. I've been working on an original novella that my professors might help me publish one day soon, so that's been hogging most of my time. I see some new fans of this story and some new reviews and that makes me very, very happy! You guys are seriously the best and I know that you have been waiting for ages, so here's the current update, enjoy…

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David could hear Faith hold her breath as the words sank in. She wanted to become a vampire – she had said so herself – but she wanted to do it in a completely different way than normal. Every one of his brothers had made the change through the same vampire, Max, as he did and even Star had done the same. No one had ever questioned the blood that they would be feeding on, but the old man didn't seem to think that it should start with the redhead.

"You…want to become a vampire...through my blood?" David asked slowly, watching the redhead turn away from the fire.

"Yes."

"She will become one of us through MY blood and no one else's!" Max's voice shouted through the mental connection that the Boys shared with him.

David winced at the shrill voice of his sire. Geez, sound like a girl much Max…His blue eyes turned towards Dwayne, but the native didn't seem to care much for the loud voices in his head. He wasn't even fazed by the noise as he watched David and Faith talk. The Boy just stood at the foot of the stairs like a motionless stone guard.

"Faith, do you know what you're asking?" David asked when his gaze returned to her. "You're asking me to go against a very powerful sire and his -"

"I'm asking you to give me the future with you and the Boys on my own terms," Faith said, cutting across him as she looked back at the fire. "I don't want to have my thoughts constantly invaded by the bastard and I know you don't want me to be that close to him. Not in that intimate fashion, anyway. David, I want to be yours…That is why I'm asking you to go against Max. Don't you think you deserve the right to break a rule or two? After everything that he did to you…"

"What?"

"He stole Adalyn from you by making you kill her," Faith said, staring into the flames. "She told me about the last conversation she had with the bastard. He proposed a wonderful life for her if she would end the relationship she had with you. Max, he told her that if she chose him over you, that he would let you live as part of the new family. You'd never be apart but you would never be together, not in the way the two of you wanted." She closed her eyes. "Adalyn refused him and the rest is history…"

David ignored the yelling going on in his head as he listened to Faith. Adalyn had never said anything about this to him. Sure she had pleaded with him to leave the town and put Max in the past because he was creepy, but he hadn't known that Max talked with her. Max never revealed everything hiding in his closet, it seemed.

"David, I'm not going to let him win again," Faith's voice blended with the crackling of the flames. "He will not be the one that turns me. I'd rather die -"

"No!" David growled, cutting her off but she didn't jump. "You aren't going to die. Not again. Not because of him."

The eldest Lost Boy sent quick commands to his missing brothers as he decided what he was going to do. Max was working himself up into a fit, but couldn't do anything because he was currently engaged in other matters. David knew that he only had a small amount of time to do what needed to be done.

"Cover the door, Dwayne," David ordered, grabbing onto Faith's arm and pulling her towards the cave's halls. "Just in case old Max wants to burst in uninvited…"

Without waiting for an answer or caring about the speed and force he was using to propel Faith down the system of halls, David moved through the place. Faith's heartbeat didn't speed up as he propelled her through the darkened passageways. It was a soft, steady rhythm that puzzled him.

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Faith held her tongue as David guided her into the room that they'd spent a couple nights in before. He lacked the gentleness that she remembered, but she understood that this was not the time for gentleness. Things needed to be done quickly because Max was probably giving the Boys hell for even thinking about doing what she wanted them to do.

Left alone with David as he closed the door, Faith could feel his tension. He was holding back all of the emotions that Adalyn knew he had. Hell, she knew that he was holding back so much because he didn't want to admit that he was in agony. History was repeating itself: Adalyn had died because of his vampiric bloodlust and now she had to die to become a vampire like him. In a way, he was killing her all over again.

She watched him pace the room when he released her arm, trying to keep herself calm. The inner demons in him were threatening to break free – she could see them battling against him and she wished that she could do something, anything, to help him. But she held back, her resolve to become a vampire keeping her rooted in strength.

"Are you sure, Faith?" David demanded, turning his icy blue gaze onto her. "Are you sure that you want to do this? Become one of us?"

"I am," she said softly.

He moved closer to her. "Once you're a vampire, you're a vampire for good. There's no going back to your normal life. Nothing will change you back."

Except for killing the sire, Faith thought and quickly cursed herself mentally for thinking like that.

"I know. I'm not going to change my mind. Ever."

David's hand touched her face, caressing the curve of her cheek as if memorizing the warmth. She saw the pain in his eyes mixed with hope and she slid her hand over his, squeezing his fingers lightly. A flicker of that infuriating smirk of his turned up the corner of his lips and was gone in the next heartbeat.

"You have to do exactly what I tell you to," David said, pulling his hand back. "It's gonna hurt for a little bit, but…you have to obey. Understand?"

Faith nodded and let her hand drop to her side. David held her gaze as he threw off both of his jackets, leaving his arms bare to the world. The redhead flinched when she saw his fangs grow and the feral color of his eyes, but didn't shy away. She'd never be able to shy away again because that face would soon be hers.

David lifted his wrist to his mouth and bit down, his fangs making a soft popping sound as they pierced his flesh. Faith moved closer and cupped a hand under his wrist, the crimson blood pooling from the open rivers in his flesh. Her grey eyes lifted to David's feral ones and held his gaze for one more moment. There was pain in his eyes and she took a deep breath, putting her lips to his wound.

The taste of the blood was rich, but it also made her want to gag. She forced herself to swallow the blood and closed her eyes, concentrating on not pulling herself away from his wrist until he told her to. She had no idea of how much blood she'd need to consume, but she had faith that David wouldn't let her take more than she needed.

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David closed his eyes for a moment as Faith fed from his veins. No one had ever fed on him before, so the feeling was new and strange to him. He could hear Faith's heartbeat shift, changing its rhythm and beating slower and slower with each mouthful of blood she swallowed. When he started feeling lightheaded, he put a hand against the back of her head and curled his fingers in her long fiery tresses.

"That's enough, Faith," he whispered, gently tugging at her hair.

The girl pulled back away from him, blood staining her lips. A trickle of blood fell from the corner of her mouth and David felt the urge to lick it away, but something stopped him.

There was pain in her eyes.

"Faith-?" he asked, reaching towards her.

The redhead put a hand to her stomach and made a small sound. "It's on fire!"

"The blood? Is the Change-?" David cut off suddenly when he realized what she was talking about and his eyes narrowed. "Max."

Yo David! Max is shutting down the shop for the night and he's pissed as hell…

Faith trembled, clawing at her stomach where David knew her scars were. He could feel her pain through the new connection between the two of them. She couldn't keep back the once private thoughts and feelings that were racing through her – she hadn't learned that kind of control yet. David's little fledgling needed guidance and strength and he knew that he would have to teach her quickly. But not that night because just as he was about to say a word, her eyes rolled back and she fell into his arms. The beginning of the Change was coming upon her.

Unable to think clearly with his sire and brothers yelling in his head, David gathered Faith in his arms and set her on the bed that they had shared twice before. Her skin, already pale as a human, was growing paler and her breath softer. David's undead heart clenched painfully as he brushed his knuckles against her cheek, feeling the warmth of her humanity start to disappear with each passing second.

"I'll come back for you," David whispered, pulling himself away from his slumbering fledgling.

The Lost Boy moved quickly from the room where Faith was sleeping and headed into the lobby of the cave-hotel. Dwayne was facing the entrance, tense and motionless as he guarded the only way into the cave. He didn't even acknowledge David with a single word as he waited.

The voices of the others were garbled in his head. David couldn't figure out if they were panicking or afraid or excited by the events that had taken place. Max, however, was the easiest to read.

He was pissed. Big time.

Marko and Paul flew into the cave, glancing over their shoulders with worried expressions plastered to their always-happy faces. The four main brothers stood there in a line, waiting for their sire to make his appearance.

A howling wind outside could be heard and the Boys tensed up. David put his game-face on and his hands clenched into fists as he saw the fast approaching shadow of his sire.

"Come on you bastard!" he growled, leaping into the air.

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Faith opened her eyes and found herself lying in darkness. Not a sound could be heard as she pushed herself from the ground. She blindly reached out and tried to find a wall, but her fingers passed through the air.

"Where am I?" she asked, her voice echoing around her.

"You're in limbo," a soft voice said, its Southern accent telling her who it was instantly. "We've been here before, if you think about it."

The redhead turned around to see a copy of herself standing a few feet away. It took her a moment to see the differences between the two of them – the dress that the Southern Belle was clothed in being the most obvious. There wasn't any fire in the copy's eyes and yet, she seemed more graceful than Faith could ever hope to be. Adalyn seemed softer and held her body in a very different way than Faith did, but the modern girl stood taller, prouder than the other woman did.

Adalyn smiled at her and clasped her hands together in front of her. "Hello Faith."

"Adalyn…what are you doing here?" Faith asked, gesturing around them. "What am I doing here? Did the Change go wrong? Have I -?"

"Died? No, you haven't died. The Change is going on as it should and nothing will take it back. There is a completely different reason for you to be here with me, Faith. Something that you must decide on before you can open your eyes again."

"What?"

The Southern Belle moved closer to the modern day redhead. "You have to decide to let go of your life and let me take back over or to send me far away as you are more adapted to this time."

Faith took a step back. "Wh-Why?"

"This body is rightfully yours, Faith. You have lived in it for almost eighteen years with little hindrance from me. Yet, you are also me in a reincarnated state…The two of us are the same and also very different. I will not make your choice for you and I will not hold anything against you. I had my life many years ago and you should not have to lose yours for the sake of a love that has long passed into dust."

The modern redhead raked a hand through her hair and let her breath out in a rush, pacing in a small circle. Her head hurt and it seemed more crowded than normal, but she couldn't understand why. Adalyn's grey eyes watched her with patience that Faith never had when she was in control of the body that they shared.

"What would you choose?" Faith asked the Southern Belle.

"That doesn't matter," Adalyn told her. "I had a choice a long time ago and I did what I thought was right. Now it's your turn. I will not take your life from you. That is where Max and I are different. Where he and David are so very different. We allow the people we love to make their own choice and Max does not."

Faith stared at the woman, absorbing the words. "I don't want to lose David," she whispered, wrapping an arm around her stomach as her scars burned.

Adalyn nodded and smiled a soft smile. "Then you have your choice," she said, turning away. "I know you will both be happy…"

Faith started forward when she saw the Southern Belle start to slip away into the darkness. She caught hold of the other redhead's hand and prevented her from disappearing. "No! Adalyn, I can't lose you either! You've been there for me whenever things got hard and I – I just can't see David forgiving me if you were to go…"

The Southern Belle didn't turn to look at Faith as the redhead held her hand. "Then what are you suggesting?"

Faith took in a breath and let it out, trying to block the headache that was forming. "Hear me out, Adalyn. I have an idea…"

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Faith opened her eyes and took in a sharp breath as she resurfaced from the land of limbo. A face that she didn't want to see the first time she woke up loomed over her, his fangs bared and spit sliding down out of the corner of his mouth.

"Hello Max," she said, evenly. "You've lost."

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A/N: It's getting to be that time where I have to start winding things down and tie some loose ends up. Things will come to an end soon, but that doesn't mean that there will be a complete ending. No, as I have told one of my best friends, I have a series in mind with these characters and more…We'll just see how this turns out before we party, savvy? Please leave a review in the little box and enjoy the new week! -Scarlet