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There will be between 50-55 chapters of the story, and hopefully they'll all coincide with my other Fic eventually. But you definitely dont have to read the other one to get this one, so enjoy!

Third Floor, Library

Huge sobs raked Serena's body as she laid her head in her hands over the desk she was chained to. She hated William. She hated him with every fiber of her being.

The adoption papers were legitimate. They had all of her parents…wait, no, they weren't her biological parents, they were her adoptive parents. Fresh tears streamed down her face as she looked over the papers once more. On them contained all of the adoptive information; where they lived, what they did for a living, their birthdays, where they were born, social insurance numbers, even her Grandparents names. Then there was her name. Reina Anielka. It wasn't Serena or Gabriella…but Reina. It sounded foreign…but it sounded right. She tried to read it out loud but she was sure she failed to make the precise pronunciation…

Apparently it had been her mother that had dropped her off at the orphanage. The note on the papers stated that she seemed to be hysterical and anxious, like she was running from something.

Her mother had dropped her off as a newborn, barely four months old. Serena wondered what her mother was like, if she had been nice, what her job had been, why she had given her up, what the hell she was running from. As she looked over the papers she read that her adoptive parents had renamed her.

Why wouldn't they have told me this? She asked herself. Serena felt like she should be furious, but she wasn't. Even though for all these years she had believed she was something she wasn't, she couldn't be angry with the people that had raised her like their own child. Maybe her mother…or the person she believed to be her mother, lied to her all this time because she had wanted a child so bad. Maybe they had planned to tell her?

Serena read the profiles of her adoptive parents. They had been young, and happy, and in love. What had happened to make their love disintegrate? What was it that had turned her father into a raging alcoholic?

She remembered back to that fateful night when she had completely totaled the kitchen and living room of her childhood house. Serena closed her eyes as she thought back to it.

"What the hell have you done?" screamed her father, shaking her painfully. He had been referring to the fact that she had called the police on him. He pushed her away from him and into the little island in the middle of the room. She winced as the counter made hard contact with her lower back.

"You're no daughter of mine," he sneered, reaching into the back of his jeans and pulling out a handheld shotgun. He lifted the gun and pointed it menacingly at her.

Her eyes widened. He had even told her that night that she wasn't his kin, his blood…his daughter. She had thought he was just saying things. Turns out he had been telling the truth.

I wish…she started to think but a loud BANG shock her from her thoughts.

Alyssa stood over her, long dreadlocks hanging limply around her face. She had dropped a stack of what looked like textbooks on the table in front of Serena, which had created the loud bang. However Serena didn't even glance at them, she was so taken aback by Alyssa's appearance.

The skinny girl looked a lot different from the last time Serena had seen her. She no longer wore her tight fitting outfits or massive amounts of makeup. She looked like she had been living on the streets for the past week and a bit. It seemed Michael's absence had taken its toll.

Serena sniffed softly, quickly rubbing away the tears around her eyes, "Am I supposed to go through all of them?"

"These and many more," Alyssa answered, her voice dripping with poison.

Serena was about to say something else but Alyssa angrily grabbed her wrist and unchained it.

"You could get in trouble," Serena said, rubbing her wrist as it was released.

"Bite me," snapped Alyssa before walking away stiffly.

Serena smiled to herself. Alyssa had unchained her against a direct order from William to keep her there. Even though she seemed like a stuck up bitch, maybe Alyssa wasn't so bad. Her bark seemed a lot worse than her bite.

She glanced at the books Alyssa had dropped on the table. Ancient Creatures in Modern Times, Mythology and Vampires, The Treasury of Assorted Beings, Rare and Powerful Immortals, Annunukimai, Burgatorkins, Encyclopedia of Unknown and Rare Entities, The Diversity of the Immortal Beings. She eyed them wearily and started flipping through them. As she browsed the main entries she found that her body wasn't being forced to carry out the action. She was consciously making the decision to read through these texts not because of the stupid pendant she was forced to wear…

William had directly commanded her to read through the texts…hadn't he?

"Now you're going to take these," he said, reaching into his jacket to remove a pair of handcuffs and holding them out to her. "And you're going to chain your wrist to the table as Alyssa pulls all the books you're going to read through. When you're done she'll bring you to get some food, then come to my room."

Indirectly she was told to read through them but the action of reading was a mental process, and he couldn't control her mind, just her body. She didn't have to read through these stupid books. She grinned and stood, taking a look around to see where she was exactly in the library. It didn't really do any good, she hadn't ever been in here. She sighed. Well I can either sit here, and wait for Alyssa to take me back or I can try to leave...and with that she took off down the aisles of the bookcases.

It was a complete maze. Serena was pretty sure she got lost in about two seconds. She took a right and then a left within the grand dark oak bookcases, and tried to go back to her stack of books but found they weren't there anymore. So she kept walking, admiring the shelves and the many different types of books found on them when she came to an opening. Then she groaned.

Above her stood three other levels and one below her. Weren't there only four floors in the entire place? She thought to herself. She sighed and started up the stairs. She knew her bedroom was on the fourth floor so just going all the way to the top seemed like the right idea.

There seemed to be every book ever written lying somewhere in this library, maybe even some that weren't known to mortals as well. There were books of magic, alternate dimensions, different kinds of creatures, biographies of the royal vampire families. She also noticed Anne Rice's novels and almost laughed. She wondered what real vampires thought of the different mortal versions of vampires.

Finally she reached the top of the library and began to look for a door. Again she was lost in the numerous stacks of shelves. At least this is better than being…she suddenly stopped.

Serena ducked behind a rather large bookcase and peered between the shelves. She had heard voices.

There stood two vampires in what looked like a rather compromising situation. As she crept closer she noticed that it was Brett, the dark and blond haired vampire that had propositioned her for a good time when Michael still laid claim to her. He had also prevented her from bashing in Shane's head. In his arms was Kiki, the raccoon haired girl from the party where Michael had kidnapped her.

Serena kept herself hidden and watched quietly as Kiki struggled to remove his arms from her.

"We cant do this anymore Brett! He'll find out!" Kiki whispered, clearly upset.

"I cant help it! You're unlike any other person I've met Kiks. It's been thirty years! Damn him! Let him send me to the Abyss, but he has to know how we feel about each other! I don't want to keep this hidden anymore. You're my everything." and with that Brett gathered her in his arms and kissed her.

Serena's eyes widened. Kiki was his everything and yet he had wanted to 'get to know her' when he first met her? Yeah right. And who were they trying to hide from? Who would send Brett to the abyss for loving someone?

She crept along before she was sure they wouldn't see her and then walked away quickly. Not really looking where she was going she found herself in front of a series of doors. Serena groaned. She hated this place. But still, she chose a door, looking in it before entering. There was no way she would be caught in a feeding fest again. No one was there.

It seemed to be a study, a grand study. It was dark, but elegant. It was simply furnished with a desk, a tall bookcase and a high swiveling chair. She sat down and admired the desk. If only she were this important to have a space like this. She opened the drawer eagerly and saw a bunch of files. Glancing through them there seemed to be nothing of importance within them. There were just random names of people she had no idea who they were.

Then she saw it. It was a photograph of a girl, probably in her mid-twenties with long flaming red hair and brilliant hazel eyes. Serena was reminded of Merishka, but the flaming hair was where the similarities of the two women ended. The woman in the photograph seemed…virtuous. She was full of life, a sparkle in her eyes that denoted amusement, a little mischief, and goodness. She looked tall with long legs, an athletic build, high cheekbones, full lips, and straight white teeth. She was reminded of someone but she couldn't quite place who it was…

The picture looked old, as if it had been held many times over the past couple of decades. Serena placed it back into the desk and began looking through more files.

Voices suddenly sounded outside the door and Serena shoved the files back inside, looking around for a hiding spot. The doorhandle jiggled and Serena rushed towards it, hoping to hide behind the door when it opened.

In walked Jadis with the leader of the Elders, who looked more tall and domineering then ever. She held her breath, wishing beyond anything that she could just disappear right where she was. She closed her eyes as they entered the room.

"I saw it in her head, Drake! You can't deny it, no matter how much you want to."

There was a pause before, "Who else have you told Jadis?" he asked, his deep voice reverberating off the walls.

"No one, Drake, I swear."

"If I tell you what you want to know will you swear by pain of death that you will tell no soul in the entire universes?"

"I swear on pain of death Drake. You are my oldest friend, I would not betray you," Jadis vowed, a dark purple cloud wrapping itself around her before seeping into her clothing.

Serena's mouth opened in wonder. What the hell had that been?

Drake sighed, sitting in his desk chair, putting his hands in his hair, which stood as two points on the side of his head, like a wolf. "Close the door Jadis."

Jadis did as she was commanded and closed the door tightly.

Serena closed her eyes as she waited to be spotted. But no one said anything. She listened as Jadis sat in the chair in front of the desk before opening her eyes in amazement. Had they really not seen her?

"Jadis, Serena is…Serena is my daughter."

Serena put her hand to her mouth to keep from gasping out loud.

The sudden motion made Drake look up towards the door. His eyes glanced over her, exactly where she was standing, but he didn't seem to see her. Jadis turned her head to see what he was looking at but she looked back at him. "Something wrong?"

He tilted his head slightly before looking away. "No, nothing. I must be seeing things from blood deprivation." He rubbed his temples lightly and sighed.

Jadis looked at him in sympathy. "When was the last time you saw Amik, Drake?" she asked softly.

"Almost twenty years ago."

"That's when I'm guessing Serena was born?"

"Yes," he answered softly.

"Did you even know about her before she was brought here?"

"No," he answered shortly, his eyes blazing with fury.

"But you felt something when you saw her?"

"The exact moment she entered the council room I knew she was mine. I knew she was Amik's."

"Well, they are quite similar except for the red hair…"

Serena's face turned to realization. That photograph she had been looking at in Drake's dresser had been her mother…Amik.

The two vampires didn't say anything for a while, but Serena was hardly paying attention to them anyways.

She felt her heart pounding harder then it ever had. It felt like it was going to explode if she didn't leave this room soon. But she was afraid to move, afraid that if she moved they would suddenly see her. And that was the last thing she wanted at this point in time.

"I've…I've done some research about her, Drake. She was left at St. Andrew's Orphanage when she was four months old, then almost immediately adopted. They took good care of her until she was about 10 years old. Then the father started to drink and get out of hand. It is to be assumed that she suffered much, as did the adoptive mother. Then all traces of her vanish when she turned 15. Her father and mother are both dead, the father having killed the mother, then it's said a homemade bomb killed him. Their kitchen and living room were completely demolished with the blast as well. What the police don't seem to understand is how the bodies remained intact.

"I believe her power emerged that night. She was the one that created the blast and killed her father. She was most likely scared, ran away and no trace of her has been seen since.

"A couple of years later Michael began to stalk her, having seen her at some club apparently. Then when she arrived at the same party he abducted her, while Shane turned Lana. I think you know the rest of this story."

Drake nodded his head, his eyes distant, like he was in some far away place.

"But what I don't understand, Drake, is that you let Jared take her. One of the most dangerous vampires within this coven demanded the right to take her and you didn't say anything. Why?"

Drake sighed, his voice pained when he answered. "Because she would already be dead if anyone knew she was mine. She would have been hunted not only by some of those angered within our own coven, but those wishing revenge against me. The lycans, demons, anyone who would want to hold something against me could have taken her and killed her. Even though the vampire in Jared can be torturous, she is much safer with him then anyone else. He wouldn't kill her, he feels something for her, even if he doesn't know it. Even I could not protect her the way that he does."

Jadis looked at her old friend and let a bloody tear escape her eye. "I am sorry."

Serena suddenly gripped the door handle and flung it open, running through it.

Drake and Jadis stood abruptly, wondering who the hell would be stupid enough to spy on Drake in his own office before chasing after them.

Note:

The story is completely original. I know this is Fanfiction BUT oh well! While I like reading the popular vampire stories out there, it seems like vampires have lost their edge. Because of that, I was nervous when I posted that people wouldn't like it but all the reviews are great! Thanks again for your awesome compliments.

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Cheers,

Maddly Riddled