A/N: Hi everyone! I am so very sorry for not updating any sooner. Its been a busy month at work with Christmas coming up and all. I hope you all had a great Christmas and Happy Holidays, as well as a Happy New Years. Again, many thanks to everyone who's read, reviewed, favorited and followed the story. Its been so great getting to check in and seeing the reviews, favorites and follows going up, really made my Christmas you guys. Thank you. Also, we are getting closer and closer to the end of the story! Now, while this story was written nearly eight years ago, I never wrote the sequel like I'd planned. However, don't fear, I have slowly begun to write it. I'm hoping the first chapter will be ready when this story is finished, so be looking forward to that. Again thank you and here is the next chapter!
~ Chapter 37 ~
~With Sam and Isabel~
"Okay, okay, so you're saying that this is all connected to you?" Sam asked.
"Sorta kinda, yeah," Isabel answered with a nod.
"Wanna run it by me as to how?"
"Michelle or Meriska or whatever the hell her name is! She wanted me," Isabel said as they hurried along the bank of the lake, "She had me pegged to be her little girl victim. But I moved shortly after she killed Kevin and she didn't get me. So that kinda ticked her off."
"So why didn't she just go after another girl?"
"Blood-suckers usually only suck their lovers blood, and they are women," Isabel explained, "So I have been thinking, how do they have children?"
Sam's eyes widen, "You mean?"
"That's right, Sam," she gripped the flash light, "I think they choose who will become their children. It's more intense than a Vampire, who will only choose its mate. Choosing a child, a daughter, to raise, to love, to teach is far more intense. And she wanted me, Sam. Meriska had chosen me to be her daughter. And when I reached whatever age I was to start my blood-sucker puberty, then I would have started finding lovers and then finding daughters."
"So she chose Abigail, Samantha, and Sarah to be her daughters?"
"No, I think she chose them to kill them because she couldn't have me as a daughter," Isabel explained and then looked over at Sam, "I went looking through one of my old journals. I went to school with Abigail's sister and Samantha I met a few years back when I was visiting in town. And Sarah, her grandparents have always been friends of the family. What better way to hurt me then to have one of my best friend's sisters, a little girl who I babysat for twice, and a little girl I think of as a baby sister drained of their blood? Oh I know, claiming Sarah instead of just killing her to get back at me."
"So it is going to claim Sarah as a daughter tonight because she knows you. And this is all because Meriska didn't get you when you were little?" Sam nodded some, "We have some pretty messed up set of lives, don't we, Isabel?"
Isabel smiled slightly, "Yeah, we do, Sam."
"But why does Meriska still want Dean?"
"Looking for a new lover?"
"Ouch… I never thought I would actually say this, but I feel sorry for Dean," Sam whispered.
"Yeah… me too."
"There is just one part of this whole thing I don't get."
"What's that?" She asked.
"Why Meriska just picked you. I mean, shouldn't there be some sort of reason?" he questioned, "The guys I can understand, she saw something in them to take them for lovers and a meal. But why did she just pick you?"
Isabel stopped and turned to him, "I was wondering the same thing too, Sam. I did some digging and it seems Kevin was an old high school buddy of my Dad's. Guess she saw a picture of my Dad or something and came looking for something more, and then found me."
Sam stared at her for a moment, and then nodded. Isabel gave him a nod to tell him that she knew he now trusted her.
"Now, are we done with the history lesson?" She teased, "We gotta go get that annoying butt brother of yours."
"Right, right, right."