It's been a minute since I have read the original books so I'm not actually quite sure what Liz's powers are besides levitating objects. That's all I can remember her being able to do.

We'd been back from the movies for about an hour when Matt, Liz, and Tori came back. The looks on the girls faces as they came in were hard to place. The reality of what they had done to another living thing had set in yet the excitement of the adventure was still there.

"How did it go?" Kyle asked.

"Quicker than we expected," Liz admitted. "There were three of them."

"Who is next?" Simon asked Matt while Liz and Tori talked about their experience.

Matt looked around at all of us, his eyes hovered on me for a second.

"How about you and your brother?" Matt answered.

I had to admit that it felt like Matt was avoiding taking me out for my first vampire hunt. But I was probably overthinking it.

"When?" Derek asked.

Matt pulled out his cell phone, "Let me find out."

He dialed a number and walked over to the corner of the room away from all the talking. I turned to seem like I was listening to Tori and Liz tell their story like everyone else but I was focused on Matt's conversation.

"Well?" Matt asked.

"Holy mother," the voice said bubbling with excitement. "This really is him. Our sword wielding hunter is back from the grave!"

"Are you going to keep staring at the bodies or give me another location?"

"There's one an hour south of this nest. These three were originally from it but broke off."

"Text me the address," Matt said and hung up. He turned and interrupted Tori's storytelling. "We have another nest about an hour drive from here. We should strike before they realize their AWOL nest got attacked."

"It's getting late though," I pointed out. It was about five o'clock.

Matt looked at Simon and Derek with a serious expression, "You two better be prepared for a fight then. Let's go."

Simon jumped up, ready to go. Derek looked at me a bit worried. He didn't want to leave me behind. I smiled at him trying to say that I would be fine.

"Be safe," I hugged him. "I love you."

"Love you too," Derek hugged me back.

They left and once again we were alone in the motel room.

"I have to say I don't like them going to a nest this late in the day," I said.

Liz nodded, "Agreed, ours wasn't too bad because they were caught completely off guard. These vampires might be awake."

My hand or arm must have started to twitch from being nervous because Jeremy laid his hand on my shoulder.

"They'll be fine. Matt's with them plus out of all of us, those two are probably the most experienced in fighting."

"You're right," I nodded and smiled.

"Alright," Tori stood abruptly. "Girl talk time. You two boys scamper."

She dismissed Kyle and Jeremy from the room. The two decided to run to the nearby gas station while they were kicked out of the room. It had been years since Kyle had been able to eat junk food and candy.

"What was that about?" Liz asked.

"This one," she gestured to me.

"What did I do?" I asked surprised.

Tori sat back down, "Why haven't you made a move with Jeremy yet? He's obviously into you."

"I'm with Derek," I said.

Tori rolled her eyes, "But Jeremy is soo much better. And cuter. You need to go for him."

"If he's so much better, why don't you go for him?" Liz asked. "Why does Chloe have to do it? She's happy with Derek."

"Because this is Twilight," Tori said. "She's got two guys in love with her and she needs to choose one of them. My vote is for Jeremy, he's so much better."

I raised an eyebrow, Twilight really? This was not a movie this was real life. And Jeremy wasn't in love with me, he just had a moment of instinct problems. We just saw each other as a friend. Didn't we?

Matt's POV

Nothing against the two girls but I had a lot more confidence walking into this fight than the fight earlier today. These boys had a lot more fighting experience. I repeated my speeches with them about the dangers of what we were about to walk into and how to not be stupid. Really our only problem should be is protecting Derek if Derek changes but I don't see that happening. He's gotten better with his control.

I gave them the rundown of the building that I had been given. Gave Simon a knife and Derek a gun and knife.

Both of them had very serious expressions, they understood fully what they were about to be walking into and what could happen.

We stepped inside, moving slowly and quietly. Went room by room. I sent Derek upstairs first to start checking those rooms. When Simon and I had the first floor cleared, we joined him. Derek looked at us and shrugged.

"There's no one here," Derek shrugged.

I frowned, this wasn't good. They must have gotten tipped off that we were coming somehow. I wondered if there really were four vampires at the nest earlier today and one had gotten away.