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PART 3 - Love, Hate and Family:
SOMETIMES THE END IS ONLY THE START
By Lilly Rose
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What was this feeling... death? The last thing she remembered was Nick. His fangs in her neck. That was wonderful, but now her head was turning fast and faster. Where the heck was she? As her eyes opened, she looked around the room. She had to pull herself up... Her eyes found her beloved. "NO!!" Was the first word that came from her cold lips.

She went to her knees. The stake didn't seem to go so deep, almost as if the person that did this didn't want to. In fact, maybe she could help him. She had to think. Maybe there was something to the old folk lore? Maybe if she pulled it out? Maybe if she fed him?

But what of her own feeding?

No, she couldn't think of that now. Her first worry was Nicholas. She had to pull that thing out and do it now. Putting both of her hands on the stake, she moved them down to where it met her Nicholas. Then she pulled, and pulled with all of her heart, and all of herself. It came out fast making her fly across the room.

a voice said to her.

She moved fast back to him. He need blood and need it now.

"Why Nicholas? Why did you let this happen?"

Then her mind started to feed the on thoughts of worry. What if Nicholas would want to stay like this? What if he would want to be dead? No, she needed him. She didn't care if she was just thinking about herself. Together they would find the cure, even if it took them forever. They had forever now...

(Back at the Raven, LaCroix and Gina are siting in his office. Nether has spoken. They had been in there for five minutes.)

"How long have you known Nicholas?" LaCroix asked.

His eyes moved over Gina, she seemed to be worried. He didn't understand her, nor did he understand what was happening with Chris. Why would he be yelling at her?

"I knew him for at least seven to eight months."

She didn't want to say too much. No, she didn't want to say everything she knew to this old vampire. That was another thing that made her want to get out of here. Her powers. She knew when a vampire was around, she knew how old they were. The thing that scared her most was that she didn't know what she was. This thing she was feeling from this old vampire scared her, made her want to run from the room.

"That long? But tell me, you do seem that you don't come from here, do you? So how did you meet Nicholas?"

His eyes went to her cross, it was one that Nicholas had for a very long time. It was one Nicholas had never let go of. What was with this girl?

"Sir, it is true that I am not from here. I am from Union City, California, but before I tell you more, don't you think that you should gave me your name?"

"Oh, yes, my name, forgive me. Forgetting something so important. Dear lady, my name is Lucien LaCroix."

He smiled then, not knowing why. Maybe it was the look on her lovely face as he told her of his name. Or maybe he just found a new child he could take under is wing. She did seem lost. Or was that only him that needed someone?

"Now, my dear lady, may I have all of your name, so that I will know the angel before me?"

"For someone who's not supposed to be very nice, you sure add a lot of kiss up things when you talk. Very well, my name is Gina Ann Leeon."

She dropped her eyes and did what almost could be called a half blow. With her eyes on his she told him softly.

"Most people don't ask much about me, they only demand. I am not a weak fool, sir. So I wouldn't want you treat me like one. Don't think about hiding anything. Your mind maybe closed now, but I have a feeling you are lying to me. Where is Nicholas and what have you done to him Lucien?"

His name rolled off her lips almost like a song. She seemed to know is inner most thoughts.

He dropped her hand and moved to his desk, sitting in his chair. He just watched her. She didn't seem to be so... Why could she be this powerful? Unless he had lost his gift for lying.

"Nicholas is dead... so is the doctor, the woman who said she could help. Both of them are gone. You my dear lady, you are alone. All alone. I hope you can find a way back to your home. What did you call it, Union City? For Nicholas and Natalie are dead." He spoke with his eyes burning into hers.

What was that she saw in his eyes? Pain? Sadness? Anger? Nick and Nat couldn't be dead. Could they?

No, she felt Nicholas. She knew he was alive. As for Nat she couldn't be sure.
"You lie! Nicholas told me, all you do is lie and kill! He said never trust you, that you only hurt. Never love, never feel anything." There were tears forming in her eyes. If it was true, she was too late, way too late.

That was all that LaCroix could take.

"Who in the names of all the Gods do you think you are? I have lost so many. How may have you lost? HE was my son. MY CHILD! Tell me, you little bitch, why are you here? Why did my son want you here?" He moved closer to her. His eyes were filled with anger and pain. Gina could see the love for Nicholas in his old eyes.

"Only to Help. I was here to help find the cure. But now I see that there will be no cure, and that I came too late, way too late. I only wanted to help Nicholas and Nat. Not to hurt them. They were my last part of my family, I have no one now... Just like you." Her voice dropped as she spoke.

End of Part 3


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Part 4 (Someone to love)
"Only love can helps us all. It can also kill us all."
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Nat needed to find human blood. She knew there was some in here, she could smell it! Her eyes went around the room. Then she knew where it was, then she didn't. Why could she find the damn blood, then letting her nose guide her to Nick's bedroom. It wasn't there. "Damn!" she yelled. Then she started to think, she was still acting like her old self. She was still acting human. Where would Nick put the blood?

She let her vampire side take over. Her eyes turned golden as she looked and smelled her way around the room. It took her to the wall. The wall next to the fire place. She placed her eyes over the wall, let them feel their way, making their own path.

As she felt something gave way, she pushed the wall, then she saw a door open just few feet from her. This was it, she had found the blood. Walking to the door that hung open for her, she pulled it all the way open. This was great, as she looked at all that was inside. She pulled out bottle after bottle of blood until she had eight.

"Four for him and four for me."

End of Part 4


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Part 5: Can it be true? Is Love evil?
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They finally made it to the Raven. To weak to fly, they made their way in Nick's beloved car. Nat's eyes were closed. He could tell she was trying not to feel all the heartbeats around them. The beat of life was all around them.

It called to Nat; it made her mad with the lust for blood. Then there was something else... Nick. He was willing her not to move, not to kill. Only he could do this to her. He was helping her so that she could not kill, would not kill.

The need was stronger as they entered the Raven. It was as if all the heartbeats were only for her to hear. Calling her name. Wanting her to take them into herself. It was too much. No she wouldn't do it.

Nick's skilled eyes looked for the one he knew as Gina. He knew she was somewhere near. Where he would find her he thought, he would find LaCroix. He should know where the "little one" was.

(Little One is the name that Nicholas and Natalie gave Gina when they started to talk to her).

There was a fear in him that was so deep. He told Gina that she would be safe. He even said that she would a be part of his family, him and Natalie. And now Gina. Oh, God! How could he have forgotten her?

As they neared the back office that LaCroix called his own, Nicholas felt his father and something new. It wasn't a vampire, but not human. It felt more human than undead, but there was something about it that made him think it was not human.

Nicholas opened the door; there he saw it. The blood on the blue dress, the dark hair and LaCroix. It didn't take Nicholas long to see that the woman in his father's arms was Gina.

"NOOO!"

Nicholas ran to his father not caring in his weakened state, that his father would make short work of him.

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Gina felt something move her back, pulling at her. She felt herself fall, then something that felt like the floor hitting her head. Then the darkness filled her. She fainted. This was the first time in her short life that she had ever fainted. As her mind tried to call her back, the only thing she knew, Nicholas was alive.

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LaCroix let go of Gina. He saw her look at Nicholas. His fangs were bared and his eyes golden. Then LaCroix saw her fall. As Gina fell, his heart had fallen with her. He would fall to his knees if his son would let him.

"STAY A WAY!" His son had told him.

Then LaCroix saw Nat. How could this have happened? He knew she was not human, she had been turned. She was now his grandchild. This was too much for him. All this in one hellish night.

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Nat moved to Gina's side, her doctor side had taken over. At first she felt no heart beat as if Gina was dead. Then Gina's heart went faster and faster until it was the way that all hearts should beat. Nat's skilled eyes moved to the little one's neck, there were no marks.

"Nicholas, she's fine. She just fainted. You most likely scared her, the poor thing."

Nat moved Gina's head to her lap. For some reason her heartbeat didn't call to her like the others. Something Nat felt that made her not want to feed on her. Made it so that Gina's heartbeat did not have the same call. Why was this?

Gina was still on the floor. Nat had said it would be best not to move her. When her eyes opened she saw Nat, and knew that she was a one-night year old vampire. Not even that, Nat was only hours old.

"Nat-Nat?" she sounded like a baby but she didn't care, it was her name for Nat.

It was also part of Nat's name on-line.

"Where am I? Why am I here?"

A part of her knew that she was on the floor, but her mind could not remember why.

"Gina," it was Nicholas's voice; he needed to know if she was all right. He came to Nat's side, his eyes looking down at Gina.

"Gina?"

"I am fine. I am going to have one hell of a headache."

She sat up, looking around. She hugged Nicholas and Nat, then she was helped to stand.

"Did 'HE' hurt you?"

There was anger in Nicholas's eyes. So deep that one would think that if Gina had said yes or even made a head movement that could mean yes, then Nicholas would have been on his father.

Gina knew that Nicholas meant Lucien.

"No, Lucien has been very kind to me. The blood that I wear came for another's cup. It is not my own."

"What do you mean, someone's cup?" Nat asked looking at Gina's dress.

"A vampire, Chris, poured his drink on me. Just a little before you made your way in here. So Lucien has done nothing, but save me from that same vampire."

The way she had said LaCroix's first name had made both Nicholas's and Nat's eyes grow big in surprise. Everyone had always called him LaCroix, nothing else. So, why did Gina use his first name?

"Is this true... Father?" Nicholas asked looking at his old master.

"Yes, it is my son," Lucien said.

Nat though to herself.

She took Gina's hand in her's and gave her little one a great hug.

"I am happy now, maybe now we can be a family?"

End of Part 5
Can it be true? Is love truly evil?
"No, love is not evil, but it can act that way... sometimes."