AN/Many thanks to the kind people who have read so far but there is only the epilogue to go and then this will be the first fic I have ever completed!

Chapter 5

Lexi looked at Kryssy and knew exactly what the problem was. "Start from the beginning." She suggested, so Kryssy did. She told her sisters the whole story and they sat and listened in amazement as she told her tale. When she had finished Kryssy got up and looked out of the window. "So you see I cannot stay here." She concluded. "I belong in the shadows now." Lexi got up and put a hand on her sister's shoulder. Appearance wise Kryssy hadn't changed much she was just more graceful- if that was possible.

"We know you cannot stay, but where will you go?" she questioned, Kryssy shrugged.

"I don't know." She replied. "I… I need to call Thierry." She murmured.

"Do you know his number?" Zoë questioned, Kryssy nodded.

"I do, or rather Angela did. It'll probably scare him when I ring seeing as he saw me die…" she sighed. "But what have I to loose now that I have to give everything up?" she murmured too quietly for her sisters to hear.

Zoë handed her the phone as they all sat huddled together on her bed, Lexi and Zoë for support. Kryssy was, perhaps for the first time, glad that she had lived before because it was helping her now. She dialled in the number slowly, it had been a long time since she had used it.

The phone rang one, then twice, a third time… It seemed to take ages before someone picked up the phone. "Thierry." Said the voice at the other end, Kryssy looked at her sisters then got up and walked to the window.

"Hi Thierry." She began. "I don't know if you remember me, but I was once Angela Speel." She could feel his confusion through the phone.

"Angela?" he questioned.

"I… I'm called Kryssy now and I need your help, Thierry. Adish has found me, again, and I need somewhere to stay…" she trailed off unsure what else to say.

"Okay." Thierry said. "I'll see what I can do.."

"I'm leaving in the morning." She interrupted. "I take it you're still living in Vegas."

"Of course." Thierry replied wryly.

"I would leave now, but I want to say goodbye to an old friend." She murmured.

"You'll be here by one?" he questioned. Kryssy thought about this for a moment.

"Yes, sir. Oh and I forgot to tell you but Adish has legally changed me into a vampire. I'll explain later, bye sir." She put the phone down and faced her sisters. "I'm afraid this is goodbye." She said simply.

Thierry Descouedres, the boss of Circle Daybreak, looked up as Hannah Snow his soulmate walked into the room with a cup of coffee. "Who was on the phone?" she enquired.

"An old friend." Thierry replied, watching her sitting in the chair next to him.

"What's wrong?" Hannah enquired, whomever the old friend was they seemed to mean a lot to him. Thierry sighed.

"It's a long tale." He said Hannah shrugged.

"We have time, everyone else is busy."

"Along time ago when I was searching for you I came across a girl called Angela. She was a witch and she was willing to use her magic to help me find you before Maya did. She had no memory of past lives then but some of the actions she did, and some of the things she knew lead me to believe that she was an old soul. Anyway not long after I arrived in the village two vampires turned up looking for Angela but they didn't call her that they called her Saorise and they said that their names were Adish and Donar." Hannah put her hand comfortingly over Thierry's, he smiled at her.

"They seemed to think that she could tell them the future, but she knew that she didn't have the power to do that. They also seemed to be competing over her, like she was a prize they both wanted. I don't know what happened, how they managed to get her to remember her past life as Saorise but they did. It turned out to be a bad mistake for them because she wanted to get as far away from them as possible. So she came to me. I did all I could to help her, but it wasn't enough. A bounty hunter killed her, I don't know why she had a price on her head, but apparently she did. Before she died she reached out to me with her magic, allowing me to see a small piece of the future where I was with you, Hannah. She told me that she might need my help again. Then that was it she was gone." Hannah smiled at him, thinking about what he had said.

"She must have been special…" she murmured. Thierry nodded and smiled sadly.

"She was, she was like a shooting star special but also she seemed to have something within her that made her dangerous." Hannah chuckled, determined not to let Thierry become depressed.

"Haven't we all?" she joked, the got up and gently tugged on his arm. "Come on lets get some food before someone eats it all." Thierry smiled at her and got up. Together they left his office.

Joey tossed and turned in his bed, he wasn't tired but what else was there for him to do? He had no idea where Kryssy was, and in truth maybe that was why he couldn't sleep because he was scared for her. He laughed to himself quietly; he couldn't believe it he was falling in love with a vermin. No that wasn't true he was in loved with her, always had been. Why had he been stupid enough to break up with her?

He sighed it didn't matter now, but if anyone hurt her he vowed that he would find them and kill them.

/Why am I being so protective of her/ he mused. /I mean it's not like she's Saorise./ In a flash he understood, she was Saorise that's why he cared. That's why his heart felt like it was breaking in two…

'Joey?' He sat straight up in bed. 'It's me, Kryssy. I need to talk to you.'

'Kryssy!'

'I'll explain it all later. Meet me at the beach.'

'Where on the beach?'

'Where we used to meet. I'll see you there in an hour.' She cut off the connection, leaving him to wonder how she had managed to talk to him and how she knew that he could reply.

Kryssy found her sisters looking at her defiantly. "We're going with you." Zoë said and Lexi nodded in agreement. Kryssy shook her head sadly.

"You can't." she said simply. Zoë opened her mouth to protest but Kryssy continued hurriedly. "You aren't meant to know about the Night World." She explained. "If anyone found out that you did they would kill you." Kryssy gulped.

"Then turn us into vampires." Zoë urged Kryssy shook her head.

"I will not give you my curse." She snapped.

"But it's a gift." Zoë insisted Kryssy smiled bitterly.

"Is it?" she questioned. "I have to drink the blood of another creature to live. Animals can sustain me but I need to drink from humans. That is why I am leaving so that I don't hurt you." Kryssy wiped away a tear. "And that's why I have to make you forget. It's safer for you." Lexi nodded sadly.

"You know we'd have gone with you to the ends of the Earth?" she demanded. Kryssy nodded.

"And you'd have gone with me beyond. But that isn't your journey." She walked over to them. "You will only remember this as a dream." She murmured her voice becoming hypnotic.

Kryssy quietly shut the door to her house with a heavy heart. She knew that she could never go back there and that she could never see or talk to the people she loved the most. She had said her goodbyes; all of them… well almost all of them. Just one more to go then she could look forward to the future.