Previously
"Well, if you don't mind Serena, Darling, me and my companions will depart now and leave you to die in the gutter where you belong."

Tess spins around on her heal with a bounce in her step and heads out of the alley. The two guys take a moment to look at one another before deciding to follow her out of the alley.

I sit there crouched in the dark for a few minutes too make sure that those three were really gone. Serena's body starts to go limp and her eyes close while leaning against the wall. Making up my mind, I slowly get up and apprehensively walk towards her slouched body.

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Part 2
I watch her intently for any movement as I get closer, but she doesn't stir. Standing only a couple of feet away from her I wonder if she might be dead already, she's so pale, and for some reason now looks small and innocent like a child. Unable to resist the urge I kneel down besides her and reach out to her neck with my hand to check her pulse.

Like a cobra strike her hand whips out from its dormant position and clamps hard around my wrist, the crushing pain of its iron grip forces an involuntary cry from me. Looking now at her face I see she's awake all right and a hell of a lot stronger than me in her weakened state. Even without her hold on me I doubt I could leave this very spot right now, my legs seem to of turned to lead and I'm frozen in place before her.

"Who are you and who do you work for!" She snaps.

"I. I, don't work for anyone." I say feebly.

Narrowing her eyes at me keeping a firm hold on my wrist I start to feel a gentle pressure build up in my head. I feel totally paralyzed by her gaze, as she seems to look right through me. Then as quickly as the feeling came the pressure within my head fades and I let out a heavy breath that I didn't even know I was holding.

"Your human." She says and I'm not sure if she's saying it to herself or me.

"Last time I checked." I say weakly, my hand starts to feel numb as a dull ach builds up in my arm.

As if sensing my pain she releases my wrist and leans back against the wall, a small sigh escapes her lips. Wanting to get the hell away from here, I find that my legs still refuse to move, a panic starts to wash over me as I realise I'm trapped even in this open space.

"What are you doing here child?" she says looking at me sideways. "This is no place for you I think."

"I, er, urm. it's kinda complicated, I was sort of told to come here, a spirit or something crashed a ritual of mine and ordered me to be in London tonight and told me to let my senses guide me to the place of rest. For some reason I got drawn to this alley, not much of a place of rest." I ramble out nervously.

She's staring at me strangely now, as if I was some kind of complex enigma to be understood. "Now I wouldn't say that, soon enough this will be my place of rest. Maybe the fate's took pity upon me and sent you to act as my death watch." She says bitterly.

"Is. Is there anything I can do to help?" I ask timidly.

For an instant an expression of shock dashes across her face and is gone within the same instant. A smile I could only describe as cynical grows upon her face.

"No child, nothing you or anyone could do can help me now. Did you see the others that were here before?" She asks. I nod my head in response and fidget around with my hands a bit at the thought of them.

"The blond wench, Tess, it seems has finally succeeded in defeating me, though I'm shamed to admit it. She managed to get one of my most trusted servants to betray me by putting a deadly poison in my meal, which has no cure."

"Sean?" I ask.

A grim smile crawls across her face, "I see you were listening as well as watching child."

"My name's Liz."

"I know Miss Parker, I know." She says with a genuinely nice smile that makes her eyes almost sparkle.

"How? How, did, you, know that?" I ask stunned.

"There are more things in heaven and earth than mere mortals can ever comprehend? That's your own motto I believe child." She says chuckling, obviously enjoying my discomfort.

Then in mid-chuckle she stops and looks at me with an expression of shock and what almost looks like hope.

"What reason did this, being, give you for coming here child?" She asks slowly pronouncing each word clearly.

"It said something about me destiny awaits me, and that I must seek out this guy, become one with him in every way and unit against our enemies, Zan was his name.."

"Zan!" Serena exclaims looking suddenly much more alert and astonished.

"Yeah, do you know him?" I ask. She continues to sit there looking at me not answering my question for a few moments.

A sinister smile appears on her face and a look that reminds me of a hungry wolf spotting its prey fills me with dread.

"It seems the fate's have deemed me fit to have a vessel for my revenge before I finally pass from this world and into the next." She says smugly.

"W.. w.what?" I stutter, my senses going berserk and my instinct is telling me to get the hell outta here now, but I find I'm still spellbound by her presence.

"I'm going to give you a gift that no mortal or immortal has ever been given in known history child.

As you most probably have already guessed if you were paying attention to my earlier conversation I'm not precisely human. In fact I'm a vampire, a very old, very wise, and very tired vampire. Over three millennia have passed since my turning, wisdom full with unimaginable powers has grown with me, I have formed one of the most powerful vampire clans named the 'Brujah' and gained my own seat at the very most high vampire council.

Now in desperation to save all that I have worked for, I give it to you."

"W.w.what?" I stutter for a second time. 'Give it to me?'

"There are two things I refuse to let happen you see, the first being that I will never let that foul insidious harlot gain control over my clan and second is that I refuse to die by her hand, that kind of victory shall never be hers.

So you shall become my true childer and I your sire before death claims me. Everything that was mine shall become yours."

"But. I." A confusion like no other grips hard within me. One part wants to run as fast and as far as I can away from this woman, another part, a part that refuses to keep silent, wants what she offers.

'Immortality! I could live forever, watch the very birth of civilizations, spend decades or centuries learning the sciences, have it all on a silver platter before me.' I think to myself.

"If it helps you any child, you don't really have a choice in the matter, I have already decided for you. Or more correctly it seems some higher power has decided for you." She says as if sensing my thoughts once more.

Before I get the chance to say another thing she becomes a sudden blur of motion striking out towards me pulling me back with her. I hot pain seeps into my neck, it feels just like a double jellyfish sting, fighting against her strength is useless, surrendering into her I allow my body to go limp in her arms as I wonder what is to become of me.

~Do not worry child, you will prevail, it is destined.~ I hear the voice within my head say. A shock courses through me when I realise she can not only send her thoughts, but also read her own. I try a desperate attempted to hide them deep in my mind throwing up a smoke screen of thought to block her but it's as useless as fighting her physically.

~You shall be a vampire like no other child. One born to true power.~ Sensing my confusion she continues.

~When a vampire is sired child, their maker gives them a tiny portion of their essence, it is this essence that turns them and brings them over into the world of darkness. As years, decades, and centuries go by this essence grows inside them like a seed and they slowly become stronger with each passing moment of their unlife.

The more essence a maker gives to their child, the stronger that child will be and more powers it will have, but this takes a toll on the maker, which is why a vampire sires very few other vampires in their lifetime. No vampire has ever received more than one third of his or her maker's essence, till now that is.

I shall give you everything that's in my power to give to child. Strength, powers, knowledge, wisdom, that I have gained over my existence shall be passed on to you. It will no doubtfully cause my death, but better to die by my own hand, on my own terms, then to die by Tess's.~

I can feel the very last part of that thought encrusted with hatred and disgust, the coldness of the silence that follows chills me even more than the winter breeze around me. I can only vaguely feel the exterior cold now, it seems distant somehow as I slip further and further into a void of darkness.

Pressure is on my lips and a sweet rich taste leaks onto my tongue. Like a kitten I instinctively start to lap up the delicious juice. Horror strikes right through me when I realise what it is I'm drinking, she has opened up a wound upon her wrist and is letting me drink from it, the revulsion of what it is I am doing is not enough though to make me stop. I just can't for some reason, it's as if I had been lost in a desert for days with no water and then coming upon a hidden oasis with crystal clear fresh water within it.

~That's it my child, drink, you will need it all for your rebirth. A vampire like no other to ever walk the earth is what you will be. You shall take my place as head of the Brujah clan, dispose of any that refuse to follow you, reek my revenge upon the Tzimisce clan of Tess's and any other clan that stands with her.

It is your destiny to do these things, and your accomplice in the ordeal it seems has already been chosen for you. If in need of aid turn to the Lazombra leader, he has been one of my most trusted friends for eon's and will help and train you knowing that you are my chosen successor. You already even know his name child, Zan.~

'Zan? That beauty of a male?' I mentally sigh at the thought of meeting such a man in person, a now odd eagerness consumes me. I hear what seems to be a chuckle within my mind.

~Nice to know that you don't set you sights low child, that's all I can say.~

Embarrassment overwhelms me knowing she had just heard my thoughts, but it doesn't stay with me for long though when I hear her next and last words.

~Like no other child, you will be a vampire like no other,

I shall live on within you my daughter,

I shall have my revenge through your hands and your actions,

And every dream your mind could ever imagine shall be your reward.~

This is the last thing I hear as I drift off into unconscious, a dark warmth embracing me as I go.