"Ok, so what are we doing?" Danielle inquired. "The sun will be up soon." "I say we go home and get some rest. This has been a long night." Marc said. Crystal nodded her head in agreement. Garan glanced at Nolan. "So where are you going?" he asked.
"That is not for you to know. I'll see you later, I know where to find you." Nolan replied as he morphed into his snow owl form and took off to the skies. "Uhm, ok." Crystal said sarcastically.
The four of them all piled back into Garan's Pathfinder. "Do you really trust him?" Danielle asked Garan, "Because I don't..."
Garan looked at her. "We don't really have much of a choice, now do we?" They rode on in silence, eventually arriving back at the now deserted parking garage of Menlo Park Mall.
As they exited the car, Gerard popped out from behind his black Mustang and sauntered over. He walked right up to Garan and stared straight into his eyes. Garan backed up against his truck. "You need to tell them now. You've hidden it long enough."
Crystal reached out, grabbed Gerard's arm and spun him around to face her. "Tell us what?"
Garan stepped forward. "No no, he is right. You are all deeply involved in this, you deserve to know."
"What are you all talking about?!" Marc exclaimed.
Garan held Crystal against him tightly. "I love you more than the world." he whispered in her ear. "But I've been keeping a secret from you, from everyone. Only Gerard knew." He glanced at Gerard, then began to speak. "Remember when I told you there were reasons all this was happening? I'm telling you now. Paul.....was my mortal brother, and is my immortal childe. After I was embraced, I hid in the wine cellar to avoid the light. Something terrible happened. My older brother Baldric came down there looking for me since the family hadn't heard from me for days. I had been starved for blood for nearly a week and when he got close that was it. I made a terrible mistake in embracing him, but I couldn't let him die. He had always been jealous of me in every way, always trying to be better than me. We had a sibling rivalry. I was the more talented one, I got the girls he wanted and all the attention. When I turned him, he became a maleficent being. He despised me for turning him into what he perceived as "a monster". He started killing every person who had ever hurt him, and the whole town became paranoid. I tried to talk to him but he didn't care. Then one day he just disappeared. I came to find that he had joined the Sabbat, become a Toreador Antitribu. Then when I fell for you, he killed you. He wanted you just because I wanted you."
"Oh my god..." Crystal trailed off. "So this whole time you knew all this, and never told us...me?"
Danielle looked shocked. "You are joking.....right?"
The look on Garan's face said otherwise. He, for the second time in his life, started to cry.
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