Sharmeen - Hey glad u like that chappie, I did no u could set the review thingy to acceptin anonymous, and I thought I had it like that, but obv it wasn't lol it will get romantic soon I promise! But I hav to sort sum things out wid the story line first so bare with me!!

Medusa - well ive been so long in updating that uve alredy started the sequal and u hav my loads and loads of reviews lol so there!! Hope u like this part!

Jez101 - I really need to update faster huh? Ive already seen u bout course work aswell! God I need to get myself sorted out!!

Disclaimer - I own nothing that luks like it belongs to L.J.Smith co if I did I wud b loaded, and there wud b no reason to write fanfics lol

Authors note - weird putting author but there u go lol I want to make my apologies now for updating so late here is my excuse. Plz accept it with good grace and heart. Here it is. I have been spending the last 2 months or so attempting to do maths coursework and have been getting absolutely nowhere with it! I have also got ICT, and I have just caught a cold and have been bed ridden for 2 days. Jez101 knows this so she can back me up thank god! Lol

On with the chapter!!

Nessa paced around her room thinking over the past discussion with her mother.

Her room was a dark and very deep blue colour, and painted on the ceiling were little white ripples causing an effect that made you feel as though you were at the bottom of the deepest depths of the darkest ocean. It calmed Nessa down. usually. She was in such a heart felt temper, that she climbed out of her window and slid down the black, brooding, drain pipe into her luscious back garden.

Nessa and her mother worked on the garden together filling it with tropical plants and herbs. It was wonderful to look at in all seasons with all the bright shining colours.

She paid no attention to the garden however and instead sidled around the stone wall into the dark and desolate street.

She followed the cobbled path that led down to the end of the drive and stopped abruptly. There at the bottom of her drive, street lamp reflecting off his clothes, was Darren Walker. He started to walk up her drive towards her.

Nessa and Darren had been friends since nursery. They were always there for each other, and told each other everything. Darren was a human, and 5 years ago, Nessa told him about the night world, and herself, how she was hunting down vampires, and also how she was a witch. Together they created a little group of vampire hunters consisting of, her, Darren, Steph, Kimmi, Phil, Peter, Lorren and Simon. Nessa was the leader as she was the only Nightworlder and was the strongest one there in the group. (her witch powers helped with this of course).

Darren had blonde hair that was always spiked up with a thick layer of gel. His eyes were a dark chestnut colour that if you looked into them for long enough, you would get lost in the shining depths. They told no lies, and gave away no secrets. These eyes had seen pain and suffering, love and death. He was wearing blue skater jeans, and a black baggy T-shirt with a blue metallic dragon printed on the front.

+Shit+ she didn't want to see him, not while she was in such a mess. She was always the cool and collected one that let nothing bother her. She wanted to be somewhere where she could gather her thoughts and think things through.

Somewhere alone.

She turned swiftly around, and very quietly attempted to walk back into the shadows of her house.

'Hey Nessa!'

+Shit!+ Too late. He strided up to her.

'Hey whats wrong?' he frowned a look of concern in his eyes that shone through the lamp light. 'Nessa?'

'Darren, it's 1 o' clock in the morning. Why are you here?' she asked trying to evade the subject this was one secret she was keeping to herself. Fortunately she succeeded.

'Well after you left us fighting the leeches that decided to show up after the oh so great /dark one/ did his usual runner, I wanted to make sure you were still alive and kicking considering you went off to kick his ass. I got a bit worried when we were searching the alleys for vampire dust, and found absolutely nothing.'

Nessa jerked her head up at that statement. 'What? I steaked the son of a bitch in the heart! I know I got him and I haven't missed the heart EVER! I saw him fall to the floor. Hell! I even kicked him a few times to make sure he was dead! You must have checked the wrong alleys.'

'OK I'll take your word for it. Steph got badly injured, but everyone else is fine. Thanks for asking.'

'I'm sorry Darren, I've just got something on my mind at the minute. What happened?'

Darren's face darkened at the memory. 'well everything was going fine. We were even winning the fight, until they brought in a werewolf. It pounced on Steph and tore out her stomach. We had to stuff everything back inside her, and take her to the hospital. The Docs say we got her there just in time. They're starting to get suspicious with us keeping on going to the hospital nearly once a week with serious injuries you know.'

'I know. Oh Darren I'm so sorry!' she hugged him. He was the only person (other than her mum that is) who she hugged. Darren had been seeing Stephanie Carter for 3 years, and were really close. Darren still spent most of his time with Nessa though, and Nessa and Steph always shouted at him for doing so.

'Hey she's ok. she'll be fine' he wasn't saying this for Nessa's ears, he was trying to reassure himself that he wasn't going to loose her.

'Of course she will' she added giving him the only amount of reassurance she could. 'I would invite you in to sleep, but me and mum have just had a fight so to speak so.' she trailed off in despair.

'sok, I was planning on going to the hospital anyway. Wait. You and your mum have had a fight?'

She sighed heavily 'yeah'

'God that must be the first time since.' he paused, frowned and looked at the pavement as though that held the answer. 'Well that must be the first time!'

'yeah well there's a first time for everything! I had better get back inside now anyway. Send my regards to Steph and I'll see you soon'

'k see ya' with that Darren turned on his heel and walked down the street leaving nessa to stand and ponder about even more chaos that had occoured.

Well sorry if its short, but that's all ive had time to do!! Ill try and update soon, but I cant promise anything! Review review review!! Plz? Gives puppy dog eyes (as if that'll work!) lol