A/N: The final chapter. Yes I know that I was a REALLY long time between updates and now it seems that I am just putting everything up at once. Well I am, but it is because I feel really bad about the long wait. So here is the last chapter, more talking at the bottom. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: Amelia Atwater-Rhodes owns these characters. I don't, I wish I did, and then I would have written a book
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Sarah had left, Kristopher had not. Without realizing it, Sarah had left a very dangourus vampire with her mother, who was now defenseless, almost too weak to stand. The question now was, would Kristopher kill Dominique, finish where Sarah left off? If it meant protecting his family, protecting Sarah, he would.
"If I leave you, let you return to your life, will you leave me and my family alone, like Sarah asked?" Kristopher had bent to the floor, to be eye leave with her.
Dominique could not promise such a thing. She would not let them live, not for her life. There were others. She was but a pawn in the game. But she would not give up with out a fight. She would resist till the end, not give up her life because some leech thought himself a protector.
"I will not give myself up to you; I will fight you till my last breath. Even then there are others, all willing to keep up the fight. Your family will not be safe, but killing me will not make that come true." Dominique spat out the words, not wanting to be like this, that she was the weak one.
Kristopher knew what he was going to do was wrong, that he should tell someone, leave it be, but he could not help but think that this was the right thing to do. So Nikolas and Krisopher had stuck again, this time taking two Vida witches with them. Adianna would not go after her sister, she had let her go, she could be trusted. Then Kristopher did something he had not done in a long time. He killed. The rush was amazing, he could not think, all he could do was become indulged.
Dominique could feel the icy hands of death grip her, that she was going to die like this, alone. 'How could it end all like this?' She thought. 'How could I give myself up this easily, why did I not fight harder?' And with these thoughts, Dominique Vida succumb to her greatest enemy, death.
Kristopher left her body on the couch that was near by. Making sure to lye her out, make her look peaceful. Adianna would be the one to find her. He felt sorry for her; she had lost all of her family now. Sarah would not be in danger with Adianna as head of the Vida line. They could stay where they were for another couple of years maybe. They would have to be careful, that's all.
There left Kristopher, to go back to his house and see Sarah, make sure that she would be alright. He would tell her about Dominique later, now was not a time to tell Sarah that her mother was dead. It would be too much, not for Sarah to worry about, not now.
He returned home to find Sarah in her room, the party over the minuet the witch had been seen. Nikolas and Nissa were presumably in their rooms, waiting for Sarah to say something. But that could wait, they were safe and they knew it. Right now Kristopher need to talk to Sarah, or Sarah needed to talk to him.
"What you did was stupid you know. Brave and suicidal as well." Kristopher sat down next to Sarah; she seemed to be in a trance, like she was not herself that she was in a place that he could not go. Maybe he should tell her about her mother...no that would be bad, it would add to what she was going through.
He looked at her hand; in it was a piece of paper. What could be on it? Why would she want to write down any of this?
"I ...I...I feed off of my own mother, I felt what she did, I saw her realise that I was dead. She felt something then, but it was not sorrow, it was anger. She felt that I was betraying her, and that since I stayed alive, I was nothing, and I can't believe she would think that." Sarah whispered, leaning on Kristopher's shoulder.
"She was just thinking how she was told to; you did nothing wrong, nothing at all." These words were a small comfort though. He knew that she would never think the same way again, never feel the same about her mother.
"She was right though, and so was I. Sarah Tigress Vida is dead. I can't keep using her name. Maybe in later years I could, but not now. I thought of a way, like what you and Nikolas did." She handed Kristopher the paper she had been holding. On it was a name: Cera.
"You're changing three letters you know, not just one."
"Well, for the three times I lost my magic. I think it fitting don't you?" A more upbeat tone had entered her voice; she was a little happier now.
"Well Cera, what do you want to do then, where do you want to go? You're no longer in danger, at least not for awhile?" Kristopher asked. He kissed the top of her head.
Cera looked into his eyes, she was never going to get used to seeing black eyes all around her, nor was she going to get used to seeing them looking back at her. "I don't know what I want to do. But I know I will not go back to school. Or do anything that is challenging for awhile. After all, I have all the time in the world for that."
A/N: The end. Yes I know I worked the title in again, but I felt like I had too. Do you want a sequel? Where Cera learns of what happened to her mother? Know though, it may take A LONG TIME. You might have to wait till oh say, December for that. And know that it will be a one-shot about her thoughts on the matter. I didn't come up with how to spell Cera, my physics teacher did. If you want a reply on this, leave some way for me to contact you. Also, did anyone else think that Snakecharm was a bit of a let down? I know I did, maybe I could try that...