The Blood Clan and the Marauders

Chapter 9: The Truth is Sometimes Painful

By the time they had reached the castle, Sirius and Elizabeth were soaked. They stopped in the entrance hall, trying to dry themselves. For a moment, the girl ignored her friend concentrating on her clothes and hair as he glared at her. After sighing heavily, she dried herself with a spell. Sirius simply stood there, ignoring the fact that he was completely wet from head to toes. Elizabeth gave him a side glance and turned completely away from him.

"We should go to class." she tried to suggest with a cheerful voice.

"I'm still waiting for an explanation, Elizabeth." the boy declared, ignoring what she had just said.

He wore a grim, slightly dangerous, look that made her somewhat unnerved as she looked back at him. She laughed nervously, but stopped when he crossed his arm with a determined attitude. She understood the subtitle message: "You won't get away with not telling me."

"Elizabeth, what the fuck is going on in this god damn school and with these Slytherin assholes?"

"I...They..."

"And don't lie. I hate hypocrites and the likes of them." Sirius warned the girl.

She opened her mouth, but closed it without a sound, biting her bottom lip. She felt like crying, as if some greater power was against her, but she knew that she couldn't just run away. Even if she did, it would screw everything up, so there was no point to doing that.

Sirius frowned at the silent girl. What was the big deal? He didn't care if she knew Slytherins. Hell! He was related to some. She was so overdramatic. Yet, he couldn't hate her for it, just like he couldn't hate Lily for being so stuck up sometimes.

"I want to tell you, but I really can't, Sirius. You'll never believe me!" she exclaimed, "And if you do, it'll be even worst."

"Try me." he said in a low voice that reminded Elizabeth of a growling dog.

She looked at him and wondered how she could have just been joking with him only a short while ago. She remembered their game and wondered why she was attracted to this peculiar human teenager. He could be somewhat of a bully and showed a hint of malice. She almost laughed bitterly at that thought. No. Malice was a word for creatures such as her. He wasn't evil in the least. Sure, he could do some bad things, but never in the simple goal of doing evil. She shook those thoughts away, coming back to the present moment.

The boy in front of her awaited an answer impatiently. He was confused and trying to understand what could be happening. For someone his age, he had went through a lot, mostly with his family and friends, but he couldn't grasp this girl's thought patterns or personality. She was very secretive and seemed to be hiding a side of her. One that was darker than the one she showed, just as he hid the more caring and humanitarian side of his personality under the bad boy facade he only let down in front of his best friends.

"Sirius..I.'ll tell you." Elizabeth gave in, not seeing any use to hiding the truth anymore.

She would have to escape from the wizards, the werewolves and the vampires, but she didn't know what else to do. They would all come after her no matter what she did. She was stuck.

"However, you must let me finish before you say or do anything."

"Fine. Whatever." he muttered, leaning on the wall, his wet bangs falling in his face. "I promise I won't."

"Thanks." she whispered, looking around to make sure nobody was around. "Couldn't we go somewhere priv..."

"No. You tell me right now, right here."

"I...alright." She paused, wondering what exactly to tell him and where to begin, turning her head away. "The three new Slytherin students have probably come to search for an ancient artifact. I'm not sure who sent them, but I know they're evil, Sirius. And they aren't human. Their werewolves, I'm sure of it. I was myself sent for the same reason by my..."tutor", if you can call her that. However, I don't like the clan at all...and they don't like me either. I don't want to serve them, but I'm scared of them. They're vampires! My father was one, too...I-I'm half-vampire, but everything else I said, about being friends, it's true!"

She turned her gaze back towards Sirius to find him looking at her with shock registered all over his face. His eyes were as round as Galleons and his mouth hanged slightly opened.

"You're kidding me, aren't you?" he managed to ask.

"No. I'm sorry. I...I should have told you earlier."

She summoned her vampire blood, her canines sharpening into fangs. She flashed them at him and then ran away before he could say or do a single thing. He was left alone in the entrance hall, very confused. He shook his head and hit his forehead with his palm.

"Why couldn't I have just one normal thing happen in my life?" He looked up at the ceiling as if addressing some omniscient being. "Why the hell did she have to be a vampire-girl? This complicate things...a lot!"

Once again, a very short-chapter. I thought you'd prefer to have a shorter one than having to wait a long time for a long one. Hehehe.

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