To Jump or Not to Jump. That is the question!

Kristopher sat perched on top of the mountain, peering across the ravine at Resika, who stood balanced on the point of another mountain. Her golden gaze dragged across his skin like a razor blade, and he snickered at her in spite of himself. "What are you going to do Risika? Stand there all day and moan and groan about how horrible your life is. Or are you going to jump?" He cocked his head somewhat to the left and stared at her coldly.

Risika, shifted her possision somewhat and staggered on the mountains tip, for a moment, though Kristopher wouldn't have believed it had he not seen it himself, the young vampiress looked scared. She stared daggers across the ravine at Kristopher, who meerly shrugged in return. "I'll have you know, I will jump in my own good timing and I would think you to keep your mouth closed because you are not nearly as brave as you clame to be yourself."

Kristopher rolled his eyes, and smiled crookedly at Risika, "Says the vampiress who is running from Aubrey's wrath, and thinks that jumping off a mountain is easier than what Aubrey will do to you." He laughed coldly at Risika, "You know if you weren't so charming I would have gotten rid of you myself, long before now."

Risika cocked her eyebrow at the statement and apparated with a pop over to where Kristopher was standing, "Is that so?" She yelled into his face, "And just what is stopping you then?"

Kristopher smiled at her and nudged her back, "Aubrey is. He has claim on you and I would dare not defy him. Aubrey took me in, afterall, which is more than I can say for you."

"Yes, you're Aubrey's new little lap dog huh? Now I remember, yes, you are uniting to overthrow me, you and your brother, whats his name?"

"Nikolas." Kristopher hissed and shoved her away.

Risika laughed and took the blow in stride, "Yes, Nikolas, Well I tell you this Kristopher, you will not succeed, I've beaten Aubrey once before, and I will do it again. And this time anyone who gets in my way will feel my wrath!" She shoved Kristopher backwards and smiled coldly at him, "If you do not wish to suffer the consequence, then I advise you to stay out of my way."

"Risika, you never change do you?" The voice came from behind them, and Risika froze on the spot, Kristopher laughed as Risika turned ever so slowly to face the intruder, "Now, now, don't look so terrified Risika, did you think I would never challenge you again?" It was Aubrey, standing cooly behind her, in black shirt and pants his pale skin glowing in the moonlight. And at his side was none other than Jessica.

"Oh you," Risika said icily staring down at Jessica, who meerly smiled and flashed her new fangs, Risika paled even more than her normal ivory color and shook her long blonde mane out of her eyes.

Kristopher was laughing heartily now, so hard that Risika was sure that his head would explode from the pressure, she backed away and tripped on a rock, barely regaining her balance before she went over the side. Jessica looked at her from beneath dark lashes, "Aubrey wishes to kill you, Risika." She smiled belligerently, "You were a good character in the books I wrote, before Aubrey told me other wise not to, but I don't like you all that much anyway." She tapped the case of her lap top and opened it, then sifted through a file until she found a book she had started at the top of the page in bold letters it read: Risika's Story, "Consider yourself deleted!" Jessica hissed and hit the delete key.

Risika sputtered for a moment and when nothing happened she smiled victoriously. A low growl was heard behind them and a mountain lion charged past Jessica, Aubrey, and Nikolas and barreled into Risika, she let out a startled, "Oh." Before toppling over the side. For a moment as shocked silence wafted through the still night air, and Risika's body hit the rocks at the bottom of the ravine, the lion sat licking its paws. Suddenly it morphed into Nikolas who stood and stared at the rest of them.

Aubrey laughed, "I should have known it was you."

Nikolas shrugged, "She was getting on my nerves, I wondered if she was ever going to shut up and jump and when she didn't I figured I'd do it myself." He brushed his hair back and smiled crookedly at his twin brother, "Though I must say, Kristopher was doing a pretty good job of thoroughly unraveling that prescious little resolve she has." He winked at Kristopher and the four of them apparated and dissappeared into the night.