AN: Okay, last thing to fix before I can actually start on the new chapter. What a pain this is.

Part 4

True to her word, even though she hadn't said it, Lea made her was down the stairs an hour later.

"Ah, I was wondering when you were going to show up." Nissa said happily. Christopher was cuddled on the couch with Sarah, and Nissa was sitting in the chair by the door. There was an empty chair by the large black chair that Nikolas was sitting in. Lea growled and took the seat, refusing to look at him.

Everyone seemed to notice the tension between the two. Sarah ruled it as it being Nikolas. Nissa thought she didn't know her well enough, and Christopher thought in all due time. Nikolas thought she needed a little persuasion, and Lea KNEW that she wasn't going to warm up to him any time soon.

"So…" Nissa said, when Lea refused to say anything, and Nikolas was having to much fun sneaking leering looks at her, wanting her to snap. She was pretty close to it as it was. Nissa looked for a moment, and then continued.

"I told you Nikolas was my brother… he and Christopher are my only siblings."

"Yes." Lea answered. She didn't mean to be cold to Nissa, and she knew that she would understand exactly why she was acting like she was. She was trying to get out of the room. The thing was, Nissa was having none of it

"Yes, well, Nikolas and Christopher used to be famous, you know. Everyone feared them." Sarah tried adding. She saw the interest flash through Lea's eyes. However, Nissa threw her a dirty look.

"I don't want her to know the bad things!" Nissa said, the dirty look intensifying with each word, and the smile that Sarah tossed her.

"I should have guessed. Let me think, Christopher was the innocently blinded victim of the whole situation, and Nikolas was the one who tortured the puppies?" Lea threw him a rather devilish smirk. Score one for her.

Nikolas, however, had other plans. "Yes, especially those little rat dogs. They screamed the most." His grin was just as nasty as hers.

"Nikolas!" Nissa said.

"I suppose you ate kittens too then?" Lea said, disgust in her eyes. Only contempt for this vampire.

"No, I preferred the rabbits." He tilted his head sideway, and then added. "I enjoyed marking people. You ever been marked?"

And, happily rescued from having to lie between her teeth, Sarah saved her. "That jerk marked me." She pushed up her sleeves, showing her the marks. Christopher looked at them with a little disdain, and then threw his brother a dirty look. Nikolas actually managed to scrounge up an innocent look. If she didn't hate him, Lea would have found it cute.

But she hated him.

"Well, Lea has been training, and she's actually rather talented." Nissa said, trying to once again steer the conversation in a direction that would make Lea and Nikolas at least tolerate each other.

"She is, is she? She doesn't look that tough." He commented with a laugh.

She stood. "I'll show you exactly how tough I am, if you'd like Nikky." She growled his name. He just smirked.

"Someone's loosing." He murmured. She let out an exasperated sigh, and sat back down.

Their other three companions looked at the two as if they had sprouted extra heads. Their attitudes were disturbing. They hated each other, and, taken that everyone knew Nikolas wasn't exactly the easiest person to get along with, and Lea was one antisocial chick, this was STILL odd.

"Look you two…" Christopher began….

"No you look," Lea started, and Sarah cut her off.

"Lea, you'll have to get used to him…"

"Yes, Lea, get you'll used to me."

"I don't think so, you little blood bag."

"I do. We are, after all, roomies."

A dirty glance was then thrown between the two. Lea stood, and, zipping her jacket, headed for the door.

"Where are you going?" Nissa cried in disdain. Lea looked over her shoulder.

"Walk. Maybe when I cool off, and his ego is deflated, we can talk." And with that, she went out the door. Nikolas stood.

"You know, you could have at least tried to get along with her." All three coursed at him at once. He looked at them.

"I didn't hear you insisting that she try to please me." He actually pouted. Nissa laughed.

"Poor baby, roomie doesn't like him." She said, standing. "Well, she'll come around."

Christopher looked at him. "It will take a while, but she will." Sarah tugged on his arm.

"I'm tired." He nodded, and the walked out of the room.

"I think I'll just stay down here and wait for her to come back so we can have a little talk." Nissa said, and Nikolas nodded, walking upstairs… and exiting out the window. He was going to have his own little talk with the Vixen.

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AN: Finally through with the editing. I feel better now.