Part 3a

That morning Liz had not wanted to rise, she was lethargic and could barely open her eyes, let alone keep them open. All she wanted to do was curl up tight underneath her covers and wait till nightfall for the arrival of her midnight visitor. But ultimately her dedication to school won out and she managed to drag her heavy feeling body out of bed and dress.

Shuffling to the kitchen she sees a note her parents left her telling her that they had already departed for a day long restaurant convention in Albuquerque. The note told her that they assistant manager her father had hired a year ago was going to open the restaurant so Liz wouldn't have to worry about it, and for that she was thankful. Liz didn't think she'd have enough energy to yawn at the end of the day let alone open the restaurant up.

After she has five cups of coffee she begins to feel more like a human and less like a zombie. Liz had a feeling that she knew why she was out of it. If from what she remembers about vampires and turning into one, Dracula had taken far more blood then what she drank from him.

Liz chuckles slightly to herself, she would have figured that she'd be in denial about the whole vampire thing. But she guesses that living with aliens makes a lot more things possible to believe. She wonders if there are really werewolves, mummies that come to life, and Frankenstein creatures. That's something she might have to ask Dracula about later.

When she left her house for school the sun was too bright for her and she had to go back inside and get her sunglasses. While striding down the sidewalk on the way to her bus she thinks about how she would feel if she became a vampire. She kind of likes the idea, you get to stay young forever, never have a blemish on your skin, you can learn everything because you'd live forever. But then again—you would also have to watch your friend's and family shrivel up and die while you remained the same.

Walking down the halls of Roswell High School Liz is still in a slight daze and she almost walks right past her locker. This morning when she woke up she found the bite mark that had been left on her neck was healing rather quickly—a lot quicker than a hickey would have. Where she had two little holes in her neck the night before she now has a black and blue bruise.

Shrugging her backpack off Liz opens it and begins to place her books into the locker; they felt like they weighed a ton. After placing all the books into her locker she just stand there for a moment and gazes blankly at all the books piled haphazardly around the small containment area. The bell ringing was the only thing that snapped Liz out of her stupor.

Grabbing the book for her math class she hurries to the room barely making it before the second bell rang. Till lunch she managed to avoid the entire group, at this moment the last thing she wanted was to talk to anybody…that included her friends.

Liz still doesn't know what she's going to do when she sees Max or Tess. She doesn't really blame Tess…not really. It's not Tess's fault that Max couldn't resist her, apparently he has a thing for blondes…Liz saw how Max took long glances at some of the big breasted blondes that walked around the school.

Liz never got jealous because she knew that Max was with her, it's not like she never looked at other guys, it's natural to look at the opposite sex even if your seeing someone. But she never would have thought that Max would have cheated on her with anybody, obviously she was wrong.

At lunch she saw Max looking around the quad for her, she thought about going over there, sporting the black and blue hickey on her neck but she really didn't want to deal with Max right now. So instead she went to library and ate her lunch there while reading up on vampires, the legends, the myths, everything, including more about Dracula.

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Part 3 B

The Quad; Lunch time

"Maxwell, what are you doing?" Michael strides up behind Max whose not paying the least bit of attention to him.

"Huh?" Max speaks distractedly. He's been trying to find Liz all day, he needed to talk to her about Tess and how he had a flash with her…but that would mean he would also have to tell her about the kiss their shared.

"I asked you what are you doing, but by the wondering of your eyes I already know." Michael plops down across from Max shaking his head, he knows Maxwell is going to tell Liz about the flash he had with Tess…and that has got to be the dumbest thing he could do. What partial thinking male would tell the girl whom he thinks is the love of his life that he had a flash with some other chick…the chick that the love of your life hates?

Max continues to look around the quickly filling quad, if he couldn't find Liz at school he'd wait for her at the Crash he knew she had to work today after school. And her parents were out of town for two days so they wouldn't be glaring at him for waiting till Liz closed. No matter what he would talk to her today.

History Class

Liz had forgotten about her history class, in history she has almost everyone from the 'I Know An Alien Club' with her, the only person no a student in that class is Tess, at the moment she has math…last I remembered. As of now Max and Maria are trying to get her attention both for their own reasons.

Maria to talk about her latest Michael crisis and to find out why Liz hadn't called last night like she promised. And Max to try to get Liz to meet him somewhere and to question her on the hickey that's visible on her neck…the one he knows he didn't put there.

Today was so of a free day in class, their normal teacher was out today with some sort of illness, and in his place was a fresh faced just out of college woman. The five cups of coffee from this morning is quickly wearing off and Liz can feel the dryness of her eyes every time she blinks. It's becoming a chore to keep her eyes open so she can read up on vampires.

When she sees Dracula tonight she wants to ask questions about their abilities, if there are different kinds of vampires, not to mention if she's going to be on the dinner menu in the near future, and if she is if she could at least be turned to a vampire so she's not dead.

Maria finally tired of being ignored leans in close to Liz to whisper into her ear. "Liz how come you didn't call last night? I had major Spaceboy gripage to get out…and I couldn't exactly talk to Alex about this stuff. Well, I could but he wouldn't listen to me."

Deciding that she can't keep what happened last night a secret from her best friend she turns her whole body in her desk so she's facing Maria. "I was a little busy last night and I couldn't really find the motivation to call you afterwards, all I wanted to do was sleep."

She watches as her blonde haired friend's eyes go wide as saucers, Maria saw the fresh hickey that graced her unblemished neck. "Whoa. So did you and Max fix what was going on…wait what am I saying of course you did after all that hickey speaks volumes." Maria grins wide.

"No, Maria it wasn't Max that gave me this love bite, in fact last night Max kissed Tess, I saw them out through the Crash window. And this was right after he told me that I was the only woman he wanted, and the woman he loved." Liz confides to Maria, she knows that Max can't hear her, he's too far away, and even if he were close enough he wouldn't be able to hear her because of the dull roar in the classroom.

But to be honest, she doesn't really care if he hears. As far as she's concerned that chapter of her life is over for good.

"Oh honey, I'm so sorry about Max…but then how did you get the…" she motions to her own neck.

"Umm, that part I'm going to have to tell you later. Like when we're not in a classroom full of our peers." Liz grins at her long time friend, feeling a little relief at telling someone what happened last night…even if it was only a small part.

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Part 3 C

Still In History Class

Glancing up at the clock above the door Liz sees that she still has 30 minutes left of history. She didn't think that this day would take so long to be over. All she wanted to do was go home, wait for nightfall and have Dracula sweep her off her feet.

Liz rubs at her eyes and yawns her body trying it's best to stay awake when a beautiful blonde woman dressed in black leather pants and a burgundy top comes gliding into the room instantly enrapturing all the males in the room. Her eyes, which are a vibrant green, immediately fall onto Liz and a gleam flashes quickly deep in her eyes.

The substitute teacher, who had asked us to call her Erica, stands smirking at the blonde woman as if she knows exactly why she is here. "Are you here because of…" she trails off not wanting to give away too much to the class she's teaching.

"Yes, I'm here to see Elizabeth Parker." The visitor has a deep and husky voice that causes the male population of the history class to think of hot nights between the sheets with the woman. "I wouldn't have thought that you had heard anything about it…after your change I figured you never wanted to see or hear from any of us again?" Kitty questions her once close friend.

While yes Erica was a substitute teacher…now, before she was a vampire, but she became bored with seeing the same face everyday and only existing in darkness. So she went to a powerful shaman one night that turned her back to a mortal.

Most of Kitty's kind looks down on mortals, they are considered lesser beings that need to be dominated. Not that she doesn't mind a good mortal every once in a while but she prefers her own kind. But now that Erica changed back to a mortal she was even more of an outcast, the majority of the vampires felt that Erica needed to be killed to keep their secret from the public. Fortunately for her the council members felt that Erica could keep the vampires secret.

"Are you kidding Kitty, The Prince chooses a lifemate that's not something that travels quietly." Erica tells the vampire. "So why exactly are you here?"

"I'm here to give Miss Parker some gifts from the Prince." Kitty turns to the brown haired girl who is staring at the two women with wonderment and confusion in her eyes.

The women had not been keeping their conversation quiet, so the class now knew that a Prince was vying for her attention and that these women were/are a part of a secret group. This was stuff that she would have rather kept hidden but now there's no point…the only good thing was that nobody knew it was the Dark Prince Dracula and that he's a vampire.

"Kitty, you're not known for being a messenger…even if it is for the Prince." Erica states curious as to why Kitty would be delivering things, the one thing she hates more than anything is to be subservient. She had a problem with that when she mortal, and when she became a vampire that dislike grew.

"For a few reasons, one I wanted to see Elizabeth for myself, two the Prince asked me to go shopping for her, and three he's taken care of me when I needed it…it's the least I could do." A shadow crosses Kitty's face, Erica knows something had happened to Kitty but it was something that even her, one of Kitty's closest friends didn't know what caused the dark shadow in her eyes.

"Would you rather talk to Miss Parker outside?" Erica questions changing the subject.

"No, the Prince wants to stake his claim if you will." Kitty's thankful that Erica changed the subject. The last thing she wanted to think about right now was the fact that she was betrayed by the vampire that made her.

He had told her that her mortal family would remain safe after she had been turned centuries ago, but he lied and killed them himself. Told her later that wild dogs mauled them and that he was too late to save them.

Kitty believed him, she had no reason not to. Till one night he became drunk off one of his victims and began to spout off about all his kills…one of being her family. That was the last night he had ever seen, she killed him, in the most violent and vengeful ways imaginable. Afterwards she went to Dracula who took her in for months, caring for her, helping her. Vampires take care of their own, have since the beginning.

"Alright, I surrender the class to you for a brief while…make sure it is brief." Erica grins taking her seat at her desk content to watch the show play out.

Kitty smiles at her friend than turns toward Elizabeth, she practically glides over to Liz and a secretive gleam enters her eyes. Stopping in front of Liz her grin widens showing her sharp eye teeth confirming Liz's suspicions of what this Kitty is.

"Elizabeth Parker, I'm Katherine Trueblood but you can call me Kitty. The Prince has told me so much about you." Kitty puts her hand out for Liz to shake which she immediately does.

"It's nice to meet you Kitty." Liz and Kitty share a secret smirk that causes the already confused faces of her classmates to become even more confused that they look like they don't know which way is up.

Granted there are a few people in the class who could care less who Liz was talking too. But for the majority of the people Liz and her stunning guest had their undivided attention. They wanted to know whom the Prince was and why he was after small town girl Liz Parker.

"Now, the Prince asked me to purchase some gifts for you for tonight. He will be picking you up 8 o'clock if you say yes that is. And he would love it if you wore what I have picked out." Kitty continues to smile, she loves shopping, for her it's a natural high.

"Yes for seeing him this evening, and a maybe to wearing what you bought, because while I love your style I don't know if it's me." Liz reluctantly tells her, she highly doubts that she could pull off what Kitty's wearing.

"Oh don't be ridiculous, besides you will love the dresses I bought. I purchased a few so you could choose which one you liked better." She assures her, "As we speak they are being delivered to your home."

"Did Dr…the Prince pick out anything himself?" Liz wonders if he just sends people out to get what they think would look good on his women and doesn't put any thought into it himself.

"Yes, he picked out 3 items, which by the way he never does. He's sure or at least mostly sure that you'll love them, he just sent me to pick them up. So enough chatter." Kitty walks over to the door and speaks to someone outside, seconds later a small man strides into the room carrying three small wrapped packages.

He places the gifts in front of Liz, bows, than leaves without saying a word. Liz glances at the boxes somewhat confused, she doesn't know whether to open them now or wait till she doesn't have so many people peeking over her shoulder.

Kitty makes the decision for her, "Well don't just stare at them…open them." Dracula had made it very clear to her that the boys of Liz's school were to know that she was taken. And since Dracula can't come out in daylight and claim her himself, it has to be done via extravagant gifts.

Not needing to be told twice Liz tears through the first package, inside was the most gorgeous necklace that she had lain eyes on. The chain was made of diamonds and garnets, under the diamonds were medium sized teardrop diamonds, and in the center was a quarter sized garnet dangling down elegantly.

"Oh my God, this is beautiful." She turns the gift over to Maria automatically so she can get a good look at it.

Quickly Liz opens the next two boxes to find two different sets of garnet and diamond earrings, and diamond and garnet bracelet.

"Can you tell him that I love the jewelry?"

"Of course, so the limo will pick you up at 8:00 p.m. Now if you need some questions answered that you don't really want to ask the Prince," she takes out a business card, it's black with red and silver lettering, and hands it to her, "just give me a ring and I'll answer them for you. Have a wonderful time tonight." Kitty winks at Liz and leaves the room quietly and swiftly.

Maria leans over for the second time that day to whisper in her ear. "You and I are so going to have to talk about this Prince guy after school. I want many details." Maria grins both elated for her friend but also upset that she hadn't told her anything about anything till she asked about it.

"How about this, tonight you can help me get ready for my date and I'll tell you about everything…or almost everything." Liz blushes at the memory of what Dracula did to her. She could hardly wait for this evening.

TBC