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His lips were less than an inch away from mine. I was not going to let this happen.

"Ethan, no," I said pushing him away.

His nostrils flared. "Why not?"

"Well, besides my boyfriend, you're covered in blood, so right now the idea of kissing you is kind of gross. No offense," I added.

Ethan looked down at his messy clothing and sighed. "I guess you have a point. So you're still gonna stay with the boyfriend even though he wants me dead huh?"

Oh no. I was not about to let him make me feel guilty. "Olivia and Nicole want you dead too. Should I disown them?"

Ethan grinned playfully, all intensity forgotten. "I'd be very flattered if you did."

I smiled back at him. "I'm going to going to get you some clean clothes. Will you promise me that you'll stay here while I'm gone? You could take a shower and try to wash off all the blood from your skin."

"Sure thing, boss," he said.

I frowned at how well he was cooperating with me. After all, just a few minutes ago he'd been set on having me kill him.

"I'm serious, Ethan. I need to be able to trust you."

"Don't worry about it. I'll stay out of trouble. I promise."

The first thing I did was teleport to a store to get some clothes for Ethan. I laid them out for him in the room, and walked outside to get some fresh air and to think about what I had to do next.

I knew eventually I would have to go back to Anthony's house, and there was nothing stopping my sisters from telling the Administratio that Ethan had been turned into a vampire, which was another problem I hadn't calculated into my plans when I brashly took Ethan to this motel. Even if they did plan on telling people about Ethan, I could at least count on them waiting a while. They'd need to get their story straight. They wouldn't want the other hunters to know that they'd been working with vampires.

Ethan would need blood again soon. I couldn't be his personal blood bank every time. Despite it being convenient, I had a feeling that Ethan wouldn't like that idea too much now that he was more or less himself again. Not to mention the fact that it was excruciatingly painful for me.

The Carsons had to store some blood in their house. That was the only explanation that made sense. I had no idea where they kept it though.

My problems were giving me a headache. I decided to go back to the Carson's house. I would need to face my sisters sometime. Maybe I could convince Anthony to see things my way, and if I couldn't, I was sure Emily would know where they kept the blood.

I made myself invisible and teleported into Anthony's house. I at least wanted to see what they were all doing before I saw them all again.

"This is all your fault," Olivia was fuming, jabbing her finger into Anthony's chest.

Anthony looked at her with stone cold expression on his face. I wasn't used to seeing him like that, and honestly it scared me a bit, but Olivia seemed unfazed.

"Olivia, will you just leave him alone for a minute? You're not helping," Nicole said tiredly.

"Well, neither is anything else. And it is all his fault. Even Evelyn would never go seek out a vampire to be a boyfriend. He's the one who started this mess," Olivia complained.

"He's not the one who turned Emily or Ethan into vampires. He's not the one who killed dad either, so just stop, okay?" Nicole said firmly.

Olivia pursed her lips. It appeared that she had no rebuttal to that.

"I suggest you find your sister quickly," Mark said. "It's really not safe for to be hanging around with a new vampire. He's going to wake up eventually, and he's going to want blood."

"Oh, now you care about her?" Olivia sneered at him. "Thanks for the advice. Really, we didn't think we should find her soon. We were planning on taking our dear sweet time."

"Oh my god, Olivia shut up!" Nicole shouted.

The entire room turned to her. Outbursts were not her thing.

Anthony broke the silence. "Let's go over this again. Where would Evelyn go with an unconscious vampire in tow?"

Nicole took a deep breath. "Somewhere where no one could find her. There are places all over the world that I know she favors when she's hunting, but she wouldn't go there. If she doesn't want to be found she won't be."

Olivia's head snapped up. "You have no idea."

"What are you talking about?" Nicole asked.

"As long as Evelyn doesn't want us to find her we won't be able to. I've been thinking about this for a while now," Olivia said. "Evelyn's power doesn't just stop us from seeing her, it stops us from hearing her and smelling her –

"And sensing her," Anthony finished, understanding dawning on his face.

"Exactly," Olivia said.

Personally, I found this whole revelation confusing. Of course, my power stopped them from being able to sense me. If it didn't, my power would be all but useless. Thankfully, I didn't seem to be the only having trouble following Olivia and Anthony's line of thought.

"So what?" Nicole asked.

"Don't you see?" Olivia asked, as though it should be obvious. "Evelyn's power isn't invisibility. She's able to cut herself off from the senses. She's been able to go through solid objects a few times too, hasn't she?"ahfiejf

"She's only able to do that when she's invisible," Nicole said.

"That's not true. How come you never sensed her with the vampire while they were at school together? And when I found her with Anthony on their little date, I couldn't sense them at all. I didn't even pay much attention to it because I saw them quickly, but now that I think about it I couldn't sense either of them. Her power was blocking me," Olivia explained.

"I don't understand how she's doing it though," Nicole said. "I'm pretty sure she doesn't know that she can do that."

"I don't think she does," Anthony said. "When I was staying at the hotel, she listened to us talking about Juana's death. If she was close enough to hear us, she was close enough for us to sense her, but none of us did."

"So how does she do it?" Emily asked.

Emily had been sitting on the couch with her head in her hands – clearly stressed out – while Eric rubbed soothing circles on her back. It seemed the current conversation had piqued her interest and now she was staring at everyone, waiting for an explanation.

"I think it's an unconscious desire to keep from getting caught," Olivia said. "I don't think anyone ever really questioned the possibilities that come with Evelyn's power because no one ever realized she was using her power without being invisible, not even her.

Anthony fingers were kneading his forehead, something I knew he did to when something was bothering him. "I actually think someone did realize it," he said. "Lucas."

"Why do you think that?" Emily asked.

"Because he wants her power," Nicole answered softly. "Dammit."

"How would he figure that out though?" Emily wondered. "It's not like he's spent a lot of time around her. If he really does think that, then it has to just be a hunch."

"Actually, he's spent a decent amount of time around her. She's kind of lucky when it comes to him. Every time she sees him she manages to get away alive, and I think it's been twice now that she's stabbed him. He must have realized that he can't sense her, and that's how she gets so close to him," Nicole said.

"This revelation is all good and well, everyone, but this doesn't change the fact that she's on her own with a new vampire. If anything this just means it'll be harder to find her than we thought," Mark said.

Olivia raised an eyebrow. "Are you worried about her now? I thought her existence was reason for all the misery in your life."

Mark glared at her, but before he could say anything Nicole cut in. "Don't start you guys."

"I think we should agree to help her with Ethan," Anthony said.

"Wow, you're ready to give in that fast?" Olivia sneered at him. "My sister really has you wrapped around her little finger, doesn't she?"

Anthony ignored her, instead preferring to talk to Nicole. "It's really not safe for a hunter to have so many vampire friends. I wanted him dead to keep her safe, but now if helping him is the only way to do that, then I don't really have a choice."

"That's all good and well," Eric said. "But we still have the little problem of not knowing where she is. Your girlfriend really knows how to make trouble."

Anthony shrugged. "She has to come back sometime, doesn't she?"

"Great, so is there another vampire we have to take care of now?" Olivia asked scathingly.

Emily's face fell and she looked away, but I don't think Olivia noticed.

"You're ready to help Ethan now?" Nicole asked, surprised. I had to admit, I was too.

"If it gets your hardheaded sister back, so we can carry on with our original plans to get rid of Lucas, I can deal with another vampire." Olivia looked around at the vampires in the room distastefully. "…I suppose."

At this point in the conversation, I decided to teleport back to the hotel. I'd heard enough, and now I'd be getting what I wanted. And the revelation about my power was…interesting. I had to admit I was a little embarrassed that I'd had the power my whole life, but Olivia was the one to realize what I could really do with it.

Standing in the motel room was Ethan…shirtless. I instantly covered my eyes with my hand and turned to face the opposite direction.

"Sorry, I should have knocked," I said.

Ethan chuckled softly from behind me. "Relax, you can turn around now. I'm decent."

I turned to face him, ready to tell him off if he made fun of me for blushing, but I was sidetracked by the sight of him. Now, all cleaned up and well fed, vampire Ethan looked pretty good. He actually looked better than good.

I'd always thought of Ethan as boyishly handsome, even baby faced. I never understood why girls at school seemed to fawn over him, other than the whole mysterious quality I guess being a vampire hunter had given him. That and the fact that I considered him to be the brother I'd never had.

Becoming a vampire enhanced looks. After all, being beautiful was what made them deadly predators, but it was strange seeing Ethan look so different yet the same. His face and body in general seemed to have taken on a more chiseled appearance, and all the more human problems, like acne and scars, had disappeared.

Apparently, I'd stared at him for too long because he said, "Like what you see? I'd forgotten that vampires were your type."

I rolled my eyes. "Don't start with me."

"Fine, what's the plan? Have you figured out how you're going to save me yet?"

I took a deep breath. "Well, it needs some fine tuning, but long story short we're going to go back to Anthony's house. I don't think everyone's so eager to kill you anymore."

"Really? Why would you think that?"

I told him about what I'd while I was eavesdropping at the Carsons house. "So I guess I'll go in first, and I'll talk to them about everything, and then I'll bring you and –"

"No," Ethan said firmly.

"No?"

"No," he repeated. "This may surprise you, Evy, but I'm not exactly thrilled about being your boyfriend's charity case."

"Ugh, will you get over it? If you want to survive you're going to have to swallow your pride, okay?"

Ethan crossed his arms and glared at me. "No. I don't want anything to do with him. You do realize that if you weren't dating him we wouldn't be in this mess? I wouldn't be in this mess."

He had me there. It was partly my fault that he'd been turned into a vampire.
"And how do you know they weren't just saying that stuff about helping me to lure you back. They might have suspected that you'd come back and be able to hear them," Ethan said.

I thought about that. Was I really that predictable? I didn't think I was. The more I thought about it, the more unlikely the idea of them tricking me seemed.

"They were leaving a lot to chance if they were planning on tricking me," I said. "How could they have known when I'd show up? They were right about my power – it does conceal me from their senses."

The idea of the new possibilities with my power gave me a kind of euphoric feeling. I would have to practice with it and once I mastered it, I'd be a much better hunter. I was so caught up with idea of how I could surprise the other hunters, that it took me a while to notice the sullen look on Ethan's face.

"Yeah, your power, great," he muttered.

I'd forgotten – and it was one of the most insensitive things I'd ever done – that Ethan no longer had his power. It was something that still bothered Emily, and I knew I wouldn't be able to come up with the right words to say. After all, I couldn't imagine losing my power. It would be like losing a limb.

"Vampires still have super speed," I said hesitantly. "They can move faster than hunters. At least you still have that. Emily completely lost hers."

"It's not the same," Ethan said, dropping onto the hard mattress of the bed in the room. He sat hunched over, clearly miserable.

"What do you mean?" I asked softly. I wasn't sure he'd want to talk about it. Emily tended to avoid the subject, often plastering on a false smile and insisting that she was okay.

He looked up at me. "It's hard to explain…When I had my power it was like I'd flick on a switch and automatically be able to move faster. As a vampire, I have to work hard to push myself toward it. It's just different, and I don't move nearly as fast as I did."

"Maybe that's just because you're new at this. Once you're being fed blood regularly and you've gotten used to being a vampire I'm sure…" I trailed off because Ethan didn't appear to be really listening to me. His eyes were glazed over, and he was nodding mechanically. I could tell he didn't believe me.

"How about I ask Emily to teach you the ways of being a vampire?" I asked, inspiration striking me. "You two have a lot in common. She'll be able to help you better than anyone."

Ethan's face was still set in a frown. He was obviously determined to be difficult about this, but I had him. He had no reason to have any problem with Emily.

"Fine," he grumbled.

"Good," I said, relieved. "But that still means you have to go to the Carsons' house." He opened his mouth to argue, but I continued before he could speak. "Emily lives there. It's the only way you can see her."

After some more complaining from him, and threats from me, I finally got him to agree to go peacefully. His only other option would be for me to tie him up and drag him there by force, and I was glad that he realized this.

We decided that it would I would talk to everyone first, and find out for sure whether they were serious about keeping him alive, and then I would come back to the motel and bring him there.

When I teleported back into the middle of Anthony's living room, everyone was still there, and their reaction at my entrance was pure shock.

Olivia jumped out of her seat and pushed me. "What the hell? Where have you been?"

Nicole stood up too. "Evelyn, you can't do stuff like that. We were so worried. Where's Ethan? Please don't tell me you left a hungry vampire by himself."

Anthony looked relieved at my return, but he kept his distance, obviously unsure about how to approach me. That was for the better. I didn't even know if I was still mad at him or not, but we still had a lot of things to talk about, and I preferred to have that discussion to be in private.

"Ethan's fine," I said. "Look, were you guys serious before about keeping Ethan alive?"

"How'd you know about that?" Olivia asked suspiciously. "And doesn't Ethan need blood?"

"Hello? I'm the one who can be invisible, remember? I told you Ethan's fine. I gave him some of my blood." I told them about how I'd heard them talking.

Both Nicole and Olivia looked fairly disgusted at the idea of me willingly offering up my blood for a vampire to drink, and I prayed that they didn't say anything about it. I had a feeling Olivia was dying to tell me that I was getting closer and closer to becoming a vampire myself.

"Congratulations, you're getting everything you want," Olivia said. She seemed to want to move the conversation along to something else because she wasn't half as snide as I'd expected her to be about this. "Now bring Ethan over here so we can move on from this problem and tell you about the part of the conversation you weren't smart enough to stick around for."

"What part?"

"We think we have a way to kill Lucas," Nicole said.