Chapter 5
Atlanta could feel her heart beat accelerate as she looked down at the girl that her and Archie had hit with his car, her leg was still bent at an unhealthy angle, and Atlanta couldn't tell if she was breathing or not, holding her breath Atlanta picked up the girl's wrist and waited, a few seconds later she felt a pulse but from what she could tell it wasn't very strong.
"Archie, can't you go any faster?" Atlanta asked fighting back tears she didn't want to see anything happen to this girl, she didn't look any older then thirteen, and he parents would be worried.
"I'm going as fast as I can" Archie said although Atlanta felt the car accelerate as the words left his mouth, "does she have any ID?"
Atlanta looked down at the girl's pockets; she was wearing skin tight jeans, and didn't have a purse or anything on her, "I don't think so."
Archie didn't say anything he just nodded.
A few minutes later Archie pulled into the hospital parking in the emergency entrance, something he wouldn't normally do but he had to get help for this girl right away, "stay here," he said turning in his seat to face Atlanta, "I'll be right back."
Atlanta nodded as Archie got out of the car and ran inside the hospital, while she was waiting for Archie to come back the girl opened her eyes, and looked up at Atlanta.
"Who?" She managed to whisper, and Atlanta could see that she was going to pass out again.
"Shh" Atlanta said stroking her hair gently, "you'll be OK, I promise." Atlanta wasn't sure if the girl could even understand her, but if she could then she wanted her to know that she was going to be OK, maybe it would help her recover from being hit by a car.
"Here we are!" Came Archie's voice as he opened the back door of the car, and Atlanta could see that there were three doctors with him and a stretcher.
"OK it looks like a broken leg." One of the doctors said looking at the other two, "we're going to have to move her very carefully."
Atlanta watched fighting the urge to pull the girl close to her chest again and never let her go, but this was where this girl needed to be that way they could call her parents, and she could recover.
Once the doctors had her out of the car, two of them ran inside pushing the stretcher, the last doctor turned to face Archie, and Atlanta, who had just gotten out of the car.
"OK they're going to want to ask you two some questions, so once you move your car please come inside."
"Alright." Archie said taking the keys out of his pocket.
"I'm just going to head right in." Atlanta said, as Archie opened the driver's side door.
"You sure?"
"Yeah, I'll meet you inside." Atlanta said turning and walking inside the hospital.
When Odie opened his eyes he couldn't believe how much pain he was in, his throat was burning, true in his dream that he had just woken up from her had tasted human blood, and man did it ever taste good!
"Odie?" Came Anna's voice from the hallway.
To Odie's surprise he growled instead of inviting her in.
"Odie are you alright?" Anna asked opening his door slightly.
"What?!" Odie yelled and growled taking Anna off guard.
"Odie what's gotten into you?"
"I'm thirsty!" Odie said growling.
Anna couldn't believe how much Odie changed, when she had woken him up he was this sweet guy who happened to be a vampire, now he was a jerk who was a vampire, but it was for her daughter, that's what Anna had to keep telling herself.
"Um OK, let's go hunting." Anna said not sure what else to say.
"I want human blood!" Odie yelled unable to hold back his thirst anymore, jumping out of his bed he ran past Anna, and out the front door.
"Odie!" Anna called running to the front door watching as he ran out of sight.
"Well that worked better than I expected." Cassandra said from the couch in the living room.
"Yeah…" Anna said sighing.
"I thought this was what you wanted?" Cassandra said unsure.
"It is Cassandra," Anna said looking at the moon that was starting to rise over to horizon, "it's just that I turned Odie, who was so sweet, into a monster for my own selfish needs."
"He's a vampire, Anna; he wouldn't have been able to survive on only animal blood for long anyways."
Anna sighed, "I'd better follow him."
"OK have fun." Cassandra said smiling as Anna ran out the door in search of Odie.
Odie wasn't sure what had happened to him, he couldn't think straight, all he could think of was how tasty the human blood had tasted in his dream, and how much he wanted to taste it for real, Odie stopped running taking a deep breath, and his mouth started to water as he smelled what could only be described as perfect, it smelled like a batch of chocolate chip cookies, "a human" Odie said smiling before running off in the direction that the smell was coming from.
It didn't take long for Odie to find the humans he was looking for, a bunch of what looked like teenage boys who were having some drinks by the fire, Odie heard one of the guys say that he had to use the bathroom before walking over to some bushes, Odie smiled running at lightning speed over to him.
"Whoa, where'd you come from?" The guy asked laughing, "wanna join us?"
Odie didn't say anything he growled and jumped on the guy getting his jugular, and as Odie began tasting the blood he couldn't stop it tasted so good.
"Hey Chris, where'd you go?" Odie heard one of the guys friends call a few minutes later, Odie snarled as he jumped in front of the three remaining guys who all stopped dead in their tracks.
"Who… what are you?" One of the guys asked taking a step back.
"Your worst nightmare." Odie said jumping and landing on two of the guys, the last guy ran away screaming but Odie didn't care, growling Odie began feeding on two more of his victims.
When Anna found Odie she had to hold back a whimper when he saw the bodies of three teenage boys laying on the ground, the fire that they had been having was still burning, to anyone else this scene would look normal, but it wasn't… Odie had fed on human blood.
"Odie?" Anna whispered trying to not intimidate him, the first time a vampire drinks human blood their animal instincts come out, and Anna really didn't need to fight Odie right now, especially since he was going to be insanely strong.
"What?" Odie asked his voice strained.
"How do you feel?" Anna asked as she risked taking a step towards him.
Odie turned around smiling at her, "I feel incredible!"
"Really?" Anna asked unsure.
"Human blood is a thousand times better then animal blood." Odie said, "I must find some more!" he said before running off again, sighing Anna shook her head.
"What have I done?" She whispered to herself, she knew that as soon as Odie had tasted human blood that he would change, but she wasn't intending on Odie to change that much, he had officially lost the last part of him that was human.
"Great job, Anna!" Came Cronus' voice from the necklace, taking Anna off guard.
"Thanks, Cronus." Anna said trying to sound happy.
"Keep yourself and Odie strong, three months is not that much time to prepare to break me out." Cronus demanded, "If you fail then your daughter will be killed."
Anna fought back the urge to rip the necklace off of her, she was tired of listening to Cronus' demands, but she fought it, her daughter was more important than anything else, "yes Cronus." She finally said.
"Good girl, now go and find Odie and feed as well." Cronus commanded.
Anna sighed before running after Odie.
Theresa looked at her alarm clock and sighed, it was seven thirty in the morning, and she hadn't slept at all, every time she closed her eyes she would have the vision of Odie smiling with the blood around his mouth, and thinking of Cronus being out of Tarturas made her feel sick, plus Theresa really wasn't sure how or when she was going to turn into a werewolf, which made her feel really stressed, Theresa really wasn't sure how much longer she'd be able to keep the secret from Jay, but she had to at least for today when they were celebrating their engagement with his parents, she couldn't ruin that for them.
"Theresa?" Came her father's voice from the hallway, "Are you up?" he asked knocking on the door.
"Yeah I'm up." Theresa said sitting up in bed, as her father opened the door a crack.
"Can I come in?" He asked, Theresa nodded watching as her father came into the room holding what looked like a dress bag.
"What's that?" Theresa asked curious.
Theresa's father smiled zipping the bag open, and pulling out her Mother's wedding dress.
"Mom's dress." Theresa said standing up to get a better look at it, the dress had aged quite well, but then again it wasn't that old, it was long and poofy, her Mother had loved ball gowns, especially when it had a long train just like this one, and it was sparkly from head to toe, it was a gorgeous dress, Theresa had remembered staring at the wedding pictures of her Mother falling in love with the dress.
"I'm glad you like it," Theresa's Father said wiping away a tear, "because if you'd like you can wear it for your wedding to Jay."
"What?" Theresa asked being taken off guard.
"I think it's what your Mother would have wanted; besides it gives you a chance to have a piece of her with you during your special day." Theresa's father said smiling as tears filled his eyes.
"Wow." Theresa said as tears filled her eyes as well, standing up she hugged her Father, "I love you, Dad."
Theresa's Father kissed her head, "I love you too sweetie."
Theresa was totally content as her Father hugged her tightly, after her restless night last night, and the visions, and actually coming to the realization that she was engaged Theresa had no idea how many more opportunities she would have to be able to be in her Father's arms like this, she had always been a Daddy's girl, and after almost losing him playing Cronus' game 5 years ago she realized that life was short and she had to cherish every moment.
"You'd better start getting ready to go and see your in laws." Theresa's Father said as he zipped up the dress again, "I'll hide this somewhere so Jay doesn't see it until you're ready to try it on."
"OK thanks, Dad." Theresa said as her Father walked out of the room.
Atlanta wiped away a tear as she rested her head against the wall; the girl that she and Archie had hit was in surgery to stop the internal bleeding that she had suffered, and to fix her leg and she had been in the surgery for a couple of hours now.
"Here, I thought you could use a coffee." Archie said handing her the cup.
"Thanks." Atlanta said looking up at him for a brief second before looking at the emergency door, Archie sighed sitting down beside Atlanta rubbing her back.
"It'll be OK, Atlanta." Archie said pulling Atlanta into a hug.
"I hope you're right." Atlanta said resting her head on Archie's shoulder, wiping away a tear, she couldn't help but think of that poor girl that they had hit, how afraid she must be, and since she was unconscious they couldn't even call her Mother or Father, how worried they must be.
"Mrs. Black?" Came a doctor's voice, Atlanta looked up at the mention of her last name, "Mrs. Black?" the doctor called again, looking around the waiting room.
"Right here." Atlanta said standing up and walking towards the doctor, with Archie following her.
"Please follow me." The doctor instructed walking through the door of the emergency room, Archie and Atlanta looked at each other briefly before following him, and they walked down the hall before stopping in front of a door.
"OK the girl that you brought in is out of surgery, she's still not fully awake yet, and it's highly unorthodox but I'd like for both of you to be in the room when she wakes up so that she's not all alone."
"How did the surgery go?" Atlanta asked eager to know.
"Her leg has been re set, and we were able to stop the internal bleeding, she should be fine."
"Have you been able to contact her parents?" Archie asked.
"She has no ID on her; we're going to have to wait until she wakes up." The doctor said as he opened the door walking into the room, Atlanta and Archie quickly followed behind him.
Inside the room the girl that they had hit was wearing an oxygen mask, and had an IV in her arm, she was still a sleep, and it looked like her breathing was much stronger then when they had brought her into the hospital.
"I can't believe that I hit her." Archie whispered lowering his head; Atlanta pulled him into a hug.
"It's not your fault." she whispered.
"She should be awake soon," the doctor said putting the clipboard down, "I'll be back soon." He said walking out of the room.
"I hope she'll be OK." Atlanta said sitting down beside the girl taking her hand.
"Me too." Archie said sitting on the arm of Atlanta's chair, Atlanta rested her head on Archie's shoulder sighing, the doctor had done everything he could now they just had to wait.
When the doorbell rang Theresa felt her heart skip a beat, it would be Jay, and as excited as she was to see him, Theresa couldn't stop thinking of the visions that she had had and she really didn't want to ruin the day.
"Theresa!" Her father called from downstairs, "Your fiancé is here!"
At the word fiancé Theresa smiled in spite of herself, she was engaged and she was going to marry Jay, taking a deep breath Theresa walked downstairs and straight into the arms of Jay.
"Hi beautiful." He whispered kissing her head.
"Hi." Theresa said smiling up at him, hoping that her smile looked sincere enough, apparently it did since Jay smiled back at her and took her hand, "so are you ready to go?"
"Yeah." Theresa said walking with Jay hand in hand out her front door and to his car, where Jay opened the door for her; Theresa smiled getting in, before Jay ran around the car getting into the driver's side, taking her hand again before driving off.
When Jay pulled into his parents' driveway he looked over at Theresa and noticed that her thoughts looked miles away.
"Theresa?" Jay asked touching her shoulder.
"Wha?" Theresa asked looking around, "Oh we're at you parents' place." She said sounding slightly surprised.
"Are you alright?" Jay asked squeezing her hand.
"I'm just excited I guess." Theresa said smiling at him, again hoping that it looked convincing.
"Me too." Jay said leaning in and kissing her lips, "I love you." Jay whispered keeping his face close to Theresa's.
"I love you too." Theresa said, before being startled by a knock on the window, both Jay and Theresa smiled when they saw his Mother standing outside of it.
"There's my future daughter in law!" His Mother said as Theresa got out of the car, "Oh my goodness!" she squealed taking Theresa's hand, "that ring belongs on your finger!" She said before pulling Theresa into a hug, "you know I have always wanted a daughter!"
"Uh thanks." Theresa said not sure what else to say, it had been a long time since she had been around anyone that was even close to a Mother, so this was strange for her.
"Carol," came Jay's Father's voice from the porch, "don't scare the poor girl away."
"Oh Edward," Jay's Mother said rolling her eyes, "so come on I want to hear how Jay purposed." Jay's Mother said pulling Theresa inside, after they disappeared inside the house, Jay's father looked at him.
"Want a beer?"
Smiling Jay nodded his head and followed his Father inside.
Atlanta felt like it had been forever waiting for this poor girl to wake up, but really it had only been about an hour, the Doctor had come back in twice and told her that she might have a hard time waking up from the anesthetic, but she would be awake when she was ready and not a minute before.
"Here, I thought you could use this." Archie said walking back into the room holding a coffee in each hand; from when he had left to go to the bathroom.
"Thanks." Atlanta said taking the coffee, before looking back at the girl, "where's Theresa when you need her, she could probably use her powers and tell us everything we need to know."
"I thought her powers weren't that strong?" Archie asked confused.
"I don't know, we haven't really talked about her powers since we put Cronus away." Atlanta said sighing, "Still this waiting is killing me."
Archie, unsure of what else to do, put his hand on Atlanta's shoulder, he hadn't seen her this upset since she had lost their baby… shaking his head Archie pushed that thought out of his mind, Atlanta needed him to be strong right now.
"Hmmm…"
"What?" Archie asked looking at Atlanta.
"I didn't say anything." Atlanta said looking at Archie raising an eyebrow.
"Hmmm." Came the sound again, gasping Atlanta put the coffee down and squeezed the girl's hand.
"Honey, can you hear me?" Atlanta whispered, she didn't want to be too loud incase her ears were sensitive.
"Hmmm." She said again, before her eyes began fluttering.
"Honey, you're OK." Atlanta said starting to rub small circles on the girl's hand with her thumb.
The girl's eyes fluttered again before she forced them open looking around, before ripping the oxygen mask off, "where am I?" She asked alarmed.
"It's Ok." Atlanta said trying to calm her down.
"Who are you?!" She demanded.
"My name's Atlanta and he's Archie."
"Where am I, what happened?" She asked beginning to calm down a little bit, Atlanta looked up at Archie not sure if she should tell her everything, Archie nodded to her telling her that she should.
"You're in the hospital." Atlanta began.
"Why am I here?" the girl asked confusion evident in her voice.
"Well, my husband and I were driving down the road and we saw you a second too late." Atlanta said trying to push the memory out of her mind.
"Yes I remember that…" the girl said resting her head back on the pillow.
"Can we possibly get your name?" Atlanta asked carefully, she wasn't sure how she was going to react giving her name to a stranger.
"My name's Chloe." She said finally.
"Why were you crossing that dark road anyways?" Archie asked.
"I was running away." Chloe said.
"From what?" Atlanta asked before realizing that that question was probably too personal, "never mind I'm sorry you don't have to answer it." Atlanta said back tracking.
Chloe gave her a grateful smile before sighing, "I just had to run away from my past."
Atlanta and Archie looked at each other, they both wanted to know what she was talking about but it was really none of their business.
"Do you have your parents' number, I'm sure they're worried sick." Atlanta asked after a few minutes.
At the thought of her Mother Chloe sighed fighting back tears, "My parents are both dead." She whispered, before bursting into tears, Atlanta pulled her into a hug, rubbing her back trying to calm her down.
"Shh, it's OK." Atlanta said trying to soothe her, and to Atlanta's surprise, Chloe turned her head and began crying into Atlanta's shoulder.
"Uh I'd better go and find the doctor, to tell him she's awake." Archie said as he walked out the door.
Theresa had spent most of the day with Jay's Mother, talking about how Jay had proposed and talking about wedding plans, and the future, which some of the questions Theresa couldn't answer, since her and Jay had never really talked about children, of course she'd be up for the idea one day but right now she honestly just wanted to get through the wedding.
"Hey." Came Jay's voice from the doorway.
"Hey." Theresa said standing up walking over to him.
"Hi honey." Jay's Mother said smiling, "did you and your Dad have a fun time?"
"Yeah we did." Jay said taking Theresa's hand.
"I'm guessing you two want to get going." Jay's Mother said.
"We don't have to." Jay said looking at Theresa, who gave him a smile to let him know it was OK if they stayed for a little while longer.
"No, I'm sure you two would like some alone time." Jay's Mother said standing up, and following Jay and Theresa into the living room where Jay's Father was watching T.V, when he saw them all he began laughing.
"What's so funny, Dad?" Jay asked.
"This teenager claims that his friends were killed by a vampire.
"What?!" Theresa asked louder then she intended which got strange looks from everyone; she quickly began laughing, "I meant it as a joke." She said trying to redeem herself.
"So what happened?" Jay's Mother asked leaning against a wall.
"Well they were all having drinks around a fire, and one of his friends went to use the bathroom, and that's when the vampire attacked him, he then attacked the others, this boy, named Peter, just barely escaped."
Theresa was starting to feel light headed, as the visions of Odie being a vampire came rushing back to her, "oh my God…" Theresa whispered only loud enough for Jay to hear, when he looked at her he knew something was wrong, she was even more pail than usual.
"We'd better get going." Jay said walking over to his Mother and giving her a hug, "I love you Mom."
"Love you too sweetie." Jay's Mother said hugging her before walking to Theresa, "I love you too, Theresa." She said, "I love you too." Theresa said forcing a smile and hugging her back.
"Bye son." Jay's Father said hugging Jay.
"Bye Dad." Jay said.
"Congratulations again." Jay's Father said to Theresa before hugging her.
"Thanks." Theresa said forcing a smile.
Once the goodbyes were finished Jay took Theresa's hand since she looked like she was going to fall down if he didn't, and led her outside, once they were safely back inside his car Jay turned to face her.
"Do you want to tell me what the heck is going on?" Jay demanded.
Theresa fought back tears as she looked at Jay, "Jay…" She began unsure of what to say, "Jay I had a vision the other night."
"What?" Jay asked surprised, "I thought you weren't really having visions anymore."
"Up until the other night I wasn't…"
"What was the vision of?" Jay asked though a part of him knew that it had something to do with vampires, judging by her reaction when his father had mentioned what the teenager had claimed his friends were killed by a vampire.
"In my vision I was standing in a field all alone, you and the others had all been knocked out, and Cronus was there…"
"Cronus?" Jay asked his voice harsh, taking Theresa off guard she had forgotten how mean his voice sounded when talking about Cronus, of course they hadn't talked about him since they put him in Tarturas five years ago.
"But, Jay he's not the only thing I saw in my vision…" Theresa said trailing off.
"What else did you see?" Jay asked clenching his hands into fists since the look on Theresa's face told him that whatever she was about to tell him it wasn't going to be good.
"I saw Odie…" Theresa said her voice breaking.
"Odie, but he's dead." Jay said fighting back tears as the words left his mouth.
"Jay in my vision he was a vampire."
"What?" Jay asked shocked, "Are you sure?"
As Theresa thought of the blood around Odie's mouth when he showed up in the field, she began feeling sick, "quite sure."
Jay wasn't sure what to say, he just wrapped his arm around Theresa kissing her head, for a few minutes neither of them said anything.
"Jay there is one more thing…" Theresa finally said.
"What's that?"
"Cronus is going to be escaping from Tarturas again."
"What, when?" Jay demanded.
Theresa sighed shaking her head, "I don't know, my vision didn't catch that."
"We need to go see the Oracle." Jay said before speeding out of his parents' driveway and down the street, back towards someone who both Jay and Theresa, in all honesty, hoped to never see again.
End Chapter 5, Please Review.
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