Disclaimer: I don't own the Bloodlines series (although, I wish that I did).

Chapter Two

The first thing we did was to go to the Girls' dorms which are on the school's east campus. The school has three campuses, east were the girls' live, central were the classes and administration buildings are, and west were the boys live.

When we got there, we met another dhampir named Angeline Dawes. She had long auburn hair and watchful, bright blue eyes. She also stayed as far away from Eddie as she could and wouldn't make eye contact with him.

"Where are Jill and Sydney?" Eddie asked her in a voice which was polite but reserved. She scowled at him and said coldly,

"I don't know. Maybe you should call them."

He took out his mobile and dialed a number. After a moment someone answered and there was a brief conversation.

"Their coming." he said.

While we waited, I began to pace backwards and forwards with my back to them. It was very obvious to me that there was some bad history between Eddie and Angeline and I didn't really want to make it worse by standing there trying to talk to them when they so obviously didn't want to talk to each other.

Five minutes later, two girls came to join us. One of them was a Moroi (a peaceful vampire who can work elemental magic and who lives and dies like humans and dhampirs do. They are also the ones we guardians live to protect) with curly, light brown hair and nervous jade green eyes. I assumed that this was Princess Jillian.

The other girl was human, obviously this was Sydney Sage, the Alchemist who had been responsible for my arrival.

She had dark blonde hair which was similar to Eddie's in colour and brown eyes which almost seemed amber in the sunlight.

"He's a dhampir," I heard Jillian murmur to Sydney.

"Jill, Sydney, this is Neil Raymond." said Eddie "He's going to be joining us here."

I gave a low bow to Jillian and said formally, "Princess jillian, it is an honour to serve you and I will do so to the best of my abilities even if it means sacrificing my own life." She stepped back in surprise and it took a moment for her to find her voice.

"Th-thank you," she said at last.

Eddie's eyes flicked back and forth between us a small frown that I didn't understand appearing on his face.

"Neil's been sent as backup." he explained "I guess you filed a complaint about Jill not having enough protection?" he added turning to Sydney.

"No I... oh I guess I kind of did." she said and unless I was mistaken she sounded slightly surprised that the authorities had acted so quickly in getting me here.

Sydney stepped forwards and shook my hand.

"Nice to have you around, Neil," she said pleasantly "Are they passing you off as another cousin?"

"Just a new student," I told her and she looked slightly relieved. I suppose I couldn't blame her if the stories they told about Alchemists being so afraid of moroi and dhampirs were true.

"Well," she said, "I have an errand to run, I'll catch up with all of you later." and with that she walked back inside and unless my mind was playing tricks on me, Jill, Eddie and Angeline gave her sad looks as she left.

"Well," said Eddie "It'll be dinner time soon and we still need to see about your room for the night, Neil, so we better go."

"Ok," I agreed and followed him away from the others.

Author's Note: Thanks so much for reading my story. Please leave me a review to tell me what you thought, hunterofartemis126 (Nicolaclair).