Chapter 5

A Night on the Town

Lily had barely seen anyone but her family in the last month, and she was beginning to get annoyed with them. She had been taught many things, chiefest among them her new powers as a witch and a vampire. She could run faster than her everyone else except Noah who could keep up with her; she could erase memories, events, and entire years of a person's life if she was so inclined.

Her new witch powers had proven to be stronger than her mothers, though they wouldn't know just how much more powerful until she could control witch fire. Her mother had shown her how to call the bright orange flame, but as of yet neither her nor Noah could command it, it remained elusive to them.

"Can't I go out and have some fun, I'm dying here," Lily whined to her mother.

"This is serious stuff Lily, you have to master it, and soon," her mother said sternly. Her expression softened as she looked at her daughters miserable face. "But you have been working hard, I suppose you can go out." Lily's face brightened and she began to run off and call her friends when her mother's voice stopped her in her tracks. "With your brother's, of course."

"But mom-"

"No buts Lily, I know you want to spend time with your friends but your not safe by yourself, your brothers know some interesting places, I'm sure you'll have fun. Make sure you take Noah out with you, he should get out of the house too."

"Okay," Lily grumbled as she climbed the stairs to see Shiloh. "As if Noah would leave his precious video games," she mumbled.

"I heard that," she heard Noah yell from down the hall.

"Damn vampires," she yelled back with a smile. "Hey Shi?" She asked, entering his room.

"Mom told me, you ready to go?" He asked. She blinked in surprise, making Shiloh laugh.

"I'll never get used to this. Yeah let's go."

"Yeah yeah, let's go," she heard Noah yell from down the hall and smiled.

They were all crowded at the front door ten minutes later. Among her siblings only Josh and Kaleb had decided to stay behind, leaving her, Noah, Shiloh and Jason.

"So where are we going?" She asked as they piled into Shiloh's BMW.

"A rather interesting place, I think you'll both like it. It's called the Black Iris."

Twenty minutes later they were winding their way down a dark and deserted street towards what looked like a dark and deserted house. Shiloh parked the car and they all got out, Lily and Noah looking around with odd expressions on their faces.

"You sure this is a club?" Lily asked.

"Yeah, listen this place is all Night World, humans aren't allowed," Shiloh whispered to both of them. He didn't have to say any more, they understood. Lily took a moment to check her shield, any vampire in the club would be able to read her thoughts if she didn't. She felt Noah doing the same beside her.

With a nod they followed their brothers to the door. Shiloh nocked loudly on the door and they waited. After a few minutes the door was opened and a kid that couldn't have been older than thirteen opened the door and glared out at them.

"What do you want?" The kid asked.

"In, open the door Marlan.

"Shiloh, I didn't know it was you," the kid said. "Who are these others with you?"

"My brother and sister," Shiloh said, kicking the door open and knocking the kid on the ground.

"Welcome," Marlan said as he stood up and brushed himself off.

"You okay?" Lily asked, leaning down to help him up.

"Yeah, nice to know all his family aren't ass holes," Marlan said, smiling at her.

She smiled back and followed Shiloh down a flight of steps and into a dimly lit room filled with people. It looked like any other bar she had ever seen, the only difference was that everyone in the room seemed to be really young and really good looking. She had never seen so many sexy people in one room before.

"Want a drink?" Jason asked, yelling to be heard over the music that was blasting in the background. She nodded and leaned close to his ear.

"A glass of Absolute," she yelled. Jason laughed and went off towards the bar.

"My my, aren't you pretty," someone said from behind her and Lily turned to see a boy about her own age looking her up and down. He had long black hair that fell to his shoulders and bright ice blue eyes. He was incredibly sexy too.

"Thank you," she said with a smile. An arm slipped around her shoulder then and she felt Jason's presense. He handed her a drink and smiled at the boy in front of her.

"Hey there Alder," Jason said.

"Jason, it's been a while," the boy, Alder, said.

"Didn't know you were back in town," Jason said, tightening his grip on Lily.

"Just got in yesterday, and I was having a conversation with your lovely friend there," Alder smiled a dazzling smile at her. She took a drink of her Absolute.

"My sister Lily, Lily this is Alder Redfern," Jason said, reluctantly introducing them.

"Ah, you're an Ambrose then," Alder said as he took her hand and lightly kissed her knuckles. She nodded trying to keep a straight face. "I had no idea you had a little sister Jason."

"Mother was very protective, barely let her out of the house growing up. This is her first time at the club."

"Ah, makes sense," Alder said nodding. She turned around as Shiloh walked up to their group.

"Alder," he said with a frown. "What brings you back to San Fransisco?"

"My cousin Ash actually, have you seen him?" Shiloh shook his head, as did Jason. He then turned to Lily. "How about you Lily?"

"Never met him," she said with a shrug. She was beginning to get uncomfortable under the stare of those ice blue eyes. "Where's Noah?" She asked, pulling out of Jason's arms and turning to Shiloh.

"He is getting a drink and looking for a table for us, I told him not to bother but he insisted," Shiloh answered.

"Who's Noah?" Alder asked.

"My twin," Lily said casually as she looked around the room for him. She spotted him just as he spotted an empty table in the courner of the room. "And he actually found us a table Shi," she smirked, walking over to sit down with him.

The table looked unwashed and sticky, but she shrugged and sat down next to Noah, setting her drink on the table. Shiloh and Jason had followed her, as unfortunately had Alder.

She didn't like the way Alder looked at her, and she knew without a doubt her brother's hated him. He sat down next to her as if he had been invited and leaned in close to her.

"Have you eaten yet?" He asked offhandedly.

"We are planning to stop on the way home," Shiloh interjected before she could answer.

"Are you sure? I have some girls in my car if you'd like," Alder said. Lily stomped down the feeling in the pit of her stomache as he said this.

"No thanks, we'll be fine," she said with a smile, ignoring her urge to punch him in his smiling face. Alder laughed suddenly, making her heart grow cold.

"You are quite odd my dear," he said, still laughing.

"I'm not your dear," she growled.

"Well I can see that I'm not wanted here, so I'll just be on my way then. Good day to you," Alder said, standing. He nodded to her and left.

"You handled that well Lily," Shiloh said with a smile.

"I had to stop myself from killing him," she murmured quietly. Shiloh and Jason nodded understanding.

"You ready to go, or are you having too much fun?" Shiloh asked with a smirk. Lily sighed and downed her glass of vodka.

"Let's go, but I don't want to go home yet," she said.

"Alright, we'll go get something to eat." The four of them stood, oblivious to the ice blue eyes that were watching them.

"Very interesting," Alder whispered as they left the Black Iris.

Ten minutes later they were speeding their way away from the Black Iris, Lily had wanted to liberate the girls from Alder's car before they left but Shiloh had told her if she did so she would be thought of as a Circle Daybreak sympathizer and hunted. No one could know about her yet. So they had simply left.

"We met Alder through our friend Ash about five years ago, but when we realized what kind of a vampire he was we stopped hanging out with him. He left to see his parents a year ago and we haven't seen him since," Jason said as they drove away.

"If I knew he was back in town I wouldn't have taken you there," Shiloh said.

"It's okay," she smiled from the backseat. "So what's with the name the Black Iris anyway?"

"Well black flowers are how we identify ourselves to each other. A black rose is the symbol of the made vampires, iris is for Lamia, foxglove is for werewolves, a dahlia is for witches, I'm not sure what shapeshifters are," Shiloh said, turning to Jason.

"Not offhand, but dad probably knows," Jason shrugged. Shiloh pulled the car over as they reached civilization again.

"Split up four ways or two?" Shiloh asked as he parked.

"Four," three voices said in unison. Shiloh laughed.

"Okay, meet back here in half an hour," Shi said as he got out of the car and walked off.

Lily chose her own direction, letting her senses lead her into the park down the street from where they had parked. She felt a lone mind wandering through the park and sniffed the air. There he was. She smiled to herself and ran to the deserted spot the man was walking through. Lily looked around, sensing for other minds and was reassured they were alone.

Lily stepped through the bushes and directly into his path. The man had dusty brown hair and light brown eyes that opened wide in surprise as she stood in front of him. He looked to be in his early twenties and was quite cute. She smiled, knowing she looked great at that moment with her silvery hair framing her face.

"Excuse me, could you help me?" She asked seductively.

"Sure," he said with a smile. She stepped close to him so they were almost touching and reached up grabbing the back of his neck. He seemed surprised by this but let her lead him down anyway. She smiled as he closed his eyes, obviously thinking she was going to kiss him.

With a powerful thrust of her mind she put him to sleep. He fell down and she caught him easily, one thing she loved about her new powers was her strength, she could have easily bench pressed the man she was holding and still be able to hold three or four more.

She felt her teeth elongating and growing into sharp points. She struck. After she had drank her fill, only about a pint or two, she laid the man down and smiled, her teeth retracting back into regular canines.

She smirked as a conversation with her mother came to her mind.

"But don't they turn into vampires or die?" She had asked.

"No no child, you're thinking of the movies and books, they're not real. Blood has to be exchanged before a human is turned into a vampire, and if they're over twenty one it usually doesn't work, their body won't live through the transformation. All we need to do is drink a pint or two a day to survive, and they never need to know," her mother had said smiling.

Lily came back into the present as she noticed a presence come up behind her. She turned with shocked certainty, knowing who she would see.

"Why did you follow me?" Lily asked Alder, who was watching her with an odd look on his face.

"Why don't you like me?" He asked, ignoring her question.

"That's my bussiness, not yours. I don't have to tell you anything," she hissed. Lily turned away from him and began walking back towards her brother's car. It was a mistake, she realized it as a pair of arms grabbed her from behind and held her tightly.

"Not very smart, are we Lily?" Alder asked. She struggled in his grasp but it was no good, he was simply stronger than her.

"Nice to know you can do what you're asked, for once," a voice said from the darkness, a voice she knew.

"Lane?" She whispered as he came into view in front of her, holding a wooden club.

"Hi Lily," he said, and hit her over the head. Lily fell into oblivion.

Hey there all my loyal reviewers… er… reviewer. I hope you liked this chapter, I was on a roll writing it. I don't just write for you to understand Windy, I think this all needs to be explained anyway. I would have written it like this no matter what, so no worries.

Any questions or things you would like cleared up? I hope I cleared up the vampire biting matter.

Review please, let me know what you thought! Hope I have more people reading this!