Chapter 4

I punched Chris in the jaw sending him flying across the hall. "What the hell was that for" he screamed as he smashed against me. I heard Alyssa faintly yelling in the distance for us to stop. I grabbed him by the shirt "That's your sister you know she isn't a downworlder she's just Rose and you just killed any progress she has had in dealing with what's happened."

"What are you talking about get your fucking hands off me" I shoved him aside. "You looked at her like she was a monster do you know what that's going to do to her." He punched the wall "She is what do you want me to say, I love her and I want my sister back not that, she isn't the same"

I felt like punching him again. "She is the same person Chris and she needs her brother right now" He came at me again and I thought he was going to hit me again but he didn't. "You don't know what it's like you, we are twins, before it's like we were connected somehow ever since we were young and a year ago it feels like that tie was severed, I feel alone and hollow and whatever she is took her from me." He yelled in heart wrenching pain and stumbled away numb. I looked at Alyssa and she had the same pained look on her face "I should go check on her" I simply nodded and she went off towards the exit.

I went to my locker to grab my car keys and there I saw the picture of me and her we took once at a mundane convention where people dress up like downworlders they don't even know exist. She was radiant that day her hair was shiny and fell down her face in waves, her eyes a beautiful grey and even in the picture I couldn't keep my eyes off her.

I slammed the locker in frustration. It happened a few weeks after that night she looked just as she had today only worse. We didn't know it at the time but to complete the transformation she had to drink human blood. She was pale and I could've sworn on the brink of death for days she'd been unable to move or wake up. Her mother and father were there. He was tending to her night and day. But her mother she placed a stake next to her bedside table and walked away. When she found out she'd chosen the change instead of death, I'd never seen the life leave anyone that quickly. She never talked to Rose again.

I hated all of them they didn't know what it was like to be alone with something like that, nobody wanting you. I'd do for what nobody else could that was a promise. I'm going to find that vampire that got away and kill him and I'm going to find a way to get her a cure for this.

One, two, three. I threw blade after blade at the target and it still didn't make me feel better. I was at the local institute using their training room. Funny how my escape could one day be my prison. As I was battering a dummy made of wood. A knife flew towards me and I caught it before it could slice my cheek I was about to launch it at my attacker till I turned and realized who it was.

My mother, she hasn't been in town in months. I just stared at her, not really knowing what to say, her flaming red hair was loose down her shoulders and she was in full gear. She walked towards me, the silence was deafening.

"How did you get in here the doors shouldn't open to you anymore" she said menacingly but still in a whisper. "I have a key" I said firmly. Her eyes darkened at that and looked like storm clouds. "Are you mad, if someone even sees you fighting they will know! Have you no consideration for your family, you couldn't save yourself and now you don't even have the decency to hide yourself away." I could practically say the venom coming from her mouth.

I looked away fighting the tears again, "Nobody will know I have it under control mother" she looked at me sharply and tackled me to the ground, I could've easily avoided her but I suddenly felt very small and weak. She held a knife at my neck "Listen to me half breed, you are not my daughter, she died a year ago and you should have died with her." She got up and dusted herself off as if she'd touched something dirty.

"Listen to me very carefully, you will never step foot in this institute again, you will sit in the back and not draw your attention, I want you to be a shadow. You had your chance and its gone let your brother shine through he is a real Nephilin and you are lesser. If I hear different the next time I will drive a stake through your heart and a silver bullet in your head." She left leaving a cold trail behind her and all hope I had at that moment was shattered.