Prey: How Hard Can It Be To Bloody Call?

Disclaimer: I'm not Stephenie Meyer, and I'm not profiting on copyright infringement.

A/N: Oh my gosh, I am a bad person. You've all probably forgotten that this story exists. I decided to shake things up a bit with this chapter, which is pretty long.

Howard was bloody furious. Amanda had made David into a vampire, of this he was sure.

But while this was bad enough, she hadn't bothered to tell him what she was planning, or that it had happened. No phone calls, no nothing. The Watch was all in a tizzy. Amanda- their supposed "good vampire" had just!!! They didn't really want to finish that thought.

It had been two months. (A/N: Haha, that's about right. How long HAS it been since I've updated? September.)

And David... their David...

David had practically been raised by the Watch. Adopted at a very young age, he had been taught all about vampires and why it was necessary to exterminate their lot all his life. And now, he had suddenly made the shocking decision to make himself into one of them.

Why, no one could say. Only Howard had been privy to the juicy secret of the vampire-human love that Amanda and David had recently confessed to.

One of the watch people, you already know his name, had his suspicions.

Joshua, the technological genius of the Watch, had been there on the plane to Chicago, right next to Amanda. As he was falling asleep, he had caught a disturbing glimpse of David's adoring face, directed towards a distracted Amanda. No, it couldn't be. But the evidence was staggeringly pointing in that direction now. The special care brought in- the mysterious circumstances of his faint. Amanda and Howard had been in the same room- what had transpired there, he wondered, that had sent David's heart over the edge?

Joshua thought he knew. He knocked the door of Howard's office. As he stepped in the door, he looked at Howard. "Does David have some reason to want damnation? A fellow vampire who's turned him to, as we say in geek circles, 'the dark side?'" Howard's face tightened. "Don't you go spreading anything around. The last thing we need is a bunch of wild rumors flying around. But Amanda and David..." He turned to the window.

"Were you involved in the watch ten years ago?" Howard said in a strained voice, reliving memories so long shut away.

"No sir."

Howard's lips twitched. "There was an office pool about the possibility of a match with David and Amanda. The smart money was that they would somehow end up together by the time they were twenty." He nodded towards the west section of the building. "Let's just say that Jenkins in accounting owes me twenty bucks." Joshua's eyes closed. "Do you approve?" There was no answer to that.

The truth was, Howard still wasn't sure if he approved.

Howard didn't ever give a definitive answer to this question, instead responding with a query of his own. "Can you track down Doctor Cullen? I need to give a message to his patient."

It was shockingly easy to get a hold of the Cullens. They had conspicuous cars, and faces that weren't too easily forgotten. They were at Tom Mapple's house, a fact that made Joshua wonder. Tom Mapple was hosting vampires in his house? He decided, for the sake of secrecy, to go on this mission alone, as much as he wanted to bring backup.

The door was opened right as his fist was going to come down to knock, and he was face to face with a small black haired leech. "You want to talk to Carlisle about David and Amanda?" she asked politely. "Because he's out right now. But, never fear, I have a number for Amanda. She was out there without a cell phone! We had to fix that right away." she clucked, pulling out a pen and writing the number on Joshua's shocked arm. She patted him on the hand. "There you go. Do you have any other business?"

He didn't, and it wasn't until he had left that he realized that the vampire's eyes were black. Hungry. No wonder he hadn't been able to stay long. He shivered. She had wanted to drink his blood. He pulled out his iPhone, and dialed the number that the leech had given him. One ring. "Hello? Who is this?" The silken voice of Amanda greeted him. "Amanda, is David a vampire?"

A small pause. "Ah. Joshua, you clever dog, you've got the nail on the head. Look, I'm sorry. Really sorry. More than you can imagine. But I'm keeping him under control. Don't worry. Do- do you want to talk to him?" Joshua prepared himself. David- coldly inhuman... "Hi Josh." The voice didn't sound a thing like the David he knew. It was smoother, more polished. It barely had a trace of the former human left. "I'll be able to visit soon. Amanda thinks that it's about time for me to test out my control- I'm getting a lot better. But I'm still the same... person. I'm going to go back to working for the Watch once I can be...human again. Both Amanda and I are going to. It will really make a difference- Amanda says that it's much easier to kill vampires this way. Tell Howard I'm sorry, but I had to."

Josh hadn't said anything. The silence was pressing uncomfortably on both of them. "Look, David..." he finally said. "Please. You can't expect us to just forgive you. No one knows about anything- it's still just speculation that you're actually a vampire. A lot of people think that Amanda's killed you. You can't possibly expect wide smiles and open arms accepting your new, improved, bloodsucking immortal self. And especially not when they know the reason. It's bad enough that- well, you took Cullen up on whatever offer he gave you. But you did it for Amanda- You fell in love with a vampire. It doesn't matter that it's her- you look like a traitor. It'll take a lot of work and time before anyone can look you in the eye and not be repulsed." And with that, he ended the call.

David looked at Amanda mournfully. "You heard that, I suppose." Amanda nodded. "The phone is rather loud." There was another call. Amanda picked it up. "Hello?" it was Alice. "Only one solution. You'll need to go with me on this. It's time for another wedding- and vampire hunters must be invited."

The phone fell to the floor. It broke, but they knew that Alice would come over anyways. "She didn't even give you time to propose!" Amanda said angrily. David smiled. "Well, will you?" Amanda rolled her eyes, and put a branch on her head, turning it into a veil. "Of course. Just slap on a dress and call me Mrs...." She paused. "You never actually told me your last name."

David's eyebrows raised. "You don't know my last name?" "Well, you were adopted, so it isn't Post, like your ID said. Can you believe that we technically have the same last name? That we're cousins by adoption? It's like Arrested Development all over again." His face looked blank for a second. "You know, that show with the cousins who are in love? George Michael and Maebey? In the end, I'm pretty sure that they find out that they aren't actually related." having failed to bring back any memory of the show, she went back to the original problem. "So, what is it?" David smiled. "Don't laugh. It's Harker." Amanda laughed anyways. "Seriously? Like the main character of Dracula? Jonathon Harker? His wife- Mina- nearly becomes a vampire herself. Oh, that is too funny..." David smiled. "Yeah, all of the Watch thought it was incredibly funny."

Their moment of levity was shattered by the sound of a car in the distance, and running feet. Amanda had heard enough about Bella's wedding to know that she was in for the whole hog. "Dear me." she muttered, burying her face in her hands.

A/N: I hope that was okay! Gosh, I feel so terrible for not updating. I've been really sidetracked with my own book and school and crap and marching band and whatever. I have no free time anymore. Bleah.