Sorry that this took a long while to come out, I've been meaning to sit down and write this chapter for a month or so, but things have been happening, mostly watching the LCS, but I digress.

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"Protection from what?" Aria asks as she fiddles with the necklace.

"I will get to that, but first, let me go over what I know that happened that night. Now, you may remember that I visited my grandmother a couple days before. I did do this but I stopped on the way back to meet up with a very, very old man named Damon Salvator," Alison explains, pulling out a picture of him from her pocket. Showing it to the girls, she added, "This is a picture of Damon taken the day."

"How old is he if he looks that good?" Hanna asks in her usual blunt tone.

"Let's just say, he fought in the Civil War," Alison answered simply, causing confused and skeptical expressions from most of the girls, while Spencer's face held an expression of realization. "You see, he was a vampire. We had met a couple months before, and we kind of became friends, though he is a bit of an ass."

"Wait, hold up, back up, vampire, and honest to god vampire. Your joking with us Alison," Hanna said as she made to leave. Immediately dashed from behind Emily to standing in front of the door. Everyone in the room stood there shocked. "How?" Hanna asked, her eyes darting back and forth from where Alison had been and where she was standing now.

"Let me finish my tale, and all will be explained," Alison stated, provoking Hanna to sit down at Spencer's desk. "So now, Damon Salvator, the vampire, we sort of became friends, and I started to pester him to change me, which for the longest time, he refused. Now, when I went to see him after visiting my grandmother, he finally relented, and gave me a vile of his blood, but said I had to do the rest myself. Now, to become a vampire, you have to die with vampire blood in your system, and then drink from a human."

"And so something happened that night, you took the blood and then died, though it wasn't suicide cause that's just not your style, and then you fed on a human and now you are a vampire. Am I close?" Spencer filled in.

"Actually spot on, someone ended up burying me alive, and so as I started to run out of oxygen, I took the vampire blood, and I went into transition. While in transition, I managed to claw my way out of the ground and drink from a human. After that, I went to a town called Mystic Falls, where Damon informed me to go after I completed the transformation. I manage to arrive there, just before sun up, as that part about not being able to go in the sun is mostly true and rather annoying, though I don't need to worry about that any more. And I spent the last year getting control over my powers and my blood lust. Now that I'm good with that, I'm back," Alison finished up.

"You're a vampire?" Aria asked.

"That's what you took away from this, not the fact that someone tried to kill me, and succeeded since I am actually dead. But yes, I am. Spencer, would you pass me a blood bag from my pack?" Alison replied. Spencer got up and pulled the top bag out of the pack and threw it to Alison. The Vampire quickly bit into the bag, veins growing under her eyes.

"So, what are the necklaces for?" Emily asked.

Finishing up her drink, Alison licked her lips, before turning to Spencer and asking, "Trash?" Spencer held out her hand, and Alison gave the girl the empty blood bag. "Ah, yes, the necklaces, they all have an herb in them called vervain, which will protect you from something called compulsion, which is an ability vampires have that makes people do what they say, which is why I said never take them off and hope you never have to use the protections."

All of the girls nodded their heads. "So, what now?" Spencer asks.

"Well, I will go make myself known in the neighborhood, and I have this really nice document that will allow me to get around without having to deal with my parents. So I may need to crash at one of your places, but that is all stuff to tackle tomorrow," Alison said, before heading over to the window, and jumping down to the lawn from the second floor.

"This changes everything," Spencer said, looking at the other three girls, who all nodded in agreement.

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