Chapter 13

As Lexi climbed off her bike and slung the girl over her shoulder. She walked over to the door and knocked for help. Stephen opened it quickly and hugged Lexi. Lexi felt some sort of energy pass through her. She stepped back quickly then walked through the door. As she got in she saw Luke lying on the sofa. He looked as if he was dead so Lexi dropped the girl and ran to his side.

"He's okay. They said he fell down into the cellar and knocked himself out. Thank god you're okay we thought you were-" Stephen froze as the girl on the floor groaned. Lexi pulled Stephen back from her making sure she grabbed his sleeve. The girl's eyes opened wide when she saw them. Then she screamed. The girl's scream rang through the house and left Lexi's ears ringing. Quinn, Ash, and Thierry appeared in an instant followed by everyone else. The stopped screaming when they others entered. She fell silent and crawled to a corner where she helped herself up. She stopped half stood half crouched in the corner staring between Lexi and the others.

"Lexi you're alright," Ashe said suddenly.

"Since when have you cared?" Lexi asked. Ash looked away embarrassed.

"Jesus is someone dying in here?" Morgead asked as the girl started screaming again. Lexi felt her power going through her again. She lifted her hand and she could suddenly see the girl's voice like green smoke. She used her power and pulled it away from her. The girl fell silent as she did. Lexi then pushed her power back down. Everyone was looking at Lexi.

"It's my favourite power," she said smiling. Morgead rolled his eyes and leant on the door frame nearest the girl.

"So this is witch girl?" he asked. "Huh. I guessed she'd be taller."

"You'd be short if you were a child!" Stephen cried stepping over to her. Lexi grabbed his hand to stop him and felt the spark again. He put his hand out to the girl. "You're safe I promise." The girl calmed slightly and put her hand in Stephen's. Lexi let go as she did. She suddenly felt a pain in her stomach when e hugged the girl. Lexi looked at the floor but when she looked up she saw the girl's eyes were glowing again.

"Stephen!" Lexi's cry came out like a large hurricane. The girl flew back and hit the wall. As she stared at Lexi her eyes were still glowing. Suddenly all the lights in the house went off. The girl was drawing energy from them. Then the beam came out directly at Stephen. Lexi had just enough time to move between them and got hit instead. Lexi and Stephen got thrown back from the force. Stephen hit the wall while Lexi went flying through the window. Lexi lay still, coughing for a while but then lifted her head as she heard crashing from inside the house. She looked up to see everyone trying to wrestle the girl to the ground whilst dodging beams of light. It wasn't long before Thierry got hit with a beam and came flying in Lexi's direction she rolled out of his way and stopped on her feet. She looked up and saw the girl run through the empty space in the window. "Bad move girly. You're on my turf now." Lexi felt the power come to her again as the wind picked up. Lexi felt her hair raise again but ignored it. She realised everyone was staring at her again. She ignored the eyes and focused on the girl. "I can do this forever. Honestly I'm a vampire." Lexi saw a door open in the house next door and a small woman stepped outside.

"What the hell is going on? I've called the police and-" the woman stopped when she looked at Lexi. The woman's mouth opened to scream but Lexi caught her voice. She looked at the others. Ash stepped forwards and went to talk to the woman. All this time the girl had been stood staring back at Lexi. The girl then spoke.

"Lexi?" The voice was completely different. Lexi froze in her spot. As she talked Lexi tried to see the voice but she couldn't all she could see was a large green aura around the girl. The girl suddenly fell to the ground shaking violently. Lexi rushed over to her and knelt down beside her. "I died to save you." Then the girl stopped shaking and lay still on the ground.

"Is.. Is she…?" Thea Harman said stepping closer. Lexi put her fingers to the girl's neck to find a pulse. She sighed heavily when she found one.

"No she's just unconscious." Thea dropped to her knees next to the girl and started to look at her eyes.

"We need to get her inside. I can help her then." Lexi nodded as Quinn and Morgead lifted her up. Lexi turned around and saw that Thierry was still lying on the ground but her had a large piece of wood through his body. Lexi moved to him quickly and checked his wound.

"It isn't through your heart but it's god damn close," Lexi said to Thierry who was struggling on the ground. Suddenly Hannah appeared by them holding Thierry's hand.

"Can you help him?" she asked in a whisper.

"Of course but it's going to hurt a lot." Thierry simply nodded and Lexi stood over him. Lexi then pulled her energy back to her and pulled the large piece of wood out of his chest. She threw it down on the ground next to them and knelt down next to Thierry again who was struggling for breath. Lexi looked at Hannah. "You may want to step back, it's going to get pretty intense." Hannah nodded and stepped back into the arms of Eric. Lexi then used all of her energy and directed it into the wound. The wind around her span until no one was visible but her and Thierry. Lexi saw grey dots in front of her eyes but ignored them. Everything started to blur as she saw the wound healing. With ever second Lexi grew weaker. She stood in order to get more power behind it. She stumbled slightly but managed to heal him. After she did she stopped the wind and stumbled back. She tripped under the weight of her own body and fell into Stephen's arms. She looked up at him and suddenly felt her hunger. She could see smell and hear the blood pumping beneath his skin. Lexi pushed herself back from him. She looked at everyone else who was stood outside the window. She suddenly smelt blood and turned to Stephen. She saw his neck was bleeding from hitting the wall. Lexi backed away from him slowly. "Stay away." Lexi pointed to Stephen and the others. Lexi saw the dots dance in front of her eyes again. Suddenly she heard a voice which panicked her.

"Elexis?" Lexi looked up and saw that in the driveway was stood Marcel.