Well I decided to write a long chapter to make up for the really bad cliff-hanger. So here yah go. I was going to post this yesterday, but thanks to my nephew he decided to be born yesterday, well actually today.. Ugh. I went to the hospital yesterday at 11 am, and didn't get home till 4 this morning because he decided he didn't want to be born on the 3rd, so he was born at 1:56 am. Ughh. But he's really really cute. -. ...Sorry but I had to brag about him. Who wouldn't want to brag about their new nephew! haha. So thankfully I was able to update tonight, and I'm sooo tired. But I can't stop writing!!!
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"Please just let me go home." I pleaded. "I'll do anything. Please."
"Oh, you'll go home." He said in acceptance, as he wickedly smiled. I screamed, in shock. His smile revealed two sharp teeth on the top row, one on each corner. "When I'm done with you." He said, low and dangerous. I opened my mouth to say something, but nothing came out. He chuckled, as he reached up and grabbed my chin. I winced as he tightened his grip, which he then forcefully moved my chin over, revealing the right side of my neck. I took a deep breath and held it, and closed my eyes.
Wake up Tori! I opened my eyes to find that I was still staring straight in the eyes of a vampire. Aidan started to move closer, which I felt his cold breath upon my neck. I closed my eyes once again, hoping that this was all a really bad nightmare.
"Aidan!" I opened my eyes and saw Alaric walking with a fast pace in our direction. "What are you doing?" He said with panic in his voice. Aidan moved away from my neck, and into my view. His razor sharp fangs were still showing. "She annoyed me." He said in a dull voice. Aidan holding my chin seemed to have been holding me up, because when he released me, my legs gave out and I fell to the floor. I sat there, staring at the ground, and also dumb-struck at what had just happened. I almost died.
"You wouldn't have died, now shut up." He snapped furiously. The world around me started to spin, and would occasionally turn black, making me sick. That's when something great happened to me. I passed out.
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I laid there for a while, with my eyes closed. I wasn't passed out or sleeping, but I could hear Aidan and Alaric talking, so I didn't feel like 'waking up' just yet. I guessed that we were in a car heading some where, because it was really bumpy. I was hoping that they were taking me back home, but according to the freak, a.k.a Aidan, I wasen't going home till he was "done with me." Which means "when he kills me." So I'm going home never. I opened my eyes, and stared at the roof of the car. As I sat up I looked out of the darkly tinted window and saw nothing but darkness and shapes of trees surrounding us. Great, nighttime.
"Victoria, I'm glad to see you awake." Alaric said sounding pleased. I looked over to him, which he was in the drivers seat, next to Aidan sitting right in front of me, in the passengers seat. "Yeah, why is that?" I asked, confused.
"Well, I was hoping you didn't die of shock." He lightly chuckled as I turned to look back out the tinted window, and rested my head up against it. I was watching darkness and trees flying by at an amazing speed.
Just kill me now. I thought.
"That can be arranged." Aidan said, sounding interested. I rolled my eyes and rested my head against the window. That's when I noticed that the trees were slowing down.
"We are here!" We turned down a long stone driveway that led us to a large black gate, with stone walls connected to it. Also large lights shone on the black gate and parts of the stone wall, which also lit up the whole car. When I peaked out the front windshield, the gates started to open, letting us drive through. My heart started to beat fast, and butterflies crept into my stomach, which could have been my stomach telling me that i'm hungry, since I haven't eaten in forever. I was beginning to wonder where we were so I asked, "Where are--" Aidan interrupted. "--You don't need to know that right now." I lightly smashed my head up against the window, which I was really annoyed. They don't tell me anything.
We drove down this long driveway for about a minute which to me it seemed like eternity. As we slowed down, Aidan unbuckled his seat belt, and turned around in his seat and faced me. Luckily I couldn't see his face real well, but a mental image popped in my head, causing me to shiver. "When we get out of this car, don't ask questions--- no, actually, don't say anything." He turned back around as we stopped. I looked out the window, expecting another typical house, even maybe an entrance to a cave, but instead, it was a huge stone house with the same giant lights as earlier; lighting up the outside walls of the house.
Aidan got out of the car and turned to my door to let me out. I stepped out, still staring at the house. I was amazed at how huge it was. It was a two story stone wall, with giant windows, and a giant maroon colored door. Aidan came from behind me and grabbed my arm leading me towards the house. Alaric appeared from around the other side of the car and began walking next to me, too close for comfort. We walked up the large stone steps, and paused in front of the door. Alaric grabbed the door knocker and knocked three times. Once again, my heart started to race, and sweat began to form in the palms of my hands.
The door started opening and a man about the same age as Alaric appeared in the door. He had short spiky white hair, and a red sweater with jeans on, making him look friendly and normal. A smile started to appear on his face as he said, "Alaric! Aidan! So good to see you again." He held out his hand for Alaric to shake, and did the same with Aidan. He then paused, and stared at me. "Hello there, pretty young lady, what's your name?"
I started to laugh inside my head, from thinking about what Aidan said earlier. "When we get out of this car, don't ask questions--- no, don't say anything." So, I didn't say anything. The man appeared to be confused on why I wasen't talking, so he turned to Alaric. That's when Aidan pinched me where he was holding my arm. I flashed an annoyed kind of glance towards him, which he did the same, but his was a glance that could kill, literally. "My name is Victoria." I answered quickly. He turned towards me, and smiled "Well, nice to meet you Victoria. I'm Lucian." He backed up into the house and held out an arm towards the inside, telling us we were allowed in.
Alaric walked in first, followed by me and Aidan. The house was as beautiful on the inside as it was on the outside. We stood at the end of a long hallway that had at-least ten doors on each side. A long maroon carpet went from the front door all the way to the back of the house where a set of stairs were, also lanterns were on both sides of the hallway, lighting the hallway up perfectly.
Lucian began walking with Alaric, starting up a conversation that was too quiet for me to hear. I started to follow Alaric, but Adian pulled me back with his tight grip he had on my arm. He stood behind me and whispered in my ear, "I wouldn't do anything stupid if I was you." He walked up beside me and put his arm around my waist, holding me tightly. I tried to budge from his grip but it just caused him to hold on tighter. We then started to follow Alaric, and Lucian, but kept a far distance away from them. I looked around and noticed that all the doors were closed, and it was extremely quiet except for the ticking of the big grandfather clock that was in the middle of the hallway. As we passed the grandfather clock, I glanced at it and it read, 1:35 am. How long have I been knocked out? I wondered.
When we all reached the stairwell, Alaric turned to me, and Aidan. "Victoria, Lucian is going to show you where you will be sleeping. So follow him, and we will see you tomorrow morning." Aidan let go of my waist and walked with Alaric in the direction we came from. I looked at Lucian and a smile appeared on his face as he started walking up the stair case. I followed him, afraid that I might get lost in this huge house.
As I was walking up the stairs a memory popped in my head. It was my first day with the Blaine family and I was walking down the stairs freaking out about what I was going to say to them at the dinner table. Then that's when I heard Daniel and Kyle yelling at me to get out of the way because they were having a race to see who could get downstairs first. Daniel won. I came back to reality and I laughed at my memory. Lucian stopped at the last step and turned around with a confused look on his face, so I shrugged my shoulders. He turned back around a continued walking down a long hallway. He was walking so fast I had to jog a little. Dang. This old guy can walk fast! As I finally caught up with Lucian he quickly stopped in front of a door, which caused me to run into him. "Ha. Sorry." I backed away, afraid that he might rip my head off like Aidan probably would. He took a bunch of keys out of his pocket that was all on a key ring. Why does he need to unlock the door? He's definantly not locking me in a strangers room! When he found the right key, he put it in the key hole and unlocked it with no hassle. He opened the door to the room, and disappeared into the darkness. I'm not walking in there. Lucian came into view, as he turned on a bed side lamp.
"Come on in." He whispered. I slowly walked in his direction, but I also began to look around. The room was white with a door in the back of the room, probably a bathroom. Also, two beds were next to each other. As I looked closer I began to notice that there was a body in one of the beds.
"Who's that?" I pointed to the figure laying in the other bed.
"That's Grace. You will be rooming with her. You can introduce yourself in the morning." He handed me what looked to be some black pj's. "Now go change for bed. I'll see you in the morning." He walked off, not giving me a chance to ask any more questions. I turned to look at the door as he closed it. I stopped breathing so I would be able to notice and hear if he was locking the door or not. Click. Dang it. I knew it. Why didn't you do anything? I asked myself. I stood in place, my body feeling too tired to even move, but I knew that there was nothing to do other than to get ready and go to bed. So I walked over to the other door, and sure enough, it was a bathroom. I walked in and flicked on the light as I closed the door. It was plain white bathroom, nothing special like Kelly's decorative, gold bathroom.
I looked in the mirror and saw a terrible looking person. My hair was extremely knotty and greasy looking, and I had dark circles against my pale skin. I turned on the facet and waited till the water was hot, and started splashing water on my face. I cleaned up the access water with a nearby towel, and looked at myself again. I was shocked to see that I was a little better looking than before. I looked more alive. I turned to see a sign above a small bin that said, "Dirty clothes." I shrugged and started to change into the black pj's that I was given. The pj's were soft and warm, and it didn't look half bad on me. I grabbed my clothes from the floor and placed it in the bin and headed back out into the room.
"Hi, I'm Grace." I practically jumped ten feet in the air. I looked over and the figure that was laying in the bed earlier was now sitting up. She looked to be about my age, maybe older. She had long straight blonde hair, which framed her tan face. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." I walked over to the other bed and sat on top of the covers.
"Hi." I began fidgeting with the white fluffy covers, not wanting to make eye contact, and not wanting to make a conversation.
"I'm so glad to have company. I haven't had someone to room with in forever." I looked over to her, and at that point she looked to be a desperate, lonely girl.
"Well, hopefully I won't be here long." I replied. I looked back down at the covers; picking off lose strings.
"Which one is yours?" I glanced back at her with a confused look. "Who is gunna claim you?" She added. I got up and sat on the edge of my bed closest to her. She's probably the one I can get answers from.
"What do you mean?" I asked. She got up from where she was sitting did the same, and sat on the edge of her bed closest to me; looking eager to tell me something that I didn't know. "You mean you don't know?" Her eyes got wide when I shook my head 'no'. "Whoever brought her here, must have not told her anything." She whispered to her self.
"Ahem." I cleared my throat, trying to tell her that I was still here wanting answers.
"I don't know where to begin.. Hmm" She closed her eyes and started tapping her pointer finger to her head. "Ooo, I know! Let me ask you this, have you come into contact with any... umm.. vampires?" When she said the word vampires, a picture formed in my head of Aidan with his sharp fangs, which caused a shiver to run up my spine. "Yes... I have." I said quietly, as I lowered my head.
"Do you know his name?" I looked at her with a painful expression. I can't believe she's making me say his name out loud. "Aidan." It was barely a whisper, but with the expression that came upon her face seemed as though I yelled it. "Your Victoria." She muttered. I snapped my head in her direction. "How did you know that?" She got up and sat next to me on the bed I was sitting on. "Everyone knows about you! Aidan is the most powerful vampire ever to live, and he's the one that claimed you. Well not yet, not until you change." I held up my hand, telling her to stop. "Claimed? Change? What do you mean by all that?"
She started to bite her finger nails, but stopped as she began, "When a vampire claims a human... it means that when they bite you, your theirs forever." My eyes widened, and I began to panic, "You mean Adian is going to bite me, and when he does I'm his what? Sister, cousin, aunt..." "Wife." She interrupted. I gave her a crazy look, because she didn't seem bothered by nothing at all. "This can't be happening. I don't want to be a wife to a vampire." I got up from where I was sitting and began pacing back and forth. I stopped in my tracks and pointed a finger in her direction. "You need to tell me everything." I started again, pacing back and forth, which is what I do when I'm extremely nervous.
She hesitated, "Well...I don't know." I ran over to her and sat next to her on the bed. "Please, I have been living in a cave for who knows how long. With a dude that almost bit me, if it wasen't for his "leader" stopping him! And I don't know anything!" I snapped. She began biting her finger nails again and kept staring back and forth from me to the floor. "Okay, I'll tell you everything. But you can't tell anybody that I told you, because if you haven't found out anything yet, theres a reason why." I shook my head 'yes' with excitement pulsing through my veins.
She started off slow, trying to put her words together. "There are many rules in the vampire world, but there is one important rule that every vampire must follow. Every vampire that reaches one hundred years of being a vampire has to claim a human. Which as I told you, to claim a human they have to bite the human they chose, and then the human will be changed into a vampire. But, the vampires can only change their human during a full moon. So this place, is a place where the vampires keep their humans until the full moon occurs. So this year, Aidan is one hundred, so he chose to claim you." She ended with a loud sigh and a smile as I shook my head in disbelief. Then she began, "When its a full moon, all the vampires get together and have a huge dinner. Then one by one they change their human." I gave her a confused, angry glare, because I was shocked on why she wasn't bothered by this. "Why would Aidan choose me?" I asked.
She got up and went over to her bed and laid on her side with one of her arms holding her head up. "Well I only know a little bit. But Aidan thinks that since your a daughter of a vampire--" I held up my hand to tell her to stop. "Wait, daughter of a what?" She shot up into a sitting position; looking excited about the fact that she gets the opportunity to talk some more. "You mean you don't know about your father?" I shook my head 'no'. "My father died before I was born." I muttered. She shook her head. "You really don't know anything." Her voice was soft, almost as if she was about to cry.
"Well, I don't know everything, I only know a little bit about your father." She said; sounding disappointed.
"Anything would be nice." I looked towards the carpet of the bedroom, wondering if I actually want to know about my father, but that thought was interrupted.
"Okay, I hope I don't mess this up because that would just totally suck." I laughed.
"Your father, before you were born, was a vampire." I shot a look towards her, but she kept going. "He wasen't like a typical vampire, that's why nobody liked him." She paused and began wrapping her covers around her. "Why didn't they like him?" I asked.
"Your father could walk around in the sun light. Which he could still burn, but only if he stayed out in the sun for a long periods of time. So everyone was jealous of him. They, as in meaning, old pale vampires that haven't been in the sun in... forever, were wanting to feel the warmth of the sun like he could."
"Do you know how my father died?" I asked, egar to hear what she had to say.
She hesitated, picking out her words so that they made sense. "Your father was killed because he didn't believe in the whole "claim and change human thing". He stood before the vampire council and told them that he wasen't going to do it, and that it was wrong. They told him that he had one more chance to claim a human, and they even gave him a human, so he didn't have to hunt for one." She lowered her head and finished, "Which that human was your mother." I closed my eyes and shook my head.
Here was this stranger that I just met, telling me things about my father that I never knew about. I didn't even know what he looked like. I thought.
She began again, "Your father and mother ran off with each other, but they both knew they would be found and both killed. They eventually fell in love but your father knew that if your mother didn't run away and leave his side, that they would be hunted down for the rest of their lives until they were dead. So your father sacrificed himself to save your mother, and told her to leave him, but before she left your father, she had you." She smiled, and began to get under her covers, as if she was done with answering questions, which I had a ton more to ask.
One of them being, "I thought vampires couldn't have babies with humans. Wait, my mother stayed a human... right?"
She laughed. "Yeah, she did, and that is a total myth, obviously."
"How come I wasn't born as a vampire then?" She rolled her eyes, clearly annoyed of all the questions. But she answered anyway, "If a vampire has a baby with a human, the baby will always be born as a human." She clapped her hands together, telling me she was done for the night... or morning, but I really didn't get the answer why Aidan chose me, so I had to ask.
"Now tell me again, why Aidan chose me?" I asked, quietly.
She sighed. "Aidan thinks that if he turns you into a vampire, you will have the same traits as your father, maybe something different and more powerful than being able to be in the sun... which means you will be his wife... so he thinks that he will be a powerful vampire... blah. blah. blah." I sat back against the head board of my bed, and began fidgeting with my pj's.
"Well goodnight." She added before laying down and covering herself with covers.
I leaned over and turned off the light, which the darkness created a weight on my eyes, which led me into a deep, deep sleep.
Yeah, this chapter was hard to write, just because of all the answers that I had to come up with and stuff. But if anyone gets confused, please feel free to message me.
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