Okay, even though I didn't get a lot of reviews, I have decided to update because I'm going out of town for a week for my birthday. (July 31st! Which it's a biggie. Turning 18!) :D But thank you to everyone who reviewed last chapter. I appreciate it.

This chapter was easy to write because it was interesting. You will learn a lot. Hehe. :D So I hope you enjoy!

My body froze in place as I heard a twig snapping. I wasn't sure if it was far away or near by, but my instincts told me to turn around and run. But before I could, something hard and sharp hit my head, knocking me to the ground. I wanted to turn around but something or someone was putting pressure on my back, causing me to be stuffed in the ground. When I pushed off the ground one last time, the same hard and sharp object hit my head again. This time, knocking me completely unconscious.

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My eyes widened and I felt a rush of fear flow through me. Nothing but darkness surrounded me, making it even creepier. I closed my eyes and let my ears try to pick up small sounds, anything that would give me a sign on whether I was alone or not. I started to hear small little feet walking along the ground near me and making high pitch squeaking noises.

Mice. I thought. I listened more closely and a rhythmic tapping started to creep up on me, closer and closer.

"Hello? Is any one here?" I yelled. I waited for an answer but no one said anything, the tapping just continued. "Hello?" I yelled once again; with a little more panic in my voice.

"Calm down." A deep familiar voice shot through the darkness, making me sit back in my seat a little more.

"Who are you? Where am I?" I asked, panicking even more. A bright light turned on, causing me to quickly close my eyes. I held up my hand to block the bright light, and opened my eyes; revealing the guys black pants.

"I can't believe you haven't recognized my scent yet, or my voice." He teased.

I caught my breath as I figured it out. The scent, his voice. "Caden?" I wondered aloud. I put my hand down after realizing that my eyes were finally used to the bright light, which revealed a calm looking Caden, casually sitting back in his seat.

"Finally." He said while sitting up in his seat, leaning a little too close to me. "I thought you would have figured it out a long time ago."

I had so many questions I had to ask him, which I was afraid to even open my mouth because I didn't want all the questions to rush out in one jumbled mess. So I took a deep breath to calm myself and to collect my thoughts, which seemed to make me more content. "What do you want, and where am I?" I asked, while letting out a big breath.

He held his hands up, telling me to calm down. "I know you have a lot of questions, so I'll just answer everything right now." He took a deep breath and leaned back in his chair.

"You are in a small, old cabin out in the woods near your house. You have only been knocked out for ten minutes, and I was supposed to bring you here to kill you, but I have changed my mind." He smiled, like telling me that he was supposed to kill me was no big deal. It was to me!

"What do you mean you were supposed to kill me, but you have changed your mind?" Rage was flowing through my body, I wanted to jump up and scream in his face.

He chuckled a little bit and pointed to the side where a pile of different weapons rested. "Well, the reason why I haven't killed you yet is because I know the real you and your history, which my father does not." Everything that he was telling me, seemed to go in one ear and out the other. It didn't tell me anything.

"I still don't get it." I admitted. He ran his hands through his dark brown, side swipe hair and sighed. "Since I decided not to kill you, I didn't want you to just go inside your house and for me to forget everything, I thought I could bring you here and you could learn more about me."

I leaned back in my seat and crossed my arms. "I'm not what you think I am." He said, sounding dangerous. I wanted to sit up and look interested but I remained looking uninterested and upset. "Okay. Go ahead." I stated, sounding bored.

He got up from his seat and started pacing around the cabin. "I'm sorry, I don't know how to begin." He paused in his tracks and turned towards me.

"Victoria. I'm a vampire too. Well not a 'full' vampire but I'm not half either." He waited for a reaction or maybe for me to run out of the cabin, but I was too dumb-struck.

"Wh-what?" I stammered.

He shook his head before continuing. "Yeah. I have been a vampire for a hundred years so far." He said sounding enthusiastic. "S-s-so you have been alive for a hundred and seventeen years?" I asked still trying to recover from what he has just told me.

He shook his head and stared off into the distance; distracted. "Me and my family were walking home one night, from a party and we were attacked by a gang of vampires. There were four vampires in the gang. One for each of us. The one that had me, bit down on my neck and started to drink my blood. Which I knew the others were doing the same. I wanted so badly to push the vampire off of me and save my family, but they were too strong to fight off and were too fast to run from." He paused and sighed, looking frustrated, like he wasn't happy the fact that he couldn't do anything about it.

"Something scared them away, leaving us to just die on the pavement. But the one that bit me and my father didn't get very far into the whole drinking of our blood thing so we were able to get up to check on my brother and mother. They weren't doing too good. So we took them home, and my father called a special doctor that knows about stuff like this, but when he got to our house, my mother and brother stopped breathing. He told us some horrible news." He closed his eyes and shivered.

"He told us that my mother was gone for good. That the vampire just 'sucked her dry'. But as for my brother, the doctor told us that the vampire left some blood in his body and the vampires venom mixed, causing him to become a vampire himself." He finally finished and got out of his daze and looked at me, which I had a lot of questions.

"Well how are you not a full vampire?" I asked.

He shrugged his shoulders. "The vampires that bit me and my father didn't drink to the point of us becoming full vampires, and not half either. We are not full vampires or half vampires because we still have the strength and speed and cravings as full vampires but everyday it's different. One day we might have just strength, no speed and no cravings, or the opposite. Me and my father didn't get the traits of having black or ruby colored eyes, or not being able to walk in the sun, but that was just pure luck that we didn't get that trait." He sat back in his chair, sitting casually once again.

"A couple weeks later, my dad found a great organization that helps people like us. Me and my father joined it, but my brother didn't want anything to do with it. He wanted to live like a normal vampire. Like, drink human blood, 'claim humans', which this organization didn't allow that. They lived by the 'Thomas Sherwood Code'."

That hit me like a ton of bricks. "That's my father's name." I whispered to myself, but he heard it.

"Yeah, that's your father. The 'Thomas Sherwood Code' was created after your father died. It is something that vampires can live by, but you have to follow it in order to be in the organization. Which you can only drink animal's blood, can't 'claim humans', can't kill any human, and there's something else but I can't remember. Most of the vampires thats apart of this organization are vampire hunters, like me and my father. We go out and kill new vampires which are always out of control in the beginning, and we kill the vampires that go around changing humans, or killing them for fun."

"How did you know about my father?" I was whispering; still in disbelief.

"Well my father told me that I was supposed to kill a new vampire that lived in the area, which I found out was you. So last night I followed you and you ended up staying at your werewolf boyfriends house. While you guys were cleaning today, I eavesdropped and heard you talking about your father and saw how in control you were with your eating habits and abilities, that I realized you should live." He stopped and smiled.

I shook my head and closed my eyes while running a hand through my hair. This is too much. I thought. I figured that Caden could read my thoughts; but I didn't care.

That's when it hit me. The incident that happened last night when I thought someone was outside Collin's window. My head snapped up, and my expression changed from confusion to a glare.

"Were you outside Collin's window last night?" I asked, almost growling.

He scooted more back into his chair; looking uncomfortable. "Uh, yeah. Until you screamed." He laughed, but stopped when I got up from the seat.

"I can't take this anymore. I need to get home before I get into trouble." I reached for the door knob but Caden appeared in front of it in less than a second. "You can't leave. I'm not done yet." He was almost begging.

I crossed my arms, showing that I wasn't going to give in. "Please sit back down. I haven't told you the most important part." He pleaded once again. We stood staring at each other for a little bit before I rolled my eyes and headed back to the seat I was sitting in.

"What now? Are you part werewolf too? Maybe you turn into a dragon or something?" I teased. He laughed as he sat down.

"No, I wish I could turn into a dragon." He laughed even more before turning serious.

"Please don't freak out, or run away until you tell me how you feel about it. Okay?" He asked. I shook my head, feeling a little bit worried.

He dug into his pocket and grabbed what he needed and held it in his closed fist. He took a deep breath and held it out to me."I found it in Collin's room. Your scent, along with his was very strong, so I knew it was yours and that he had claimed you." He gently said, almost whispering.

I caught my breath when he revealed the ruby ring Aidan had given me when he claimed me. The memory of Alaric and I waiting for Aidan to return popped in my head, when he told me about this ring.

"Every vampire gives their human that they change, something. In which this case, he gave you a ring. That ring there, is a one of a kind. The stone is made up of Aidan's scent, which you can not smell because you are a young vampire and not all of your abilities have kicked in yet. But when other vampires smell two scents mixed together, they will know that you have been claimed. They will especially know Aidan's scent."

"When you and Collin left to get more cleaning supplies, I went into the house and found the ring in his room."

I knew he was talking but I was still in shocked about the fact that he even knew about Aidan. But then it hit me. The memory of Caden and I when we were at the party and talking on the bridge popped in my head.

"Aidan." I quickly sputtered out. I waited for a 'no', maybe a laugh, heck, maybe even a 'yes, maybe he actually knew an Aidan; but he just sat there, not saying a word. I could feel the awkwardness flowing in the now existing wind, making me wish I was back at the party, or even better... at home.

But he finally shifted so he was leaning against the handrail of the bridge. "Yeah, I do know an Aidan." My head snapped in his direction and my expression was shocked. Not because he knew an Aidan but because of the way he said it. He said it slowly and unsure, it sounded almost as if he was scared like me of a guy named Aidan.

"You know Aidan?" I choked out; still in shock. There was a long awkward pause and an unbearable silence, but when he finally spoke, relief washed over me.

"I do." He shifted in his seat, looking uncomfortable. "He's--" He took in several deep breaths and ran his hand through his dark hair, revealing his pretty green eyes. "He's my brother." He closed his eyes, like he was afraid that I would do something to him. But I was frozen in my seat. My mouth was open in shock and I stopped my breathing. A million things were rushing through my mind: memories, possibilities, my mother, Daniel, Collin, what happened last night.

"He's my brother that wanted to live the vampire life. He's my twin brother." That's when everything came together. The reason why Caden looked so familiar the first day I met him, hes just a little bit muscular and taller than Aidan and not pale white.

"I-" I shook my head in disbelief. "I ha- have to go." I stammered while getting up. He grabbed my hand making me stand in place. "Please don't go." He begged. I turned to him. A hissing noise erupted in my chest, but I didn't mean to do it, my body seemed to have done it on it's own. "I need to go. They will be worried if I'm not home soon."

He let go of my hand and I started to walk quickly to the door. As I walked out into the cool breeze, the hissing stopped and I felt a little bit calmer. Before I took a step into the forest, Caden yelled from the cabin. "Don't forget, you could be dead by now!" I sighed before running at vampire speed into the bright, moon lit forest; heading to the place I love the most. Home.

I need you Collin. I need you.

Well you learned a lot about Caden in this chapter!! Some interesting stuff. I really hope alot of people review. Maybe review as a birthday gift! :D I really want to know what people think of this story, because this story is coming to an end pretty soon, and I'm debating with myself on whether I should have a sequel or not.

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