"Oh god, oh god." I kept saying. I felt my back hit a wall and slid down to the floor. I was crying.

How could I kill Jason? My mind blocked out everything and I sat there, feeling my mind curl in on its self again.

"Stop crying." Came Jason's voice from somewhere outside my little bubble of depression. I felt like he was talking through a tube. "I'm fine. I just passed out for a minute."

"Jason!" I shouted. I tried to jump up to him, but suddenly I was feeling woosy.

"Just sit down for a bit. Your body is probably changing." Richard said soothingly. "I really have no idea what happens, but I know it can't be easy on you."

Richard sat down beside me. I tried to push him away, but I was too weak to. "It's okay. You didn't kill him." Richard said, his voice low and gentle.

"Almost did. Probably would have." I said, my body shaking. "I can't lose someone else. I can't."

"You won't." He assured me.

"I just want to sleep." I said, and rested my head on his shoulder. And I did sleep. For a long time.

When I awoke, my body felt regenerated. I stood up, a little to quickly. The room spun. They must have turned the lights on, because I could see everything finally. The room was small. There was two little beds in it. Nothing else. Not even a bed frame for the mattresses, or any blankets or sheets.

Richard sat beside where I stood,his eyes were open and they followed me as I stood. Jason sat on one of the beds, glaring at Richard and I.

"When did the turn the lights on?" I asked.

"They didn't." Jason said, his voice lacking all emotion.

"You don't have to shout." I said, my ears ringing.

"I didn't." He said, but he had lowered his voice.

"You boys ready for dinner?" Came Kat's voice from the other side of the door. She sounded flirty.

"I'm not a fan-banger!" Jason yelled angrily. He realized what he said and turned towards me.

Great. So now that I've... become a vampire? Is that what happened? I didn't feel like a vampire. But the way Jason had looked at me, I knew that's what I was considered now. And he would never want me again. Not that I was positive he had had actually really wanted me in the first place. By the point I decided that the only reason he even kissed me was because he had been in a bad place, emotionally. It had nothing to do with liking me as much as it did him just being vulnerable.

"I didn't-"

"Jackass." Richard muttered under his breath as Kat walked into the room. She wore a really short skirt, and a really low cut top. Both Jason and Richard checked her out. She walked over to Richard and put her hand on his cheek.

"Hungry, handsome?" She asked. He blinked. She put a tray of food in front of him, then walked over to Jason.

After putting a plate in front of Jason, she put a finger under his chin and turned his head sideways. "What about you?" She said sweetly. Jason cringed. She pressed her glossed lips lightly to his neck.

Just like in the car, something inside me snapped. I lunged at her. This time I actually knocked her over. I landed on top of her, my legs straddling her body. I grabbed her by the hair and slammed her head into the floor. Once, twice, three times before she finally passed out.

I stood up, shaking again. I knew for sure she wasn't dead, but she was unconscious for a moment, which gave us time to escape.

"Be careful." I whispered. "Bishop's still here. He might have heard the commotion. I should go first."

Slowly I slipped out of the room, being as quiet as possible, which was apparently pretty quiet. I couldn't even hear my own footsteps. When I couldn't see anyone, I motioned for Jason and Richard to exit the room. Quickly, I shooed them out the door.

I was following them through the trees towards town when I heard someone behind us. I slowed, but Richard didn't notice. He kept running. Jason slowed, coming to a complete stop to turn and look at me. I put a finger to my lips. It was night time, but I could still see perfectly.

Someone ran behind us, but they weren't being quiet. The footsteps ran right past Jason and I. When they were far enough gone, I slowly moved towards Jason. I grabbed his hand and together we ran back into the main part of Morganville.

TPU was the first place we got to. It was closest to Bishop's hide out, and there was enough people there that Jason and I could blend in.

When we got there, people stared and Jason and I weirdly.

"What's wrong with us?" I asked, as another student looked Jason and I up and down.

Jason stopped and looked at me. He reached up and rubbed something off my chin. "Blood." He said quietly.

"Jason! Emma!" Someone called. We both turned, my eyes were wide, frightened. But it was Claire and Eve!

"Oh, god." I said, panting. I wasn't out of breath, but I was so filled with adrenaline that I couldn't calm down. "Bishop-back... Richard!"

"Have you seen Richard?" Jason asked, more in control of his mouth than I was.

"What's wrong?" Eve asked immediately.

"Bishop. He kidnapped Emma and Richard and I." Jason said. I was so surprised at how calm he was. "We need to see Amelie before they find us."

Claire held out her phone, not even questioning us. "There's a contact number for her on there. How is he back?"

"It's my fault." I told her and Eve. "All of it. Kat made Bishop drink my blood, even though he was dead. Because I'm half vampire, my blood brought him back."

"Not half vampire anymore." Jason said quietly.

Eve and Calire's eyes widened. "Do you mean-?"

"I... I drank Jason's blood." I said, and Eve's eyes widened even more until I thought they would pop out of her sockets.

"It was the only way we could have managed to escape." Jason said, and he gently put a hand on my arm. When he realized what he'd done, he pulled it back abruptly.

Jason dialed Amelie's number than passed the phone to me. "Why me?" I asked, scared. I grabbed the phone anyways.

"Claire, I don't have time right now. It had better be important." She said briskly.

"It's not Claire." I said, trying to keep my voice calm. "It's Emma. I have something important to tell you."

"Well, hurry up, then. I have a missing mayor to locate." She said, sounding annoyed.

"I can help with that too." I said. Then I explained to her everything that had happened, beginning with Kat bringing me to Bishop and ending with our escape.

"Thank you Emma. I think I should advise both you and Jason to stay where you are. It's not safe for the two of you to be out in public right now." She said calmly. "I'll be dealing with this, but when it's over I will need to speak to you."

"Alright." I said quietly. "Goodbye."

She hung up the phone.

"We're not supposed to leave." I told Jason. Then I turned to Claire and Eve. "Thank god you guys were here. But what are you doing here? There can't be classes this late."

"Work. Claire stayed late with me so I wouldn't have to drive back alone." Eve told me. "You guys can come hang out at the back of the shop until Amelie tells us it's safe for you to leave."

We all followed Eve back into a small common room inside one of TPU's buildings. She led us behind the counter and into a small room with a bunch of blockers, and a small couch.

"It's not a palace, but it's safe enough." Eve said. "We have to get Shane and Michael, but we'll be back."

"Alright." I said as they walked away.

Jason and I both settled in on the couch. There was nothing to do but to talk, or sit there. Apparently Jason decided that doing nothing was better than talking to me.

"Do I look any different?" I finally asked, after too much uncomfortable silence.

Jason looked me up and down, and studied my face. "No. You still look like you. Still too good." He said quietly.

"Too good?" I asked, confused.

Jason hesitated, then let everything slip out. "You're so pure. It drives me crazy. You have no idea what I've done." Jason said, and stood up. "And I don't want you to know. I don't want you to look at me with those beautiful blue eyes filled with disappointment, or horror. I couldn't take that."

"Eve told me. About most of it, you know. And I don't think you're horrible." I said, and pulled him back down onto the couch. He obeyed.

"I'm scared I'm going to hurt you the way I hurt everyone else around me." He spoke so softly I could barely hear him.

"That's not true!" I told him.

"It is, most of the time. If I don't hurt them, they hurt me, so I learned to do the hurting before they can do it to you." He said, finally meeting my eyes.

"You can't think that way. You'll miss out on great things in life."

"Like what?" He asked. His eyes dropped momentarily to my lips. "Like you?"

I laughed quietly. "I'm not that easy to get rid of." I said, and pressed my lips against his.

Suddenly a bunch of people burst into the back room.

"We have to go. Now!" Eve shouted. She ran towards Jason and I and pulled us up. Claire, Shane and Michael were here as well.

"There's vampires attacking on campus." Michael said, but he was still calm. "We can all squeeze into my car."

We all hurried towards the dark tinted car. Almost everyone was inside when Jason was pulled away from me. We had been holding hands as we ran. I tried to go after him, but Michael caught my arm. He shoved me into the car, and slammed the door. He came in from the driver's side door.

The second he settled in he took off. "What about Jason?" I shouted in the small space. "We can't just leave him!"

"What?" Eve shouted. I saw her roll down her window and push her head out. "Michael, we have to go back."

"I know, but right now, you guys are my top priority." He replied. He hadn't slowed down, and I didn't think he would.

Eve and I both stared, horror struck, as someone dragged Jason into another vampire car.