Chapter 13

Timmy pulled back into the brush, nerved by what he had seen. It was strange to see the girl before and remembered the child that he had been before. That she had been before. He remembered that day.

When they had gone to the amusement park… the water that was splashing, the kids that were running around them, screaming with joy. His own voice had once been part of them. He had so wanted to be as strong and as big as Rashel, he wanted to be able to keep up with her.

He remembered how unfair it had been, how much he wanted to climb up with her, but he couldn't he was never strong enough or fast enough to keep up with her.

And then Hunter had come along. Offering something, a salvation from weakness, the fact that his lungs weren't as strong and his muscles that couldn't seem to catch up with his own sister. Hunter had given him a chance to get away form all the weakness and be strong, stronger than Rashel and the kids that had picked on him at school.

That had been Hunter Redfern's charity for him, a change for redemption. Right?

Lately after seeing so much he wasn't so sure anymore. But what else was there to do? After Hunter had shown him so much, a taste of power that wasn't bound by freedoms that were chained by limitations and other's laws. There was no other feeling like that, to be part of the nightworld, even with his body and own limitations he was stronger then even the strongest of the men that walk around in the sun and sleep at night.

Hunter had seemed to do this out of kindness, but was that really that? Now he was beginning to doubt that. After all, where was he now? Why hadn't he come for him? After all Hunter had made himself Timmy's father. Even with his human mother, Timmy never had a father, and that woman had never talked about the man that had given birth to him, so Hunter had become the parent he had never had. It had been wonderful.

So where was he?

The children that ran around the grass screaming their heads off showed no amusement for him. That stupid werewolf had no idea what he was thinking. If only the sun wasn't at its highest, then he would have shown them what happens when you mess with a son of the Redferns.

He would prove what a son of the Redfern's should act, not like that character that walked around with a cocky attitude pretending that he was still important. He had no right to carry the name of Redfern. Yet there he stood with no other prerogative except to do as he pleased and to fawn over that silly human.

That silly human…. She was something else that he cold never understand, what he could never understand about the fact that she could seem to be so weak and fragile until her voice came out and it was if there was something like a iron strength that would empower those around her… if that even made any sense.

"Confusing humans." He muttered

"They are a bit of a nuisance, after all vermin have no other existence except to squander around our feet and live off of others." The voice was cold and cruel and so familiar.

Her hair was pin straight and gleamed like the razors that smiled out from cruel face. He had never known her real name, not even Hunter was privileged to know her name. A friend of Maya herself, the first Vampire, and the second made vampire in history; the only name that anyone in the nightworld knew her by was Belladonna. A plant that if eaten or drank would poison the consumer in a slow and painful death in sleep.

Even with the small amount of fear that was clutching at his unbeating heart he kept his face calm and impassive just like Hunter had taught him. And yet there was a stirring inside him. Surely now… "Have you come to get me? I've been held here against my will for almost a year now!"

The young girl nodded her head, "Yes. Hunter now has been able to send off people to come and get you. I don't think that you realize the position that you're in. After all you are in the strong hold of circle daybreak and Thierry." She said the Lord's name with such a bitterness that it was if ice was literally forming around them.

"You would be great asset to Hunter Redfern if you could help us with that then you shall be place in higher authorities then you already are. You may have the appearance of a small boy still, but Hunter thinks that you might be able to start handling things on your own. He dos not blame you for trying to make your escape, in fact he applauds you for sticking it out in enemy territory, others would have begged for us to save them or have tried to escape." Timmy wasn't sure if Belladonna was congratulating him or mocking him.

But it didn't matter Hunter had remembered him and he thought that Timmy was a valuable, important, to him. This was his chance to prove that he could handle everything that the Redfern clan could and would assign him. It was his turn to be relied upon. All the doubts of Hunter drained away at that moment and filled with guilt and a sense of pride of the strongest vampire.

"Now before that traitor and his toy come to find you with at mongrel pay close attention to what I have to say. Hunter has given me full range to do with, as I will with all of these humans that are destroying the balance of the nightworld. Frankly this is going to be amusing for me. Now tell me as much as you can about the plans of this mansion." She tossed the boy a cell phone. "Now your going to help me decide on the first victim preferably one of first and closest traitors to the Redfern family. Hunter would rather there be one that sends a message to the rest of the traitors. Do you have any idea who goes first?"

(Please R&R to let me know what you think! If you want to see something happen I will take it into consideration. Perhaps you want a small piece of your favorite nightworld couple? Or a scenario to happen.)