Okay so here it is! Review please!

I don't own the Night World, duh!

Sam POV

By the time I got home, my head was pounding. This had happened several times in the last few months, it started with nausea, progressed to a headache and ended with my whole body feeling like it was going to explode out of my skin. Later on I craved meat, not weird at all right?

This headache was worse than the others, maybe they were getting worse.

Laying down on my bed, I kicked my shoes off and buried my head in the pillow. A few seconds later I was asleep.

My cell phone ring tone woke me up. The headache was gone and other than wanting a steak I had no other problems. Almost six p.m. and I hadn't had lunch, no wonder I was starving.

"Hello?" I answered groggily.

"Hello, Sam this is Theo. I did some um, research on your father and we need to talk immediately." He sounded worried.

After I agreed to meet him, I talked Theo into taking me out to dinner, because I really needed a steak.

I showered and put on some black leather pants, a black tank top and a black leather jacket. By the time I ran out the door it was only 6:25.

Theo met me outside the restaurant and we got a booth in the back away from everyone else. He seemed nervous and not happy to be around so many people.

"What's this about Theo?" I asked bluntly after the waitress brought us some water.

"Sam this is hard to tell you because I don't think you will believe me. But I need you to listen and think about what I'm saying." I nodded and he went on." Have you ever noticed that you don't fit in among your classmates? Your father and me are, were not not human. Your father was a shapeshifter like me. Your mother was human. They fell in love, but among our people there are laws to help keep our world safe. The first is not to tell humans about the Night World and the second is to never love a human. Your father broke both laws. The Night World elders found out and sent people after your parents, but they did not know about you. Your parents died to protect you."

"Okay first what's the Night World?"My head was spinning with a hundred questions and thinking about my parents made me want to cry.

"The Night World is a sort of organization of vampires, werewolfes, witches, and shapeshifters. We live among humans in secret." I could tell he was still nervous talking in public.

"Whoa, does that mean I'm a shapeshifter too?" I was starting to figure things out.

"Yes it does."I guess I must have looked surprised because he smiled and continued, "You are a lion. One of the great cats, very rare."

I just sat there for a few minutes and stared at my hands in my lap. Then the waitress interrupted my thoughts asking if we were ready to order. After Theo ordered I got a steak, when she asked me how I wanted I thought for a minute and decided on rare.

"A steak rare, it is a sign of your cravings. You need blood and meat. I have done some research on half shapeshifters. Because of your human blood you were able to get to age 17 without showing obvious signs. But lately I bet you have been getting headaches, waves of nausea, cravings and a sensation of your skin being to tight all around your body." I nodded."This is because of not going through the change. If I were to go weeks without changing and hunting the same things would happen. Because you are half human you did not need to change until now." The waitress brought our food and I almost ate my steak with my hands.

We didn't talk again until Theo drove me home.

"What will happen now?" I asked because I had been thinking about it for a while.

"Well I will use my connections with Circle Daybreak to replace you in a home with other 'shifters. They will teach you how to change and hunt."

"Circle Daybreak?" That was a weird name and I almost laughed.

"Circle Daybreak is like an organization within the Night World that is trying to bring all the races including humans together. If we told the Night World council about you they would kill you, but the Daybreakers will help you." We pulled into my driveway. "Pack as much as you can tonight and I will call you tomorrow with more details on where you will be going." I nodded and got out of the car.