Hey guys a special thanks to everyone who reviewed. I actually rewrote the first half of this chapter for the two reviewers who are Christophe fans. For my Graves fans believe me I'm getting there. I'm even excited to have Dru and Graves finally get together, I just need to build into it.

I pumped this chapter out in one night so the more you review the more inspired I am to write.

Like I said last chapter I'm going away for a couple of days so the earliest I'll be able to update again is Wednesday. Its either going to be one long chapter or two chapters depending if I get a chance to write.

Anyways I'll let you get to the story now. By the way I don't own any of the settings or characters from Strange Angels.

Chapter 3

"We have to stop meeting like this." I mumbled rubbing the remains of sleep out of my eyes.

Before I could put my arm back under the blanket Christophe quickly took a hold of it. I watched as he slowly brought my hand to his lips, kissing it gently.

The touch of his lips brought on different memories; one being the kiss he gave me at Andy's house. Then the memory of him biting me, slowing tearing away pieces of me.

At that thought I quickly tried to shake my hand free, but Christophe's hold just tightened.

"I can smell the change in you. You'll soon be blooming." He whispered finally letting go of my hand.

"How soon, is soon?" I wondered quietly, tucking my arm back under the blanket.

"Two weeks tops. You must ensure that you receive training before that or you could end up losing control." He explained to me.

"It's already taken care of Augie is to be my mentor for the time being." I informed him.

"Augustine is here? Good now we have someone on the inside we can trust. Did Charles give you a hard time?"

I almost laughed at that. "He tried, but Graves pretty much put him in his place."

"Speaking of dogs…what are you going to do about Ash? He's a risk to your safety." Christophe was making it pretty obvious that he was still mad about me making him take Ash with us.

"I'm still trying to figure it out. As for him being a risk to my safety, he's saved me twice now. If he wanted me dead I would be." I was starting to get upset. All I wanted to do was go back to sleep. Knowing Augie tomorrow was going to be very painful.

"You're not going to listen to me, are you?" he sighed

"Nope, not at all." I replied lowering myself back down onto my pillow.

"Alright little one I'll let you sleep." He whispered leaning over to kiss my forehead and then he disappeared

……….

When I woke up again it was to the sound of knocking on my door and Graves shouting for me to wake up.

"Go away," I grumbled "it's still dark out."

I could hear Graves laugh on the other side of the door.

"Either get up and get in the shower or I'll make sure there's no hot water."

"You're evil!" I shouted throwing off my covers and opening the door to see Graves looking pretty proud of himself.

"I'm up, I'm up." I said making my way to the shower.

"Good. When you're done we can talk about the visitor we had this morning."

"Great" I mumbled shutting the door.

My shower didn't seem like it could last long enough. I wasn't ready to tell Graves that in less than two weeks I would be blooming into a half sucker.

When I got out of the shower Graves was sitting on the couch waiting for me.

I sat down next to him, tucking my legs under me and faced him.

"Christophe came to see me." I told him flat out.

"And what did our lovely friend want?" he questioned full disdain.

"He told me I was going to bloom in less than two weeks." I blurted out, trying to rip this band aid off as quickly as possible.

"Oh," Graves said surprised "Um okay." He added trying to regain his composure.

"No, Graves not okay. I'm becoming part sucker and you're part wulf. What if my changing makes us hate each other? You saw what it was like at the other Schola." I rushed. It was like the faster I spoke the less painful this would be.

"That's not going to happen." Graves answered evenly.

"You don't know that!" I almost shouted at him. Why wasn't he as upset about this as me?

"Yeah, I do. We were friends before all this shit happened and we'll continue to be friends after."

I couldn't believe how calm he was. He had so much faith in our friendship, in me, that he wasn't even worried.

"What if I bloom and I can't control myself?" I said now voicing my main concern.

"Then we'll work through it. Dru the only way I'll ever stop being there for you is if you don't want me there anymore. Even then I might put up a fight."

I didn't know what to say so I just nodded.

"Alright then, I got up early to talk to Augustine about your training. We both agreed your main focus should be on combat and defense and if we have time left over some other classes like history and stuff."

"Great I'll be sure to thank you as I get my ass handed to me by Augie." I moaned

How is it I could go from no training to almost 24-7 worth?

"No problem. Come on lets go get some food in you so you can throw it up later." He laughed pulling me off the couch.

"I'm glad my pain humors you." I whined climbing to my feet and following him out the door.

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