A/N: Okay, thanks to all of your AMAZING reviews, I'm going to update today! How awesome am I? Do you love me? Anyway, on with the show!

Lucy POV

After we had finished watching Orphan, we settled down a bit and changed into our pyjamas. I may have changed my hair colour and everything, but I still had the same old Lucy-Fashion. I wore my nightdresses all of the time, and still wore scarves and skirts, but with Stakes strapped t my leg underneath them.

We turned the main lights off and flicked on our bedside table ones, all stretching out onto the white duvets and wiggling our toes to get comfortable.

"So, Lucy," Chloe began, getting ready for a good gossip. I sighed and laughed. "What's going on with you and your dear Nathaniel?" she wiggled her eyebrows and I laughed again. Hunter joined me after seeing our best friend's suggestive face.

"Nothing much, really," I replied. "He's great, period. Now, you and your darling Alexandra?" I mocked. She blushed scarlet. "Has he asked you out, yet?"

"No," she said, looking sad.

"He will, Chloe. You can tell by the way he looks at you. It's obvious that he likes you. He kind of . . . Looked like he wanted to come kill Sam when he asked to go to Lucy's party with him the other night" Hunter added. Me and Chloe looked at each other, a silent agreement in our eyes.

"So, Hunter," Chloe said casually. "We saw you and Jarred the other day . . . " Hunter's eyes widened and I took off where Chloe had trailed off.

"You know, when you were meeting 'covertly' in the bushes . . . After we had Fighting Class . . . " I continued. I could tell that she was mortified that we knew about these secret meetings of hers. It had been going on for the past two months, so we thought that we'd have some fun with it.

Chloe picked up again.

"When you were kissing . . ."

Hunter looked as though she was about to scream. I stifled laughter as she bit her lip.

"Fine!" she yelled. "Yes, me and Jarred have been dating for two months, now. He's awesome, I love him and everything. Happy?" she said all in one breath. Chloe and I stared at her in shock and plain surprise.

"Love?" Chloe asked.

Hunter blushed suddenly and looked down, before our dorm room door was almost knocked to the carpeted ground by a loud knocking. Courtney burst into the room, suddenly. She had Suze, Elle Hanna and Jen her side.

"You're dating Ja-" Hanna attempted to squeal, before Courtney cut her off.

Bitch.

Hanna's blonde hair was pulled back into a neat ponytail, which was now messed up, seems as the girls had all just barged into our room and fallen to the ground. They slowly got up, showing no signs of embarrassment.

"Shut up, Hanna. Now, Hunter. You're dating Jarred Lister?" Courtney said in a calm voice.

"Yes, she is, now get out," Chloe and I said at the same time. We hated Courtney equally, and knew that Suze, Elle, Hanna and Jen only stayed with her because she threatened them to.

Once again, bitch.

"No," the bitch argued. "I just want to ask Hunter a few questions, first."

She sat on the edge of my bed and I raised my eye brow, watching her.

"What do you think you're doing?" I asked her, trying to keep myself from hissing. She looked up at me innocently. "Courtney, I'm going to give you one chance to get the hell out of our dorm room." I was literally hissing the words, so something must have reacted in her, because the next minute, she was out the door and back into her own room. Hanna and her friends were left behind. I took on a more softer tone. "You know, you shouldn't let her boss you around like that."

"I know," Jen said, looking down.

"You all say that she threatened you," Chloe said. "But what does she really have on you?"

They all suddenly looked up, realising that Courtney's threats were fake.

"Thanks," they all said rushing out the door and closing it.

"Thanks, guys," Hunter said, relieved. "That could have been a mess."

"We know," Chloe and I said in unison.

"Now, shall we go to sleep?" I said. I was getting tired. "We can talk again in the morning."

My friends nodded and turned off the lamps, getting under the duvets and going to sleep.

Nicholas POV (weren't expecting that, huh?)

In my head, I was counting down the days to Lucy's eighteenth. I should have been there with her, dancing and celebrating with her, not stuck with my family in London. Not that I didn't love my brothers, parents and Isabeau, but really, really missed Lucy.

I had been so cold to her when I told her that we were leaving, and regretted every 48 seconds of it. I felt terrible leaving her house, hearing her cries and sobs echoing in my head, even as I was in my own home.

I looked over to the other side of the room to see Mom on the phone to somebody, speaking harshly into it. Poor phone.

"What? No, she couldn't have. She wouldn't do that! Even if we did leave, then she wouldn't join the Helios Ra! She was like a daughter to me!"

I realised that the girl that my Mom was talking about was Lucy.

She had joined the Helios Ra? No. She wouldn't.

I listened for the other side of the conversation. It was a man with a deep voice. . . A Scottish accent . . .

Bruno!

"Well, we've got some photos of the lass staking vampires if you want. She is the best weapon those Helios have ever had! The wee lass had grown up, Helena. I'm tellin' ya."

Mom sighed in deeply before saying thanks to Bruno and hanging up the phone. She yet noticed me standing in front of her, being preoccupied by talking to Bruno, but she looked up at me after she had snapped the phone shut.

"Nicholas, I know that you heard that," she sighed. I was still frozen. "Yes, we believe that Lucy has joined the Helios Ra, and yes, she has killed many vampires. It was her decision, Nicholas. Kieran asked her to join after an attack, when she did very well defending herself. Her parents got killed in that attack, so she agreed and is now an agent."

"He-her Mom and Dad are . . . Dead?" I heard a whisper coming from the doorway. Solange.

My baby sister walked in and stood next to me, just as still as me.

"K-K-Kieran? Is he okay? Lucy? Helios Ra?" I could tell that this was all too much for my sister to take in. she was only seventeen, and still missed her best friend as much as I missed my beautiful girlfriend.

"Yes, Solange, she did. It was her decision," Mom said, repeating her words from earlier. Solange broke down into tears and collapsed on the old rug we stood on. I kneeled down next to her, rubbing her back.

"It'll be alright," I said, although I knew that it wouldn't be. That I was lying to both my sister and myself. "It'll be alright."

A/N: Okay, what d'ya think? I'm quite excited for this story, now! Thank you so much for all of the reviews! Oh, and this set after Blood Feud, in case you don't know. That means that Hunter & Quinn haven't met.

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Yet.

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