Chapter Seventeen: My Daddy's a Vampire?

'Where's Mum Max?'

'I think she's still in her room. Izzy just told me that Dad was gone and not to go into their room. And she's looking for you.'

'Where is she?'

'I dunno, she's probab-'

'ALEC!'

'-ly here.' Izzy came running up to us, she pushes us into the elevator and pressed the up button before the door closed. Max was left standing on the ground floor. Ding. She grabbed Magnus and I by the arm and dragged us to our parent's room.

'Izzy what's wrong?'

'Dad tried to bite Mum, not a cute little love bite, but a chomp at her neck!'

'Where's Mum now? Where's Dad?'

'Mum's in her room, she doesn't want to speak to anyone, she locked the door and Raphael's looking for Dad, after he attacked Mum he ran.'

'We didn't see him run past us?' Magnus said.

'That's because he jumped out the window.' Magnus and I shared a look.

'Out the window?' I questioned.

'That's what I said. Raphael jumped too, he said he'll be right back.'

'And you believe him?'

'Yes-' Raphael walked into the room.

'Where's Dad!' Izzy and I yelled.

'He's dead.' I went into shock, Izzy started crying and Magnus just stood there.

'W-w-what happened?' Izzy sobbed.

'I killed him, because he was going to attack a couple walking down the street.'

'Where is he now?' Magnus said so Izzy and I didn't have to speak.

'He is out the front on the lawn.'

'What do we do now?'

'If you want your father to live then we must bury him so he can become a fledgeling.'

'What's a fledgeling?' I asked, trying my best to keep my voice the same.

'A fledgling is a new vampire that had recently dug them self out of their grave.'

'What happens after they be-become a fledgeling?'

'Aren't you a Shadowhunter? I thought you were meant to know all of this.'

'Yes, but I didn't learn about how vampires became to be vampires, I only learnt how to ki-' I stopped myself from finishing my sentence. 'Never mind.'

'Kill them?'

'Yes.' I couldn't look at him when I said it.

'After they dig themselves out of their grave they go into a kind of frenzy for blood. Where they will kill anything or anyone close to them to drink their blood.' I felt my cheeks pale; Izzy stopped crying and just stared at Raphael.

'And what if we don't want him to become that?' Izzy managed to say.

'He will stay dead.'

'Alec! I want Dad to be alive again, but I don't want him to become t-that!' She started crying again, I wrapped my arms around her.

'I know Iz, I know. I don't want him to become a fledgeling, so that only means one thing. Dad has to stay dead.'