I feel her quiver under my touch, the dark enveloping us. I was about to take away her mortality, make her into some sort of monster.

I brush her hair down to cover her neck and Jade frowns slightly. I kiss the expression away and her eyes light up again, but are full of confusion.

Instead of her neck, I slowly push her wrist up to my lips and feel her tense as I tentatively lick the vein.

I look across the lake and my eyes fall on Cat. Her eyes are shining and I pulse to her a single word: Help.

She jumps into the lake and is by my side at a second, dripping wet, but expectant.

"Make sure I don't kill her." I mumble and Cat nods, swimming back to shore. I'm thankful for the privacy.

I push Jade down softly, catching her right before she hits the ground, and lowering her onto the sand. Our breath comes out in tiny puffs of white smoke.

I place her hand over her heart, and then over mine.

"Are you sure you want that difference? I mean, your heart is beating at a somewhat normal pace..." I whisper, the wind blowing my words away. She gives a quick, short nod and I kiss her, a frenzied, satisfying kiss that lasts for a few seconds before I lower my voice slightly. "I love you."

"I love you too."

I sigh and brush her hair out of her face, bringing her wrist to my lips. I brush it against my teeth, feeling goosebumps appear on her pale skin. I open the fangs slightly and close them down on her arm.

She cries out.

I lick the spot very carefully, never breaking eye contact with her. She whimpers and I place her wrist at her side, knowing that it wasn't close to being enough. I brush the hair from her slender neck and push my lips to it, biting softly. She cries out again.

I feel blood flow past my teeth and into my mouth, coating my tongue. It tastes like honey.

I lick the spot carefully and pull away, frowning at her sounds.

Cat's at my side in a second. Jade's whimpering on the ground.

"Bite her stomach." Cat whispers lowly. "It worked for me."

I frown and pull up her shirt a little, biting her stomach. Jade stiffens and I pull back quickly, wiping my mouth.

She lets out a little squeak and closes her eyes, her breathing slowing dramatically. I glance at Cat, who smiles at me.

A few minutes later, Jade wakes up. Like I said, the change is different for everyone. It took Cat a day, it took Ice a few hours, it took Jade mere minutes.

She looks around. I can't help but notice her eyes. I smile and help her up, noticing her sniff. She then proceeds to shove her face in my shoulder and I grin, stroking her hair.

"You smell…like…sex." Jade breaths from my shoulder and Cat giggles. I let out a short laugh, prying her from me.

"You smell like vanilla and strawberries."

Jade grins and then proceeds to sniff Cat.

"You smell like chocolate and pine needles." She frowns.

Cat blushes deeply and I smirk.

"Jade, Cat smells like chocolate. Skylar, however, smells like pine needles."

Jade holds back a laugh and Cat just blushes some more. I grin and loop an arm around Jade.

She automatically leans up to kiss me and Cat raises a brow.

"Jade, honey," I whisper. "be warned that-"

I'm cut off by lips on mine and passion explodes on the back of my brain and then I'm pushing her against the tree trunk and then I'm clawing at her hair and she's doing the same and then my hands are on her hips and snaking up her back and she's smiling and then Cat basically pries us off each other and I'm pouting.

"Cat!" Jade practically screams. Cat smirks. "Hey Jade, you smell like vanilla and strawberries and as you so eloquently put it, sex."

I throw my head back and laugh, Jade blushing. I kiss her softer this time, for a few seconds, and whisper a few words in her ear. "We have a few hours to kill before the rumble."

Jade's leg twitches.

"And my parents aren't home." I whisper and nip at her ear before diving into the water, reappearing a few seconds later at the edge of the water.

Jade appears next to me and she growls.

Okay, I take back all previous comments on vocal sex.

I mean, damn.

Jade's smirking and I grab her dripping jacket and drag her to my house, to my room, and growl right back.

Jade falls on top of me and I smirk slightly before whispering the final words to her.

"Battuere ad me." I let the Latin fall from my mouth with a smirk and her eyes get wide as she realizes that a) she can understand Latin and b) I just told her to make love to me.

This should be interesting.