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Within Temptation
Chapter Nine – Pale
Amber POV
It was a few hours later and I was currently standing in the woods about a half mile from the Harper's cabin paradise. Lester had explained to us the importance of hunting and why we needed to blood even if we weren't thirsty. He told us that even thought it seemed like we weren't thirst, and didn't feel the need to hunt, to not be fooled. He explained what could happen if we didn't feed from blood, we would start to get weak and be unable to do much of anything. On top of that, we would start loosing control of our powers and they were start going literally haywire on us.
When we had reached our destination in the woods Lester and Jeremy had taught Shay and I how to hunt and attack the animals in the forest. He said that each vampire has a favorite type of blood, whether it was Human A-Positive or Venison. Lester's favorite was lynx while Jeremy's was black bear. I personally thought that deer blood tasted the best and Lester told me that Grace agreed with me that deer tasted the best.
We also had found out rather quickly that feeding was going to be an interesting experience. When I concentrated on my 'meal' I felt myself setting into a natural predator mode and didn't even realize when my facial features had distorted right before Shay, Jeremy and Lester's eyes.
When I heard Shay gasp, I turned around to find her staring wide-eyed at me. She pointed to my face in horror and then Lester explained to me that our faces went through a natural shape change when we were in what Lester called 'predator mode'. When we weren't in predator mode our facial structures were normal and more human like, but when we were in predator mode our facial features sharpened even more to look a tad more animalistic, our eyes glowed a bright electric purple and our canine teeth elongated into sharp half inch fangs that was able to piece an animal's skin easily. Naturally I was a little freaked out by these changes but when Lester and Jeremy slipped into their predator modes I realized that it was a natural thing for vampires.
Now I was standing in the woods with a very upset Shay and an amused Jeremy and Lester while I was clearly annoyed. Shay didn't like the idea of killing animals and sucking the blood out of them any more than she did killing humans. Shay had almost cried when Lester had told me to attack a deer that was in the woods. It was ridiculous. Jeremy had held her and rubbed her back as she dry sobbed since apparently vampires can't form tears and cry. As I watched Jeremy comfort Shay I couldn't help it that my dead heart lurched because I knew that I would never have someone to comfort me the way that Jeremy comforted Shay. The one person I wanted to be with me couldn't because he was human. I was a vampire and I knew that I would never be able to be with him. It seemed like just yesterday he was stronger than me but now I was probably five times stronger than he will ever be as a human. I knew that I couldn't be as selfish as to change him. That would be absurd.
'Now that I'm a vampire will I ever be able to see him again?' I wondered but I didn't voice it.
I was brought out my thoughts by Shay's complaining. I had just finished my third deer and Shay was still complaining about killing her first meal ever, she had yet to hunt again.
"I still don't know why we have to hurt the poor things." Shay said.
"Would you rather suck the blood out of a human?" I asked her sarcastically as a quickly slipped out of predator mode and back into my human features. Shay had slipped out of predator mode a long while before me, saying that it was something that she would have to get used to a little at a time.
Shay looked appalled, "Of course not!" she said.
Lester and Jeremy started snickering at our argument, they thought it was hilarious: a vampire who dry sobbed when she drank an animal's blood. Shay and I shut them up with a couple death glares.
"Well then stop complaining!" I snapped at Shay.
'Stop complaining? Is she serious, how can I stop complaining? I mean geez, the animals are all cute and everything and I have to go kill the poor things and then suck the freakin blood out of them! I don't like—' I heard Shay say, or at least I thought she said. I groaned and stopped walking.
'God damnit. Shay, stop thinking about the deer!' I voiced loudly in my head.
Suddenly Shay's talking changed, '—having to kill the poor thi—What the heck, was that just Amber's voice I heard?.' I listened in amazement as Shay started talking about something different—about hearing my voice no less. But the thing was, I hadn't even said anything out loud. I listened as Shay rambled on for a while about hearing my voice but I quickly grew agitated with that and turned to glare at Shay while she kept on talking.
"Look the talking about the cute animals was annoying enough and now you are rambling on about hearing me talking to you when I haven't said one word aloud since I yelled at you earlier! Can't you be quiet for five seconds so I can freakin' concentrate!" I told her in frustration.
'But Shay wasn't even talking. Why would Amber yell at her when she wasn't even talking?' I heard Jeremy say.
"She was too talking!" I yelled at him. "Stop trying to defend her! She was rambling about hearing me talk for about five minutes before I yelled at her!"
Jeremy looked confused but didn't say anything else after that. This time Shay said something, "But I never said anything." She said.
"Yes you did, I sat there and listening to you clearly say, 'Stop complaining? Is she serious, how can I stop complaining? I mean geez, the animals are all cute and everything and I have to go kill the poor things and then suck the freakin blood out of them! I don't like having to kill the poor thi—' and then you cut off and started talking about me talking to you." I argued.
I looked over to Lester. He was shaking his head but he still had a grin on his face. His lips never moved but I heard him speak clearly, 'I wonder if Amber might be a mind reader. Amber can you hear me?' he asked me without ever moving his lips.
"How do you do that Lester? You are talking to me but your lips don't move." I told him.
'I'm not talking, I am thinking these things. Can you hear me?' he asked.
"Yes I can hear you." I answered him.
Shay and Jeremy were both looking at me and Lester in amazement as we held this almost silent conversation.
"I think that Amber is a mind reader." Lester said. "She can hear all my thoughts and all of yours too apparently."
'Can you hear me?' Jeremy thought.
"Yes Jeremy I can hear you." I answered.
'That is so cool!' he thought loudly.
"Can you tone your thought volume down a bit, it's hurting my head." I told him with a small smirk.
He chuckled and then spoke out loud, "Sorry Amber." He said.
"Wait I don't think that Amber is any old mind reader." Shay said.
"What do you mean, she can read our thoughts." Jeremy said.
"I know but when I was thinking about the deer and everything all of a sudden without even warning I heard Amber's voice in my head telling me to shut up about the deer." Shay said.
I felt my eyes widen, "Well when she was thinking about the deer and I thought she was talking out loud I had thought in my head that she should stop thinking about the stupid deer. I was practically yelling it at her in my head."
"Well that changes things. Amber you aren't just any old mind reader, you are a telepathic!" Lester exclaimed.
"I am a what?" I asked.
"You are a telepathic. It is a type of extrasensory psychic communication where you can communicate directly from one person's mind to another without speech, writing, signs or symbols; only you have a special type of it. I think, from what I have seen so far, is that you are able to communicate to people through their thoughts and be able to hear theirs as well. You would be able to have conversations with people through their thoughts." Lester said.
I grinned and turned to Shay and thought, "Shay, I have a cooler power than you! I have a cooler power than you!" I taunted at her through my thoughts.
'What? You do not have a cooler power than me!' I heard Shay exclaim in her head. Both Jeremy and Lester looked between me and Shay with raised eyebrows. 'Do so.' I thought back. I smiled at Shay while she scowled at me, "AMBER!" she screamed out loud.
"This is so cool!" I squealed.
Shay rolled her eyes and started plotting ways to torture me in her head.
'Shay I can read your mind, I know what you're planning.' I taunted to her through my thoughts again.
She scowled, "I am going to find some way to block your thoughts Amber!" she said.
"You know, everything is starting to make sense now." I pondered lightly.
"What do you mean?" Jeremy asked me.
"Well, when I awoke from my change I kept hearing voices—but they were muffled. It was like there were several people in the room with me but there was a glass wall surrounding them, making their voices muffled. When I opened my eyes to see who was in the room with me and why they were all speaking about random, muffled things, the only person I saw in the room was Grace and she wasn't even speaking." I explained.
Jeremy chuckled, "Well, I guess that does explain a lot then."
Shay turned to Lester, ignoring me and Jeremy's conversation. "What day is today?" Shay asked him.
"Well you were changed Friday night, you were going through the transformation for three days and so today would be Monday night." Jeremy told her before Lester even got the chance to reply.
"Right," I answered. "Grace told me earlier—today would have been my sixteenth birthday." I sighed.
"It's your birthday?" Jeremy asked.
I nodded, "Yeah, but it looks like this time I won't actually be getting any older. Stuck at fifteen forever—yay." I cheered sarcastically.
"Technically," Lester started, "You don't stop aging until your heart stops. Since your heart officially stopped today—on your sixteenth birthday, you are official sixteen for the rest of your immortal existence."
I smiled at him, "You know, that's exactly what Grace said too."
"Grace is right," Lester said.
We fell into silence and I couldn't help but listen into everyone's thoughts. Shay's stood out to me though, 'Aren't we supposed to be back in school on Thursday, how are we supposed to be able to go back to school as a bunch of vampires? Will we be able to go to school at all now!?' I heard Shay think.
"Everyone is expecting us back at school on Thursday, what are we going to do about that?" I questioned for Shay after hearing her thoughts.
Lester pondered a moment, "You might be able to return back to school but it depends on if the rest of your friends are in this much control over themselves. We also need to come up with an explanation for your parents on why you guys are staying at our house and we need to figure out what to do about Brie." He said grimly.
"What are we going to do? Brie's parents are going to expect her back on Thursday. We can't just say that we lost her in the woods or something." Shay wailed.
Suddenly something struck me. I turned to Jeremy, "Grace told me that your power was to make copies of things." I said.
"Yeah, why?" he asked, a little unsure.
"Well…we fake her death. Steal Brie's car and Jeremy can make a replica of Brie. We can make it look like she was in a really bad car accident." I said.
Lester tapped his chin, "That might work…" he said slowly. "Jeremy, do you think you would be able to make a replica of her body?" he asked him.
Jeremy nodded, "I'm about ninety-five percent sure I can." He said.
"But I thought you could only make replicas of things that already exist. Brie is dead, how can you make a replica of that?" Shay asked.
Jeremy chuckled, "Just because she is dead doesn't mean that she doesn't exist anymore. She isn't completely destroyed so I can still make a copy of her. Besides I don't know if Grace told you or not but I can also make replicas of things that were recently deceased or destroyed but usually there is only like a two or three day limit on that."
"But Lester had to—" Shay shivered slightly at her next words. "—Rip her up into pieces so that she wouldn't—well Lester never explained what would happen exactly—but wouldn't the replica be all ripped up then?"
"I'll tell you, someday. But, it isn't something that we like to talk about. It's an extremely dangerous process and not something that many people would like to hear." Lester threw in softly.
Jeremy shook his head, continuing on, "No, it wouldn't. I'm not sure exactly how it works but her body will be exactly how it would have been before the vampires attacked her."
I grinned at him, "You seem to know a lot about this, have you done this before?" I asked him.
Jeremy gave me a secretive grin, "Possibly." he said evasively.
"Well then everything is settled, we can say that Brie went back for her car and then got in an accident on the way back." Shay said.
"That is almost fool-proof Shay!" Jeremy exclaimed and gave her a high five. "Amber, your idea was brilliant. You and Shay are like evil master-minds or something." he said.
I chuckled at Jeremy's words. I then turned to Lester, "What do you think Lester?" I asked him.
He nodded, "I agree with Jeremy. It's the best we can do at this short notice." Lester said.
"When should we do it?" Shay asked.
"How about we do it Wednesday night? That way the adults don't get suspicious." I said.
Jeremy and Shay nodded in agreement but Lester was lost in thought, 'I will have to speak with Grace about this and see what she thinks. We will also have to talk to the other children and see what they think. I do think that this is a pretty fool-proof idea. And I'm sure its going to be safe for Amber and Shay to return to school but I'm not sure about the others yet. There is always that small chance though, especially as newborns. They may not be able to return for a few weeks.' Lester thought.
"What do you mean by there is always a chance, Lester?" I asked him when I heard his thoughts.
Shay and Jeremy looked confused but Lester just laughed, "Well even though I'm sure that it will be safe with you returning to school there is always the chance that you can slip up. We haven't tested you two around humans yet. Like I told you earlier, human blood is about a thousand times more potent that an animals. We will just have to see what happens, if you return to school at all, it may have to wait a few weeks."
I nodded, completely understanding what he meant.
"What would happen if not all of us can control our blood lust?" Shay asked. "Will some of us be able to go back to school while the others stayed here or will none of us be able to go back?"
Lester shook his head, "What do you think would happen if more than one of you suddenly disappears? People will begin to talk and then they could suspect us. It would be too risky. We would have to somehow fake all of your deaths and then destroy all the evidence left behind. We would then have to move somewhere else. I'm sorry but it would just be too risky. Faking just Brie's death is already pushing it." Lester said while looking at her sadly.
"What do you mean?" Shay asked.
I understood so I tried to explain it further to Shay, "Okay imagine if all the others did not have the good control over themselves and they had to stay away from all human contact but we were able to return back to school. That means that four of the six people that went on the trip we would have to find cover stories for. If it was just one person—Brie it is easy to make a cover story for. We came up with her car crash thing but after we kill off four people someone would start to get suspicious. It's either all of us or none of us. We can't exactly say that they are vampires and can't be around people. People aren't supposed to know about vampires are they?" I asked.
Jeremy shook his head, "It is a rule that if a human does find out you are supposed to either kill them or change them. If you break that rule there can be very dangerous consequences. We have to be careful." He told us.
"I guess that makes since." Shay said.
"Well enough talk about this type of thing for now, we should get back to the house. The other may be awake now and we need to fill Grace in on own future plans." Lester told us.
"Sounds good." Shay said.
I nodded in agreement, "Race ya!" I said with a giggle.
Shay and Jeremy laughed and then the four of us, Shay, Jeremy, Lester and I, all raced back to the house at vampire speed. We made it back to the house in record time. Jeremy reached the porch first, doing a little victory dance by the front door with Shay, Lester and I right on his tail. When we walked into the glorious cabin that I could now call my home I saw that Grace was waiting for us on one of the brown leather couches in the downstairs living room.
"Did you have a nice time?" Grace asked us.
I smiled, "We figured out my power!" I said happily.
Grace raised an eyebrow, "What is it?" she asked curiously.
"Amber's power is telepathy." Lester answered.
Grace's eyes widened, "So you can read minds plus have conversations through thoughts?" she asked with a smirk.
I nodded, 'Yep.' I thought to her. She jumped slightly at first but relaxed after a moment when she realized I was just using my power.
"I wouldn't use it on the humans though. It would freak them out way too much. At least with vampires we know that other vampires can have really strange powers." Grace giggled.
"I think that would be pretty entertaining though!" I said truthfully.
Jeremy laughed, "Maybe for the vampire who is doing it, but the human would be probably having a heart-attack!" he said.
Lester decided to change the subject, "So, we found out what we are going to do about Brie and we are considering letting the children go back to school." He told Grace.
"Really, well let me in on the details." Grace said.
"Well Jeremy is going to create a replica of Brie's body, then on Wednesday night we are going to sneak into town and steal Brie's car and then we are going to make her death look like a really bad car accident." I explained.
"Sounds reasonable, I think we can handle it." Grace approved.
I grinned, "Good because I came up with that plan."
She laughed, "Well it's a pretty fool proof plan Amber. So what are you going to do about going back to school?" she inquired.
"Well Amber and Shay do not have any desire to go after blood—" he said. I had to let out a small snort. Shay sent me a glare. "—especially Shay here. I think Shay is the only vampire ever to dry sob after drinking blood." Lester chuckled.
Grace agreed with a nod of her head, "She probably is."
"The deer was cute, I didn't like killing it." Shay reasoned, trying to defend her actions.
We all laughed at that. "It's okay Shay." I said. "I didn't mean to snap at you out there though but hey, if I didn't we wouldn't know my power right now." I said.
"Yeah, I guess not." She said.
"Anyways, since they don't have any desire to hunt we are considering letting them go back to school when it starts back up again on Thursday. I was thinking that Jeremy could go with them and pose as a Sophomore or a Junior and maybe you could pose as a senior." Lester suggested to Grace.
"I will go." Jeremy said as he looked at Shay.
"I'll think about it. Do you really think a twenty-two year old vampire can pose for an eighteen year old human?" Grace asked.
"We can say you started school a year later than most or something. I'm sure you can Grace." Shay told her.
Grace nodded, "Like I said, I'll think about it."
"So what do we do now?" I asked.
"Well I'm going to go check on the others; you kids can watch movies or something." Grace suggested.
"Sure." Shay said.
Lester and Grace both left leaving me, Shay and Jeremy in the living room alone. Me in one of the armchairs while Shay and Jeremy shared the couch, "So what do you want to watch?" I asked as I made myself comfortable by pulling my legs up on the chair with me.
"Let's watch stereotype movies about vampires and then make fun of them!" Shay suggested with a giggle.
Jeremy chuckled, "Oh we have plenty of those." He said. "Let's watch Dracula first." He said.
Jeremy got up and went over to the flat screen and turned it on. He went over to a little wooden TV cabinet and pulled out a DVD and then popped it into the DVD player. He then sat back down on the couch with Shay. As the movie started I felt my newly dead heart lurch again for the second time that day.
'What's wrong Amber?' Shay asked me in her head.
'Damn, I forgot that she can read and see my emotions now!' I grumbled to myself in my head.
'Nothing, I'm fine Shay.' I lied.
'Are you sure?' she asked skeptically.
I nodded my head and tried to give her an honest smile, "Relax, I'm fine." I said verbally.
Jeremy's head snapped up, a confused expression on his face before he came to a look of realization, "That is really going to take some getting used to." he mumbled, more to himself than me and Shay.
I chuckled while Shay nodded and we all went back to watching the movie. Shay knew that something was bothering me but she also knew that I wouldn't tell her unless I really wanted too. I tried to distract myself and I ended up trying to focus on watching the movie instead of thinking about him.
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