AUTHORS NOTE: Hey everyone, so I'm back in business (haha, that sounded pretty cheesy.) But really, I've got up a new two-shot under Twilight called "It's You" and I'm starting to get back into writing "Lachrymose" as well as this story. So as promised, here is the tenth (Wow, its the TENTH chapter already) Also, as for the sequel, I'm probably going to do it, BUT not until Midnight Tryst AND Lachrymose is completed so it might be a while.

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Vampires Will Never Hurt You

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My Chemical Romance

[Just a small note in case you're wondering: Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge is the name of an album by My Chemical Romance, although a different one that the song is under. It's really good, so if you're bored, check that out as well.]


Chapter Ten – Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge

Amber POV

The next day Olivia, Matt and Roxie had awoken from their transformations. They had gotten just as big of a greeting as Shay and I had gotten when we had first awoken. Olivia, Matt and Roxie were shocked that it had been Lester and his wife that had saved us from our upending death, but they were defiantly sure to thank them. As expected, they were all confused on the whole vampire thing for a while but Lester, Jeremy and Grace had tried their best to answer all their questions the best that they could. Shay and I tried to explain things too since we knew what they were going through, we had already experienced their confusion—heck, we were still experiencing it. Shay and I had found ourselves asking a countless number of questions about being vampires while the others were still transforming.

We were now in the Harper's living room explaining to Roxie, Olivia and Matt how we all even became vampires in the first place. This was a topic that Shay and I had never gotten to with our questioning.

"Do you know the vampires that changed us?" Roxie asked suddenly.

Grace, Lester and Jeremy all exchanged quick glances before turning back to us, "Yes we do. They have been after you guys for years. Ever since the first year that I started camping out with you guys, they have been after you." Lester told us truthfully.

A series of gasps erupted around the room. I quickly dug into everyone's thoughts.

'What did we do to make them hate us so much?' Roxie wondered.

'They have been after us for almost five years? How? And even more importantly, why?' Shay thought.

'How come they didn't kill us the first time?' Olivia thought.

'Why would they to come after us?' Matt questioned.

'I can't believe that Vicente actually outsmarted us for once!' Lester cursed.

'The Havok's are stupid, how could we have fallen for their stupid trap!' Jeremy doubted.

'We have always been there to protect them before. All those years when Vicente was after them we were always able to stop them—we were there to protect them. How did they fool us this time?' Grace thought in distress.

Grace's thoughts made me stop for a moment, "What do you mean you were always there to protect us?" I asked Grace.

At that moment all my friends heads turned to attention and looked at Grace with curious expression, clearly wondering what I had heard her think in her head. I also couldn't help but notice that Grace, Lester and Jeremy all looked guilty and wouldn't meet my gaze.

"I guess we should explain." Lester said softly.

I nodded, "Yes, an explanation would be nice."

"As you know, Lester had only been in Shiloh for a few weeks when he first came upon you guys. We were intrigued by you guys, especially when Lester found something universally disturbing in all of your futures." Grace began to explain. "Well, with Lester's power he is to mooch off of other vampires powers, but of course you already knew this. Anyways, a few decades ago he encountered a vampire with the power of seeing a person's future. He thought that the power would be useful, so he mooched off of it. When he first met you children he looked into your futures, as he does anytime he meets a vampire or human and becomes close to them. He does it out of habit, not as an invasion of your privacy. He also did it for your safety. He wanted to make sure that none of us would accidentally hurt you by being near you." She explained to us in her kind, motherly voice, "Now, when he checked your futures, he discovered that you were safe from us, but not others. There were many so many different vampires in all of your futures, except Brie's which we didn't understand—until now. Those vampires included Vicente and his coven, as well as our family and some other vampires whom we don't even know. The other vampires were vegetarian, like ourselves, but they seemed as though they were a completely different type of vampires from our own. They live somewhere in the Northwestern United States. But they are nothing to really worry about, they weren't going to cause us any harm. In fact, if the future is correct, they will become close friends with us in the future. Anyways, after seeing this, Lester decided that maybe it was best to get to know you kids." she paused and let Lester continue.

"Mainly, it started when you kids wanted to go on your camping trip. Your parents asked me to go along with you kids to supervise and I agreed because I was friends with your parents as well as you. It was the first time that Vicente and his coven were in the area, only we didn't know this at the time." Lester said.

"Vicente?" Olivia asked in confusion.

"Vicente Havok is the leader of the Havok Coven, the vampire coven that attacked you guys. Vicente was the black hair vampire that attacked you, Amber." Lester said while looking straight at me.

So Vicente was the evil man who had changed me, I felt my eyes growing darker, something Lester explained happened to vampires when they were weak from not feeding in ages or very angry. My eyes were darkening with rage towards the man who had changed me into this horrendous creature. I noticed everyone else was nodding in understanding and were waiting for Lester, Grace and Jeremy to finish the story.

"While you guys were with Lester—Grace and I were hunting in the woods when we first came across Vicente. We overheard him and his coven plotting to attack you guys and we came to find Lester. They had never come across vegetarian vampires before and were thought that Lester was human, which worked to our advantage. Once Lester found out about that he was able to get Grace to sneak into your campsite that night to set a force field around the campsite to protect you from Vicente and his coven." Jeremy said.

"When Vicente found out that we were the ones keeping him from getting too you he came after us but with Grace's blocking power on our side, he couldn't get to us. During the confrontation something changed though, he looked at me with such malice, it was like he had known me from somewhere or something. He hissed out something about getting revenge against the one who took his life away from him—which none of us understood. That night Vicente made a vow that he would get you guys someday though. That was when I started watching you kids more frequently and why I didn't want you going in the woods alone, even when you went on the four-wheeler paths." Lester said dourly.

"That's why you told us not to go out on our four wheelers with Bentley, Ethan and Xander!" I exclaimed. Lester nodded at my revelation.

"One of Vicente's coven members had heard us talking about how you wanted to make it a tradition that on your fall break you would come back to the camping spot to camp out and they went out to tell Vicente this piece of information. During the rest of the year he and his coven would travel across America and then come back here during your fall break to attempt attack you guys since it was the same time very single year—the first weekend in October. We found out his plans though and Lester made sure that he kept an eye on you kids. He wasn't going to let Vicente get anywhere near you." Grace explained.

"Anyways this year you guys came camping earlier than we were expecting." Jeremy noted.

Matt shook his head, "Our break was earlier this year for some reason. That messed everything up, didn't it?" he asked.

Grace nodded, "Vicente and his coven came a little earlier than normal and we had no idea that they were here. You guys also showed up early. We would have never known you were here if we hadn't have gone hunting. Jeremy decided to stay at the house since he had hunted the night before so it was just Lester and I. We heard screaming and we knew that we had misjudged the time. We didn't have enough time to get Jeremy, we had to hurry and get to you guys. They had already started to attack when we got there. We were just barely able to save the rest of you." She said softly.

We all knew what she meant by that statement, the others knew about Brie already. It seemed like everyone was in shock for a while until Roxie spoke up, "Thank you for saving us and taking care of us. You didn't have too, what you guys did is, well simply put, amazing." She whispered quietly.

All of the three Harper's beamed with happiness, "It was no problem, we weren't about to let them get away with murdering all of you. You were all innocent kids with healthy futures ahead of you. But, it seems as though you were destined for vampire life." Lester said modestly.

"Thank you for taking us into your home too." Olivia said, after Lester finished.

"We couldn't just leave you out in the cold. Just because our heart doesn't actually beat doesn't mean we don't have one." Grace giggled.

We all smiled at her joke.

"Well thank you anyways." Matt said.

"Really, it was no trouble at all." Jeremy said. "Really it's nice to have some other people my 'age' around here." He laughed.

Everyone all laughed along with his joke. I glanced around the room, making a note of everything that I was seeing. Grace and Lester were cuddled up on the love seat. Lester had his arm casually draped around his wife's shoulders while Grace laughing loudly along with everyone, her violet eyes sparkling brightly. Olivia, Matt, Jeremy and Shay occupied the larger couch. Shay and Jeremy were staring at each other happily, not paying attention to anyone else in the room besides each other while Olivia and Matt were enjoying a playful banter with each other. Roxie and I were both sitting on the over sized beige armchair, me sitting in the actual chair with my legs pulled up on the chair with me while Roxie was sitting Indian-style on the footstool leaning back against my knees for support.

As I took in ever detail I couldn't help but feel like what was going on around me was meant to happen—that my friends and the Harper's were meant to be together as a family. Lester was correct when he said that we were destined for vampire life. It just felt right—there was no other way to explain it. And, although I still felt like I was a bloodthirsty monster, I felt better knowing that I wasn't going to be killing humans like Vicente's coven. I actually had a choice. I chose not to be the typical vampire.

Shay interrupted my utterly content thoughts with a question that I knew had been probing in her mind for since Lester, Grace and Jeremy had told their story to us. "So what happens now? I personally want revenge on those stupid vampires that attacked us. How dare they mess with us?" Shay voiced with venom present in her usually soft voice.

I couldn't help but nod in agreement to her statement, "I agree with Shay—we can't just let them get away with something like that!" I said.

Jeremy was looking very enthusiastic but we all knew that Lester and Grace had the final say, after all, they were the Harper coven leaders. So we all turned to Grace and Lester to hear their thoughts on the situation.

"Well I don't want to cause a huge fight or anything but if we do run into them or if they try and cause trouble with us we won't hesitate to fight them. We outnumber them now. It would be six vampires against eight. Also we have the fact that all of us have extremely useful powers while not everyone in his coven has abilities." Lester explained.

A bright smile crossed my features; maybe we could get revenge after all.

-x-x-x-

On Tuesday afternoon after we had finished our big discussion, Lester and Jeremy wanted to take Roxie, Olivia and Matt hunting for their first time to see if they had the control that Shay and I had. Luckily, they did and Lester gave us the good news that he thought it would be safe for us to return to school. I was actually happy about returning to school—for one reason and one reason only.

Roxie and Shay agreed with me and were excited about returning to school while Olivia and Matt were a bit more apprehensive about returning. Olivia didn't want to return because she was afraid that one of us would accidentally slip up while Matt didn't want to go back just because he despised school. But none the less it was decided that we would return so we could continue our education. Lester didn't like the idea of having to pull us out of school.

Lester also decided that to be on the safe side, Grace and Jeremy were going to enroll at STH with us. Grace was going to pose as a new Senior while we decided that Jeremy would pose as a Sophomore. I knew from his thoughts that Jeremy was only agreeing with the idea of coming to school so that he could be with Shay. I couldn't help but smirk—he was head over heels for her even though he had only known her a few days. I thought it was kind of cute.

To me it seemed a little crazy—just a little over four days ago I was a human living in Shiloh with my parents and having no knowledge about real vampires. Now I am a newborn vampire with special telepathic abilities who lives in a beautiful house in the woods with her new vampiric family. Of course my new vampire family consisted of Grace and Lester as the parental figures, and then Jeremy, Roxie, Matt, Olivia and Shay as my brothers and sisters.

My friends and I were already starting to consider Lester and Grace as parental figures even though they took on the appearance of early twenty year olds. Lester and Grace told us little things that they remembered from their human life and how they came to be vampires. Lester told us that he was changed in 1807 when he was twenty-five years old and then Grace told us that she was one hundred and five years old and was changed in 1902 when she was twenty-two. To tell you the truth I am a little freaked out about forever having the appearance of a sixteen year old but like Grace said, it very easy to pass for a seventeen or eighteen year old if I wanted to thanks to my new vampire body. I also knew that Shay and Roxie felt the same thanks to my mind reading capabilities.

Also to Grace and Lester's surprise Matt, Roxie and Olivia all have powers, which according to Lester was something very uncommon. Lester said that normally not ever vampire in a coven has special abilities and that it is very rare for a large coven to all have powers.

Olivia is a psychic, she can read into anyone's future but she has to have seen that person and looked into their eyes before she can read their future. After the first time she has looked into their eyes she will be able to read their future anytime. She can also see important events that are going to happen in the future besides just seeing people's lives.

The first time she had a vision it scared all of us…

Olivia was the next one, after Shay and me, to awake from her change. She had only been up for a few moments when she spaced out. Her eyes became unfocused and she wasn't freaking or responding to anything around her. A few moments later her eyes went back into focus, she blinked and then looked at us and told us that Matt would wake up in about five minutes. Sure enough, five minutes later Matt was awake.

Matt has the power of metamorphosis. That basically means that he can change into any living animal or person that he chooses. It is kind of like a combination of morphing and metamorphosis because he can also change the physical appearance of any living person or thing as well.

It was actually kind of funny how we figured out what his power was. He was standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom, taking in his new appearance when it happened. Lester was in the middle of telling Matt that after a year of drinking animal blood his eyes would turn the same violet color as Grace and Jeremy's. Suddenly Matt's eyes turned from red to purple right in front of our own eyes. It took us a moment to figure out that Matt was able to change his appearance. After experimenting we found out that he could change other's appearances as well. Lester thought this was especially helpful because Matt could use his power to change our eyes from the bloody red color to the violet color that Lester, Grace and Jeremy had. It would help us blend in at school. Before we knew Matt's power, Lester was going to give us contacts to wear. But now, it wasn't necessary.

And last but not least Roxie has telekinesis. That means that she is able to move or change the shape of any inanimate object without the use of a physical force. Basically she can control inanimate objects with her mind. If she wanted to she could throw a chair at someone without lifting a single finger. Which she has already done that once, that is how we figured out her power. She threw a chair at me after she figured out what my power was. I found out quickly that she doesn't like me reading her thoughts.

For the most part everyone loves their powers and it isn't taking us very long to understand them although Lester says that it will be a long time before we can completely master them. Lester and Grace know about almost every power there is for vampires by now and so they have tried to teach us as much as they can about our powers. Lester also gave us a strict rule that we are not to use any of our powers on the humans. Well Shay, Olivia and I can to an extent. I can't talk to them through my thoughts but I can read their minds, Shay can figure out their emotions but she isn't supposed to alter them, and Olivia can look into their futures but Lester told her not to try and mess with their futures as much. Messing with their futures would be messing with Fate.

Matt and Roxie on the other hand are different. Matt is not supposed to under any circumstance change a human's appearance and Roxie can not use her telekinesis around them, even to throw a pencil at them with her mind. So basically some of us can use our powers around them but only to an extent. Jeremy and Grace aren't allowed to use their powers around the humans either. But all of us were content with that. All we wanted to do was return to our old lifestyle as much as possible.

-x-x-x-

I plopped down in the love-seat in the living room in the extremely early morning on Wednesday and got lost in my own thoughts. It was taking all of us a while to get used to the fact that we didn't sleep. Well, we could sleep but it was only a couple times a month for a few hours. Our bodies got energy from the blood that we drank the venom in our bodies so we didn't have to sleep to let our body rest itself as much as humans did.

As I sat there lost in my thoughts I realized that a lot of things were going to be changing. Not only my sleeping habits but my dieting habits were defiantly changing as well as many human necessities that I used to have to deal with.

Of course I had to drink blood on nearly a daily basis but I couldn't eat human food as much as I had while I was human. The venom in our bodies were able to break down some drinks that we had drank while we were human but if we ate human food then we would end up regurgitating it back up—which from what I had heard from Jeremy, was something that wasn't pleasant at all. I didn't have to use the bathroom like humans did either, since our venom was able to break down and absorb human drinks we just didn't have that problem anymore. We didn't sweat either so we only had to shower if we got dirty from hunting but it was also something that was a human habit and we knew that we weren't going to stop doing anytime soon.

'I still can not believe we are going back to school. I am a little anxious about how everyone will react to us looking different now.' That last thought had been on my mind since I had taken a good, long look in the mirror and realized how much I had changed during my transformation.

I was brought out of my thoughts by Matt, "So it's Wednesday, are we gonna do this now?" he asked.

It was now time to put mine and Shay's plan into action, the one where we would fake 'Brie's death' by crashing her beloved car.

"Well Jeremy has already made a copy of Brie's body so all we need now is Brie's car." Grace informed us.

"Well which of us is going to go into town?" Olivia asked.

"How about Grace and I go and—well I assume all of you know where Brie lives, right?" Lester asked. We all nodded in response. "Okay, well how many of you know how to hot wire a car?" he asked with a small smile.

Matt chuckled, "I do!"

'I'm not even going to ask how you know how to do that.' I sent my thoughts to him with a slight grimace on my face.

Matt looked over and me and chuckled slightly.

"Well then I guess Matt can come with us to hot wire Brie's car while the rest of you get the 'crime scene' things together. Who is going to call in the accident?" Lester asked.

Jeremy raised his hand, "I will, they won't know who I am and I can just say I was a passerby and saw the accident." He said.

"It does make sense, if one of us calls it in they might be suspicious but if Jeremy calls it in…" Shay trailed off with a small smile.

"We have us a fool proof plan!" Grace said with a grin.

"So when are we leaving?" Matt asked.

Lester looked outside, "It is around three in the morning so we have about three hours before it starts getting light. I say we leave now and try and get the scene done before dawn." Lester said.

"Sounds good to me." Matt replied.

"What do you want us to do while you are gone?" Olivia asked. Lester, Grace and Matt were all standing at this point, ready to leave.

"Well, we need you guys to wait at the scene for us and bring Brie's copy body with you." Lester instructed.

Olivia, Shay, Jeremy, Roxie and I all nodded.

And with that they left, running vampire speed out of the house.

"Should we go to the scene now or should we wait for a while?" Shay asked Jeremy.

Jeremy shrugged, "I guess it wouldn't hurt to leave now although we will be waiting a while." He said.

"Well maybe we could work on our cover stories while we are there." Roxie suggested.

"Yeah and we also need to come up with a plan to trick our parents into letting us live with you guys. Our parents will defiantly get suspicious if we don't eat food anymore or don't sleep except for maybe twice a month. And then there is also the little fact that we will be sneaking out on a regular basis so that we can go 'eat.'" I pointed out.

Olivia giggled, "And by eat you really mean hunt." She said. Lester, Grace and Jeremy referred to their type of feeding as 'hunting' since technically they were 'hunting' the animals—just not with the types of weapons you would normally associate hunting with.

I nodded, agreeing with her completely. "Of course, I mean human food—disgusting." I said while wrinkling my nose in fake disgust. We found out that now as vampires human food not only smelled utterly nauseating to us but tasted horrendous too.

"Who would have thought that human food was so repulsive now." Shay said.

"It tastes like rubber!" Roxie said.

"Now I know how Matt felt hanging out with you girls all the time." Jeremy teased.

'But it isn't so bad since Shay is here. Amber, I know you are reading my thoughts please don't say anything—not yet.' Jeremy pleaded with his mind. I nodded my head at him and he gave me a small smile of relief.

"Hey it isn't all that bad," Olivia said, completely ignoring mine and Jeremy's silent conversation, "if he can deal with it then so can you."

I smirked, "I don't think he minds it so much, he was just teasing." I said while looking straight at him.

"You know I will never get used to you being able to read peoples minds." Roxie said.

"And I will never be able to get used to the fact that you can throw objects at me on a daily basis." I retorted.

"I will never get used to the fact that we only sleep probably around twice a month." Olivia said.

Jeremy laughed, "Yes you will, after a while everything will seem so natural that being human just doesn't sound so great anymore. The only thing I'm still not used to it the whole sun part." He said.

"What do you mean the whole 'sun part'? We have been outside before in the sun, well actually the woods, but we didn't burn or anything." Shay said.

Jeremy started to laugh loudly, so loud in fact that the vibrations from this laugh were shaking the glass windows of the house. "Didn't you get anything from the stereotype thing—there aren't many of those stereotype myths that are true." he asked with a smirk when he was finally able to calm himself.

Olivia frowned, "Well some of them were true, like the fangs and of course the drinking blood thing." she pointed out.

"Okay," he relented with a sigh, "Maybe there are a couple exceptions, but we do not burn in the sun, but it isn't exactly healthy for us either." Jeremy said.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

Jeremy started to explain, "Well, the sun affects our powers and the way that we react to things. It weakens us and causes our powers to not work as well. Like if I were trying to copy something while out in the sun, it wouldn't be an exact copy. Something would most likely be missing from it because I'm not strong enough to conjure the entire thing. It doesn't hurt us or anything though. Being in the sun just causes us to be more human. It only affects us in direct sunlight though. If there was glass in between you and the sun, it wouldn't affect you at all because that glass is catching the ray from the sun and making them bounce elsewhere. But out in the open there is nothing to stop the rays, and the rays will be bouncing off of every possible surface. It's impossible to get away from it except on cloudy days. There is also the little fact that the sun reflects off of our bodies and causes us to look kind of like a flashlight. I will have to show you sometime."

"So we probably won't be able to be around humans on sunny days?" Roxie asked.

Jeremy nodded, "How do you think they will react if you are shining like a spotlight in the sun. That would cause quite a few wrecks. You can be around humans in the sun. You will just have to wear a jacket or something to cover yourself." He chuckled.

"So the whole myths things—you can't kill a vampire with a stake through the heart?" Olivia asked.

I giggled this time. I already had a theory on that one, "Olivia our skin is as hard as steel, I think we could break the stake as soon as it would hit our skin." I said.

Jeremy laughed, "Amber is absolutely correct, there is no way a stake could kill you."

"What about coffins?" Roxie said. "I mean it is a possibility, we do sleep a few times a month."

"That is only a myth as well. Do you see any coffins in any of the rooms here?" Jeremy said. Roxie shook her head in response as Jeremy's point was proven. "Although some vampires like to play along and sleep in coffins when they are available. They get a kick out of it."

Shay sighed and looked outside the window, "Should we leave soon? It's already been almost an hour since they left." She said.

"Yeah let's go, we can argue more about myths and then our cover stories once we actually get there." I joked.

Jeremy chuckled, "Alright so—race ya." He said and then took off running vampire speed down the stairs and was out the door in a matter of seconds.

I groaned, "That is so not fair Jeremy Harper." I said. I knew that he could probably hear me although I wasn't yelling. I took off after him with my new sisters on my heels.


So, what do you think? Enjoy it? What do you think about all the new vampire stuff that has been revealed? The powers? What about Vicente and his coven? Catch the foreshadowing? If I remember right, there was two main things, but they were pretty small. Were you able to catch them? Please review :)