Hey guys I really am sorry for not updating and I thats what everyone says but I really am sorry!! This chapter is just a tad bit shorter just to let you know.

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When we walked out the door I saw the biggest forest I have ever seen. We began to walk through the mass of green.

"I heard Anna explaining how vampires with powers are different from regular vampires." Nathan said breaking the silence. "I thought a hunter would know the difference already?"

"Why do you keep pressing the hunter issue?" I asked irritably.

"I just can't bring myself to except you as a hunter." He admitted.

I sighed. "When I was eight, and my dad died, I quit training I didn't want to be a part of after seeing what it could do to you." I admitted, looking at the ground. "So I'm not a technical "hunter", but I do have some experience." He seemed relieved when I told him.

"If you don't mind me asking, how exactly did your dad die?" Nathan asked softly looking at me.

"I was eight, and at the time the only thing I wanted in the entire world was to go with my dad on an assignment. To me he was the best thing in the world, who could kill any vampires, he was my hero. So he had finally got my mom to agree to let him take me on this real easy one vampire assignment, jplus there were going to be 3 full grown vampire hunters there, including my dad to protect me if anything went wrong. We had parked on the other side of this forest, where they knew the vampire would be, feeding. The other two hunters went first along with my dad to make sure everything was okay. He told me to stay there, but when I heard screaming I got curious and went into the valley where they were coming from. Something had gone wrong because there wasn't just one vampire there was an ambush of them, and three hunters couldn't fight off that many vampires. When ii got to the valley I saw them all fighting, but as I stepped forward something caught my eye to the right, I found two dead women with their throats ripped out and their blood splattered everywhere. I became weak at the sight of them and a cry of terror came out of my mouth. Well one of the vampires heard it before I could cover my mouth and launched itself at me. My dad saw what it was doing and moved in between me and it, the vampire took the opportunity when my dad fell from the impact to kill him. I saw my dad get his throat ripped out right in front of me, and I have never been able to get that image out of mind." I finished, staring at the ground still. I felt a tear slide down my cheek. I saw Nathan's hand reach out to me.

"No," I stepped back from him. "I'm fine. " I wiped my tear and sniffled. "What else did you need to talk about?" I asked trying to change the subject.

"I just wanted to talk to you alone, privately."

"Your family can still hear us now though cant they?" When he shook his head no, I continued before he could say anything. "But I thought vampires have senses that are beyond human abilities."

"Yes they do but we do have a limit. We can't hear everything that goes on around the world." He told me with a laugh. I apparently didn't know as much about vampires as I thought. Nathan must have seen my expression, because he stopped laughing and looked serious. " You don't know that much about vampires do you?"

"Apparently not as much as I thought." I admitted. We both sat on this old tree that had fallen down some time ago.

"First of all, have you ever heard the legend about the vampire race?" He asked me. Legend? I thought. What legend? I haven't ever heard of a legend about them. I shook my head, no.

"Well the first vampires were sent to Earth by Satan himself. They were demons that were to punish the human race. If you haven't already noticed, all vampires have perfect features. They were made beautiful so they could seduce the human race and kill them. They were given immortality so no human could hurt or kill them, and so they could rage on and on for hundreds of years until the human race was destroyed. Making them even more terrifying to the human race, Satan made blood be the only way they could sustain themselves. Some were gifted with great powers, but all were gifted with great powers, but all were gifted with great abilities, like to be inhumanly fast, to h ear, smell, see things that no humans can. So they could populate their vampire race he made them with venom in their bodies that is ejected out of our fangs and into the human. Eventually they evolved and became more civilized, the only thing is some didn't some are still just as bad as they were when they were sent to Earth. Overall we aren't demons, we are just stronger humans, our hearts beat to help us blend in with the humans. My family and I are more human than those other vampires that still kill humans to survive."

"You know for as long as I've known about vampires, I have never heard that story before?" I asked him in disbelief. "I was always told that vampires were given Italian last names that mean hunter or predator, is that true?" He nodded. "Well what's your last name?"

"Cacciatrice." He said with the perfect Italian accent. Cacciatrice means hunter in Italian.

"Great, I feel stupid." I said with a sigh.

"Why?"

"Because if I would have paid any attention to your last name I would of realized its Italian, and because I speak fluent Italian." I slapped my hand to my forehead.

"Well if it makes you feel any better I knew your last name was Italian, knew what it meant I just didn't put two and two together." He said with a laugh. I smiled.

"Speaking of names, Anna doesn't really seem like an old name like the rest of your family's do." He chuckled.

"You do catch little things don't you?" He asked with a grin. "No it isn't, Anna is a shorter version of Anastasia."

"The one thing Anna didn't tell me is what your power is."

"Do you want me to show you?" He asked with a cute smile on his face. When I nodded he got up from the log, and squatted down behind me (he was still taller than me) he leaned down, to where his lips were at my ear. "You have to trust me okay?" I took a deep breath, and nodded. I could feel his body heat, he was so warm.

He held his hand palm up in front of me. "Watch." He whispered. In the middle of his palm, beautiful colors of red and orange swirled in a circle that grew bigger and higher. A couple seconds later in Nathan's hand he held a beautiful swirling cone of fire. The colors inside the flame were what was breathtaking, they were so unique. The fire stayed in Nathan's hand for a couple minutes then was gone. I turned to look at him, his face was still next to mine.

"It's called pyrokinesis." He said, holding my gaze. "I can manipulate fire, and make it."

"So that's why your so warm?" I asked with a smile. He nodded, and laughed a little. "Anna told me that you care a lot about me, and that you have feelings for me. Is that true?" I asked in a whisper.

"Yes." He whispered back. "I'm just having a hard time dealing with something I have never felt, and it doesn't help not knowing how you feel about me."

"I-I think I feel the same." I said coming to the realization that I do care about him, more than anything. He suddenly stood up then sat down on the log again next to me.

"Around you I can be myself, and for me that's something that doesn't happen very often plus," I stopped and looked at the ground not knowing if I could admit it to him. He scooted closer to where we were touching. He cupped my cheek and turned my face to look at him.

"What is it?" His golden eyes were piercing through mine. The fire in his eyes came alive and swirled around.

"You take the pain away." He leaned in and brought his lips down against mine. I didn't push him away, or tense up like I expected myself to, I just kissed him back. His lips were warm like the rest of his body, and they felt good against mine. It felt like there was a fire growing between us, it was addictive to keep the fire going, it felt like my heart, body, and soul were going to explode. But it felt like for the first time in my life I was complete.

When we got back to the house I finally got something to eat, and I was currently in Anna's room, (her room was so full of life and colors. It definitely fit her personality) lying on her bed, with no doubt a dreamy look on my face. I was thinking about when me and Nathan kissed about an hour ago, I hadn't had a chance to talk to him alone since then, I was kind of glad because I wouldn't know what to say to him if we did get a chance to talk. Anna was laying on her bed too with her legs draped over mine and her head was hanging upside down off the side of the bed. She was talking about something, but I hadn't been listening for the past 10 minutes.

"Macey? Macey?" Anna's voice broke me out of my thoughts. "Have you been listening?"

"Huh? Oh sorry." She sat up to look at me. I stayed in my same position. She looked intently at me. I felt a little uncomfortable, her face then broke into a huge smile. "What?" I asked sitting up.

"You guys kissed didn't you?!" Her sudden outburst made me jump which made me fall off the bed and onto the floor. Aside from the unbearable pain it caused me because of the wounds I still had, I hit my butt and my head on the floor really hard. "Oh my gosh! Macey are you okay?" Anna came down off the bed and knelt down beside me. I stayed in the position I was in, on the floor as I grabbed my head with my hand, it was throbbing, I groaned and squeezed my eyes shut. "Are you okay?" She asked again in a frantic voice. I nodded.

I heard someone knock on the door, and Anna told them to come in. When Nathan came into my line of sight a bright smile came over my face, the searing pain and headache forgotten.

"I accidentally scared her and she fell off the bed." Anna explained as Nathan came behind me and wrapped an arm around my waist to pull me up. I blushed when my back met a hard, warm body. I looked everywhere but at him. He kept his arm around my waist and pulled me into him even more.

"Wow Erik I knew girls had mood swings but I dint know they push people off beds." Alex said leaning against Anna's doorway. Erik, who was leaning on the wall next to the doorframe, laughed at Alex's comment. They both had smirks on their faces.

"Do you want to push you through the wall?" Anna asked him sweetly. I felt a hand nudge my elbow. I turned to Nathan, he smiled darkly and put a finer to his lips telling me to be quiet. Nathan caught Alex's gaze then pointed to Anna and mouthed "Keep her distracted." Since Anna had her back to us she couldn't see the silent conversation.

"Come on now Anna, pushing me through the wall just for a little sarcastic remark?" Alex said walking further into her room and walked in a circle slowly around her. She turned with him so she could keep an eye on him at all times. "That seems a bit extreme for you. I would expect a threat like that if you found out I read your journals." As Anna was turning around to follow Alex's motions, Nathan took my hand and we snuck around her and out the door. When we were in the hall I heard Anna say "Oh you didn't." In a threatening tone there was no answer but there was a loud crash. I laughed at them.

Nathan led me to a room down the hall which I assumed was his room. Considering that the room fit his personality right on the dot just like Anna's did with her. It was mostly black and mysterious. He sat down on his bed after closing the door. I laid down next to him on my back with my arms above my head. He looked at me and smiled.

"Can I ask you something?" I asked him.

"Sure." He said as he changed positions to where he laid on his stomach next to me.

"Have you ever like, you know spied on me?" I asked looking straight into his eyes.

"Yes." He answered with a sigh.

"Were you at my house the night before school?" He nodded. I gasped. "You were in the shadows weren't you?! Duke was barking at you wasn't he?"

"Yes, I didn't expect him to catch my scent and he wouldn't have if I would have stayed farther back, but I just had to look at you, you were in such a state of peace and calm." He scooted up so our faces were closer, he brought his hand up to my cheek and stroked his thumb softly against my skin. "But then Scott showed up." Nathan's voice was a growl. "I wanted to kill him so bad when he came close to you, but I couldn't let myself be seen, so when Scott kicked Duke to the side I pushed him up the porch and inside your house so he would wake someone up." His face suddenly got really close to mine. "You have no idea how much I wanted to hold and comfort you instead of Chris." He whispered. His lips came down on mine. My hands tangled in his midnight black hair, as his other hand that wasn't still on my cheek slid down t o my waist. I suddenly realized that I was putting too much pressure on my lower back, causing my wound there to burn in pain.

I stopped moving my lips, and tightly shut my eyes. When my lips stopped moving Nathan pulled back to look at me, or at least that's what I assumed that's what he did considering my eyes were still closed.

"What's wrong?" He asked with worry and concern in his voice.

I kept my eyes shut, and spoke through clenched teeth. "I put too much pressure on my lower back and now my cut is stinging."

He quickly turned over on his back, and carefully pulled me over to him. It was so weird how he knows what will make the pain go away. I sighed and rested my head on his shoulder.

"Maybe we should go back to Anna's room." He suggested in a tone that said he would rather stay right where he was than move an inch.

"No." I said in a stubborn toddler like voice that makes parents laugh and think is adorable. I snuggled up to his side more, moved my head to where it was more on his stomach, threw my arm over him, and curled one of my legs over his. His body was just so warm the heat was addictive.

He laughed at the way I responded. He didn't reject it though. He wrapped his arm around my waist and with his other hand, gently stroked my back lulling me to a perfect sleep.

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