A/N: I absolutely LOVED the reviews I got on last chapter! I'm enjoying the fact that you guys love this FF and I'm enjoying every bit of writing it as well! So please continue on reviewing! I love reviews!

PS: Yes, there is Cake in this story. But don't fret! Its short and soon you'll see everything unravel with Cake. This is Eclare and Eclare will happen!
Disclaimer: I do not own Degrassi or the concept of Vampires.

"Do not get them off topic, Daniel." Cece chastised Bullfrog by using his real name, he simply rolled his eyes at his wife using his first name. It wasn't the first time she used his first name as a feeble attempt to make him cower. But Bullfrog had been married to Cece for well over sixty years and she had used his first name more than five hundred times in their marriage. So her ways of chastisement no longer worked on him.

"Wait, there is more vampires?" Eli asked as he sat up straight on the black, leather couch and looked over at Bullfrog with curiosity shining in his now brighter green eyes since feeding on the human girl a couple hours ago.

"That's impossible. We're the only ones in this area!" Imogen exclaimed as she looked at Bullfrog oddly, wondering how their own species can be here as well. She was sure that when they moved here that they were the only ones here, no one else had approached them at school or on the street to ask if they were from another species. All Imogen smelled was different scents of human blood, she hadn't once smelled steel blood.

"Imo's right, Bullfrog." Fiona pipped up, shocking the rest of the household by using Imogen's nickname. "We're the only ones in this area, if there was more here, we'd be intruding on their territory. So far we haven't interfered with any one's territory." Fiona briefly explained. There could only be one coven of vampires in a town, no more than one unless the other coven was alright with sharing an area. But their kinds were ever alright with other vampires intruding onto different areas. When that happens - fights break out and when fights break out, they all risk themselves to human eyes.

"Eli, Fiona, Imogen." Bullfrog said deeply as he looked at his children in the eye, giving them the hint to keep quiet while he explains the other vampires in the area. "Let me explain." Bullfrog said and in a chorus in their head, Eli, Fiona and Imogen all thought,

"Sorry, dad - Bullfrog." Only Eli using the word "dad" whilst Fiona and Imogen called him by his nickname. Both girls never felt comfortable calling Bullfrog and Cece "mom" and "dad" upon being taken into the Goldsworthys' coven, neither parent pushed it upon the two girls and they allowed them to call them their real names when they pleased. Both girls had been pleased to call them their names for the past thirty years.

"Please continue on, sweetheart. I want to hear about this "other coven" business." Cece told Bullfrog as she nervous twirled her wedding ring on her pale finger. She was nervous upon hearing her husband's words about another coven, she has seen other covens in her sixty years of living as a vampire. But she was never prepared to see another coven, and to know her husband had ran into one alone terrified her to the core. She wanted her husband and her children to be safe. She was the mother of the coven and the mother keeps her coven safe and sound from all intruders.

Bullfrog sighed softly and reached over to grasp on Cece's hand, smoothing his thumb over her pale skin as a way to reassure her from her horrible thoughts the whole household had thought of. It had caused all of their thoughts to come to a stop as they all watched Bullfrog and Cece share a intimate conversation through their minds. Eli, Fiona and Imogen decided to look away and keep themselves from listening in on their conversation. But Eli couldn't help but let his ear slip up and listen to part of the hushed, non talkative conversation,

"Are our children in danger?"

"I-I.."
"Daniel! Answer me! We have a son and two daughters to look out for! Are they safe?"

"Y-Yes. They're fine, Cece. I promise you. Not a single person from that coven will bother our children. I can assure you."

Eli immediately pulled his mind from that conversation and took a quick glance at Fiona and Imogen to see a scared look on Imogen's face and a trouble one gracing Fiona's features. They both had listened in just as Eli did - and all three of them were scared of what Bullfrog would have to say about this matter.

"Eli, Fiona, Imogen. All of you just be calm, you all are fine. I can assure you that you all are fine." Bullfrog said in soft voice, his hand still latched onto Cece's as he continued to run his thumb over her cool, white skin as a way to calm her horrible thoughts. But no words were comforting any one in the room, especially Imogen who had sputtered out,

"But what if they kill us! I don't want to die!" Imogen shouted in a wobbly voice, Eli picked up on the shakiness of her voice and inched forward to get a better look of her face.. but she was cowering her face in her hands and making sobbing sounds. Imogen had always been the most sensitive one of the coven, always wishing the animals on the ASPCA commericals could go to a safe home and always whimpering after a death scene in a movie. But Eli had never seen her attempt to cry, he knew the feeling of wanting to cry, to feel the sting in your eyes and the burning on your pupil. But as much as any of them wished to actually sob and let their emotions out, none of them could. Crying was a mundane ability, a ability none of them acquire since none of them are mundane enough to cry.

"No, No. Imo, they won't. I promise. I signed a treaty." Bullfrog assured Imogen as he gave her a soft look that Eli ever rarely saw his father give off. The last time he had seen his father give off such a sympathetic glare was when Eli was ten and was nearly dead by Imogen's innocent bite on his neck. Her venom nearly killing him if his father hadn't sucked it out and made sure to get enough blood in his system. The look on Bullfrog's face that one afternoon in the mid 70's when Eli was laying on his parents' bed and felt the unbearable pain of venom burning his veins and colliding with his own venom, the look on his father's face screamed,

"Don't leave me and your mother! Don't do this to us! Stay and fight, Eli! Stay and fight, dammit!"

Eli gulped as he felt the echoed words leave his mind and he hesitatingly placed two fingers on his neck, feeling two small puncture wounds that had left a scar on his pale skin. He had forgiven Imogen for the incident more than a decade ago, but he and she knew that it was something they'd never forget.

"You signed a treaty?" Fiona exclaimed, her mouth pops open in shock and dried human blood was stuck in the crease of the corner of her mouth. "How did they even know you were a vampire!" Fiona asked alarmed and Eli sighed heavily and leaned into his palms as he heard Fiona's loud words, Imogen's sobs and numerous thoughts running through his mind, making his head long for a dizzy spell to take over.

"All three of you calm down." Bullfrog said in a authoritative voice as he shot all three of his children a look for them to be calm as he told them all about the other coven and this treaty. "Well, I was well on my way to dumping the girls' body that you two had killed." Bullfrog started as he looked at Eli and Fiona who hung their heads in shame of the terrible thing they had done in a moment of losing sanity. "And on my way back, I took the back roads through the woods when I smelled something a bit unusual from a house hidden behind two tall pine trees. I could obviously smell a human inside there, but I also smelled the scent of human blood.. mixed with steel blood." Bullfrog said in a low voice that made the four surrounding him gasp as they all heard human and steel blood mixed together. A combination that is a deadly one, a combination most vampires fear of happening.

"Half bloods." Eli barely whispered as he swallowed deeply, remembering the words Clare had echoed hours ago ring through his mind,

"Your eyes are pretty too, Eli and Fiona. Reminds me of Jake."

"Reminds me of Jake."
"Jake."

"Jake."

The image of Jake was now rolling through Eli's mind, he had Jake in his fourth period History class and the moment Jake had walked in he had a cocky personality immediately, his thoughts were even worse as he made secret comments about the girls in the class. But his smell had hit Eli in the wrong way, it was... so so wrong. Had a bitter smell to it, a smell that didn't attract him in any little bit. A smell that belonged to a human and vampire mix. Eli had briefly considered if the Jake, Clare had speaking of was the one with the bitter smell and cocky attitude, but he had pushed it from his mind. It was just his mind playing tricks on him, making him make absurd assumptions. But now Eli wasn't so sure it was an assumption anymore until his father gives more insight.

"Yes, half bloods. I've come around half bloods in my life before, at times with your mother along with me." Bullfrog confessed as he lightly squeezed Cece's hand and gave her a soft smile, which soon became serious. "They are usually a very deadly species of our kind. We're full bloods, usually we run a muck and kill everything in sight, unless we're civilized. Which we are. Some covens have been better civilized than crazed murderers. But half bloods can be worse, they have the mundane inside of them that makes them feel emotions and give them human qualities. Then they have the vampire inside of them as well, which doesn't mesh well with the mundane. Nothing meshes well with vampires." Bullfrog explained and Eli found himself agreeing with his father at the "nothing meshes well with vampires." Eli was surely to never mesh well with any humans or animals for that matter, most people were scared by his exterior and never stuck around long enough to know the truth about his existence. It wasn't as if anyone cared to begin with anyway.

"Well anyway, I had been standing outside the bitter smelling home, when I heard the front door open up and a human man came walking out. He was dressed in some construction uniform and came just before the fence and looked me in the eye and said, "Your kind ain't welcome here." With a real southern twang to it. I had asked him if he was alright, trying to play it as a smooth as I could. The man had laughed and said, "You're a vampire, man. I know I ain't one, but I was married to one of your kind. My son can smell ya from his bedroom. Said you were on his territory." That's when I knew I couldn't lie my way through with this man. So I asked if I could see his son, in which I was invited into the home with the man's permission and it reeked of the bitter smell the half bloods were so used too." Bullfrog paused as he looked around the room to see that Imogen was no longer making sobbing sounds, Fiona had her lips pursed in a line and Eli had a blank look crossing his face as Bullfrog continued on with his story,

"I met the son and the son's cousins who had came down for a visit. Names are Katie and Owen, the son's name was -" Bullfrog was about to say the sons' name when he heard his own son say,

"Jake. His name is Jake." Eli finished for his father, he felt all his family's eyes on him and he sighed and held up a hand to further any questions to ask how he knew the sons' name. "I know his name because he's in my History class. He smelled differently than everyone else in the class, but I ignored it. Then Clare had brought him up today at lunch and its making me wonder why the mundane girl would be with a half blood." Eli pointed out and Imogen gasped and soon intervened,

"Maybe she doesn't know? Don't half bloods blend in better than full bloods?" Imogen wondered with a shrug of her shoulders, Eli was partially glad to see Imogen no longer sadden by the news of the half bloods.

"Why does it even matter. She's a mundane girl who's even more annoying than the one we killed today. Let her get into a relationship with a half blood. We can all see when she dies." Fiona snickered and Eli surprisingly threw her a glare over his shoulder which gave Fiona a perplexed look as she soon smiled and said,
"Does Eli have a little crush on Clare? Is her blood too much for you to stay away from? Is she the Bella to your Edward?" Fiona teased and before Eli could return with a bitter remark, he heard a booming voice shout,

"BE QUIET!"

Immediately Eli and Fiona shut their mouths and had their attention on Bullfrog who had a agitated look on his voice for having to use his strong voice at his children who had never heard him speak so angrily.

"We can discuss that later, but as for now, this treaty business is more important." Bullfrog said calmly as Cece softly stroked his shoulder, causing his frigidness to slowly disappear as he said, "I talked to Jake and his cousins who were half bloods as well. Which I found a bit strange, but didn't divulge into. Jake informed me that his coven has been here for more than a decade and that we best be leaving as soon as possible. But I told him that we had no acknowledgement of other vampires residing here, but he did say "Your son Eli does though." which obviously covers how Eli knew Jake. Jake had obviously smelt your steel blood, Eli. Knew from the start you were a full blood. The kid's probably jealous he only has half of what you got." Bullfrog teased as he reached over and playfully pinched Eli's cheeks which caused Eli to lightly smirk. "I then asked what should happen next and the kid Jake said he could smell human blood on me. He mentioned the rule of no slaughter of humans on their land." Bullfrog confessed and his eyes wandered over to Fiona and Eli who were both looking down guiltily. So it was their fault this treaty was made, if they had just played off that girls' smell, they wouldn't be in this situation. Neither Eli or Fiona knew what to say to Bullfrog at the moment either than a very sorrowful,

"Sorry dad - Bullfrog."

Bullfrog waved his hand dismissively and watched as Eli and Fiona raised their heads to see Bullfrog having a small smile on his lips as he looked at the two and sighed.

"I took the blame for it. I didn't say that you two had killed the girl, that punk would've given you two a hard time at school. Jake had told me I had less than twenty four hours to leave Ontario, but I mentioned a treaty to him. He considered it with his other half bloods and father. All agreed and a quick treaty was typed up on the computer." Bullfrog explained as he stretched his legs out on the hardwood floors.

"What did the treaty say?" Imogen said in a soft voice that had Bullfrog shooting her a smile.

"The treaty said that my coven - well technically Eli's coven, could not harm a mundane in Ontario. So a simple wound by your hands counts guys." Bullfrog pointed out as he looked at Eli, Fiona and Imogen who all nodded along. "So no harming, killing or transforming mundanes. Or else the half bloods will have permission to start war." Bullfrog concluded and Cece let out a huge air of relief to know that the treaty was one that was simple to follow by. She'd have Fiona and Eli in line to not harm or kill any mundanes. And as far as she knew, this little coven was complete. No more vampires joining, none had join since the 70's.

"But wait." Eli interjected as he looked at Bullfrog and said, "What if they harm, kill or transform a mundane? Do we get permission to start war?" Eli asked with curious eyes and Bullfrog squinted his eyes as he pulled the crumpled up treaty from his back pocket and read over it. A small smile tugging at his lips as he said,

"Neither coven shall harm, slaughter or transform a mundane. No exceptions. If a mundane is harmed, slaughtered or transformed, either coven has permission to begin war."

As Bullfrog finished reading the treaty, he handed it to Eli who skimmed through most of the writing, making a mental note to read it all thoroughly later, until he saw a particular signature at the bottom.

This treaty has been read and signed by the leader of the M's coven:

Jake Martin

(...)

The following day the sun was hiding behind the gray, cloudy sky. No birds in the sky, or in any noticeable trees in the Frisson Park located by Degrassi. The merry go round slightly swayed in the soft breeze, the leaves rustled and fell to their place on the dirt and the swings squeaked as Clare softly swayed back and forth on the red swing.

After she had returned home from school, she had interrupted another one of her parents' famous fights and lo and behold, it was about Helen's assumption that Randall has been cheating on her since Darcy had left for Kenya two years ago. Clare found her mother to be a bit ridiculous, but as she sat here on the swing sets, she wondered if it was plausible. Had her father been having an affair? He has been coming home later than usual, never there for dinner - not like Helen was there. She too worked late, which made Clare wonder if her mother was also cheating on Randall.

The fighting between her parents had stopped the moment Clare came through the front door, but all she heard her agitated mother and her red faced father say were,

"What took you so long to come home?"
"School ended an hour ago!"

"Did you get another detention?"

"How long has your hair been like that?"

"Go and change out of that ridiculously short skirt, Clare Diana Edwards! You're a Christian and Christan's dress to impress!"

Clare had wished she never came home to begin with, she should have crashed at Jenna's house. Jenna's brother, Kyle sometimes checked in on Jenna from his apartment in Ajax, but other than that, Jenna lives alone and Clare wishes she had the same. A nice and easy lifestyle where you can relax in peace and quiet.

A nice and easy lifestyle with Jake. A lifestyle where things go by the flow, no planning, no fighting, no fast paced moving. Just a life where you play things by the ear and enjoy the now rather than the future.

Jake. Jake had been on the back burner of Clare's mind since this morning. She had woken up to the thought of Jake, to thinking how he wakes up every morning and what he does every morning. If he shaves every morning and what gel he uses to spike the front of his bangs up. How many colors of flannels he had. If all his jeans had holes in the knee from working hard. Why his skin was unusually cold, when he was obviously warm blooded. The thoughts of Jake Martin had Clare occupied this morning, so she shook them away to deal with later.

Clare was baffled by why all of a sudden she had feelings for Jake. It made no logical sense to her. All these years they had been friends, not once had Clare even looked his way and say "Wow, Jake has a nice ass." All she had seen him was.. a friend. A brother even. But ever since last night, when she had led him out to his red truck and he looked at her so intensely it could burn holes in her eyes. That look had changed the way she thought of him and Clare wondered how a simple look by a seventeen year old boy could do that to her. It confused her to the very core.

"What confuses you to the very core?" A familiar voice said as they came out from behind the many pine trees surrounding the park. Clare craned her neck to see who had come to talk to her and how they could have known words she never even spoke. The figure came closer and Clare breathed a sigh of relief as she realized it was the new guy she had met yesterday.

He approached her with his hands stuffed in his leather jacket pockets, a Deadhand Reunion t-shirt underneath and black skinny jeans hugging his thighs. This was the guy Clare had in her English class as well. The guy that all girls had gone crazy over at seeing his beauty. He wasn't half bad looking, but Clare wasn't willing to lose her sanity over his looks.

"Excuse me?" Clare asked as she saw the guy approach her with a smirk on his pale face and from this angle Clare could see his angular jaw, his button nose, his smooth lips, his black hair that reached to his mid ear and his dark green eyes she had never seen on a person before. It suited him so well and Clare wondered how a person could be born with such a perfect eye color.

"Oh well I just heard you talking about being confused. Came over to see why you were oh so very confused." The guy - Eli, Clare now remembered his name along with his siblings, Fiona and Imogen. None of the three resembled the same, all had the same skin tone and beautiful eyes, but as far as their looks had gone.. it was far from similar.

"Oh? Did I say it out loud?" Clare asked confused, she was sure she had said it all in her thoughts, why else would she be blurting out her feelings in the middle of the deserted park?

"Yeah you did." Eli said with a smile tugging at his lips and Clare felt almost as if she too wanted to smile along with him, it seemed as if Eli didn't smile as much and she wanted to smile with him, but she shook the feeling and stood up from her spot on the swing set and approached Eli in her black dress with matching black flats. She wore no tights underneath her short dress and Eli briefly wondered if she was cold, if she could use his jacket. But he just shook his head at the thought of giving his jacket to a mundane.

"You're the new guy right? Eli?" Clare asked as she approached Eli with a curious look on her face and Eli scoffed. She couldn't even remember who he was? She had approached his table with her posse of annoying girls. He wondered if she recruited anymore to make him suffer and take up Fiona's offer of ripping his jugular out.

"Ha, yeah. And you're that annoying girl who runs the group of annoying girls and has them bother new kids at lunch." Eli seethed and Clare was taken a back by his attitude towards her. He had such a defensive stance, but it seemed as if he screamed even more underneath his exterior, when he was at his most vulnerable, Clare wondered if he'd take off that leather jacket and finally be who's been cowering behind a wall. But Clare wasn't going to stand here and let a lonely freak treat her like dirt.

"Hey now!" Clare exclaimed in which Eli raised his eyebrow. "I may be an annoying bitch, but you don't insult Jenna and Alli." Clare said sharply and watched as Eli's expression changed from amused to one of complete boredom. She was surprised he wasn't even going to try to apologize for insulting Alli and Jenna. Maybe he really was this way, a stand offish jerk who did nothing more than be rude.

"Ugh, whatever." Eli groaned and Clare watched as he turned on his heel to walk out of the deserted park, but Clare swore she heard him say under his breath,

"Fucking mundanes."

(...)

"Um hey, Clare. Its me, Jake. I see that you weren't able to pick up your phone or you had ignored me or whatever.. but I was wondering if you wanted to hang out today at the park. Not that deserted one you stay at, but the clean one by the supermarket. Well.. call me back if you want to hang. Bye." Click.

Clare slowly grinned as she pulled her cell phone from her ear and dialed Jake's number into the call pad and pressed the phone backed to her ear, feeling her pierced helix rub against the phone. She ignored the urge to move the piercing from the phone when she heard a very happy voice say,

"Clare?"
Clare couldn't help, but smile broadly at the way Jake said her name, it was unlike any other guy had said her name. Some said it in a sneering tone and others said it in a drawled out sexy way that makes Clare gag. But Clare smiled coyly as she seductively whispered,

"Are you still on for hanging out?"

(...)

The following night, Clare was walking home with her arm looped through Jake's, both laughing hysterically as they reminisced on the night they had together. Jake had been eager to take Clare to the cleaner park by the supermarket and neither of them expected to have so much fun together. Clare had been pushed as high as the swing could possibly go, her giggles reaching a higher pitch than the five year old being pushed next to her. She hadn't felt so alive and happy in a long time, her parents had been bringing her down and other than that, Clare felt like her life was going to be heading uphill from here. She could feel it in her heart that things were looking up from here.

But as Jake walked Clare to her door, their looped arms falling to their sides as Clare faced Jake and breathed out a loud, drawled out sigh.

"So.." Clare said dully, unsure of what to do next. She was sure what she had just done with Jake was considered a "date" and Clare herself had been so stubborn to go on dates, she had rejected all the ones she had received. In that moment Clare wished Alli and Jenna were here, both girls would know what to do in this kind of situation.

"So.." Jake repeated and stuffed his hands awkwardly in his pocket and shuffled his feet on Clare's front porch. They both looked up and their eyes met, Clare couldn't help, but smile shyly at Jake and look back down at her flats which were scuffed with dirt and mud from running around the park with Jake.

"Can we hang out again tomorrow?" Clare asked as she rolled back and forth on her flats and looked up at Jake for an answer. She was sure he'd say "yes" in a heartbeat considering his year long crush on her, but Clare wasn't prepared to see him look a bit sad and say,
"Clare, you aren't going to say what I'm going to tell you."