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"Not everyday a human passes out in front of our house." Fiona teased as she drew the curtains back to look down at Clare who was now in Eli's lap as he gently held her head and checked for any injuries with such a soft fingers and steady eyes. Fiona pursed her lips as she watched her brother be so gentle with a mundane who he had met a week ago. Surely she was a pretty mundane, would make good use to be a Vampire if she was ever transformed, but Fiona could not see why her brother was treating Clare with such care.. as if she was his object of affection.

"I was thinking the same thing." Imogen murmured beside Fiona which made her flinch at the sound of Imogen's sudden soft voice. Fiona had been too wrapped up in her own thoughts to even process Imogen's thoughts or Eli's for that matter. But as Fiona looked down at Imogen who stood to Fiona's shoulder due to her shortness, she knew that Imogen had the same thoughts as Fiona.

"I've never seen him like this with a human." Fiona noted as she watched Eli call out Clare's name and gently shake her to wake her, but she was out cold and seemed to be in a deep slumber. Fiona listened to Eli's thoughts to hear that he was.. absolutely terrified of what had happened to her. He wasn't familiar with humans and their injuries. He was concerned if she was well or not, suddenly wishing he had listened in on Health class all the fifty times he had taken it.

"He is rather.. gentle with her. Usually he keeps his distance from humans, but with her.. its different. He talks to her and has these concerned thoughts for her running in his head unintentionally." Imogen observed as she sighed heavily. "I.. Maybe he is her.. you know.." Imogen trailed off and looked at Fiona to see if Fiona recognized what Imogen was implying. Fiona furrowed her brows together and placed a finger to her red lips as she looked back down at Eli who was still cradling Clare in his arms, speaking softly to her as his prodding fingers lightly touched the back of her head.

"How is he not attacking her? She is so close to him, her scent has to be filling his nostrils." Fiona stated as she shifted from one foot to the other as she tried to figure out the puzzling scene before her. If Fiona herself was in Eli's position and had a mundane like Clare in her lap who smelled with rich blood, she wouldn't be able to contain herself without running off to regain composure. But Eli was sitting on the concrete ground with an unconscious mundane girl in his lap with rich blood and he wasn't even thinking of her scent.

Her well being was on his mind more than her scent. He cared more for her health than her blood thirsty scent and it baffled Fiona. Not even a solid week ago, she and Eli had attacked head cheerleader and the popular girl at Degrassi, Marisol Lewis with no hesitation. Now Eli was baffling her mind by treating a mundane with care not even a human could muster.

"It's almost as if he is her Savior." Imogen whispered as she looked up at Fiona, who looked down at her with fearful eyes. Savior was a word that had been used rarely in the Golds coven due to the fact that someone finding a Savior was rare nowadays. The only couple to still be together and had one of them be a Savior is none other than Bullfrog and Cece. Cece had been a mundane and had been injured greatly. She was a rape victim from what Fiona understood and had been left in the streets for dead by her husband who was later killed by Bullfrog's hands and teeth. Bullfrog had smelled her blood, tracked her down by smell and once he rolled her over on her back on the side of the street and saw her blood and gashed face, he became her Savior. He hadn't realized it because it wasn't a life changing moment, sparks don't fly and a long stare isn't required. It is a mere look that happens in a nanosecond, it is barely remembered.

Fiona remembered how Bullfrog had said when he saw her face, he had to help her. He had baffled himself by helping a dying mundane rather than sucking what blood was left in her system. He had confessed that her blood had a rich scent to it and he wished nothing more than to drain her body, he had no self control and had only been a Vampire for a year. But he did carry her to his home and tried to revive her, and when he knew she was bound to be dead in minutes.. he did something that normally a newly transformed Vampire doesn't do.

And that was bite her neck, her arms, her chest, her stomach, her thighs, her legs and ankles repeatedly until he no longer smelled her rich scent, but rather steel venom pulsing through her veins.

It had taken her two days, Fiona remembered Bullfrog saying. Two days for her to transform into a Vampire. When she awoken, instead of asking if she was feeling well or even telling her what she had become, he asked the most idiotic question known to their kind which was,

"What kind of blood type do you prefer?"

Fiona smiled as she remembered the tale as Bullfrog smiled throughout the story and if Cece could blush, she would as she ducked her head. Bullfrog had became her Savior without even realizing it. Cece had became his mate on her death day and it was a odd time to meet her. On the side of a dead street with her dying body twitching as tears glazed down her bloody cheeks. Bullfrog had constructed the word "Savior", preferring it over "mate" which sounded too professional. They were each other's soul mates, he was her Savior. That would never change.

But as Fiona recalled on this memory and watched as Eli scooped Clare into his arms as he stood on firm legs, making sure her head was protectively in the crook of his neck. Fiona couldn't help but wonder if Eli was Clare's Savior. He would never admit to it, he doesn't seem aware of it either. But he was treating her too well, the way a Vampire doesn't usually treat a mundane.

Unless of course, he was in love with her without knowing it.

Unless he was her Savior.

(...)

"Fuck." Eli cursed under his breath as he hoisted Clare up into his arms. Her head dangled over his right arm, so he gently cradled her head as if she was a infant and placed it on his shoulder. Her head immediately fell into the crook of his neck and surprisingly, it tickled as she breathed against his neck. He softly smiled at the feeling, he never looked into the touch of many things and usually ignored shoves in the halls, but the feeling of Clare's face resting in the crook of his neck made him feel.. useful for once in his life.

With Clare protectively in his arms, Eli began walking down the path to his home. Not particularly caring that he stepped on Cece's pink tulips lining the walkway, he had already told his mother that flowers did not suit the house nor the occupants lifestyle.

As Eli reached the front door, he reached out with the hand under Clare's legs to open the door, but soon it opened in a quick motion to show Bullfrog and Cece standing there confused and baffled to see their son holding an unconscious mundane girl in his strong arms. Fiona and Imogen watched with wary looks and nervous stances as Eli stepped into the warmer home with Clare still wrapped in his arms. Her face still buried in the crook of his neck and he preferred it that way.

"Elijah." Bullfrog said in a low authoritative voice. Surprising everyone in the household aside from Eli by using his full name. "What in the goddamn world are you doing?" Bullfrog asked as he saw his son continue to walk away from him and head for the stairs leading to the upstairs bedrooms.

"Eli." Cece intervened as she approached her son and placed a gentle hand on his shoulder, immediately stopping him, yet he didn't turn around. He only held Clare tighter in his arms, afraid of what would happen to her if she slipped from his grip or someone snatched her from him. For some strange reason he couldn't explain, he would fight someone to just have Clare resting peacefully in his arms. Because Eli knew his arms were a safe solace for her.

"Why is a human girl in your arms? What happened?" Cece murmured as she looked down at the unconscious girl in her son's arms. She was very beautiful and that was something Cece noticed right away was the girl's round face, her milky white skin and her shoulder length straight hair that was draping over Eli's arm. But the girl's scent had hit Cece immediately, that she took two steps away to stop her incisors from breaking through her gums and into the girl's neck.

"Her.. her scent." Cece managed to stammer as she felt Bullfrog snake a comforting arm around her and gently squeezed her side. She swallowed hard and laced her hand with Bullfrog's as she took a deep breath and looked over at Fiona and Imogen who already had known the girl in Eli's arms. All Cece could catch from her daughter's minds were that this girl knew the three at school and had an incredible scent that blew their minds by meeting her a week ago.

"She has a potent smell." Eli said in a low voice and Cece didn't miss the way Eli held onto her a bit tighter, her head being brought back up to his shoulder after sliding down his arm. It baffled her to see her son so.. close and loving to a girl, especially a mundane who had such a strong smell. Eli never had a girlfriend and Cece along with the family was aware of that. The closest he got to a girl was in Romania, when Eli was fourteen and had met a young girl around the age of thirteen and was a very beautiful Romanian girl. She had gone by the name of Julia Stoica. Eli had grown close to her and it surprised the coven to know that she was a full blood like the rest of them.

Julia of course had.. issues with her coven. She was rebelling against their murdering ways to innocent mundanes and after getting into a violent fight with her mother, she had been banned from the coven. Immediately Julia had joined Eli's coven with open arms awaiting her. Cece was fond of Julia, as was Bullfrog and Imogen. Fiona had never warmed up to her and insisted that Julia was only going to bring sadness upon the family. Fiona was sure that Julia was here to revolt their ways of feeding on blood or to mess with Eli's mind and had steered clear of Julia whenever she was around.

Eli was head over heels for Julia, although always saying she was his best friend and nothing more. But Cece had caught them kissing or even in a more.. promiscuous position in his bedroom frequent times. Julia had been her son's beneficial friend that assisted his hormonal needs and he in return assisted in her homeless needs. It had been a trade of some sort, but Eli had always felt more strongly to her than she felt for him in the trade.

Julia didn't stay long in the Golds coven when a war between the Golds coven and Julia's past coven came head to head, demanding for Julia back. It was a spontaneous and short attack seeing as Julia sacrificed herself to her old coven and had taken a stake to her heart. In front of both covens, they watched as Julia sunk into her skin and was soon nothing but dust and a pile of clothes. Since the incident had happened, Eli has not spoken about it and the rest of the coven chose not to dwell on the fact that Julia had died as well. Eli had not even gave a girl a second glance since Julia's death thirty years ago and yet here he was.. holding a mundane girl in his arms. The way he looked at her was a look he wouldn't even give Julia, it had so much depth and unknown love behind it that everyone in the room could feel it pass through their bodies.

"What happened to her?" Bullfrog asked in a gruff voice as he gave a once over on his son and the mundane in his arm. Despite not wanting to say it out loud to where the household knew - yet they would if they payed attention to his mind - but he had never seen Eli look at a girl this way before and it made Bullfrog as a father feel.. rather old. He never thought much to his age, but as he saw the facts before him, to see that his son had found a mate it had made him finally feel his age. Maybe this was why mundanes get emotional over seeing their offspring get married, he never sought Eli to be with a girl since the Julia incident in Romania. But here was his son with a unconscious mundane girl that he held so gently and all Bullfrog wanted was a father - son talk with Eli.

"She.. She passed out." Eli said with a sigh as he looked down at the mundane girl softly and hoisted her head back onto his shoulder. "She.. something happened and well.. I'm gonna deal with this alone." Eli concluded as he climbed the staircase with the mundanes head slowly sliding down his shoulder. But as the family watched Eli climb the steps with the girl, but they saw her hand snake up his back and clutch at his tee shirt instinctively as he rounded the corner and to his bedroom.

The sight was one the family was not expecting and within their minds decided to take a stroll through the forest together and try to dissect what they saw.

(...)

Clare was gently placed on a black comforter, her head resting on a matching black pillow case. Her short straight hair was fawned out across the pillow that Eli found himself watching in a eerie awe. He wouldn't deny that she was beautiful, he hadn't been able to call a girl attractive since the horrendous incident with Julia that had happened decades ago in Romania. Julia was a girl that was surely special to Eli, she had a place in his heart and he had a place in hers.. before it was nothing but pure dust. The image of the beautiful Romanian girl stung Eli's brain, he hissed as he leaned against his bed which Clare was resting on as a sudden memory came before him,

"We demand to have Julia returned to us!" Daciana bellowed as she looked at Julia who was grasping onto Eli's hand with dear life as she watched her step mother become more furious with the seeming second.

"Why is that Daciana?" Cece asked calmly, she knew of the woman's temper and the last thing Cece wanted was for Daciana to become angry with her and suddenly cause her coven pain. It was known to the coven of Daciana's painful powers she consumed from the palms of her hands or even at times, the wand in her leather boot.

"Oh you know why, Cecilia." Daciana sneered as she curled and uncurled her fist and threw Eli a particularly nasty glare which caused Eli to hold onto Julia's hand tighter. He respected Julia's step mother to a certain point, and that certain point was when Eli had come to realize that Daciana had been abusing Julia with her magical powers she had within her mind. That was when all respect was lost for Daciana and the fuel between Daciana and the Golds coven began.

"I'm afraid I don't, Daciana. Would you mind explaining to me?" Cece asked, a bit of smugness laced in her sugar coated voice as she smirked at Daciana. Eli would have mentally gave his mother appeasement for her choice of words, but then he watched as Daciana let out a strangled screech and threw both her palms out before her. Long lightning strikes pierced through her palms and struck Cece hard enough that it sent her back into the stone wall.

"Cece!" Bullfrog cried out as he rushed to Cece's side and held her in his burly arms, his back to Daciana as he cradled his wife and murmured sweet nothings to her. Occasionally kissing the top of her head where she had struck her skull against the stone wall.

"Cece!" Julia yelped as she looked at Cece, the closest person Julia ever had to a real mother since her biological one had passed in a murderous event. Romanians know of the undead, they dedicate their lives to capturing each person of the undead and driving a stake through their heart. Unfortunately for Julia's biological mother, Tova that had happened decades ago. Now her father was married to Daciana, a literal wicked witch that loathes her step daughter's new coven.

"You..You bitch!" Eli screamed as he soon began to realize the changes in the environment, his mother was still being cradled in his father's arms. He wanted nothing more than to approach his parents and make sure his mother was alright. But he had Julia to be concerned of, he knew that Fiona and Imogen would not be able to keep watch over Julia. Fiona and Imogen had taken it upon themselves to guard Bullfrog and Cece in a crouched stance as they watched their surroundings.

"Oh sweetheart." Daciana chuckled as she strode across the open field and headed for Eli and Julia. Each stride she took made Eli's body shake with tremors and hold onto Julia tighter. He only wished Julia's family would be able to stop this nonsense, but as he stole a quick glance behind Daciana, he saw that her father was staggering backwards with two twin girls hugging his legs. Julia's younger step siblings, the poor girls had no idea what was happening. The poor girls did not realize they were watching a verbal brawl between a witch and a coven of vampires.

"Don't come any closer." Julia growled as she began to take a step back, but Daciana only chuckled menacingly as she approached the two teenagers. Julia expected for Daciana to pull her away from Eli or to perform some "magic trick" as she liked to call them on her or Eli, but Daciana merely looked at Julia and then focused her attention on Eli. Daciana placed her long fingers on Eli's face, three fingers on his left cheek and the thumb on his right. He could feel her long fingernails pushing into his skin. Eli hated the feeling and wanted nothing more than to push Daciana away, but he was no match for her powers. He himself had no powers, yet his family did. He was regular black sheep and had no powers to muster. He wanted to fight. He wanted his family safe. But he just.. couldn't.

"Such a.. pretty face." Daciana murmured as she scanned Eli's face with her piercing blue eyes. "Too bad we'll have to waste it." Daciana sighed as she puckered her lips and pouted in mock sadness. Then a smirk came before her face as the grip on Eli's face became tighter that Eli was sure she'd break his tough as nails bones.

"Leave my baby alone!" Cece screamed as she pushed Bullfrog off of her and began running at full speed towards her son, holding the ends of her long dress up so she wouldn't trip over the ends. But as she was halfway to Eli, she felt a physical force throw her back into the stone wall once more by Daciana's invisible force. Daciana rolled her eyes as she watched Bullfrog pull Cece back into his stone tight grip and Fiona and Imogen resumed their position before the two once more.

"I told you to stay put, Cecilia. Don't you worry though, your baby boy will be perfectly fine in the afterlife. That's if.. they have one for your kind." Daciana pondered as she returned her attention back to Eli. Eli looked out of the corner of his eye to see that Daciana had driven Julia back a ways away from her and Eli. He could also see the fear in his sister's eyes as they contemplated how to get their brother back from a witch with strong powers. Cece continued to call out for Eli and was trying her best to pull herself from Bullfrog's tight grip, but he wouldn't afford to lose a son and a wife today.

Eli returned his attention back to Daciana as she smiled and kept her eyes directly on Eli's. His face began to feel hot and unusual, he wasn't sure if it was because the sun was towering over them, the enchanted tattoo on his forearm that was suppose to protect himself from the sun was not working, or if it was Daciana's mental spell on him. But Eli began to feel anger pulsate into him as he stared back into Daciana's eyes. He just wanted her to get away, he wanted her to leave him alone, he wanted Daciana to leave.

"Have something to say, dear?" Daciana teased as she watched Eli's agonized face become more flustered as she gripped his face tighter, a small crack was heard under her thumb. "Hmm?" Daciana pushed farther as she held onto Eli's jaw for a bit longer under Eli finally was able to utter out of his lips as he looked Daciana directly in the eye,

"Leave me alone!" Eli shouted with enough force and authority, he expected for Daciana to finally crush him under her fingertips, but what he felt was her fingers leaving his face as she took staggering steps away from him. A completely blank look on her face as she stumbled over some dead wood.

"Oh my God." Fiona muttered in awe as she watched her brother gently rub his jaw as Daciana continued to stagger back. Julia rushed up to him and held onto his arm as she gently kissed his cheek. Mumbling something about him being a brave man to her honor.

"He.. He compelled her." Bullfrog murmured as his grip on Cece loosened. Both parents flanked Fiona and Imogen and watched their son stand on his own, but completely mortified by his own actions.

"What did I do." Eli muttered, more to himself than to Julia or to his family. All he had wanted was for Daciana to leave him alone and as he saw her stagger away from him, he wasn't sure what he had done. He had kept eye contact with her by force and then.. shouted to be left alone. It was like, she was forced to do what he said with eye contact.

"He has a power." Bullfrog said lowly, but then a grin came across his face and he laughed happily. "He has a power! Finally! My son has the power to compel!" Bullfrog shouted cheerfully as he pushed past Fiona and Imogen to approach Eli, but then a sudden force knocked him back into the same stone wall that Cece had been knocked into, this of course taking him off guard as Cece looked over him. Fiona and Imogen took guard and watched as Daciana was now out of the trance she had been in before, she slowly clapped as she began approaching Eli and Julia once more. Sarcasm seeping through the old hag's parted lips as she smiled and continued to clap.

"Bravo. Oh bravo. The old compelling power. Can't say I haven't seen a vampire possess that power in decades. But of course Eli has the power. After being the odd one out of his unusual little coven, he has finally fit in with being able to make people do what he wants. Such a selfish power that seemed to save you for a while right?" Daciana said lowly as she stopped clapping and stood before Eli and Julia once more, chuckling. Eli swallowed hard as he watched the smile on Daciana's face grow wider. "You seemed to have forgot one little detail, Eli. Witches who have the mark of exiling the undead, they aren't under your bidding forever." Daciana seethed as she quickly whipped out a wooden stake from the pack attached to her hip and began to charge for Eli, the stake looking hungry for his heart.

Every had happened too quickly for Eli as he saw the hungry stake charge for him. He was closing his eyes, ignoring the pleas of his parents and siblings.. and of Julia as he braced himself for the burning of the stake. But as he heard the stake plant itself into one other's heart chamber, his eyes flew open and he saw Julia was in front of him.. the stake attached to her chest.

"Oh no! This wasn't suppose to happen! We have to flee! Mikael! Take Lucille and Nilsine and leave!" Daciana screeched as she ran back to her husband and daughters, soon out of sight. Eli approached Julia, speechless as he knelt before her and grasped onto her hand, he could feel his family hovering over himself and Julia's shaking form.

"It'll be okay, Jules. We-We'll find someway to get you better, I promise." Eli stammered as he smoothed his thumb over Julia's hand, she opened her mouth to speak to him, but all that came out was a squeaky cough and a puff of dust flying out of her mouth. She quickly chose mental words as she thought,

"Its no use.. Just.. Just.."

Then she was gone. In a mere second, she took one last breath before the stake engulfed her and she was sinking into her skin. Eli tried to call out for her name, but it was no use as she was already dust on the grass. Eli looked down at his hand, a minute ago it held a shaky, beautiful, white hand and now it held nothing but pure dust.

Eli's eyes flew open as he glanced down at his pale palm, he opened and closed it, faintly remembering the feeling of the rough dust on his inner palm from Julia's demise. He could also remember the agony of the aftermath and having to move to England shortly after, it was something he did not want to look back on gleefully. His thoughts were suddenly interrupted as Imogen slowly opened his door and stuck her head inside, a playful smile on her face.

"You doing alright?" Imogen asked as she looked around the dark room, the band posters, the notable figurines from the many countries they have traveled to and from for years. This room was a solace for Eli and Imogen was just now realizing this was why her brother always spent so much time in here, it was because he was safe and alone in here.

"I'm fine." Eli grumbled as he stood up from the bed and sighed heavily. "You know, you don't need to come up here by Cece's orders whenever I have a flashback." Eli said as he crossed his arms looked down at Imogen, his lips in a tight line.

Imogen giggled and shuffled her feet as she pushed open the door even more, taking a nervous step inside Eli's room. She glanced over at Clare who was still lying unconscious on Eli's bed and Imogen wondered worriedly if she was alright. There was human injuries to even the slightest thing and she hoped it wasn't something serious that would happen under their roof.

"Imogen. Please." Eli said painfully as he left Imogen's open book mind. Imogen mumbled an apology and blew out a breath of air as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a Samsung Galaxy and handed it to Eli.

"Its Clare's. It fell out of her pocket and was laying on the sidewalk. Jake's called about three times and has sent her a mirage of messages. Maybe its wise to call him to come retrieve her. At least then we can avoid the whole having to drop her off at her house or having her wake up in our house. If she's with Jake, she'll be comfortable." Imogen explained as she rocked back and forth on the balls of her feet as she watched Eli sigh, his face contorted with sadness and crushed hope that Imogen wasn't hoping to have seen from him.

"Yeah.. comfortable." Eli muttered as he unlocked Clare's phone and pressed the call back button next to Jake's name, pressing the phone to his ear and on the second ring it was picked up by a very flustered Jake.

"Clare? Finally you called back! I need to apologize for what happened last night, I hope I didn't upset you too much. I went over to your house, but you weren't there and you weren't answering your phone! You're alright, right?" Jake exclaimed fearfully and Eli rolled his eyes at Jake's over dramatic worry for Clare's well being. As much as Eli wanted to hang up on the fool, he knew Jake was Clare's last hope for her returning home well. So he sighed heavily and began speaking,

"Its not Clare. It's Eli, I'm sure you know who I am. Clare is at my house, something happened and she needs to go home. You need to stop by and take her home to be more precise. I assume you know where it is by just sniffing out the scent, or is your weak half blood nose not doing its job?" Eli teased as he smirked. Jake growled on the other end of the line, a series of profanities pouring from his lips as he muttered,

"Goddamn full bloods."

(...)

The aching lingered in the back of her head, bashing against her skull as she slowly opened her eyes to a slit. The room was awfully dark and had a musky taste in the air, she was lying on a very comfortable mattress. Far more appealing than the one she has at her home which was a cheap spring mattress that use to belong to Darcy. Her head rested on a feather pillow, which was more soft than she had always thought they were and the silky pillow sheet was nice against the back of her neck. A thick blanket was draped over her body and filled her with warmness she never felt in her own home. Wherever she was, she felt nice.. she felt warm and taken care of. None of it seemed to ring dangerous to her, it just rang.. home.

A real home.

Clare slowly turned her head to the left, opening her eyes a bit wider as she saw the faint outline of a My Chemical Romance poster on the wall, the outline of Gerard Way and the blond hair he had was shown. A still from the song Famous Last Words, as Clare realized. Clare use to listen to My Chemical Romance to fuel her rebellion she was trying to force on herself, but she only liked three of their songs and for some odd reason, it wasn't Famous Last Words. Which was one of their most famous songs, no pun intended.

To the left of the My Chemical Romance poster, was a poster for Dead Hand. Clare faintly remember Dead Hand, Alli's older brother Sav had held a contest for winning Dead Hand tickets for who could keep their hand on his dad's truck the longest. A boy named Adam had won the tickets from what Clare remembered when she watched the contest happened. Adam had split the tickets between him, his older brother Drew, Drew's girlfriend Bianca and Jake. Jake had gushed about the concert despite only knowing their most popular song, Paisley Jacket. Clare knew the song by heart after hearing it seventeen times in a row in Jake's pickup truck when they both ditched school early to see a movie together.

It was an agonizing twenty minutes for Clare, at least that's how Clare use to think of it. But now as Clare looked back on the strangely fond memory, she wished she was back in Jake's truck that smelled of Burger King and cheap cigarettes whenever she would step inside. The smell use to repulse her that she'd always tell Jake to clean his truck out as she's pinch her nose, but now Clare finds the smell rather inviting.

Clare was about to identify the metal band next to the Dead Hand poster, but quickly stopped herself as she heard talking outside the bedroom door she was in.

"Do you think she's awake now?" A familiar voice said, the voice was a bit raspy like it had smoked a cigarette before speaking.

"Why don't you go check, Jake. I'm sure she's waiting for you." Another familiar deep voice said, but it had called the other Jake. Jake! That was who the other voice was, the raspiness of smoking.. of course it was Jake! He was here to retrieve her and oh was Clare happy to have Jake here, surely she was upset at him for no longer seeing her, but now he was here to see her. To save her from a metal head's room! Clare strangely found this romantic.

The door opened and Clare's eyes fully opened as she saw Jake walk into her room with a grin on his face as he approached her bedside. His burly hands stuffed in his ripped pockets as his steel toed boots clomped against the wooden floor. The sound was soothing to Clare for another strange reason.

"Jake." Clare rasped as she tried to clear her throat, but she only felt Jake's fingertip on her cracked lips as he sat down on the edge of the black bed she was laying upon. He gave her another smile as he removed his finger and began twiddling with her thumbs.

"Clare.. How much do you remember?" Jake asked seriously as he looked at Clare with piercing hazel eyes. Clare bit her lip nervously as she tried to remember what had happened before she appeared in the mysterious metal head bedroom. She remembered the fight she had with Jake, her awkward run in with Jake and Sadie.. her long walk to clear her head only to come face to face with.. Eli. Clare quickly turned her head away from Jake to see Eli leaning up against the door frame, giving Clare a sad smirk and Clare noticed he was wearing a Dead Hand tee shirt that matched with the poster on the wall.

Then the series of events began to click for Clare. After her rough day at school and with Alli and Jenna, she went for a long walk to clear her cloudy brain. Clare had come across Eli in front of her house who showed compassion she never knew he had equipped. But before Clare had felt the darkness overcome her hours ago, she remember two distinct moments happening.

One Eli had clarified himself as a.. vampire. Surely he was joking.. but then number two happened, her flashback from her childhood with Jake. The game of tag. Her scraping her knee. Jake knelt beside her.. telling her he'd make her feel better before sucking her blood out from her injured knee. The pain she had felt had come before her causing her blackness to come upon her.

Gasping Clare looked back at Jake who had his lips pursed in a line as he grasped Clare's shoulders firmly and looked her straight in the eye saying,

"You will never remember that night. NEVER!" Jake shouted as he held Clare's forearms tighter. Clare began to feel the force come onto her again, overpowering the pain on her forearms, but that was until Jake was knocked from beside her and landed onto the ground with a loud thud that the lamp beside Clare clanked against the wall. The force vanished away from Clare, she shook her head numbly as she tried to figure out what exactly was happening.

"You don't touch a girl like that asshole." Eli sneered as he looked down at Jake as he shook his head. "I'll do it if you want me to. I can keep my temper." Eli spat as he stepped over Jake's seething form on the floor and sat on the edge of his bed where Jake had sat, looking down at Clare who looked fearful for what was happening to herself and the two boys before her.

"What.. What.." Clare stammered and Eli merely shushed her as he gently ran a hand through her straight hair, giving her a small smile as he said,

"Clare.. I'm sorry for what I'm suppose to do. But I have to." Eli said softly. Clare looked up at him with wide eyes as she licked her lips nervously, waiting for what Eli was going to do to her. Hurt her? Kill her? Many possibilities were rushing through her head, but were quickly stopped as Eli kept eye contact with her and gently said,

"You will not remember tonight. You will not remember seeing me outside my home. You never went for a walk.. You stayed at home to watch movies. Nothing that happened tonight happened. Now go to sleep."

And to sleep she went.

A/N: Please review! I really want some reviews since things are unraveling and we're finding out Eli's past and Jake's motives. PLEASE REVIEW!