A/N- Ello ello ello everyone! Merry Christmas and happy holidays! I hope you all are having a great vacation and here's the next chapter of Bloodthirsty!... consider it my little Christmas present to all of you :p ;) , so, here you go! Chapter 48 of Bloodthirsty!

Ross's POV

I woke up and heard Hayley's voice. "And I swearto the f***ing dear high lord if you so much as-" she started.

"Hayley?" I asked weakly turning over. I saw her right in front of Rodney, holding the wooden steak that he had threatened to kill me with earlier. She looked over at me. "ROSS!" she yelled and ran over. She immediately dropped to her knees and tightly hugged me and wouldn't let go, but I could feel all of her mentality was going toward Rodney. I looked up at him and noticed he hadn't moved at all and I couldn't understand why. I moved Hayley back a little and looked at her. "Hayley... what'd you do to him?" I asked motioning my head toward Rodney.

"I have control over him... b**** was trying to take me away from you after he knocked you out" she explained. I looked over at Rodney with an icy glare and put my hand out toward Hayley. "Can I?"

"Be my guest" she said handing me the steak. I got up and walked over to Rodney. "There has got to be something wrong with you Rodney" I said coldly. I looked over at Hayley. "Could you go? I've got it" she had an unsure look on her face but nodded, let Rodney drop, and walked into the living room. Once she was gone I grabbed him up but the shirt collar and held him against the wall, high enough that his feet couldn't touch the floor. "You had the chance to kill me after all these God damn years... what the f*** is going on? You would've killed me in an instant when I knew you back before... did the stone finally break?" I asked with a cold tone on my voice. Rodney looked the other way.

"And you have the chance to kill me now after all these years, why not just do it already?" he mumbled.

"Not until I get a f***ing answer out of you Harrison"

"Don't callme by my last name"

"Too f***ing bad now answer the God damn question!"

"You know what?" Rodney looked at me, dead in the eyes, with more emotion then I had ever seen in his eyes "Yes! My heart was never made of f***ing stone Ross! But I guess you never noticed that... you were too busy noticing the bad in me... I always thought of you as a little brother Ross... that's why I had turned you into a vampire... I couldn't have someone else that I loved die on me... that's why I seemed so emotionless and stone cold... my family was killed, and you were the only person that I had found in ages that was like family to me" tears started streaming down his cheeks "You don't know what I've been through"

"Actually, Rodney, I do... you're forgetting that you're the one who killed my parents"

"Ross, please believe me when I say this... I didn't want to do that... I wasn't the evil b**** behind all of that"

I pushed him back into the wall a little harder "And what makes you think that I will ever believe you?"

"You can look into my mind! I don't give a s*** anymore! I don't want to do this! IT'S NOT ME! Noneof it is! I swearit!"

"Then who the f*** would it be Rodney? Who the f*** could it be?"

"You'll never believe me"

"I'm not f***ing playing with you Rodney, I could care less if all this was directly about me, but this threatens Hayley... and I would give my lifefor that girl... who is it?"

"...It's...It' Kory"

I let go of Rodney's shirt and stumbled backwards a little bit and hit into the wall. I slid down and Rodney was on one knee across from me. He made a move to come over but I pointed a finger at him "Any closer and I willcall Hayley in here" I threatened. He dropped back and just sat there. "But... how? Why?!" I asked Rodney.

"He said that you're becoming... softer, I think the word was, and he knows how much you care about Hayley... he wanted me to take her because he knew you'd go to the ends of the Earth and kill whoever the f*** got in your way to find her and that you'd be the old Ross then" he explained. I had my knees up in front of me and was holding my head because I swear the world started spinning. I felt a hand on my shoulder and I knew it was Rodney's. "Don't touch me Rodney" I hissed. I felt him pull his hand back and sit down next to me. "Dude, I'm sosorry" Rodney said sincerely.

"But why are youdoing what Korysays?!" I asked turning my gaze on him.

"You've never seen dude's true powers... he's waymore powerful than you think"

"I don't believe that"

"It doesn't matter if you do or not, it's true"

"And give me one good reason why I should believe you after all these years"

"Alright... no matter how much of a monster and a b**** and an all around f***ing jerk I've been... have I ever oncelied to you?"

I thought back over all the times he's told me things and what would happen... but not once did he ever lie to me... I turned to him with an icy glare. "And why should I believe that you're just suddenly on our side?" I asked.

"What do I have to do to make you believe me, 'cause I'll do it Ross, anything...just please... I am so sorry for everything I've put you through in the past, and I mean that honestly, your parents, your mortality, allof it... I may have ruined everything in your life and I can admit I have f***ed up a lot... but I want to make everything right... specifically starting with you and Hayley" he said, and he looked like he was about to start crying again. I thought it over.

"Alright Rodney... I believe you... but you give me anyreason, any reason at allto believe that you're talking bulls*** and you're gonna turn on us... I will end you" I threatened.

"Ross, man, thank you... I promisethat I won't let you down"

I stood up and helped Rodney up and we walked into the living room to talk to Hayley.