I know it's been ages but i had to finish school for the term and i now have 2 weeks to do the best i can. My birthday is in 9 days so i might not get any more chapters up these next 2 weeks but i will try my best and i swear the story gets better from here on out. So without further ado, enjoy.
It had been an hour since Cassie and Danny had gotten frisky in the lake and they were currently walking back to the cabin, both feeling giddy and euphoric.
"I wonder what the others say if they find out about… you know." Cassie said as they walked and Danny smiled.
"Who knows. There's a lot of things that could happen." Danny said.
"What exactly do you think they'd do?" Cassie asked.
"Maybe they will scream, pass out, have a heart attack or be totally fine with it and not even care." Danny replied and Cassie grinned.
"Do you want to tell them?" Cassie asked after a moment of silence and Danny stopped, the two turning to face each other.
"Do you?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Well, I was just thinking that maybe it would be fun to sneak around. I mean, nobody knowing what we were up to and having fun without others bothering us." Cassie said and Danny nodded, staring into her eyes. After a minute, Cassie begun to get a little worried and was about to ask what was wrong when he grabbed her hips and pulled her into him, their hips slamming together as he passionately kissed her. Cassie just smiled against his lips before wrapping her arms around his neck, feeling a rush when Danny pushed her backwards into a tree, their bodies pressed right against the others.
As Cassie was twisting her fingers through his hair, a rain drop fell on her forehead and they pulled away and looked up as rain started falling, quickly becoming heavy and falling through the tree tops and falling down onto the secret couple.
"Come on. Let's get out of here." Cassie said, grabbing his hand and then pulling him with her, the two sprinting all the way back to the cabin and laughing hard as they walked in, both completely soaked.
"Where on earth have you two been?" Millie asked, handing them both towels to dry off.
"Well, it took ages to find him and then we just talked for a while and then it started raining." Cassie said as Danny shook out his hair, the water flicking Cassie, Millie and Gabe who were standing around him.
"Shake away from us." Gabe said and Danny smirked.
"Where's Sam and Freddie?" Cassie asked a moment later, Amber handing her and Danny cups of coffee.
"Pete took them home and then went to get dinner. Freddie still has a headache." Amber replied and Cassie nodded, sipping the coffee before putting it down on the table and then drying her hair with the towel.
"Alright. I'm going to go and get changed before I get a cold or something. Wait. Can vampires get colds?" Cassie asked and the others shrugged.
"Ask Pete when he gets back. He's like the vampire encyclopaedia." Danny said.
"True. Where is he anyway? I'm starving." Gabe said.
"When are you not?" Millie asked and he stuck his tongue out at her.
15 minutes later in Bushwell Plaza, Freddie was laying on the couch with the TV softly playing trying to sleep off his hangover. His head wasn't pounding as much as it had been earlier, but it still hurt and he wished he could just take some pain killers to relieve the pain.
Freddie was just beginning to fall asleep when he was disturbed by a knock on the front door and he groaned, getting up and going over to the door, the light in the hallway hurting his head even more. When he finally got his bearings, he noticed a woman who looked mid-twenties in a black pant suit, a big black bag on her shoulder and her long black hair up in a ponytail.
"Hello. Are you Freddie Benson?" The woman asked.
"Yeah." Freddie said, frowning slightly.
"My name is Jessica Lawrence. I was your father's lawyer. May I please come in? I have some things to discuss with you. Unless this is a bad time." Jessica said and Freddie shook his head.
"No. Come in." Freddie said as he stepped aside, flicking the lights on as Jessica walked inside and he closed the front door, the two walking over to the kitchen table.
"Would you like a drink or something?" Freddie asked.
"No thank you." Jessica replied with a smile and the two then sat down, Freddie feeling slightly uncomfortable as she pulled a file and some other papers out of her bag.
"So what exactly are you doing here?" Freddie asked and Jessica handed him the file.
"Your father's will. He finalised it right before he died and you were the first name on his list to talk to." Jessica said.
"My father died 6 months ago. Why is his will only being handed over now?" Freddie asked.
"It had to go through judges and be read over before we could hand it over." Jessica replied and Freddie nodded before staring down at the file.
"If this is too hard right now I can come back later." Jessica said and Freddie shook his head.
"It's okay. I'm just… why am I the first person on his list of people to talk to?" Freddie asked.
"If you read his will you'll find out." Jessica said and Freddie sighed before opening the file, his eyes widening when he read over what it said.
"'I, Leonard Karl Benson, leave everything I own to my son Fredward Karl Benson.' This has to be some sort of joke right?" Freddie asked Jessica and she shook her head.
"He told me that he wants to leave everything he owns to you. I asked him if he was sure before he came down to visit and he said yes and that I was to finalise it before he left for Seattle. When I heard about the accident I got straight onto sorting out his will and getting everything in order." Jessica said as she pulled a yellow envelope out of her bag and set it on the table between her and Freddie.
"It has the keys to his apartment and a car that he was planning to give to you for your 18th birthday. His wallet and phone are already with you aren't they?" Jessica asked and Freddie nodded.
"I got them from the coroners. But I don't get why he left everything to me. Isn't there someone else he wanted to give his stuff to?" Freddie asked.
"I asked him that hundreds of times and he kept saying he wanted to leave everything to you. He was very persistent about that. It was a little strange, but I just thought that it was because he hadn't seen you in a while and he wanted to make sure that you got everything that you needed and I guess wanted." Jessica said and Freddie stared down at the file.
"I'll leave this stuff with you, but you do have to sign for it. You can decide what you do with it." Jessica said and Freddie nodded, taking the pen and paper she had slid across the table and signing it before the two walked over to the door.
"I'm sorry about your loss. Losing someone can be hard, especially under the circumstances your father died in. But it will get easier." Jessica said and Freddie gave her a weak smile.
"But when does it stop hurting?" Freddie asked and Jessica shrugged.
"I don't think it ever does." She said before she gave him a small, warm smile and then left, Freddie waiting a few moments before closing and locking the door, going back over to the table and staring down at the file and envelope before falling into the chair and holding back the tears that threatened to explode.
The next morning, Millie was sitting in her brothers hotel room with baby Katie sitting in her lap. She had gone to ask Ben if he wanted to get breakfast together to find that he had gone out to do some stuff and Emma and Katie had stayed behind so instead of leaving, Millie just stayed and watched Katie while Emma had a shower.
"Thank you so much for watching her. I really needed that shower. I didn't sleep the best last night." Emma said and Millie smiled.
"It's cool. I'm getting to know my niece. I am going to be your favourite aunty okay?" Millie said to the baby and Emma laughed a little before she sighed.
"Millie, I just have to ask this but are you upset that Ben has a whole new family that you only just found out about?" Emma asked and Millie looked down at Katie.
"I'm not angry. I'm truly happy for him, for you and little Katie. But I do wish that he had of come and told me a lot sooner like when it was actually happening." Millie said and Emma nodded, going and sitting on the couch next to Millie.
"I can't imagine how hard it must have been when he ran away. It must have been awful." Emma said and Millie nodded, putting Katie in the play pen and sitting back down.
"It was. He used to protect me from our father. When he ran, for a long time I was angry at him. I told people it was because he left us when he should have stayed, but really I was angry because he didn't take me with him. I mean, I was little but I knew what was going on. I spent a long time blaming him for a lot of what I went through." Millie said.
"Did you tell him that when he came down here to see you?" Emma asked and Millie shook her head.
"I don't think I ever will tell him, mainly because I don't blame him now. I think it just bothers me that he had already started a new life and I was still waiting for him to return to come and get me." Millie said.
"Millie, he's always going to be your big brother and he really regrets not having you at the wedding and being there when Katie was born. He just thought that by shutting you out it would keep you safe." Emma said.
"To me, he's more than a brother. He's the father I never really had. He was the one that made sure I was dressed and bathed and put to bed at night. He was the one that made sure I had eaten and had something to drink. He was my hero and my saviour and he just left me behind to fend for myself. That's why I was so angry. Hero's aren't supposed to leave you in bad places like that. It took me a while to realise that he was doing what he thought was best." Millie said, a lone tear rolling down her cheek.
"Maybe you should tell him this. It might help to get it off your chest and talk to him about it." Emma said and Millie shook her head, wiping the tear off of her face.
"No. I don't want him to know that. It'll make him more cocky then he already is." Millie joked and Emma smiled before grabbing Millie's hand and squeezing.
"One day, even if you don't want to, you should just sit down with Ben and discuss everything the two of you went through with your dad. I know that it will be hard and that you probably won't want to do it, but it's something that you two both need to do. No one else can understand better what the two of you went through other than each other. Make him listen while you tell him everything you felt and the anger you had and still have about things and let him help you move past all of this. Just don't wait too long to tell him the truth on how you felt when he was gone." Emma said and Millie gave her a strange look.
"Are you some type of counsellor or something?" Millie asked and Emma chuckled.
"Why don't I call Ben and the two of you can go spend the morning talking about something and getting to know each other even more. I think it might help once you get to know him a little bit more." Emma said and Millie nodded before taking Emma slightly by surprise and hugging her.
"You're a great person for my brother. He really needs you in his life." Millie said quietly and Emma squeezed her a little before the two pulled away and smiled at each other.
Later that night, Gabe, Freddie, Danny and Pete were walking down the street preparing for a hunt and Gabe, Danny and Pete were noticing that Freddie's mind seemed to be somewhere else.
"You alright?" Gabe asked as they walked behind the two adults and Freddie sighed.
"Just tired. Had a bit of a long night last night." Freddie replied.
"Doing what? I thought you were sleeping off a hangover." Gabe said.
"I was, but some stuff just came up and I-." Freddie's words were cut off by a muffled scream that came from the alley a short distance in front of them and, after all looking at each other, the 4 vampires walked over to the alleyway and almost instantly the smell of blood filled their nostrils.
"What's happening down here?" Pete called out and a man with messy blond hair, green eyes and a knife in his hand turned his head to look at them, his hand covering a young girls mouth who was pinned against the wall by the man.
"Nothing. We're just having a little fun aren't we?" The man asked the girl in a rough voice and the girls sobs were muffled by the man's hand. Danny then turned his head to look at Freddie to see a strange look on his face, his fists clenched and his eyes red.
"Why don't you kids run along and pretend that we never had this little chat?" The man asked, but before Pete could reply, Freddie suddenly sprinted at the man and grabbed the back of his shirt, ripping him from the girl and throwing him against the opposite wall.
"Kid, run as fast as you can away from here and don't look back." Pete said to the girl and she nodded before she quickly ran out of the alleyway, her scared sobs following her.
"Freddie, what are you doing?" Gabe asked and Pete turned to see Freddie holding the man around the neck and pinning him against the wall.
"Freddie, let him go. You'll kill him." Danny said, but Freddie didn't let go. Instead, he just leant down and bit into the man's neck, the horrified green eyed blonde desperately trying with all of his might to push him off. After a good 3 minutes, green eyes was basically unconscious, but Freddie wasn't loosening his grip and Pete, Danny and Gabe were scared of the teens sudden attack.
"Freddie, let him go. You'll kill him." Gabe said, but as he went to touch his arm, Freddie dropped green eyes and spun around, taking Gabe by surprise and grabbing his shirt before throwing him back into the dumpster, a feral snarl coming from his mouth.
"Snap out of it." Danny yelled as he and tried to grab Freddie only to get punched in the face and then shoved into Pete, Freddie growling before turning back to green eyes, picking him up by his neck, his blood getting all over his hands and down his arms. Just as he was about to bite back into his neck, Pete and Danny grabbed his arms and pulled him away from him, green eyes sliding down the wall and leaving a blood trail in his wake.
"Let me go." Freddie screamed as he tried to break free of the hold on him, Gabe coming up and standing in front of him with a worried look.
"What the hell is wrong with you?" Gabe asked and Freddie growled, trying to lunge at him only to be held back. Gabe then looked to Danny and Pete before he sighed.
"Sorry about this Freddie." Gabe said before he raised his fist and punched Freddie hard in the face, making him freeze in shock. A moment later, Freddie turned back to look at him with a shocked look on his face as his eyes faded back to brown.
"Freddie? You back yet?" Gabe asked, but before Freddie could answer, his knees suddenly gave out under him and he collapsed, his arms falling out of Danny's and Pete's grips as he fell onto the floor face first. Quickly kneeling down, Pete rolled him onto his back to find Freddie's eyes closed and his head all limp, blood running down the side of his face from the corner of it.
"Check the guy. We need to get him to hospital." Danny said to Gabe who nodded and pulled out his phone as he went and checked green eyes pulse.
"Freddie, can you hear me?" Pete asked as he rolled him onto his side in case he choked on the blood in his mouth. There was no answer from Freddie for a good 2 minutes before his eyes began to flutter, both slowly opening to reveal big chocolate brown eyes.
"W-what happened?" Freddie asked as he sat up, using his shoulder to wipe what he thought was drool. However, as he was wiping his face, he looked down at his hands and his eyes widened when he saw the blood. Looking up at Pete and noticing that he was looking behind Freddie, he turned his head and gasped when he saw green eyes.
"Di-did I do that?" Freddie asked and when Danny nodded with a sympathetic look, a horrified look filled Freddie's face as he stared down at his hands.
"Freddie, he's going to be fine." Gabe said as Freddie shakily got his feet and walked slowly backwards out of the alley staring at his hands.
"I'm a monster." Freddie whispered before he suddenly spun around and sprinted away, Gabe about to go after him only to be stopped by Pete.
"Let him go. I think I know where he's going." He said and Gabe sighed.
15 minutes later, Sam was eating her last fatcake before bed when a frantic came from the door and, knowing by the knocks that it was urgent, went over to the door to find Freddie with tears in his eyes and a horrified look on his face.
"Oh my god. What happened?" Sam asked as she pulled him inside, trying not to look at the blood on his arm and hands.
"I almost killed someone." He said and Sam sat him down on the couch before going and getting a cloth.
"Tell me what happened." Sam said.
"I can't remember. I blacked out all of a sudden after I heard this like muffled scream and when I woke up I was covered in blood and there was a guy behind me almost dead and Danny said that it was me." Freddie sobbed as the tears started rolling down his cheeks.
"What if it wasn't actually you and he just said it was?" Sam said.
"It was me because Gabe and Pete were there and I was the only one covered in blood. I almost killed someone. I'm a monster." Freddie said.
"Hey. You are NOT a monster. You made a mistake. I'm sure Pete and Danny have done the same thing, probably have even killed someone by accident." Sam said.
"But they haven't. I'm the only one and I can't even remember it happening. I'm a monster and, and a horrible person." Freddie said and Sam shook her head.
"You are an amazing person and this one thing isn't going to change that." Sam said.
"But it's every time. Oh my god. What if I hurt you or Carly or my mum? I'm a monster." Freddie sobbed, but before he could get up or really even move, Sam pushed him down onto the couch and pinned him down, his sobs wracking his entire body as Sam leant over him.
"You listen to me and you listen carefully. You are not a monster. It wasn't an accident and you didn't even know what you were doing. You are the most amazing person I know and you will never, ever become a monster in my eyes. I love you so much and I will always make sure that you see yourself as the amazing person you are and not the monster you think you are." Sam said.
"But what if I kill someone? If I black out again then how can I stop it from happening?" Freddie asked through his sobs and Sam let go of his arms, putting her hands on his cheeks and staring into his eyes.
"Try and get control of your mind and block out everything around you until you come back to normal. No matter what happens though, I am always going to love you." Sam said before she leant down and softly kissed him, Freddie kissing back after a moment, his tears getting mixed into the kiss. A moment later, Sam's hands moved up to twist into his hair and his moved to sit on her hips, pulling her closer to him and more into him.
After a few minutes, the two pulled apart, but after staring into each other's eyes for a moment they both leant back into each other, their lip moving in sync as Freddie sat up and then stood up, Sam's arms and legs wrapping around him as they made their way upstairs.
The early morning sun shone in through the window and over the young couple laying in the bed, the sheet tangled up in their legs and around their bodies.
Flinching as the sun hit his eyes, Freddie slowly woke up, his arm around Sam tightening slightly, pulling her even closer to him. Opening his eyes, Freddie sighed softly as the memory of the previous night filled his mind, softly kissing Sam's shoulder before sighing again and then going to get up only to have a stabbing pain suddenly hit a little bit higher than the middle of his back. Pulling on his jeans from last night and ignoring the pain, Freddie walked across the hall to the bathroom and checked his back out in the mirror. Instead of the clear tan skin that his back usually was however, a swirl from a triskelion (If you don't know what that is, look it up) was there as if it had been tattooed on.
Having a sudden moment of panic, Freddie tried to remember what he had done before he had fallen asleep, but only one thing came to mind and Sam was there the entire time. Taking a deep breath before a panic attack started, Freddie sat down on the edge of the bath and closed his eyes.
"Okay. Just cover it up and try and remember before I say anything. That works." Freddie whispered to himself after a minute of thinking. Nodding to himself, Freddie stood up and splashed his face with cold water before going back across the hall to Sam's room and picking up a shirt that he had left there a few days earlier when he had fallen asleep while watching movies. He then picked up his phone to see a few messages from Cassie, Millie and Gabe asking where he was and if he was okay.
Knowing he would need to go see them before going home to get changed and figure out why he had the tattoo, he crawled up the bed and laid behind Sam over the sheets, wrapping an arm around her and kissing her neck, making her stir.
"What are you doing?" Sam mumbled a moment later and Freddie kissed her bare shoulder.
"Cassie is looking for me." Freddie said and Sam nodded, linking fingers with the arm around her.
"When do you have to go?" She asked and Freddie sighed.
"Pretty much now. She'll send a search party otherwise." Freddie said and Sam nodded before turning around in his arms and then resting her palm on his cheek.
"How are you feeling?" Sam asked and Freddie shrugged.
"Happy, confused, worried. I'll be alright though. I'll send you a text when I get to the cabin and then I'll be going home to prepare myself for next week. What are your plans for today?" Freddie asked and Sam sighed, wrapping her arm around his neck and resting her forehead against his.
"Eating, TV and going to Carly's. I might even drop by at your apartment to see if your brain has fried." Sam said and Freddie smiled, leaning in and kissing her softly, running his fingers through her hair before pulling away and leaning over.
"I'll see you later." He said before he got off the bed and walked over to the door, looking back at her and smiling before leaving and shutting the door behind him.
That night, Freddie was sitting at his desk in his bedroom on his laptop while rubbing his back where the tattoo had suddenly appeared was, using the internet to try and figure out why it was there.
When there was a knock on the door, Freddie closed his laptop and stopped rubbing his back just as Sam walked in.
"Hey. I see your brain didn't explode then." Sam said as she closed the door behind her and Freddie rolled his eyes.
"I was just looking around on the internet about nothing." Freddie replied and Sam nodded as she sat on the bed, frowning when she saw the papers on the bedside table and the yellow envelope.
"What's this?" Sam asked and Freddie quickly got up and grabbed them before she could.
"It's just some stuff to do with my dad. I'm not really ready to share it quite yet." Freddie said as he put it in his desk drawer and Sam nodded.
"That's okay. How have you held up today?" Sam asked and Freddie shrugged, going and sitting next to her against the headboard.
"Well, Cassie was glad to see that I was alive and so was Millie and Gabe. I asked Pete if he knew how the guy was going and Pete said that he was doing alright, but was under surveillance which I guess isn't too bad. It was Gabe that seemed to be the most worried and I found out that it was because he punched me in the face to snap me out of whatever trance I was in. It's weird that I don't have a bruise or something." Freddie said.
"I thought vampires just healed fast." Sam said.
"Well, yeah, but we still bruise, just only for like a day or maybe 2." Freddie said and Sam gave a small smile before she grabbed his hand in hers and fell silent.
"I know this might be stupid, but where exactly are we?" Sam asked and Freddie shrugged.
"What do you want us to be? I know what I want, but what do you want?" Freddie asked. Sam then stared at him for a moment before she lifted one of her hands and grabbed his chin, turning his head to face her before she leant in and kissed him softly.
"You do realise we have to tell Carly right?" Freddie said when she pulled away and Sam nodded.
"But that can wait until tomorrow. I just want to spend tonight laying here and talking about everything and nothing until we fall asleep or get bored and put a movie on." Sam said and Freddie smiled.
"Can do Princess Puckett."
At 3am, Sam and Freddie were both fast asleep facing each other over the covers and they both seemed peaceful and calm. However, in Freddie's mind, the nightmare playing in his head was anything but pleasant.
The girl stood cleaning one of the exhibits in a museum that were closed that day. Everything seemed perfectly fine, but in the corner of her eye, she saw a shadow enter the room and turning around to see who it was, she was surprised to see that the room was empty other than her. Putting it down to her imagination, the girl went back to cleaning, her head snapping back up a moment later when she felt piercing eyes on the back of her skull.
"Who's there?" She called out, slowly looking at every corner of the room. when she couldn't see anyone, an uneasy feeling heavily settled in her, but putting it down to superstition, she just turned around and went back to cleaning. And that's when the black figure leapt out from behind the door and leapt on her, a loud scream filling the air before it all went black
Shooting into a sudden sitting position, a heavily breathing Freddie looked around the room to see that he was in his bedroom and Sam was sitting up next to him, a tired but worried look on her face.
"Are you okay?" Sam asked.
"Th-there was this girl and she was in a museum somewhere cleaning and this thing leapt out at her. It was blurry, but it looked like a person." Freddie said and Sam put a hand on his shoulder.
"Freddie, it was just a dream okay? No one is going to hurt any girl, especially in a museum where there are hundreds of security cameras." Sam said.
"It seemed so real though." He said and Sam wrapped an arm around him and kissed his neck, resting her chin on his shoulder and smiling when he turned his head to look at her.
"Come on. Let's get back to sleep baby. It was just a dream." Sam said and Freddie nodded before the two laid back down facing each other with their arms around the other and closed their eyes in an attempt to go back to sleep.
If only it was just a dream.