I'm so so sorry it's been so long. I lost inspiration and on top of that i lost my cousin a few weeks ago and my mum just turned 50 so it's been busy. I'm also studying for mid year exams and I am NOT happy about that. But without further ado, here is the next chapter of ANL.
"I just don't see how you could have gone that long without eating. 2 weeks is ages." Chris said and Ryan laughed, the two laying on Chris's bed. It had been 3 weeks since Nolan's death and, with the help of Ryan, Bianca, Freddie and everyone in that group, he had been moving on fairly well. He and Ryan had started dating 2 days after his death and Ryan had been very open right off the bat, telling him pretty much everything except the deeper secrets he was too worried to share yet and had been patient with Chris who was having trouble opening up about anything out of what everyone else had been told, anything he knew out of ordinary being from the night Nolan died.
"It was, but I raised $6000 dollars for charity in the end so I guess it was a good thing." Ryan said and Chris smiled, looking down at his pillow for a moment before rolling onto his back and staring at the ceiling.
"What's on your mind?" Ryan asked as he moved closer and put his hand on his chest.
"Something that happened when I was a kid. I was 10 and there was this rouge vampire. He would go around at night murdering the prostitutes and not just the female ones. One night the guy made the mistake of going after one of the guards sisters and there was an uproar. She survived but people were still mad. Anyway, my dad was ahead of the charge and even though we barely spoke, I still cared what he thought and I wanted to impress him. On the last day the psychopath was alive, my dad and the rest of the guards were out hunting him and wanting to help, I went with them and hid in the bushes. Of course things didn't turn out and I ended up being grabbed by the killer so I stabbed him in the neck with an arrow and ran to my father. He killed the guy and then turned around and yelled at me for being irresponsible and not doing the right thing and then saying I was the biggest nuisance in his life. I was so upset I ran away while his back was turned and when he turned back he realised what he had said but did nothing. I hid in the towers for almost 4 hours before Nolan found me." Chris said and Ryan ran his hand up and down Chris's torso.
"Is that when your relationship with Nolan started?" Ryan asked and Chris nodded.
"I think back to that day a lot you know? I think about whether my dad really wanted me or just wanted to get rid of me first chance he got. He never looked for me after I left with Nolan, just waited until the day before school started to drop my cousin off on my doorstep and leave again." Chris said and Ryan frowned.
"How do you live here alone? You aren't 18 yet." Ryan said.
"Nolan got me emancipated when things started to get bad just in case. He was a good guy when he was in control. Even after losing it he still called every morning, afternoon and night just to make sure I'm alright. Is it stupid to still think that he could just call?" Chris asked and Ryan shook his head.
"It's hard losing someone and it doesn't make you crazy for wanting things back the way they were. It makes you normal." He replied and Chris nodded, grabbing hold of his hand and holding it over his chest.
"So, our first sleepover." Ryan said eventually and Chris looked up at him.
"At my place. I remember last week when I fell asleep in your apartment after getting you home from a party." Chris replied.
"That one doesn't count because I was drunk and I hardly remember you being there. All I know is that you were there when I woke up." Ryan replied and Chris rolled his eyes.
"Do you remember me locking Dylan in the bathroom so he didn't bite you?" He asked and Ryan sighed.
"That I remember." He replied and Chris smiled, kissing the palm of Ryan's hand.
"It ended alright though. I mean, you made me pancakes for breakfast along with eggs and bacon. You're an amazing cook by the way." Ryan said and Chris nodded.
"I know and thank you." He said and Ryan chuckled, leaning down to kiss him and then sighing exaggeratingly.
"What are we going to do now? We've watched a movie, eaten. What's left?" He asked and Chris smiled, letting go of his hand and twisting his fingers into his hair.
"I have an idea." He replied before pulling his head down and kissing him, Ryan smiling into it before kissing back and putting a hand on Chris's hip, gripping his shirt.
After a few minutes of just making out, Chris started to feel a panicky feeling in his chest and it only increased as they kept kissing. Not wanting to alarm Ryan though, Chris just kept his grip on his hair and pulled him closer, hoping the feeling would go away. However, when Ryan started to pull his shirt up, Chris tensed up and suddenly pushed Ryan away, rolling away from him to the edge of the bed, falling off and cracking his head on the bedside table.
"Chris. Why did you do that?" Ryan asked as he hurried to his side and helped him sit up, but before he could answer, the door swung open and an exhausted looking Bianca walked in.
"If you two don't shut up then I am sinking my fangs into the both of you and ripping your heads off. Now keep it down." She snarled before slamming the door shut behind her and Ryan stared at the door with wide eyes.
"Just ignore her. She's a drama queen. Ow." Chris said as he put his hand to his head and Ryan looked back at him, his eyes going impossibly wider when he saw the blood.
"You're bleeding. Like a lot." Ryan said before grabbing an old shirt from the floor and putting it over the cut on Chris's head.
"Ow. Don't push so hard." Chris complained and Ryan slapped his arm.
"What were you thinking rolling off of the bed like that?" He asked and Chris sighed, flinching when Ryan pulled the shirt away to look at the cut and then applying pressure again.
"I didn't mean to. I just… freaked out and rolled away. I forgot how close the edge of the bed was." Chris replied and Ryan sighed.
"Why did you do it?" He asked.
"I guess I'm just not ready for… that yet." Chris replied.
"Well, you could have just said that instead of hurting yourself." Ryan replied and Chris weakly smiled before putting a hand over Ryan's on his head.
"Come on. Let's clean this up and then get some sleep." Ryan said and Chris nodded, letting him help him up. Ryan then went to leave the room but Chris stopped him, grabbing his wrist and pulling him back.
"Hey. Wait." He said and Ryan raised his eyebrows in question, closing his eyes gently when Chris kissed him softly, keeping their lips together for a few moments before pulling back with a shy look on his face and making Ryan smile.
"Come on." He said before pulling Chris along to the bathroom.
A few blocks away in Sam's bedroom, Sam and Freddie were laying on Sam's bed making out, both on their sides with their arms wrapped around each other, Sam's leg over his hips, Freddie's shirt on the floor and Sam only wearing a singlet.
Rolling Sam onto her back, Freddie started to kiss down to her neck but suddenly stopped when he reached her pulse point, focusing on the blood pumping through her veins.
"Freddie?" Sam said after a moment and Freddie quickly leapt back, putting his hand over his mouth when he realised his mouth was watering.
"Your eyes are red." Sam said and Freddie moved further back, fear in his eyes.
"Did you just try to bite me?" Sam asked.
"I-I… I didn't… I didn't mean to." He said and Sam sat up properly, Freddie scooting back further and unceremoniously falling off the bed, causing Sam to crawl to the end of the bed and pull him back up.
"Hey. Look at me." Sam said after a moment of Freddie looking down and Freddie looked up through his eyelashes, Sam sighing at the scared look on his face.
"I know you weren't actually going to bite me. And if you did I would have kicked your ass." Sam said.
"Do you remember the museum incident? I would have hurt you." Freddie said and Sam put her hands on his cheeks.
"No you wouldn't have. Because I would have let you do it." Sam said and Freddie looked down, his eyes staring down for moment before he suddenly looked back up with a confused look on his face.
"What do you mean you would have let me?" Freddie asked.
"Well, I figured that you'll probably get me eventually anyway so why not just give you my permission? At least then you know that I'm cool with it." Sam said and Freddie frowned.
"So you want me to drink your blood?" Freddie asked.
"Why not? Just try not to kill me and we're cool." Sam said.
"Wait. Now?" He asked and Sam rolled her eyes, grabbing his arm and pulling him over to her until he was lying on top of her again.
"I really don't think this is good idea. I don't want to hurt you." Freddie said and Sam ran her fingers through his hair, looking into his eyes.
"Just do it." She said and Freddie leant down to kiss her, their lips moving together for a moment before he pulled back, his eyes red again. Leaning back down, Freddie pressed gentle kisses to Sam's neck and grabbed hold of her hands, nuzzling his face into her neck for a moment before swiftly biting into her neck, Sam gasping at the piercing pain and Freddie groaning at the feeling.
Unlike everyone else's, Sam's blood seemed to have an effect on Freddie that he hadn't expected, one that calmed him but also made him feel like the most powerful person in the world.
Pulling Sam into a sitting position, Freddie trapped her body against his and bit down harder, Sam gasping when she felt blood trickle down her shoulder.
"Freddie, stop." Sam said and Freddie grabbed her wrists, snarling loudly into her neck and pulling her closer before suddenly letting her go completely and breathing heavily.
"Whoa. You have some bite there." Sam said a little drowsily and Freddie stared at her, his face blank but eyes swimming with confusion and fear.
"Hey. I'm still alive aren't I?" Sam asked, but before she could move to grab his hand Freddie put his finger up for her to be silent for a moment.
"I… I need a minute." Freddie said and Sam nodded, grabbing a tissue from her bedside table and leaning over to wipe the blood trickling down his chin. Freddie then shut his eyes and sucked in a deep breath, slowly feeling the high he was on coming down.
"You alright now?" Sam asked after 5 minutes had gone by and Freddie nodded, opening his eyes to show his chocolate brown eyes.
"That was a different experience." Freddie said and Sam grabbed his hand, still feeling drowsy and a little dizzy.
"In what way?" Sam asked.
"I don't know. It was like I was on a high. Like after you… but less intense and more of the warm feeling." Freddie said and Sam smirked.
"So basically it's like you just had sex?" Sam asked.
"Kind of. But then different at the same time." Freddie said and Sam moved to straddle his hips, wrapping her arm around his neck and resting her forehead against his.
"Baby, you're all pale." Freddie said.
"I feel kind of dizzy." Sam said and Freddie wrapped his arms around her waist.
"Want to sleep?" Freddie asked and Sam nodded, Freddie then pushing her down onto her back and then rolling onto his side, pulling her with him and pressing his face into her neck and kissing the bite on her neck, his saliva covering the wound and sealing it.
"That felt really weird." Sam said and Freddie smiled.
"I know. But it stops the bleeding." Freddie said and Sam pulled back to look into his eyes, tangling their legs together.
"I love you." She said and Freddie smiled, kissing her softly.
"I love you too Sammy."
The next morning, Cassie and Danny sat on the bed in the cabin staring at each other and talking, Danny having tried to avoid talking about Chelsea but giving up when Cassie forced him to sit down.
"Danny, you have to forgive her. She thought she was doing the right thing. You can't hate her for that." Cassie said.
"She abandoned me. If she had of just at least called me and told me that she couldn't talk to me anymore I would have got it. But instead she just completely cut me off and left me alone with my bastard father." Danny said and Cassie rubbed his knee.
"Honey, you can't hold this against her fore-" Cassie started but was cut off by a crashing sound coming from the living room followed by a male scream. Leaping up and racing into the living room, Cassie and Danny arrived at the same time as Kyle Jasper, John and Katie and found Sam trying to hold a violently shaking Freddie up while avoiding his back.
"Help me." Sam said and Cassie raced over placing her hand gently on his back only for him to scream again and pull away, dropping to his knees as tears rolled from his eyes.
"What happened?" Kyle asked.
"I don't know. One minute he was fine and the next he was screaming. I got him into his car and got here as fast as I could." Sam said and John knelt down in front of him.
"Hey. What's wrong buddy?" He asked and Freddie looked at him with red eyes.
"My back." He choked out and something clicked in Sam's brain, a knowing look crossing her face.
"John move back." Sam said and John shuffled back as Sam sat down beside Freddie and started pulling his shirt up, everyone gasping when they saw the now fully formed tattoo start to glow around the edges.
"Holy crap." Katie whispered and Pete turned to her as the front door opened and Romeo and Chris walked in.
"What's going – oh chizz." Chris said when he saw the tattoo and Romeo quickly walked over to Freddie's other side.
"How long has this tattoo been forming?" He asked and Sam shrugged.
"A couple months I think. I found out about it after he attacked people at the museum." Sam replied and Romeo looked at Chris.
"Does he know what his father was?" Romeo asked.
"Not unless someone else has told him." Chris said.
"Wait a minute. What was my brother? And if you say vampire I will rip you apart." Cassie said.
"He was more than just a vampire. He was the king of vampires. And my uncle." Chris said and Cassie stared at him.
"You're kidding." She whispered and Chris just pulled a photo out of his pocket and handed it to her, showing a picture of Leonard standing in front of a random man holding his hand with red glowing eyes and a glowing mark covering his hands.
"The king has a power assigned with each swirl of the triskelion. He is also the strongest vampire out of all vampires. Only he can rip a head off of another." Romeo said and Chris looked down at his shoes .
"Wait. So you're saying that Freddie is king? At 16?" Danny asked.
"He's technically not supposed to have become a vampire until he's 18 which is when he would have turned. And for the king it's an automatic thing. They start noticing their craving for blood on the day before they turn 18. Leonard was adopted so he had no idea what was really happening to him." Romeo said.
"Adopted? He's adopted? How come he never told me?" Cassie asked.
"So you wouldn't try and find his birth family. Humans don't exactly mix well with a kingdom of vampires that distance themselves on purpose." Chris answered.
"This is ridiculous." Cassie said and Danny put a hand on the bottom of her back.
"As much as we should be focusing on what the hell is going to happen next, you need to focus your attention on the boy in intense pain." Sam said moments later and everyone turned to see Freddie gripping Sam's arms tightly, his eyes squeezed shut and leaking tears and his face almost as white as a brand new pair of white sneakers.
"We should move him." Chris said and Sam gave him a look.
"I think moving him right now isn't a good idea." Pete said.
"Well what can we do?" Sam asked.
"Give him some pain killers. We'll just have to make sure he doesn't attack you in a haze." Pete said and Sam nodded before turning her attention to Freddie.
"Baby, you hear that?" Sam asked and Freddie gave a gentle nod that made him wince. Pete then disappeared into the kitchen for a minute before coming back with a glass of water and some pills, kneeling down next to Sam and giving them to Freddie.
Once the pills had finally kicked in, Sam and Pete got Freddie over to the couch and laid him down on his stomach, his head resting on Sam's lap and a soft purring sound coming from him as Sam rubbed his back in circles over the tattoo, Freddie now passed out.
"I can't believe he's purring." Cassie said as she, Chris and Danny watched him, Romeo, Pete and Katie having left to go and do something.
"It's weird right?" Sam smiled and Cassie nodded.
"Definitely isn't something you expect." Danny said and Sam shook her head, looking down at Freddie for a moment before Chris suddenly grabbed her head and pulled her hair away from her neck, showing a bite mark.
"I knew it! He did bite you." Chris said and Cassie gasped.
"Oh leave it. I let him do it." Sam replied.
"Why? Why on earth would you do that?" Danny asked.
"Because it was going to happen eventually. Why not when I gave him permission to do it?" Sam asked and Cassie ran her fingers through her hair with a small smile.
"You're insane you know that?" She asked.
"What's wrong with that?" Sam asked and Cassie's smile grew.
For the rest of the day it was pretty uneventful. Freddie had slept for most of it and when he had finally woken up, Sam had left to go home and get changed, Freddie having drooled on her at one point, and Freddie's back no longer hurt.
"I'm glad you're feeling better. You still look pale but definitely better." Millie said after she had arrived at the cabin and had found out what had been going on, Freddie, Millie and Pete now the only ones there.
"I feel a lot better too thankfully." Freddie said but almost as soon as he said those words a horrible hot pain struck his stomach and he doubled over.
"Are you alright?" Pete asked as Freddie grunted and the teen shook his head.
"It feels like when I got stabbed except a lot hotter. When I got stabbed it was cold." He said.
"Do you want me to call Sam?" Millie asked and Freddie shook his head, staying doubled over for a moment before suddenly straightening up.
"Sam!" He exclaimed before he turned and ran out of the cabin, Pete and Millie just looking at each other before hurrying after him. The three then ran for what seemed like 10 seconds and arrived at an alley just as a man ran away from it, running like his life depended on it.
"Can anyone else smell the blood?" Millie asked and Pete nodded, the three people looking around them before suddenly they noticed someone laying down on the ground and hurried over, Millie screaming when she realised it was Sam laying down with blood pooling around her stomach.
"No!" Freddie yelled before racing over and Sam groaned gently, Freddie having lifted her up slightly so her head was on his lap.
"Sam, Sam please open your eyes." Freddie said and Millie knelt down next to him, her eyes filling with tears.
"We have to do something." She said to Pete who was standing in front of them and Pete knelt down, lifting up Sam's hand to feel her pulse.
"Her pulse is weak. She won't make it to the hospital." Pete said with a look directly at Freddie and Millie gasped.
"She's going to die?" She asked in a whisper and Freddie shook his head.
"No. No I won't let her. If she can't make it to the hospital then I'll just have to turn her." Freddie said and Millie put a hand on his shoulder.
"Are you sure? You promised her you wouldn't." She said.
"I'm not letting her die Millie so it's either me or you." Freddie growled and Millie looked at Sam who was quickly becoming paler.
"Okay. Do it. Just be careful." Millie said and Freddie nodded, laying Sam's head back on the ground and then picking up the arm Pete had just been holding, closing his eyes and taking a deep breathe before quickly biting into her arm, his face scrunching up in pain as he pushed his venom into her. Millie then placed her arm back on his shoulder but took it back off again when Freddie suddenly dropped Sam's arm and screamed, grabbing at his face with one hand and his stomach with the other, tears rolling down his cheeks.
"Hey. Come here." Millie said and Freddie fell into her, his body heaving with sobs that mixed in with his screams of pain, Millie just holding him there before it all went silent and Freddie collapsed in her arms.