Abbey's POV

"You were right," I tell Jesse. "Fresh blood tastes so much better than the donated stuff Sarah's been making me drink."

"Sarah's been making you drink donated?" Jesse asks, smirking. "Why?"

"She said it makes us more humane," I explain, rolling my eyes. "Something about how it was given up willingly and not taken forcefully, or whatever."

"I think I like you better on fresh blood," Jesse says. "You have much more of a personality."

"Thanks…?" I question.

"It was meant as a compliment, trust me."

We were walking down the sidewalk in downtown Whitechapel after finishing our meal of on-break restaurant workers, stupidly standing outside in the alleyway.

We didn't kill them, we just took enough to make them pass out and wake up maybe half an hour later.

On our way back to Jesse's mansion, I spotted Stern walking down the sidewalk on the other side of the street.

"Jesse," I whisper. "That's Stern."

"Is he really that stupid to be walking around in broad daylight?" Jesse says, getting pissed.

"He doesn't know that we survived," I remind him.

We continue to watch him and he goes down an alley.

"What is he doing?" Jesse asks.

"Should we follow him?" I ask.

"We could corner him and drain him dry," he suggests.

"I'm up for that if you are."

He takes my hand and leads me across the street, over to where Stern had gone into the alley.

"I had a feeling I was being followed," Stern says, turning around, facing us.

"We had a feeling that you weren't stupid enough to be walking around in broad daylight," Jesse says. "But I guess we were wrong."

"I thought I had disposed of you," Stern said, narrowing his eyes. "But now, I guess I'm going to have to do it again."

"I'd like to see you try," I hiss.

"Is that anyway to talk to your family?" Stern asks me.

"Huh?" I ask. "What are you talking about?"

"There's a reason you moved to Whitechapel," he says, looking directly at me. "It's not because of your father's tragic death."

Jesse looks at me with a questioning gaze.

I shrug. I had no idea what he was talking about.

"Your mother," Stern says. "Gabriele Stern Benson."

He emphasized my mother's maiden name.

"How do you…" I trail off, when it all clicked together. "Are we related?"

Stern starts to smile, getting wider as the disbelief showed on my face.

"How?" Jesse questions. Looking from me to Stern.

"I'm her uncle," Stern explains.

"My what?!" I almost yell.

"You're mother is my sister," he explains, smirking. "Why do you think the Lucifractor stopped when it did? I couldn't kill my little sister's only daughter."

"If you're a wizard," I say, trying to make sense of it all. "Does that mean that my mom is a witch?"

"Yes," he answers, "And so are you…well, that was before you were a vampire."

I couldn't believe what I was hearing.

"He's lying," Jesse says, putting a protective arm around my waist. "He's only saying that to get your guard down."

"He's not lying," I tell him. "I can sense it."

"Hmm…" Stern says, deep in thought. "That should've gone away when you became a vampire."

"Well I guess it didn't," I retort.

"There's no reason to be angry," he say, trying to calm me down.

"Oh, really?" I say, getting mad. "There's no reason be angry that you almost killed me and my friends?! I don't know who you are, coming into Whitechapel and destroying everything I love, but I can promise you, me and my friends will get our revenge."

I was absolutely seething. I wanted to rip his head off so bad. I didn't care if he was my uncle or not.

I could feel Jesse tightening his grip on me, holding me back.

"He's not worth it," Jesse whispers into my ear. "Not right now, anyway."

I nod, and Jesse leans down to kiss my cheek.

"How can you love him?" Stern asks, looking pointedly a Jesse. "He killed your great-great-grandfather."

"I didn't know anything about my heritage," I point out. "And I might of felt differently if I'd grown up knowing it about it."

"We've waited two hundred years," Stern says, smirking. "The time has finally come to finish off those who killed your ancestor."

"Two hundred years?" I ask. "Hold a grudge much?"

Stern's smirk got bigger.

He started to chant in Latin, and I soon became lightheaded.

My head started to droop downward and my eyes began to feel heavy. The only thing keeping me up was Jesse's arms.

"Abbey!" Jesse says, alarmed.

Fortunately, I was conscious enough to make out what Jesse and Stern were talking about.

"Don't bother trying to wake her," Stern says. "Only I can do that."

"What'd you to her?" I hear him ask.

"I put her in a deep sleep," Stern explains. "That way, she won't get in the way when I try to finish you and the rest of her friends off."

At that point, I was drifting out and could hear no more of the conversation.

A blackness, much like when I was changing, overtook me, and I was out in a matter of seconds.

Benny's POV

Ethan, Benny and Sarah were all walking in downtown Whitechapel searching for Abbey and Jesse.

They had checked the blood bank, but there was no sign of them.

It felt like they had been searching for hours, when Jesse ran up to them without Abbey.

"Where's Abbey?" Benny asks.

"He took her," Jesse explains, worried.

"Who took her?" Sarah asked.

"Stern," Jesse says. "We ran into him on our way back to the mansion."

"What were you guys doing?" Ethan asks

"We thought we'd grab a quick bite," Jesse says. "We both couldn't stand to listen to the dork drama."

"You just let him take her?" Benny asks.

Benny was starting to get annoyed at Jesse, he'd let Stern kidnap Abbey.

"He did some sort of spell that made me frozen in place," Jesse says. "I couldn't move."

"Why did he take her?" Sarah asked.

"He knocked her out with some deep sleep spell," Jesse explains. "And then said that he was the only one who could wake her up. When I asked him why he did that to her, he said it was to keep her out of the way while he finished us off."

"Why would he not want to kill her?" Ethan asked.

"Did I forget to mention that Stern is Abbey's uncle?" Jesse asked.

Everyone looked at him stunned.

"We've got to get to Abbey," Benny says. "I don't want to risk her getting hurt."

Ethan and Sarah looked at him confused, while, Jesse had a smirk on his face.

"I mean just in case he doesn't care that she's his niece…" Benny adds, trailing off.

Benny had to work on how not to show how much he cared for Abbey. The fact that she was supposed to be a witch made her even more interesting to him.

He was so lost in his thoughts about Abbey, that he didn't realize that Ethan, Sarah, and Jesse had started walking away. He quickly caught up to them.

"Where are we going?" Benny asked.

No one answered him, they just kept on walking.

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