Three

Seven and a half days in hospital is nothing really if you think about it. The fact that we had both been in a horrific car accident that really should have killed us but didn't. We didn't get to leave before that Zoe chick came in and gave us one final lecture and a piece of paper.

"You need to be careful, as you're aware humans have no idea of the existence of the Moroi and it needs to stay that way. And also, if you're going into a Moroi society call up the guardians at Vampire Academy, tell them about me, tell them about the crash and the mysteriously turned Moroi and dhampir, don't forget that. Otherwise they'll be very cautious of you and there's nothing worse than having to deal with that."

After making sure we had everything and understood the importance of not being found out Zoe left us for the world.

The piece of paper she left us really just had contacts.

Contacts:

Zoe 0459872554

Alberta 0387659442

Headmistress 5698 1878

Alchemist HQ 7755 3322

Sydney 0459438214

Moroi HQ 8934 7239

Dhampir Training VA 5698 1888

Good luck

Mum came in everyday and visited both of us, seeing as though Katey's been like a sister to me, to Mum Katey was like a second daughter from another family and I know that Katey - although she doesn't say anything about it - misses her Mum. Her funeral is supposed to be in a few days time.

I dont know if she's come into terms with being motherless. Losing her mother, the only parent she ever came being close to. I don't know how she feels about it. It's kind of funny, the fact that she knows exactly what I'm thinking and I only know whatever I can work out and what she tells me.

Katey's POV:

I sigh looking out the window and reading the thoughts of my best friend was tantalising to say the least, now that I knew how much she worries about me it made my stomach do flips and my hands sweat. I had hardly any sleep because she always had that one nightmare, it was like her brain was a video player and that particular film was stuck on repeat never stopping and never ever leaving.

Bringing my hand to my forehead I sigh loudly being irritated as a damn ray of sunlight hits my eye, of course. Unlike Gabby I can still go out in the sun without it irritating me but at the same time it just made things harder because unlike me Gabby now can't stand the sun, yes she can still go out in it sure but.. It irritates her so that made our plan to go to school a tad tricky because it's 'always' damn sunny at Emmaus. Looking over at my friend, she didn't look like the Gabby I first met, her skin was paler but her cheeks still had a rosy red hue to them making her look alive. Unlike any cheesy vampire movie you guys would have watched, her eyes were still blue NOT red. Sitting up I swing my legs over the side of the hard hospital bed, my injuries were now nearly healed now the only problem that remained were the little tiny scars that littered my arms and legs from the glass of the car, I think it's only 5 or 6 in the morning? Eh, I lost count hours ago.

Shivering as the cold hospital floor sent chills up and down my legs, as I went over to Gabby's bed, I kept wondering about whatever the heck happened 'that' night was meant to actually happen, if me losing my mother was meant to happen. Why though? Why is that particular detail supposed to change anything? What? That I would actually have to talk to my father more? That I won't ever be able to see Gabby again because he'll more than likely lock me in the house like a dog. Maybe he's even seeing the whole accident as Gabby's fault… But it wasn't, it was the other drivers fault for drink driving at night and crashing into us.

I clench my nails into the palms of my hands. Just thinking about putting up with my father makes me wish I did die in the car crash… but as I look at Gabby's sleeping face. That thought went as quickly as it came. What was I thinking! Wanting to die and leaving my best friend in this torture chamber they call life alone?! No. I'm going to stay and protect Gabby for whatever lays ahead, I'll be her protector, her sister, someone who will always be there for her when she needs them. I'll be her guardian.

I frown looking determined as I once again looked out of the hospital window, it was overcast which I actually did not mind for once, I'd rather Gabby in the overcast and rainy weather than the hot and sunny one, so being in Australia -the hottest island in the damn world- was in fact not the best place for a vampire like Gabby to be living.

As sad as it was we needed to either skip school and get home-schooled or leave, going to school expecting everything to be normal was not going to happen. Because I knew full well as soon as we walk into those school gates we would get bombarded with questions like "Omg are you ok?" "I thought you guys died!" or "you guys surpassed death" which was actually pretty accurate. But the thing that scared me the most is I just did not want Gabby losing control over her thirst and biting someone in class because I knew full well that it would crush her if that ever happened.

Sighing tiredly I look at Gabby again, her eyes still shut, as gently as I could I sit at the end of her bed without waking her, it worked thank God.

Pulling the piece of paper that Zoe chick left us I begin to look at again. I look at the contacts on the page I growl lowly as I glare at Zoe's phone number, I still don't trust her… there was something about her that I just did not trust, something in the back of my mind was screaming at me to kill her… could I kill her though? Could I actually bring myself to kill someone? Yes in my mind I could kill someone without blinking or feeling any guilt but I have never really killed anyone in real life before… so how could I protect Gabby if I couldn't bring myself to kill? I sigh angrily and look down at my lap.

"Damnit..."

"What's wrong?" My head snapped up and realised I didn't notice that Gabby had woken, through her mind and her face were full of concern. She trusted me completely and if I thought something was wrong she wouldn't just push it off the table, in fact, she took it kinda seriously.

"Uh… well you see uh.." I look away not knowing how to put my thoughts to words.

"Well?" I sigh and look back at Gabby.

"I was thinking about what we were talking about yesterday.. you know.. about school.. I don't think we should go, what happens if you lose control and bite someone, Gabby?"

"I won't! I know what I'm doing!"

"Yeah and you sound so convincing now I'm just going to let you kill people because you're just that in control…." I say sarcastically as I glare at her, come on she had only been a vampire for a whole damn week and she is already as stubborn as ever.

"Oh come on, Katey! I've had nurses come in and check on me and not once had I even had a little craving to bite them, I am in control, ok?" I roll my eyes and sigh loudly.

"Aaaaaaand they don't go right in your face or walk right goddamn next to you when you're walking down a hallway like the idiots do at school Gabby… I'm just looking out for you! Come on and think about it!" I say crossing my arms defensively.

"I have thought about it..." She muttered avoiding my eyes.

"If you had thought about it I'd know, Gabby… I can read your mind and I know you haven't for a fact that you haven't thought about it so don't give me that." I lean down narrowing my eyes. "You can't be stubborn anymore, we're not the same human girls anymore we just can't wait until tomorrow we need to do things now and make the right decisions so later on we won't regret what we have done, alright?" I breathe out stepping back.

"That was deep," I could tell, in Gabby's mind that I really have changed. In our old life - the life that depended on getting our assignments in on time and pleasing boyfriends - I would have never had said anything remotely wise. Not like now. Now I'm needed. I need to protect her, I need to make sure our lives don't turn to shit. I need to act my age, I can't be the stubborn girl I once was, I need to be someone who Gabby can rely on, someone that will make her understand that the life we are in isn't a horrid one but a new one where we can start over and be the people we were created to be.

I still don't think what happened to my mother and us was an accident because like that Zoe chick said... we were meant to be dead… so who or what did this to us.. and when I find out I'm going to make 'em pay for the things they did and the lives they took from us. But now isn't the time to be worrying about that, right now is time to make sure Gabby is aware of what the heck she is going to get us both into, I personally don't want to go back to that place but I know how much Gabby somehow 'likes' school so I want to make sure she knows damn well what the heck she is going to get us into.

I looked at Gabby as she looked at me, I didn't know how to form what I just thought into words. Heck, I think. I must look like a fish right now because every time I open my mouth to say something nothing comes out so I just close it again.

"Katey, what's on your mind, you're never like this." I breathe out sitting criss-crossed at the end of her bed and I let it spill, I tell her how concerned I am and then I go onto how all this looked like it was plotted, I told her everything.

Throughout the time it took to tell her everything that was concerning me, her expression and attention undivided listening to my rambles, but through her mind I could tell that she was taking everything in, taking it all seriously too. Which I am grateful for.

"I just want us to be careful. Okay?" I say, looking into Gabby's bright eyes. I could feel that she understood where I was coming from and my point to all this concern.

"I know you do and I love you for it, but if we can just…ignore that side of our lives, even for a little while." I knew that she had a point but I still didn't like the thought of ignoring a possible threat. Not to her.

"I can't ignore it, its worrying me. What if there's a magical serial killer after us?"

"Only something you would think of," she rolled her eyes playfully. "I understand that you're worried about both of us, but seriously, who could change us into mutant creatures of the night?"

I sighed, getting really annoyed that she was just pushing it off the table like that. She never does that.

"Well that's kinda what I'm worried about, I don't know who. Or why."

"Can't we just go back to sleep?" She really did not want to talk about this. Why though? Oh, wait… I can read her mind… She was scared, immensely so. She didn't want it to be true, she wasn't even worried about that until I mentioned it, but now that I have she is really considering the possibility, she was incredible in covering up that she was scared beyond belief but luckily I have this mind link thingy. Otherwise I never would have known.

"Sure, I totally get it. Get some sleep. More visitors will be here in a few hours. And we both need our beauty sleep, so no nightmares this time, please?"

"I'm sorry, Katey, I can't help it, I don't have my dream catcher."

"How 'bout I stay here till we wake up again?" Gabby had one of her guilty-innocent-little-angel looks and nodded meekly. I sighed. Somehow I just knew that would be her answer.

I lay down next to her, scooting her over more so I could fit comfortably. And almost instantly, I felt Gabby's mind blank with dreamless sleep. And although I took a while longer, I too followed into the darkness.

I woke before Gabby did and took it as an advantage to spy on her. Asleep her face was relaxed, an unusual look on her. People usually think she's innocent, but I know better. But asleep she looked innocent. She seemed innocent.

I smile and push a stray bit of hair off her face, it was hard to believe that this girl was infact a blood sucking vampire.