A.N. yay Two chapters in one day I am so happy and I hope that you peope who are reading this are happy as well. So this is another chapter with Dorene I hope you like it and please review at the end of the chapter to let me know what you think.

DISCLAIMER: this should now be self explanatory by now but I will saw it again I only own my oc's and how ever else I add into the story randomly.

Chapter 12

A few weeks passed and again I had no luck in finding any information about the Cirque du Freak. I was sitting next to a fallen tree at a rough fire I had set up for the night contemplating how long this task was going to take let along how long if I would ever finish. Then I began to think about how I would defend myself against a vampire if I ever did run into one.

How was I supposed to know what would be effective against a creature of the night, or whether or not the rumors about the way to kill a vampire would really work, like would a cross protect me or would a stake through the heart be enough to do them any harm.

Laying down I was just about to close my eyes when in the distance I heard footsteps approaching my little make shift camp. Still laying down I closed my eyes till all I could see was a tiny bit of my camp and tiny bristles of my eyelashes, I was also trying to control my breathing to make it seem like I was sleeping. All this was just so that I could see who my night time intruder was.

So here I was lying on the ground with my bag as a small makeshift pillow watching for the intruder waiting for them to step into the light so that I could see them. I slowly reached my hand into the bag under my head searching for something anything that I could use for a weapon when suddenly my hand touched a small metal object that was in fact too small to be the cell phone that Steve had given me.

As I was inspecting the object with my hand, the stranger finally stepped into the light and then spoke in a gruff voice that could only belong to a male. "Well, what do we have here?" From where I was lying on the ground the only thing I could see were their feet, which were a little on the big side and covered in large brown hiking boots.

As I was inspecting what I could see of the man I suddenly sneezed, and just then realized how cold I truly was.

The man now just noticed me lying on the ground. "Well now who is this?" He asked himself as I stirred a little so as not to appear like a board, then the stranger left silently, well not really silently because the man was breathing very hard.

I sat up slowly once the man was out of view, and I was still scared out of my wits. Finally I remembered that my hand had found some unknown object in the bag, so slowly I pulled out my hand and opened it looking at the small object. Located in my palm was a small switch blade. "When did this get in here?" I quietly asked to myself.

With my entire mind contemplating on how the small blade got into my bag in the first place, I didn't even hear the footsteps of the stranger as he came back. "Well it seems like some bodies awake." I turned shocked by his outburst and starred at the stranger form before holding up dead wood and twigs in his arms, "Sorry it's just that I thought I would stay here for the night, and so I brought wood to keep the fire going." He paused for a second then added. "That is if you don't mind sharing."

I was shocked that a complete stranger would think that if he brought wood to a girl alone at night that he could stay the night by the fire, but he was nice enough to do that when most people I know would probably just make themselves at home making you get the fire wood. I just stared at him and he must've taken my silence as an invitation to sit down because that's what he did along with placing some of the twigs on the fire.

Now with the fire going a bit stronger I could see the face of the strange man sitting across from me. He was a very ugly man with many scars on his body and short grayish hair. "So do you have a name?" I stopped starring at him and looked him in the eyes which were full of kindness.

"Yeah" I said "Dorene Sanchez, but shouldn't you introduce yourself first before asking another person their name?" It looked like I caught him off guard, but then he smiled and began laughing.

"That's right where are my manners." He paused than reached his hand over the small fire. "Just call me Gavner, Gavner Purl." I reached out my hand and grabbed his complete the greeting with a hand shake as I finally said. "Pleased to meet you Gavner Purl."

A.N. So now Gavner is added into the mixture what do you think so far are you happy with how this is going? Please review now and tell me what you think.