(A/N): Hey, still in Drama. Watching an absolutely terrible 'performance' of a midsummer's night's dream... no one's listening to the teacher.

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Leo

I was fairly battered up by the time my training with Greygorry ended, and I went hunting in an attempt to at least half heal my injuries. When I returned to the Gryffindor common room, it was well after dark, and it was empty, except for James, Sirius, Remus and Elaine.

They looked up, and their faces immediately turned into one of shock.

"Leo!" Elaine exclaimed quietly, jumping up and approaching me in a rush, her fingertips brushing the bruises I knew marred my pale skin.

"What the hell happened now..." Remus muttered, getting up from his precarious perch on the back of the couch.

"Did your mother come back?" Sirius asked, and I winced, but shook my head.

"I was training." Elaine's hand fell from my face slowly, before rising again.

"You've got a bit of..." She pressed the pad of her thumb against the corner of my lips, wiping slowly.

"Blood." James said, the first thing he had so far.

"Don't worry, it's not mine." Sirius stared at me for a second, before shaking his head.

"Right, I forgot... vampires need to feed." I smirked at him.

"Well, I would have been fine for a few more days food-wise, but I usually do feed after training, it helps to heal my wounds." James raised an eyebrow.

"What kind of training requires you to have to heal yourself afterwards?" He asked, half-suspiciously, but I shrugged.

"I train with vampires. Full vampires." Elaine lowered her gaze to the ground, and I noticed her rub her thumb on her pants to clean the blood from it.

"So what do you eat?" Sirius asked, and I narrowed my eyes at him slightly before pulling on a nonchalant look.

"Well, I'm extremely partial to bunnies." Elaine glared at me.

"Now isn't the time to joke." I rolled my eyes.

"Then when is?" The others stared at me. "Look, my whole life is full of dangers, just because of the way I was born. I can't get brought down by every bad thing that happens to me, joking around is the best way to handle it. Besides, it's either bunnies or acromantulas." Elaine shuddered.

"What about the deer?" Remus asked, and I knew that, on occasions, he had slaughtered the deer that roamed the forest, god knows why they did, seeing as they preyed upon by a whole manner of different predators.

"The deer are easier to accidentally kill, weirdly enough." Except for Remus, they all winced.

"I found that too! The necks are smaller on the rabbits, not as easy to rip the head off-" He halted, glancing at the others before swallowing thickly. "Rabbits are cute." Elaine raised an eyebrow at him.

"You'd be a great serial killer Moony, you're really good at covering your tracks." Sirius remarked, and Remus rolled his eyes.

"Anyway, back to the training." James said, returning the others attention to the point, which is exactly where I didn't want it.

"What do you mean, 'training'?" Sirius asked, and even though Elaine knew I had done some training in the past even she looked curious.

"This training is to help me keep in control of my urges." I sighed, dropping into one of the plush arm chairs.

"'This' training?" Elaine asked, not missing anything. "What about the training you were doing with Shari and you're father?" The other three looked surprised, even Remus.

"That training serves another purpose." As if on cue, they all narrowed their eyes at me. "It's for the war." Their eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"What war?" James asked, his voice, oddly enough, more full of curiosity than confusion.

"I don't know." I shrugged, and Sirius glared at me, his arms now crossed over his chest.

"Of course you don't." He remarked dryly, but Elaine rested a hand on his shoulder.

"He's not lying." Elaine said, and Remus finished it for her.

"He really doesn't know." James raised an eyebrow at Remus, before switching his gaze to me.

"What kind of idiot doesn't know what he's being trained for? Didn't you ask?" I glared at him, clenching my jaw as I scowled at him.

"Of course I asked, my father wouldn't tell me!" I took a deep breath, trying to calm myself as I lowered my gaze to the ground, crossing my arms over my chest. "But I trust him to do what's right for me. And you should too." Elaine frowned.

"Leo, there isn't any war at the moment." I raised my gaze until it met hers.

"Not yet there isn't." Sirius stared at me, eyebrows wrinkled.

"You mean there's going to be a war?" I shrugged as they all watched me, confused, frustrated, and I could feel, afraid.

"From what my father heard from the other vampires..." I hesitated, tilting my head. "Yeah."

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This chapter has had minor edits made to it on 30/12/22