(A/N): Hey Guys! So, short chapter, but it's important, and leads up to a lot. I hope you enjoy it!
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Leo, Elaine, Shari, Mia, Nicholai and Brooke.
Elaine
It was a strange feeling, that of being watched. Unsettling, like someone's fingers were dangling just a few millimeters above your skin; the heat of their eyes upon you almost too much. What was really freaking me out though, was the fact that I thought I was alone. I was seated on one of the swings in my backyard, facing the forest that edged the clearing that the swing-set was in, just behind my house, and stared wide-eyed into its depths. I couldn't see anything, especially anything that could be watching me, but I couldn't shake that feeling. "Leo?" I tried quietly, knowing that the only person who could escape my notice would be him, what with his super-human knack for blending in with his surroundings. Either way, he would hear me.
A twig snapped somewhere nearby, and I smiled slightly, knowing he had stepped on it purposely so I wouldn't be startled when he emerged from the tree line. It was almost pitch black with only a sliver of the moon available to light the ground below, so all I saw of him was a dark outline- barely a shadow. I released the chains that suspended my swing and rose to my feet as I watched the figure approach, beaming from ear to ear. "It's not even been a day," I informed him, smirking as he steadily advanced towards me. "Were you missing me already?" He continued towards me without saying a word, and when he was halfway across the yard, still coming towards me and only twenty or so feet away, I notice something I hadn't before. Leo was tall, but he wasn't that tall.
The smirk fell from my face, leaving my mouth to fall open in shock and my eyes to widen in terror as I started to back away. "Who-?" I was cut off as, in a split-second, the man had me pinned a foot above the ground, to the side of my own house. "Who are you?!" I cried, mostly out of surprise, when a face loomed before mine, still mostly invisible.
"Me?" The man asked, as if a little hurt that I didn't know who he was. "I'm just someone who wants to settle a score, little girl." My blood boiled as he called me that, hating to sound weak- before I realised that when compared to him, I was very, very weak. It was obvious by this point that he wasn't human- in fact, judging by his speed and strength... he was a vampire, like Leo.
Internally, I rephrased that. No, Leo was a half-vampire... this guy would be much stronger than Leo could ever be. And that left me in a lot of trouble.
(A/N): So, what did you think? Cliffhanger, sort of.
This chapter has had edits made to it on 14/2/24 - formatting things, but more importantly than anything else, I changed Jonothan calling Elaine 'girly' to him calling her 'little girl', since I felt like that was more something Jonothan would say, and was almost MORE offensive to her, given that it invokes a kind of... almost paternal sort of vibe, which obviously, Elaine isn't fond of.