Before midnight book

Before Midnight

By: Sarah Thompson







Before Midnight summary




Brook has a perfect life; perfect boyfriend, perfect friends, and an almost sane world.
But when her father gets offered a job as a military consultant, her life takes a very interesting turn. On her first day at her new school she meets the beautiful William Collins and ends up falling head over heels for him, but soon it comes to her attention that she’s not dealing with no ordinary human. On her 18th birthday, which is in 3 days, Brook will be forced to meet her Before Midnight Summary

new fate, and she may not like what she is up against. 17 minutes past 11pm on her birthday she will convert into a hungry beast known as a werewolf, and soon she realizes that her perfect little world was actually covering up a mystical war between           

















                                                                Chapter 1



Aaron,

I can’t but say you’re what I want, and knowing I’ll never see you again

is truly painful.

I’ll miss your laugh and the way you hold my hand, how your give me that

smile before you kiss me. I’ll

never forget. And I hope you don’t either.

Love always,

Brooke


I folded the letter up and put it in the envelope and then signed his name on the back. I took a quick look in the mirror and realized my hair was impossible. I’m so…average. How can someone this…average get someone like Aaron? I don’t deserve him. But nonetheless I’m with him and I’ve been with him for 2 years. I hate knowing that I will never see this place again, I will never speak to my friends again, never walk through the doors of Dalton County high school, and it’s painful. I am 17 and I should be able to handle it, but some part of me knew this was going to be hard to say goodbye to everyone I loved here. I close my eyes and run through a quick slide show of my life right here in Dalton, I will miss my friends and mostly Aaron, I know I will need time to get over such a drastic decision. Dad getting another job opportunity in Gretchen County as a Military consultant practically ruined my life.  I hear a honk out side and quickly grab my purse.  I rush down the stairs and accidentally bump into my dad. “Where are you off to?” he asked. How could he not hear the honk outside? “Um...Today is my last day with Aaron dad?” I said questionably. “Oh” was all he could manage. I hated moving but who didn’t? Leaving your friends behind, your home, and your boyfriend especially, everything you care about will remain here while you move to Gretchen County. Well me anyway. I gave my dad a quick kiss on the cheek and rushed out the front door. I wasn’t completely happy with my father but there’s really no chance of remaining here in this small quiet town. I notice the silver Tahoe parked on the side of the road. I quickly get in the car and turn my head to face Aaron. He takes my face in his hands and places his lips to mine. “Hmm…. I’ll never forget the smell of your breath when I kiss you.” He said. He gave me a quick grin and revved the engine. “So what are we doing?” I asked. “Nope...I told you it was a Surprise” he said then chuckled. He knew I hated surprises. He drove faster than usual, you know, the normal 80 is an understatement to Aaron. “So how are you..?” I said trying to create small talk with him, which rarely happens. Ever since I told Aaron I was moving, he has been so worried about our physical connection then the things that matter the most. We were already half way to the house when I finally notice Aaron was really nervous about something, I mean, he is never like this so…something’s up. When we parked in the driveway of his house he looked at me and took a deep breath, “are you ready?” he asked.


“Yes” I managed to say. “Are you sure?” he said again “Yes!” I said with a little too much volume. He gave out a sigh and got out of the car, went over to my door and opened it for me. We walked up the sidewalk hand in hand. He opened the door for me and right when we stepped inside he pulled me in his arms and kissed me earnestly. I was shocked but I let him in willingly. He picked me up and cradled me in his arms while still crushing his lips to mine. He slowly walked up the stairs and opened the door to his room. I froze. He doesn’t actually think we’re going to have sex does him? No he couldn’t. “Uh...” was all I could manage to say before him deliberately kissed me with so much force I was out of breath before a second passed. I pulled away unwillingly and put on a sour face. “What do you think your doing?” I asked breathless. “I thought since this is our last day together we could…you know…. open up a little.” He chuckled and started unbuttoning his shirt. I stopped him on the second button. “No.” I said in a rushed voice. He looked at me with a disbelieving look. “You can’t be serious? I was looking forward to this day for weeks.” He complained. “You’ve been planning this for weeks?” I asked incredulously. “Yea…” he said. Quickly I grabbed my purse and started walking out of his room. He grabbed my arm and forced me to face him. “What’s wrong? I thought you were ready?” he said angrily. “Uh…. No” I said. Forcing him to let go of my arm. I stomped down the stairs and jogged out the front door. He quickly caught up and grabbed my hand. “You’re my girlfriend your suppose to be ready when I am. We’ve been together for almost 3 years.” he said. I turned to face him. “You actually believed it was going to be romantic. Did you think we were going to get married or something? Aaron I’m not going to have sex with you. You’re not the one I’m going to marry.” I screamed. The neighbors looked out their window at us. Nosy ass punks. “Well I’m sorry brook for having such a dumb imagination!” he screamed. I laughed a shaky laugh “ok so maybe I was thinking about marrying you...but Aaron...I’m leaving, you will never see me again after today…” I said bitterly, while looking at the floor. He took my face between
his hands, “Brook we are both ready to do this…I know you are cause you gave me the idea.” He said and grabbed my hand; I twisted my way out of his hand and looked down, “Aaron, I think we should break up.” I said softly, looking deep into his eyes. I didn’t want to do this, but it seemed like I had no choice cause if he just wants to stay in this relationship because he thinks he is going to get in my pants, he’s got another thing coming. “Why?” his voice trembled with pain. “Because we both know that us being apart twenty four seven isn’t going to help this relationship. And if you think we’re having…. sex…. the day before I leave you, there is something seriously wrong with you.” I said with a sour edge to my voice. It was harder than it should be to wrap my mouth around the word. I unwillingly removed his hands from my face, lifted one of his hands and slowly brushed my lips to his palm. I could feel the tears burn in my eyes but I had to turn away before he saw me cry, or else he would know I wasn’t sure about this. After looking in his eyes one last time, I lifted my hands behind my neck and unclipped a necklace with a diamond heart on it Aaron gave me on our 1-year anniversary. I    lifted his hand and set the necklace on his palm and closed his hand around it, I looked up and met his eyes one last time than I turned around and slowly walked away leaving his bewildered expression behind me.

It’s weirder than it should be, to walk into our new home, I mean, how big it is and all. There is five bedrooms, four bathrooms, and kitchen the size of a baseball field. But I liked it nonetheless, it had a charm to it, I got the biggest bedroom and yet I don’t know why. I returned back outside and watched as my mom and dad hugged and kissed, giving each other the lovey dovey eyes. They loved each other so much, my dad didn’t deserve mom for nothing, how beautiful she was, and kind. Of course dads pretty little girlfriend he use to work with back home was kind I guess, lets just say we’ve been formally introduced. I didn’t look nothing like my mom, her black hair with bluish red eyes, with tan skin, and a perfect body. It’s a poor excuse to have dark brown hair and green eyes, I use to be the whitest girl in school back in Arkansas, hopefully that was going to change this year, but I’m probably going to be the smallest girl in the school this year, New school! Oh my god this is going to be hell.
I got my boxes and head up stairs to my new room when I noticed a painting, it was colorful and it looked like Paris, but deep in the background I noticed a small but very large figure, it was no human, its back was slouched and it looked like it was ready to attack someone, but I didn’t think much of it, I just turned around and walked in my new bedroom.  I was amazed, my bedroom was huge, it had bright green walls, perfect color for my bed set, and the carpet was white with a hint of gold to it. I settled the boxes on the floor and stared at the room for a measurable amount of time. I wonder how bad this is going to be. New school, new home, new life style, and new people...everything is going to be new. Could I handle it?

First day of school. Wonder how that’s going to be? As I walked down stairs I noticed
something was different, the house was darker, either it’s my eyes or someone didn’t pay the electric bill. I got a bowl of rice crispies when my brother Jake jumped down stairs. He is almost 7 and probably the cutest boy you’ve ever seen. “What’s up brook?” he asked cheerfully, I stared wide-eyed. When did he ever talk to me? “Nothing Jake, how are you this morning?” I asked warily, I kind of had a strange feeling that something was going to pop up and scare me and he would bust out laughing like usual.” I’m fine and dandy.” I looked at him shocked. “Am I missing something? What’s wrong with you?” I asked sourly. “Oh would it be that I’m being unusually nice to you? Oh yeah I’m trying something new, you know since we moved you’ve been kind of down lately, so I figured I’d give you a break on all the pranks and stuff. And anyway I can’t plan today cause I got school so…cya…I’m going to be late for the bus” he said as he quickly grabbed an apple and strapped his backpack onto his shoulder. Once he walked out the door I realized I was running a bit late, so I got my back strapped it on my shoulder and walked out to the car. As I shut the door I turned on the radio to my favorite station and revved the engine out of the driveway. I loved my car, no girl would ever be happier then with a Mercedes, especially a black one. The school wasn’t that hard to find, in fact it was right down the street. As I found a parking spot I realized that the only other nice car was a 2005 dark blue mustang parked three spots down from me.  It was beautiful, and so was the driver, it reminded me of Aaron; as soon as Aaron popped in my head I realized that I desperately miss him. Why did I break up with him? What did he do wrong? Then I realized what he tried to do to me and anger filled my mind. If mom and dad find out about that, I would never be able to leave the house with a boy again. I erased both subjects from my mind and quickly got out of my car. As soon as I slammed the door, the boy that drives the mustang looked up and met my eyes, I smiled and turned away, but at the corner of my eye I could see that he was still staring at me, so I quickly walked up to the office door and all of the sudden the boy was opening it for me. Holy cow how did he do that?
“Err…thanks.” I said quickly and walked through it “your welcome.” He said with a smile. God his voice was so beautiful! He stared me up and down and then walked towards the principal’s office. I was suddenly very happy I wore my short jean skirt and yellow flannel tank top that showed off a little bit of skin. I walked up to the counter and was shocked to see a little kid sitting in a leather seat with glasses on, she looked at me and smiled “can I help you?” she said in the cutest voice. “Amber what are you doing?” said an over weight lady with red hair and an oldies dress on. The little girl, known as Amber, hopped down from the chair and ran to a hiding spot giggling the whole way there.  The lady smiled and sat down where the little girl sat, “hello how may I help you?” she asked in a kind voice. “Um…I am Brook Sanders, I’m a new student here.” I said shyly. Awareness suddenly filled the lady’s eyes. She smiled and said, “I hope you enjoy Grasonville High school Brooke, my name is Lola Woods.” She smiled and slowly went over to pick up my schedule and a map of the school. She showed me how to get to each class and wished me luck.  I walked out of the office and went to sit on a near by bench, looked at the map and tried to study it best I could, when I finally heard a bell ring I hopped up and stuffed the map in my bag, I took a deep breath and walked through the school doors, this will be easy…wont it?





                                                                  Chapter 2




My first class wasn’t hard to find, as I walked in I noticed it was very small. I walked up to the front desk and read the name on the board Mr. Johnson I thought, well at least the name was easy to remember. I looked at him, he had white hair and dark skin, his nails were dirty from writing on the chalk board all the time and he wore a green shirt with black tie, tan trousers and shoes with alligator skin on them. Pretty freaky for a teacher. I gave him my paper, he smiled and I gladly returned the gesture.” Well Mrs. Sanders I hope you enjoy my classroom.” He said and quickly pointed me to a seat in the middle of the class…by all the boys. As I walked to my chair my foot caught on one of the desks leg and I dropped my books. “Oops” when I bent to pick them up a dark tan hand flashed over and had them al-ready in a pile, as I turned over to thank the boy my eyes went wide, it was the beautiful boy that opened the door for me in the office. “Thanks again.” I said shyly. “Your welcome…I’m William Collins” he said with a grin. “Brook Sanders” I said and gestured a hand toward him to shake, he took it and squeezed slightly, his skin was so warm. I picked my books up and sat in my seat, looking at him the whole time. He turned his back and sat in his seat…next to me. Wonder how many classes I will have with him? I thought. “So how do you like it in Grasonville?” he asked “its fine I guess. Is it always this hot though?” I asked. He looked me up and down again and grinned. Is he thinking what I think he’s thinking? “Mostly everyday” he said. The class had already started, but we were not the only ones who were talking. “So…” I trailed off thinking of something to say, and yet feeling completely idiotic. “So…what?” he asked. “We have a new student today, Brooke would you gladly stand up and introduce yourself to the class.” Mr. Johnson asked, and I was suddenly aware he was talking to me, and he wasn’t asking either. “Hi…I’m Brooke Sanders and I just transferred from Dalton County High School...” I trailed off thinking of what else to say, then I heard one of the boys whisper in the back “she is hot. I would so hit that” I sighed and sat down; William picked up a book and threw it at him hitting him straight in the head. I gave him a quick smile and turned around in my seat. This is going to be a fun year…. When the bell finally rang I gathered my books together and realize William was waiting for me. “Ok so do you like hiking?” he asked with excitement. Hiking reminded me of Aaron and me making out in my pasture about 3 weeks ago, and I remember he tried to do a little more than kiss me. I should’ve seen the whole sex thing coming, why else would he have stayed with me? “Uh…sure I guess?” I said questionably, He smiled, “would you be willing to go sit with me at lunch?” I was surprised, first day at school, I already got a guy wanting to sit with me at lunch “sure” I fluttered my eyelids and gave him a smile. “Great. Would you like me to walk you to your next class?” he asked shyly. “Sure” I said. He waited for me to walk in front of him, and I gladly got in front and rolled my eyes. While we walked in the hall, William popped in front of me and made me jump, “can you wait for a second?” he asked “sure will” I said gladly, he ran over to another girl, took her in his arms, and kissed her. I was crushed. Who is she? I thought sadly, suddenly I didn’t feel like waiting for William anymore, so I stalked off in the opposite direction. Heading for my next class, a boy stopped me in my tracks. “Hey baby…May I escort you to your class?” he asked slyly, “give it a rest kid, I’ve already had enough guys on my ass today.” I said angrily, he just laughed, “just relax Brook, its me Patrick. We use to be friends in Dalton, well before I moved up here of course” he said with a grin. “Patrick?” I asked, “Patrick Fields?” I asked again, awareness suddenly dawned in my eyes. I gladly gave him a strong hug. “Holy shit man, how have you been?” I asked happily, completely forgetting about William. “I’ve been great…and obviously you have to.” he looked me up and down with an evil grin. “Looks like you haven’t changed a bit.” I said sarcastically. “You want to sit with me at lunch? We got a lot to catch up on.” He asked, but then I suddenly remembered William asking me those five minutes ago. Who cares? I thought…he obviously isn’t concerned if I sit with him or not, he’ll probably be making out with that girl anyway. Compared to William, Patrick’s just a kid though, and if anyone caught me sitting with him, they would think I liked him and it would start gossip. William though. Black hair, green eyes, tan skin, big muscles. Yea I’d take my chance with William any day. “Sorry Patrick I’m already sitting with someone today…” and I watched him as his face fell. “But you can sit with us if your want?” his face suddenly brightened when I blurted that out unexpectedly. “Sure” he said happily. “Ok” I said oddly, “who are you sitting with anyway?’ he asked warily, “Err…William Collins” I said. “Oh” he chuckled, “What?” I asked on edge, “looks like William already claimed you first…Damn it!” he said. “What the hell are you talking about?” I asked angry now. “Nothing just forget it” he said quickly and walked away.

After third period went by the lunch bell rang and once I walked out of my Spanish classroom Patrick was leaning against the wall doodling with some small piece of paper in his hands. When he saw me he smiled and stood up straight, “Hey kid,” I blurted out and giggled. Patrick looked at me weirdly and then laughed, “Wow, its been almost three years since I heard you call me that. Old habits never die huh?” he said and chuckled again, “So what’s been going on with you and Aaron?” he asked suddenly and then looked down. Wow, what? I’ve only seen him for what five minutes and he is already asking about Aaron? And how did he know him? This was weird… “He is good, I broke up with him the day before I left though.” I said and looked away from him while still walking. Patrick froze, “You broke up with him? Why? How?” He asked, completely shocked. I looked over at him closely, “He wanted…more than just a relationship and I wasn’t ready to go the extra mile. I broke up with him after he tried to take advantage of my boundaries.” I said and blushed, what girl has boundaries? Patrick chuckled, “How did you break up with him?” He asked intently listening, “I just told him that I wasn’t going to have a long distance relationship and said it was over, that’s it.” I said and then sped up my pace, we were going to be late for lunch if we don’t speed up. Patrick noticed my pushiness and sped up as well, “How do you know Aaron? And how do you know I dated him?” I asked, looking over at him. Patrick looked straight at me and his eyes were wide with shock again. After about five seconds of pure silence, he finally decided to speak, “Brook I moved away, I didn’t die. I knew Aaron since our freshmen year, after I moved me and him kept in touch and he told me when ya’ll started dating and after that…we sort of faded.” Patrick stopped talking almost instantly, like he was giving too much away or something. It confused me.
Once we got to the lunch room and got in the line William caught up with us and the same girl he kissed in the hall was right on his heel. “What’s up man?” Patrick said with a huge grin and held his hand out for William to shake. William took it gladly and shook it but he did nothing but stare at me. I blushed and looked across the lunch room, trying to distract my self from his curious expression. “Brook?” William called out, I turned to him and smiled, “Yep?” I said and looked down, trying to avoid his beautiful eyes. “You haven’t spoken since I walked in, is there something wrong?” he asked, I looked over at the girl he was holding hands with and cringed in fear and confusion. Her eyes were glaring at me and her lips were pursed in disgust as she stared me up and down. I looked down and shook my head then looked up to answer Williams question, “No I’m fine, just a little woozy. I think I’ll just have a water today.” I said and started for the vending machine across the lunch room, “I’ll come with you,” Patrick volunteered, “No.” I answered too quickly and smiled, “Stay in the lunch line, I’ll be back in a flash.” I said and smiled wider. I turned away from them and walked across the lunch room with a thousand thoughts scattered in my mind. I feel as if I have seen William and Patrick before; and that girls crabby glare looked familiar as well. Once I got to the vending machine I took out a few quarters and inserted them into the machine. Then I clicked on water and bent down to wait for the stupid machine to vend my drink. Once my drink appeared I bent down and took it out of the little container, I straightened back up and started walking back towards William and Patrick but  froze when I saw the girl glare at me again. Except this time she looked terrifying; her eyes were shaped cat-like and their pupils were changing different colors that were switching to red and butter-scotch every one fourth of a second. Something was wrong, either I was doing something to upset her or she is just having abnormal mood swings. I took my eyes away form her and looked over at William who was looking at me like I was a piece of cake…weird. I smiled at him and started walking over there again; once I finally got back to my spot, I took a big sip of my water and then threw myself into whatever conversation was available with a little too much enthusiasm.

Once they got their lunch, they led me down the long side-walk and sat at a table that was right in the middle of the crowded lunch room. “I’m telling you, if she was so focused on killing us then she would’ve attacked us already.” I over-heard Patrick speak in a low voice to William. When we were all seated, William turned over and smiled at me then looked over at Patrick and punched him in the shoulder, “Patrick shut up, seriously what makes you think that She can even get close to attacking us, she is too weak. Lets just end the subject, we’ll talk about it later.” William said and chuckled. I looked over at Patrick and eyed him curiously, “What are ya’ll talking about?” I asked and then I was suddenly aware of a beautiful blonde girl on the right side of us looking over at Patrick. She had long straight blonde hair with bright ocean blue eyes and when she noticed I was looking over at her, she turned her gaze to me. She turned her mouth up and showed a set of perfect white teeth. Is every person here absolutely beautiful? Now I have every right to feel self-righteous now that I’m living in this dump. Then out of no where I heard a very low growl coming from the direction of William. Once it went silent the beautiful girl turned her gaze down at her table and a small hiss escaped her lips, it made me jump. “Oh nothing, Patrick shut up.” William said and chuckled. I noticed then that the girl who was beside William wouldn’t even speak, not even one word. Weird. “Okay. I’m gonna go, I need to study for a calculus test in sixth period. Bye ya’ll.” I said and got up from my seat. I turned around and took a step forward when suddenly the beautiful blonde girl was standing right in front of me, “Wow, are you trying to make out the words ‘stalk me?’ “ Patrick spoke off tone. The girl turned her glare to Patrick and hissed again, “Sorry, looks like the human has a bit of a fluttering heart, sounds like dinner.” She said and giggled. William stood up and a ravenous growl escaped his lips, “hold your tongue Angie, Brook has done nothing wrong to you. Leave and mind your business.” He growled then looked at me and nodded once, a sign for me to leave. I gulped in conferment and turned around, walked around the girl, and sighed in relief once I was out the lunch room doors.

Freaky. I don’t even know that girl and she just came right up on me acting like a complete bitch. I walked into my sixth period class and sighed in relief when I saw William sitting next to an empty seat.
When school was finally over, I was walking to my car when a girl, with the most beautiful straight blond hair and blue eyes, walked over to me “Hi I’m Angie…What’s your name?”  She asked, “Brooke..” I said smiling, I noticed she was a lot shorter than me “Oh” was all she said. “So you and William are…together?” she asked, it sounded like she was being a snob, I wasn’t sure though. “Oh no” I said surprised she would even ask that, it’s only the first day of school. “Who was that girl he was with today?” I asked. “Jessie? That’s his girlfriend…Why do you want to know?” she asked suspiciously Ahh, now I get it. “Just wondering” I said; great! The first day of school and drama has already started.

And about two months went by with same old boring days; I got to know Angie Patrick and William better un-aware they were all friends. William still showed interest, or at least I think he did, but I couldn’t tell anymore. He looked measurably happy with his girlfriend who I got to meet; she was nice, very bitchy sometimes though.
I was sitting across the table from William and Patrick with Angie on my right side and Patrick on my left, at the lunch table one day. No matter how much she talked I still couldn’t take my eyes of William and her and Patrick knew it. It annoyed her sometimes but I didn’t care. But when I finally turned my head and smiled and Patrick and Angie they both returned a smile. Then I looked back at William and instead of him making out with Jessie, she was talking to a couple other girls and he was staring straight at me smiling, I returned the smile and looked down. When is he ever going to be single again? I asked myself, obviously the look on my face was funny cause William was laughing while staring straight at me.” So do you want to hang out this week?” she asked excitedly, I was shocked “Sure I guess” “Great I’ll pick you up at your house Tuesday at eight” she said and happily walked away. “Wait…Do you even know where I live?” I yelled. She turned around “Yeah sure…the old Wielder place.” she yelled back. “Oh…” was all I could say. As I got to my car, I quickly peeked over at the Mustang to see if William was there, to my surprise he was, and he was staring at me with that same beautiful smile. I returned a smile and started walking over there when suddenly his girlfriend Jessie was running over there towards him, She jumped in his arms and he welcomed her in nicely but then pulled away and said something that made Jessie’s face light up in anger, before he could turn away she grabbed his collar and pulled him closer to her, when he pulled away she pointed her index finger and said something that made William raise his hands up in the air . William waved his hand and then pointed back to the school and I heard him yell “Go!” and then looked at me and chuckled. Jesse shook her head and turned away from him, stopped and then said something again; once she was finished she walked back to the school lobby with a hunched back. I stared at William for a few seconds and waited for him to run after her and apologize but then he busted out laughing and half the parking lot heard him. Then after a few short seconds of laughter he turned his face abruptly and started walking towards me, I wanted to just ignore him, get in my car and leave, but I couldn’t move, so I leaned against my car and tried to look like I hadn’t heard any of their conversation, I don’t think he was convinced. Once he was within three feet of me he gave me a quick smile and stopped “Hello Brook.. Nice to see you again.” He said cheerfully, while I was staring at his face I how beautiful his skin truly was and unthinkingly I touched his cheek with my hand. When my mind finally caught up with my actions, I dropped my hand and stared at him with a smile, “sorry about that…” I said and blushed  “Oh its fine, its not everyday I get a girl wanting to touch my face.” He said with a slight chuckle in his voice. “Oh…sorry again.” I said and looked down. I looked over at my truck and opened the door to get in; William cleared his throat and grabbed my arm. I turned around and waited for him to speak. About a minute and a half went by in silence and then I looked down and smiled; he chuckled and took a step closer, “What’s so funny?” He asked and then let go of my arm, finally. I rolled my eyes, “Did you walk over here to just have a silent conversation or was there an actual reason?” I said and leaned against my car again. “Well, I thought about the silent conversation but it wasn’t much fun so I just waited till you gave me your strict attention.” He said and chuckled a low and rough chuckle. I looked in his eyes and saw that he was being sarcastic, “William, we have been having the silent conversation for two months and that’s not my fault.” I said and grunted, “You were so far up Jesse’s ass that you didn’t even pay any attention to me.” I said and frowned. William looked down and then back at me; wonder what he was going to say, he looked mad, “No offense of course.” I said quickly and then blushed at my stupidity. William chuckled and looked in the direction Jesse went, “Yeah I know, that’s why I broke up with him Brook. She was getting just a little too bossy.” He said and waved his hands in the air, “Even to me!” He yelled dramatically. “Well I am terribly sorry about that.” I said but inside I was jumping for joy. Does that mean he is available? Or is there someone else already? Probably so…William is too gorgeous to be available for a long period of time  “Not a problem, would you like to go out with me sometime?” he asked with a grin stretched out across his lips. “Um…” I and trailed off, would it be a good Idea to go out with William not even 5 minutes after he broke up with his girlfriend? Or should I snatch him up while I have the chance? Or…should I play with him? “Did you break up with her for me?”  I asked warily. “Um…no?” he cluttered his eyebrows together “Good.” I said relieved. He looked confused but just let it go. “So…how about it?” he asked in an alluring voice. I giggled and looked in my car and looked for my binder; I grabbed a piece of paper and a pen and wrote down my number, “No I don’t think so…Here’s my number.” I said and giggled again, this was going to be good. His expression left me a little guilty, like maybe I should of said yes. He frowned and nodded, “Okay.” He grabbed the paper and turned around to walk to his car when I grabbed his arm.  “William, its not that I don’t like you, I just got out of a relationship and I still need some time.” I said and looked down. Oh what could it hurt to just go out for dinner? “ Its fine really.” He spoke and turned around again and this time I made him turn around and face me, “Okay…for dinner?” I asked and smiled. The frown lit up in a smile, “Sure how about Saturday at eight?” He asked, “Perfect.” I said and my smile grew wider. He smiled wider also, “Great.” He said and rubbed my arm then turned to his car; I was frozen where I stood.
After a few seconds of finally catching my breath I turned around and got in my car. I was shaky the whole way home.




Chapter 3


I only had one day to prepare myself for my date with William, and I knew it was going to be a challenge. I was laying on my bed listening to music when I suddenly heard a knock on my door, “Come in.” I called and then sat up. The door opened and my mother peeked through and smiled, “Hey sweetie can I talk to you?” She asked and walked in, closed the door, and came to sit by me on my bed. “Sure.” I said and smiled, “What do you need?” She looked down and blushed then looked over at me, “How are you holding up?” She asked and rubbed my knee. “Um…I’m fine, why do you ask?” I said and went to turn off my stereo, “Aaron breaking up with you must have been hard to handle in a time like this?” She said softly. I froze, Aaron breaking up with me? Wow that was wrong, “Mom how did you hear about that?” I asked, remembering I never told them about me and him breaking up. “Aaron told me, he called like eight times today asking for you. He said he was terribly sorry and that he misses you.” She said and smiled, I looked over at her and giggled, “I broke up with him mom.” I said and looked down, I leaned on my desk and then stared up at my ceiling, “Oh, why?” She asked, “Cause he was trying to get me to have...sex with him.” I said and shut up immediately. My mom jumped off the bed and covered her mouth in shock, “What?! Did you give it to him?” She asked hurriedly, “No that’s the reason I broke up with him.” I said and looked down again. My mom sighed in relief, “Good. Brook your virginity is the most important thing in your life right now, boys are going to try and steal it. Now I’m not asking you to stay a virgin until your married cause I know you wont do it but I am asking you to make sure you give it a way to someone you absolutely love, to someone you think you might marry.” She said softly and smiled. I blushed, I cant believe I’m having this conversation with my mom! “Mom don’t worry, I’ll know when the right time comes.” I said and smiled widely. She sighed again and walked to the door, “Oh and mom?” I asked, stopping her. “Yes dear?” She asked, “I have a date with someone tomorrow so don’t try to kill him when he rings the door bell okay?” I asked and then looked at the window. “Sure.” She said and smiled; She turned around and walked out the door, closing it behind her. Thank god hat was over!

When I woke up in the morning I felt like an absolute mess, how did I get this bad in one night? But then I suddenly remembered I had a date with William tonight and I needed to be perfect for him. I got up out of my bed and went straight to the bathroom, took a look at my hair and grabbed the brush. It took my like 15 minutes just to get half of my hair smooth, “Oh my god, this is going to take forever!” I yelled and went to the other side, after about 5 minutes on one tangle I just gave up and decided to take a shower. When I got in I smiled in relief, the hot water felt so good on my body; it softened my skin and smoothed my hair out, I felt like I was in a hot tub. Once I got out I wrapped a towel around my body and walked out to my room. I went to my dresser and pulled out some nice close fitted Hollister blue jeans that flared out at the bottom and threw them out on my bed. Then I went to my closet and looked for a very formal shirt to wear tonight, When I found my American eagle silky pink top that flared out from the bottom of my chest down, I grabbed it and threw on my bed as well. Then I opened my shoe closet and found some nice black flats and threw them somewhere in my room, I probably threw them under my bed. When I got dressed I blew dried my hair and then walked down stairs to get some lunch considering I slept in until two pm.
When I walked into the kitchen Jacob was opening a 2 liter of soda, “Jake you know mom don’t allow you to drink that, where did you get it anyway?” I asked and grabbed the 2 liter, fastened the lid. “It was hidden under the sink.” He said and stomped back into the living room, I giggled and went to the fridge, “What to eat, what to eat, what to eat.” I said and sighed, “Nothing, of course.” I mumbled and walked in the living room, “Jake tell mom I’m going to get something to eat.” I said and grabbed my keys, which was on the coffee table. I grabbed my purse and checked my wallet to make sure  I had money, I did. I walked outside and was shocked to see that it was foggy, foggy at almost three o’clock? Weird. I got in my car and turned on my radio, turned on my car and pulled out of the driveway. Hollywood undead was on ‘My Black Dahlia’ was playing so I turned it up and sang along. I pulled on the highway and started for I-20 and headed for Cindy’s. I drove to a parking spot and got out of the car, a Eclipse was sitting in the drive threw and I looked through the black shaded window and grinned, only guys were in the vehicle. I rolled my eyes and walked up to the door and opened it, Once I was inside I froze. William was over by the counter, filling a cup holder full of ketchup. He looked really good today! He was wearing a red flannel shirt that was sort of close fitted so it brought out his muscles and some dark blue jeans that fit him perfectly, god he had a nice butt. I instantly turned around and opened the door, “Stalking me huh?” I heard him ask, I froze again and grinned, “No, just came to get something to eat.” I objected and turned around and headed to the counter. Once he was done with the ketchup he turned around, crossed his arms and leaned on the counter, “I don’t believe that.” He said and chuckled, “You look like the type that would stalk someone.” He said and looked up to the ceiling, “I guess I’m the victim today?” He asked and walked over to me. I smiled wider and then rolled my eyes, “Yes, oh dear you caught me!” I yelled rationally and laughed. He eyed me carefully and then sighed, “I suppose I’m cool with it. Besides the way you look right now, stalk me all you want.” He chuckled and I blushed, of course. The lady at the counter smiled and stepped up to the register, “What can I get for you today?” She asked and waited patiently, “I’ll have a small strawberry shake and a small fry.” I said and took out five dollars, “Will that be all?” She asked, “Yes.” I said and smiled at her, “4.14” She said and I hand her my five dollars, she took it and gave me my change back. I turned around and faced William who was looking me up and down; “Do you mind? I hate it when people stare at me like that.” I complained and shook the change in my hand, “Well, okay. I do deserved to get paid considering I am letting you stalk me.” He said and sighed then looked to his right dramatically. I grinned and took four steps closer until our faces were barely touching, “In that case..” I whispered and stuck my hand in his pocket and dropped the change in there. William was grinning the whole time and grabbed me by the waste, I kept my hand in his pocket for a good 5 seconds and then pulled it out. “Happy now?” I asked, and instantly regretted it, “Very.” He said and laughed; I knew he was going to take that pervertedly. The lady called my order and I went to grab my food when William grabbed my hand and walked with me, his hand was so warm, it felt so good. I put my wallet in my purse and put my purse around my shoulder so I could pick up my tray. William reached over and grabbed it for me and chuckled, “Thank you.” I smiled and grabbed his arm with my free hand, “Would you like to sit with me?” He asked and smiled. I looked at him and nodded, “Sure.” And he led me to a table; I let go of his hand and sat down at the opposite side of him. He sat down and put my tray in front of me then took his food off his tray and put the tray on the table next to us. “So…” I trailed off and started taking off the frosty’s lid, one it was off a dropped it on my tray and took a French fry, dipped it in and plopped it in my mouth. “French fries in a frosty?” He asked curious, he eyed me and then eyed the frosty and then shook his head, “Man you are strange.” He said. I opened my mouth I shock and grabbed another French fry, “Here, you try it.” I said and dipped the French in the cup again and reach over to put in his mouth. He sucked the French fry in and then chewed for second and then swallowed. He looked down and thought for a second and then smiled wider, “Not bad.” He said and then took a big bite of his cheeseburger. It as cute watching him eat, he chewed like a child. We watched each other silently while we ate.

After we were both done eating we walked out to my car, hand in hand. “Do you still want to see me tonight?” He asked, hopeful. I leaned against my car and pursed my lips, “Yes.” I said and smiled. He grinned widely and walked in front of me, then about 3 steps closer towards me and our faces was almost touching again, “Good.” He said and smiled again. He grabbed both of my hands in his, leaned in and brushed his lips on my cheek. I smiled and straightened myself up, He smiled in return and backed away with out hands still in-twined, “ I guess I’ll see you tonight.” He said and released my hands. My hands dropped to my side and I grabbed my keys then turned around and un-locked my car. When I turned around to look at William one last time and blushed when I saw him looking at me, I waved and then turned around and got in my car. I reversed my car and then started on my way home.









When I turned on my road I looked in my rear view mirror and I noticed a familiar vehicle. A Silver Tahoe was behind me. Oh crap, was all I could think of. I pulled
over at the side of the road and got out of the car, right when I was out, Aaron jumped out of his car, ran towards me and pulled me in his arms while forcing his lips on mine. I tried to pull away but he was too strong, he strapped my hands behind my back, and forced my lips to open for his tongue. All of the sudden Aaron was down at my neck and he was breathing hard, like he was refusing to do something, like he was mad. Then I heard a car skid to a stop and a door slam. Then, without even knowing it happened, Aaron was all the way across the road lying on the ground motionless, then a dark hand flashed in front of my face and I took it gladly. When I was on my feet I suddenly didn’t feel so good. “Brook are you alright?” a beautiful angry voice
asked.  “I-I am fine.” I said in a sick voice. I was searching for his face, but a thick cloud of fog was covering my eyes and I suddenly realized I was falling, but unexpectedly William caught me before I even touched the ground and scooped me up in his warm arms, while carrying me to his car. “What about my car?” I said in a faint voice, “I’ll get my friend to drop it off” he said softly. The fog was slowly disappearing and I could see just a little better, when I was seated in his car, William grabbed my face between his hands, “stay here” he ordered. Right after he said it, he quickly slammed the door and was walking towards Aaron.  I was all the sudden worried that Aaron wasn’t going to be in good shape unless I stopped William from hurting him. So I got out of the car and slowly walked towards the two of them. “William!” I tried to yell but I realized it was just a mumble. I started running towards them slowly. I saw William bend down and say something to Aaron, I reached them just before William could hurt him “William stop!” I said in a loud voice. “ I told you to stay in the car” he said angrily “ sorry but I can’t let you hurt Aaron” I said in the same angry tone. William sighed, “Well…Looks like today is your lucky day Aaron.” Aaron looked up in my eyes and smiled. Then slowly got up, startling me but leaving William bent down on the ground. “Thank you sweetie” Aaron said while wrapping his hand over my waste. I twisted my way out of his arm. “I’m not your sweetie. Now I already told you it was over. What does it take for you to get that?” I said in the most disapproving tone I could manage. “ I know you don’t mean that” and he got closer to my face about to kiss me again, and unthinkingly I slapped him across the face, his entire body shifted to the right and he almost lost his balance. Where did I get that strength? “Actually Aaron I kind of do.” And before I even knew it I was on the ground with a stingy feeling on the top of my forehead. William punched Aaron to the ground and ran to my side, while helping me up Aaron tackled him and I ran to him trying to pull Aaron off of William, I threw Aaron across the road but before I could turn to help William up a hand was around my neck and I was in the air, chocking. It looked like William could handle himself, suddenly I felt a sharp pain crinkle up my spine. I closed my eyes and let out a piercing scream then felt a hand over my mouth, “Brook, you need to stop trying to fight him! He is too strong. Are you crazy! You’re only human and Aaron is a vamp-” William cut off almost instantly and chuckled but was cut off by Aaron’s leg hitting the back of Williams neck. When William was out of sight Aaron bent down and grabbed my neck and twisted it around, “Let go!” I screamed and fought as hard as I could but was too weak, the pain in my spine hadn’t fully disappeared yet. “I am sick of waiting Brook, I’m going to end this damn thing once and for all!” He snarled and opened his mouth, his eyes twisted around and made out the shape of a cat, “What thing?” I cried and then stopped short of breath. I looked at William and screamed in horror. In place of William, a pitch black creature was running towards us. “William!” I screamed and pushed Aaron off of me, then ducked my head near my knees and closed my eyes. I waited, terrified for the wolf to come over and rip my to shreds but felt nothing but the warm air pressing up against my skin. I tightened my eye lids, then felt a warm hand on my shoulder, “No!” I screamed and started kicking, “Brook, Brook! Its okay! Its me!” He screamed. I turned over and saw Williams face, “William!” I screamed and jumped into his arms, hugging him to my chest. He chuckled and tightened his grip on my waste but then pulled me away,“ I think you’d better go Brook, it looks like your boy over there isn’t going to give up.” He said quickly. “No this was my doing; I’m the one that told him before I left that he could come down whenever he needed me…” I trailed off, I looked over at Aaron and saw that he was sitting on his knees, shaking his head in pain. What was going on with me? With William? Something was up with this, its too confusing, I’m going to figure this out. “But I don’t want him down now that I have you.” I blurted out. I was still staring at Aaron after I spoke and when Aaron’s eyes flashed up and met mine then I felt a shiver of fear run down my spine. His eyes were a bold red and his face was twisted in a demonic feature, Aaron looked terrifying. William stared at me for one mere second and then lifted me in his arms and ran to his car he was speeding down the road, I’ve never seen anyone run so fast. As I was thinking about how fast he was running I suddenly felt and heard a growling snarl creep up Williams throat making him look terrifying. He looked like some sort of beast, “Does he know where you live?” he asked, interrupting my thoughts while he strapped me in. “No.” I said quickly  “I mean I don’t think so...”I whispered and coughed a little, “But what about my car?” I complained. “I told you I’d get my friend to drop it off.” He spoke and chuckled “What if Aaron trashes it?” I said scared, but before I could ask another question William was racing down the street, with his phone to his ear. “Hey Patrick, do you think you can pick up Brook’s car down at the corner of Wall Street?” he asked quickly “Yea thanks man, I owe you…again” Patrick? I thought.







                                                                Chapter 3




When we pulled up to my house, William turned off the engine and it was silent. I didn’t like not talking to him but I wasn’t going to be the one to break the silence. Then I suddenly remembered how fast both of them were going while they were fighting, they were practically invisible they were going so fast. “How were you going so fast when you were fighting Aaron?” I blurted out. He was shocked. “What?” I stared at him waiting. I remember the black creature in the place of William and the terrifying creature I saw in Aaron’s eyes. Something was wrong with them…I know it. “Ok so you know huh?” he said. “Know what?” I asked.  “Know what we are?” he asked unwillingly. “What ya’ll are? Sorry Will I’m just a little confused here.” I said annoyed, but deep down inside I realized that whatever he was about to tell me will probably shock me. He smiled but then became serious again. “Ok…if I tell you everything will you promise not to tell anyone? No
matter how freaked out you get.” he asked in a hushed voice. “Sure” I asked definitely confused now. And all of the sudden he was by my door opening it for me. “Wow that was fast” I said startled. We walked close together up my sidewalk, the way William was hovering over me was weird, and it was like he was in a protective stance. When I unlocked my house, knowing it was empty; I walked straight into the kitchen and sat down waiting for him to tell me what he wanted to tell me. He slowly walked in looking in every direction. When he was
finally done snooping the place he sat next to me and quietly spoke, “you must never repeat the words I am to say here, do you understand me?” He spoke cautiously; I looked at him warily and smiled “Yes.” I said a little excited now.
“This might sound entirely crazy, but I am not human, I am something…different.” He whispered. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to hear what he was about to say, so I tried to prepare myself as best as I could before he spoke again. “I was born in Aspen California in 1804.” He said while watching my face very carefully to take in my expression. “I’m sorry what?” I said trying to understand if I heard him correctly “Brook this is shocking but I need you to trust me, just this once.” He said in a strained voice. And I could do nothing but nod once. “My parents died 4 years before my 19 birthday.” He whispered painfully. I reached across the table and grabbed his hand and held it between both mine. “I was alone till I was I found Jesse who was very recently today my girlfriend. He spoke and chuckled at the last part “Oh god, William you aren’t trying to tell me you’re a vampire are you?” I asked sarcastically He gave me a disapproving look, “No…I’m trying to tell you I’m the exact opposite.” He said. “And that is?” I asked questionably. “Remember the myths about werewolves?” he asked “Yea” I said. “Well they aren’t exactly myths, and neither are Vampires.” He said carefully.
“Wait…William let me get this straight, you’re trying to tell me that you’re a werewolf?” I asked, He looked at me and smiled “It’s hard to believe huh?” “Well I’m not sure if I want to believe unless you prove it to me.” I said annoyed at his lying. “Ok” was all he said, then all the sudden he was lifting me above his head with out even flexing a muscle? “Believe me now?” he asked smiling after he put me down “no” I said while crossing my arms across my chest. “Ok…” he gave me that heartbreaking smile and I immediately dropped my hands, while trying to catch my breath. He grabbed my hand and led me outside and suddenly I saw my car sitting in the drive way and Patrick leaning on the side of it. “What’s up baby?” he asked while chewing on an apple, “So William have you told her yet?” he asked chuckling at my expression. “Wait…William how did he know you were here?” I asked a little freaked out. “Brook I called him and told him to drop your car off.” William said amused. “Oh…. then how did he know what you were talking about?” I asked pissed off. “Cause its his instincts to know.” He said more amused. “Ok ya’ll you got me…and it’s not funny,” I said more pissed off. “We aren’t laughing are we?” they both asked at the same time in a very serious tone.


“No way!” I screamed, “ You can’t be werewolves!” I screamed again, William clamped his hand on my mouth and whispered in a harsh tone “stop yelling! You’re the only one that knows and you yelling this secret out isn’t helping the situation!” he unclamped my mouth and ruffled my hair softly “its ok brook we wont hurt you, we aren’t even allowed to touch humans, its against clan law” he said softer. And it’s the first time I’ve noticed his eyes, they were bright gold, and they calmed me. “Ok” I said calmly “So why am I the only one that knows?” I asked in a normal voice. “Well we’re going to explain that in one second but first you have to do something for us.” Patrick said. “What?” I asked cautiously. William looked at me with a serious painful expression on his face “We need you to kiss William.” Patrick said. “Uh…why?” I asked surprised by their request. “Because we just need to know something ”Patrick said impatiently “Now do it cause we don’t have all day. “ I turned to face William and looked him in the eyes. “Do I really have to kiss you?” I asked suspiciously “yes Brook you do, we have to determine something in order to tell you the rest” he said softly. I saw nothing but honesty in his eyes, and I finally realized I trusted him about everything he just told me. So I slowly leaned in and brushed my lips against his, William put his hands on my waste and pulled me closer to him while I opened my mouth and welcomed him in. His lips were cold but his tongue was warm while twisting with mine. After a long 15 seconds we slowly parted our lips and I took a deep breath and opened my eyes, and I stared at him. William stared at me for good 10 seconds and then finally looked over at Patrick and nodded once, “what does this mean?” I asked. No one would answer for a long time, until finally William spoke “we need to go inside its going to rain soon.” William grabbed my hand and led me to the door. When we got to the kitchen, someone was sitting in the chair I sat in not even 10 minutes ago, I got behind William and cringed in fear, I heard the boy chuckle “so you must be Brook Sanders huh?” he asked. “Great way to introduce yourself Ben” William said with a snarl and turned around “Brook its ok this is my brother Benjamin Collins, He wont hurt you “He said and brushed my cheek. I looked behind William at Ben and smiled “yeah, I’m Brook.” I felt William’s relief beside me. “So have ya’ll told her yet or do I have to do the hard part?” he asked in a sarcastic tone “we were just about to tell her before we saw you.” William said “Well then tell her Already cause we have to get back before nightfall or your precious Jessie will get pissed” Ben said.



“Ok” William took a deep breath and pulled me to a chair and made me sit down. “Brook do you want to know why you had to kiss me?” He asked. I really didn’t care if I knew or not because I got to kiss him and I’ve been wanting to do that ever since I saw him “yes I would” I said, “Werewolves have a long history Brook, and we have to follow the rules or our pack will slowly go into extinction, you see, every 400 years a new sibling comes along and challenges our masters cult” William explained slowly looking in my eyes the whole time. “And who is the master?” I asked slowly and I think I already knew the answer. “Me,” William said “And Jessie is, well, was Cult” I was appalled. “Is Jessie a werewolf?” I asked. “Yes she is.” William said“ I know this is a lot for you to take in Brook but you have to believe me, we are at a war with Vampires and Jessie is old now, she must be replaced, once she is, we will be strong enough to defeat Aaron and his clan” William said quickly. I froze. “Aaron? No he can’t be a vampire,” I said stiffly “I’m sorry Brook but he is, and the only reason he stayed with you is so he could convert you into a vampire so they could become strong enough to destroy my pack” he said. “Is that why he tried to…today?” I said quietly “yes brook, if I hadn’t been there to stop him, he would of converted you right then and there and he would of won the war and my pack would’ve been destroyed in the blink of an eye.”  He said I looked in his eyes for any trace of dishonesty but I saw nothing, just miles and miles of blackness.  “Do you believe me brook?” he asked. “What if werewolves aren’t supposed to win? What if I am suppose to be with Aaron right now?” I asked but I hoped I was wrong. I realized right then and there that there was someone more important in my life now, and it wasn’t Aaron.  “Brook I don’t have those answers, if we are suppose to lose then by god we will go into extinction but right now all I know is that you need trust me when I say this; Aaron is a bloodsucker, he kills; he hunts, he sucks people’s blood.” He said disgustingly, and then it dawned on me. When I met Aaron he just moved in from South Carolina, Where William was born. “Did Aaron follow you down from California?” I asked “Yes.” Patrick said stopping William before he spoke “In 1954 the war broke out in Aspen, Aaron’s clan Was searching for Jessie when We ambushed them in a Pasture 10 miles from town, Jessie got away Unharmed but we lost over 6 of our pack members that night.” Patrick said in a strained tone “One of them was my sister, and another was my friend.” He said angry now. “Patrick and Ben went after Aaron 2 days after the battle was over, Ben came back unscathed, but Patrick was bitten on his arm. “ William Said. Patrick walked over to me, lifted his shirt, and showed me a scar that was barely visible. “I was unconscious for 3 days” he said and walked over to the end of the room, back still facing me. “how do I fit into this?”  I asked, and it seemed everyone was waiting for me to ask that question. “how old are you Brook?” Ben asked, “I turn 18 on October 23rd ” I said confused, William looked at me, a calm expression on his face, “Brook, you will convert into a wolf 17 minutes past 11pm on your birthday, which is in four days” he said slowly.  I wasn’t prepared to hear that and I didn’t take it so well. “Err. What?” I asked worried to hear him repeat that again. I quickly got up and ran outside, it was raining but I didn’t care, and then I felt a hand on my shoulder, I quickly, so quick that I didn’t even realize I did it, twisted around and grabbed Williams hand and flipped him over and watched him drop to the ground. Ben and Patrick watched in amazement. “Wow, looks like some of your abilities are already showing.” Ben said in an amused tone.




“William I’m so sorry” I bent down and helped him up. Patrick was shocked “brook how
did you do that? No one has ever taken down William before, he’s always caught him or her before they took action” he said quickly. “I don’t know, I just did it.” I said, truly scared now. William smiled. “Well she is going to be stronger than me until she converts” then his tone was serious again “Brook you have to be with me when you convert so I can claim you.” William said. “Why do you have to be the one to claim me?” I asked suspicious, didn’t really care, but I just played along “why can’t Patrick claim me. Or Ben?” I asked sourly, William watched my expression and turned disapproving “Brook right when you convert you have to fight Jessie until she gives you her domain, if you don’t she will keep her domain and you will be disconnected from the pack.” He said sadly “ And I have to claim you after, cause if I don’t and one of my pack members do, they will become the pack leader.” He said, “ How will you claim me?”  I asked William; worried about the answer he was going to give me. His expression was beyond terrifying and I knew I would probably have to beat it out of him if I wanted the answer. But I didn’t I just patiently waited for the answer and he knew I wouldn’t quit asking him if he didn’t tell me. “I have to kill you and then give you my blood to fully make you my cult but. If I don’t kill you and I give you my blood, you are free to walk away if you wish. Its your choice, and if you do walk away you will not be disconnected from the pack, but you will be replaced” he said warily. It scared me to think of not being with William, it seems as though from the short time I’ve known him, I’ve grown attached to him, and maybe not even that, I just might of fallen for him. And it looked from the expression I saw on Williams face, that he might feel the same way about me.” When and if I fight Jessie…. will I have to kill her?” I whispered William looked at me “if she doesn’t give you her domain before you fully convert than yes. You see, when you start to convert you are stronger than anyone in the pack, so there for it wont be hard for you to make Jessie surrender.” He said quietly “how come all the times I was with Aaron, he didn’t just change me then?” I asked confused now “Aaron had to get you to accept him for who he was before he could change you, cause if you didn’t, you wouldn’t fully belong to him, you could’ve went against him and killed him and everyone in his clan one bye one. “ William explained fully. “That’s why we had to tell you before you converted so you wouldn’t be alone when you did of course. And the second after you take Jessie’s domain I can claim you.” I looked at him with millions of questions in my eyes but only one I was anxious to ask, “Can you show me wolf form?” I asked quietly. William stared at me for a long second and then looked at Ben and Nodded once, And Ben, Big Ben stood up and closed his eyes, before I knew it he was changing into a vicious creature, Ben was terrifying with golden-brown hair and red eyes, only staring at me and then at William, William closed his eyes and bowed slowly then Ben walked over to me cautiously not wanting to scare me I’m guessing, took Williams place beside me while William moved over to Patrick and watched with him as Ben raised his snout and laid it on my lap. I lifted my hand and rested it on his forehead. Terrified as I was, I let my curiosity get the best of me and removed my hand and smiled at Ben confirming in my mind that I believed every word they said and will ever say again.” Why me? Why am I the one you need?” I asked in a hard voice. “You’ve had vampire and werewolf blood in you Brook since you were born, your only job was to grow up, but your fate would be determined on which of us would get to you first, me or Aaron.” William explained “your great, great grandfather was a werewolf and your aunt Sherry is a vampire, so pretty much both species runs through your family, the only reason your family hasn’t converted is because only one out of a family is chosen to be apart of this kind…. of world. Don’t ask why, its just in the myths.” He said amused.  “How come I never converted then?” I asked, “Cause since you are at the end of the blood line you have to be triggered by acceptance not anger or resistance.” William explained, I fully understood now. But that doesn’t mean I’m willing to do whatever their asking me to do. “Ok, I understand everything you told me. And I believe you, but I’m not going to fight Jessie, and when I do convert I will probably leave hide for the rest of eternity. Wait…how are you the pack leader, your only 19?” I asked doubtfully staring at William “Brook I am 19 in human years but in wolf years I am.205 years old.” He said clearing my mind. “Wow, I thought only vampires aged not werewolves?” I asked, “Damn it William she has got a lot of questions, I can feel Jessie’s emotions…and she isn’t very happy.” Ben complained.  William looked at Ben for a fraction of a second and then turned to me. “She is coming with us Ben, I wont leave her. Aaron is still here waiting for us to leave, I smell him.” They all had disgusted expressions on their face. “What about my family?” I asked scared, ewe…I actually kissed a vampire, disgusting! But was kissing a werewolf better or worse? Defiantly better! I thought. William took my hand and led me to his car, “Ben Patrick run home, I need to speak to Brook alone.” “Oh! Bros before hoes man!” Ben complained while Patrick laughed. “Ben in the future I hope you understand that if you call Brook a hoe again, I will rip your spine out and curl it over your waste like a belt to hold your baggy *bunny* pants up.” William said with a snarl, Ben cringed back in fear and I giggled. William opened the car door for me and I got in, putting my seat belt on I noticed it was very cold. “Aaron has been here Brook, that’s why it’s so cold. “ William explained while reaching for his jacket in the back seat to hand to me. I took it gladly and stuck my arms through, it was bigger than me, and longer, but it smelled amazing. William smiled at my expression and turned the key in the ignition. “I hope your ready to meet the family, or more or less, my pack.” He said slowly and it slowly came to make itself known that I was the future spouse of William, well ‘cult’ as he puts it. And that was okay with me.






































Chapter 4


While we were driving, I watched William closely and it seemed as though he wasn’t even in the present, like he was back in time trying to figure something out. It was scary watching his silent face turn darker and darker. After a couple minutes I noticed I wasn’t breathing, as I quickly sucked in a breath I remember Angie “Angie…?” I asked, and William flashed his head over to my eyes and looked absolutely ravenous. “Yea she knows… .” He said in a hard voice, I cringed back in my seat terrified. “I’m sorry Brooke, when I look back in the past of this war that broke out and the last time I fought Aaron and it  feels like I’m there, fighting him again, thinking maybe I’ll kill him this time and it would be over, that you  wouldn’t have to risk your life to safe my, well our, future pack. “ he smiled and touched the edge of my  jaw with the tip of his two fingers “I am truly sorry for what I’ve caused Brook, and I will spend the rest  of my life trying to make it up to you.”  He pulled over on the side of the road and shut off the engine. Looked at me and smiled. “now I suppose we have some things to figure out?” I was confused at what  he was asking, “what?”  I asked waiting for what he had to say. “how do you feel about becoming my…cult…?” he asked with eyes filled with grief. “uh…” I stuttered trying to find something to say. Then I saw a tear stream down his cheek and I couldn’t speak, unthinkingly I leaned in and brushed my lips to his and closed my eyes waiting for the yelling to start. But to my surprise he took my face between his warm hands and brushed his lips to mine hard, I welcomed him slowly not sure at what he was going to do next,  when I saw a shadow behind him I pulled away fast and screamed, then suddenly realized  it was Patrick watching us. “You lucky dog William!” he exclaimed with excitement and amusement. William just smiled and looked over at me. “I know the word cult is…weird and awkward so what about  girlfriend?” he asked happily. “that’s fine” I whispered while in my mind I was throwing a party, Girlfriend!? Oh my god I’m his girlfriend! I thought with rash excitement. He got out of the car and swiftly jogged over at my side and opened the door, gently helping me out with a hand and wrapping the other one around my waste pulling me close to him, I was having trouble breathing. “are you ready?” he asked and all the sudden his eyes were bright gold with excitement. “sure…but um…ready for what?” I asked scared now. “we have the ability to turn into wolves, but you only have the ability to run fast now, just think of changing, and you will fill your head with nothing but your beginner abilities.” Patrick said. I was confused….William backs away from me, “close your eyes brook, and think of letting your self go.”

I closed my eyes obediently and thought of nothing but letting my self go like he asked me to do, I felt nothing but energy, and I smelled something…different….I let myself go. When I opened my eyes once I felt enough power, I was running fast, trees were blurring past me and I was dodging them beside me, when all of the sudden I see a black wolf run ahead of me and look back at me…I noticed almost immediately it was William. His eyes were a golden scotch color, and Patrick was running behind him. I stopped when I knew I was where I was suppose to be and Then instantly William was beside me, in human form, taking  my hand.  I started walking towards a clearing, not knowing where I was going, just following that scent.
“she’s faster then I ever thought” Patrick said in a dull voice. “Where’s Ben?” I asked, noticing only Patrick and William were with me, “he is preparing the pack for you” William said, “they wont be too happy will they?” I guessed. “No they’ll be happy, its Jessie who wont be happy.” He spoke. “Jessie is still my cult and she will try to get to you, about things me and her so called did. So don’t listen to her she is going to try and talk you out of fighting her, she has always been scared of fighting with the wolf that’s suppose to take her place as my cult, she claims to love me.” William said, rolling his eyes.

“Not as much as I….” And I stopped abruptly after realizing what I just almost said. William stopped in his tracks and turned to Patrick “excuse us Patrick.” He spoke calmly. “sure” Patrick said rolling his eyes towards me and smiled. “what?” Williams said right when Patrick left. “Nothing…its nothing” I said hoping he would drop it.“Brook you can tell me anything, we need to get it out, cause it might be the last time we can tell each other what we really feel” William said and abruptly regretted it right after it came out of his mouth. “ok” I said sadly.  “William I’ve barely known you for 4 months, but I cant stay away from you, I’ve tried to not think about you, but its impossible. It seems as though my life is meant to be about you. And when I found out I was suppose to be your cult, I could do nothing but hope for the future, that maybe you would learn to love me like I….love you.” I said quietly.  William smiled at the word “I don’t have to learn Brook….cause I already do. When you asked me if I broke up with Jessie for you I only said no cause I  wanted to make sure you were someone I was willing to risk my life for, and you are, even if you weren’t suppose to be my cult, I would still love you, even if you loved someone else like Aaron..” he cringed at the word, “I would still love you, I love you brook and I have since the day I met you, screw the pack law, I just want to be with you.” He exclaimed and I couldn’t speak, the only thing I thought of doing  was kissing him, but that would never be enough, a kiss could never explain how much I loved him.“I love you William, and I always will. You are the reason I came here.” I said, and he took me in his arms and pressed his lips to mine. His chest was firm and it pressed tightly against mine, and it didn’t hurt when he pulled me so close, it felt so good having someone who could hold me in their arms again. Aaron was nothing compared to this, I use to think I loved him, but I didn’t, he was just my path, my fate, to get to William. I couldn’t move from his arms for the longest time, and when we finally did move he kissed me again, so gently, on the lips and smiled. “Okay, okay” Ben exclaimed “enough! Please, I beg you, its disgusting.” He laughed while he said it and finally sighed “Jessie watched the whole thing, and heard it  I might add.” “Oh great” William said, “this is going to get bad Brook, much worse than it already is. Do not speak to her, she will bewitch you with her words. “ he explained slowly “I heard that too.” Jessie slowly walked out of the woods and by Williams side and removed my hand from his. “William Darling, do you mind explaining to me why you kissed this foul creature?” She asked in a hard voice, staring coldly in my eyes. I looked down, unable to handle her bleak stare.




“I told you Jessie, we are over.” William said just as hard. “Oh..So you would pick this thing..” she flashed her hand over my body so fast it startled me, “over me!” it wasn’t a question, but apparently an insult towards me, I use to think she was a nice, okay person for William but now I knew she was a complete *bunny*. “Brook,” he corrected her “is going to convert in about 79 hours Jessie, you will show her respect.” He snarled, making her cringe back in fear. William twisted out of her hand and gabbed mine once again, walking past her, she looked me up and down and growled at me. Well all I have to do is survive her for four days, could I do it? I thought.

I was walking over to a clearing when something stopped me, “William, why doesn’t my family know about all this?” I asked he paused to look at my expression and then finally spoke, “your father knows, but he betrayed the pack by sending messages to Aaron, telling him where we were hiding and what our plans were next.” He said in a pissed off voice. I cringed a little but then finally had enough guts to speak again, “so could I ask him about all of this?” William stopped walking and turned to Ben in a hard voice he said “her father is still working for Aaron isn’t he?”He asked and rolled his eyes , “I think he is, I haven’t talked to him in over 40 years.” Ben exclaimed. I just dropped it staring into Williams eyes made me feel dizzy, I squeezed Williams hand and closed my eyes, I smelled something salty, and I then I immediately knew it was the smell of someone I knew. My nostrils flared and I crouched down. “William!” I exclaimed “do you smell that?” I asked quickly trying to identify who it was,  And why I smelled it so strongly, what vampire would dare kill on werewolf territory? “Smell what?” he asked, then sudden awareness lit in his eyes, his nostrils flared like mine and he hovered over me protectively,  I backed away from him, eyes wide. “Brook, what Is it?” he asked in a tight voice of authority. “JAKE!” I screamed. I started running, leaving William, Ben and Patrick behind me. I ran towards the scent running with all I had in me, then suddenly stopping dead in my tracks, I noticed a white object about 200 ft in front of me, it had a knife on the top of it, holding the white object to a tree. I ran faster this time, hoping it was nothing, but had a dead feeling that it was going to be a lot more than nothing, finally reaching the tree, I ripped the note off the knife and smelled it carefully, it smelled of Jakes scent. William showed up by my side in an instant, hovering over me again, and I knew now that he smelled the scent too. I slowly opened the note and read intently:
Brook,

I have your precious Jake, he is not harmed, nor does he now a thing about what’s going on. But all that will change unless you meet me at the old town mansion on Pitts-burgh street the night of your conversion at 10pm. Come Alone. If I sense more company than invited well…you know what will happen.

See you soon my sweet darling,
Aaron




I crumbled the note and closed my eyes turning my head into Williams shoulder, and started to cry. “Brook, the note is a fake, it’s just a trick to make you walk into a trap, don’t worry.” William said while rubbing my back, he kissed my hair. “Are you sure?” I said in a strained voice, “I promise you, Jake is probably home right now playing video games and eating corn chips.” He said, “ you promise?” I mumbled “I promise” he said softly. “William and Brook, you two need to get to the pack now, their getting worried.” Ben said, suddenly behind us.
I smiled slightly and let go of William and grabbed his hand. “So does the pack know you found me?” I asked with excitement, “No, but their about to find out.” William said warily. Oh crap, I thought, we walked into the clearing and walked a little ways until we met with a giant rock that had markings of beasts, which looked like werewolves, and names. Once we passed that, we stepped over this huge boulder and finally entered into a sacred path, leading out through another clearing. And there, I got to see my future family.
                                                 






















                                                    Chapter 4




I never thought I would see so many…of these creatures. “Welcome all” William said in a loud voice, “I am sorry to call you away from your families at this hour,” and then I wondered what time it was. It had to be at least 6pm. “But I have news, Brook is here,” he gestured a hand toward me, and Ben pushed me forward. “She will make us strong again; we can finally end the war, a war that has been going on for decades. She will make our pack whole again.” William exclaimed with rash excitement, he looked at me and gave my hand a squeeze while smiling at me. Everyone was staring at me with wide eyes, when I was looking at all the faces, I noticed Patrick in the midst of them all, he winked at me and I gave him a smile. Then all the sudden I felt a spasm of pain in my chest, and nearly collapsed to the ground if William hadn’t noticed my reaction so fast. He quickly put an arm around my waste and held me up while trying to look in my eyes, “Brook what’s wrong?” I looked at him with a pained expression and closed my eyes; I jerked and grew very cold. “She is converting early,” someone in the back said, “I know this cause I did also when I turned 79 years ago.” the voice said again.  I realized it was Jessie’s ruffled voice and it was coming closer and closer. “William put me down,” I said in a strange voice, “I can’t breathe.” I said once I realized what was happening. I wanted William to stop the pain, but he couldn’t, and I slowly lost control of my mind. “Ash!” I screamed, rolling around on the floor, twisting and jerking back and forth, I started tearing off my clothes as I realized my hands were being replaced with claws, and my screams were changing into growls, I turned around facing Ben and jerked my hand towards him trying to get him to help me “Ben! Help me!” I screamed in a dark low voice. William picked me up and led me to soft patch of grass; he put me down and backed away watching slowly. I felt my whole body tremble with pain, and in the mere second of agony, I wanted to die. I felt my face changing shapes and I roared with pain, while feeling my entire body quiver, I turned around and looked at my back legs, something light replaced my skin, my feet were now paws and from the heel of my foot to the top of my head was a white mask of fur. I stood up, feeling stronger than ever before. Looking around at all the strange faces when I looked at one face and realized it was William. I whimpered at him, and he instantly walked over to me, bent down, and patted the top of my head. “Do you want to go running?” he asked with excitement, I started jumping up and down when I heard the word ‘running’ and William knew my answer. He started taking off his clothes and stared at me the whole time he changed, what once stood before now changed into a black wolf, his eyes were bright gold, and I stared into them getting lost. William turned to Ben for a fraction of second and Ben just nodded, “yea we’ll wait.”  He said. And we were off running, leaving our thoughts behind us. And our clothes. First it was a race; I was testing my speed while William just wanted to know if I could run faster than him. And I could to my surprise, as we continued to run I noticed that when we stopped, both are stances weren’t different. William was stronger so therefore he had a stance that showed every part of his muscle, I however, was stronger than him, stood upright like a true cult standing beside her master. When we were finally out of breath we jogged to a small little clearing and stopped. I lay down, resting my head against my paws, while watching William watch me. There was a curious look in his eyes, like he was ready for something…it confused me and made him amused…then it suddenly dawned on my that he was ready to change back into human form. I nodded once and thought about changing into a human. I felt serge of energy twist up in my spine and down my back, leaving me gasping for air, my paws switched to arms and legs and my fur was replaced with tan skin. I laid there naked on the ground, twitching. William sat upright looking at me with a strange expression on his face. I was still gasping for air. And instantly he was beside my body lifting me upright into his arms so he could rest my head against his shoulder, I smiled, “I think I should really learn how to breathe better when I’m running.” I said with a small cracked voice. William chuckled and bent down to press his soft lips to my forehead, “do you know how truly beautiful you look when your wolf, the most beautiful creature I ever saw.” He whispered, “your not so bad lookin yourself,” I said quietly laughing against his bare chest. I placed my hands on his shoulder, trying to lift myself up, but I was too weak, “Can you help me?” I asked shyly, he chuckled again, “sure.” He put his hands under my arms on my waste and lifted me up like I was a child. I was sitting as tall as he was, when I knew something was about to happen. He leaned in and swiftly brushed his lips to mine with the most gentle touch, I kissed back of course, welcoming him in, forgetting about everything around me for a long time.

Then I remembered we were both nude and alone so I back away. “Sir, William you aren’t trying to seduce me are you?” I asked with an elegant voice, “Why of course not mad ‘am, why would you think of such a thing?” he said back, I giggled and took a serious tone, “William…do you have any idea how much I love you?” I asked softly, “Yes I do Brook, but you are foolish to even think you care for me more than I do for you” he said just as gently. I smiled and leaned in pressing my lips to his with a little force, while he wrapped his hands on my waste, I wrapped mine around his neck and slowly lifted my self up higher, letting him caress my neck with his warm lips, I was out of  breath in a second.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” William whispered against my neck, tickling my skin with his breath. “Yes” I stammered, I’ve never been more sure about anything in my life. He slowly pressed his chest to mine, and kissed my should, to my neck, then to my ear, and down again, I was trembling. As I was breathing hard, I was craving something, a desire to feel him inside me, to feel his lips all over my body, and I wanted him now, more than ever before. I slowly lifted his head up and kissed him hard while gently pulling him tighter to me, he grabbed my legs and swiftly wrapped them around his waste slowly laying us against the soft grass, I straightened my legs and whispered in his ear, “Don’t leave me,” he froze whatever he was doing and looked in my eyes for a short period of time, “I wont.” He whispered. My hands trailed up and down his back, when I felt a lump on the left side I stopped my hand and felt around it to see what it was. A scar? I thought when you converted, all your scars disappear, guess not. “Stay with my forever.” I said breathless, as I leaned in and kissed his cheek gently…..





As me and William walked back to the pack, Ben came running for us first, when he got a look at me he raised his eyes and grinned. I smiled of course and grabbed Williams hand, while shooting Ben a eat *bunny* look, Patrick came forward and handed us our clothes, as I put my bra on, almost every guy in a five mile radius looked at me, watching me. I blushed and tried to cover up as much, when I finally got fully dressed again, I walked over to William, “Where’s Jessie?” I whispered “Probably hiding.” He replied “She is afraid to face her challenge.” Ben announced loudly, and I cringed in embarrassment and hid behind William, he grinned.
“Who say’s I’m afraid?” Jessie asked angry. Ben backed away into the crowd and jumped up with joy that his remark had pissed her off. She looked at each face before her and right when she looked in my eyes, she glared. “I heard you challenged me brook?” she said in a cold voice, “Yes, I just might of Jessie.” I snarled, making sure I sounded vicious and non-afraid. I didn’t convince her. “I have walked amongst my kind for years, what makes you think you can just walk in here and take my rightful throne to William’s cult?” she asked. I stared at William for a long second and realized it was almost time to fight. “I will not start the fight Jessie, only finish it. If you want me to not take your place as William’s cult, then you’ll have to kill me.” I replied with an evil grin. “Very well.” She chuckled. “I can’t do this.” I quickly said to William. “She’s too strong, she’ll slaughter me!!’ I whispered in a rush.
“You’ll do fine, you can’t back out now, you challenged her first remember?” he said and smiled. And he was right, as much as I hated having to fight Jessie, I had to. I started it and I’m going to finish it.  I ripped off my shirt, feeling the change just below the surface, I backed away from William and the packed formed a circle around me and Jessie. She was slowly taking off her shirt and removing the heels she had on, while smiling at William. “Are you ready?” she asked him. “Ready for what?” William asked confused, “To watch your precious *bunny* die?” she snarled “I wouldn’t be so sure of that Jessie, you see, Brook just converted not even a day ago, she is stronger and faster than you. You’d better hope she hasn’t fought anyone…..ever.” Patrick said while eating an apple. I suddenly remembered when I was in sixth grade and I was being picked on by my ex boyfriend Zach, I punched him once and he went crying to his mommy. Maybe Jessie is the same. “Jessie just stop complaining to my boyfriend, and damn fight me cause I don’t have all day” I said with a pissed off tone. She really was pissing me off though, calling me names, trying to seduce William in front of me, threatening me. I thought about changing, and I slowly began to form into the beast that I will remain to be…forever.












When I was done converting I attacked Jessie in seconds, ripping at her throat. She converted faster than me and went for my leg; I twisted around forming a complete cage around her, biting at her snout, trying to get some leverage so maybe I don’t have to kill her. I looked at her for a fraction of a second and dug my pearl white fangs into her spine and jerked back to maybe ripped skin from her. As I was pulling she turned and got a hold of my ear, ripping it from my head, I whimpered and groaned from pain but quickly recovered and went for her throat again, this time getting a hold of it.

I bared down and jerked my front teeth and pulled her throat out of her neck. She howled from pain and slowly became weaker, laying down and cringed from agony. Blood was everywhere, my white fur was stained with blood, I turned my head, still sure not to let go of her throat, and looked in her eyes. She was surrendering, how odd, I wouldn’t expect her to give in so easily, I slowly and carefully released her throat, trying to make sure I didn’t tear anymore skin, and backed away. I went over and sat by a rock and started licking my wounds, trying to ignore the pain, William went to Jessie, “Are you ready to give up your place?” he asked with a voice full of authority, she whimpered and nodded. I painfully got on my feet and raised my snout staring at the moon, waiting for her to bow, but still on my guard just to make sure she doesn’t try to make a move and kill me in a second. She groaned while getting to her feet, she towered over me, she had a bloodied coat just like mine, but you could barely see it cause her fur was a burgundy grey color. She limped in front of me and stopped for a good 2 minutes, then she slowly bowed towards me and closed her eyes. I closed my eyes and nodded while she raised her head and howled at the half full moon above our heads, fully surrendering her rights and abilities as Williams cult. I howled too except quietly. When she done her job, she turned around and limped towards the crowd of excited werewolves, William walked over to me and bent down and patted my head. “Well done my love.” He whispered quietly as to not let anyone know what he said. I nodded and whimpered while trying to change into human form. When the conversion was complete I covered myself carefully to make sure I wasn’t exposing everything to every guy here, I looked at William with a pained expression and cried. Why was I so weak? I screamed at myself, William lifted me up in his arms and started for his car; I rested my head against his chest and closed my eyes. It’s over, I repeated in my head. Now all I have to worry about is destroying my old vampire boyfriend, boy that’s going to be fun!












When we got to the car I looked in the back seat for something to cover myself up with, when William got in the car he gave me my clothes I left outside, “Thanks.” I whispered in a rough voice, “Are you okay brook?” William said in a concerned voice, “I’m fine.” I lied he didn’t seemed convinced. He started the car and reversed out in back of Patrick and Ben, they looked at William and bowed, and then looked at me, Smiled, and bowed, I nodded and looked out the window. I felt strange, like something was pulling me beneath the surface, I tried to pull though but I couldn’t, I hated the silence between me and William, one of us needed to speak before I lost my mind.

“Are you going to talk or not?” I asked angrily, “I’m sorry, I thought you were enjoying the silence.” He said in a growl, “I’m sorry William, I just feel like fighting Jessie wasn’t good, like I’m being punished for it.” I said sadly, William noticed my pained expression and pulled over on the side of the road, turned off the engine and took my face in his hands “Brook you did nothing wrong, Jessie was weak and she had to be replaced, you have started your new life, your strong, beautiful, fast, and your mine. All mine.”  He whispered and smiled. I smiled at him and bent in to gently press my lips to his, “I hope this life never ends.” I said while taking a breath, “Me too.” He smiled then started the engine again. I looked at the clock on the dashboard and it was 4:30 in the morning. Mom and dad are going to be pissed. “My parents are going to be really mad if I don’t get home soon, they’ve probably called the cops.” I said with a grin, just imagining how they were going to scream at me. What’s wrong with me? I should be trying to avoid that thought, not welcome it. “William….” I trailed off “Hmm.” He said, “When you convert, do your emotions go out of wack?” I said earnestly, he just chuckled “Yes, your whole body changes, emotions, thoughts, curves,….” He trailed off looking at my legs under the short khaki skirt and smiled.












                                                   






























Chapter 5


When we pulled up on my street, I smelled something familiar, “Aaron!” I hissed. We got to 3 blocks from my house I saw his silver Tahoe parked on the side of the road, I couldn’t believe he had the guts to show up here alone. “William, do you know why he’s here?” I asked in a loud voice, “No, probably just wants to chat, and see what’s new.” He looked at me and smiled, “Its okay Brooke, he can’t try anything in the open, he’ll expose himself.” I smiled in return and grabbed his hand, nervous about the up coming conversation with Aaron. We parked by the Tahoe and turned off the engine, we both got out at the same time and walked to the front of the car, leaning up against the Tahoe, and Aaron smiled and started walking for us. “Well, well, well.” He said with a grin, “How have you been sweetie?” he turned to me, “Fine, just the same, hanging out with werewolves” I said in a kind voice, “And I am surprised you had the guts to get out of the car after you figured out what I was.” He chuckled. I let go of William’s hand and walked close to Aaron’s face letting him slowly realize what I have become. “There are a lot of things you don’t know about me Aaron, like for instance, I converted about 13 hours ago. I could kill you within a minute.”

“Wow!  Whole minute!” Aaron exclaimed with shock, chuckled and leaned closer to my face, “Remember who you’re talking to Brook, us vampires tend to get a little *bunny*y when someone threatens us, especially our enemy.” He said in a mocking tone. I slowly trailed my lips around his jaw and cheek, seducing him. “You need to remember who you’re talking to sweetie, this war will end soon…and I know my pack will survive.” I said in the same mocking tone he used. He leaned away and brushed his lips to the tip of my nose. “I will have you, whether you’re my enemy or not, you’ll come to me.” He whispered, “I wouldn’t be so sure about that Aaron.” William got in front of me and got in Aaron’s face, really close. “Brook is bound to the pack, she is my cult, and you’ll have to get through me and my brothers before you lay a finger on her.” William hissed. Aaron chuckled loudly, “Sir William, you will lay before me dead then, and your brothers. Brook was mine first, and I will claim her once again.” Aaron got closer to William and smelled his shoulder. “Filthy werewolves. Brook will lay in my bed, before she lays in yours.” He snarled. “Too late.” I laughed and glared at Aaron, his eyes were wide but he was relaxed, “I would expect you to sleep with someone so soon, it’s no surprise to me.” He hissed, “Oh, You are still offended I didn’t choose to take my place in your bed, first. I’m terribly sorry, I just wasn’t ready!” I said sarcastically. I took Williams hand “Let’s go William, my parents will be happy you stopped by Aaron, I’ll say hi to them for you!”






I smiled and waved goodbye. William led me to the passenger door and opened it for me, I got in, and he slammed the door. Aaron waved and smiled a polite smile, if he thinks I am going to sleep with him, he is insane. We pulled up to my house and stopped the car; William shut off the engine and stared at the night, with an expression on his face I couldn’t understand. “William, what’s wrong?” I asked desperate for his answer. “You’re going to leave me Brook, and go to him.” He whispered with his eyes closed, “NO I wont!” I yelled almost to tears, “You will if you think it will save the pack,”  “William, I love you! I will never got to that leech; his lips will never touch my body as long as I’m with you!” I silently screamed. “And you know I love you, but, the look on your face made it clear to me that you will do what’s best for the pack, even if it involves leaving me.” He said painfully, I took his face in my hands and kissed him earnestly. “William, I will not leave you ever…unless you want me to” I asked questionably, staring at him, worried about his answer. “William, do you want me to go?” I asked quietly, while fighting the tears. ‘No!” he screamed, “Of course not!” I didn’t believe him, I let go of his face and opened the door, got out and abruptly turned around, “I will do it if you want me to, but I love you William, no one else.” I whispered so quietly I wasn’t sure if he heard me, he turned his head, “Brook, don’t leave me.” He closed his eyes again, “Stay with me, please?” he whispered. “Where do you want to go?” I asked, “Anywhere, let’s go someone and never come back, leave the pack behind, leave everyone behind!” he yelled quietly “Leave my family?” I asked and winced. “Oh…” he trailed off; we sat in silence, thinking, and “What now?” I asked casually, “Brook, I don’t think you should go in right now, your dad will know where you are…and what you’ve become, so come back to my place with Ben and Patrick.” He said in a lighter tone. “Sure, but what will my dad tell my mom and brother?” I asked, “call them in the morning and tell them you stayed the night over Angie’s, she lives with me….she’s a vampire.” He said embarrassed. I nodded, a little shocked about his news of Angie being a vampire and all, I got in his car and sharply turned over and pressed my lips to his with such force no one ever thought possible, when I was done kissing him I slowly pulled away and smiled with pleasure. “What was that for?” he asked breathless, “I don’t know, I just felt like doing it.” I smiled and pressed my lips to his a second time but with lighter force and then slowly leaned away. “I feel a desire, to not let go of you ever.” I said, he smiled his heartbreaking smile, “I’m not going anywhere brook, you can hold me till your hearts content. But I will never leave you.” He said, and his voice was sealed with a promise. I let go of him and rested my had up against the seat closing my eyes, dreaming of running, feeling the wind on my face, feeling William running beside me. I thought about last night in the small meadow with him, holding me, kissing my throat, the unthinkable pleasure I felt with him that night will forever be in my mind.









I will never forget his beautiful face, his smile, and his warm hands all over my body, I am forever his. I sighed and opened my eyes, surprised that we were already at his house; hmm…I must have fell asleep. William parked and cut off the engine and looked at me, smiled, and leaned in and kissed my throat. “You can sleep in my bed; I’ll sleep on the couch.” He grunted, “Will, I think we’re past the usual. Can’t we sleep in the same bed?” I asked, “Okay,” he said and smiled, I guess he was just playing it out to see what I’d say. We got out of the car, walking up to the beautiful house hand in hand.

His house was beautiful, light yellow walls with a minty green tint to it, one room was the size of my whole house, and half the room had glass windows all over it, making the moon light give the leather sofas a glow to it. The stairs swirled around a colorful painting, as I looked closer I noticed it was the one painting I saw in the hall way of the second floor of my house. It was filled with bright colors but in the back was a creature about ready to attack someone or something. I looked at William in confusion but didn’t bother to ask. I looked around the house more, noticing simple things like flowers, lots and lots of flowers. “Do you like it?” William asked in my ear, “Yes,” I answered with a smile, I yawned and William chuckled, he lifted me up in his arms and started walking up the stairs. He walked into one of the rooms, and I immediately knew it was his, he laid me down on his bed and removed my shoes once he had both of them off he walked through a door that looked like his closet and pulled out some clothes for me to wear to bed, “Its going to be huge on you, but its all I can do.” He said apologetically “Its fine.” I smiled and began taking off my clothes. Once I was done I slid into the covers and patted the side of the bed next to me, smiling at William, “Are you sure? I’m a rough sleeper.” He chuckled. “I think I can survive.” I giggled. As he crawled in the bed beside me, he took off his shirt. “What is the meaning if this!!?” I laughed, he chuckled ‘I tend t sweat when I sleep, “Oo, sweat is hot.” I giggled. He got under the covers with me and wrapped his arm around my stomach and pulled me closer, I rested my head against his chest and felt his heartbeat. “Your heart is beating fast.” I whispered and smiled, “It always beats fast when I’m with you.” He confessed. I thought about my times with Aaron, remembering every time I touched him, he was so cold, and every time I rested my head against his chest I heard no heartbeat. “William?” “Yes?” he said in a soft murmur “What’s your middle name?” I asked casually, he chuckled “Why so interested?” “I don’t know, just wondering.” I said and giggled. William lifted his head and bent it down to my ear, “Edward.” He whispered and trailed his nose along my cheek, up to my hair line and kissed my forehead. “William Edward Collins” I whispered and laughed, “What’s so funny?” he asked, suspicious but amused, “That has to be the sexiest name I ever heard.” I said shyly but chuckling against his warm chest. “Oh yea? What’s your middle name?” he asked casually like me. “Umm…..I don’t want to tell you.” I said with a grunt, “Hey! That’s not fair I told you my middle name!” he said in a quiet but loud amused voice, “Okay, okay fine, it’s Nicole. Brook Nicole Sanders” I said slowly and quietly, He chuckled once, “No, that is the sexiest name.” “No way! I hate my name.” I said sourly




“Why?” he asked a little shocked. I lifted my head so I was staring at his perfect, beautiful face “It’s just…I don’t know why…..like….Oh I just don’t like it!” I said and giggled, “I love your name and hate my name, and wow I am screwed up.” “Yes you are” he said, “Awe!” I said and hit his stomach playfully, “Oh!” he laughed and jumped a little at my hit, “You got an arm don’t you?” he asked with a smile “Since my conversion I’ve felt stronger, and saner.”  I laughed, he smiled and rubbed my hair, “you have a beautiful name, but it’s not even close to how beautiful you are.” He said quietly and leaned in and gently pressed his lips on my hair, making me shiver, “What?” he asked alarmed “I am so…”I trailed off looking at him, “What’s with the pause?” he asked still anxious “I am so lucky.” I said and grinned, “Well so am I.” he said and became serious, “We have no reason to leave each other, unless you have feelings for someone else, or you don’t have feelings for me.” He whispered and I could tell his thoughts went straight to Aaron, “William, Aaron was just another guy, all those other guys, they didn’t make me feel the way you make me feel….your everything to me, I have no reason to leave you, unless your life was in jeopardy.”I spoke carefully trying to make him understand that there was and would never be anyone else. “Brook don’t you ever; ever risk your life to help me. I can handle myself, how do you think I became pack leader?” he asked in a serious tone, a memory was brought back to me once he asked that “Yea, quick question.” I said, “Shoot.” He replied, “You never did tell me why you kissed me when you told me you were a werewolf…do you mind telling me now?” I asked anxious. He looked at me for a second and then finally spoke, “Brook, I had to know if you were able enough to be my cult, I could smell it in your blood and taste it in your mouth, I was already in-love with you before I did it, which meant that if you weren’t able to be my cult, I would’ve had to choose you or the pack…” He trailed off, staring at me. “Which would you have chosen?”  I whispered, he looked at me and chuckled. “Brook, that is the dumbest question I have ever been asked before.” He said and chuckled again, “Well I know you would’ve chosen your pack, I mean that would be the appropriate choice, your right it was stupid.” I said in a rush trying to hide my sadness, “Brook…” he said and paused, he leaned in and brushed my cheek with his hand, I turned my head around and rested my chin against his chest, staring at him. “I would have chosen you.” He said and smiled, “I would’ve forgotten the law about having to have a cult, and been with you…thy probably would’ve removed me from leadership of the pack, but I wouldn’t care, they could’ve banned me from the pack and I wouldn’t of care, cause I had you.” He said and smiled again while rubbing my cheek with the back of his hand, “You would’ve done all that just for me?” I asked getting angry, “Yes…Brook what’s wrong?” he asked “Why would you do all that?  I’m not worth it! If you really loved me you wouldn’t have left your rightful place as leader, you wouldn’t…would you?” I asked with sadness in my voice. “Brook please don’t get upset! It didn’t happen so, there’s nothing to worry about.” He said with honesty in his voice, I smiled an apology “Sorry Will, it just pains me to see someone giving everything up to be with me. “ I said sadly, knowing he would possibly die. “I love you; you’re mine, which is all that matters now.” He said and chuckled and kissed my hair again. “Sleep now, we got a long day ahead of us tomorrow, us werewolves need our rest.” He said in a quiet tired voice, I yawned and bent my head down under his shoulder and slowly started to drift away into a warm dream in his arms.


   

























                                        Chapter  6



When I opened my eyes it was bright, the curtains must be opened, I felt the side of my bed, wanting to feel his warm skin, when I reached over there, it was empty.  “William?” I asked in alarm, I heard nothing, “William?!” I yelled, the tears were starting to make there selves noticed. I got out of bed and ran out the room, jumped off the stairs and ran in the kitchen, empty, where is he? I screamed in my mind. “The pack” I whispered, I ran up the stairs to Angie’s room and looked for a bag to put my clothes in. when I found one I took off my clothes and stuffed them in the bag, I thought of converting and felt the change, it felt so good! I was stronger now, faster, everything a human isn’t. when the conversion was complete I ran down the stairs and bolted though the door, I ran in the woods trying to remember which way the meadow was, when I picked up a stranger scent, and I ran for it, following it. I ran as fast as my legs could go, jumping over rocks, and tipped over trees, the scent was getting stronger, and I was running faster, when the scent stopped, I did. I sniffed and smelled everything around me trying to pick it up again or find another scent, but got nothing. I howled, hoping I would hear one of my pack members, maybe Ben or Patrick but I heard nothing. I howled again, praying, hoping someone would here me, “I knew you’d follow the scent.” A familiar voice said, I converted back into human and turned around and faced Aaron with a glint of Anger in my eye, “Where is William?” I asked with full authority in my voice, Aaron chuckled.
“I don’t know Brook, but don’t you think it’d be a little hard to kidnap a werewolf?” he asked with a grin, he was right , he didn’t have William, but where was he? As I thought of the possibilities I heard Aaron try to sneak up on me, I flashed behind him and whispered in his ear with a hostile voice, “Don’t even try it.”  He grinned again and was abruptly facing me, “Oh believe me I will.” He put his hand on my shoulder and gently pushed me forward, “Don’t fight it Brook, you know you want to do it.” He said with a gentle whisper, and he leaned in and almost pressed his lips to mine, I pushed back and smacked him, he fell on the floor and touched his cheek while grinning. to my surprise there was blood on his cheek, he wiped some on his finger and put it in his mouth. “I will always love the taste of blood, even if it isn’t human.” He said darkly. I was scared about what was going to happy next, when all the sudden I felt someone behind me, I turned around and was startled by Williams face being so close to me. “William!” I yelled with relief,  I hugged him with passionately, “Where were you?” I asked sadly, “I woke up this morning and you were gone, what happened?” I asked a little annoyed, “Brook it’s ok, the pack needed me, one of Aarons bloodsuckers attacked Patrick.” He said bluntly, “Oh my god, is he okay?” I asked wholeheartedly “Not really, he is pretty messed up.” And that’s when William turned to Aaron and snarled, “Why did you send one of your leeches to kill Patrick?” “I didn’t want to kill him, just teach him a lesson” he said and smiled, showing his white teeth. “What did he do?” I asked confused “He decided to visit my sister, Angie.” Aaron said sharply “It seems as though they have been seeing each other for awhile.” He said and turned his head to me, “If I ever see him near her again, I will kill him.” He said in a warning, “ I will talk to him.” William said with a gentle voice, “but you stay away from Brook.” He said with a snarl, William turned around and grabbed my hand, leaving Aaron behind us. “Why did Patrick sneak off like that to see a vampire?” I asked curiously, “I don’t know, but I’m about to find out.” He said angry, I stopped him and turned him to face me, “William, promise you will wake me up if you have to go somewhere, please?” I asked sadly, “I thought you left me.” I whispered with pain in my voice, he heard the pain and grabbed my face between his hands and kissed me, “ Brook, I told you I’m not going to leave you, I have no reason to.” He said quietly, I smiled slightly and pressed my lips to his. “So…what now?” I asked after we started to walk again, ‘We are going to go see Patrick, and figure out why he snuck out.” He said, with a tone of disapproval in his voice. When we got back to the car, I put my  clothes back on, William watched me the whole time making me giggle, “You get more beautiful every day.” He said and shook his head, I blushed, “I will never ever be more beautiful than you William, its not fair.”I said and smiled at him and he blushed, I stared at him, memorizing his features, black hair, green eyes, tan skin, lips, nose, ears, the way he spikes his hair, everything. “Brook?” he asked staring away from me, I looked up at him “What?” I asked “come here, I want to show you something.” He said with an offhand tone to his voice, I rushed to him worried about what I was going to see. “What is it?” I said in alarm, when I finally met up with him, I looked at his face but he didn’t turn to face me, “Look, I don’t know what your thinking but you better stop thinking it before I lock you up.” He said angrily “What are you talking about?” I asked confused, “Don’t even think I will allow you to go to Aaron, I’m surprised that thought would ever cross your mind.” He said warily, “I haven’t even thought about it Will, I know you wouldn’t let me go even if I wanted to. But I don’t so you don’t even have to think about it.” I said with hostility in my voice, “I’m sorry brook for being so hostile, but I saw him almost kiss you.” He said sadly, “But he didn’t ,” I said still angry “I wouldn’t allow it.” I said and tried to calm myself down. He took my hand and walked me to the car.

Oh great now Will is on my back! As I was sitting in the car, ,I closed my eyes and thought about how William would even think I wanted to go to Aaron. “I don’t know how you could think that?” I said in a whisper, “I don’t love Aaron, he is my enemy, why would I freely give myself up like that?” I said a little angry, “I’m sorry I reacted like that, I would never lock you up, its just the feeling I get whenever I think your thinking of leaving me for that leech. It makes it harder for me to breathe.” He whispered. “William, I swear to you…I will never leave you, ever.” I said and smiled, he looked at me and saw the promise in my eyes then he smiled, “Lets go see Patrick, I want to know how he is.” I said with nothing but concern in my voice. We roamed by trees and houses, I sat there hoping he would say something but it looks like I’m going to have to be the one to break the silence. “So…” I trailed off smiling, “So…what?” he asked and smiled also. “Was that our first fight?” I asked casually, “I think so..” he trailed off, creasing his eye brows. “Fights are good…right?” I asked worried, remembering how Aaron and I never fought….ever. “yea…it keeps the relationship fresh, no secrets….or anything..” he sounded worried, I reached over and grabbed his hand…”William we’re going to fight, we’re both abnormal creatures…its all good.” I said happily and smiled. He grinned slightly and squeezed my hand. I looked out the window trying to imagine my life without William, but just thinking about thinking it makes it amazingly painful. “Have you thought about the other night…in the meadow?” I asked with a glint in my eye. “Yea, I’ve thought about it.” He said casually and smiled a little. “Why do you ask?” I stared at him, embarrassed. “Oh no reason…I’ve been thinking about it too.” I said and smiled with him. “Can you…get pregnant when you’re a werewolf?” I asked shyly, he abruptly turned towards me and his eyes were wide, “What?” he asked shocked “You heard me.” I said quietly.. “I don’t really know Brook,” he finally, looking away from me. “I’ve never gone this far with a girl before.” He said quietly “I cant see how that’s possible, your like the hottest guy I’ve ever seen, and I wouldn’t expect you to…choose me. “ I look out the window and try to hide my face, “Why wouldn’t I choose you?” he asked a little angry, “I don’t know.” I said, wishing I hadn’t said anything. He looked at me for a couple minutes, forgetting the road completely, “Brook, your not like anyone else I’ve ever met, your quiet but very open with people. You don’t trust anyone easily, it took me like 3 hours to convince you that vampires and werewolves existed.” He chuckled. It’s been two days since I’ve been told that, and only one since I converted, how could I act so normal, knowing that humans aren’t the only ones that walk on this earth? I am not a human anymore. “Are you happy with…how things turned out for you?” I asked curious, he looked out the window before he answered, “Do you want to know how I converted?” he asked “I thought you had convert on your 19 birthday?” I asked confused, “Either that, or something has to trigger the conversion around that time.” He said, “I met a girl,” he flashed his face to me and concentrated on seeing something, once he was sure he didn’t see it he continued, “ Rebecca was her name, I had a crush on her since we were in 3rd grade. When we both turned 15, I decided to ask her out as a birthday gift, she was popular and I was too but she didn’t think I was. The day after our birthdays I walked over to her and asked her to dinner and a movie that night and she said no. she said I wasn’t….good for her, that I wasn’t good enough for her, and she walked away.” He said in a grim voice, “I was upset, well mad for the most part, I mean I knew her for six years, and she didn’t even know me. I got home and my parents were fighting about me, my mom was fighting about how I was an embarrassment to her, and my dad was fighting about how messed up I was for not wanting to walk in his shoes. As I sat there listening to them fight, they decided to kick me out .” He said quietly.


I winced and grabbed his hand and squeezed it tightly, “Once I heard that, I ran upstairs and sat on my bed staring at the wall. Out of all the chaos that happened I was infuriated, so I stuffed my back pack with clothes and took the money I kept in a dirty sock under the floor boards, climbed out my window and left.” He said in a regretful voice. I squeezed his hand tighter and closed my eyes trying not to imagine it, I just couldn’t think of how painful it must have been for him. “I stayed in my best friends shed for months, Patrick,” he said and smiled, “kept me under his roof for almost a year, when I finally thought I was prepared enough to leave I said goodbye that night, but I was planning to leave early in the morning, as I laid on the shed floor I thought about all that happened and I was so angry, so upset at how I was treated by my own parents, I felt a quick spasm of pain running up my spine. I rolled on the floor kicking trying to shake it off, but it remained….you know how it happens, so much pain.” He and I winced at the same time, remembering the pain and agony we both felt when we converted. “When Patrick heard my screaming, he ran out to the shed, his parents didn’t know I was staying there, they weren’t there. When Patrick got there the conversion was complete and I was lying on the floor looking at him with nothing but fear in my eyes. He instantly knew it was me, he bent down and touched my snout, rubbing it smoothly.” William’s voice was lighter as he spoke, “You converted four years before your 19th birthday.” I said quietly confused, “When I found the pack, almost 60 years later, they told me that I was suppose to convert on my 19th birthday, when I told them I didn’t , they thought maybe my anger was so strong it triggered the conversion early.” He said making me unconfused “Oh.” I said “After I converted, Patrick helped me out as much as he could, 2 years later…he converted.” William said, “His conversion was easier because he turned 19, when it was complete he ran and found me. When we found the pack, an old wolf named Levi led them. Levi made them work, made them go and kill the old werewolves so he was the only leader, the last werewolf leader. When his men came back with injuries that could not heal when they converted, and told him they failed, Levi slowly cut their heart out. When me and Patrick joined, Levi thought I was special and kept me by his side treating me like a son, Patrick was a soldier to him, Levi sent him on Missions, beat him and tried to kill him.” William winced and looked at the full moon setting out through the horizon, “We stayed with the pack for over thirty years, when I had enough of Levi beating Patrick, I killed him. And that’s how I became leader, the pack looked up to me in everything, they trusted me, and it felt good. Patrick has long been by my side in everything.” He said and smiled, smiled at him in return and then turned to look out the window noticing it was pitch black outside. Perfect time to go running, “When is this war gong to end?” I asked sadly, I wanted to be free, to not have to hide because my ex boyfriend who is a vampire is after me, trying to get me to surrender to his wing. “If I’m a werewolf now, why is Aaron still after me?” I asked finally starting to figure things out, “I don’t know, maybe because he hates the fact that I got you and he don’t, or it could just mean he hates your guts for not having sex with him and now he wants to kill you.” He said and chuckled darkly. “Nice.” I said and winced a little; William smiled and put his arm around my waste, “Its okay, I wont let him touch you.” He said with a promise sealed in his voice, I rested my head against the back of the seat and closed my eyes. When we finally stopped the car, Ben waited faithfully outside; when me and William got out he rushed to his side “Angie is here.” He said in a tight voice, William stiffened at my side and sniffed the air, I sniffed also trying to recognize her scent, Her scent was all around us. “Where is she?” William asked in a hard voice, “She is trying to see Patrick, but they won’t let her in.” Ben said proudly, “She’s got some guts coming here, in our territory.” Williams said calmly, he took my head and we walked in the woods, “Do you think their together?” I asked and cringed, was that allowed? Werewolf and vampire…together, or is it against the pack law?
“Boy I sure hope not.” Ben said worriedly.




































Chapter 7


Patrick’s eyes lit with fear when he saw us walk through the door, “William!” he yelled in fear, and then winced from pain of his right shoulder. He was hurt so bad, his right shoulder covered n bandages, his stomach covered in white cloth but the cloth was stained with blood. His head was covered in blood, you couldn’t even see his tan, soft skin. “Oh Patrick!” I sighed, he smiled slightly and winced again in pain, “How are you Brook?” he asked quietly, “Why are you worrying about me? Look at you…”I shook my head, “You were always the one to get in trouble.” I smiled slightly, I moved over and sat on the side of his bed and took his hand, holding it gently in mine, “Patrick, what happened?” William said a little angry, but his voice was still filled with worry.

“I went to go see someone,” he trailed off, “Angie?” I asked playing stupid, “..Yes.” Patrick sighed in defeat “Why?” William said in a small voice “I love her Will” Patrick said, “What is it with love these days?” Ben exclaimed “How could you love a vampire Patrick? How cold they are and, they kill..” he said suddenly in a harsh voice. Patrick looked at Ben with such anger it made me flinch “Ben you don’t understand her, Angie doesn’t kill anyone she takes what she needs and leaves. She isn’t cold like the rest of them, she is as warm as I am. She loves me, or else she wouldn’t of come here.” He said and I was suddenly aware he was staring straight at me with a pained expression. ‘Well I was in human form when I was walking about 4 miles from Aaron house when some big vampire attacked my right flank leaving me unable to convert.” HE spoke un sure, like something was on his mind that was distracting him, I ignored. It was probably the pain.“Brook, I love her…William,” Patrick abruptly turned his pained expression to William and creased his eye brows “William, If Brook was your enemy, would you leave her?” Patrick had caught William off guard with the question, he looked at me and grinned slightly, “I wouldn’t leave her for a second.” He said quietly, I smiled and looked down, “I understand what it is you speak of, but Angie is Aaron’s sister, he will not just hand her over to you.” William said worried, “ Then I will fight for her.” Patrick said panicky, I turned to him and gazed in his eyes, “You are not alone in this Patrick, Aaron must go anyway, we will help you.” I said in a hard voice, “Are you crazy? Its suicide your walking into!” Ben yelled, “I’m sorry Patrick but I am not going to risk my life to protect the very thing I’m trying to destroy. I won’t do it.”

Ben shook his head and stomped outside, I stalked after him “We’re not trying to destroy the clan, we’re just trying to end the freaking war Ben, now Patrick is trying to help someone he cares about, why is that too difficult to understand?” I asked in a hostile voice, Ben looked at me with shock, “I wont risk my life for a leech,” He yelled, we both turned and saw Angie sitting on a bench about 10 feet from us. I slowly got in Bens face and glared at him with my green eyes, “I cant believe you, You may be a werewolf but your as cold as those bloodsuckers that your supposedly trying to ‘destroy,’ Ben love is probably something you will understand later in your perfect life, but I do know this…you will never learn to understand the concept of love…and you will never love.” I said icily, I turned away from him leaving his shocked gaze behind me, I stomped back in the room, “Brook..” Patrick trailed off “Yes Patrick?” I asked softly “Can you please bring Angie in here?” He asked with so much love in his voice, I stood there for a minute frozen, “s-sure” I stammered and walked out of the room again, Ben was gone but when I peeked over I saw Angie, about to bounce off her seat, staring at me with eyes wide. “Angie.” I said as politely as I could manage, she jumped off her seat and ran to me, “Is he okay?!” she said so quickly I wasn’t even sure that was what she said. “He’s fine.” I assured her, “What happened exactly?” I asked confused “Well, Patrick came to see me and we met at our..place and I didn’t realize Aaron followed me. I don’t know how long he knew about us, but he nearly killed Patrick and almost put me away for life…until I escaped.” She said proudly but yet very strained. “Angie, why didn’t you tell me you and Patrick were together?” I asked disappointed, my question caught her by surprise, “I didn’t think you’d understand” she said sadly, I took her hand and led her to the bench. “I may understand that better than you think.” I said confidently, I turned my head towards the room and smiled, “I love him Angie, William is everything I’ve ever wanted and more. Without him I would have no reason to exist.” I said with slight grin on my lips, “You and William?” she asked dumb founded.

“I thought you said you and him weren’t together, like not even 3 days ago?” she asked still shocked, “3 days ago I wasn’t his cult.” I announced happily, “3 days ago I wasn’t a werewolf either.” I said in a small voice, “Err…what?” she asked shocked, “werewolf?” she asked again “Uh…yeah.” I said confused, “You’re a vampire Angie, you should know this.” I said annoyed, “Oh…” she said saddened by the thought, “Yeah, not anymore.” She said in a low voice, “What are you talking about?” I asked suspiciously, “When a vampire and werewolf are…together like me and Patrick, the vampire slowly turns mortal.” She said slowly ”But how?” I asked a little shocked, “In the written law it states that if a vampire and werewolf were to ever be together then the vampire would slowly turn mortal because they was transformed into a vampire and werewolves convert. When I kiss Patrick, my immortality fades, and I slowly become mortal.” She said sadly, “Is….that what you want?” I asked raising my eye brows in concern, “Oh yes, I would give my soul for Patrick, my life, my world…everything…even my immortality.” She answered with such confidence, “You must really love him.” I whispered gladly, “You have no idea Brook.” She said and giggled while wiping the tear that was escaping her eye. “I’d better take you in there to see him, he might bust a vain in his forehead if he don’t see you soon.” I said and grinned, I took her hand and led her in the room and watched how Patrick’s eyes lit up when he saw her. When she got to the bed, he took her in his arms and kissed her passionately, probably not even remembering me and William were there watching. “Angie, why have you come?” he asked breathless from the kiss, “I had to come and see if you were okay, to see how bad my brother hurt you.” She said with concern in her voice, “You know Aaron will probably hang you from the neck if he knows you’re here?” he asked with one of his eyebrows raised. I know, but I don’t care.” She said suddenly and kissed him on the forehead.  “And anyway I don’t belong to the clan anymore.” She said in a loud angry voice, “What?” Patrick asked a surprised voice, “Its true..” I interrupted them, smiling. “She left the clan to be with you. Patrick she is mortal now.” I said quietly and happily, “Is that what you wanted?” Patrick said turning to Angie, “yes it was Patrick, I give you everything inside me. I am yours for as long as I live.” She said quietly and leaned in to slowly press her lips to his cheek and smiled. I looked away, feeling it was very rude to look at their little moment, I stared at William and smiled with hopeless affection, When he finally noticed me staring at him he looked at me with an expression I didn’t understand, then he finally smiled and slowly leaned in to press his lips to mine. He leaned away and leaned his forehead to mine, and closed his eyes. “I love you.” I whispered, “And I you.” He replied, I smiled and wrapped my arms around his shoulders, resting my forehead against his. I couldn’t stand not being with him, it would kill me to walk away, “I want to be alone with you.”  I whispered quickly, he opened his eyes and looked at me. “Okay.” He turned his head to Patrick and Angie, but they were too busy making out, William grinned and rolled his eyes.


He let go of all of me but one hand and led me to the hall way, when we were finally a good distance away from Patrick and Angie, William slightly pushed me up against the wall and thrust his lips on mine, they were soft but his tongue was hard and rigid against mine. I couldn’t breathe, he rubbed his hands against my hips trying to control himself, I pulled him tighter to me wanting him to be attached to me forever but I knew that wasn’t going to happen. I finally pulled n enough force to part our lips, but right when I did he bent down to my neck, “William slow down.” I said breathless, “We’re in no rush.” I said rigidly, he tightened his grasp on me and I had to push with all my might just to push him far enough so I could breathe, “William…stop it.” I said in a menacing voice, he froze where he was and flashed his head up to mine, “What’s wrong?” he asked breathless just like me, “what’s wrong?”I repeated a little pissed off, “your trying to kill me.” I said a little out of tone, “We don’t have to rush, we have a life time.” I said raising my eyebrows, “actually Brook we don’t, me and the rest of the pack are going to ambush Aaron 3 days from now in Riving Dale.” He said quietly while turning away from me, “What? “ I asked while trying to unscramble my thoughts.

“could you say that again? I didn’t quite hear you.” I said quietly and slowly, “We’re going to end this Brook, we’re going to end the war. “ he said trying to make it less confusing. “And when did you plan on telling me this?” I asked angrily, he took a deep breath “I wasn’t going to.” He said firmly, “And just why not?” I asked getting in his face, “I am just as much apart of this pack as you are, I have every right to know.” I said feeling the tears build up inside, “How could you not tell me?” I said quietly, I felt like I was going to collapse, my knees were buckling, when my legs couldn’t take anymore weight I was slowly falling to the ground when I felt William’s arms around my waste holding me up. “because I don’t want you to come with me.” He said quietly, “Too bad.” I said regaining my strength, “Brook you are not coming with us.” He said in a firm voice, if he thinks that’s all its going o take he’s crazy. “Want to bet?” I said icily, making him loosen his hold around my waste, “I don’t understand how you couldn’t tell me, I am the same thing you are, I am as strong and as fast as you, and anyway I want to be there to help you kill Aaron.”  I said happily, and I knew he knew I wasn’t going to stay while he left and fought my battle too. “Brook we will not discuss this anymore, but you know who is going to win it.” He said and pursed his lips, I made him release me completely and I turned and walked away, if he thinks he is going to seduce me again like he did the other night he’s truly insane. “Where are you going?” he asked with a small but shocked voice, I turned around to face him and looked him in the eyes, “ I’m not in the mood anymore.” I said and smiled a sly and very wicked smile, he looked at me in narrowed eyes and finally shrugged, “Okay.” He said and smiled, he walked passed me, slightly hitting my shoulder with his arm while passing.


Okay so that didn’t work out as good as I planned, “Wait William,” I turned around and grabbed his shoulder and turned him around slowly, “I love you, and the only reason I reacted that way was because I just couldn’t bear the thought of you leaving me to go fight alone, when I know I could help.” I said and  bent my head down. He grinned a little and grabbed both my hands, he held them firmly in his and looked at them, studying them. “Brook its okay I can handle myself, and I wont be alone, my pack will be there every step of the way, Ben and Patrick will be there with me. But you wont, your staying here with Angie.” He said and smiled again, “How will Patrick be there when he is hurt?” I asked with curiosity in my voice, “Us werewolves heal fast.” He leaned in and pressed his lips to mine and leaned away. “I will never forget the smell of your breath when I kiss you.” He said and smiled, holy crap that’s exactly what Aaron said to me before I left Dalton. I leaned away and looked at him with wide eyes, he stiffened and held his breath, “What’s wrong?” he asked anxious, “What did you just say?” I leaned farther away, parting our hands “I said I will never forget the smell of your breath when I kiss you?” he said confused, I backed up against a wall and felt my eyes wide in shock, “You were there…when me and Aaron…” I covered my mouth, “Brook calm down…yes of course I was there, when you left me and Aaron fought….again.” he walked towards me and cupped my face in between his hands.


“why didn’t you tell me that?” I asked with anger in my voice, did he not trust me or something? “ because I thought it would be awkward if you knew I was following…well stalking you.” He said “Why would you say that though?” I asked “You should know I still have..” I stopped abruptly and froze, William sensed what just happened, “You still have feelings for Aaron don’t you?” he asked in a whisper, “No…I mean, of course not!” I yelled, he backed away shocked and closed his eyes, “How could you?! He kills, he almost killed Patrick!” he yelled, I ran to him and grabbed his shoulders tightly, “William I don’t! how manytimes do I have to tell you I don’t like that bloodsucker!?” I yelled trying to make him understand that it was true, I didn’t love Aaron anymore, he is mad. “Brook I think you need to think about who is more important cause if you don’t, your going to go through hell in the future cause your still confused.” He said, I froze where I stood and just stared in his eyes, feeling the tears slowly crippling down my cheek. “William I know who I love more, its you. And Aaron is…just nothing to me, why cant you get that?” I trailed off in a whisper, “ Will…you should know I don’t love that bloodsucker.” I whispered in such a small voice I wasn’t sure if he heard me. He glared at me and growled deeply, “I’ll give you more time to think..” then he abruptly turned around and walked away. I just stood there frozen, confused, alone pissed off. I cant believe he doesn’t believe, how could he even take the truth and turn it into an abrupt lie like that. I walked over to the wall again and slid down it, then just sat there on the heels of my feet thinking about what had just happened. About 10 minutes past when I noticed Ben walking down the hall, it looked like he was looking for me. When he saw me then he walked a little faster than usual towards me,  “Brook are you okay?” he asked anxious, “No Ben I’m not, he left me because he believes I still love Aaron, when I never loved him in the first place!” I trailed off still staring down, “William?” he asked shocked but confused, he leaned down and scooped me up in his arms, and yet I don’t know why. “Yep..” I whispered, “Well that’s just plain stupid, he should know better than to make assumptions like that..” Ben said angrily, he swung me around in his arms and laid my head against his chest and carried me to the room Patrick and Angie were in. when he walked through the door with me in his arms Patrick and Angie jumped. “What’s wrong with her?” Patrick said in an Anxious and Worried voice, “William made assumptions again.” Ben said in a loud voice, laying me by Patrick, Patrick put his arm around my head and held me close, “Brook its okay..its going to be fine.” He said in a comforting voice, it didn’t work, I still felt entirely pissed off. “Keep her here, I’m going to have a little chat with William.” Ben said with a narrowed expression, “You?” Patrick asked shocked, he laughed a little “I cant see how that’s possible, you knowing how to fix this.” He said and shook his head, “Hey I may not be in love, but when I see the ones I care about hurt…I do something about it.” He said angrily. I was quite surprised when Ben said that he cared about me, after what I said to him in the hall,  Ben leaned in and touched the side of my face with his palm “Ben please don’t, its really not that bad, he’ll forgive me someday..wont he?” I said in a monotone voice, Ben backed away slowly and walked out of the room fast.  “Angie, get Brook a blanket.” Patrick said, Angie walked out to fetch the blanket, “Brook, its okay.” Patrick said and leaned in and kissed my cheek gently. I was so cold and yet so mad. I couldn’t breathe and I was slowly losing my consciousness when Angie walked in and slid a blanket around me. My eyes were drooping when I finally calmed down, and then I slowly drifted away into a deep sleep in Patrick’s warm arms.





















Chapter 8

(This is Ben’s chapter people, if you don’t like it then screw you!)

I  walked around sniffing the air, trying to find Williams scent. When I did I quickened my pace and thought about what I was going to say, I walked about 300 yards when I found William sitting on a bench staring at the wall, he looked about as pissed off  as Brook did when I found her. I walked towards him trying to calm myself, but when I finally got close enough to speak to him, I lost all control and picked him up and slammed him into a wall, I felt my hand twist up into a fist and I punched William straight in the mouth, when he figured out who I was he twisted around and pinned me up against the wall and punched me, then he strained my arms and made it to where I could move them. “What the hell are you doing Ben?”  William yelled. “How could you hurt her like that?” I said in a loud hostile voice, “She loves you!” I yelled even louder, “No she doesn’t, cause if she did she would want to be with Aaron again!” William said and threw me to the ground, I turned around and faced him on the floor, “She doesn’t love Aaron, if she did why is she still here with you?.  William you need to think before you make such rational decisions, she loves you…but what you did to her…damn Will! I don’t think she’ll ever trust you again after this.”  I exclaimed, William stared at me shocked frozen. “The only reason Brook is still with me is because she is confused on who she wants to be with…” William said, I took his shoulders, “William if she was confused on who she wanted the most then why did she run with you, and when I mean run with her I mean something else entirely?” I said, “And if you don’t know what I’m talking about then you are a dumbass!” I said and chuckled. William looked at me and his eyes widened in shock, “How do you know about that?” He said a little angry I rolled my eyes, “Oh Will, the entire pack knows so just cut the bull*bunny* and answer my question.” I said, William looked at me and smiled, “She loves me, she chose me and I’m about to be stupid and lose her. Not happening!” he said and hugged me.

“She’s gone Ben!” Angie said abruptly appearing behind William, “What?” me and William said at the same time, “She left, I tried to stop her, but dumbass over here made her angry. My guess is she went to Aaron, or home.” Angie said quickly, William turned around and stared at me, his eyes were wide and frightened, I’ve never seen him like this. William ran, “William wait! You cant go to Aaron! He’ll kill you!” Angie screamed, I ran after him and when I caught up to him I tackled him and dragged him to the wall, “William wait! Think about what your doing before you make a big mistake!” I yelled harshly, “I don’t care! This is my doing, I made her leave like that.” He whispered quickly, I let go of him and backed away, “What ever you do, I’m with you.” I said with confidence, well I spoke with confidence but I sure as hell didn’t feel it. William is stupid. William nodded and turned his head to Angie “You go back to Patrick and stay there.” He ordered, “Don’t tell him what’s going on, or he’ll try to strain himself just to help.” William said so fast his lips weren’t even moving, He turned to me, “Ben can you go to Brooks house to see if she’s there, if she isn’t call me.” William said fast, once he was finished he ran down the hall faster than he ever has before.





I ran down the street faster then I ever thought possible, looking every where. I ran towards her house and jumped on the front porch, before I knocked on the door I looked at the sky, it was fairly dark maybe at the most nine o’clock in the evening, I knocked quick and hard, hoping no praying someone would answer. The door opened and a little boy appeared, I’m guessing this is her little squirt of a brother Jake “Jake is Brook home?” I asked fast trying to calm my voice down as to not frighten the poor kid, “No, she hasn’t been here for 2 days, do you know where she is?” he asked in a small light voice, “She stayed over her friends house and hung out with me and William last night, we’re studying for the final next week.” I lied quickly hoping he’d buy it, he did. “Oh okay” he said and smiled, “thanks kid” I said and rubbed his head with my hair, I backed away three steps and then turned around taking the phone out of my pocket and surfed through my contacts, it rang once, “Ben” William said fast, “Is she there?” he asked in a tight voice, “No.” I said angrily, where could she possibly be? There is no place other then Aarons, “did you check Aarons?” I asked quickly as to try and quicken the conversation, “Yes, her scent is no where, there is no trace of her there nor at her house, if she isn’t at neither of those places then where the hell is she?” William said frustrated, “Wait…” William paused for a second, “I think I know where she is, I’ll call back in 15 minutes, go back to Patrick and Angie and ask them if they have any idea where she is. I’m going to check somewhere real fast…where we…” he trailed off, I chuckled at his pause, “Okay.” I said, I’ll wait.




(This is Williams point of view now!)

I clicked the end button on the phone, a million thoughts in my head, I ran in the direction where the pack meets. I ran faster than I did before praying she was there, how could I do that to her? I thought. She didn’t deserve it, she loves me…she doesn’t love Aaron she cant love him cause, just like Ben said, if she did love him then she wouldn’t still be here with me. “Brook I love you, don’t you dare do anything.” I whispered fast, hoping by some miracle she would hear my plea, I got to the meadow and ran across it back in the woods, running the opposite direction I came, I smelled her, her hair and skin it was all around. “Brook!?” I yelled rationally , quickening my feet, running faster. I found the trail me and her followed on our first run, where I finally got to have her, feel her soft lips on mine, feel her for the first time. God only if she knew how much I loved her, it would take the world and everyone in it to ever part us again, I followed the trail until it lead into the small meadow we stopped for rest when we were done running, the streams leading all around the meadow, making a gentle sound with the wind blowing through the flowers. I found her, Brook was sitting on the same spot we laid that night, her back turned towards me.

(Brook’s Point of view again!)

I sat there, my eyes were closed, trying to calm myself down again. “Okay, lets go through it again” I whispered to myself, I heard something on the left of me, but I ignored it , what’s the point? Nothing could hurt me anyway. I opened my eyes and stared straight ahead trying to block everything out, I heard another sound behind me but ignored it as well. Then I suddenly felt a presence behind me, barely 3 feet away. I stiffened up and tried to concentrate a little on the presence, when I got a hold of the scent my heart sent flutters up my spine. “William…” I whispered, I heard a familiar chuckle and I giggled as well, “Yes Brook..” He spoke. “What do you want?” I said a tad annoyed. I looked at him and all my anger suddenly disappeared, he believes me. This must be a dream never in a million years would I have believed that William could believe me. William chuckled in relief








Okay this isn’t a dream, I couldn’t of made this up so quickly, his lips were warm on my forehead and I could feeling his breathing, “But tell me this,” he continued, “Before I just went crazy, what were you going to say something about ‘you should know I still…’ and then you stopped short…what were you going to say so we can clear up the confusion?” he asked casually acting like he didn’t care but I knew his mind was filled with nothing but Aaron, “I said you should know I still carry memories with Aaron, no matter if I don’t care for him anymore, those memories are scarred in my head forever William. But don’t fear okay? I love you and no one else, as I told you before.” I said persisted, I lifted my head and pecked his lips slightly with mine and smiled, I got to my feet ad he helped me of course being a gentlemen, “Brook, I am truly sorry I hurt you.” William said with nothing but regret in his voice, “If it weren’t for Ben I still would’ve been blind.” “Ben?” I asked shocked, I grabbed William’s shoulder tightly to balance myself, I’m clumsier than usual. “Yes, he told me everything, about you and me about how he knew we loved each other. That boy may not have a girlfriend but he sure does know a lot about like….couples…its freaky.” He said and grinned, “So are we…?” I trailed off worried about his answer, “Brook I told you, I love you and that means yes.” His grin grew wider, he leaned in and roughly pressed his lips to mine, I wrapped my arms around his neck and he picked me up off the ground, it felt so good to be in his arms again. “Bravo..” I heard some clapping behind me, I opened my eyes and William was staring at someone or something behind me, I let go of William and he put me down, I turned around and found Aaron staring at us, “How long were you standing there?” I wondered, “Oh for awhile, before your precious hero was here.” Aaron smiled leaving me frozen where I stood, he was watching me the whole time!
“What do you want this time?” I asked annoyed, “Oh the same, just I’m going to go about it a different way. Angie, my sister, is with your filthy brother Patrick and I want her back.” Aaron glared at William and then turned his icy glare to me, making William snarl, “Well I’m sorry Aaron but Angie chose to stay with Patrick, I’m not going to force her to leave when she doesn’t want to.” I said happily, I really didn’t care about Aaron right now, I was just thrilled the one I can’t live without is standing beside me. “Then I guess we’ll have to settle this now then.” Aaron bent his head down and stared in my eyes, Aaron was changing, he turned paler and his eyes were turning black, and his posture changed into like an attack mode or something. “What do you suppose we do?” I asked kindly, “I fight you, William stays out, if I pin you down you come with me, if you pin me down Angie can stay with you, and you can remain with your dog as well.” Aaron offered, I thought about it, but it was going to be literally impossible to fight Aaron with William there, I turned to William and cupped his face in my hands, “Will you respect the rules and let me fight him?” I asked doubtfully, Will’s eyes narrowed and he stared at me like I was a moron, “I don’t know what do you think brook?” he asked in a mocking tone, I figured that.

“William I can take him, but you can’t get involved or he’ll win both me and Angie.” I said worried, please William please just go along with me just this once! “ I am not going to let him touch you or Angie Brook, I swear it.” William vowed, I rolled my eyes and turned to Aaron “I accept your challenge.” I announced, William stiffened behind me and he grabbed my wrist tightly, “Fantastic!” Aaron exclaimed excitedly, I let go of Williams hand and stepped forward to Aaron, but William was still holding on to my wrist, I didn’t turn around to see his expression, I didn’t have time. “William let go.” I instructed as kindly as I could mange, “No I told you I’m not letting you near him.” he said in a growl, “William I will be fine, stop treating me like I am a child, I can handle myself I am a werewolf you know.” I said and snarled, he was really pissing me off. About 5 seconds passed when I realized he wasn’t going to let go, so I forcefully jerked my wrist out of his hand. “Fighting are we?” Aaron hissed and smiled, showing pearl white teeth, his two front teeth were pointy and sharp. “Just being over protective as usual.” I said loudly and grinned, I started to remove my shirt when I realized Aaron was watching my every move, I smiled a wicked smiled and turned around, instead of him seeing everything out in the open, he could only see my *bunny* now. “Damn it.” I heard him say, I giggled while removing my bra, William watched me with a fearful expression on his face. “Please don’t do this Brook, there’s always another way.” He said quietly, I smiled at him, “I am going to end this William.” I thought about fighting and I felt the change almost instantly, my skin changed to fur and my arms changed to legs, when the conversion was complete I turned to face Aaron, he watched me in amazement. “Truly Beautiful brook, but can you fight?” he asked and chuckled. Let’s end this! I lunged forward trying to get a hold of his throat, but damn he was fast! He simply took one step to the side and I missed him, he ran forward and grabbed my leg jerking it out of place, I quickly flashed around to his neck and moaned from pain but it didn’t stop me, I got a hold of it, ripping it out of socket, when I noticed it didn’t hurt him he was still chewing on my leg, he twisted around and sunk his teeth in the pit of my stomach, I howled from agony and slowly began to lose strength, I was bending down in defeat when something caught Aarons attention, he released my stomach and looked to the north. About 7 werewolves were running towards us, I stole a quick look at William, but he wasn’t there, I looked around but he was no where to be seen. I panicked. Aaron hauled *bunny* down the meadow, when he finally reached the trees the pack was already catching up to him. I groaned over the pain but I tried to ignore it cause I was looking for William, but I couldn’t find him! I couldn’t breathe, did he leave me again? I tried to call out his name but I couldn’t talk cause I wasn’t human at the time, so I built up enough strength, I got on my feet and raised my snout to the sky. I howled his name so loudly I was sure my parents could hear it. I didn’t hear him, I converted into human slowly and painfully, “William!?” I screamed again, numb from all the pain, “Brook!” I heard someone say, but it wasn’t William, it was Ben.




I cringed in pain, “Ben! Where is William?” I asked praying Ben knew, “He went after Aaron, but we lost him. Stupid bloodsucker is faster than us. He asked me to come get you, he needed to have a word with the pack.” Ben walked forward and grabbed my clothes; he turned around and threw them on me “get dressed.” He ordered, I obediently started putting my clothes back on. When I got my panties on Ben bent down and stared in my eyes, “So how are you?” he asked softly, “I’m good Ben, well other than the pain, but good all the same.” I said and smiled, I leaned in, “Thank you for what you did.” I whispered against his cheek. , he smiled and pulled away. “Hurry up, I got to talk to William about Angie, I think she is….” He trailed off watching all around him as to make sure no vampires popped out and screamed BOO! I got my shirt buttoned up and I tried to get to my feet when I stumbled back down, looks like my leg hasn’t fully healed yet. Ben rolled his eyes and bent down to scoop me up in his arms, “I am perfectly capable of walking.” I complained, “Then why aren’t you?” he asked and grinned; I rolled my eyes and rested my head against Ben’s chest and closed my eyes.


Chapter 9


I opened my eyes and we were at the meadow with the pack, Ben was still holding me while listening intently to what William was saying, “Brook just tried to kill Aaron, and it didn’t work, it seems as though he has gotten stronger. From what? I don’t know, but we need to surprise him tomorrow where him and Brook fought, this may seem simple to you but trust me, it isn’t. when I was walking around Aarons place I counted 12 vampires on the outside of his house alone,  who knows how many more are inside.” William spoke with so much authority in his voice I was speechless. I poked Bens shirt collar and he looked down and smiled, I tried to get out of his arms when he sat me down below him, right when Ben moved Williams eyes flashed over to us and found my eyes, he stared at me in disapproval, this is going to be hard. “Excuse me for a moment.” William said hard while he was still staring at me, he walked to me and gripped me forearm so hard it hurt, “Ouch!” I yelped, he dragged me till we weren’t in hearing range of the rest of the pack. “Brook I cant believe you would deliberately fight Aaron after I asked you not to.” He said harshly, I just looked at him with a speculated look in my eye, “Everyone has to have their chance William, Me fighting Aaron was mine, it was my choice to fight him. I guess I was insane to think I could end all this *bunny* that’s happening. I lost William, so I have to go to him, it was our deal. “I said softly, “No,” he chuckled, “Your not going anywhere Brook, your staying here with me and the pack. End of discussion.” He said hard, he stared me down and turned his back to me, he grabbed my forearm again and dragged me back to the pack, “I’m sorry for the wait, brook seems to think she needs to be loyal and honest to our enemy.” He chuckled, everyone stared at me in disapproval, “How could you make such an agreement to that bloodsucker?” someone asked in the back, “Now the war has broken out and we cant delay any longer, we must attack at dawn.” Someone else said harshly, I cringed in embarrassment and hid my body behind William, he forced me to stand beside him, I looked up at him in a pained expression, why is he doing this to me?

“No, you must accept the consequences of your actions.” William said harshly, I forced him to let go of my arm, I turned my back to him and started walking fast to the end of the meadow, towards a rock. I heard footsteps behind me and I quickened my pace, cause I didn’t want to talk to William right now, he is hurting me again. “Brook stop.” Patrick’s voice made me sigh in relief, I turned around and looked at Patrick with a  dull numb expression on my face, he looked at me for a fraction of a second and then abruptly pulled me in his arms, I buried my face in his shoulder letting a few tears escape. “Brook why did you do it?” he asked, “Why did you accept the challenge Aaron offered you?” he asked a little pained, “I thought maybe I could end this and prove to William I was strong enough to fight.” I said through my tears and sniffled, he pulled tighter to him and I looked up at him, “What’s wrong with him? why is he treating me this way?” I asked still crying, he looked at me and rubbed my face with the palm of his hand, “He is angry at the fact that you, after he deliberately asked you not to, fought Aaron and almost got yourself killed.” He said softly, I giggled a little, “your such a good friend Patrick….wait…where is Angie?” I asked confused, “She is back at my place, I don’t think the Pack would approve if I brought a vampire to the meeting.” He laughed, I hugged him tighter and rested my head against his chest, ignoring the foot steps I heard coming towards us, “Patrick, William wants to chat with you.” Ben said happily, I smiled at Patrick and backed off, he smiled in return and than turned around heading for William, “Watch her Ben, she’s pretty upset.” I heard him whisper to Ben, I smiled and put my head down, I cant believe, even now, I have such good friends. “Brook, you really need to talk to William, maybe ya’ll can fix some things.” Ben said with nothing but concern in his voice, “No Ben, if he wants to talk to me than he can walk his *bunny* over hear, I’m done trying to fix things with him. If he loves me like he says he does, he’ll do everything in his power to get me to forgive him.” I said icily, I turned away from Ben and sat on a rock, I heard him chuckled and turn around, when I heard nothing more, I closed my eyes and laid my head on the edge of the boulder I was laying on, trying not to imagine William’s face….

I woke up in a dark room, there was a light shining on me, a very bright one, I tried to move but my hands were tied behind my back and I was on my knees, I turned around and my legs were tied as well. “Brook you shouldn’t of  come here with your precious William, now you will have to watch him suffer.” I heard an evil voice say in the darkness, “William?” I mumbled confused, “Brook!” I heard his voice, he was in the darkness, his voice sounded so strained and pained. “William where are you?” I mumbled loudly, right when I asked that a white light flashed in front of me, showing me where he was. William was right in front of me tide up, his hands were hung in front of him holding him up off the ground, his legs tide behind him holding him almost upside down. “William!” I screamed, my voice was coming back and I knew something bad was coming along with it, “Brook, I’m so sorry!” he yelled, someone chuckled behind me, I felt a sharp spasm of pain on my skull, like someone was cutting through my hair. “Love, such a beautiful thing….to end.” Aaron laughed, “Aaron what do you want!?” I screamed, please William please don’t leave me! “You should know what I want.” He said softly, Aaron bent down in front of me and touched the edge of my face with his cheek, I smiled at him, “Okay Aaron, I will love you.” I said happily, “But only if you release William.” I said trying to bargain with him, maybe William can make it out of here alive. “!Oh Brook! Your crazy Williams torture is only beginning.” when he said that he got up off his knees and walked over to a table grabbing a small knife, he walked towards William and tore off his shirt, William just looked at me with nothing but fear in his eyes. Aaron dug the knife through William’s stomach and blood gushed out, William screamed. “William! Aaron stop it! Stop!” I screamed with tears in my eyes, I looked down but the man in back of me grabbed my hair and pulled my head back, forcing me to watch. “Brook I love you.” William whispered, anguished from the pain, “And I you.” I whispered back, Aaron chuckled and lifted the small knife up to William’s neck, I watch horrified as Aaron slowly put pressure on the knife, which began to cut through Williams skin, Aaron dug the knife in slowly moving it across Williams neck, I cried, “Aaron stop!” I Screamed, “WILLIAM!!!” I screamed again…..


“William!” I screamed and jumped up, Brook what’s wrong?!” Williams voice was in my ear, he was startled, I turned around, I found his face, his beautiful face, “William!” I whispered and put my arms around his neck and pulled his body to mine with all my might, he pulled me to him even tighter and started kissing my neck. I noticed we were in a car and we were in the back seat and I was laying on Williams lap, I must have been sleeping…
“William.” I said and I remembered how Aaron sliced his stomach open, I went still for a second and pulled away from William, I ripped Williams shirt over and was so scared his stomach would be bloodied and cut, I ran my hands across his firm stomach thanking god it wasn’t cut open. “okay, Brook calm down.” William said in my ear, he covered his stomach up with his shirt I’d torn and pulled me in his arms again, “You died…you died and it was my fault.” I whispered starting to cry, “Brook, I am alive and I am right hear holding you in my arms. Don’t worry about it…you had a bad dream that’s all.” He chuckled and pressed his lips to my forehead. “I love you William, please don’t leave me again.” I whispered pulling him tighter to me. “I’m not going anywhere, I promise.” He said, and I could not help but feel embarrassed for crying. I blushed and buried my face in his chest, “Aren’t you mad at me?” I asked quietly, not wanting to start an argument, “I was…until I realized why you did it. Brook I understand why, but you shouldn’t of done it, I almost died watching you fight him.” He whispered against my neck, tickling me with his breath.


“I am so sorry Will, I will not do that to you again.” I said, “I promise.” He looked at me and smiled, “Where are we going?” I asked, I looked at the front seat and saw Ben and Patrick minding their business, Ben was driving and Patrick was rambling on about Angie, “We’re going to pick up Angie and go back to my house so we can start planning how we’re going to surprise Aaron tomorrow.” William said, I looked at him “We?” I narrowed my eyes, he chuckled, “You are strong Brook, I’m going to give you a break and let you stand with us when we surprise Aaron.” He said, I was so happy, not only will I be able to fight with the pack but I will also be able to stand beside William and help him kill Aaron. “Yay!” I said and kissed his cheek, he smiled and leaned in to press his lips to mine, I pulled tightly to him, letting him hold me close, hoping we would never fight again.

“How about if we send brook up and let them think she is surrendering to Aaron, and we all attack when he thinks he’s won?” Ben suggested, William chuckled and shook his head, “That probably would work, but there is no way in hell I am letting Aaron near Brook. I almost lost her twice from him, its not going to happen again.” He said, we’ve been at this for hours, “Didn’t someone mention going to the old ones for help?” I asked casually to sound bored with the subject, William’s eyes went wide. “We will never go to the old ones for help, they started the war with the law why should we beg for their help?” he asked angrily, “We don’t have to beg, just go up there and ask them, If they try anything weird or try to bargain with us, we forget about it.” I said, William seemed to be considering it but his eyes looked wrong. “I guess we can, Angie has to stay here though.” William said, shrugging, “Okay.” Angie said, happy this situation is finally over, “Where are they?” I asked happy also, William, Ben and Patrick exchanged glances for a second, “Well alec, lives in Dalton county, where you use to live. You would have to convince your parents to let you go down there, considering it is spring break it should be fairly easy to convince them to let you go.” Ben said, I looked at William and smiled, “whose all going?” I asked, “I’m going to stay here with Angie, make sure she is safe.” Patrick said shrugging. “As much as I would love to go and piss Alec off again, I still owe him my life’s servitude and more, so I think I am going to lay off and stay here.” Ben said and chuckled, I tried to look upset about them not coming but I couldn’t be more thrilled then to be able to be with William alone for 2 days. “Brook are you sure you want to do this?” William looked at me, I looked at each of the faces; Ben, Patrick, Angie, and William.


Everyone stared at me, “of course.” I smiled at everyone and got on my feet, “I need to go home, my family is going to get worried about me.” I said and started walking past William when he grabbed my hand, “I don’t think you should go home yet Brook, if you do you risk your family’s safety.” William said and smiled, Jake, my little brother, suddenly popped in my head. His adorable face filled my mind, and I wanted nothing more than to keep him and my parents safe, but if I didn’t go home soon to let my parents know I’m okay than their going to get suspicious about William and me. “I thought you said Aaron wouldn’t expose himself to any humans?” I asked alarmed, “He wont, but he might use them as another threat. I’ll send 3 of my most trusted pack members to watch them.” William smiled, I looked at each face again and then finally settled my eyes on the floor. “William I want to go home and see my brother for at least an hour.” I said and frowned, he looked at me for a long period of time and then finally spoke,” Okay, but I stay with you. If we can we will leave tomorrow, we will.” William said, “I’ll talk to my parents, even thought they have no control over what I do, I do turn 19 tomorrow.” I frowned at the reminder, why must their be a war on my birthday? William chuckled, “There isn’t going to be a war tomorrow, we will see the old ones tomorrow and possibly Monday is when the war will break out, looks like Gabe will have to choose sides.” William said and grinned, “Gabe? Who is Gabe?” Ben asked confused, we all stared at him for a moment, millions of thoughts running through our heads, “Gabe was the one who was trying to claim pack leader that one night 40 years ago, but I cut him slack cause he was really screwed up in the head, he started crying after I backed away from him. He went off to Aaron the day after the fight.” William said disgusted, Ben’s face was bent in confusion but sudden awareness lit his eyes. “Oh! The one who tried to seduce Jessie but got his *bunny* kicked? Yea I remember him.” Ben chuckled, everyone around him smiled except me and they all got up at once, William took my hand and led me outside while Patrick got an apple and Angie simultaneously chattered to him, Ben was dialing a number on his cell phone when he noticed I was staring at him. he looked up and met my eyes and then smiled, I never got to fully thank him for what he did, he opened William’s stubborn eyes and helped me get through the very short…thing..me and William had. If you ask me, Ben isn’t half bad.



We turned on my street and saw nothing out of the ordinary, it was about 4 in the afternoon and oh my god I haven’t taken a shower in three days! “I am so taking I shower when I get home, you can stay down and watch Jake. My parents are at work so…you wont be bothered..hopefully.” I said and giggled, I just couldn’t imagine William and Jake alone in the same room, it’s going to be hilarious, “Hurry up okay? I really don’t want to spend too time with your precious brother, he might hurt me.” William said and chucked, he drove the car up near the garage door and shut off the engine, “Brook, we can only stay for about an hour then we have to leave, you nor I want to risk Jake’s safety. So we need to get in and out. Oh and you need to write a note to your parents saying you’ve gone to Dalton County with me to say hi to some old friends.” William instructed, I smiled and opened my door and stepped out into the warm breeze. William walked around the car and grabbed my hand, I smiled and started walking up my sidewalk sniffing the air, alert and ready for anything that might happen. Nothing smells of vampire or anything else, so we were okay…for now. We walked on the porch when I smelled something burning, it was coming from inside the house.

I jerked the door open and ran to the kitchen, Jake was by the stove bent down, I let of Williams hand and jogged around the countertop, Jake stood there bent down trying to take some burnt brownies out of the oven, “Jake! You ding dong!” I said and quickly grabbed the mittens hanging on the cab net door by the oven and helped Jake take the brownies out of the oven. “What? I was trying to bake brownies and I accidently got caught up in Bioshock, that’s a freaky game…looked I have goose bumps “ Jake smiled at me and turned over to get a good look at William, “So you’re the guy she has spent 3 days with?” Jakes eyes narrowed, William smiled and lifted his hand for the small bratty boy to shake, Jake took the hand and squeezed it tightly, “Firm grip boy, yes I am the guy, names William and yours is Jake.” William released jakes hand and turned to me, “Brook, you need to hurry up, get your shower done and your bags packed, we have to leave unless than an hour.” William instructed, I nodded and turned to Jake, “Jake can you do something for me? Can you please tell dad and mom I went to Dalton county to see some friends?” I asked hoping Jake was willing to help me out. “Yea sure….is that what your doing?” he asked suspicious, I smiled at him “Yes Jake that’s exactly what I’m doing.” William chuckled, “So while your sister is getting ready you want to show me how to play this Bioshock game you’ve been working on?” He asked hopeful, Jake’s eyes lit up “Sure! Lets go!” Jake started running for the living room, happy someone was finally interested in him and his video games, “Be gentle to him Will, he’s only 11 years old.” I said in warning and got closer to Williams face, trying to seduce him. “Oh don’t worry Brook, I’ve had experience with children.” William bent his face down to mine and stared in my eyes, I smiled and leaned in to press my lips to his softly. He put his arms around my waste and pulled me tighter to him, I twisted my fingers in his hair and crushed my body to his. He pulled away slightly and finally released our lips, “You shock me with your kissing expertise every time I kiss you, its so not fair.” William complained, I bent my head back in laughter. “Sorry Will, your just going to have to get use to it.” I backed away from him releasing his hand and started for the stairs when I felt his stare boring into my back, I stopped and turned around, “Will get your *bunny*  in there and hang with my brother!” I said in a loud and amused voice, Will laughed, “Yes ma’am!” he said and started for the living room.




Chapter 10



The shower was hot on my skin, but it felt so good. It relaxed my muscles, forcing me to like stop and take a breather of relief. I wrapped a towel around my body and grabbed my dirty clothes and opened the bathroom door, I started walking towards my bedroom when I noticed there was no sound coming from the living room. I dropped my clothes, I turned around and headed towards the stairs, walking faster than normal. I almost tripped a couple times but I made it down the stairs unscathed, I jogged to the living and almost tripped cause of my wet feet. I walked in the room and started looking around the room alarmed, I hopped over to the couch and sighed in relief when I found William with Jake under his arm sleeping. It was the most adorable thing I ever saw. I smiled and leaned in and pressed my lips to Williams forehead and then tilted my head to kiss Jake’s forehead as well. I bent back and looked at them for about 4 more seconds and than I turned around and headed back upstairs to my room.

I closed and locked the door to my room and took the towel from my body, I wiped all over myself trying to dry off. Might as well dress good, I thought. I put on a short pair of tan khaki shorts with a light aqua blue top on that fit very close to my chest, it had cute little buttons in the top center and it flared out when it passed the very bottom of my chest, under it I wore a white tank top that fit even closer to my body than the blue shirt, both shirts were fairly long but that’s how it was suppose to fit. I ran the blow dryer through my wet hair and combed it  until it was perfectly straight. I turned around in the mirror and noticed the tag from my shirt was hanging out, I lifted my hands over my head and grabbed the tag twisting it around so I could see what the store’s name was cause I forgot where I got this shirt. Hollister. Very weird name if you ask me, I put on a little bit of powder on my face and eye liner making my dark green eyes look brighter. When I was finally playing dress up, I know sad! I bent down and found my old cheerleader bag under my bed, it was huge , I am positive this bag can carry like a year supply of clothes. I grabbed clothes from my dresser and shoes from my closet, when I picked up my navy blue flip flops I slipped them on my feet, they were the only shoes who matched my outfit. When I was sure I had everything I needed to spend 3 days in Dalton County with William.


I zipped up my bag and started  for the door, I walked out and closed the door behind me. I slowly walked down the stairs and in the living room taking my time. William and Jake were still sleeping, so I put my bag down on the lazy boy in front of the TV and headed for the kitchen to get a bite to eat. I opened the fridgerator door and scanned for something good to eat, when I finally figured out we had nothing I just bent down and picked up a green apple. I closed the fridge and walked over and hopped on the countertop while happily eating my apple, I chewed slowly, taking my sweet time. I looked at my thighs and noticed they were smaller, all this running is making me lose weight. Not fair! I’m already small enough! I frowned and looked at the apple. I’m going to have to eat more than this. I heard a chuckle behind me and I turned my head around, when I realized it was Jake I smiled at him, “What’s up kid?” I asked pleasantly, he just looked at me, “Brook why are you with William?”he asked suddenly, I was a little shocked by the question but I answered as truthfully as I could manage, “Cause I care about him and he cares about me.” I said with concern, he looked at me and smiled “I guess that’s a good enough reason.” He walked over to where I sat and tried to hop up on the counter beside me, he wasn’t tall enough yet. I giggled and bent down to help him up, when he finally got up there we sat there in silence, he watched me eat my apple and I watched him watch me. This was getting annoying. “Do you love him?” he blurted out, I stared at him completely shocked. I sat there, silent, thinking of an answer. “Jake, that’s not something we will ever discuss.” I said firmly, he stared at me and smile, amused. “Just answer the question Brook.” He said amused, I stared at him annoyed, he is really going to make me answer this. I might as well answer truthfully, “Yes Jake I do.” I said proudly, he smiled and closed his eyes, I was kind of freaked out over our conversation but once I heard noise behind me I turned around abruptly and saw William leaning against the side of the door.


“How long have you been standing there?” I asked suspiciously, “Oh awhile…Jake can you give me and your sister a minute.” He said and smiled down at Jake. “Sure love birds.” He said and grinned, he hopped down from the counter and started running in the living room, William walked to me and stopped really close to me. He grabbed my thighs and spread them apart, he put them around him but I was still on the counter, He rubbed my legs, “Your skin is so soft and warm.” He whispered, I pulled myself close to him and started rubbing his arm softly, “so is yours.” I said quietly and smiled, he leaned his head in and settled his cheek on the side of my neck, listening my pulse quicken. I giggled over his stillness and he chuckled, “you are truly the most beautiful girl I have ever laid eyes on.” He whispered, raising his head to my face. “And you are the most beautiful guy also, I could not be more happy right now.” I said softly, he smiled his heartbreaking smiled and kissed my cheek, “That color blue looks wonderful with your skin.” He said touching my aqua blue top, I shivered cause of his compliment and smiled. I pushed him back a little and hopped down from the counter bumping into him accidently, he steadied me and then suddenly pulled me to his chest. I wrapped my arms under his and hugged tightly. He pulled me away and smiled again, his smile was so beautiful.


“Are you ready to go?” he looked me up and down and grinned widely, I rolled my eyes and got closer to him. “Not quite.” I whispered, he put his arms around my waste and nudged my bag so it would fall on the floor, when it did I was able to stretch my arms out around his shoulders. We rocked back and forth like we were dancing, he pulled me closer to his body and I rested my chin on his shoulder and closed my eyes. It felt like time had stopped, like everything in the world had frozen except me and him. he rested his cheek against my hair, and I smiled, after awhile passed, William pulled away from me and slightly pressed his lips to mine and then slowly pulled away again, “ Are you ready now?” he asked and chuckled, “yea.” I said and giggled. He grabbed my bag and took my hand, we both headed for the front door, “Oh wait! I almost forgot, Jake!” I yelled for him, Jake jogged in the kitchen and stood in front of me and William. “Will you please tell mom and dad where I’ve gone?” I asked hopeful, “Yes I already said I would.” He said and smiled, I got closer and hugged him tightly, “Miss ya kid.” I said and grinned, I let go of him and turned around and slowly walked out the door with William beside me.

“Are we really leaving now?” I asked as we walked to his car, “Might as well, Patrick and Ben told the pack we have to wait before we attack Aaron and his clan. Ben said they argued but he calmed them down, so we have to get back as soon as possible or their going to disobey my orders.” William said in a hard rushed voice. I didn’t want to miss the fight, god I would be so pissed if that happened and the whole pack would know it too.

The drive was going to be at least be 6 hours long but I had too much on my mind to sleep so I casually looked out the window and hoped time would possibly go by faster. “How come I’ve never seen Ben at school?” I asked suddenly, William looked at me and smiled, he must be pleased I’m starting a conversation…finally. “He quit school when he was thirteen because his mom got sick. He took care of her until he turned 17 and the day after his birthday she died, He hid from us for 2 years and that’s when he converted, He came to us almost dead.” Williams Pained expression made me shiver. How could the pack disobey Will? It would be a deadly attempt to even think of doing that.  I continued looking out the window trying to picture me and William in a hotel room alone.  When I finally got a good picture, I closed my eyes and fell asleep with the thought of William breathing against my neck. “Brook, you can not speak when we are with Xavier do you understand?” He asked with such nervousness in his voice, “Why? What will he do?” I whispered still staring out the window. “I really don’t think I should tell you that.” I abruptly looked at William and my eyebrows creased in worry, Xavier must be like the leader’s assistant or something and he must be a real *bunny* in battle.

I woke up and instantly realized where we were, Abernathy. I went to Elementary School here, The kids were stuck up. We were less than 30 minutes from Dalton and we were less than 1 hour from meeting the werewolves who started the war with their book of Law. “Do not speak to Israel either, everything anyone ever says he takes very personal so…you know what, just don’t speak at all but if you are asked a question from one of them please answer it as loyal as you can manage. They think they control every pack, like we’re their children and if you piss them off they will get angry with us and probably take control of my rightful place as leader.” Williams voice had a hard edge to its voice, How could anybody want to replace William as leader? He was an amazing pack leader. I bent my head back and stared at the car ceiling, I thought about fighting tomorrow and what it was going to be like. The blood and gore, the dead laying on the ground, how many pack members are we going to lose because of this war? How many families will lose their wife or husband or son because of this war? Its maddening!


We finally made it into Dalton and I had o many thoughts in my head I was shocked it kept quiet this long. William pulled onto a dirt road and stopped the car, “Where are we?” I asked as I rubbed my eyes, “We are about 14.6 miles away from your house, and we are less than 9 miles away from the coven. Are you ready?” He asked while getting out of his car, I shut the door and walked around the front of the car and just stared at him. “Why wouldn’t I be ready to go see old werewolves?” I asked, amused. William gave me a dark look of annoyance and finally his dark expression cleared out into a polite smile, “Yea, you wont think their old when you see them. Werewolves aren’t like Vampires, they don’t age at all, but we age very very slowly. If 20 years go by for you, then you’ve pretty much only aged 1 year.” William explained, I looked into the trees and tried to imagine a 600 year old werewolf who still looks like a super model, “How come all werewolves and Vampires are so….beautiful?” I cringed from embarrassment and smiled. He chuckled and looked at me resentfully, “I only see one beautiful creature in my pack.” He whispered and rubbed my arm, I blushed of course and playfully scowled, “So do I, and it sure as hell aint me.” I noted.







































Chapter 11


We walked through thick ferns and briers, I got tons of scratches on my leg. Finally, after what seemed like forever, the forest cleared out into a beautiful pasture and from a very long distance I could see a stunning house by a lake, It was the biggest house I’ve ever seen.  When we were about 10 steps away from walking up the walkway William stopped and started scraping all the sticks and dirt off his shirt, He tucked in his shirt and straightened his hair a little, forming it into a disarray. “What are you doing?” I asked annoyed, “The coven expects us to dress casually, it shows respect to the elders. Last time I showed up without my shirt tucked in and *bunny* they lashed me 19 times.” William cringed at the memory brought up, I took his hand “is that the long scar on your back?” I asked with worry in my voice, he looked at me and smiled. “No, that was before I converted, my father got a little angry some days.” I covered my mouth in horror and squeezed his hand tightly. How could any parent hurt their child? I find it very unreal how someone could do that to their own kid. I quickly chased that from my mind and looked down at what I wore, I took my free hand and started scraping the leaves out of my hair and then pulled my shorts down so they weren’t so…short. William saw me fixing myself up and then he took my other hand, “You don’t need to fix anything about you Brook, you look perfect.” He said and smiled. I blushed again and looked down,  I hated it when he said I looked perfect and beautiful cause I know I am neither of those things.

I turned to the house and slowly walked up the steps to the front door, William was lagging behind, he obviously didn’t like coming here…at all. I turned my head to him and smiled an encouraging smile and pulled our hands, pulling him towards me. He jerked forward and got in front of me, our hands still held together, and knocked on the door.  The door opened and a little girl with blonde hair and aqua green eyes stood there staring up at us, she barely looked 6 years old, she smile “Please come in William and…” She gestured her hand to me and waited for me to answer, “Err..Brook.” I stammered feeling like an utter idiot. She smiled politely and moved out of the door way for us. We walked slowly inside and I could feel Williams Hands shaking, he must really not like it here. The little girl walked in front of us with such graceful strides I couldn’t take my eyes off her, but when I finally did I noticed what room we were in. it was beautiful of course, dark wooden floors with dark maroon walls, there were large dark paintings all on one wall. One caught my attention immediately, it was the same painting I had in my house. It was of a beautiful pasture but right in the middle of it, it showed a creature with a hunched back and one paw in front of the other, off the ground, about ready to attack. I stared at it for a moment in amazement and finally realized it was a werewolf.

William nudged my arm and I looked forward walking again, we walked into another large beautiful room and once again I was breathless. All the walls were covered in books, there were so many books I started to feel a little woozy of all the shock. William chuckled nervously and nudged my arm again, I must of stopped again. I walked forward and realized the little girl was gone, I looked for her around the room, but she was no where to be seen. I heard the  door open in front of me so I turned around, once I saw who was walking through it I gasped for air. There were 4 big men walking towards us, strikingly beautiful. The one on the right had bronze colored hair with pitch black eyes, he was extremely tall, maybe about 2 inches taller than the others. The one in the left middle had dark dirty blonde hair with light aqua eyes like the little girl, they could pass as father and daughter or brother and sister they looked so much alike. the right middle had light, almost white, blonde hair with maroon eyes and really tan skin. And the one on the far right shocked me, he looked exactly like William, they could pass for twins! And they were muscular, they were probably stronger than William because they looked it.


They all smiled politely but their eyes were rude when they stared at us. The one that had dirty blonde hair looked at the little girl and his polite smiled turned down into a frown, “Alyssa, go upstairs.” He ordered with hostility in his voice, I scowled at him without him looking, but out of the corner of his eye I thought I saw him look at me and scowl back. “What a pleasant surprise to see you here William…” someone said, I was still looking at beach boy when William nudged my elbow making me flinch. “Who is this strikingly beautiful lady you have here?” I finally looked back at everyone and I noticed they were all staring at me up and down, I looked at all of them and tried to smile. All of the men smiled and looked me up and down again like I was something to eat. Williams hand tightened around mine and smiled, but his smile was tight. “Xavier, so nice to see you again…Alex, Cedric, Israel.” William bowed his head slightly to each of them but kept his yes on the one called Xavier. They all bowed their heads also but they didn’t take their eyes off me, “This is Brook Sanders…My Cult.” William said in a harsh voice, letting them know to not get any ideas about me.


They all flashed their eyes to Xavier for a mere second but Xavier kept his eyes on me, his eyes were harsh but sneaky. I didn’t like that look, it frightened me. “We came here to speak to Luke, is he available?” William tried to lighten his tone, I looked up at him and he looked straight ahead, his eyes were tight and his mouth was in a grim line. Xavier looked at the four boys and nodded once, then all three boys looked at me for the last time and then turned around and walked away, “We come here for help and peace Xavier, no threat is upon us.” William said this in the lightest tone he could manage, I could tell he was trying to be nice to Xavier. Xavier looked at him for a long minute, trying to see if any lie was in his eyes. When he finally saw nothing, he smiled a polite smile again and gestured his hand towards William to shake, “Truce?” Xavier called, William looked at him hesitantly but shook Xavier’s hand and smiled. They both sighed, “Come…I will show you to Luke, But I would watch myself, He is not in the best of moods.” Xavier gestured his hand to the doors and walked forward and opened them. We walked forward and I felt release, from William, by my side. I smiled and tightened my hand around his, I could tell from the corner of my eye he was smiling too. We walked up some stairs and down a long dark hallway that looked old. When we finally walked down the hallway we came across two big double doors, Xavier opened them and waited for us to walk through them, when we did I saw a young man sitting behind a desk in a black leather chair. This must be Luke. He was beautiful just like everyone I’ve seen today in this mansion, His eyes were topaz and his hair was black, He was crystal white, but his skin looked frail and withered. I wanted to touch it so bad, it yearned in my body to touch his skin, to see if it felt like crumbled paper. He looked at us for a long time and than smiled at me, “Who is new in my presence?” he looked over at William and raised his eyebrows, waiting for an answer. “Sir Luke,  you should already know who this is,” William gestured his hand towards me “We have been looking for her for over 600 years.” William’s tone was a tad hard but still appropriate. Luke looked at him and nodded, we all sat in silence for the longest time. Waiting for someone to speak, I started kicking my left foot back and forth, “She is not it, you brought me the wrong one William.” Luke’s expression turned hostile, Williams face turned horrified and he looked like he was feeling dizzy. I grabbed his waste and tried to support some of his weight, God he was heavy! “What do you mean I brought the wrong one?! Brook is it, We have waited for her to come and make my pack strong enough to destroy the clan,  considering my pack is the only one who is fighting this damn war you started!” Williams voice was defiant and he took a couple steps forward towards Luke, His tone was filled with rage, about to explode. “Do NOT use that tone of voice with me William, remember who your talking to!” Luke’s voice was louder and harsher than Williams, he clearly knew how to take control of an argument. William backed away a couple steps, then he smiled slightly, obviously trying to calm the situation. “Sir Luke,” I blushed while talking to him, “What do you mean, I am not the one?” I looked straight at him, and he could smell the fear in my eyes. He smiled and looked at William then flashed his eyes to me, “You are apart of the prophecy but you are not the one to complete it.” I took Williams hand and tried to sooth him by rubbing my thumb across the back of his palm. “Aaron tried to change you did he not?” Luke looked over at me and grimaced, he obviously doesn’t enjoy talking about conversion.


“Yes sir, Twice he tried. If it weren’t for William I would be Aaron’s dog.” I said hard trying to keep my tone light. “Yes well, it is good he was there then.” Luke was all the sudden occupied with Williams expression. William looked at me and I could see the unbearable pain in his eyes, “If Brook is not the one, who is?” He tried his hardest to keep his tone light, but he slipped a little on the last part. “He will be exactly 6.4 miles out of Abernathy tomorrow at noon, his name is Daniel Beckom, he will be the one to make your pack stronger.” Luke had this look in his eye like he wasn’t looking forward to telling us something. “But there is a catch,” The instant after Luke spoke William went stiff and his eyes were rigid. I hated things like this. “In order for the war to end in victory, You dearest lady friend must make her bed with this Daniel and become his cult, once she and him are bound he will be named leader of your pack.” I couldn’t breathe, I bent over grabbing my knees for support. William had to support half my weight, I turned around fast and looked at William, His eyes were filled with tears and he looked like he was about to implode. I took his face in my hands and rested my forehead against his trying to calm him down. “NO.” William’s voice was filled with so much hostility I almost lost all my self control over the situation. Even as much as I loved William, if I had to be with this Daniel, to save the pack, I would. It would be unbearable to leave the core of my existence behind while I hold a strangers hand, but if that is the sacrifice I would have to make than I would make my bed for the last time beside William, tonight. “How can I intercept it?!” William rushed up the stairs to the large chair which stood at the end of the room, William grabbed Luke’s shirt and almost picked him up off the ground. Luke’s ‘bodyguards’ moved forward and was about to spring to William and pull him of their master.“You cant. It is the path you chose when you destroyed Levi, I am sorry brother.” Luke’s voice burned with sincerity, Tears ran down my cheek and I slowly dropped to my knees. My whole future shifted, like a boulder slammed into my heart and broke it, now all I have are little pieces to give to William…before I left him. “No…” William whispered with so much pain my tears started coming faster. “I am truly sorry for having to be the one to tell you this, but I’d rather it be me than any other man.” Luke’s eyes were turning a tad red, William backed off almost tripping off the steps, “You are no man, you’re a monster! You have caused this war with your law, I will lose everything for your choices. You are no man’s brother.” William was no longer the man I knew, he was different…..evil. I ran to him and grabbed his hand, I slowly tugged on it and he jerked his way out of it.

“There has to be a way to intercept it, there always is!” William beamed, his eyes started to glow a blackish tint, it was terrifying. I looked at his back for a minute and than slowly turned and walked out of the room. But before I exited the room I turned around to Luke and bowed my head slightly, than I turned and, as I gracefully as I could manage, strode out of the room. I closed my eyes and wiped the tears, trying to stop the crying all together. It hurt to see William like that, his hostile expression will be imbedded in my memory for years to come.  I walked into the room with all the beautiful pale paintings, but I just walked on through without even a pause. I was at the front door when I suddenly heard small footsteps, I smiled and turned around looking for Williams face. I sighed and frowned when I saw the little girl called Alyssa  but I quickly removed the frown and replaced it with a genuine smile. “Hi.” She said and giggled, I smiled widely trying to be as nice and normal as possible, “Hi.” Was all I could say, we stared at each other and she could tell I was about to lose it. “You know he’s not going to give you up right?” She said suddenly, my mouth flung open and my eyes went wide, “How do you know?” I whispered, feeling the tears build up inside. “Cause he is still fighting…he is trying to find a way to where he doesn’t have to lose you. But there is no other way, your William will either accept the path he has chosen…or die trying to prevent it.” Alyssa looked at me as I broke apart, I couldn’t bear the thought of not hearing Williams heartbeat again, to not be able to feel his warm breath against my neck. I would not live long enough to bear it. “I must go, tell William I will wait for him tonight at my house. It is still deserted so we are going to stay there. Please?” I asked with a small, tight smile. Alyssa smiled in return and nodded, then she turned and started skipping back up the stairs while humming an unfamiliar tune.













Chapter 12

( Williams point of view)

“Please Luke…” I pleaded, “You must tell me how to prevent this. Brook is everything to me, if this Daniel takes her, he kills everything inside me. I cant bear the thought of losing her, I would not live long enough to bear it.” I fell to my knees, finally releasing the mans shirt. I put my face in my hands and bent down and pressed my head to the stone floor. “There is one way…but you must still give her away for a certain amount of time.” Luke bent down and put his hand on my head, trying to comfort me, ‘Oh Luke, please tell me!” I yelled quietly, feeling the tears creeping down my cheeks, “They must bind, and he must stake a claim. But once we claim victory, the new moon will rise…the full eclipse of glory. Once it does, you must drive a stake through this Daniels heart and separate the head from the body. Only then will you claim your Brook again, Only then will you be named the true leader once again.” Luke’s voice sounded like it was regretting every word he let out of his mouth, I suddenly felt like my lungs were intact again, like no one had knocked the breath out of me. I sighed and lifted my head, I grabbed Luke’s hand and kissed it. “Thank you Luke, I will not lose her over your war.” I said harshly, I got up off the ground and slowly bowed to Luke. I turned and headed for the exit, “William?” Luke called, I turned and faced him. “The choices you made in the past reflect now, But the choices you make now reflect the future. Remember that when your fighting the one you’ve waited for for almost 600 years, I think it might help your decision a little easier.” Luke chuckled, “I don’t even have to think this over Luke, Its just the matter of my speed.” I said and bent my head down hiding everything but a wicked grin and my horror eyes. I turned around again and quickly paced out the door.


(Brook is taking over now)
I sat on the floor in a corner and rocked back and forth. This is the last night I will be with William, He better not screw this up! I tensed when I heard the front door close, I straightened more properly on the floor and wiped the wet globs of mascara off my eyes. “Brook?” an unfamiliar voice called, I stiffened and tried to be as calm as I could manage. It wasn’t working out so well. “Brook I know you’re here, I can hear your breathing.” The strange voice said, I stopped breathing but I sniffed the air trying to recognize who’s scent it was. The scent was salty and sour, making my nose crinkle. It was a vampire. I got up quietly and backed slowly into the kitchen, when I was sure I was safe in back of a counter I sniffed the air and listened for any sort of sound that would cause me to jump or run. “Brook its me…Aaron.” The strange voice said, It couldn’t be Aaron! That is not his scent, that is not his voice. Its impossible. Then I felt a strange sense of relief, I rose from the counter and faced the intruder…It was Aaron! I jumped over the counter and wrapped my arms around him fiercely tight. He wasn’t expecting that, but he happily wrapped his hands around me and hugged back just as tightly. “Brook what has gotten into you? Hugging vampires!” he chuckled, I lifted my head to his face and breathed in. why was I so happy to see him? he is my enemy for crying out loud! “Sorry…” I said and tried to back away, Aaron wouldn’t unloosen his grip. “No no, its fine just stay where you are. The warmth of your skin is beyond pleasurable.” Aaron whispered in my ear, I smiled at him and closed my eyes while resting my head against his cold stone chest. Then I felt a slight twinge of stinging on the side of my neck but I didn’t think nothing of it, probably a bug.“I’m not the one Aaron, I wasn’t the one to make the prophecy complete.” I said with a tear streaming down my face, Aaron froze, “You aren’t the one? If you aren’t than who is?” His voice was rushed, as if this vital information would save his clan from extinction. Oh wait, it would! I pulled away and backed at least 5 foot from him, “Aaron you should know I can’t tell you that. You’re my enemy, I don’t even know what I am doing hugging you, you’re a vampire I am a werewolf, do you see the problem?” I asked a little coldly, Aaron chuckled, “Brook, I don’t care about it, I want a truce. Tell your William I surrender, there’s no point in fighting if there isn’t nothing to fight for.” I froze once he spoke those words. It made no sense! After decades of fighting Aaron just now wants to give up? No Aaron doesn’t give in that easily, I would know, I dated him for almost 3 years. There’s something up, but I thought I should play along for Williams sake. I need to start acting like a werewolf, not a….human. “Okay, I think William will be glad to hear it.” I said back in a whisper, Aaron chuckled and then suddenly whipped his head around the room and sniffed the air. “Where is your William anyway?” He asked surprisingly, “Uh..um…He is on his way here, he went to see someone.” I said quickly trying to find my way out of the conversation, “Who?” Aaron asked with curious eyes. I backed 3 more large steps away from him, “I..uh..don’t know.” I stared behind him, hoping and praying to see Williams face. No hope, he didn’t show. Seconds ticked by and I grew more and more impatient. Where the hell is William?


“Brook…do you honestly think that even though you aren’t the actual one to make my clan strong enough to destroy your dog’s pack, that I still don’t want you?” Aarons vicious voice echoed in the silence. I stood there thinking of some way to get out of here alive, He already beat me once, I just cant convert and kick his *bunny*. It doesn’t work that way. I turned my head and faced my kitchen window,  He is going to win this time, if we have to fight. “Oh…The last fight, you belong to me don’t you? And so does Angie, my sister.” Aarons eyes gleamed with excitement, now he knows. *bunny*! William! Where are you? I screamed in my head. Then when I turned my head around to face Aaron again, William was walking slowly behind him. Oh my god yes! “What a pleasant surprise Aaron, I didn’t know you’d show up.” Williams voice held something in it I couldn’t identify. what was wrong with him? “Just dropping by to get my prize.” Aaron announced, “You will not touch her Aaron, I already told you that before. Now why don’t you head on, I need to speak to my cult alone.” Williams eyes burst into anger, I could practically hear the venom in his voice. Aaron chuckled and turned around to face him, “I will have her, as I said before. She will be mine…very soon.” Aaron’s voice made me shiver. Aaron stalked out of the room.


Once Aaron disappeared around the corner William crossed the room and took me in his arms and crushed me to his chest, “Brook I am so sorry, that was so stupid of me to let you leave like that. I will never leave you alone again! I swear it!” He shouted quietly, I tried to fight back the tears that were building me in my chest. How could I leave him? How could I walk away from him? there is no way I could love someone else, I would never want anyone else but him.



“So…” I trailed off, thinking of something  to say. “So…what?” He asked with a speculated look on his face, how could he be so blind? “What about this Daniel?” I asked with a cautious tone in my voice. William’s entire face changed from a painful expression to hostile in 1.4 of a seconds. “I don’t know, we will find him but I will not allow the prophecy to come true. I swear it.” He vowed, I nodded and laid my head against his chest and he crushed me harder.

“Well, why am I not surprised to find ya’ll doing gooey *bunny* while I was gone?” Ben’s  voice was suddenly behind us, I jumped, startled and got out of Williams arms to go hug Ben.  “Ben!” I exclaimed, he chuckled and embraced me happily but cautiously, for William’s sake I was guessing. “Hey kid, what’s up?” He asked politely, which was odd cause Ben was never polite to me. “Nothing..” I trailed off wanting to know what he was doing. “The same?” he guessed, “yea..” I said cautiously again making sure nothing was up his sleeve. “Will, did you find out what your suppose to do?” Ben suddenly looked to will, who was staring out the back of the window like he was in a different world, he turned to us and his eyes were tight but I could see in them for miles and miles of blackness. “Yes, we have to find someone by the name of Daniel Beckon, he and Brook…”  He trailed off and stuttered, something was seriously wrong with him. “William don’t you dare say that!” Ben shouted furiously, “I will not let you do that!” He shouted even louder, “I didn’t even have it in my mind Ben!” William’s voice was strained like something was in his throat, it sounded painful.


Ben and William stared at each other for the longest time and finally both took very deep breaths, “Sorry Ben…it was very prudent of me to act like that towards you.” William’s smile was careful and his eyes were like ice. “It’s fine William, I know your in a real tough situation right now. I hope you do know that we still have to find Daniel right?” Ben’s eyes gleamed with sadness. Then something popped in my mind right after he spoke, “William?” I asked, I stared out the back window, I didn’t realize my voice was rough until William was at my side, cupping my face in his hands, “Brook what’s wrong?” I giggled a little and closed my eyes, resting my face in his hands. “Nothing..I was just wondering…Why won’t Aaron fight you?” My question caught him off guard but he chuckled and kissed my cheek quickly. “Cause he knows I’ll kick his *bunny*.” He said darkly, Ben chuckled beside him and I looked down, “Then why don’t he just make a truce with us and be done with it, if he knows he is going to lose?” I was so confused right now!  “Brooke sweetie, He wont make a truce because if he does, he will be replaced as leader of the clan..” “ Your only as strong as your weakest link.” Ben interrupted him and they both smiled. “Oh..” I trailed off thinking of vampires fighting their only leader, I have to admit, that would be one hell of a fight. “Okay, I am starving! Can we please get something to eat William? And then we will focus on finding Daniel.” Ben’s stomach growled as he spoke and he smiled pleasantly at me. “Sure, sure. But first I need to fix the car.” William spoke embarrassed. “What did you do to the car?” Me and Ben spoke at the same time, “Well…I sort of…get pissed on the way here and I ran it into a ditch.” William looked down and chuckled, “You what?!” I shouted. “Brook its okay!  Holy god calm down, its fine. Me and Ben can get it out of there in no time, that’s one advantage werewolves have, strength.” Ben chuckled at Williams words but I just looked down.  Idiots. “Okay, okay fine.” I grunted and looked out the window. “Brook are you okay? You look kind of green.” Ben commented and grabbed my arm, William wrapped his arm securely around my waste as if I was going to collapse right this second. “William…” I whispered hesitantly feeling a sudden cold spike rush down my spine.


I opened my eyes, everything was blurry. “William..” I whispered trying to look for his face. “I’m here baby, don’t worry  everything is going to be fine.” His voice was pained as if I died, What’s going on?  I opened my eyes wider trying to clear the blurriness. “William…what’s wrong?” I whispered roughly, “Brook sweetie,” Ben was on the left of me holding my arm as to make sure William wont drop me, “Brook your heart is failing, we have to get to the clearing so Harold can help you. Do you remember anything? Did anyone hurt you while I was away?” His eyes were dark, “No,…the only person…I saw…was Aaron…and you..and Ben…” I managed to choke out before a sharp pain made me gasp.


William froze, Ben hesitated and then was hovering over me like he was about to dodge a bullet. “William what is it?” He hissed under his breath, William just stared ahead like someone had just tasered him. “William!” Ben shouted quietly. William’s eyes shifted to his and then down at mine, He stared into mine for over 3 minutes when I gasped, “William!” I screamed, feeling another sharp spasm of pain rush down my spine. He tightened his hold on me and started running for Ben’s car. I was fading again, feeling blackness over power me, “Brook sweetie hang on!” William ran faster, “William give her to me! You drive!” William unwillingly passed me over to Ben and Ben slid me in the back of the car while resting my head against his legs, “William!” I screamed, William turned on the car and skidded out of the driveway. My eyes slid shut and I let out a loud gasp when I suddenly felt a sharp pain going around my skull, “Brook?” Ben asked, “William I would hurry your *bunny* up, she is going under! What the hell is wrong with her?!” He screamed, William skidded to a halt and turned his face to Ben’s, “Bite her…” He hissed, “What?! Your crazy!” Ben screamed, “Listen Ben, She is dying…Aaron bit her! You need to bite her! Too much venom is in her blood and it is spreading too quickly, its making her heart fail, Bite her!” William shouted back icily, Ben just stared at him like someone had just shocked him. “William…” I whispered, falling under the blackness, about to lose his face. William took me from Ben’s arms and laid me in his lap in the front seat, “Brook sweetie I need you to hold on. Please just hold on!” He whispered rational, I leaned my head back in his hand and slowly closed my eyes, trying to fight the darkness that over powered me. “Ben drive!”


William lifted my head and cleared the hair from my throat, touched my throat as if feeling my pulse. He rubbed my left cheek with the palm of his hand and whispered, “Brook this is going to hurt a little but it will pass soon, please just hold on baby..I am going to help you.” He whispered, I faintly smiled and then opened my eyes to let him know I was ready. William bent down and kissed my cheek and then moved to my throat for 1.8 of a second, then I felt a sharp pain at the base of my throat as if a fire just lit up inside and was burning out of my throat. I bared my teethed down and
Tried to concentrate on something else other than the boiling heat rising up in my lungs as William’s teeth dug in my skin. “William..” I slurred, feeling it come on me like a shadow.
I lift my hand and try to touch his cheek as he pulled away from me “I’m here Brook, your going to be fine. I love you.” He whispered and smiled. I tried to smile but I was too numb, and I bent my head back to let the shadow cover me. The last thing I saw was the overpowering moon sweep across my face like the halo of an angel.














Chapter 13


The dry feeling in my throat felt like fire, burnt with such a fire as if it didn’t even exist. But I didn’t concentrate on this burning feeling, all I concentrated on searching for his face; where was William? Wouldn’t he be right by my side waiting for me to wake up? I tried to open my eyes but my body wouldn’t follow my thoughts directions. I just lied there, waiting for someone to notice I’m alive. I feel different, like I was in more control of my body, my thoughts, but I was terrified to open my eyes; I didn’t know what to expect, who was alive, if William still…loved me, if I had changed. I need to open my eyes, I told myself, I need to let them know I’m okay, I creased my eyebrows and put all my thoughts on opening my eyes; and in one small movement, which didn’t even seem like a mille second, I opened my eyes.

The room was dark and I was laying on a bed with dark blue quilt covering my whole body except my neck and head. The walls were a peachy color and there were dark curtains shadowing the light from outside. How long had I been out?
I turned my head to the side and looked for William, when I didn’t see him anywhere I started to panic “William..?” I whispered, but my voice had no sound at all. I need water. I slowly got up as to make sure that my entire body was in tacked, when I was sure, I slid out of my bed and started walking towards the door when I saw a mirror at the left side of the large room.  I slowly walked over to it and mentally prepared myself for whatever reflection that mirror was about to bring. I took a deep breath and stepped in front of it; My hair was turned all into a disarray all on one side of my face, my eyes were a crimson red and my body was a perfect slim shape, it looked so graceful as though when I walked I practically danced. I gasped when I stared at my eyes again; knowing they didn’t fit this perfect body or perfect face. I cleared my throat, “William?” I said as clearly as I could manage; and this beautiful thrill of a sound, like chimes, escaped my lips. “William?!” I screamed louder; but the voice was still flawless. Then I twisted my head around to the door and crouched down in a defensive position; I heard faint footsteps and I instantly bared my teeth, ready for anything. The door creaked open and a familiar face peaked in the room searching for something, me?

“Brook?” A familiar voice asked. The door creaked in  and Ben appeared, staring right at me with wide eyes, Ben crossed the room in slow careful steps and raised his hands up, “Brook honey its fine, I‘m not going to hurt you, William is outside waiting for you.” He said in a soft murmur, I crouched down farther and snarled. What was wrong with me? I feel so different inside, like I am numb, like everything inside me was dead. Then vivid memories flashed in my head of Aaron, his arms around me, William’s kiss, everything that brought everything into sense. “William?” I squeaked, but the voice I was expecting was not what I got, it was still the beautiful serene voice I heard not even 10 seconds ago.  “Brook,..” Ben trailed off, he raised his hands higher as to caution me, to let me know he wasn’t going to hurt me. Ben was safe. “Ben!” I shouted and threw myself at him, he wrapped his arms around my waste and squeezed tightly, “Brook honey its going to be okay, we’re going to help you get through this.” His voice was stranded, as if I died. Wait… “Ben, what are you talking about? I feel fine.” I said and my voice sent a thrill down my spine. “Brook you need to see William, I just cant tell you what happened, its too painful.” Ben whispered against my neck, I squeezed tighter, “Ow! Brook let go!” Ben exclaimed quietly, and I instantly released my grip. “What Ben?” I asked and crouched down against the wall again. “Brook your strong.” Ben said while rubbing his chest with both of his hands, Ben shook his head and turned to the door. “Are you coming or not?” He demanded, I rolled my eyes and started for the door.


We walked down the halls of Williams house and finally got out to the back yard where the pack and William sat arguing, “We need to kill her! She is an abomination!” Someone shouted, “No!” William shouted with a voice full of authority, “You will not touch her.” He said darkly, the guy who said that cringed back into the crowd of angry werewolves. We came into view and Williams eyes flashed up to us, My heart fluttered in my chest and then went silent. My heart wasn’t beating, why? My eyes whipped over to the angry wolves and I came to a halt. Why are they angry at me? I didn’t do anything! “What’s going on? “ I demanded  but my voice remained to be flawless. Every wolf in my sight tensed and fixed their eyes on William for an explanation, I turned my eyes as well and rested them on William and waited very impatiently for him to explain. “Brook,” Williams voice was guarded, as to not let his fear alarm the pack, “Yesterday when Aaron came and saw you at your old house, what happened?” He asked, Everyone’s eyes flashed to me and waited as I tried to unscramble my thoughts for an answer. I was sitting in a corner in my living room when I smelled a vampire coming near, I got up and waited for him, when I figured out it was Aaron I hugged him and he held me while I was being an idiot hugging a damn vampire. Then I remembered feeling  a small twinge of stinging on the side of my neck where Aarons face was… He bit me. “William..” I whispered and felt dizzy, William was by my side instantly grabbing my waste and holding me up. “Brook, what do you remember? I need to know.” He said icily, I regained my consciousness and then got out of his arms, “William..I remember everything, but it wont help you.” I said back and snarled at all the werewolves near me. Everyone cringed back and looked at me with ready stances of combat.
“Brook, Aaron bit you didn’t he? Didn’t he?” Ben asked in a pained voice, I looked at Ben then William again, I closed my eyes and nodded a quick nod while backing away from them. William shook his head, “Brook, why did you let him so close to you?” Williams voice was filled with agony, he dropped to his knees and covered his face with his hands. I wanted to go to him, to kiss his forehead and tell him it was okay, but I didn’t go forward just backward.  “William, I let him close because you weren’t there, because I was scared and I needed someone. I forgot my instincts and hugged him, I totally lost my mind.” I whispered only to him, even though everyone could hear. Ben snarled at me and closed his eyes, he obviously knew I wasn’t going to hurt him, but why did he snarl?  I stopped stepping back and stayed where I was, I was a good 10 feet away from William and Ben but about 30 away from everyone else. “William…I’m sorry..I didn’t mean to..do that..” I trailed off and lost it, I turned around and walked quickly back to the house. I heard no one behind me so I started running, I thought about converting and waited for the change to take me, but nothing happened. Why couldn’t I change into a werewolf? I ran back to William “Why cant I convert?” I demanded, I knew what I was…half vampire and wolf but why couldn’t I change! “Brook, “ Ben looked at me, “William stayed up all night and thought about what could happen if this…happened. Well when your…what you are…you cannot convert but you are stronger, faster, more intelligent then both species combined. Your pretty much the…alpha of both vampire and werewolf.”  William lifted his head and got to his feet, he walked closer to me and stopped about 3 feet from me. “Brook, you are a half-breed, your half vampire and half werewolf. Last night your heart failed  because the vampire venom was spreading too fast and your organs were already use to thick wolf blood, so the venom made your heart fail. I had to bite you so your blood would travel faster through your vanes so the venom could finish its transformation,” William winced. “If there was…a way.. I could’ve stopped it…I would’ve tried…but I couldn’t…let..you die.” William looked down as he spoke. Unthinkingly I walked over there and wrapped my arms around his waste and waited patiently for him to look up. When he finally did I kissed his forehead, “William, thank you. You did all you could do, and I am still alive…well sort of. But I am alive and your with me right now, everything is perfect.” I closed my eyes and inhaled his scent then I stopped breathing. “Wow you stink.” I commented but did not unloosen my grip around his waste, I started breathing short breaths, “So do you, vampire and werewolf…don’t mix.” Ben said and laughed, I giggled, and was once again shocked at the flawlessness of my voice, “Brook,” William whispered my ear. I turned eyes to him and smiled, “I love you.” He whispered and pressed his lips to my cheek, I smiled wider, “I love you too.” William took a step back and pressed his lips to mine with a lot of force, but I couldn’t feel it. “Uh…William she is really strong..I wouldn’t…”  Ben stopped and rolled his eyes, I could guess what he was thinking just by the look of his face. Whatever, if he wants to break his face while kissing her he can go ahead and do it. I parted our lips and looked at William and smiled. “Wow.” I said and he chuckled. Then I suddenly remember the pack, they were watching us and their faces were pulled down with disgust. I twisted my way out of Williams arms and stood up presentably towards the pack, “I am sorry for what I have done, but I cannot change it now, all I can tell you is that I am still on your side, I still hate the bloodsuckers..even though I am partly one of them.” I said and smiled at my word usage, “You’re an abomination! You drink from humans, you are a murderer!” Someone yelled in the crowd, “Hey!” I shouted, silencing anymore comments , “I have not felt any need for blood since I awoke. Do not jump to conclusion. I have not killed anyone either.” I said icily, Every werewolf around me, except William Ben, stepped forward.
William stepped up and wrapped his arm around my waste securely, I put my arms around his waste and turned my head to face him while he spoke, “Brook means no harm to none of us, she will still fight on our side and she still wants Aaron dead. And she will remain my cult.”He spoke clearly, he was the alpha now. Everyone backed off and sort of bowed kind of, but they still glared at me. Everyone I knew and loved was here, except.. “Where’s Patrick and Angie?” I asked and everyone suddenly looked amused, “Well..” Ben trailed off and chuckled, “Their spending…quality time together…” He said and  then almost everyone bursted out into laughter, completely forgetting the conversation before. I giggled, and my beautiful voice startled me again. I looked at William and waited for him to look back, when he did I lifted my head to his ear and whispered quietly, “Do you think we can steal a couple minutes alone?” I said, completely occupied by the thought of William kissing my neck.”Sure.” He whispered back. While the crowd dispersed in small groups me and William took small steps backward, hands entwined.  Ben shot a glance at me and chuckled, I giggled and shook my head, Ben should know my needs. When we were out of sight from the pack we started pacing faster, When we crossed the corner of the big white house William took my in his arms and clasped his lips to mine. We were gasping for breath almost instantly, William twisted his hand up my thigh and around my back, tightening his grip. His lips were never free, he was either kissing my lips, throat, or the base of my collar bone.  He gasped and leaned away, I froze. “What?” I spoke in ragged breathing, He chuckled and pressed his lips to mine again for a short 2 seconds. “Nothing, I just cant believe your alive…well almost alive, and with me.”  He whispered, “I love you so much Brook, it almost killed me to see you like that yesterday.” He spoke. Yesterday? Was I only out that long? God it felt like an eternity has passed by. I quickly ran that thought off and concentrated on answering him, “William you’re my life, your what made me fight so hard in order to stay alive. Will, you saved me in every way a person can be saved. I love you also, and nothing anyone can ever do or say is every going to change that.” I whispered back quietly, We both smiled and I bent in to kiss the base of his throat.

I ran my hand down the side of his face, he closed his eyes at my touch and smiled. “Brook, When I saw you lying there…dying…I couldn’t breathe.” William whispered against my neck, tickling my skin with his breath, “It was like you were suffocating me, I never want to feel anything like that again. Please promise me you will never do anything like that again?” His voice trembled, I closed my eyes and tried to shake off the bad memories that overpowered my mind. How could this being love me so much even after what I’ve done to him? I just don’t get it. “I promise…” I whispered on his chest, his warm skin felt like a hot iron now that I am a few degrees colder than a full bread werewolf. “Will..” I hesitated, I’m not sure if bringing this up right now would be such a good idea, but I did anyway cause I needed to know. “Yes Brook?” His voice was still a little shaky but stable, I lifted my head up so I could look at his face, “Why did you bite me when…..” I whispered and closed my eyes. William winced at the subject change, “Brook, when Aaron bit you, too much venom entered your blood. I had to bite you so it would slow the blood down. Werewolf saliva comes in handy when a werewolf has been bitten by a vampire. I was too late with you, the venom was already half way to your heart, so now you’re a half-breed. Usually when us werewolves are too late to save someone in your position, we kill them.” William shook his head and closed his eyes, I opened mine and kissed his collarbone. “Have I told you thank you?” I mumbled, William chuckled and kissed my forehead. “Yes, even though it is completely unnecessary.”  He smiled and opened his eyes. The subject was closed…for now.

“So did you and Angie have a nice time yesterday?” I said and a giggle escaped my lips, Patrick laid in front of me on the large white sofa in Williams living room, Angie was at the edge of his feet, rubbing his leg with the tips of her fingers. She was smiling pleasantly at me, “Yes, it was great.” Patrick answered with a chuckle. “Brook..” Angie said, interrupted me and Patrick’s conversation. “Yes?” I said, completely occupied by Williams finger rubbing the back of my palm. “Could we speak…alone..for a second?” She asked quietly, I looked at her, confused, but calm. “Sure, what about?” I asked, I wasn’t completely use to my flawless voice but I was getting there. “Just something between…uhmm..vampires?” She whispered and looked down. I choked at her word usage, I wasn’t entirely comfortable with the word ‘vampire’ yet. William looked at me and chuckled, it seems he is okay with the word. Not fair. “S-sure..” I coughed out, William chuckled again and let go of my hand, I got up from the booth and waited patiently for Angie to lead the way. She started walking down the large hallway and walked in a small little room, when I was in the room Angie turned around and closed the large brown door and locked it. Uh-oh, she doesn’t plan on raping me does she? She turned around and faced me, her expression was unreadable, “Brook,” She whispered,  as to make sure  no one would hear us in the other room. “What is it Angie?” I asked casually, she looked down and started breathing hazardously, something was really wrong with her and I wasn’t sure if I wanted to know, “Brook…This is really hard for me to say so, try to be gentle with me when I tell you.” She whispered roughly, I started shaking; so she did something wrong…oh god. my vampire instincts haven’t fully settled in, so if she gets me mad enough to lose my temper she better be able to run fast. “Okay..What is it?” I asked, my voice was shaky. “I told….Aaron where you were when…you and Will….went at the old ones…” She said and closed her eyes, she lifted her head and creased her eyebrows, preparing herself for the yelling. I couldn’t breathe, my whole body trembled, How could she do that? Why would she tell me? Holy *bunny* she is stupid! “You did what?!” I screamed and through my hands up in the air, she winced and her eyes started t tear up. Could vampires cry? “I didn’t mean too! He tricked it out of me!” She exclaimed, I was trying to hold myself in place but it was becoming to much effort, she is going to have to calm me down or else…well I didn’t even want to think it. “Angie why would you do that?! Did you even think of the consequences?! Of what I would and probably will do to you now that you told me!” I screamed, my voice was becoming uncontrollable and so was my temper.


Unthinkingly I  lunged myself at her, slamming her through the wall behind her. She landed on Patrick, who was on the sofa, and slammed her head up against the glass coffee table beside it, shattering it. “Brook!” William screamed and jumped up from his chair and on the table in the middle of the kitchen. I walked forward and jumped over Patrick and the sofa, clasped my hand around her neck and lifted her off the ground and above my head. “How dare you betray me! I thought I could trust you! But you go off and tell my own enemy where to find me!” I screamed, my voice was no longer flawless and beautiful, it was mixed in between; rage, vengeance, and fury. She was going to get hurt. “Because of you I am half bloodsucker! Because of you I almost died!” I raged on and felt my still heart burn with pain. William jumped across the room and grabbed my hand, the hand that held Angie in the air, choking her. “Brook stop!” He yelled, Patrick jumped up off the ground and threw himself at me, slamming me into the love-seat that sat on the farthest side of the living room. “William grab Angie! Make sure she’s okay!” Patrick screamed, he jumped up and ran to Angie. She lay strolled across the shattered glass, eyes closed, not breathing. I got up fast and jumped behind the love-seat in a guarded position, my teeth bared, ready to attack once again. “Brook now just calm the hell down!” William screamed and stepped in front of Angie and Patrick. I closed my eyes and took deep breaths, plotting my next attack. I opened my eyes and heard William gasp, I looked over at him and he was staring in my eyes, “Brook…calm down.” He whispered, I looked at Angie and Patrick behind him, Patrick was hovering over Angie doing CPR. “What have you done Brook?!” Patrick screamed, Angie woke and gasped for air ‘Oh thank god!” Patrick cried, he lifted her in his arms and started pacing to the torn down wall in back of William, the one I threw Angie through. “Brook,” William said, I focused my eyes on him and waited for him to talk. “What happened?” He asked hard, he was trying to distract me, “She betrayed me Will…She told Aaron where I was…” I whispered, my voice was going back to normal, but it was still shaky and unstable. “What?” He asked, completely shocked, I started coming out of my guarded position when I saw Patrick running up behind William, I went into my attack position when William was suddenly holding Patrick by his arms, protecting him…from me. What’s wrong with me? About to fight my best friend, attacking my best friends girl friend?  I need to calm down. “Patrick stop!” I screamed, my body stopped shaking and my breathing went back to normal almost instantly but I was still slightly shaking. “Brook..” William hesitated, I looked at him and nodded. “I’m fine really, let him go.” I said, William shook his head but otherwise obeyed, he dropped his hands and backed away from Patrick.




“Patrick…I’m sorry…” I stammered, I fell forward on my knees and bowed my head. “Brook…how could you..” He choked, “You nearly killed her!” I winced at his words but remained stable “She betrayed me Patrick!” I  raged, “She told her brother, my enemy where I was!” I raged on, hoping he would see what Angie truly did. “It don’t matter Brook! She cant change the past!” He interrupted what I was about to say, I closed my eyes and tried to concentrate on calming myself down. “Why would she do that?!” I got up and slowly started walking forward, raising my hands, cautioning him. “Patrick, I lost control. This is a pitiful excuse for what happened but I am still a new born, I’m not use to controlling my temper so don’t!” I shouted, His eyes nearly bulged out of his head, he jumped up in my face and raised his hands in the air. “Brook! You have been a werewolf for over a week and you just turned half vampire, HALF! Do NOT even pull that bull*bunny* on me!” He screamed furiously. “It is NO excuse Patrick! You have no idea what it feels like to not be able to control yourself!” I screamed back in his face, unthinkingly moving closer in the process. Patrick grabbed my shoulders and slammed me against the wall, I would’ve fought back but I had no anger nor no need to protect myself. “Don’t even make assumptions brook! I have lived over 110 years and almost every fight I have had, I have never been able to control myself!” He stammered. I closed my eyes and nodded, agreeing with him. William remained behind us silent, just standing there watching this with amused eyes. He obviously knew Patrick wasn’t going to hurt me, but I didn’t, and ever if he did want to hurt me I wouldn’t try to defend myself, I could never hurt him, I could never hurt my best friend. “Okay, okay Patrick just calm down. Listen,  Brook didn’t mean to attack her abruptly like that, she lost control. Simple mistake!” He exclaimed, Patrick closed his eyes and shook his head. I took a deep breath even though I didn’t need to breathe, and Patrick slowly put me down on the ground. He stood up straight and nodded once at me, turned around and walked around William and towards the room Angie was in. When Patrick was out of sight I turned to the wall and slammed my head against it, cracking the wall. William walked quickly over to me and grabbed my shoulders with his hands, he leaned in and kissed the back of my neck slightly, but I could barely feel it. All I felt was numbness.


I opened my eyes and Williams face was barely two inches from mine. He was watching me, memorizing my every feature, every curve, of my face. “Do you…know how utterly beautiful you are?” He whispered, I smiled and kissed the tip of his nose, “I know how beautiful you are…” when I spoke, the truth of my own words overwhelmed me. William was the most beautiful being on this planet, he was the most beautiful being in my world. “Your so blind Brook, you never seen yourself clearly. Every little detail about you is so perfect, how I got someone like you I will never know.” He shook his head and chuckled, I giggled and rolled my eyes, squeezing him tighter to my chest, Maybe if I squeezed him hard enough it would squeeze some sense into him.  We laid in his bed, tangled up in his white cotton sheets. I stared at him; memorizing his features, committing it to memory, as he did to me. His sleek almost black hair was cropped above his ears, it was gelled back into a very messy disarray. His boiling skin pressed up against mine felt warm compared to my icy skin. Ever since my vampire conversion I’ve felt colder, emptier. This creature beside me was the only thing keeping me alive.  “When are we going to find Daniel?”  asked casually, hoping this conversation change wouldn’t upset him. a painful expression lit his features, I tensed and hoped we wouldn’t fight. Then his cleared into a unreadable mask. “I don’t know, we lost our chance Tuesday, you know the whole vampire thing occupied our minds.” He said. So we missed our chance to end this stupid war, and I am to blame. “I’m sorry…” I whispered “ No, no its fine Brook, we just have to find him again. These wolf senses come in handy when your trying to find someone. So is the internet…” He said and chuckled. Being half vampire comes in handy too doesn’t it? I’m stronger, faster, and more intelligent than any werewolf  or vampire in this world. “Maybe I could track him?” I suggested, William stared at me, “Brook…” He started to speak when I cut him off, “No William,” I said to him, he just continued to stare at me, “Its fine, you don’t have to say anything..” I said and closed my eyes. He touched my cheek with his finger and I opened my eyes, he was smiling at me and I giggled. His smile faded and his body went completely still, “NO!” He screamed and jumped up from the bed, me still in his arms. “William what is it?!” I shouted, William put me down and ran to the front door, Before he had a chance to open it Ben slammed the door down and ran to William. “William I smelt it too! What the hell is he doing here?!” he yelled in anger, I ran behind the bed and started putting on my, until suddenly heard a loud crackling sound on the other side of me, where William and Ben were standing. I twisted around and snarled at who was in front of me.

William jumped in front of me and shielded me away from the vampire across the room from us. Aaron smiled at me and twisted the knife across Bens neck, Aaron started whistling very loudly in applaud at William, “Bravo! Bravo!” Aaron laughed, William tensed, I snarled, and a huge crackling sound was building up in my chest. “Oh Brook just relax. I didn’t come here to fight you or your precious William, I just came to see how your…conversion went.” He smiled, “And I can see it went very, very well.” He said and started looking me up and down like I was a prize, a prize he was never going to get. “May I see you fully?” He asked and started dancing behind Ben’s body. Ben growled, “Keep that thing in your pants bloodsucker!” He snarled loudly and his eyes switched from a golden topaz to a blood red. “Oh do forgive me Benjamin, just sometimes I cant control myself.” He tightened his grip on the knife that was right below Ben’s neck. “Aaron what do you want?” I snarled at him, Aaron smiled pleasantly back, “Brook what have I been wanting for over 600 hundred years?” He said, I inched forward wanting to take a snap at him, Williams body in front of me was the only thing that was stopping me. “Holy hell, you mean I dated a 600 year old vampire?! Damn that sucks *bunny*!” I said in a disgusted tone. Aarons mood changed from happy to dark in one quick second. I can see I offended him, good. I needed to play it cool though, Ben’s life was in my hands. “Brook..” Ben whispered, I looked in his eyes and I could see he was amused by all this. “I’ll be fine, just don’t do anything stupid.” He warned, I smiled and turned my eyes to William. His face was guarded, “William its okay, he cant hurt me, I’m stronger than him. Half vampire remember?” I pointed to myself and then grabbed his shoulder and slowly started pushing him to the side of me. When William wouldn’t move, I put more force into it. “William move!” I complained. Aaron still remained on the other side of the room, Ben still in his arms, knife still to his throat. I stepped in front of William, annoyed that he wouldn’t move, and started walking towards Aaron, “Don’t Move..” Someone snarled behind him. Then Patrick appeared about 7 feet behind Aaron and Ben. Aaron froze and put more pressure on the knife around Ben’s neck. “Has another dog joined us?”  he asked amused, but I could hear the shakiness in his voice, “And another vampire..” I said once I saw Angie appear behind Patrick, Aaron chuckled once but remained tense. “Ahh, Angie sister so nice to see you again.” He said and shook his butt towards her. “Aaron you got to be down right stupid than to come after Brook when you know for a fact she is going to be surrounded by 3 werewolves and a vampire.” She snarled at him, he rolled his eyes, “Angie, I am surprised your alive after telling her you told me where to find her that day…quite a shocker.” He chuckled. The previous memories flooded back in my mind and left me breathless, I bent over and gasped for air even though I didn’t need it. William was holding me, still staring at Aaron. I caught my breath and looked up at Angie, and when she saw me stare at her she looked down. And in that moment I suddenly felt an urge to protect the vampire that had betrayed me. I walked up to Aaron and spat in his face, “The only reason she told you is because you are her own flesh and blood, and she feared for her life!” I snarled at him and took a step closer unthinkingly. “She would rather betray her ally than her brother even though her own brother is her enemy!” I screamed these words with such fury that Ben was clinging to Aaron, shielding his face away from mine. Aaron stood still, not even bothered by my closeness, listening, practically frozen. “Brook…tell me something,” Aaron smiled and looked my up and down with appraising eyes, “Can you still love someone, once their heart stops beating?” he asked and then he looked at William who was frozen, “Can you love someone, when that someone is dead?” He asked Will, I stood frozen, like William. Could William still love me? Is that what Aaron was asking? If me and William could still love one another after what happened to me? I could love William no matter what happened….But could he love me now that I’m…half his enemy?



































Chapter 16


“What happened?!” I screamed, where in gods green earth am I? “Where’s Ben!? Is okay?!” I shouted at someone in the shadows, “He’s fine Brook! He’s fine!” William ran to me from the darkness, “Where are we?” I said as I got up  off the floor, “Where at Daniels.” He whispered. I froze, Daniels? You mean we found him?! “We found him?” I asked excited now; I didn’t care about what happened before. “More like he found us…” He mumbled, “What?” I asked surprised, “He found us, don’t ask how because I don’t know, and he wont tell us how he knew about us…he’s weird.” He complained, “And rude…” I commented. How could they just leave me on the floor? I am a female you know!  “How am I rude?” A husky voice asked in the darkness. I got up quickly and fixed my clothes into an appropriate manner, I was a mess. William stood beside me and grabbed one of my busy hands, now he is seriously going to be overprotective. I young man appeared out of the shadows; I looked at him closely and soon realized…he was beautiful! He had black silky hair cut short like Williams except it was wavy and it looked soft, He was beyond tan, tanner than me and William combined. His eyes were a soft blue and you could see in them for miles and miles, almost like an ocean. “So you must be Daniel?” I asked doubtfully, he smiled and showed a pair of perfect pearl white teeth, “Yeah and you must be Brook?” He asked and chuckled, “Yep,” I said and smiled in return, “SO what were you saying about me being rude?” he asked and scowled at me, I scowled back playfully, even though he probably was not, and giggled. “Nothing, just forget about it.” I mumbled, he chuckled once more and turned to William “This is your cult?” he asked with appealing eyes, “Yes.” William answered tightly, Daniel looked me up and down and smiled at me. He looked in my eyes and I stared in his for the longest time, “Boy you got lucky!” He laughed and punched Williams shoulder, William smiled tightly and turned to look at me. “He doesn’t know does he?” I guessed, William knew exactly what I was talking about; he was most likely thinking the same thing. “Nope.” He answered, “Well than I suppose its time to tell him?” I asked and gave a quick glance to Daniel and then back to Wil-liam, William nodded and looked down. I leaned up and kissed his forehead and then turned to Daniel, “Tell me what?” He asked, totally confused. I let go of Williams hand and started walking forward to Daniel, when I got about 2 feet from him I looked down and took a deep breath. “Daniel I need to speak to you…alone.” I spoke and shot a quick glance to William, William looked up and he was beyond pissed off. “No!” He shouted at me, I cringed and spoke as calmly as I could manage, “William I think it would be better if I spoke to him personally. It might go…smoother.” I said and rolled my eyes at William, overprotective fool. “I think it would be better if we did it in the open so he cant try anything.” William snarled and Daniel jumped back at the sound, “Wow! Try what?!” Daniel yelled back lost entirely. I turned to William and rubbed his face with my hand, “William I will be fine, I am half vampire and werewolf, he wont try anything. I promise.” I said and touched the tip of his nose. I turned to Daniel and pointed to the dark-wooded door at the end of the dark room. “Out. Now.” I ordered, he chuckled and started skipping out the door, what a child. I rolled my eyes and followed him out the door, before I closed the door behind me I turned to William and shot him a smile, he looked down and shook his head. “I wont lose you Brook, not over this war. I swear it.” He vowed, how did I know he was going to do that? He is going to do every thing in his power to keep me forever. “I wont let you lose me Will, I am yours forever. Period.”I vowed back, I giggled and closed the door. This is going to be very difficult to handle.


I walked in back of Daniel, following him though this dark, unfamiliar hallway. “Where are we?” I asked casually, “We are at my home, where I have lived my entire life. My parents left me when I was 9 and I’ve had to fend for myself for 12 years.” He announced proudly. I was shocked, “Wow Daniel, that must have been hard.” Daniel led me to a large door at the end of the dark hallway, it was really creepy. “yea it was, but I survived and I’m thankful for that.” He said, he opened the door and waited for me to walk in first, probably to check my *bunny* out. “So what is it you wanted to talk to me about?” He asked and closed the door behind us, I took a deep breath and turned around and nearly bumped into him in the process, he was closer than I thought. His face was barely 3 inches from mine and his hands were almost touching my stomach, he barely knew me! Why was he already acting like this? “Daniel,” I took a deep breath and backed slowly away from him so I could actually move. “Do you know what I am?” I asked, trying to start it off easy, “Your werewolf.” He guessed. William obviously didn’t give him the whole story. Great! I rolled my eyes, “Daniel I am a half-breed.” I said and giggled, Daniel looked confused. “I am half vampire half werewolf.” I said and looked at Daniel waiting for a bad reaction, “Sweet!” He exclaimed, I busted out in laughter, he thought me being a half breed was sweet! Ha!  “Daniel..How…is that..sweet?!” I said in between giggles, Daniel chuckled at me and then rolled his eyes, “Brook, I know the whole story okay? Me and you are suppose to….” He trailed off, I blushed and looked away and then froze, “Wait, how did you know?” He looked at me and smiled, “Brook, now if I told you that than I would have to kill you” I giggled and then punched his shoulder, “Daniel there is no way in hell you could kill me, ho-ney, remember I am not human and I aint weak either so…yea.” . Daniel saw my reaction and took 2 steps closer to me, “I know, you and William…are together, but you need to think about the pack Brook..” Daniel spoke in my ear, he was that close to me!
“Daniel, I know what I have to do so don’t tell me to think about my own pack.” I sputtered back in his face, he chuckled and leaned closer to me. “Daniel stop, now you know I could crush you in a second, why are you pushing me?” I snarled, Daniel jumped back against the wall and looked down, “Oh, vampire and werewolf, sorry  I forgot.” He said, I took a deep breath and smiled pleasantly. He was going to have to get use to the half breed thing I could see.

“Okay, so are we clear about the whole half breed thing?” I asked, Daniel clearly uncomfortable with me now. “yea, sure..” He said and looked down, I giggled and walked around him to open the door, he caught my arm and forced me to look at him. “Fact remains the same, I am willing to do this, I am willing to be with you to save innocent lives, the question is are you?” He asked in the lowest voice possible, “Daniel, do not speak to me as if you have been alive 3 hundred years and have seen innocent lives get taken away for no reason, because I wont buy it. As I will say again, I know what I have to do, I love William and I am going to do my damndest to stay with him so don’t think just because I am suppose to be with you, I will leave him.” I spoke quietly but menacingly, trying to make it to where he would see how much I loved William. I jerked my arm out of his hand and opened the door, When I was out I start jogging down the hall, knowing the faster I ran the sooner I would be in Williams arms. I quickened my feet, when I got to the end of the hall I busted through the door and tons of eyes shot in my direction. I looked in every one of them, trying to find the beautiful green ones that I could stare in for hours and never get bored. When I found the beautiful eyes I stopped, William was sitting on a dark blood red sofa facing me, he was looking down. His hands were crossed around his chest and his shoulders were slumped, it looked like he was sleeping. I didn’t care, I ran to him, When I was close enough I jumped in his lap, startling him. “Wow!” He jumped, I wrapped my arms around his waste and pressed my lips to his, hard. His reaction was not what I expected, he flipped us around forcing me to lie on my back with him on top of me. Every pair of eyes in the room was staring at us, William squeezed me tighter to his chest while kissing my throat. “William, chill dude…” I gasped and William froze, “Dude?” He chuckled, I giggled and forced his head to lift from my throat, “Yes, dude..” I said with a scowl, “Will, like 8 people are watching us, including Daniel. So, can we please get up and go somewhere more private?” I asked with pleading eyes, Daniel chuckled behind us. I looked behind William and at Daniel, Daniel looked at me and smiled, but his smile was tight and uncomfortable. What was his problem? “Sure, why not..” William knew I wasn’t paying attention to him so he lifted me up in my arms and started trailed off into a dark room, “Hey!” that was totally unexpected, I smacked him in his shoulder with a little too much force and pushed him halfway out of the room. He busted into a roar of laughter, “Ow!” He shouted and slammed the door with his foot.


William’s arms were around me when I opened my eyes, I tightened my grip on him and my naked body pressed up against his and in only seconds time we were gasping for air. “Wow Brook your strong, don’t squeeze me so tightly, or you’ll break me.” He chuckled, I unloosened his grip and started getting up out of his arms when he tightened his arms around my chest, “Brook what’s wrong?” He asked, suddenly tense. I smiled and leaned my head against his chest, “Nothing, just got a lot of stuff on my mind.” I murmured and closed my eyes. “like what?” he asked curious,  I froze. Could he know I was thinking about Daniel? About what I was suppose to do in order to save my family, or pack? I think it would be best not to discuss it now, “Just about everything that’s happening, its too fast.”I hugged myself closer to him again. What was going to happen to us? I could at least save William couldn’t I? No, I couldn’t think of that, I would save everyone I could, even if it involved giving my own life. Maybe I should just go to Aaron and ask him to stop and if he did I would stay with him. “William, When I talked to Daniel he seemed to know everything I tried to tell him. Did you tell him everything before I woke up?” I spoke with an edge, as if I was going to eat him if he did. “No, I don’t know how he knows everything, unless he’s been following us for the past week than I have no clue.”  He spoke honestly I could see, I guess I’ll have to ask him myself. “Oh, okay.” I said and snuggled closer to his chest.


“So when is this war suppose to break out?” Daniel asked, trying to start a conversation that was not for his ears. Me, Daniel, Angie, Patrick, And Ben was in the large, dark kitchen trying to eat breakfast. “In like 4 days hopefully.” Ben said and swallowed another giant pancake whole, God that boy could eat! “Where’s William?” Patrick cut in with a panicky tone, I looked up and around for him not even paying attention to the 4 faces in front of me. Where was William? I got up and started walking up the stairs when I suddenly saw a woman standing on the outside of the living room, back facing me, and William facing her. “Will?” I said and took a step forward, his finger twisted up towards me, warning me to stop. I stopped in my tracks and paid more attention on what he was saying, “Jesse, if you cant handle…” I heard Jesse’s name and took a step forward in reaction, “Jesse?” I said in tight lips.  “Brooke just back off,” Will warned me again this time I ignored him and took another step forward, Jesse’s long strawberry blonde hair shook while she twisted around and faced me. I was shocked at what stood before me, Jesse’s skin was a light, light tan; her eyes changed from a dark ocean blue to a crimson red. Jesse was a half-breed. In complete reaction I crouched in a defensive position and a loud crackling sound was slowly making its way up my chest and in my throat. Jesse smiled at me and took a step towards  me, “Hello Brooke, I came for a rematch.” She snarled; I chuckled darkly and started making contingency plans in the back of my head, “Well looks like I’m going to have to kill you this time Jesse, cause I really don’t think you are going to beat me considering I know how to control my abilities better than you.” I snarled back, Jesse backed off a little and I saw a glint of fear in her eyes, “But I’m stronger.”She whispered menacingly. This was going to be good. “Wow Jesse!” Ben exclaimed, “Your back! And ready to kick *bunny*! Oh yes!” I rolled my eyes but still remained in a crouched position, “How..” I whispered, Jesse turned to me and smiled again, “How…were you changed?” I mumbled in coherently, Jesse busted into a roar of laughter, “The same way you got changed! Aaron is nice, a better master than you ever were William, No offense of course.” She said apologetically, I hissed under my breath but kept a straight face. “You betrayed your own pack, Jesse I cant believe you would do that.” I snarled, Jesse took a step forward and roared menacingly, “Oh but so did you!” She shouted, “You let Aaron get close to you, do not make me out to be the enemy!” She snarled, I whipped my head around and felt so much anger build up inside I could barely control it. “But I didn’t leave my own pack Jesse! Even though I let him get close to me, I did not leave Williams side! Maybe that’s why you were never a good cult to him, cause you were never strong enough to handle the challenges that were upon you day after day!” I said with a growl deep in my throat. Jesse was pissed after that, she lunged herself at me, throwing me into the kitchen counter. I gasped but remained under control, I threw her off me and into the wall next to William, busting it.




William, Ben, Daniel, Patrick, and Angie jumped 5 feet back from me and Jesse, giving us room. I got up and started walking menacingly towards her, trying to enjoy what I was doing. Jesse lifted her head and shook it, looked at me and quickly got up in one swift movement, I jumped toward her in a werewolf crouch and swung her entire body through the glass window, to the back porch. “Brook stop! You cant win!” William shouted at me but I didn’t  pay attention, Jesse laid there back towards me completely motionless. I smiled and turned around to face William, “I thought you said I couldn’t win?” I said and raised one eyebrow, then all the sudden a sharp pain reached up my spine and I realized Jesse had kicked me straight into William. I fell on him and then another sharp spasm of pain ran up my spine, it felt like it had shattered into a thousand pieces. William held my weight and glared at Jesse, “Ben! Patrick!” He snarled, Ben and Patrick nodded and stepped in front of me, guarding me from Jesse. “You think you can stop me from ripping her throat out?!” She roared and stepped in the house, hands balled in fists. “Jesse stop!” William snarled at her, I closed my eyes and tried to build up enough strength to get up and finish the fight but I couldn’t, my body functions were not following orders. “No!” She snarled at him and crouched down about ready to pounce on Ben and Patrick. “No!” I managed to scream out, Jesse stopped and looked around them, at me. “Please Jesse..” I whispered but I knew she could hear me, “Please…just..stop..” I choked out, then a puddle of blood spilled out of my mouth. “Oh my god Brook!” William screamed, he picked me up and ran over to the large glass table in the destroyed kitchen, the table was the only in tacked thing in there. “Brook sweetie can you hear me?” He whispered in my ear, “Looks like she isn’t as strong as you thought she was huh?” Jesse said and chuckled, William turned towards her and stomped in her direction, “GET OUT.” He snarled loudly, Jesse went completely motionless and just stared at him in wide eyes, “Why? Why should I?” She said quietly as if she was defeated. William glared menacingly at her, ”Because if you don’t, I will stick a steak through your heart and then tear you to shreds you half-bloodsucker..” He whispered in the most terrifying  voice, Jesse backed away slowly, stepping outside on the porch. “I hope you don’t forget that she’s a half bloodsucker too brother, She betrayed you as I and she is likely to do it again.” She whispered and then disappeared from sight.


William ran to me, “Someone do something!” He yelled as more blood had leaked from my lips. Angie ran to me and quickly wiped the blood from my pale white face, “Will..” I choked and more blood came. “Yes sweetie I’m here!” He said in a painful tone, I tried to smile but my mouth was so full of blood I couldn’t even breathe, even though I didn’t need to. “I..love..you” I mumbled, a spasm of pain went down my spine and all through my muscles as my body tried to repair itself. William looked at my body and shook his head and a tear ran down his cheek, I didn’t know werewolves could cry? “William she will be fine, her body is already repairing itself. Since her conversion her immune system has grown stronger and more advanced, she cant die cause she’s already dead.” Angie turned to Ben, “Ben will you please go get me a towel?” She asked and smiled. Ben nodded and started walking out of the room, I tried to lift my head but I was too weak, I should just wait to repair myself. “Patrick,” William turned to him and closed his eyes, “I need you to make a round around the house, make sure its secure.” Patrick nodded and converted right where he was. I heard the bones crackle and pop as he changed to beast, I guess since my conversion I’m able to hear much, much better. I tried to pay more attention to my functions repairing themselves, it felt like tons of little people were inside my body trying to rebuild all the broken parts, it felt good. After awhile I started feeling strong enough to talk, “William,” I whispered as to make sure my voice wouldn’t crack. William turned to me and smiled, “You gave me one hell of a scare Brook, I thought you were going to die on me.” He said and chuckled, I swallowed the remains of blood in my mouth and worked on getting up in a sitting position on the glass table, that was now covered in my blood. “I’m already dead remember?” I said and giggled, I wiped my mouth with the side of my hand and wiped it on my already bloody clothes. I lifted my hands in the air, above my head and stretched out as far as I could, trying to make sure I was strong enough in my upper body. It took a couple seconds after lifting my hands in the air, to realize my shirt, and bra, had been ripped to shreds and Daniel was standing next to William looking at me, or more or less below my neck. I quickly wrapped my hands around my chest and cleared my throat embarrassingly. “Sorry about that.” I said and dropped my legs at the end of the table, “Oh no, I don’t mind at all.” Daniel said and chuckled, I glared at him and hopped down from the table, straight into William. “Oops, looks like my balance hasn’t recovered yet.” I said and started backing away from William, William took off his black fleece and wrapped it around my shoulders and squeezed me tightly to his right side. “Come on, lets get you cleaned up.” He whispered in my ear, Daniel looked down and rolled his eyes, “Oh what Daniel? Did you want to say something?” William snarled, I turned to Daniel and shook my head, “Did you want to remark at how my girlfriend looks underneath?” He glared at him, Daniel looked up and chuckled, “Nope, no comment.” Daniel turned his glare away from William and rested his eyes on me, he winked and then smiled, “That was one hell of a fight Brook, you kicked some *bunny*.” He said lightly, I giggled and rolled my eyes again, “Daniel that was hardly a fight, if you are ever changed then me and you can have a match, deal?” I said and looked at William, “Deal!” He shouted happily, William turned his eyes to me and smiled.

























Chapter 17

“I’m dirty William, I’d like to take a shower now…” I hinted, William chuckled and turned around, tagging my body along. “Premises cleared.” Patrick appeared behind Daniel and walked forward, Daniel looked away fast and covered his eyes, “Dude put some clothes on!” He shouted at Patrick who stood naked right beside him now. We all busted out into a roar of laughter except Daniel. “Sorry, this is what happens when you change into an animal.” Patrick mused. “In that case, I never want to be a werewolf.” Daniel said in a smoldered tone, I tugged on Williams arm and started walking down the almost destroyed hall and then something reminded, “Oh Daniel?” I yelled behind me, “What?” He replied, I giggled and rolled my eyes, “Sorry for destroying half your house!” I screamed and hunched my shoulders as to look ashamed. We walked in the room and closed the door, once we were alone I took a deep breath but lost it quickly when I looked at myself in the mirror. My god I was pale. “What happened to me?” I said completely appalled, William chuckled and looked in the mirror also, “The blood in your body is what made you not so pale, considering you lost half that blood your practically a ghost, you shouldn’t even exist in this world so your kind of are.” He said and chuckled again, I scowled at him and looked away from him and the mirror and started looking for clothes when a sharp knock on the door distracted me. I took a step a cross the room in one swift movement and opened the door, it was Daniel, and in his hand, bless him, was a nice clean white dress. A very short dress.. “Oh thanks.” I said and took it from him, Daniel looked me up and down and then peeked behind me to see William with his arms crossed around his chest and his eyes staring in Daniels. Okay so it looks like they haven’t really acquainted with each other since our arrival. “Okay…thanks again Daniel.” I said and closed the door, I turned to William and just stared at him. “Are you ever gonna grow up and try to be friends with him? Considering he is the one that is suppose to save the pack from extinction.” I said a little pissed off at his glare, William rolled his eyes and started looking around the room, “Brook in order for him to save the pack, he has to get you so there is no saving the pack at this point.” William said and chuckled. I jumped a cross the room and slapped him, “Don’t you ever say that! Do you think that if I had to choose to save innocent lives or be with you I would choose the saving lives part? Even if it would burn my soul to the darkest blasphemy.  I may not want to leave you, but if that’s what it takes to end this war I might just have to do it William, whether I want to or not.” I snarled in his face, William stared at the floor, Eyes closed, hands balled in fists. “I am NOT going to lose you Brook,” He said tightly, and I laughed, “Do you think you’ll have a choice whether or not you will lose me?” I sputtered in his face, “Do not think me of being a fool William, I will do what I have to do whether you approve of it or not.” I said and turned around in one swift movement and started taking off his black fleece before I felt a warm, almost burning hand on my neck. I stopped moving and closed my eyes and waited for something bad but then I suddenly felt his warm smooth lips on my neck, moving gracefully up and down. “I’m sorry,” he whispered, “I know the stress you must be having, you know, dealing with the whole Daniel thing and Aaron thing, I know it aint the most pleasant thing to think about.” He said softly against my neck, I opened my eyes and turned around to face him. “William, I am going to try my hardest to stay with you, but if it doesn’t work out, you’re going to have to let me go.” I Whispered roughly, “I love you Brook, I don’t think I could move on if I lost you.” He said and his breath blew in my face, calming my nerves. “Same here.” I said and smiled, William grinned slightly and bent down and pressed his lips to mine softly as to close the subject. I welcomed him in and enjoyed the quiet seconds of our lips in twined and body’s crushed up against each other.


A shattered scream pierced through my ears and made me jump from Williams arms, waking him up also. “What was that?” I shouted. William jumped up from the bed and sniffed the air, “What was what? I cant smell anything.” He whispered, I sniffed the air and picked up an unfamiliar scent and Daniels scent mixed. Did Daniel scream? “Will…” I whispered, But before I could even finish the sentence another loud terrified scream from Daniel made me run through the door and to the living where I stopped, stunned at what I saw. Daniel laid on the floor with Ben on top of him, locking his feet around Daniels neck like a toy, “What the hell?” I said angrily, shocking them both by my sudden appearance. “Wow brook, didn’t even know you were there. Wait, how long have you been there?” Ben asked and chuckled while tightening his grip on Daniels neck, “About 6 seconds, and let go of him!” I shouted and bent down to rip Ben’s leg from his neck when Daniel suddenly pushed me down to the ground in-between them and started wrestling with me, I giggled and rolled my eyes then started to get in the mood to wrestle. “Daniel stop it!” I shouted playfully, Ben started tickling my stomach and I busted into a roar of laughter, “Wow I thought you couldn’t feel anything?” Ben said and chuckled “Okay, I may be as hard as stone but I am not completely numb now stop before I hurt you!” I shouted happily, I was actually enjoying myself. “Ben…I…didn’t know…you were…gay!” I said in-between giggles, trying to piss him off so we could have a real match but he only tickled me more and more. “nope, but you should be asking William that question!” He said and laughed. Daniel twisted around and crossed his legs around my arms and started tracing the shape of my face with his two fingers, then suddenly everything went still. Nothing Ben did to me was making me laugh, I just stared into Daniels eyes and felt his fingers tracing the shapes of my face. Daniel stared back and after about 6 minutes of complete silence Daniel started leaning his face towards mine, about to press his lips to mine when my mind finally caught up with what I was doing. “Daniel stop.” I said and lifted myself into a sitting position, Ben was silent while he stared at both of us but when he rested his eyes on me his expression turned to pain and he closed his eyes, “Brook I need to talk to you for a moment…alone.” He whispered and started getting up, “Okay?” I said in question, I started getting up when Daniels hands on my waste stopped me, I turned around to face him, “Daniel I want you to let go of me right now..” I snarled and Daniel leaned away from me and released his hands. I got up and shook off all the unseen dust on my white dress “Out here Brook.” Ben called and then I saw him on the front door, how did he get there so fast? I walked out to him and closed the door behind me. I turned to face him and crumbled in pain as I saw his expression, “What are you doing?” He said and closed his eyes, “What?” I asked completely clueless.


“Are you trying to kill William?” He said a little hostile. I leaned back, surprised he would even turn that direction, “I’m not doing anything,” I snapped at him. Ben took a step forward, barely an inch from my face and spoke in the most menacing tone I’ve ever heard him use, “Don’t even act stupid Brook, I can see it in your eyes. Your falling for him!” He snarled, I jumped back into the door and my eyes went wide. “No..” I whispered and shook my head trying to block out what I had just heard. Ben got even closer, so close our nose’s were slightly touching, “Don’t deny it Brook cause I know the truth, what was that in there just now?” he asked, I shook my head again as if to shake off the bad dreams, but this wasn’t a bad dream, this was real life and Ben was accusing me of something I’m not doing. “I hope you know you were about to kiss him!?” he said hostile, I closed my eyes and put my hands slightly on his chest and started pushing him away slowly but he wouldn’t budge. If he didn’t back off he was going to get hurt, “Ben, I need you to back off…please..” I whispered in a tight, strained voice. I could feel Bens rough breath blowing on me, I opened my eyes and stared at him. he stared in my eyes for a short second and backed away like 3 feet. “ Yes I know Ben, but I’m not falling for him. I just got lost in the moment for a second, I swear it. I’m not going to hurt William, I love him to damn much, please don’t worry about Ben, I am not going in that direction I swear it.” I whispered softly as to soften the mood. Ben stepped closer to me again, our nose’s touching again and whispered menacingly in my eyes, “I swear to god Brook if you hurt Will,” He paused and got even closer to me, pushing my back up against the front door, “I will not hesitate one second in sticking a stake through your stone heart, do you got that?” He snarled, I swallowed rationally and nodded once while looking out into the dark trees.


Ben backed away slowly and took a deep relaxing breath and smiled a pleasant smile, I smiled in return and looked down. I felt a warm finger press up against my cheek and I looked up and was startled to see William in front of me instead of Ben. Then right behind William I saw Ben staring me in the eye, far in the woods that surrounded us. William chuckled, “Is someone else grabbing your precious attention?” He said and kissed my forehead, “No..” I said absent minded, when I finally came back down to earth I looked at William and smiled, “Sorry, I was in la-la land.” I mused and looked down. “its fine, as long as you didn’t plan on staying there long?” He raised one eyebrow and chuckled, I giggled and wrapped my arms around his waste and pulled him closer to me. “I love you.” I whispered against his lips, he opened his mouth to speak but I hushed him with a quick peck on the lips and then pushed him to the side and started opening the door when Daniel walked through. I jumped and giggled at my jumpiness, Daniel chuckled and walked past us with his wallet in his hand. “See you later!” He called behind, me and William looked at each other in alarm and than started jogging after him “And where do you think your going?” I said alarmed, Daniel stopped and turned around, “Look, I have been in that house for over 3 days, I cant stand it anymore. I’m going out, and no one is coming with me,” Daniel said highly, then looked me up and down and grinned, “But for you I’ll make an exception if you want to join me?” He raised one eyebrow and looked me straight in eyes. Rolled my eyes at him and looked at William. He smiled and I returned the gesture, “Brook if you want to go then I wont stop you, but at least put some shoes on.” He chuckled and looked at Daniel, “I’m tired of trying to compete with you Daniel, So lets cool it.” William gestured his hand out in front of him for Daniel to shake, Daniel firmly grabbed it and shook it tightly. “That’s cool with me.” He said and took a deep breath and turned to me again, “Are you coming or not?” He said. I looked at William one more time, “Are you sure its fine?” I said cautiously, “I mean, I could use a day out, considering I haven’t really had one since I moved to this place.” William looked at me and smiled his heart breaking smile and nodded his head, “Its fine, I need to think about what we’re going to do with this guy anyway,” William pointed at Daniel and chuckled, I smiled and quickly pecked him on the lips then started jogging back to the house to fix my hair and get my shoes, wait I don’t know where my shoes are. “Daniel?” I shouted out, “Yea?” He shouted back, I looked around the room while brushing my hair with a teal green comb and put on some lip gloss, “Where are some shoes to wear?” I shouted loudly, probably to loudly. “There’s some in the living room closet.” He replied, I ran to the living room closet and opened the door then stopped where I was. The only shoes that were in there were shiny white 3 and a half inch heels in the corner of the closet. I rolled my eyes and grabbed the shoes, Looks like we aint jut ‘hanging out’ after all. I placed the shoes on each foot and started walking out the door, When I was out I closed the door behind me and started for William and Daniel at the end of the driveway, When I was about 5 feet away I noticed them both looking me up and down like I was something to eat. Then William walked up to me, took me in his arms, and crushed his lips to mine right in front of Daniel. When our lips parted he put his lips up to my ear, “You look beautiful.” He whispered, I blushed and kissed his neck then backed away.

Chapter 18



I took a deep breath and looked down at my short white dress and that’s what I realized what I was really wearing. It went above my knees, probably to the middle of my thigh, and the top of it rested on my chest like a cloud in the sky. It was loose all the way down to the very tip of the end and then it tightened around my thigh, lifting the entire dress up to where it was almost showing my butt. Yea Daniel, great dress. “Thanks for the clothes and shoes.” I said and smiled, Daniel nodded in return, he still hadn’t taken his eyes off my body. I walked up to him and smacked his shoulder, as to snap him out of that fantasy he was supposedly in. I turned to William and looked in his eyes, “Are you sure you don’t mind? I could stay,..” I started to say but he cut me off with a quick kiss. “No its fine, really. You go and have fun.” He encouraged. It was odd that he was being nice to Daniel all the sudden but I just ignored it and started walking to Daniel’s car and froze where I was. “W-wow.” I stuttered,  Daniel chuckled and moved to my side, “Yep,” He said, I giggled at his ignorance and looked at the car again, admiring its shiny colors and flawless curves. “What kind of car is that?” I choked out, Daniel gestured his hand towards the car and smiled proudly, “This my dear lady is a 2007 GT Corvette, leather and wooden interior. 400 horse power and speakers that will blow that pretty little dress your have on right now off.” I gasped a couple breaths and then was suddenly confused, “Wait, I thought you lived by your self for 12 years? How did you get this car?” I said suspiciously, Daniel laughed and looked to William for the answers, “Brook,” William turned to me and smiled, “Yes Daniel lived alone for 12 years but he graduated high school and went to Harvard law school for 6 years after, so he is pretty successful as you can tell.” He mused on endlessly at how he had lived alone all those years, but when it became too much for my little brain I shushed him and smiled at them both. “Okay enough with the small talk, I’m hungry and bored as hell so can we go?” I asked Daniel, who smiled at my pushiness and lifted his keys. I grinned and turned to William once more, “Bye Bye sweetie!” I shouted and kissed him earnestly before skipping to the beautiful car. I opened the door and climbed in, then saw a whitish tannish flash from the lower part of the inside of the car. When I realized, almost instantly, that my dress rode all the way up my thigh, showing my pretty pink lace thong beneath it, I pulled down the dress quickly and kept my hands on the edge of it to keep it down in place. William and Daniel stared wide-eyed at me, as if I had just stripped down and done a pole dance for them both.

I glared at them, shut the door, and looked away in the opposite direction. When I looked back I saw William at the front door, closing it, and then I heard the drivers door open and the car shift over to the left as he got in. When he closed the door he took a deep breath and looked at me. “Okay so I was planning to meet some friends down at Chandlers Café, do you want to do something else?” he asked as he put the key in the ignition. “No, its fine. I’m up for meeting new people.” I said and smiled, Daniel chuckled as he put the car in reverse and roared the engine to life. “Yeah Brook, the reason I asked you to come with me is because I wanted to talk to you about this whole mystical creature thingy do.” He said and I giggled, “I know its hard to believe but its all true, you saw the fight last night.” I said and looked out the window. Was it so hard to believe that Vampires and Werewolves live among humans? Um…yeah it was. As I thought about it I started seeing flashbacks of when William told me that they live among us everyday, like normal people. “Well, am I..?” He trailed off but I knew exactly where he was going, I rolled my eyes at his question and shook my head, “I’m..not sure Daniel, The elders didn’t say anything about the whole conversion thing with you so as of right now, me nor William nor anyone else knows if you are destined to become a werewolf or..vampire.” I said in tight lips, Daniel looked at me curiously and then sighed, “You don’t like the idea of being a half-breed do you?” he guessed at my silence that it was a yes, I cleared my throat a couple times and then spoke in a rough voice, “Now..that I am what I am, its harder to control my thoughts and actions, like my mind was fighting me. When Jesse was at the house yesterday I was so set on not fighting her, but when she attacked me, everything in my mind that I was so sure about disappeared and then…” I trailed off and stared out the window and watched the trees whoosh past me, “ My mind just..lost control. And I wanted to rip her throat out. It doesn’t feel good..not being able to control yourself. You feel..unbalanced.” I swallowed deeply and looked down at me hands. Daniel took his eyes off the road and just stared at me, “If it helps to know…you have William by your side and everyone else.” He said and smiled, I smiled in return and looked in his eyes for a long measurable time, “And you have me..” He whispered softly. My smiled faded and I looked away and blushed, Daniel looked at the road again and shook his head, “Sorry if that…made you feel uncomfortable, I didn’t mean..” He said and trailed off. I shook my head, looked at him, and smiled widely, “no you didn’t…its nice to know I have friends here for me..” I said and looked away, blushing again. We didn’t talk again for the rest of the ride to the Café, we didn’t even look at each other.

We pulled into a parking spot and cut off the engine. I looked at Chandlers café and gasped, I opened the door and while I got out I made absolute sure that my dress wouldn’t ride up. I closed the door and ran my fingers through my hair, Daniel came to my side and offered me his hand. I looked at him and scowled a little, “Daniel,..” I started to say, “I know, only as friends. You don’t want to walk in here un-escorted do you?” He said and smiled proudly at his smart remark. I rolled my eyes, “I guess not, but only as friends.” I eyed him and then grabbed his in a very friendly way. We walked together towards the café and Daniel opened the door for me, I walked in and then stopped when I saw the 3 guys sitting down and laughing. I turned around and glared at Daniel, “What the hell are you doing?!” I shouted very quietly, Daniel chuckled and looked at the 3 boys at the far corner of the room. “What?” he asked appalled at my hostility, “I am the only girl in here.” I whispered harshly, “This isn’t no ordinary café is it?” I guessed and eyed him suspiciously, He stared at me and then busted out laughing, “Wow! You’re the only girl who would guess that!” he shouted loudly, catching the 3 boys’ attention in the corner, “Daniel!” They called, “Yo!’ Daniel replied. I smacked his shoulder and put my mouth up to his ear, “You are going to regret this when we get back to the house, I swear it.” I snarled and turned around with a smiled on my face. I took my hand out of his and walked alone towards the 6 fairly handsome boys. When they took their  away from Daniel and set it on me their mouths fell open, Daniel walked to my side and smiled at them, “Just act like a human and they’ll love you.” He whispered in my ear and then grabbed my hand once again. “Looks like they already do.” I said and giggled, maybe this wont be so bad. All 6 of them walked towards us in a very manly appropriate way, the tallest one to the far left was the first one to speak, everyone else just kept staring at me. “Daniel so nice to see you again, and who is this dashing young lady you brought with you?” He said and smiled at me, Daniel rolled his eyes, “Hey Nathan this is Brook,” He spoke with excitement in his voice and all the boys were eyeing him suspiciously. Well not eyeing him, they were eying me but they were suspicious of him now that I did know. “Brook this is Nathan, Seth, and Andy.” He pointed at everyone and spoke their names and everyone nodded, I smiled pleasantly and shook all their hands firmly, “Hi Brook..” The one known as Seth said, he was a very tan muscular man with light blonde hair and brown eyes, his hair was formed into this very formal disarray and it looked like he was flexing but I couldn’t tell. He wore a white flannel shirt and baggy khaki shorts with used flip flops. The one known as Nathan, who was standing on the left of Seth, was a scrawny, very pale man with Bronze-colored hair; his eyes were scrunched together and he looked a little Japanese but other than that he didn’t look bad at all. He wore a dark blue short-sleeved shirt and dark blue baggy Jeans, his hair was spiked up on the top of his head and he wore a shiny silver pendant around his neck. Andy which stood out from them all; his Skin was a very dark tan and the hot pink flannel shirt he had on made him look much darker, almost black. His pants were very loose and baggy and he wore a belt to keep them up but god it didn’t work, I could see his boxers! his pink shirt fit very tightly around his muscular chest and his black flip flops made it very much aware that he was a surfer. They all looked like super models, they were beautiful, all though not as beautiful as William or Daniel.



“Hi…” I said shyly, Seth walked up and smacked Daniels shoulder, “Looks like you got lucky this time boy! She is gorgeous!” He shouted loudly, I blushed bright red and looked at Daniel. Daniel rolled his eyes and smacked Seth’s head. “Yeah, great way to embarrass the poor girl Seth.” He scowled, “And we’re not together..” He added at the end, I smiled at him and nodded and thanked him in my eyes. “Oh in that case she is single?” Andy asked; I could see the hopefulness in his eyes. Everyone looked at me like I was a prize and they were going to work their best to win me, but I interrupted their fantasies, “No, I am not.” I said and smiled politely, All the boys’ eyes went down and their smiles faded, “Who is he?” Someone asked, “His name is William Collins boys.” Daniel said.  Nathan, Andy, and Seth all froze and looked at me. “She is dating William Collins.” Andy  stated, Nathans polite stare slowly turned into an evil glare. my conscious was telling me to back off and keep it cool but his glare set my Vampire senses in motion and the werewolf inside me was snarling furiously. Seth walked slowly up to Daniel and spoke very quietly in his ear trying to make it to where I couldn’t hear but my Vampire hearing made it sound like he was talking aloud to everyone, “Does she know that he’s..?” Seth asked, “Yes she does, in fact…” Daniel started to speak but I cut him off, “Wow!” I shouted and everyone’s attention turned to me, Seth looked at me appalled and Daniel laughed, “Brook its okay, they already know everything about the whole Vampire-werewolf thing, no secrets here.” He spoke words that shocked me making me stone heart get sore. “What?” I asked breathlessly, “Well, they don’t know what you are.” He said and rolled his eyes again, Everyone gasped for air after Daniel spoke, “What you are?” Nathan said roughly. I glared at Daniel, “Yea, now they do though!” I shouted, Daniel stopped smiling and looked down. “Okay Brook you need to tell us what the hell is going on now.” Seth said hostile, I backed up and took a deep breath. If they know about vampires and werewolves existing then would it hurt me if I told them I was a half-breed? “What are ya’ll some kind of vampire hunter or something?” I asked cautiously, “No, All we want to know is whether or not we need to be careful around you…” Nathan spoke with assuredness like he was the leader of this…pack? Daniel looked at me and took a breather, “Brook they are not going to hurt you, they just want to know the truth.” He said and patted my shoulder, I jumped back and snarled, “I don’t even know them!” I shouted harshly. They all jumped back about 4 steps and leaned away from me. “Brook calm down..” Daniel warned, “You are in a public place, relax before you start catching peoples attention..” He spoke in a relaxing voice and I couldn’t help but lighten my voice slightly, “You really want to know?” I eyed them all in narrowed eyes, “Yes..we need to know.” Daniel spoke, “If you want me to participate in what’s going on between both species then you better cough it all up.” Daniel smiled at his threat cause he knew that I had no choice but to tell. “Okay, take a seat gentlemen.” I said quietly and walked past them. I decided that maybe if I flaunted myself a little they wouldn’t pay attention to what I was saying and pay attention to what I was wearing. I took a seat and lifted the end of my dress a little so it was showing most of my thigh, every one stared at me while they were walking over to the table and took a seat. I took a deep breath and tried to unscramble my thoughts so it would make it easier for them to understand. I sighed, “Okay; Nathan, Andy, Seth, and Daniel, you mustn’t repeat the words  I am speaking now do you understand?” I wanted to make it very clear to them that if they talk about this again, I will happily kill them. Everyone nodded and waited for me to begin the long story ahead.



“How long have you known about them?” I asked, They looked at each other, “About 6 years.” Seth spoke. I sighed and looked at the napkin that I was folding in my hands, I took a deep breath and began. “What I am about to tell you may shock you.” I warned, they nodded and I continued, “Boys, I am a half-breed.” I spoke lightly, Everyone except me and Daniel started gasping for air, I giggled, “I know..I was shocked too.” Seth was the only one brave enough to speak, “How long have you been one?” He asked in the smallest voice, “About a week..” I trailed off. Everyone cringed in their seat, even Daniel. “Wow, now that part I didn’t know.” Daniel sputtered, “Don’t worry,” I comforted, “I do not drink blood, I am a half vampire so I don’t need it. Or at least I think I don’t.” I scrunched my eye brows together and looked around the room. No one spoke for the longest time, and I was starting to get worried about surviving the next 2 hours alone with these four terrified boys, or men I should say. I cleared my throat and tried to smile, “Ya’ll I promise you, you don’t have to be afraid. I will not hurt you.” I vowed to myself, Nathan looked at me and smiled, “We know that. What are your abilities?” He asked curiously, I snapped my head up and proudly spoke, “I am probably the most advanced species in the history of man kind. I am faster then both species and stronger, I am smarter and more intelligent. I cannot convert into Werewolf anymore, sadly.” I said and grinned. Everyone stared at me patiently and waited for me to continue, “How did ya’ll figure out about us?” I asked, Seth and Nathan looked at each other and then looked down. Andy spoke quietly, “Seth and Nathan were attacked when they were 15 and I well..” Andy looked down at his hands that were on there table, “I…was the one who attacked them.” He spoke, my eyes went wide. How could he have been the one to attack them? He isn’t even a vampire! “Wait, how..?” I trailed off, Andy chuckled and touched my hand with his. “I am half-vampire brook,” He spoke, “But I didn’t smell you when I walked in here, how come you don’t have a salty, rusty scent like every other vampire?” I choked on the words I spoke, Andy smiled and leaned away from me. “Brook I am half-breed so therefore I don’t have a scent and even if I did it would be a very weak odor, almost not even noticeable.” He chuckled at the shock in my eyes and then looked away, “Well then what kind of smell do I have?” I said and looked at all four of the boys in front of me with a slight grin on my face. Andy chuckled again and sighed, “To humans you smell like a batch of roses fresh out of a garden, added with some cinnamon and cocoanut.” He spoke with humor and then looked at Seth and Nathan and Daniel with a glint of sarcasm in his eyes, “You read my mind Andy!” Daniel shouted, I giggled under my breath and blushed but then went completely still when I felt a presence behind me, “Yeah, but you didn’t read mine.” I familiar voice called out behind me, I jumped out of my seat and crouched in a defensive position, “My dearest brook!”  Aaron called out and jumped back a couple steps, I snarled under my breath but yet I still couldn’t help but be polite, “hello Aaron, so nice to see you again.” I said and smiled and slightly relaxed. Aaron smiled and looked at the four boys behind me and then his eyes rested on Daniel, I jumped back in Daniels lap and snarled at Aaron, “Keep your distance bloodsucker!” I growled. Aaron laughed again and jumped back 3 more steps, “Brook just relax, I don’t mean to alarm you just to bring you news.” He said quietly, “What news?” I spoke in a menacing voice, “Brook I will not attack you, your stronger than 6 of me combined, do you really think I would take that risk with you?” He said softly, a piercing howl crawled loudly out of my mouth, “If you didn’t want to take that risk with me then why did you ever change me?!” I shouted. Andy was suddenly by my side, he put a hand on my shoulder and tried to get me to relax, “Brook just calm down, you are in the public, don’t make a scene and expose yourself!” He snarled at me slightly. I took a deep breath and closed my eyes and tried to calm myself down, maybe it would work. I finally calmed down and built up enough strength to look at Aaron again. When I looked at him William suddenly appeared behind him in human form.

Chapter 19

Aaron sighed, “William can you not leave your precious Brook alone for a certain amount of time?” he spoke in a snobby tone and it sort of pissed me off. “Yeah I could, did, but someone came up to me and told me that you were going to pay her and Daniel a little visit, so I thought I should come say hi.” William spoke and smiled evilly, “And who spoke of this?” Aaron asked darkly, knowing that one of his own clan members were betraying him. “I cannot say, she didn’t tell her name just that I should want to ay you a little visit up here at Chandlers Café.” William spoke calmly, I looked at Aaron and saw pure fury. “Listen Aaron, I don’t want to fight, why don’t we save that for the right time and place. Just let Brook and all the humans go and we will wait for another time to release our anger out from one another.” William looked at me and smiled. Aaron looked up and smiled at me, then looked at Daniel then looked behind him. William crouched down defensively and looked at him with furious eyes, Aaron smiled slightly and nodded. “Okay, another time and whoever wins takes everything.” Aaron spoke, “Aaron the only thing I want from you is for you to die by my hands and my hands alone.” William snarled under his breath. Now it was my turn. I turned to Daniel who was behind me, I stared into his frightened eyes and spoke quietly, “Go stand by Andy and do not move until Aaron leaves, do you understand me?” I whispered in his ear, He looked at me and nodded then started walking slowly and quietly towards Andy, who was behind me. I straightened out of my crouch and lifted my skirt just a little for dramatic affect and then started walking towards Aaron slowly, “Aaron, if you leave William and the pack alone, including Daniel,” I spoke in a rush, when I was close enough I smiled and fluttered my eyes a little for show again. Aaron smiled and started lifting his hands a little to do, well, I have no idea. I stopped his hands with mine, his hands were so cold it sent a shiver down my spine, “I will…” I trailed off and let go of his hands. I looked at William and smiled, his eyes were wide and his mouth was wide open. He shook his head furiously and mouthed the words ‘no’ I giggled and turned my eyes to Aaron, “I will try to talk to William about making a truce with you and your clan.” I said and smiled at him. Aarons smile busted into a roar of laughter, he was laughing so hard he couldn’t even keep himself up, he had to bend over on his knees. “Brook I always knew you had a sense of humor!” He barked, I looked at William’s relieved expression and giggled. Yeah, he’s laughing now. I jumped one foot and grabbed Aarons neck with one of my hands then slowly lifted him above my head. I looked at William behind him and giggled evilly at his approving expression, he must like this very much. I heard a couple chuckles behind me but ignored them and I turned my attention towards the vampire in my hands, I smiled menacingly and looked straight in the bloodsuckers eyes
“You want to know what the best things about being a half-breed is Aaron?”  I snarled furiously, Aaron just looked at me with a shocking expression. Even though I was in control of the situation I now have a giant problem, one wrong move, one wrong mistake and it could possibly be the end of my life. “Is that if I kill one of my own then I will always have someone to go back to.” I said, I tightened my grip around his neck and a growl slowly crept up my throat, “heed my warning Aaron, the words of a wise man reflect his fate and the fates of people around him, I suggest you back off before you go to war with the wrong pack.” I smiled at the end and slowly lowered him so that his feet were on the floor. I took a deep breath and released my hand from his neck but still stayed alarm, just to make sure that he wasn’t gonna try anything. William walked up slowly against Aarons back and breathed on his neck and then whispered, “You stand before her, as if to win a battle. But in all actuality, you’re walking towards eternal damnation with no one by your side.” Williams voice was filled with nothing but menace, “You are alone Aaron.” He spoke slowly and then backed away. Aaron was standing in-between me and William as if he were going to get executed in like a second. His face lit up in an evil smile and he leaned into to my face, “This is not over Brook, we will have our war very soon. Be patient, it is coming,” he spoke and then leaned in closer, our nose touching, “You will die very soon.” He spoke and then chuckled, I leaned away and the spat in his face, “Can’t wait!” I mouthed and then pointed to the door, Aaron rubbed the spit off his face and then walking away, straight through the door without another word, leaving his enemies behind him.

Once Aaron was out the door and his scent disappeared, I ran to William and jumped in his arms, I crushed my lips to his and tightened my grip around him. My dress rode up to the beginning of my hind leg, showing my panties. Williams reaction didn’t surprise me one bit, he welcomed me happily and crushed me tighter to his chest. With our tongues in twined and our bodies crushed up against each other, I forgot about our little audience behind us. I jumped down, my lips still crushed to his, and pulled my dress down and then finally parted our lips. I smiled and took him in my arms once again and laid my head against his chest, “You saved me once again William, thank you so much.” I said sincerely, William put his lips to my ear and spoke gently, “When you love someone as much as I love you, Danger is no option, nor death.” He smiled and kissed my cheek. I giggled and finally braced myself to turn around and face the four boys behind me, “well, that was a very interesting visit from him.” I spoke to all of them, “Brook you smoked his *bunny*!”  Seth called out happily, I giggled again and nodded, “I didn’t realized I was that strong, that was a giant surprise.” William looked at Andy and sniffed uncomfortably, “You half-vampire.” He noticed and sniffed the air again, “Yep.” Andy spoke and chuckled, “And you’re the lucky William Collins.” He stated, William smiled and shook his hand firmly. “Ya’ll are quite the hand-full.” He added,  I giggled and William chuckled. Daniel looked down and coughed, “You should of heard them last night, they were bringing down the house!” he bust in a roar of laughter and William gave him a disapproving look, I blushed and looked down. “Oh you can’t even deny it!” He shouted at Will, I giggled and nodded hysterically, Daniel looked at me and pointed, “See, I am right.” He complained and laughed again. William rolled his eyes and wrapped an arm around my waste and pulled me closer to his side, “It’s time to go, Patrick and Ben will be wanting to know what happened. And we have a visitor Brook.” William spoke, I turned my head and looked at him confused. “What are you talking about visitor?” I said and stiffened my position, “Its fine, she’s the one who told me where I need to go.”  He said softly and turned to the boys in front of us. “Thank you men, for taking care of her.” He spoke whole-heartedly, Andy smiled and nodded, “Our pleasure, we should do this again sometime, you were fun Brook. And I would love to learn more about our kind and yours.”  Andy spoke and Seth and Nathan nodded as well and returned the smile. “Daniel lets go.” I warned, Daniel ran to my side and smiled, “feisty, I liked that.” He spoke and chuckled, I smacked his shoulder softly and then waved goodbye to Andy and them one more time. I started walking through the door with the thoughts of today’s event in my mind.



Chapter 20

“Sweetie wake up, we’re home.” I heard William whisper in my ear, I slowly opened my eyes and looked for his face and smiled when I found him. “Hey William, I thought vampires couldn’t sleep?” Daniel asked, who was driving his own car down a dirt road, or that’s what it felt like. William rolled his eyes, “Myth Daniel, you really shouldn’t believe everything you hear or see, it will really mess you up.” He spoke with a cocky edge to his voice, Daniel smiled and lifted his eye brow like he was confused, “So do you think I will ever convert into a werewolf like ya’ll?” He asked and there was no hiding the hopefulness in his voice, “How old are you?” I asked, Daniel changed his expression into a fake frown and rolled his eyes, “Do you have to know?” he mocked, “Yes, in order for us to know if you are going to convert we need to know your age,” I said proudly.
Daniel chuckled and took one hand off the wheel and straightened the rear view mirror could look at me. “I am almost 20 years old.” He spoke and scrunched his eye brows together and scowled at the old news. Me and William looked at each other at the same time and then creased our eyebrows in worry, “That’s the perfect age isn’t it?” I whispered confused, William nodded slightly and looked out the window behind me, “Do you think he has it in his blood?” he whispered so lowly Daniel wouldn’t be able to hear. I shook my head in question and my head a little, “He might, why else would he be involved with the prophecy, how else would he even know of us existing?” I spoke quietly into his ear and then looked over at Daniel who I knew was trying to listen in on our conversation. “It’s possible Daniel, we’re not sure. We would have to be very careful and watch you closely, if you do have it in your blood then you should convert very soon.” I spoke directly to Daniel in a gently murmur . Daniel looked at the road ahead of him and tried to hide the excitement me and William knew he was feeling. We both knew that Daniel wanted to be one of us but if it wasn’t destined to be true how could we be the ones to tell him? How could he want to be one of us? I don’t get it. This war will end soon and when it does we will be left with nothing but a head full of bad memories and a curse that can’t be cured. How could he want that?

“You know, maybe if you weren’t such a dweeb you would get a lot of friends.” Daniel spoke from behind the counter, “Daniel, the only reason I don’t have friends is because I am in a different world with creatures that shouldn’t exist.” I said a little harshly “And I am one of them.” I spat at him and giggled, he eyed me with mockery. I can’t believe they are making fun of something I can’t control, it’s not something I can just turn off with the snap of my fingers.  He is so blind, he needs to open his damn eyes and see that not everything can go as planned, “William can I talk to you for a second?” I asked, back facing him. “Yea sure...?” He said in question, I got up and headed to the back room, where I told Daniel I was a half-breed and he thought it was sweet. We walked side by side in the room silently and then I turned around and closed the door, “William...” I whispered, back facing him, “Brook what is it?” He asked, completely concerned, I turned and looked at him, “Brook you know you can tell me anything...” he said and grabbed my face in his hands; I grabbed his hands and stood still, then closed my eyes and saw a whole different vision. I felt different hands, cold hands on my face; Even though my eyes were closed I could see the person behind my eye lids and for some odd reason I wasn’t scared, I wasn’t shocked, I wasn’t mad or anything. Someone was standing right in the spot of William and I felt strong and loved more than anything. The question was…who was standing in front of me..? I tensed up slightly and braced myself, I opened my eyes, “William..” I whispered and grabbed his waste and smiled, “William?” Daniel interrupted, I creased my eyebrows and concentrated on William in front of me but was shocked and terrified when I saw who was really standing in front of me, “I know you still love him Brook, but no one expected that ambush luckily me, Patrick and Ben made it out alive. Aarons dead along with his clan thanks to William…” Daniel spoke slowly and softly and then smiled, “What do you mean only you; Patrick and Ben made it out alive?” I said and started to feel really sick and dizzy, “Brook you already know this, please don’t make me tell you again…” He said painfully, I felt a tear roll down my cheek and my stone heart broke in a thousand little pieces, “Daniel tell me!” I screamed and cried, “Aaron killed him! You were there when it happened!” He yelled and grabbed my waste and pulled me to him tightly, “No…” I whispered and shuddered, “William...no...I love you...” I said and screamed, I lost my balance and almost fell to the ground but Daniel held me up and fell to his knees, still holding me. “Oh my god no!” I screamed in tears, “Brook sweetie please stop crying!’ He yelled, I screamed louder and started losing consciousness, “Brook whats wrong?!’ A beautiful voice screamed. Then all the sudden the vision changed and I was in William’s arms crying, his warm arms… “William…?” I whispered, tears still running down my face,”Yes Brook I’m here, whats wrong with you?” He asked wholeheartedly, I wiped my cheeks and got up out of his arms. I’ve been having these little breakdowns for awhile now. I wonder whats going on,  if something is going to happen that isn’t good then these visions are obviously my warning. “Brook I need you to tell me what the hell is going out cause your getting me worried.” William spoke good and hard, like he was angry or something. I turned to him and slightly smiled, now that the tears were gone he kind of relaxed. “William I think I am having…either hullicinations or visions about what will happen if we attack Aaron…”I spoke quietly, a little embarrassed but yet firm in some odd way. William looked at me and smiled but then looked down and shook his head, “Brook that is suppose to happen, the first of every new species always has some sort of…I don’t know…just something that helps them see what their future is, its not common, it rarely happens.” William spoke firmly, proud that he knew that. I shuddered where I stood and closed my eyes in sadness, “Brook?” Daniel called behind me, I flashed around and looked at him with a blunt expression, “Hey Daniel, what’s up?” I said, my mind completely occupied. Daniel caught on instantly, “Wow your looking rough darling, whens the last time your slept?” He asked cursiouly. I looked at him and rolled my eyes, “4 days ago.” I said and yawned, Daniel’s eyes went wide, “Um have you ever heard of a word called nap?” he asked, amused. ‘Daniel I’m not in the mood for your ass okay? So back the hell off.” I snapped at him unthinkingly, he looked at me a little scared and lifted his hands, “Okay just relax Brook, I was jus messing with you.” He spoke softly but on edge, I knew he was trying to piss me off.



After about three days of calming down and having a chance to just think, Daniel took it upon himself to be a jackass as usual. “Brook, you should know something about me before our friendship gets any deeper,” Daniel spoke, I looked at him, completely amused. “You think this friendship is running deeper?” I asked a little annoyed, “Well yea, the whole prophecy is making a lot of sense to me now,” he spoke bravely and firmly, if William were hear right now hearing this then I don’t think Daniel would be alive right now. Good thing he isn’t here. “Daniel you know my opinion about the prophecy, me nor William plan on abiding by it so you shouldn’t either.” I eyed him in suspicion cause he was smiling like this was some sort of joke. “But Brook, I am soon going to be on of you and I’m going to need a cult soon,” he spoke happily, completely relaxed, “Only pack leaders can have a cult.” I said loudly and growled a little, “Yes you are correct, but does it or does it not say in the prophecy that I am the future leader of Williams pack?” He asked and then cringed a little at my expression, “how did you find out about that?” I asked shocked, “ I refuse to say.” He spoke and then looked up dramatically, I rolled my eyes, “It was Ben wasn’t it?” I guessed, “Wow, kind of creepy Brook.” He yelled completely freaked out. I laughed and howled for Ben while staring at Daniel, “And why did you have to tell her I told you?” Ben complained when walking through the door, “I didn’t, she guessed. She’s magical!” Daniel yelled and laughed, I giggled, “Yes I am and if you don’t leave right now then I will be forced to turn you into a toad and make you wait a thousand years for your princess/peasant to turn you back into the jackass you really, truly are.” I snarled and waved my hand towards the door, “Maybe I already found my princess/peasant.” He spoke softly, my eyes went wide and then I growled loudly, “Get out.” I spoke menacingly, he yelped and then ran out of the room. I giggled and then turned back to Ben, “Why did you tell him?” I complained, “You already know the situation both me and William are in and you telling him all the information wont help one freaking bit.” I glared at him, he laughed and looked behind me.
Chapter 21

“Brook,” William spoke from behind me, startling me. “Wow! William, when did you get back?” I jumped up and then walked over to him and kissed him slightly on the cheek, “Like half a second ago, how are you?” He asked and smiled, “I’m good, stressed out but good. How are you?” I asked, and kissed him on the cheek. He chuckled and looked outside, “Good now that I’m with you.” There was a tone in his voice that I couldn’t understand. I looked up at him and concentrated on his eyes and it sent my heart  racing. “William what’s wrong?” I asked. Tense, William remained still until Ben cleared his throat. He looked at me and cleared his throat as well, “ I looked over Daniel’s blood cells and,” I looked at him and interrupted, “Wait, how did you get Daniels blood cells?” I asked a little out of focus, “Doesn’t matter he said, all that matters is Daniel is going to convert into a werewolf very soon. In about an hour, maybe earlier.
This was unexpected, I didn’t think he was going to actually convert on us. Guess we were wrong.” Williams whispered and then growled when he heard and felt a quickened heart beat behind me and him. “Daniel it would be very prudent of me to not keep you alive.” He growled and turned around with me crushed against his side, “I’m going to become one of ya’ll in less then an hour?” Daniel asked, truly excited, “Yes the conversion could have already started.” William closed his eyes and a growl crackled up his throat, ‘”Listen Daniel there are rules to being one of us.” Ben said and then walked closer to him, “You cannot kill an innocent and you must never tell a soul what you are. If you do, the consequences will reach high levels, possibly death.” William spoke as if he would be the one to do it if Daniel messed up. “Once I convert I will take over your pack, right William?” Daniel sputtered out, William went completely still and howled at him, “You will NOT take my place!” William snarled, Daniel jumped back and I grabbed Williams  around the waist to keep him still. “William relax!” I screamed, “Daniel shut your damn mouth before I cut your throat!” I snarled, “NO! it says in the prophecy that I will take over his pack and you and I will be together! That’s the way it is going to be!” He yelled furiously. I pounced on him and threw him into the north wall, crushing him straight into the bare colored surface, “Watch your tongue human!” I snarled and picked him up, off the ground, with my hands. “You are not one of them yet Daniel so do remember that you are still a fragile human that is saying too many things too quickly. As I have said before, you will NOT take over William’s pack and their will be NO US. Now do I make my self perfectly clear?” I growled and tightened my grip around his neck and waited until he nodded, once he did I slowly set him on the ground when he threw my hands off him and straightened out his shirt, “Not even you will be able to change what will be done once I have converted. Whether you like it or not Brook, We will be together, just as the prophecy says. So don’t make yourself look so high as if you could avoid your own destiny.” He grinned and then slowly, but roughly started walking towards the door, “Daniel where are you going?” I growled, “Somewhere I can think.” He spoke, back facing us and then disappeared out the door.
“Daniel…” I whispered and started walking after him when a tan hand flashed around my waste  and pulled me back, “Brook  let him go, he needs to calm down” William spoke as soft as he could, but I knew he was more upset then I was. “I wasn’t expecting that!” I cried, “How could he think that him and I….were...ugh!”  I growled and looked down and turned into William’s shoulder then shivered cause his hot skin didn’t mix well with my almost cold skin.

(Daniels point of view)

I stalked off my front porch and started walking towards my car when I saw a figure about 300 yards off into the woods. I started jogging straight for the figure when I felt a sharp pain shoot up my spine. The first thing that came to my head was I was converting. I ran faster and harder to see if that would weaken the pain but I guess not, when I was about half way there I finally saw what the figure was, it was Aaron. “No…” I whispered and then became too weak to even stand up so I collapsed to the ground, “Woo…” Aaron yelled and then shook his head, “I thought It was going to be harder to get to you, I guess not.” He spoke happily and then chuckled, “You know you really shouldn’t be alone, your dogs were suppose to protect you from us ’bloodsuckers’ as they call us.” He spoke like a serpent and when he finally caught on to what was happening to me then he laughed quietly as to make sure that he wouldn’t alarm William nor Brook. “Oh is the human boy finally converting?!” he yelled in question. Another sharp pain shriveled up my spine when I started gasping for air, ’I knew this was going to happen, but right in front of me, now that, my friend was unexpected. Now your helpless and in pain, I would make you into a half but I think 2 half-breeds in this world is enough so I think I’ll just kill you now.” He growled slightly and bent down to my neck, then chuckled, “Now with you gone, I have a better chance of killing William and taking back what is rightfully mine…Brook.” He said and then sank his teeth into my neck.




Not only did I feel pain shiver up my spine but I now felt the uncontrollable agony of my neck, the venom slowly started mixing in with my blood and started traveling all the way down my throat to my veins. Is this the way Aaron always leaves his prey? Out in the open, alive, and in terrible agony. This is a horrible way to die, to not see anybody to comfort you to tell you it’s alright. I wish Brook was here. I could feel the venom seeping into my veins and closer to my heart, this was getting worse.


(Brook’s point of view)

I lifted my head from Williams shoulder and sniffed the air, I could smell  the unmistakable scent of Vampire. I quickly got out of Williams arms and sniffed the air again, Daniel is still here. “What’s wrong?” He asked tense, “Vampire….Daniel….William….” I whispered rationally and then howled slightly, “Daniel!” I screamed, then started running to the door, not even bothering to open it. I broke it down and ran as fast as I could to his car. When I got there I sniffed the air again and then looked to the north. There in the fields, lay Daniel gasping for air. When I looked closer at his face, I noticed some very familiar marks on his neck. Unthinkingly I put my hand on my neck where the vampire fang marks would remain forever. He’s been bitten. “Daniel!” I screamed and ran as fast as I could to him, it obviously wasn’t fast enough, “Brook…Brook…help…” he whispered painfully, blood slowly starting to leak out of his mouth, I ran faster, so fast my legs started to burn with speed. “William, come fast!” I screamed out to the house. When I finally reached him I bent down and rested my hand on his cheek and wiped off the blood that was leaking out of his mouth, “Daniel it’s okay I’m here, it’s fine. WILLIAM!” I screamed in tears. I grabbed his hand and looked at his neck, the bite marks were gruesome. When I finally saw two figures start running with full speed over here I turned over to Daniel again, “Daniel can you hear me?” I whispered. He smiled slightly and tried to tightened his grip around my hand but he was too weak. “Daniel!” William yelled and bent down on the opposite side of me. He grabbed his chin and bent it to the left so he could see the gruesome bite marks the bloodsucker gave him, “Damn it! The venom is too deep, I can’t suck it out!” He cursed and then ripped off his shirt, showing his bare chest. Then he lifted Daniels head slightly and put it under for a cushion. “Daniel, its okay…” I whispered, I laid my head on his chest to check his heart beat and shrugged in disappointment when it was racing ten times faster than mine or Williams put together. “Its poison…” I whispered, then looked in Daniels eyes, “Daniel sweetie, the poison is too evolved with your blood, if we try to suck it out now, we will drain your body.” I whispered roughly, feeling tears stream down my face. Daniel looked at me and choked on his own blood then smiled slightly, “You know...” He choked, I wiped the blood from his mouth and grabbed his face in my hands and waited for him to speak once again. “It…would of….worked out….between us…” He gasped for air and then coughed up more blood, “Yeah…It probably would’ve...” I whispered and snuffled a little then smiled. “I’m so….sorry…” He coughed, I cried more and looked over at William when I noticed he was looking down with a tear streaming down his face. “None of this would’ve happened if we had never met you Daniel. I…am so sorry…” He spoke then looked at him. Daniel smiled a little and reached for Williams shoulder, “I’m glad…it did…” He whispered, another gush of blood oozing out of his mouth. He turned to me again and weakly lifted his hand to my cheek and wiped off a tear with his thumb. “I…love…” and he trailed off and I heard his heart slowly lose its strength….then stopped completely. He was gone.

Chapter 22

“No….” I whispered, tears coming even harder, “Daniel…” My voice whimpered like a child, “William….save him…” I cried, “Please…save him!” I cried and yelled. I punched his chest and tried to save him myself but I felt too weak, “Daniel!” I punched his chest even harder and I eventually heard his ribs crack from my hard punch. “William!” I screamed, “NO!” I screamed and cried time and time again, William got up and walked around the lifeless body that laid before us and knelt down and took me in his arms, “William save him!” I cried and punched at his chest trying to open his eyes so he could see that he had someone to save but he wouldn’t move. I finally gave up and crashed into his shoulder, “He’s gone! No…he’s gone!” I cried and screamed. After all that we  been through this was how it actually ended, we lost the war; so many people died, the bloodsuckers are still alive and I was growing weaker by the day. “William…” I whispered and tried to calm my tears but they were moving to hard, “ Brook, calm down please.” His voice cracked right when he spoke, “I just….need you to…calm down for…me..” His tone was the most saddening tone I have ever heard and I couldn’t help myself so I wrapped my arms around his waste and just cry until he cried. When he finally did I held him tighter and we remained there until dark, “Its time to go, the pack will want to know what happened.” Ben appeared out of nowhere, “brook I am sorry…but a war is about to break out across Gretchon and we have to do something about it.” He spoke with the most serene tone I have ever heard him speak before, I looked at him and then turned my eyes at William. His eyes were almost black, it was either anger or depression that was overshadowing his beautiful eyes. “Brook,” William looked in my eyes and I stared back in his for the longest time, or it seemed like it, and waited for him to speak. “I swear Brook, Aaron will pay. I will not rest until he is dead, I promise you.” He vowed and then leaned in and kissed my forehead, once he pulled away he was on his feet and was bringing me up right behind him. I looked down where Daniel lied and then closed my eyes, “Your death will be avenged, I swear it.” I whispered so silently no one would hear it and then turned away and started walking into the woods. And started following the scent of the bloodsucker who killed the one human, or werewolf, who could end the war.





“Brook  where are you going?” William started walking after me, I couldn’t see him but I could hear his foot steps come closer to me. I increased my walking and tried to ignore him, “William, Daniel is dead, he is gone! And I will not rest until Aaron is dead as well.” I snarled and started jogging deeper in the woods. I felt Williams presence behind me so I increased my jogging. “Brook, we can’t change what happened. Everything around us changes every second we sit here,” William was suddenly interrupted my Ben “We need to plan this out carefully and then take action.” Ben spoke like a true leader, if my premonition’s are correct and William’s fate is to die trying to kill Aaron, as painful as that thought may be, Ben will probably take over the pack now that Daniel was…gone.
Suddenly I was facing William’s direction and was shocked at what stood before me. Daniel was there chuckling at my shocked expression, “Brook, you were always the impatient type weren’t you?” He spoke amused but then became serious, “You need to listen to them, they are trying to save as many lives as possible, Brook they are trying to save you.” He looked down, “Yeah I may not be there anymore but I do know that this war is now big enough to destroy every innocent being that is involved in all of this bullshit, you and William are meant to end this war. Ya’ll are meant to make a truce with time, to bring peace. Don’t deny your destiny.”  Daniel’s eyes were tilted to the side, serious but amused as if he was calling me stupid mentally. I looked down and then felt an ice cold tear stream down my cheek, then I felt a warm finger touch the cold tear and wipe it away. “I’m sorry for pressuring you about us.” He said and smiled, “I don’t know, I guess when you love someone you would practically do anything to be with them.” He said and smiled even bigger. He walked towards me, leaned in, and brushed his lips across my cheek and pulled away fast, “Ha ha I pulled one on you this time!” he shouted and then ran past William and Ben , then slowly and gradually disappeared into the air.

When I finally came out of my little phase I ran to William and crushed my lips to his and pulled my body to his. His lips were cold, it felt like I haven’t kissed them for such a long time; it felt good. About thirty seconds had passed when I finally pulled away, “I love you so much….” I said and kissed him for another five seconds and then pulled away again, “I am so sorry for all of what happened.” I said and kissed his neck, “Why are you apologizing?  You didn’t do anything.” He said and chuckled a sad, but amusing chuckle. “Let’s plan this thing, fast. I’m ready to kill a bloodsucker.” I said and grinned; William smiled and placed his lips to mine very softly then pulled away. I pulled away from William. I started pacing back and forth impatiently waiting for some sort of order from William when I stopped pacing and looked at them they were looking down, smiling. 
“What?” I asked and then huffed slightly, “Brook you don’t have to wait for me to give you an order, just…do it.” William said and chuckled. I giggled and looked at him, “What makes you think I was waiting?” I asked and turned around and flamed off in a burst of speed towards the house but when I got to the spot where Daniel lied I skidded to a stop, his body was gone.. “Where’d he go?” I whispered, I turned in Williams direction and howled, “Daniel is gone!” I screamed and then ran straight for the house.



I jumped over the busted down door and ran down the hall to Daniels office, I kicked down the door and jumped to the desk in a rush of adrenaline. I opened the drawer, “Come on, theres got to be a map of Gretchen somewhere!” I said rationally, I opened the next drawer and the next. Coming up on nothing, “Oh my god!” I yelled, “Are you looking for something?” Aaron spoke right in front of me and chuckled. When I looked up I jumped on the desk and crouched in a defensive position and snarled, “looks like our fates intercepted sooner than I thought.” And jumped at him, pinning him against the wall. I jumped back a step and then pushed him straight through, crushing him against the next wall on the other side of the hall. “Wow, you’ve grown stronger Brook.” He said and pushed me to the right of the hole in the wall I pushed him through, “Although you might want to rethink your plans of killing me, you know. Maybe if you wait, we can meet. And IF you kill me, you will be praised from all your dogs!” He said and laughed, I tried to free myself form his grip but he held my hands firmly and I couldn’t get a good hold of him so I just flopped down and waited for him to finish what he was saying “I’ve waited…so…amazingly long for this, and I intend to come out of it alive.” He snarled, I spat in his face, “Don’t plan on it Aaron!” I growled and jerked against his hold. He chuckled again , “So….where do you want to do this and when?” he asked slightly, I laughed and a snarl ripped up my throat, “Just name it you bastard!” I howled loudly, knowing William will arrive any minute. “Well…” He said and lifted his head to the ceiling, “How about tomorrow Before Midnight…in the old town’s meadow?” he snarled at me, “Fine, but know this you bloodsucker, this war will claim its prize and it sure as hell isn’t gonna be me!” I howled again, even louder than the first time. He inched his face closer to mine and kissed my cheek roughly, “Well little bitch, looks like you just struck a deal with the devil!” he said against my cheek and laughed menacingly. He released me and started running deeper down the dark hallway, slowly disappearing.
Chapter 23

“Brook!” William called, “What?” I said, shaking my head. “Aaron is here!” He yelled “Yeah I know, he just left.” I said and smiled. I was sitting on Daniel’s leather chair, twirling it around, William ran over to me and stopped my chair, “Hey!”  I complained, William locked my eyes in his and snarled, “What do you mean he just left ?!” He yelled, “Uh yeah, he was just here.” I said and shut up quickly, “What happened?” He asked, curious. “Well…” I looked at both of them and smiled, “We got a war tomorrow boys.”  I said and smiled. They both stared wide-eyed at me, “What?” William said and coughed a little, he was so shocked! “Before midnight, which is obviously 11:30, we will meet Aaron and his clan in town’s meadow, which I have no idea where that is.” I said and smiled proudly at myself. “Brook we aint even prepared!” Ben yelled, I giggled and rolled my eyes, “In war, no one has to be prepared.” I whispered, William looked at the ceiling and lifted his hands, “Why? Why lord must my girlfriend be insane?!” He yelled. My smile vanished and I stared at both of them, “Wait..I thought that’s what we wanted?” I asked, heart racing. “Well…yes technically, but not this soon!” William shouted, “Oh my god!” Ben yelled to the ceiling, “No, ya’ll have put it off long enough!” I yelled “Stop making excuses, lets finish this god forsaken thing and then we can move on…in peace!” I yelled. The room was silent for the longest time, then William looked at Ben “Ben assemble a pack meeting. Now, go.” He ordered. Ben nodded and started ripping is shirt off, then walked out the door.  Leaving me and William behind him.


“I have gathered you here tonight,” William spoke leaderly among the whole pack with a strong, controlled voice. “ To bring to you some very tragic yet pleasurable news.” His tone saddened a little and he looked down, “ Daniel Beckon is dead.” He spoke, “And the war has come upon us faster than I ever thought possible. We must act fast.” William’s voice cracked at the end but then he regained his power after about a minute, “Tomorrow we are to meet the vampires in Town’s Meadow before midnight, there is where we will remove the threat of extinction and restore peace through out our species.” He said and raised his head to the full moon above him and released a strikingly beautiful howl, sending confidence and peace through out the pack, so we can prepare for the battle ahead of us. Ben turned to me and looked down “This war will end, how will it end though?” He whispered and bowed his head to me, in respect. I returned with a nod and closed my eyes and listened to the wolves howl Before Midnight struck.

Chapter 24

The fog covering my eyes was fatal and soon disappeared, “William…” I whispered and smiled when I felt his lips on my neck, “I love you,” He said quietly and continued to stroke my neck with his soft, warm lips. “I love you too.” I whispered even quieter and smiled; he lifted his head and placed his lips on mine, I welcomed him in and let the moment take complete control. He stroked my hair and put one arm around my waste and crushed me to his body, “Please don’t leave me tonight.” He whispered and kissed me again before I could say anything. We both heard knock on the door “What is it?” William spoke and chuckled, “We’ve got a visitor.” Patrick spoke, I heard a giggle in the background and immediately knew it was Angie, “Come in.” I said and covered myself of properly. Patrick and Angie entered with their hands covering their eyes; William and I chuckled, “Ya’ll we’re not naked, you can open your eyes.” Well technically we were but the covers were covering up my entire body but it only covered Williams lower half, his bare muscular chest was showing fully.  “Brook, someone by the name of Andy is here to see you, he says its urgent.” He spoke in a rush, I jumped up and then jumped back down and covered myself again, “Oops.” I said and giggled, “Um…can ya’ll excuse me while I get dressed, tell andy I’ll be out in a minute.” I said and pointed to the door. Patrick nodded and headed for the door, Angie right behind him. I jumped up again and bent down to grab my clothes when a tan hand flashed around my waste and pulled me back on the bed and under the covers. “William!” I yelled and giggled; he completely covered me with his body except for my head, “And where exactly do you think we are going?” He asked, “Um…going to go talk to Andy and explain to him why his closest friend, almost brother, is dead.” I said and snorted. I crushed my lips to his and then pushed him off of me, “Brook, break it to him gently, I don’t want a fight in the house….you can save your energy for tonight.” He said and rolled over on the bed and grabbed his clothes as I did mine.


When I was finished dressing I ran out to the living room and looked for Andy, when I found him I stopped in my tracks. “Brook.” He said and nodded, “Andy.” I whispered and returned with a smile. He walked over to me and patted my shoulder, “I hear you were going to start a war tonight. Mind if I join?” he asked and smiled. I looked at him closely and studied his features again; still beautiful, his arms have grown even more muscular and his eyes have grown darker. Its as if he had purposely prepared himself for this. I smiled, “Yeah why not, we could use you.” I said and giggled, “Welcome to the group.” I said and punched his arm. William walked into view and offered Andy his hand, Andy shook it gladly. “So I am guessing your our leader?” Andy asked, curious. “Yes I am, and brook is your leader as well.” He said and chuckled, “Nice, I get to take orders from a girl.” He said and rolled his eyes, “But a cool girl.” I said and shook my head then laughed.


“So here’s the plan. “ Williams voice silenced everyone, “Ben; you, Patrick, and Angie will stand on the left of me and Brook.” He pointed at Ben and looked down then at me. “Andy, you will stand by Brook and and me. If you have any problems with any of the vampires, you need to get one of us and we will easily take care of them.” He said, “With ease.” I added and smiled at William. He chuckled, “I don’t think I’ll have a problem.” Andy spoke, “Everyone else.” William called and turned around to face the wolves, ready to fight. “Ya’ll just do your thing.” He said and chuckled, “Watch each others backs, the most important thing in a fight is to leave no one behind and to make sure your not surrounded, especially by vampires.” Williams instructions were simple  and easy to abide by. Angie stepped away from Patrick and up to William, “I have seen what Aaron can do, along with his clan. They will mostly group up and try to take us down one at a time. If we can get around them fast enough, we’re practically invinsible.” Angie smiled proudly at her information. William looked at her and nodded grimly, I looked at everyone, “I know ya’ll feel betrayed by me, and I know ya’ll feel I am an abomination. But not even in one second of me changing into a half-breed have I thought of helping them bloodsuckers, I am with you; my whole existence will be based on helping ya’ll bring peace to this species, and respect.” I spoke as a true cult and made sure everyone understood that I was on their side. I turned to William, “I never did ask; what started the war?” I whispered quietly so no one could hear me. William turned away from everyone and faced me, then grabbed my hand and led me to another room, an empty room. “The war started 4 years after I had converted; And the reason Aaron and I are so anxious to kill each other is because of you.” He said quietly and touched my cheek with the tip of his finger. My eyes went wide and my mouth flew open, “What? I wasn’t even alive then.” I objected but was hushed immediantly after I thought about it, “Well no you weren’t but when me and Aaron heard about your mother being pregnant, we began to hope. You were the last of the bloodline, but in order for us to get to you we had to wait a good 17 years before we even became in contact with you. Of course Aaron didn’t abide by that rule, he charmed you and tricked you into thinking you were the one for him. Before I got to object in the matter I was called away to fix a problem down in South Carolina, when I got back; you and Aaron were dating and he thought he had pretty much won the war.” William chuckled at the end, “Brook, I got your father that job. I moved you away from Aaron so we could have a better chance of getting to you, you breaking up with him however, was a complete surprise. That gave us more leverage.” He chuckled again and turned to the door, “Now you know everything, your brother Jacob was originally the one to take my place,” HE said and I coughed in surprise, “Wait what? My Jacob?” I choke a little, “Yes, he’s the youngest. But the elders said they needed a female to be it, cause they are the dominant and opposite of the male species. When you were born, the war started; the entire prophecy was based on your birth right.” He said and smiled. I just stared off into space; trying to calm myself, it worked. William smiled again and kissed my forehead, “Don’t worry.” He said and chuckled and took my hand then led us out the door and back to the pack.

Chapter 25

It was going on ten o’clock when I walked over to ben and hugged him closely, “And your point for doing that was?” he asked once I pulled away, I giggled and snuffled, “Just to get it out so I wont regret it later.” I said and smiled, “Oh, you mean if me or you die?” He whispered, “Well…yea.” I said and looked down, “We got this Brook, We are faster and more intelligent then Aaron and them. All we got to do is stick to our formation and we will win. I promise you.” He said and smiled, he bent down and kissed my forehead, “You’re my sister…you’re a half-breed but you’re my sister.” He spoke and chuckled then turned around and ran over to Patrick and William who were over by a fire in the back of the house that once belonged to Daniel. I walked over by a boulder and sat down; once I looked at the sky, I saw Daniel’s face, then I heard a whisper, “Don’t deny your destiny, your meant to end this war..” Daniel’s voice was in my ear and it captivated my complete attention. I looked at the stars and tried ot pick out the ones that explain our destiny but I couldn’t find them. I lost my concentration once I felt a warm hands on my shoulders, “It is beautiful, but I know someone that is much more stunning.” William whispered and looked down at me. “I’m scared.”  I whispered and looked at him, He sat down beside me and wrapped his arms around me and pulled me close, “There is no need to be, Our pack is strong and your what made us like that.” He said and kissed my cheek, “I love you Brook and I’ll be damned if Aaron thinks he is going to take my chances of spending the rest of my life with you away.” He whispered. I smiled and looked at him, “You know, we’re barely an hour away from war and your trying to charm me, truly pitiful.” I said and giggled. He looked serious and bent down and pressed his lips to mine softly, then pulled away, “That’s not charming you silly, that’s being truthful.” He whispered and pressed his lips to mine again, except with a little more force.



I stood beside William with Andy on my left, Everyone was in their position. We all stood at the edge of the meadow, facing the middle; watching, waiting. “What time is it?” I asked anxiously, “its 5 till twelve.” William answered and ruffled my hair, then chuckled. Once it went silent again, a huge wiff of Vampire came winding by us, putting us in alarm and getting us ready. “Well, well, well!” Aarons ruffled voice came out into the clearing, William tore off his close and converted, everyone else followed except Andy, Angie, and me. “Looks like ya’ll came after all.” He said and howled a little, “I am here to take back what is rightfully mine…” He snarled, since I was the only one who could rightfully talk, considering William is a wolf, I took a step forward. “Yeah Aaron? And what is that?” I growled menacingly; Aaron turned his eyes to me and smiled, “You.” He spoke and then laughed like an idiot would, “Everyone here knows its not just about me, everything that has brought us to this point has led me to believe your in it for the power.” I snarled and crouched down slightly, just in case he thinks he can put a move on me, “Oh but your right, you and the ability to go anywhere without having a dog up my ass is a dream come true. I’ve lived hundreds of years in alarm, cause I thought that a werewolf would be the one to destroy me. But when I became clan leader, Everything changed; I had the power to create a war for a simple human…you. And then you left me for him, and it caused me to want more. Power is the main thing, your just the prize behind it.” He chuckled and then waved his hand behind him and a dozen Vampires came swarming out into the clearing behind Aaron. All of them were amazingly fit and looked stealthy, and they were beautiful. “And what makes you think you’ll get me in the end? I left you, unaware of William even watching me, but when I met him, I’ve loved him more than I could ever have loved you.” I said proudly and ruffled Williams forehead fur.  “It all just depends on how tonight ends Brook. You claim you can refuse me, but when your alone once again; who will you go to?” He asked, “My family, where I should be right now.” I answered to quickly. Aaron laughed, “Oh by the time tonight is over, I’ll have your family slaughtered just for spite of trying to beat me.” He spoke as if he was god and it pissed me off. I snarled, “You wont touch them!” I jumped about four steps towards him and crouched down, ready to kill him.
Aaron laughed, “What a great show!” I crouched down farther, “Why? Why do you want me so bad?” I snarled and backed up a little. “Well one, William took you away from me and two, just thought of having two half-breeds on my side makes me feel invisible. But if it was reality, I would be.” He said and waved at someone behind him.
Then a few seconds after, Jesse walked proudly to her master and smiled at him, when she stopped at the right of him she turned to me and growled. Oh god I completely forgot about her, who is going to kill her? I wondered and then looked behind me at the pack. I held their eyes for a fraction of a second and then turned to Ben, “I need you to help William, Ben.” I ordered. He nodded and stood closer to William, William turned to me and growled, “I know Will, but someone has to kill her and she’s too strong for any of ya’ll. What better person to kill her than her own kind?” I asked and then turned away, not expecting an answer. “So are you ready?” Aaron called; I turned the pack of wolves again and smiled, “Its a pleasure to be fighting beside ya’ll.” I spoke and then turned back to Aaron, “Yea…we’re ready.” I snarled and took my position.



When I was settled and waiting for the signal I turned to William, “I love you William.” I whispered and pat him, then turned to face my enemy. “ I love you Brook.” He answered, I turned to him and saw he converted back to human. He took me in his arms and crushed my lips to his for the longest time, then finally parted them. “Don’t let this war drive us apart, heaven knows; it will.” He whispered, he squeezed me one more time and then released me. I looked at him as he converted back to wolf and then surprisingly got furious, Aaron was trying to end me and Williams relationship and I’ll be damned if I’m going to stand by and let that happen. I turned to Aaron and then raised my head up to the full mood, “This fatal night, the past will be reborn and the future will be decided. I Brook Sanders will give myself up to make the future peaceful…and balanced.” I whispered to myself then I whipped myself back and released a strikingly beautiful howl that reached the moon before William and the pack followed. Then I suddenly remembered what Ben said earlier, “this war will end, how will it end though?” I remember his exact words and then smiled, this war will end…finally.


Aaron’s clan was in formation along with my pack. I raised my hand high and signaled to everyone behind me, “The outcome of tonight,” I shouted to them, “Is up to you. You make the future!” I yelled rationally, I waved my hand forward and was overwhelmed by the number of wolves running in front of me. I ran forward as fast as my legs could take me and ran straight for the one bloodsucker no one could kill except me. Every wolf learned their place fast, once the Vampires intercepted their path, it was time to kill. “Brook!” I heard Jesse call and I ran faster than I ever have before. “I want a rematch,” She snarled once she saw me. I didn’t stop running when she spoke, I just went straight towards her in a furious speed, “You asked for it!” I growled and then tackled her straight to the ground. Once she was down I headed straight for her throat but was instantly stopped when I saw William run towards Aaron, “No William!” I screamed but he ignored me.  Jesse got a good hold of me and dug her teeth in my shoulder, I released an agonized scream but quickly recover ant went straight for the kill. “Time to die.” I whispered silently against her neck, she struggled but once I got my legs around her she was practically motionless. Then as she screamed in anger I stuck my teeth in her neck and bared down, hard. Once I put enough pressure, I heard a crack slowly creep down her spine. She screamed the loudest most painful scream I think I have ever heard, She howled silently and slowly became paralyzed; when I knew she couldn’t move anymore I released her almost instantly, “Not even your master can save you now.” I whispered menacingly in her ear, “I win.” I said and then slowly began to walk away, “No…I’m not finished with you!” She spoke painfully. I grinned and then turned around, “Oh..?” I raised in question. I walked over to her, bent down and grabbed her neck, then rationally twisted it around and then heard and felt the gruesome break. I dropped her head and then got on my feet again, “Now you are.” I said and then turned to find William and Aaron, I found Aaron but William was no where in sight. I broke into a run and headed straight for the bloodsucker who killed the one guy who could’ve ended this war with ease.

I ran faster and faster, trying to find some way to intercept him. I heard William howl loudly then I stopped in my tracks  and looked over where I heard his voice, when I found him I suddenly felt a awful pain in my ribs, and I fell to the ground. “Well, look who came to be the hero.” Aaron’s voice was in my ear, he was tired so it might be a good idea to get up now and try to finish what he started. I focused all my attention on getting on my feet but was in to much pain, “Ow!” I screamed in agony but then saw something black flash across my vision. Then I heard Aaron’s stone body fall to the ground, William smashed into him, “William get me up.” I whimpered. William ran to me and picked me up with his back, then set me on my feet, then attacked Aaron without warning. Once I could feel my ribs again, intact, I sprinted over to William and Aaron and crouched down like a cougar. I jumped on him like a lion on his prey; I took his head and forced it to the side so I could sink my teeth in his neck but was thrown off him by another vampire before I could even react. “Don’t kill my master!” He snarled, I got on my feet and went straight for the kill, grabbing his neck and sinking my teeth into his neck with unimaginable speed and then slowly released. I watched how the venom took affect and then grabbed his head, like I did Jesse, and ended his agony with one quick move. When I dropped the vampire, I flashed around and looked for William and froze in horror as I saw him on the ground with Aaron on top of him. I broke out into a sprint once again and set straight for Aaron, “Goodbye Aaron.” I whispered and the pounced on him, he threw me off him and took his time in getting on his feet and walking over to me.


In that instant of almost death, I looked around me and was terrified at what was there. There was nothing but death, and war….killing and violence, there was no peace…no balance in this moment. I cried silently and looked over at William who laid there in agony, his black fur covered in blood, his eyes staring into mine; not yet, I will not give up yet. I jumped up and attack Aaron head on, ignoring anything else around me.  “You wont survive today Aaron, I swear it.” I snarled and then grabbed his head and crushed it in, deforming him above the neck completely. “Die…” I whispered, tears streaming down my face. I heard the broken bones and ligaments around his head, I felt them run down from my hands and to my insides. I felt the blood start oozing from his mouth and rolled on my arm, covering it in blood. Then I felt his cold, stone heart slowly seep into darkness, Aaron was no longer apart of me. He was dead.


Chapter 26

I dropped Aaron out of my arms and slowly got to my feet, then tumbled down on William, “William…I need you to get up.” I whispered, tears coming hard. I looked at him and saw his eyes were closed, I felt his heart beat; it was level and normal rate. “William….please.” I whimpered, He slightly howled and then raised himself up so he could convert back into human, it was…very difficult for a wolf to change back into human form, only if he is injured though. He slowly and painfully changed, once he was human once again, he flopped  back on the ground and whimpered slightly. When I looked around I noticed everyone standing around us in a circle, even the vampires were done fighting. It came to my attention that they were waiting for some sort of order from William or me, I’m not giving it. “William, you need to get up sweetie…please.” I whispered and grabbed his face in my hands and smiled, then placed my lips to his softly. Right there, in that moment, I realized something; the war was over, Aaron was dead, the vampires had stopped fighting, it was done. I pulled away from William and got to my feet, I looked down and then reached my hand out to William, “I love you, now get up.” I said and giggled. William looked at me, then at his wounds, then at my hand. He chuckled and grabbed it, I lifted him up in one swift movement, then wrapped his arm around my shoulders and supported most of his weight. When Ben and Patrick saw what I was doing, the chuckled and came by my side, “Give him to us.” They said at the same time, I rolled my eyes and grinned then slowly passed William onto them. William chuckled and looked down at his body, “Boy...I’m a mess.” He said and turned to me, “Thank you Brook, you saved my life.” He said and smiled. He then looked around at everyone and nodded, “It is done…The war….Is over.” He announced, He turned to the vampires, who were huddled up in a small group, “I suggest you find a new master...Now, before we have no need for you.” He said hard. About a minute went by when A male vampire stepped up and bowed, “I am him.” He answered delicately, “I believe it’s time for a truce…?” William raised his eyebrows.



The young vampire looked at him for a second and then smiled, “Its about damn time!” He said, William laughed and then reached his hand out for the vampire to shake, “I’m William and this is my pack.” He said and his smile grew wider. The young vampire shook his hand and the chuckled, “I’m Alex and this is my clan….lets be friends?” He raised his eyebrows and then released Williams hand, “Sure.” William spoke happily and then punched Alex in the shoulder. Alex would’ve punched him back but William was so badly injured that it even hurt when I kissed him a second ago. I stood beside Patrick with a smile on my face and hand wrapped around Patrick’s shoulder, “Hell yea!” He shouted, and I laughed. Once it went silent again William spoke, “We are not to harm these vampires no longer, the truce has been made!” He shouted leaderly. Alex looked at his new clan, “And we are not to harm these wolves.” He ordered, “Although ya’ll might have to do something about the stench.” He commented and chuckled. William looked over at Aaron’s body and then got up on his own two feet, “Ben, Patrick, I’m fine…let me go.” He ordered, “Sure thing.” They said again at the same time. I laughed again and grabbed Williams hand as he supported his own weight. William looked over at me and then took me in his arms, I crushed him to me and then laughed, “What’s so funny?” He asked, “Nothing…I’m just happy.” I said and smiled. William looked at me and then crushed his lips to mine with a lot of force, then pulled away. “I love you Brook…” He said and smiled, He released all of me except for one hand, then turned to face the pack and clan, “Today we have lost many but we have gained so much in return. Peace and Balance, a truce has been made and friends have been gathered together. Let us celebrate for a new age has been born!” He yelled and everyone cheered. Then unexpectedly the vampires and werewolves combined and everyone shook hands and built up conversation like it was a normal day. I looked over at Angie and Patrick and smiled, they were so happy to not have to had their love for each other and then I found Ben and laughed, he was talking to a hot Latino vampire and soon after that they were at the edge of the crowd making out. Me and William drifted off into a quiet corner and watched as two species, who were once enemies, now gather as old friends. “You know,” William whispered in my ear, I turned to him, “What?” I asked. He chuckled and kissed my cheek, “I think Daniel would be proud…” He trailed off and I became silent.

I looked at the sky where the stars left their past and went on with the future and I saw Daniel smiling, “Good job Brook…” He whispered and then a tear fell from the sky, or rain. Once he disappeared the rain came pouring down and all the vampires and werewolves started dancing to their hearts content, celebrating. I turned to William and grunted, “I wonder why Aaron picked this time?” I asked and closed my eyes, I rested my head on Williams cheek, “I know…” He said and chuckled, I turned to him and smacked his head, “Ow…” He commented and rubbed the spot I hit. “Tell me..” I ordered, “not with that attitude.” He said and started tickling me. I busted into a roar of laughter and we both fell to the cold dark ground, “Okay, okay!” I yelled, William laughed and rolled over on top of me, “When the elders made the prophecy, Luke told the vampires that if they fought before midnight they would be rewarded something great. Tonight Aaron thought it was going to be you, but it wasn’t. The prize was to create a truce with time and start a new age of Peace and Balance between both species. I guess you drove Aaron so mad that he became obsessed with the thought getting you back.” He said. I looked away from him and tried to understand everything he just told me, “I still….don’t get it…” I complained and pouted, William laughed and looked away from me, then looked at me again, “Vampires are considered to be the gods of the night, that’s only because they were made not to come out during the day or they will burn from the sun,” he spoke, “The reason Aaron had the ability to come out in sunlight was because in 1901 there was a solar explosion that caused the sun to not give out such hot, strong energy. Vampires are, well use to be, allergic to solar energy and after the explosion they were allowed to be out in sunlight. Which sucked cause that left us defenseless most of the time.” He said and rolled his eyes,  “Not even my own destiny could take me away from you.” I whispered and kissed the base of his throat, “Not even death itself could keep me from you Brook…” William whispered and then laughed, “Hey not funny.” I commented and rolled my eyes. William rolled to my right and grabbed my hand, then flipped his other arm below his head so he could look at me, “So…” I trailed off, “So what?” He asked, I smiled and turned my body, facing. “So what do you thinks in store for us?” I asked, and looked down and started to mess with a piece of grass. William watched me carefully and smiled, “I love you Brook, I think we’re going to last forever…as long as no one catches your eye...” He trailed off like I did and looked down like me, I giggled and grabbed his face in my hands, “William I don’t think I could live in a world without you…” I whispered, “I love you with all my heart and I really hope you understand that I am never leaving you.” I said and pressed my lips to his and pulled him on top of me. “I don’t think you will ever understand how much you truly mean to me.” William said against my lips and shook his head. “I think I might.” I said and giggled and turned to look at the sky one last time. I will never forget this night, how every ones survival hung into thin air and all the fear and threats vanished. I looked over at the group of dancers and smile; they were my family, Ben, Patrick, and Angie were my brothers and sister and William….well he is my world. I looked over at William and giggled, “DO you want to go dance?” I asked, William looked at me and smiled, “Sure..” He said. We got on our feet and William suddenly picked me up in his arms and started walking, then he put his lips to my ear, “I love you…” He whispered, I smiled and kissed the base of his throat and then He took us to our family and we danced into the night.