It was beginning to get chilly by the time we pulled into Uncle Allen’s house. He was waiting on the front porch for us as we pulled up. I felt so alone and detached, like I wasn’t in my body anymore. I didn’t answer Uncle Allen when he asked me if I was hungry once all my belongings had been put up in my room; it was like I could only hear their voices in a distance. I didn’t say anything to anyone as I made myself go upstairs to the guest room.
I went mute for at about two weeks after the horrible night, everyone tip toed around me as if stepping on broken glass. Derek would try to get me to talk, so did Uncle Allen, but I didn’t have anything to say. When they spoke my gaze was far off and out of focus Uncle Allen even had a doctor come to check on me. The doctor gave me a clean bill of health and a diagnosis of shock, urging my family to try to continue to snap me out of this funk. I didn’t read anyone’s thoughts, I just kept to my zombie like self, floating between a consciousness of not awake nor asleep and emotions between numb and blind, exhausting anger.
The seasons were changing to fall now, the leaves were changing color signaling the passing of time. Everyone had stopped trying to make me talk about a week or so ago, so now when I came downstairs to eat breakfast, they would all just ignore me letting me be.
Derek was sitting at the table reading a book at the kitchen table when I entered. I sat down in front of him, which was out of my normal mute routine.
“Are you going to talk to me today?” he asked putting his book down, I thought for a second, gaging my internal emotions to find that I felt better today. The hollow felling in my soul was a little smaller than previous weeks.
“Yes, I might just do that,” I said causing him to almost jump out of his chair out of surprise. He quickly leaned across the table to hug me like I had been away for years.
“Okay, Okay. I can’t breathe,” I said tapping him on the shoulder.
“Oh sorry my bad” He stated sincerely releasing me. He had a huge grin on his face like I had just given him the best present ever.
“So I hear you graduated.” Home schooling had its advantages. There wasn’t a lot of chitchat and I was able to devote all my time for schoolwork. I had graduated early and had finished school last week, but had decided not to attend the ceremony.
“Yep,” I said smiling at my accomplishment. It did feel good to talk, even if I was only saying little things, my smile felt a little plastic though.
“Want to do anything today?” Derek asked trying to get me out of my inner box more, like a rescuer trying to coax a cat out of a mountain caves.
“What do you have in mind?” I asked.
“We could go to the movies, my treat” He suggested, grinning knowing I was going to say yes.
Derek ended up taking me to the theater inside the mall. I was a little claustrophobic being around so many after having no physical involvement with anyone. We ended up watching the new “horror” flick that was out. I believed it to be boring and over rated while Derek sore it was “awesome”. Afterwards we ate burgers while talking about what I was going to do for my eighteenth birthday. Derek informed me of a new nightclub that just opened up. Of course since my birthday fell on a full moon, we would have to wait until afterwards. From then on Derek and I spent a lot of time together, Uncle Allen was relieved I was talking again even though he watched me like mother bear watched her cubs that might be in danger.
The week of my birthday arrived quickly. Uncle Tyler came, but only brought James and Bryson. Albert and Dean had gone camping in the mountains somewhere, so it was only Jason, James, Derek, Bryson and me. I had started getting along better with Jason lately. The one time he had started making snide remarks, I had just rummage through his thoughts for ammunition, I reminded him of how low his self-esteem was in his bedroom activities. Needless to say he had been very nice to after that. I think he respected me more after I put him back in his place.
Once all the boys had arrived we all sat around the campfire and heard of James new girlfriend. I was laughing at some comment Derek had made when I saw my dad coming out of the back door.
“Dad” I yelled as joy filled me. I hadn’t realized how much I had missed him. With enough force that we both fell to the ground from impact I hugged him. It was a silent moment that neither one of us had to say “I missed you”.
“What have you been eating, your solid as a rock” My dad said pulling away to inspect me over.
“Everything” Uncle Allen yelled from the bar-b-q pit causing my dad to chuckle. We began talking about what we had both achieved in the month of absence. I had finished school but dad had…
“I started dating,” he stated causing me to look at him wide eyed
“Her name is Mia. She’s in real estate and very nice.” He continued when I didn’t say anything to his announcement. Once he figured out I was going to keep with the old saying “if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all” routine he scowled at me. “Lana, don’t start” since I really didn’t want to “start” as he so put it, I decided a change in subject was in order, I didn’t want to fight about the fact he had started dating once I left home after all these years being single.
“So when can I come home?” I asked straight forward.
I watched his face change to one of complete sadness. As I was waiting for his answer I was suddenly hit in the side by a flying purple water balloon Derek had thrown. Happy for the distraction and not really wanting to hear what bad news my father was going to say, I began running after Derek who was heading towards the trees. After tackling him to the ground I began tickling him till he yelled “MERCY!” I quickly stood up, knowing once I let him go he would retaliate and finished the race to the trees.
We were playing like ten year olds at a park.
“You couldn’t catch me if you tried,” I yelled changing direction so I was running towards the group hoping to lose Derek in the chase.
“Look out everyone. Here she comes ! ! ! ” Jason yelled out a warning. Everyone who lived with Uncle Allen hit the ground knowing I would just plow through them if they didn’t. The large tree next to the house was my goal if that meant plowing through all my family then so be it, I had yet to be caught by anyone and I wouldn’t start today.
“Not Fair!” Derek yelled from below like a five year old, as I jumped up on the nearest branch and started climbing my way up.
“You’re just to slow,” I teased. He kept trying to jump high enough to grab a branch, but he couldn’t quite reach the lowest one. He looked like a toddler trying to reach the cookies on top the refrigerator.
“Fine you win ! ! ! ” he yelled eventually coming up with a master plan. I knew from his thoughts he had a stash of water balloon close to the tree I was now in.
“Admit it Lana, that’s not fair,” he said kneeling down to grab a balloon.
“Haven’t you noticed life’s is full of unfairness?” I asked still taunting. While his concentration was on looking for more ammo, I leapt of the branch, landing farther away than I had originally planned. Derek grunted at me as he tried several times to hit me with colors of the rainbow balloons.
“I don’t know why you just don’t give up Derek,” Jason called from the campfire. “You’ll see, one day,” Derek seethed. His pride had sufficiently been wounded enough for today. I watched my dad approach the tree I had just climbed, he looked dumbfounded for some odd reason, shrugging my shoulders I moved on towards the campfire, a lot of the males of this family always seemed to be surprised when I jumped in that tree like it should be impossible or something. Uncle Allen finally informed us that dinner was ready; of course I had to wait until everyone got what they wanted from the buffet. It seemed my eating habits had grown since I had left my fathers.
I waited patiently until everyone had gotten their fill, then I grabbed my three full plates, devouring everything I had chosen. My dad came to sit next to me after we were all through with our food, the campfire was warm and little sparks of amber looked like fireflies dancing in the distance.
“You’ve learned a lot from your cousins,” he said after a few moments of silence.
“Not really. We just horse around most of the time,” I said smiling into the flames still proud for my unbeaten record.
It was getting dark when Quinn finally arrived. Dad, Allen and Tyler all went to greet him. Jason, James, Bryson, Derek and I all stood in a line, like we were in the army awaiting inspection.
Quinn came over to our little line after his greetings from the older crew, he looked everyone up and down without saying a word, like a general looking over his troops. When he got to me he stopped, like I had a feeling he would.
“Lana, you look lovely,” he said taking my hand and kissing my palm. I smiled at him but didn’t say anything; I was mildly embarrassed by his general’s approval and compliment.
Once Quinn went back over to the adults, we fell out of line and resumed our former positions by the fire.
“You going to changing in the house again?” Jason asked with a big grin.
“No, ill change out here with you guys” I I said standing up, I had been having an internal war with myself about where I would change, but I would always be apart from the Pride if I changed in the house for fear of modesty.
We all watched the sun set before starting the process of taking off our clothes. These guys knew, after living with me the past month, that I would kick their ass if they said a word about me or my undressed state. Of course they all still stole a look, when I unhooked my bra.
“What? You all act like you haven’t seen breasts before you sick perverts,” I said kneeling down smiling trying to lighten the mood a little since everyone seemed so tense, probably remembering what happened last month when we did this.
I was a lot faster than the rest of the Pride. Even Quinn took about 4 minutes to change completely where it only took me seconds. The hunt went smoothly as Quinn ended up killed two large bucks for the Pride. Due to my voracious appetite, I had to wait once again.
While waiting, I smelt something strangely familiar off to the east. The odor was strong enough to know I smelt a vampire. I growled in the general direction of the bastards. My growl had warned the others something else was here, just as we all tensed a female vampire came swooping down out of a tree landing in front of me. She had spiked black hair, lots of leather and a burning hatred in her eyes as she looked at us all.
“Who is your Pride master?” she demanded in a deeper voice then I would have given her, Quinn roared his reply. I kept a very close eye on the vampire as she went over to him.
“Your Pride master?” she asked not seeming to believe it as she looked from Quinn to me.
“I figured that one there would be leader.” the vampire addressed Quinn and pointed her perfectly painted red nail at me. I gave a low growl in warning.
“Lana Stop!” Quinn commanded through thought. Immediately I silenced the growl and continued to watch.
“I am here to talk to you about your comrade, Bill,” I looked at my dad begging to dispose of her as I had Byron. I had a very bad feeling about all of this. Turns out I was right, for her next words had me wanting to rip her head off as well.
“You understand he is being tortured for information about Byron’s death since that was his last mission. As you can tell, I was given this address. So, if you want to live through this night, you will give up the one who killed him,” she told to Quinn. Apparently Bill hadn’t given her my name.
“Lana, Stay calm,” my dad said in thought. My panic was turning into outright anger causing my fur to stand up. The vampire began watching me more closely.
I didn’t do anything; I just stood there trying very hard not to shake with anger and even harder not to disobey Quinn’s order.
“You see,” the vampire bitch continued,” I caught a strange scent on Bill when we picked him up. It is not one I recognize, and since none of you smell like it, I am wondering if Bill is lying” I knew she was trying to get someone to speak. When no one tried to change to even breathe hard she seemed to make up her mind with a nod. I watched her move in slow motion towards Quinn; I had what felt like forever to intercept her before she could touch him. I felt my teeth sink into the flesh of her leg and pulled making her fall inches away from Quinn. I kept pulling her back away from the Pride. “I will kill you for this” she hissed as she turned her torso over and grabbed for my front paws. Her eyes were burning red with anger and vengeance. I bit down harder until I hit bone making her scream like a banshee. “Why aren’t you burning” she yelled hysterically. I had forgotten that little tidy-bit. When a vampire’s eyes glowed red they had the ability to burn what they are holding. Since I felt no pain, or burning of any sort I chalked it up as another superstition.
She kept looking at my paws and then to me wide eyed, well I had her attention now.
“You will die if you kill me,” she said in a voice cold enough to melt an ice burg. I so badly wanted to kill her, but Quinn’s order telling me to stop earlier had me hesitating. Would I bring more death upon my loved ones if I killed another Vampire?
“Lana, you have to let her go,” Quinn thought to me.
“No one will be safe in this Pride if you kill her,” Dad added. I had my answer, maybe my father was a little telepathic too. I slowly let go of her nasty leg and began backing up, her eyes had stopped glowing once she realized I wasn’t being burned now they were just the color blue.
“Who are you?,” she asked eying me very carefully as she maneuvered herself up. Why was this vampire still here?
“You smell like a tiger, but I don’t understand what you are,” she sounded puzzled, almost intrigued.
“I will bring Bill here tomorrow so you can see he is alive in exchange for you to reveal yourself Siberian.” I didn’t want Bill to die but I still had no idea how to change back once I was in this form without sleeping. But knowing what would happen to another if I didn’t at least try I nodded my head at the vampire bitch.
“Wonderful,” she said as she gave a little clapped like an adolescent child.
She began to turn away hopefully to take her leave but then stopped to turn her head to me once more. “Know this, if you leave, I will kill your Pride and Bill as well,” I nodded my head confirming my understanding.
“What a good little kitty,” she said patting me on the head. Giving a low growl I pulled away from her hand, I did not trust her even for a split second.
“Well, see you tomorrow night,” she said winking at me before jumping into the trees disappearing from view. Quinn began leading us back to the house with his head lowered as if defeated. Once we got back to the clearing, everyone started to change back; I tried several times and failed once more.
“Lana you need to change back so we can talk about what you just did,” Quinn said rubbing my shoulders. He was quicker changing back to human form then he was to change into feline. As be rubbed my shoulders and fur I began to calm down bit by bit causing me to lie down on the ground and close my eyes. I didn’t fall asleep but I felt light headed all of a sudden causing me to open my eyes in panic, only to discover I had changed back to human and was now laying naked on the ground with Quinn’s hand on my lower back. I turned my head to look at him but he was otherwise occupied by staring at my naked ass.
“I do believe it is rude to stare” I stated trying not to die of embarrassment.
He just grinned but removed his hand. We both stood up, he was also naked, so I had to clear my throat several times and keep my eyes locked on his.
“I want everyone gone tomorrow night,” I stated in a stern voice.
“Now wait a minute, I’m the Pride master here,” he said teasingly proving to me that he didn’t take me seriously.
“Be a good one then, and tell everyone to leave,” I said looking him straight in the eyes, letting him know I meant it. The smile he had been wearing slipped a little.
“I was going to do that anyway.” He stated crossing his arms over his chest. I had to read his thoughts; he was planning on staying with me to confront the Vampire.
“Quinn, I don’t think that is a good idea,” I said shaking my head back and forth, not caring if he got pissed for me reading his thoughts.
“I’m not leaving you here to deal with that thing,” he said in a firm tone leaving no room for an argument. He knew more about the vampire world then I did so maybe it was a good idea.
We all made our way into the house to get dressed, I hurried knowing I needed to talk to Quinn about what had just happened and get as much information as possible about Vampires.
When I came downstairs I felt the tension the house. All of my cousins and Uncles had already packed their bags and were placing them by the front door. Derek stopped when he saw me.
“Why did you have to do that?” he said yelling at me. It took me a moment to get over my stunned reaction to his yelling at me.
“I wasn’t about to let her kill Quinn. She would have killed him the minute she touched him,” I stated calmly
“Why can’t you burn like the rest of us? Why are you stronger, quicker, and faster,” he asked trying to conquer his anger.
“I don’t know,” I retorted.
“DEREK!” Uncle Allen yelled causing my ears to ring.
There were no further comments and the family left quickly. Other than my father, Derek was the only one to give me a hug before leaving even though he had just got done asking some very good questions I didn’t have answers for. He left with his father and brothers and they gave me accusing frowns of disapproval. Dad wanted to stay, but Quinn told him it wouldn’t be safe and that he needed to leave. After much debate of the subject Quinn had to order my father to leave. After a bear hug and a kiss on the cheek plus a small warning growl to Quinn as was his fatherly justice he left.
I sat down at the kitchen table with a thud and began with my questioning.
“What do they want with Bill?” Quinn sat down at the table with me.
“They are using him for his ability I imagine. It’s just another way for them to have an edge.” Yeah that made sense I guess.
“Do you know why I don’t burn like everyone else when they touch me?” I asked hopeful for some answers. Quinn raised an eyebrow.
“You think I know? Hell babe, that’s giving me a lot of credit,” he said with a chuckle. “You know you saved my life tonight right,” he said giving me a look that sent my blood on fire.
“Yes, I know,” I said diverting my eyes. I wanted to look anywhere other than the hunk of a man sitting across from me. I was feeling that this was not a good place to be, alone in a big house with a gorgeous man. A man that made every nerve in my body screams for his touch. I felt my face turning red from the naughty thoughts racing through my mind. Quinn began sniffing the air.
“Now you wait a minute,” I said standing up and holding out my hand as if to stop him. He slowly stood up and stalked around the table till he reached me.
“I won’t do anything you don’t want me to do, trust me,” he stated looking a little sad at my scared state. I let out a breath I hadn’t realized I had been holding when he began walking back to his chair.
“Thank you by the way,” I said after a very uncomfortable silence.
“For what?” he asked leaning back in his chair.
“For bringing me here, even though I didn’t want to come,” I said. He chuckled,
“Well, I didn’t think you would want to live with me.” He said causing me to laugh.
“You wouldn’t want me living with you. I am pretty hard to handle. Even all the guys here couldn’t keep up with my eating habits, or my playfulness,” I said smiling as I thought about my cousins.
“Well, I’m not just anyone,” he said in a low voice leaning over the table closer to me.
“No, you’re the Pride Master,” I reminded him in a sarcastic voice as I leaned back in my chair, all the while trying very hard to hide my smile. I was having fun playing around at least until he didn’t say anything back and just kept staring at me. Now feeling uncomfortable once again I mumbled “I think I’ll go take a shower,” getting up, man it was hot in here, but I doubted it had much to do with the heating unit in the house. A shower seemed like a safe place to go at the moment, a really cold one.
When I got to the top of the stairs, I looked behind me and saw that Quinn was following. I figured that since his room was also up here, he probably wanted to rest, so I paid it no attention.
“Good night” I yelled down the hall as I entered my room. I heard Quinn’s bedroom door close but got no reply. Shrugging off the feeling something was amiss I closed my door so I could undress. The minute the cool water touched me it felt like my skin was sizzling until the fire was put out. I bowed my head directly into the water’s path, closed my eyes and braced my hands on the wall, letting the water release the tension I had been carrying for what felt like forever. I was so lost in my solitude that at first I thought I imagined the feeling of someone touching my butt intimately, until I heard a growl causing me to quickly turn grabbing the hand that I now knew belonged to Quinn.
“OWE” Quinn complained. I immediately let it go shocked hoping this was a really good dream but knowing it was reality.
“What are you doing in here?” I asked trying to cover as much as my body as I could with my hands, he didn’t seem to care in the least that he was naked.
I wasn’t prepared to be joined in the shower. This was a new experience, an area in which I was completely naïve.
“Look, tell me you don’t want to do this and I’ll stop, I promise” he said taking a step forward and since my back was already to the wall I had nowhere to go. He had to drench his head to get to me, I watched his teal eyes assess my mood, when I made no comment he slowly lowered his head until his lips met mine. It was slow at first then grew into something wild. His kisses were hard and demanding, yet sensual and seductive. Every nerve in my body was ignited and screamed for more. His hands started sliding down my shoulders where they had been resting, down my back, until they stopped on my hips.
His erection pressed firm and hard against my stomach causing a flutter to start in my core. We broke from the kiss to catch our breath we were both panting, his eyes were dilated with passion I could only imagine how mine looked, probably desperate. “Do you want to stop?” he asked. I couldn’t speak so I just shook my head no, hell if he stopped now I would become violent.
Quinn turned off the water and was out of the shower with lightning speed.
Taking my hand, he assisted me in stepping out of the shower and then lowered his hands to my bottom. After a gentle caress, he pulled me upwards until I had no choice but to wrap my legs around his hips as he began walking towards the bed. He slowly began kissing my neck which seemed directly connected to the empty part of me which was screaming to hurry up and be filled.
“Oh my god,” I cried out. I had never felt so much pleasure, and I wanted much more. He gently lowered me to the bed and crawled on top of me with the grace of a cat prowling after his prey. His weight felt wonderful against my body; so safe, secure and warm. He nuzzled my neck and moved his mouth down to my breasts. I felt the biggest serge of heat radiate from below my belly button that spread out quickly covering my whole body. I moaned at every lick Quinn made on my nipples as his tongue circles each one. He began trailing that talented tounge and lips down to my navel, where he paused for just a moment of anticipation before continuing his descent.
He wrapped his arms around my legs, holding me in position while lifting my buttocks up and placing the heat of his tongue against my small bud and began working magic.
“Don’t stop!” I yelled as I felt a pressure starting low in my belly, I was on the verge of something huge and had a pretty good idea I would never be the same after I exploded into space. It was a good thing that there wasn’t anyone else in the house, I was making very loud incoherent noises writhing against the mattress like… well a cat in heat. I grabbed on to the headboard to help steady myself from crawling away with pleasure, I felt it crack then break into two pieces but didn’t care or give it a second thought. The sensation I felt was beyond words. I felt the pressure building as Quinn began going faster. I screamed something to the heavens as I shot off towards space, my body seemed to be going through some kind of convulsions, but if this was death then I would go happily.
Quinn returned to my mouth and began kissing me. I was feeling the tension build again in my body and responded by digging my nails into his back. He moaned when he broke the kiss.
“Are you ready babe? You feel ready.” he said in a deeper voice than normal.
“Please” I pleaded I needed to fill full soon or I was going to do something rash. He smiled and then pulled away for a moment. I felt a moment of sadness, emptiness when he left me as if someone had ripped my security blanket away. I was about to ask him if there was something wrong since his extended absence was starting to feel like abandonment. He retrieved his pants from where ever he had dropped them. He fished around in his pocket pulling out his wallet, quickly flipping it open and taking out a condom from its secret hiding place behind his driver’s license. I had completely forgotten about birth control luckily he hadn’t.
“This might hurt a little.” he said with his breath as ragged as mine.
“Be gentle.” I whispered as I began relaxing my body for the invasion.
“Of course,” he replied as he guided his manhood towards my entrance. I brought my hips to meet him, he very gently started to push his way in, slowly parting my folds. I felt the burn letting me know he was at my hymen, with a growl he pushed through causing me to scream with pleasure.
“Hold on babe. Hold on,” he said as I held on to him.
“I can’t hold on anymore,” I said screaming as another orgasm crash through my body. Quinn then started moving in a quick rhythm in and out. He seemed to hit just the spot then retreat, then hit it again like a game of cat and mouse. He began going faster and harder causing both our bodies to shake with overload until he gave a guttered cry signaling his completion.
We laid there holding each other for a while afterwards allowing our heart beats to reach a level that allowed the roaring to leave our ears from blood flow. Quinn slowly pulled out and got up to dispose of the condom. I was bleeding a little, very tender, and sore which was intensifying as time worn on without him inside me. I wondered if I was going to walk weird later.
Still enjoying the afterglow of lovemaking, I just lay on the bed; not bothering to cover up my body, modesty seemed like a distant memory. Quinn paused in the doorway of the bathroom, just looking at me. The pleasure of our encounter was evident on his face. He returned to the bed and gathered me close to his chest, aligning his body with mine. He kissed me slowly, gently and lovingly. I didn’t take long for us both to fall asleep.
I woke up purring with contentment thankfully in human form. My dad would kill us both if he ever found out what we had done. Shrugging off the unpleasant thought I untangled myself from Quinn’s still sleeping form. The soreness I felt earlier now was more intense making me watch my steps carefully as I made my way into the bathroom to get dressed. I was very careful when putting my pants on. I felt swollen and the pressure from my jeans gave me a constant reminder of the past night’s event, not that I would ever forget such a night. I came out of the bathroom to see that Quinn was awake and getting dressed as well. I watched him pull his jeans up over his taught butt, and nearly growled at the satisfaction of watching him.
“So you like what you see,” he said turning around. His pants weren’t zipped or buttoned yet, so you could see his package even through his boxer briefs, bulging against the thin cotton.
“MMM, I liked what I felt… ” I responded as saliva gathered in my mouth. We kissed briefly before he asked me if I wanted to go for round two.
After informing him I was a little sore right now, then reassuring him I would be alright we made our way downstairs to the kitchen for food to replenish the energy we had spent. I liked Quinn, maybe a little more than I should have but he wouldn’t have slept with me at all if he wasn’t a little interested in where it would go, right? With the disturbing thought at the forefront of my mind I leaned against the kitchen counter and looked at Quinn.
“What?” he asked when he caught me staring.
“You’re not one of those guys are you?” I said looking at him with worried eyes coming to the conclusion I really didn’t know him very well.
“What guys?” he asked crossing in a defensive move. His charming smile was gone, didn’t I know how to break a mood.
“The one night stand kind” I clarified. His eyes widened for a second before he burst out laughing, it was so sudden I jumped.
“I don’t want you just for one night. I’d like it to be more permanent if you’re interested,” he said. I stood there a moment stunned, this all felt like a crazy dream and had been in that suspended state for a long time, I pinched myself just to make sure. Nope I was awake alright, so I thought about his offer. “Girlfriend” What would that entitle? He was Pride Master but other than that I didn’t know too much about him and it didn’t seem like a good idea to start dating anyone without some information. Maybe I had been to rash about my decision to bed him as well. Plus it would be a very short courting if we didn’t survive tonight with the vampire’s.
“Where do you live?” I asked conversationally. He smirked seeming to understand the conclusion I had come up with. We were almost strangers.
“I own a place about an hour away from here.”
“Where do you work?” I continued questioning
“I work for my father’s surveying company.” he told me.
“Okay,” I said. “And how will I see you, if we date?” I asked.
“I was going to ask you to live with me,” he stated calmly like that wasn’t a fast move and had it planned all along, though after our conversation last night, it shouldn’t have surprised me as much as it did. “Don’t you think that is a little fast?” I asked now revaluating the situation wondering if I had indeed made a mistake. Quinn came over to me, wrapping me in his arms and resting his chin on my head. “I want you to be with me babe, but if that was a little much then I will make the drive here as much as possible to see you” he compromised making me let out a breath of relief. We would try it out and see where it would lead us, he wasn’t asking for a marriage commitment. I smiled as I told him “yes”. We kissed until I had goose bump all over my body, but knowing I couldn’t go for another round had us both detangling to finish breakfast.
Once we were finished eating we began going over the plans for tonight’s events. Quinn decided to start with the basic 101 of killing vampires.
“Stakes through the heart works, but it is hard to get that close to one, fire is another, and now we also know that decapitation works just fine” he stated reminding me of Byron.
“Ok” I said looking around the kitchen trying to think happy thoughts and not panic, “Maybe we should set booby traps” I said happily looking back at Quinn he began laughing thinking I was making a joke but I had been very serious about it.
“Lana, come on, this isn’t the movies. We don’t have enough time to set traps. These are vampires, they would see anything we tried to put together”. I began thinking it through; we had a lot of supplies here at Uncle Alan’s house. Basic things the vamps wouldn’t think twice about looking at.
“There’s a propane tank on the grill that could easily be blown up, there are a lot of tree branches that have fallen down around here that we can sharpen to a point” Quinn started pounder the possibilities. “Okay, show me what you have in mind” he said standing up and began walking outside; I followed quickly behind him excited with the plan I had in mind. We grabbed some fishing line from Uncle Alan’s shed, since it wouldn’t be seen as well as rope would be. I climbed up the tree in the back yard to tie off one end to the branches.
It took about six hours to get the whole clearing booby trapped, nothing looked out of place since we had camouflaged everything with the falling leaves from the trees.
After we were through with dinner we both went back outside to watch the sun set knowing the time had come. I was shaking a little from fear, what if this didn’t work? This needed to work and negative thoughts weren’t going to help the situation.
Quinn began the process of undressing I followed his procedure until we both stood naked. We knelt and looked into each other’s eyes as we changed. We were just waiting for the vampires to show up which ended up happening as soon as we were in our tiger forms. They came from the roof of the house. I heard them first and looked up, Quinn followed my gaze. There were nine of them that I could count. I guess the vamp bitch didn’t trust us; I couldn’t really blame her there. The female vamp didn’t come from the roof; no she came around the side of the house holding Bill by the back of the neck. Bill was black and blue, he had a deep gash going from the right side of his forehead to his chin, blood was covering his shirt and still leaking from the wound. I growled at the site of him, until she tossed him at my feet. Bill looked up at me not saying a word out loud only in thought, Quinn and I had decided it would be best to drop all of my shields for this night.
“Run Lana! Don’t tell her know who you are please” he thought. I bent my head to Bill’s and whined “Everything will be okay” I reassured him as I started licking the deep wound on his face. The vampires just waited, watching me closely they had kept their end of the bargain. The female vamp started tapping her foot on the ground, she was becoming impatient.
“I didn’t get a chance to introduce myself last time we met, I am Emily, right hand to Amelia Queen of the States” I had quite licking Bill’s wound knowing he was going to need some serious stitches once this was over. I looked at the female that now had a name “Emily”. At least I would have a name to associate her ashes with.
Bill tried to sit up and grab my neck, but he was just too weak. I needed to get this over with. The vampire’s had already circled Quinn and me, moving into position for a kill no doubt. What they didn’t know was I had a few tricks up my sleeve. I had rigged the propane take to blow, the minute anyone stepped on the fishing line I had covered with dirt, there were two vampires standing by the grill now. I began walking towards Emily slowly; I felt the string under my paw a second before the explosion triggered. The two vampires closest to the grill caught fire quickly turning to ash. Emily jumped up into the air like lightning while the other vamps were turning around to hide their faces from the fire. Quinn crawled under Bill until he was secured on his back, we needed to get the wounded out of here.
“Tell Quinn to take you to the truck and leave! I got this” I thought to bill. Bill whispered my demands into Quinn’s large tiger ear. Quinn gave a low huff of agitation not wanting me to be alone but knowing there were no other choices if we wanted Bill to live. Once Quinn and Bill were gone I began running for the tree that over looked the house. I had hooked a rope to the end of it that was attached to the broken branches we had sharpened to points. I pulled the rope with my teeth unleashing the wave of stakes right at the vampires. Three were killed, instantly turning into ash just like the firebug twins earlier. There were two that had dodged my air borne attack on the ground; I didn’t know where Emily went. I started ran in a large circle trying to gain momentum, then with all my strength I pushed off a tree with my paws to launch myself at one of the vampires. I did it so fast he didn’t even see me coming till we were both on the ground I was on top of him, his eyes were glowing red, but before he realized I wasn’t burning I ripped his head off in a smooth motion, yes decapitation worked just fine I thought as he turned to ash.
I suddenly felt a tugging on my tail, looking behind me I had a second to see the other vampire before he threw me across the yard. The wind had been knocked clean out of me, but i knew if i didn’t get up I would die right here. The vampire came over to me in a blur, fangs out, ready for killing. I hurt all over, but knew I had to do defend myself, I wasn’t about to be this vampire’s snack. He was standing a foot away from me now and wouldn’t be expecting me to get up so when I did he had a look of complete surprise. I lunged from the ground pushing him into the dirt, with one swift swipe, his head detached from his shoulders, tumbling across the yard, like a basketball tumbling down a street. I stood there panting taking inventory of my injuries, I was left back hind leg was in the process of healing the break I knew was there.
Hearing a hiss above me I looked up to see Emily. She came at me fast I attempted to back petal but my hind leg gave out causing me to fall to on my side. I expected a quick death like I had given to her comrades instead she pulled some sort of device from behind her back and clamped it around my neck like a collar before quickly stepping out of my reach. I watched her push a button on a little remote before I felt a shock that rendered me unconscious.