Hey guys! I'm finally back with a brand new chapter for The Other Side! Yay! I'm sorry it took me so long to get my chapter out, but I have been a busy bee lately, in between writing, life and family problems, it's just gah, so damn stressful... but anyways. But let's not talk about that anymore, and this chapter will probably most likely be shorter than the other ones I wrote, but what can you do? And I'm also gonna keep this author's note short.

So what's going to happen in this new chapter of TOS...? Well... you guys are just gonna have to read to find out!

And so, there's nothing else to say. But I hope everyone enjoys the chapter and I will see you guys at the end! So enjoy!

After about twenty minutes of quiet driving, they finally arrived at the Vampire Council. Benny parked his car across the street from the Council building. They both got out of the car and began to walk towards the front gate of the Vampire Council building, and as they walked, Benny reached down and laced his fingers with Ethan's and gave him a huge smile, which made Ethan smile back at him

When they got to the gate, they waited a few seconds before the guard zoomed in front of the gate and looked at them. "Anastasia and the other council members have been waiting for you," he told them, opening the front gate and stepped aside so they could walk through the gate.

"So what should I expect from the Council's training sessions?" Ethan asked his boyfriend, as soon as they were inside the building.

"Well, expect a lot of different things from the Council's training sessions. There's a lot to name. So you'll have to see it all for yourself, E," Benny answered, bringing up Ethan's hand to kiss it.

Ethan grinned and shook his head as they walked down the hall of the building until they got to the entrance of the Council chambers where Anastasia and the other council members were standing, waiting for them to arrive.

Anastasia then turned her head and saw them standing there. She put a small smile on and walked over towards them, "Ethan, are you ready to start training with the other members?" she asked him, looking at him.

He nodded his head. "I'm ready for this."

Her smile widened. "Okay, follow me then." With that she began to lead them, along with two other council members, towards the training chambers. They took a few turns before they finally got to two double doors that Anastasia just pushed open and walked inside.

They entered the room right after her and stood still as Ethan took everything around him in. The training room was about ten times the size of Jesse's training room and there were guards watching over the other members as they trained, making sure that they were training and not just sitting on their asses, doing nothing like almost everyone on Jesse's side does from time to time.

"So what do you think of the training room, E?" Benny asked, breaking him away from his thoughts and look over at Benny and then at Anastasia.

"I like it. It feels so professional," he answered.

"Why thank you for that, Ethan," she thanked him, actually sounding nice for once before her face turned serious and she cleared her throat loudly, getting everyone's attention as she walked to the middle of the room. "Hello, everyone, I'm sorry to interrupt training and you will be getting back to it in a minute. I have an announcement to make. Ethan Morgan, our newest member will be training with you all today and to those who still have trust issues, I assure you after today, you won't." She looked around at them. "Now everyone get back to training." The members went right back to training and Anastasia walked back to Ethan and Benny, but she wasn't alone, she had brought over another member. The guy had blonde hair, was about 5'11 in height and had a medium build to his body. "Ethan, I'd like you to meet Samuel."

Samuel held out his hand for Ethan to shake, which he did with his free hand that Benny wasn't holding. "Nice to meet you, Ethan," he told the seer.

Ethan was a little unsure on what to say to him, so he just gave a little smile and said, "And it's nice to meet you too, Samuel."

Anastasia cleared her throat. "Ethan, Samuel is in charge of the combat skills training and when he heard about you joining the Council, he requested you to help him with the training."

"Really?"

"Really, Ethan, I heard about your skills and I knew that you'd be perfect with helping me train the members, because some members have some weak spots in their attacks and..." Samuel trailed off his eyes quickly drifted over to Benny and then back at Ethan who noticed this but didn't say anything. "There's only one member, who isn't really a great fighter, so we need your help and it's a great way to gain the trust of those few members that still have trust issues with you."

"So, Ethan, would you like to help Samuel out?" Anastasia questioned, looking at the two.

"Sure, I'd love to help him out," Ethan agreed with a nod of his head. He liked the idea because it gave him a better chance of the members with trust issues not to reject his offer of helping them train.

She smiled, rubbing her hands together. "Then it's all settled, so I'll let Samuel or Benny answer any other questions you have, I hope training goes good for you today, Ethan, and now, I have to go and do some Council business, so good luck."

The three of them watched as Anastasia left the training room, before Samuel turned to Ethan. "Okay, Ethan, before we start, you should know that a few of the members tend to be a little cocky and or smug sometimes. They think that their attack moves are too perfect have to weak spots, but they won't think that after you help them out today. I thought that I should let you know that."

He nodded his head. "Thanks for telling me. Now let's go get the training started."

"Alright, then follow me this way," he told them, waving his hand in a motion to follow behind him. The two followed Samuel as he led them over towards the mat in the middle of the room where a few members had gathered around, waiting for him to get started on the combat training.

"Finally, at last, I get to see my boyfriend's combat skills. I'm so excited!" Benny exclaimed quietly, grinning widely.

"Yep, you finally get to see my combat skills," Ethan confirmed with a chuckle as they made their way through the members until they reached the front where they saw Samuel standing in the middle of the mat before he whistled loudly to get the members', attention.

"Now that I have your attention, there's something I'd like to say before we begin. As everyone here already knows, that Ethan Morgan will be training with you all today and he'll also be helping out with combat training. He will be giving you all pointers and suggestions on your combat moves. And Ethan will personally train with you, to show you all your weak spots," Samuel explained, looking at the members. "And now that everyone's up to date, we'll begin training. Everyone pair up!"

And with that, the members started to pair up with each other as Ethan took off his jacket and turned to face Benny. "So, do you want to train with me today?" he asked him.

"Oh, Ethan, I'd love to train with you, but I'm sitting out today's combat training. I'm not feeling up to it and.." Benny began to ramble.

Ethan rolled his eyes, but he ended up pecking Benny's lips to shut him up. "Okay, okay, Ben I get it. You aren't feeling up to training today," he already knew the real reason as to why Benny was sitting out today's combat training, but he was going to ask his boyfriend later, when they were by themselves, to see if his hunch was correct or not.

Benny just smiled, taking his jacket from him. "Go show your stuff, babe," he pushed him towards the other members. Ethan chuckled at him but walked over towards the members to see that all of them had paired up with each other except for one member who was walking over to him with Samuel by his side.

"Ethan, this is Max. You'll be training some with him today," he told the seer. "I figured having two of our best fighters training together would be a good idea, so train nicely with each other and don't try to injure the other person, either. Got it? Good, now have a good time training, you two."

After Samuel left them alone, Max turned to Ethan with his arms crossed. "I hope you're as good of a fighter as they say because you're gonna need to be when you're training with me."

And there's the cockiness I was told about, Ethan thought before smirking slightly. "Well, you're about to find that out for yourself, Max."

The vampire stared at Ethan for a second before heading to the center of the training mat. Ethan turned his head to look at his boyfriend, who smiled and gave him a thumbs up. He smiled and made his way over to Max who had taken his spot around the center of the mat, Ethan took his spot and got into position a few inches away from him and waited for the other guy to make his move. He then made his move by moving his leg to kick Ethan, who quickly dodged the kick by ducking out of the way and while the vampire had his side exposed to Ethan, he kicked him hard in the side making the vampire grunt some from the pain but he quickly recovered and took a swing at Ethan's face with his fist, but again, he dodged of the swing and kneed Max in the stomach, which made the vampire fumble back some and put his hand on his stomach for a second before he recovered and began to throw attack moves at Ethan again.

Max continued to throw punches and kicks at Ethan who easily dodged and blocked all of the vampire's attack moves and threw a few small attack moves of his own, nothing really big, since he was saving his strength for the moment when Max would expose his weak spot to him and he could take him down. He smiled lightly and continued to block and dodge all of the attacks. And neither of them saw that the members were taking notice and some of them had stopped their training just to watch their training session.

Ethan rolled on the training mat to avoid a kick coming from Max's leg. He ended up facing Max's left side and suddenly it felt like time slowed down some. This was the moment he was waiting for, Max had finally exposed his weak spot, which was his left side. Ethan had noticed that whenever the vampire threw punches and took swings at his body and face with his right arm while his left arm basically stayed glued at his left side half of the time and he decided to use that against him whenever he got the chance to and it looked like his chance was happening now.

And as Max turned his body to face him. Ethan made his move. He threw a punch at Max's face. His fist connected with its target, and Max's head whipped to the side from the hard punch as Ethan kneed him in the stomach again, then kicked and punched him hard in the left side and then he went in for the final move. With a quick movement of his leg, Ethan knocked out Max's leg from underneath him, sending the vampire onto the training mat. Ethan put his foot on his chest and stared down at him.

Then Ethan took his foot off of Max's chest and held out his hand for the vampire to grab, so he could help him up. Max hesitated to take his hand, thinking that Ethan was going to trick him and flip him once he was off the ground, but Ethan kept his hand out for him to grab. So he decided to take Ethan's hand and help himself off of the ground. Once he was off of the ground, the members clapped and they finally noticed that they had a crowd watching them train. Max patted Ethan on the back. "You did good, Ethan."

"Thanks. You did good too, Max," Ethan told him before adding. "And even though your combat skills are great, I recommend that you shouldn't keep your left arm glued to your side at all times because they'll definitely use that against you in the battle."

"I'll most definitely do that, Ethan. Thank you," he thanked Ethan, giving him another pat on the back.

Before Ethan could reply to Max, he backed away from him some as Benny made his way up to the seer. "Hey, B," he greeted his boyfriend, who was grinning widely.

"Hey," Benny greeted back. "You did great."

"Great? Just great? I was expecting an 'awesome' from you, babe."

Benny chuckled. "I was kidding, Ethan. Of course you were awesome and I'd say more, but I need to see more of your combat skills first."

"Well, get ready to say more. Because that was just a warm up." Ethan gave Benny a small kiss on the cheek and turned to face Max who was standing off not too far away, letting the couple talk. "Max, you ready to start training again?"

"Yep."

"Be back over in a little bit."

The taller of the two smiled as Ethan rushed back over to the vampire and he backed off to the side of the mat once again so he wouldn't be in anyone's way while he watched Ethan go back to training with Max. And he watched his boyfriend train in awe as he blocked and dodged all of Max's attacks and came back fighting back harder than he did the last time.

His boyfriend was a complete badass, but as if he already didn't know that.

"Hmm," Ethan collapsed on Benny's bed, They had just gotten back from the Council after a few hours of training and Ethan was ready to take a shower, eat, then crawl into bed and sleep. "I'm ready for a nice long hot shower."

Benny flipped on the bed next to him. He pulled the shorter teen into his arms and nuzzled his neck. "That sounds nice. I think I will join you."

"Oh my god, Benny, you're such a pervert," he chuckled.

"Well at least I am your pervert."

"Yeah, you are my pervert."

They cuddled for a few minutes before Ethan managed to roll over in Benny's arms to face him. He stared at Benny's face while running his fingers through Benny's hair, who hummed lightly, closing his eyes. Ethan smiled before remembering what he was going to ask Benny when they were in the privacy of Benny's house and since they were now, it was time to pop the question to see if he was right. "Hey, Benny..."

He let out what sounded between a hum and a sigh before replying. "Yea, babe?"

"What's the real reason why you didn't do combat training today?"

His eyes opened and he stared at his boyfriend, who was staring right back at him, waiting for his answer. "I think you already know the answer to that, E."

"I want to hear it from you, Benny, you can tell me anything," he reminded him.

"Okay, I will tell you." Benny took a deep breath. "What you're thinking right now, is completely true. I'm the member that can't fight."

"You didn't have to keep it a secret, Benny. You could've told me the truth," Ethan told him with a sigh at the end.

"I just couldn't tell you the truth," he moved away from Ethan and sat up, who sat up right behind him. "I really don't know why, I guess. I was too embarrassed about it."

Ethan rested his chin on Benny's shoulder as he placed his hand on his boyfriend's chest. Benny placed his hand on top of Ethan's and he turned his head to look at Ethan as the seer lifted his head up from Benny's shoulder. "It's alright, Benny-bear, I get it. I really do," he just nodded and rested his forehead against his boyfriend's.

And of course they stayed like this for a little bit, until Benny had an idea pop in his head and spoke up. "I have the perfect idea for this situation."

"What is it?"

"You could help me train to become a better fighter!"

Ethan stared at him with a look of unsureness, "I don't know about it, Benny. It takes weeks and months for this kind of training and it's next to impossible to do this in the few short days that we have left until the battle."

"But with you, Ethan, anything is possible. If you train me I'll learn all of the moves quicker, because I'm with you. And I'll also ask Anastasia for some private training time so we won't be bugged. I've already thought it all out within the few seconds I had gotten this idea. Just think about it, E."

He sat there and thought about it. It was a very good idea, even though they'd have to train like hell for it to happen. It still was a good idea. "Alright, I'll train you," he agreed. Benny broke out in a huge grin and he went to clap but Ethan interrupted him. "But we're going to be training like hell if you want to be ready before the battle, so no slacking off just because you're training with me. Got it?"

Benny nodded his head before throwing himself at Ethan, the both of them fell back onto the bed, Ethan grunted as his boyfriend landed on top of him, he took Ethan's face into his hands and started to kiss his lips while talking in between the kisses, "I so got it," kiss. "Thank you so much for," another kiss, "doing this, it means so much," another kiss, "to me," he finished, giving Ethan a longer kiss on the lips this time.

The kiss lasted for about a minute, before Ethan pulled away and stared into Benny's eyes. "You're welcome," he told him. Benny just grinned at him and then leaned in to give him a kiss on the lips.

"So," he began laying his head on Ethan's chest. "Are you staying for dinner? Grandma is making her special lasagna tonight."

"I was already planning on staying for dinner anyways. I'd rather eat dinner here in peace than back at my house where my parents will be giving the cold shoulders and sending looks at me that could kill," Ethan answered.

He sighed lightly. "It sucks you've to go through that."

"It does, but I knew it was gonna happen when they found out."

"But it still sucks though."

"At least I got you, Jane, your grandma and Rory by my side through all of this."

"I guess I'd say you're lucky to have me 'cause I'm a catch," Benny changed the subject basically as he lifted up his head and gave his famous 'Benny' grin.

"And I guess that I am lucky," Ethan chuckled, pecking his lips.

Benny rolled off of his boyfriend then the bed and went over to his shelf where he took out a DVD case and grabbed his laptop. "I thought we could watch a movie until dinner was ready."

"Sounds like a good idea. What's the movie?"

"Well, this movie is one of my top favorites and I know this movie by heart," he came back over to the bed, laying down his laptop and DVD case before sitting back down on the bed.

"I see you're finally letting me watch 'Jacuzzi Time Machine'," Ethan stated, picking up the case as Benny opened his laptop and took the case from him.

"Yep, I am. Now with me seeing this movie like over a hundred times it'll be hard for me not to spoil it with my big mouth but I'll try my best," Benny promised while setting up the movie. "Alright, now let's lay back, cuddle and watch the movie."

The two leaned back on the bed, laying in each other's arms as the opening scene of the movie appeared on Benny's laptop screen. Ethan rested his head against Benny's and closed his eyes for a second as his thoughts wandered off about the day's events.

He knew that the next few days until the battle were going to be complete hell with his parents and school, but as long as he had his friends, or just Rory, his sister, Evelyn and Benny by his side, he'd make it through those days until the battle.

Another chapter completed! Whoop, whoop! Hehe, sorry guys just excited, I hoped that this chapter made up for the long wait. I really hoped that it did. And I threw in some Bethan moments 'cause why not? *shrugs*

And I'd say more, but I can't think of anything right now, just that hoped you guys enjoyed the chapter and we'll see you guys in the next update!

Until next time...

~Bethan Forever