OF SONGS AND STAKES

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Chapter Three: BAD MOON RISING

Friday: February 11, 2011.

The week had passed in a blur my grades had slowly dropped from an A+ to an A. I wasn't worried because I knew I could keep it up. I wouldn't be getting valedictorian though. Brittany had seemed down, more so than normal. I had patrolled around her house almost every night, the worry hitting me as the sun set. She was innocent and I didn't think she would be able to protect herself if she ran into a vampire. She had been spending less and less time with the other cheerios. I was staring at Brittany who was at her locker, as I thought this. I spot some hockey player walk up to her.

He kept saying things and I focused my slayer hearing as I watched them. "Come on, you've made out with almost everyone here. Having sex wouldn't be to big of a step. You like people who make you feel good." His hand slipped onto her waist and her face was crestfallen. "Let me make you feel good. You know you want some of this, plus it will bring your rep up. Its been falling since Lopez stopped hanging out with you." I heard her tell him that she has to leave and he grabbed her arm. "You're already a slut by school standards. You know you want me so lets visit the janitors closet or maybe the locker room."

I stalked towards him, pissed that he would keep her here after she said no. After she wanted to leave. I step in front of him. Putting my body between him and Brittany. I forced his hand to let go of her arm. "Leave her alone and get lost."

He laughed. "What are you going to do about it Berry you couldn't hurt a fly." He shoves me away and I let my body move, knowing it would look suspicious if I didn't. "Get lost." I step back in front of Brittany.

"Brittany, go do whatever you needed to do." I look the hockey player up then down. "I'll talk to this neanderthal of a boy." Brittany goes to move but he grabs her arm, asking her where she is going. I grab the hand he dare put on Brittany and pry it off of her and squeeze, barely using my slayer strength. I can feel his muscles and bones protesting in pain, as his face contorts into a pain filled expression. "I said to leave her alone. You do not touch someone without their permission. Do you understand?" I apply a little more pressure.

He begins to tug at his hand in my grip. He's telling me to let him go. His face is fear and panic filled. His eyes dart around the room looking for someone to help him. As he looks around I spot Santana looking at us due to the commotion we are making. Her eyes widen as she spots Brittany before she says something to Quinn, both of them begin to make their way across the hallway. I see Sue looking at me before she begins to make her way over. I release the boy and he runs away, holding his hand close to his chest. I look at Brittany. "Santana and Quinn are coming this way, do you wish to speak to them?" She shakes her head no and I offer her my hand. She takes it without hesitation, even after she had seen what I did to the hockey player with that hand. I pull her down the hallway, dodging people. She keep up with me, moving as fluidly as I did through the crowd of students. Her long legs able to keep up with my slayerness.

We make it to another hallway and I pull her into a room that I haven't been in forever. The choir room. "Are you alright Brittany?"

She looks at me. "Yes. Thanks for protecting me back there. Santana usually does that." Her face turns crestfallen again. "She hasn't done that in awhile, ever since New Years. Her and Quinn have been together most days." She sniffles. "I think I'm loosing my best friend and I didn't want her to know what happened with him because she would be mad at him and at herself."

I wipe away her tear. "I am sorry you lost your friend Brittany. It is her loss because you are a very good person, anyone would be lucky to be your friend."

She sniffs again before smiling. "Will you be my friend?"

Her face is so hopeful, and I think about the danger I am in. The danger I could put her in. I am a slayer, my life revolves around evil beings and thrives on danger. I almost tell her I can't but the hope in her eyes prevents me. "I will not make a great friend." Her expression falls. "But yes, I will be your friend and I will try my hardest not to make you cry." Her smile blooms across her face and she lunges forward to hug me. If I had not been a slayer I would have toppled over onto my back.

Tuesday February 15, 2011

Two days remaining

The calm before the storm is what someone would call the feeling right now. The nights have been less active, as if the other demons and vampire know the wolf is coming. The wolf could rip them to shreds. Vampires may be fast and have strength but wolves have speed also and claws along with feral instincts. I had been reading up on werewolves. Most seemed only to be able to turn during the full moon but some of them, the ones who learned control could shift at any time they wanted which meant this wolf was a pup with no control or he just liked to hunt and let the wolf side rule during the full moon. The wolf either complemented you as human or fought against your nature. The ones who fought against it were most likley the ones who lost control. The ones who embraced it either loved killing or the thrill of being a wolf.

Sue and Emma told me that I must remember that this wolf is a human. I can't just kill him like I do the soul-less vampires. I had asked about vampires having souls and they both seemed to clam up after that. Neither of them mentioned souls again and I wondered about vampires having souls as I went out to slay that night.

I walk around the cemetery and hear a commotion. I jump around the corner and catch a vampire feeding on a human girl. The girls brown eyes were cloudy from blood loss. I staked the vampire before he had time to even remove his mouth from the girl. I catch her before she hits the ground. She looks familiar but I couldn't place her face. I pick her up and run as I called Sue. "What happened."

"Killed a vampire who was feeding on a girl. She is between consciousness right now. What do I do?" I feel the girls head slump against my neck as she falls unconscious. I pressed my hand tighter onto her bleeding neck as Sue's voice chimed in the bluetooth in my ear.

"Shit, take her to the hospital. I have a friend there. I'll meet you there." Her voice is strained and I hear a door slam and Emma's voice in the background.

I run as fast as I can and Sue's voice chimes in my ear. "Ask for Dr. Olmos."

I continued to run for the hospital her cold body in my arms, heart beating slow and thready. Finally I make it to the hospital and burst through the doors. "I need Dr. Olmos NOW!" The doctors seemed to start at me and all the blood before moving into action. An ethnic doctor came rushing towards me.

She slips on some gloves before having me place the girl on the gurney. "Explain as we walk."

"I happened upon her. She was just bleeding so I picked her up and made a run for the hospital. Sue told me to ask for you." The other doctors were listening in as I chased after Dr. Olmos and the girl on the gurney.

She looks at me then the girl before looking at the bleeding wound. "Alright follow me, stay close. Her blood type?" I shook my head no. She moved us down the hall and into a room before moving into action. "Too late to find her type." She checked the girls pockets and upon finding nothing she yells. "I need O negative now." A nurse rushed in and Dr. Olmos hooked her up to O negative blood then to an IV. I could smell the saline as it began to hydrate the lifeless girl.

A copper tinge surrounded the room and clung to the girl like a perfume. The doctor kept checking her vitals when Sue came bursting into the room. She barked at the nurse to leave. When the door was shut Sue looked at us before speaking to Dr. Olmos. "Marisol, it's a special circumstance. We need to keep it quiet."

"Of course Sue. It was just a mugging gone wrong when a young girl happened upon the bleeding girl. She brought her here right away and I stitched up the knife wound on her neck and gave her a transfusion." My face scrunched up in confusion as I looked between Sue and the doctor.

"What is going on?" Sue face turned exasperated.

"She knows Rachel." She looks back to the girl. "She didn't consume anything did she?"

I think back to the vampire feeding on the girl. I looked at her mouth which was clean, no blood. "No she didn't consume anything."

She nods her head. "Stay here and keep an eye on her for a few minutes then get back out there once we're sure she won't die. Contact her parents when you're sure she won't die." I nod and stare at the girl as Sue wrote something down on a piece of paper, most likely the girls name. I look at her curiously wondering how Sue knew the girl. Seeming to sense my eyes she looked at me. "She's one of my cheerios, a flyer." She turns and leaves the room shaking her head.

I look at the girl. She would be about 5'4" maybe, just taller than I am. She didn't feel like she weighed that much, then again I was a slayer with super strength. I feel anger flood my system, a vampire most likely chose her because she was small. She almost died tonight because of a soul-less creature. Dr. Olmos looked at me and it was like she could see the storm in my eyes. "She won't die and there is no other blood in her system. Go do your job, burn off the anger. She will still be here in the morning." I nod my head before I shoot out of the hospital and to a cemetery.

I sought out vampires. Going to their nest and waiting for them. Staking those who had just risen from the ground. Seeing that vampire feeding and almost killing that girl sent raw anger through my veins. Usually I just staked a vampire that was rising from their grave or one that was in the cemetery. I had never seen the damage they could cause. Never thought that every single vampire that rises was once human. The vampire drained them dry and feed them blood. I never saw the process of it, tonight just made everything sharper, more real. That girl could have died or been turned.

I drove the stake through a vampire with hard blue eyes and dirty blonde hair. He growled. His frame had easily towered over mine when he was standing, but kneeling on his knees from pain I had easily staked him. His growl filling my ears before dust filled my eyesite. I was built for this. My small stature gave them confidence in themselves and doubt in me. They didn't know the power hiding in my veins.

The night passed quicker than I thought it would and as the dark receded and light began to show in the form of a sunrise I went to the hospital.

Dr. Olmos was still in her lab coat as I walk into the hospital. "We moved her to a different room. Follow me."

As I walk swiftly behind her the anesthetic smell of the hospital filled my nose. I wrinkle my nose at the smell before she motions me to look through the window. Sitting by the girl I had saved is a man. The similarities between them let me know that that is her father. They have the same cheek bone structure, the same color of hair and from my brief glimpse of the girls eyes they were inherited from her father, a brown with barely there hints of green. (Sabrina Bryan)

"What'd you tell her father?" I keep my eyes on the girl.

"That she was brought in by a young woman. That she was found bleeding from a knife wound after a mugging. I didn't mention you, it would be to dangerous if she knew who you were." Her eyes were focused on me before they flickered back to the girl. "She'll be fine, Sue put a protection on her in case a vampire comes back. Which is unlikely because you staked him. You should either go home and sleep or go to school."

I look at the girl one last time before thanking Dr. Olmos and leaving. I head to the gym and take a shower and change my clothes not wanting to go to my house and run into my fathers. I was surprised daddy wasn't in the E.R when I ran in.

Thursday February 17, 2011

First day of Full Moon

I stand in the training building. Sue is late, stuck with the cheerios. Emma flits around me as she readies weapons. "Alright, tonight is the first night. It will be better if you capture the wolf tonight so we don't need to deal with it the other two days. Tomorrow it will be at it's strongest." I nod my head as I strap some silver chains to my waist. They wouldn't weigh me down and there was no way they could hold a werewolf. Her hands come to rest on my shoulders. "Be careful and be aware out there. Wolves are cunning and dangerous."

I nod and look outside. The moon was already rising. "I better go." Emma nods her head before she pulls me into her. I hug her back and throw a wink her way. "I'll be fine. See you tomorrow Emma."

I exit the building and begin walking to my car. I roll the windows down and begin to drive. I turn on the police scanner and listen "Dispatch, animal sighting by Crowley's Farm. Looks like the thing that's been hunting the animals again." I quickly do a u-turn and start heading south. I slow down and park my car by an open book store before I take off running down the streets in the shadows.

I can hear the sirens which means it can hear them. I slide under the fences and head into the forest. Coming from the farm are huge paw prints. The public would not take this news well. "Shit." I hear a crunch and spin around and crouch, a knife grasped in my hands. I stare into the docile brown eyes of a cow. It licks it's lips before continuing to eat grass. "Goodness, you startled me Mr. Cow."

The sirens grow louder and I smack the rump of the cow and it goes rushing into the field where the others are munching on grass. "No self preservation." Where is the wolf? I follow the footsteps in the mud and my ears listen for any sound. There is a crunch behind me and a low growl. "You have got to be kidding me." I turn slowly and look into the eyes of a wolf. "Holy Shit." I breathe out. This thing is huge. It sniffs the air and tilts it's head as it looks at me. It stands slightly taller than a normal wolf. Normal wolves are maybe two and a half to three feet tall. This ones shoulders come to somewhere between my ribs. Maybe four to four and a half feet tall. The height of a small child, or a man resting on his knees. It bulges with muscles and its fur is a dark brown, kind of shaggy but still short.

Deep brown eyes look back at me and I can see an intelligence in them. Something human before it sniffs the air and crouches. The eyes lose that recognition and the wolf lunges. I duck and roll away, knife clutched in my hand. It lets out a low growl and circles me. It's tail twitches and the growl grows louder when it catches sight of the knife in my hand. It jumps towards me and I twist enough to dodge the attack and knee the wolf in the ribs. It whines as I hear a few crack.

It shakes itself and limps forward before hitting me head on with its head. I fly back at the force of the headbutt and hit a tree. My head snaps back into the bark and I see white until it starts to clear. The wolf sniffs at my face and I bring my hand up to slam into it's jaws as something eats away at my insides. Something I hadn't felt before. Fear. Vampires were easy to take care of. Wolves seemed much harder and more dangerous. A howl fills the air and its jaws snaps. I barely duck out of the way and slide under its body.

I slip out from underneath it and grab its tail. Before it can twist around and bite me I shift my body weight and use as much force as I can to throw it. It flies through the air until it crashes into the ground and rolls. I let out a breath of relief when it doesn't get up. It's chest is still moving but it is still otherwise. I open up my phone and call Sue to tell her to come get the wolf. I look up and the wolf is gone. How could I be so stupid. I hear Sue say my name and I drop the phone."Shit." Suddenly I am tackled from behind. Of course I would make the mistake to take my eyes off the wolf. Hot breath sends chills down my back and I feel for my knife. One of the paws that are pinning my shoulders down moves until it has that arms pinned. Low growling fills my ears and I bring my other arm up to elbow the creature in the face. It yelps and hops away as I roll to my feet and grab my knife.

Blood oozes out of it's nose and I glare at the wolf. This wasn't fun. I finger the chain at my waist and the wolf lunges once again. I roll away and pull out the chain. It watches me warily as the chain slips through my fingers until it hangs limp and brushes the ground. "Come on!" It growls and jumps for me, I sling the chain around and catch the wolf in the ribs. It yelps and I see skin smoking from where silver touched skin.

It whines as it licks at its ribs. It circles me and jumps again. I bring the chain around to strike it again and it ducks and knocks my feet out from under me. "Crap. Crap. Crap." I pick the chain up again when I hear a howl in the distance. The wolf seems to debate eating me or leaving. The howl pierces the night air again and the wolf throws me one last look before fleeing to the other wolf. "There are two." My head slams into the ground as I breath in exhaustion. My ribs felt cracked from their fight with the tree and my back was nice and battered.

Friday February 18, 2011

Second day of Full Moon

School passed quickly. No one showed up angry or bruised and I decided I needed to do more research on them tonight before I went out. My fingers bounce with excess energy even though I only had about an hour of sleep last night. I had stayed out trying to find the wolves but they had disappeared. Sue said they probably bunkered down somewhere to sleep.

The tapping gains the attention of the teacher. "Miss Berry would you care to share with the class what has you so energized?"

The class turns to look at me and Brittany aims a grin my way. World history was always kind of tedious. "No, I just have to use the restroom. I didn't want to interupt you lecture to ask."

I smile politely back at her and she sighs. "You've managed to disrupt it anyways. Go on, next time ask please." I nod my head thanking her before I get up and head to the door. We only had maybe five minutes left in history. One of the hockey players sticks his foot out to try and trip me. A smirk is on his face and the others around him grin in anticipation. I grin softly as I side step his foot and throw my backpack over my shoulder. It clips him in his head and i'm out the door before the teacher can question me. Laughter rings out behind me as the boy grunts in pain. I shake my head and walk down the hall to my locker. I switch my books out as I hum and then I hear soft footsteps down the hallway. I turn my head to catch sight of Brittany.

She grins as she sees me before she bounds forward. "Hey Rachel."

"Hello Brittany. How's your day going?" I finish zipping my bag and I slide it onto my shoulders as I shoot a grin at her.

Her smile widens. "It's okay. Sue's gave us today off."

My eyes widen in shock. "Really?" She nods her head. "Well what are you going to do today then?"

Her smile droops and she furrows her eyebrow. "I dunno. Normally I'd hang out with S and Q but they're being really weird and secretive lately. " She shrugs her shoulders. "I'll probably watch movies with my sister." Her grin suddenly appears brighter than before. "Do you wanna watch movies with us?"

My heart clenched. Something about Brittany tugged at me. I wanted to hang out with her. Talk to her, share secrets. It wasn't so far out there either. Sure she was a cheerleader and most of the cheerleaders liked to torment the artistic students but Brittany was different. She never talked mean to anyone and smiled at everyone. "I'm kinda busy tonight. I don't know what time my thing will be over."

Her grin falters but she is still smiling. "My sister and I usually stay up until early Saturday morning. My mom hates it but we still do it." She tilts her head. "Can you come later tonight? It doesn't matter what time."

My mind say no but my mouth says differently. "Yeah, i'll knock on your bedroom window if I get done early enough."

Her grin becomes face splitting and her eyes shine in joy before I am swept up in a hug. My feet leave the ground and a giggle leaves my lips. "I'll see you then!" She brushes a kiss across my cheek before she takes off running down the hallway. The bell rings as she turns the corner. I find a grin on my face as I head to my next class.

The day passes in the blink of an eye and before I know it I am at the building and sharpening weapons. Sue greets me as she walks in. "I'm going to work on something to sap the werewolves strength. Something like what I use for your training." I nod my head and finish sharpening the knife. I set it back in its sheath and head to the computer.

I look up werewolf. Seeing the link to the biography I click on it. A werewolf can be bitten or born. Werewolves are almost as strong as vampires when they are shifted. They feel the need to turn every full moon. The day of, before and after the full moon they are a slave to the moon. There are only a few werewolves that can control their wolf side when shifted. They are typically three to four and a half feet tall. When not shifted wolves are typically identified by their ability to smell and hear. Some have temperament issues and tend to be more aggressive than they once were. Weaknesses are silver and wolfbane. Silver weakens them and wolfsbane injected into bloodstream will slowly kill a wolf unless it is given the antidote. Werewolves who have no control over their shift remember nothing from the night before. They may have dreams or flashes of memory leading up to the next moon but they mostly will not remember because they have two distinct side. The wolf side and the human side, one cannot remember until they have control or accept their wolf side. Wolves typically have quick healing, though broken bones are often worse due to the shift from human to wolf. Wolves are often territorial and are only in pairs when they are mating. Wolves do not typically hunt or stay in pairs.

Okay so the guy most likely wouldn't remember me. He had enhanced strength that could rival a vampire and it was fast. I'd already found that out last night. Now times that by two because not only was there one wolf there was another. Someone knocks on the door and I close the computer and leave the room. Emma stands there with a huge plate of food. I scarf down the vegan lasagna and pop the supplement pills I normally take into my mouth. My believe in veganism had thankfully stayed strong throughout my move into Slayerhood. Emma was worried about my nutrients I was getting so she doubled my normal protein pills to make up for my slayer metabolism.

"Thanks Emma." I look around and see the darkening sky. "I'm going to head out now. See if I can catch the wolves."

She sighs as she helps me put weapons in harnesses. "Be careful, Sue will hopefully have the chain charmed by tomorrow." She hands me a gun. "Here, there are tranquilizers in here, hopefully powerful enough to knock out the wolf." I nod my thanks and attack it to my hip.

I leave and flip on the police scanner I had downloaded onto my phone. Hopefully it could lead me to the wolves. I walk down dark alley ways and patrol the streets quietly. So far nothing was amiss. No vampires or wolves out yet. My ears listen for any sound until I hear something from my phone. "Dispatch, another animal sighting. This time it caused a crash on the main street heading out of Lima. The one surrounded by the woods."

Great this meant the wolf would most likely be hunting people driving by in cars. I really need to get something other than my car to drive around. Maybe a fourwheeler or a bike. Either of those could probably move faster than I could. I take off running in the direction of the forest and main street. The wind catches my hair and I grin.

Finally the car comes into view. The car is thankfully clean of blood but I see the ambulance leaving. I hide behind the trees as the cops decide to call in animal control. I listen for the sound of footsteps or the crunch of leaves. I hear none. Deciding the wolf most likely went into the forest I take off running through the forest. It is unusually quiet which means there is a hunter in the woods tonight. The wolves are out to play. I hear footfalls and turn just in time to be tackled by the huge brown wolf. "Crap!" I slid across the ground after I kick the wolf off of me. It moves in to attack me again but gunfire sounds and the tree near us explode.

The wolf's eyes widen before it takes off running gunfire sounds again and the trees in front of the wolf explode as bullets rain down on them. The wolf hunches as the bullets fly. It looks around terrified. "Crap. Shit. Shit." Thinking fast I let out a loud scream. If they kept firing and hit either of us we'd be screwed. They would follow the blood trails.

The gunfire stops and the wolf looks at me. I flip my hood up and take off running. I hear footfalls as the wolf runs along side me. "Did you hear that?" "Yeah, it sounded like a girl." "Shit, you don't think we hit her do you?" The words cut off as we run farther into the trees. Two enemies running from a mutual enemy.

A howl fills the silence and I flinch away from the wolf as it's reply shatters my eardrums. I keep running straight and it turns right. "Crap. Stupid werewolf." I turn right and begin to chase the wolf. I pull out the tranq gun and turn the safety off as I chase after the wolf. Hopefully it would lead me to the other one and I'd knock them both out. The wolf turns to look at me and growls when it catches sight of the gun. It head for me and I sigh in frustration before I aim and shoot at the wolf. It dodges the first shot but the second clips it in the shoulder and it snarls as it rams it's shoulder into a tree so the tranq dart falls out.

I stay on it's tail and it howls again. Its gait begins to slow and I slow my run until the wolf is tripping through the forest. I have no idea where we are but hopefully I had signal out here. It lets out another long pitiful howl before collapsing. "Thank goodness that worked." I nudge it with my foot a few times before I move to grab the chain around my waist only to realize that Sue still had it. I groan as I lean down and open the wolf's eyes. It has the expression of a sleeping boy as it's head lolls to the side, brown eyes cloudy with sleep.

I pull out my phone and slid the screen to open it. No signal glares back at me and I fight the urge to throw my phone. "No chain and no freaking service." I sigh as I look the wolf over. "Okay heads or tail. Heads or tails. Tails it is." I slip off one of my stake harnesses and slip it around the wolf's muzzle. I tighten the straps and then loop its front paws through the holes and tighten it. I look over my work and sigh, it would have to do. It'll stop it from biting me but it could easily break out of it once it wakes up. With one final tug to the strap I grab the wolf's tail and begin to pull it towards town. I check my phone periodically throughout the trip and still don't have any service. By the time ten minutes pass and still no service I realize I am lost. "Are you kidding me?!"

My voice echoes around the forest and I slump against the wolf. It still hasn't moved yet so the tranq was working pretty well. Suddenly there is the sound of something running at a high speed through the forest. As I stand up and reach for a knife I am mowed down by something huge. I hit a tree and slump to the ground. I open my eyes blearily as blood drips down from my head. I can make out the features of another wolf before it begins to drag the unconscious wolf away. A groan escapes my lips as I struggle to stand up. Two head injuries in two days does not feel good. This one feels like I was hit by five trucks. I use the tree as support and feel my head. I yank my hand away as a hiss escapes my lips.

I stand slumped against the tree before I take deep breaths and begin to make my way to town. Finally I get signal and call Emma. "Rachel are you alright?"

"Yeah. I tranquilized the first wolf but the other wolf came to it's rescue. I lost them." I continue to walk as I mentally berate myself for my stupidity.

"But you are fine?" I humm in agreement. "Good. Alright, the wolves should stay away tonight. That tranquilizer was enough to knock out two elephants, he won't be awake for a while. Why don't you come in and Sue and I can look you over?"

I feel the back of my head, thankfully the blood is already clotting. "No, i'm fine. I think i'll hunt for a bit then come in. I got some excess energy."

She sighs. "Alright, but make sure you come in. Don't stay out past four." I agree and say goodbye then put the phone back in my pocket.

The rest of the night is spent staking vampires who are lured in by my blood. I check Brittany's house at least three times to make sure nothing is amiss. I circle by my house twice to make sure my fathers are alright. Besides insane giggling at Brittany's house and loud snoring at mine nothing was amiss. Finally around three in the morning, my head throbbing in pain I decide to head to the gym. Hopefully I can take a shower and change clothes. If I was a normal human I would have been down the second I hit the tree. Being a slayer had healing perks.

I open the door and start to pull off the weapons and put them away, a light flickers on and Emma comes down the stairs in a robe. "Rachel?"

"Yeah. I just got in." I pull off my jacket and throw it in the washer. I pull off the long sleeve shirt and am left in dark jeans and a sports bra.

Emma looks me over. "Goodness Rachel. You've got blood all over you." She touches the back of my head and I hiss in pain as I move away. She shushes me as her hand settles on my shoulder. "You are going to need stitches. Goodness did you roll around in vampire or what? There is dust all over this. Go take a shower, i'll wake Sue up."

I huff but do as i'm told heading up the stairs. I see a lump sleeping in one of the queen beds and I hold in a giggle at the messy blonde locks. The shower feels amazing until it hits the cut at the back of my head. I trip away in pain and hear a knock on the door. "Almost done." I yell out as I finish cleaning myself up. I shut off the shower and dry myself off. I pull on another sports bra and some underwear then some jeans and a tank top.

I exit the bathroom to find Sue standing there. "Let's go. Emma said you have a hole in your head."

I sigh in amusement as I sit down and Sue begins to work on my head. I hiss a few times until she finishes with the stitches. "There, it shouldn't get infected." I nod my thanks and she pokes at my shoulders. I jerk away in pain. "Your backs pretty bruised up." I shrug my shoulders and she sighs. "Just be careful." I nod my head. "Are you staying here or going home?"

"I think i'll go home. You both are sleeping here." Sue's raise her eyebrows but doesn't say anything. "Thanks for the stitches." I blush and she nods. I walk down the steps after I pull on a jacket and head out the door. I bid goodbye to Emma and walk down the street. I get into my car and debate on what to do next, it is almost four in the morning. I sigh and drive past Brittany's house to make sure nothing is wrong. Somehow her house had become a part of my rounds. Giggles sound and I hear the sound of a disney song. She did invite me to watch movie and she was still awake? It would give me a place to tell my fathers where I had been, they were getting suspicious as of lately.

I sigh and park the car. I look around but don't hear or see anything supernatural before I take off running and climb up the side of her house. My shoulders groan in protest before I sit on the ledge in front of her bedroom window. I knock on it and hear the bed squeak as someone moves. Bright blue eyes greet me and I grin as the window opens. "Movie offer still open?"

Brittany squeals and pulls me into the room. "Yes!" She bounces and I hear the bed squeak again. "Shh. My little sister just fell asleep." I nod my head and she leads me to a huge king sized bed. Her little sister is slumped at the foot of the bed on her stomach, she faces the direction of the tv. Brittany gently turns her until she is facing the right way and pulls the blanket over her as she places her head on the pillow. "There, she would have had a headache if she slept the other way." I smile softly at the love in Brittany's eyes before she pulls me onto the bed. She fluffs an insane amount of pillows behind her as she leans beck. She sits in the middle and I sit down next to her. My body instantly slumps into the soft bed. I groan as I toe off my shoes. I hear Brittany's laughter as I take off my jacket. I then get up and place my shoes and jacket in the corner. I move back to lie down and feel eyes on me. "What happened to you shoulders?"

I sigh as I slump further into the bed. "I fell." She opens her mouth. "I, this is one of the reasons I said I couldn't be a good friend. I can't explain everything." I duck my head.

"Okay." I look up in shock. I didn't think she would drop the subject that fast. "As long as you aren't hurt really bad okay?" I nod my head and smile in thanks, she returns it brighter than most would. I sigh as I drift off to sleep to the songs of disney.

Well don't go around tonight,
Well it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.

Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.

BAD MOON RISING by CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL