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Author: Lamie
Fiction Rated: T - English - Supernatural/Horror - Reviews: 4 - Published: 08-20-02 - Updated: 08-20-02 - id:924394
here's the sequel to tera. it's a work-in-progress. i reccomend reading the original before you read this. otherwise, you may be very lost.

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Tera stared straight ahead at her so-called love, Matt. They were sitting in a run-down living room, in a crumbling house located in the worst neighborhood of Oakhurst, California. They had been living in the condemned house for almost a year, ever since someone saw the supposedly dead Tera walking around back in her hometown of Kennedy.
“Matt...” she mumbled, while pulling at a loose string on her pink tank top. “Matt!”
“What?!” he asked in exasperation.
“Can I go outside?”
“No.” He didn’t even look up from the book he was reading.
“Why not?”
“The sun.”
“I’ll wear your ring.”
“It’s specially made for me. It won’t work on you.”
“So, I can’t go out in the daytime?”
“Right.”
“Matt, is all that stuff about us true?”
“What do you mean?” He actually looked up from the book, with some interest in what Tera was saying.
“With the garlic and crosses and sunlight and all.”
“Yes,” his voice filled with annoyance, Matt looked back to his book.
“Are you sure?”
“Absolutely.”
“Because when you were out finding me someone the other day, I had some pizza with garlic on it and I’m just f-”
“What?!” Matt roared as he sprung up from his chair.
“God, Matt. Relax. It was just some pizza.”
“You had someone come here? They saw you? They know you’re here!” He slammed his hands onto the wooden arm rests of Tera’s chair and leaned into her as he yelled.
She tried her hardest not to laugh, or even smile. But eventually she cracked.
“What’s so funny?”
“It’s not delivery, it’s Digorno!” she laughed, quoting the television commercial.
“I don’t find that even remotely humorous.” Matt backed up but still stood menacingly in front of Tera, whose smile melted away to a disgusted scowl. “So, has anyone saw you here?”
“Yes, but he won’t be telling anyone.”
“Tera! You didn’t kill him...”
She shrugged her left shoulder and rolled her eyes to the ceiling, the look she got when trying to make it look like she's attempting to remember something.
“Tera! They know what route he took! The police will trace him back here!”
“So what? They’re only human.”
“Hunters will find out. I heard that a hunter has an inside link with the cops.”
“We better go somewhere else, huh?”
“You’re going to get us killed, Tera!” Matt stepped forward and grabbed Tera’s wrist. He violently lifted her up off of her chair.
“Us?!” She yelled, lifting her right leg up to kick Matt in the jaw, making him release her arm. Tera gracefully landed on her left foot while Matt crash landed into the chair he had been sitting in, breaking it. “Unlike some little weakling I’ve been living with for the past year and a half, I know how to defend myself! I can face almost anything or anyone that’s thrown my way!”
Tera was surprised that Matt didn’t go into a storming rampage like he usually would. “That’s what I thought when I was first changed,” he groaned as he pulled himself to a standing position. “I felt invincible. Like I was the strongest thing in the world. I soon learned I was wrong, and you will too. I plan to teach you that lesson right now.”
He charged at Tera faster than she ever saw him move before. But instead of getting punched in the face, like Matt attempted, she slammed her knee into his stomach. For the instant while he stood stunned, she her two inch heeled boots into his chest, which sent him flying across the room again. She stood back as Matt managed to stand up from the small pile of rubble that had begun to form where Matt’s chair used to be. He coughed, and a small trickle of blood dribbled from the corner of his mouth. He wiped it away with the back of his hand before yelling, “Tera! You can’t do this to me. Two more months! Two more months and I would have had you.” His teeth were bared and he was slowly, angrily, stepping towards her.
“What do you mean two more months?”
“You’d be completely subdued. You would be so completely under this spell that you wouldn’t know which way was up.” By now, Matt was only about two feet away.
“S-Stop right there.” Tera held out her hand to stop him. “What spell?” she asked as calmly as she could for being
in that situation.
He stared at her for a while, as if trying to determine the amount of damage she could do if he refused to answer.
“Not telling.” He ran for the door as soon as he said the two words.
Tera quickly took after him and ran out of the house into the daylight. She quickly tackled Matt before he managed to get far. He was laying flat on his stomach, and she kept him that way by twisting his arm around to his back. “What spell?!” she demanded again.
"hunters, humans, vampires... it works on all of them. The power is still there in the blood, the person just can’t use it anymore.”
“You used this on me?”
“Yes,”
She pulled his arm backwards at an angle that arms aren’t meant to go. Matt yelled as he heard the bone crack.
“How do I break the spell?”
Matt just grunted in pain.
“Tell me!” she yelled. Fortunately, the neighborhood was no stranger to different kinds of fights, about drugs, girlfriends or boyfriends, and so anyone who heard the fight between Matt and Tera just ignored it.
“No,”
Tera screamed and slammed her right elbow as hard as she could into his lower back. He yelled out again and more blood came from his mouth.
“I’m not telling you! You’ll have to kill me first... oh, shit.”
“That’s it,” Tera came to the realization. “You’ve gotta die.”
“No, Tera... please...” he begged the best he could in his weakened situation. “I love you...”
“Do you? Would you really have done this if you loved me? You lying bastard. How many girls have you done this to before? Made them believe you loved them, changed them, and then did this spell. Probably so that you could drink my blood, gain my power. That is the most pathetic thing I’ve ever heard.” Tera reached for the hem of her pant leg with her right hand while holding Matt down with her left. She pulled a silver knife out of a concealed spot on her leg and held it to his back. She didn’t want to have to look at his miserable face ever again. “I’ve kept this hidden just in case Ashley were ever to find me again. I wish she killed you when she had the chance.”
“Tera, just think of all I’ve done for you.”
“Nothing! You never let me hunt, you kept me in the house all the time, and you lied about everything!”
“But what about those stories? I told you all those stories you love to hear.”
“If a mother just reads ‘Cat in the Hat’ to her baby all day long and doesn’t play with it, or feed it, that baby isn’t going to live.” Tera began to press down on the knife. “Good bye, Matt.” She plunged the knife down, straight into his heart. All body movements ceased for a few seconds, and then he just disappeared. All that remained were his clothes and Tera’s knife.
She stood up, and grabbed her knife before heading back to the house.

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