A/N: Alright, I fianlly got chapter 1 of book two up! Any new readers really need to go and read the first book, Midnight Calls. It would make things easier to read this one. You know, the word limit on the summaries drives me crazy...here's the full summary:
Ana begins to get used to hunting vampires. She is a hunter afterall, and it is her job to kill one if they get out of hand, so she definitly never expected to fall in love with one, Christian Adams, her boyfriend and now enemy when everything went wrong in their last fight. But when a rogue vampire wrecks havoc in Minneapolis, and a night out causes said vampire to catch her scent, Ana quickly finds herself running for her life because this vampire isn't normal. He's stronger, faster than anything she's ever seen, and it may take another vampire to stop him...
Prologue:
My visions came back with a vengeance. They attacked me viciously in my sleep, and soon I got little of it. I started to fear sleep, but I couldn't avoid it forever, and so when I would finally doze off the nightmares would return and jolt me awake. Sometimes I would thrash around in my bed, and only wake up when I ran out of room on my bed, and had smacked against the floor.
There was one vision I remembered vividly.
I was running from something. I never knew what it was, but I did know that it wanted me dead or close to it. The snow always fell in this dream making my footing against the concrete slip every now and then. I jumped through bushes, hopped fences, cut through yards, everything I could to loose my attacker, but nothing worked. Fear flooded me, motivated me to move my feet faster, and to please God not fall. My muscles would ache and scream at me to stop, but I had my adrenaline rushed mind overpowering those pains. This dream was similar to the time I ran from the school during the power outage, but this time no one was there to help me. I was on my own.
I remembered something seizing hold of my arm, and then throwing me down against a slab of ice. Before I could ever get a good look at who was chasing me pain spread through my body. I felt like a whip was slashing at my skin in a repeating motion, it never stopped. I would scream in pain, and at the sight of my own blood staining the pure white ground.
This dream didn't come every night, but I did notice that it would skip two days, and then return to torture me.
And after those two days, when the nightmare would end, and I woke up screaming, a new deep cut made itself known across my right forearm.
Chapter 1:
There have only been a few times that I have ever been arrested. I can name four right now.
The first time I was only thirteen, and got caught shoplifting. The store owner of course pressed charges and I had to spend the weekend in juvy until my mom got me out, and then I was introduced to court. I only paid a small fine, and was free. The second time I was fifteen and was pulled off of a girl, that I was in the process of beating, by the cops. Again Juvy, and then I had a battery charge put against me by the judge. The third time was again because of a fight I had gotten into. With that being my second battery charge I was put back once again into juvy, and had to wait until my mom was able to bail me out so that I didn't have to sit in there until court. The fourth and last time was when I had just turned seventeen, I was with a group of friends, and we decided to vandalise someone's property one night. I was pretty stupid, ran with the wrong crowd, and of course we were caught.
But this would make it five times that I have been arrested.
RIght now I was sitting in the police office, rubbing the spots where the handcuffs tore at my skin, waiting for my mom to pick me up.
You see this all started when Adrienne, West, Nathan, and I were sent to check out a piece of property that may have been a hideout for some vampires that we were looking for. We completely ignored the no trespassing sign, and giant fence, and continued our search. Before we left the house Adrienne reminded me that it was every man/woman for his/her self. So I didn't exactly plan for them to stick around when the cops skidded around the corner. They leaped out of their vehicles quicker than anything, and I had to go through the hands above your head thing because I was the first seen. Everyone else got away.
I wasn't shocked about being arrested, I was more like "damn it!" I'm used to the handcuffs, police cars, judges. None of them strike any ounce of fear in me, and thats why I think it was best that I was arrested since i think I would be able to keep my cool in this situation better. When we reached the station I had to give them my name, parents name, phone humber, and all that good stuff. Then I was forced to call my mom, wake her up, and then ask her to pick me up at the police station.
She too has grown accustumed with my dealings with the cops. But that didn't mean that she would let it go.
I knew I was in for some trouble just by the way I saw her swing open those doors, and marched up in here like she owned the place. I saw her anger written all over her face, but she spoke to the police in a calm manner, then I was excused, and left.
I tried to stay silent during my ride home, and my mom seemed to be doing the same. She didn't say a word to me since we had left the police station, but I knew she was pissed just by the way she drove. My mom drives really fast when she's mad, I really don't understand why she lets her anger out on the gas pedal, seeing as we could crash. But I don't know, it's just what she does. I was hoping that her anger would keep her quite the whole way, but she wasn't. I guess she just couldn't keep it in or something.
"Ana what the hell are you doing out in Minneapolis this late?" She yelled. My mind ran wild with excuses to come up with, but again I don't think on my feet very well.
"Um, I was bored." My answer was like throwing gasoline on a fire.
"Bored? Board!" I though my mom was going to spontaneously combust. "How the hell did you get there?" I again looked for something else to use other than the truth.
"A taxi."
"You don't have money for a taxi." She stated.
"I saved up my allowance." I countered backing up my lie.
"Well don't think you'll get anymore." Her words were icy. I leaned further back in my seat, glad that was over. I'm just going to have to become a better lier from now on, because sooner or later my little crappy ones just won't cut it.
We arrived at home quicker than usual because of my mom's rage. She yelled at me some more before I was able to get into the house, and then she ordered me to my room even though that's where I was going anyway. I walked up the stairs without worrying about how much noise i was making, and headed for my room when a hand reached out and grabbed me, pulling me into West's room. The door almost hit me when someone shut it quickly, but quietly, and that's when I saw West, Adrienne, and Nathan. West was the one that pulled me in, while Adrienne sat on his bed, and Nathan was off looking through West's things.
"Hey, babe, so how was the jail cell?" Nathan greeted. "Did they feed you enough?"
"I wasn't in jail!" I replied irritated and tried to keep my voice quiet.
"Looks like someone dropped the soap in the shower." Nathan mumbled, but he didn't say it low enough because I still heard him.
"That's the guy's prison!" My whisper went up a few levels.
Nathan kind of shrugged his shoulders. "I hear the girl's is pretty bad too." He then went back to rummagin through things.
"We were just discussing tonight's objective, and wondering if you were all right." Adrienne spoke up. "So what did you tell her?"
"She asked why I was there, and I told her i was bored. Then she wanted to know how I got there and I told her a taxi." I answered.
"I love the fib." Nathan chuckled, too engrossed in whatever he found to look our way.
Adrienne smiled. "I guess if she bought it then it's good enough."
"So what do we do about those vampires we're after?" I asked. "We still don't even know if they hang out out there."
"I think it's best you keep low for alittle while, Ana, since Jill caught you out." West said. With him being my step-brother he called my mom by her name raither than mom. "We'll deal with the vampires."
Footsteps pounding against the stairs drew everyone's attention to the door. We all knew who's angry feet was doing that. My mom's. By the time I looked back at everyone Adrienne and Nathan were already by the open window. They were planning on using the tree by West's window to get down. Too bad my window didn't have a tree close enough.
"We'll see you guys later." Adrienne said, then both of them leaped out the window, and grabbed onto the tree branches to climb down, and West jumped into his bed.
My mom threw West's door open so fast that I thought it was going to be torn from it's hinges, and I felt every nerve in my body jump in unison.
"I though I told you to go to your room, not wake West up!" She yelled, and I flinched at the volume she chose. I kept my mouth shut and tried to ignore her tired glarring eyes that I could feel watching me as I left West's room and went into my own.
Getting arrested, like I said, didn't bother me. I would have thought that my mom would have gotten used to the idea of me getting arrested and not blow up so much over it. But she did, and I knew that I was going to loose all priviledges from now on, again, for it.
This shit sucks.
My fists tightened, once in my room, and I felt my fingers dig painfully into my palm. I flinched at the searing hot feeling racing through my hand, and glanced down at my injury. My palms had what seemed to be a horrible sunburn on them, still healing.
It had been only three months since i moved to Eagan, and learned that I was a descendant of a vampire giving me one ability of the many that vampries have. Which I was blessed with two abilities. Mine happened to be telekinesis, and I was told that I descended from more than one vampire which also gave me premonitions. Come to find out i'm suppose to use these abilities to rid this world of vampires, and everything else that I thought was only a myth. Then only a month ago was the battle against Collin, where I got the burns on my hands from touching the doornob when the house was on fire. It was an attempt to save Christian, the one person that I ever cared more for than my own life, but he was bitten, and forever damned.
I'm forbidden to see him, ever, but my step-sister Abbie is out helping him over come his bloodlust. She too turned out to be a vampire. So whether I saw Christian or not, I was still breaking the rules, and so was my family, Adrienne, and Nathan.
But even still, this situation really sucked.