Chapter 19

Love Song for a Vampire

by Annie Lennox

Come into these arms again

And lay your body down

The rhythm of this trembling heart

Is beating like a drum

It beats for you, it bleeds for you

It know not how it sound

For it is the drum of drums

It is the song of songs

Once I had the rarest rose

That ever deigned to bloom

Cruel winter chilled the bud

And stole my flower too soon

Oh loneliness, oh hopelessness

To search the ends of time

For these is in all the world

No greater love than mine

Love, oh love, oh love

Still falls the rain

Love, oh love, oh love

Still falls the night

Love, oh love, oh love

Be mine forever

Love, oh love, oh love

Let me be the only one

To keep you from cold

Now the floor of heaven's lain

With stars of brightest gold

They shine for you, they shine for you

They burn for all to see

Come into these arms again

And set the spirit free.

"So that's the reason why you let us do our morning run." Amber said while eyeing Drake and Katherine.

"We thought it's part of our training but you have other plans running in your head." Dawn said.

The eight of them were encircling the two, they were sitting on the boxing ring.

"It is...well...really it is..." Drake said making the rest smiled looking at his guilty face.

"You've lied." Thana said.

"I didn't, I swear." Drake said.

"Quite, you're not allowed to explain yourself." Amdis said.

"What?" Drake asked.

"Yeah, you both are in questions here." Athan said.

"What are you talking about? We didn't do anything." Katherine said.

"Really? How about the kiss?" Alaric said making the two blushed.

"See? You didn't do anything, huh?" Blade said.

"That was, ahm..." Katherine can't figure out how to explain themselves.

"What, Kath?" Kieran asked.

"All of you, stop this nonsense!" Drake said using his authorativeness.

"Elaborate what we saw a while ago?" Amber said.

Drake deeply sighed and looked at Katherine. When she nodded, Drake spoke.

"She already knew that we were mates." Drake said and to his and Katherine's surprised, they all said "Yes! Finally!" and congratulated them. The girls hugged Katherine and the boys gave a fist bomb to Drake.

"So, how did it happened?" Dawn asked curiously.

"Can we keep it to ourselves?" Katherine asked.

"Of course not!" Thana said.

"Sorry guys, we will keep it a secret because that's what my Princess wants so stand up and get back to training." Drake said making them disappointed.

"Hey, you two, continue your drill with Gregory and don't make any mistakes again." Drake said talking to Athan and Alaric. Both of the men and left the gym.

"Now let's get started." Drake said.

"Kath, reminder, you can't use your powers and even transform yourself into your vampire state. You will fight us using what you've learned from the past. Is that clear?" Drake asked and Katherine nodded.

"Blade, Kieran, up." Drake said. The two stood up and transformed into their vampire state.

"Hey, wait, I thought no using of powers and that?" Katherine said pointing Blade and Kieran.

"It's only for you, baby." Drake said grinning.

"Wow, what a great way to start our first day huh, baby?" Katherine said giving a squinted eyes to Drake. The girls can't hide their smiles on the endearment the two are using.

"Now, start!" Drake said and the two of his boys started giving punches and kicks to Katherine.

Katherine is really having a hard time fighting Blade and Kieran. If only she can use her powers, the situation will be turn upside down.

"Shit!" She cursed because Blade hit her side. Blade made a peace sign on his hand.

"Focus, Kath." Drake shouted and Katherine gave him an angry glare.

"You're giving her a hard time, Drake." Amber said.

"She needs to control her feelings and emotions so that she will be able to control her powers and not the other way around." Drake said.

"She's going to burst any moment now." Thana said observing her friend.

"Baby, you need to control your emotions." Drake said.

"Shut up!" Katherine shouted.

"This is not good, Drake!" Kieran said when he saw her golden eyes.

"Baby, calm down." Drake instantly dashed into Katherine's side when Kieran hit her stomach. Katherine hissed and Drake saw her fangs already coming out.

"Baby, look at me. You have to control your powers, don't let it control you." Drake said. He signaled his friends to stay away from them. He's not sure if he can calm down Katherine's anger.

"I hate you." Katherine said but Drake saw how she's controlling herself.

"That's great, baby." Drake said stroking Katherine's back. He helped Katherine to stand.

"Are you feeling better now?" Drake asked.

"Guess so." Katherine said.

"Do you want to continue or take a break first?" Drake asked.

"Let's continue. I will face Gregory tomorrow and I don't want to fight him unprepared." Katherine said.

"That's my girl." Drake said and kissed her forehead.

"PDA is not allowed here." Amber said. Katherine ignored her and embraced Drake.

"Thank you." She whispered.

"Hhhmmm, for what?" Drake asked embracing Katherine too.

"For calming me a while ago. I thought I'd lost myself there but when I heard your voice, it helped a lot." Katherine said.

"So, I'm your calming pill now?" Drake asked grinning.

"Yeah, maybe." Katherine said smiling.

"Will you two stop? We're still here, you know." Dawn said faking her annoyance.

"Okay, Amber, Dawn, you're next." Drake said with a smirk.

Amber and Dawn stood up, walked towards Katherine.

"I'm sure I'm going to enjoy this." Amber said.

"Yeah, atleast she's not in her vampire mode or else, we're going to die in here." Dawn said making Katherine smiled.

"Don't worry, I already learned a little trick over my powers and my calming pill is right over there so if anything goes wrong, just let him do the trick." Katherine said making her two friends rolled their eyes.

"Baby, just concentrate, okay?" Drake shouted.

"Yes, baby!" Katherine shouted back.

"I hate these two." Thana said and Amdis giggled.

But the truth is, they were really happy for both of them and hope that everyday will be just like this.