Chapter 15

UNEDITED-

"You don't need to worry.. I'm just, trying to figure some things out.."

"Is this about a girl?"

"What? Why would you ask me that?"

"Because there are few things that make you question yourself.. If it was a family thing you'd most likely tell me about it. "

"It's not a girl.. okay?"

"If you say so.." Jen was still smiling on the other end of the phone, she had her answer in Lucilles reaction.

"What have you been up to?"

Jen filled Lucille in on how well her classes were going, shortly after that Lu made her way back to her cabin, everyone was settling down for the night.. Except one person was missing.. "Pheebs where is Elizabeth?"

"She said something about wanting to talk to Sam."

Lucille began to worry, doing her best not to show it.. "It's getting dark."

"I'll call her.." Pheobe looked to the window to see that it was indeed getting dark. She dialed Ellie's number from the phone already in her hand. No response.

"How long ago did she leave?" Lu asked.

"Not that long, about ten minutes I think.." Phoebe spoke as she dialed Ellie again and put the phone to her ear. Lucille walked outside to see if she could hear anything.. she stood deciphering the sounds, the laughing and chattering from the cabins full of students.. twigs breaking, leaves rustling deep in the forrest. Muffled screams.. "-I nearly died because of you, I'm not waiting anymore." Sam spoke in a rough tone. Lucille ran to where the noise came from, behind the first aid cabin.. She saw Sam pinning Ellie to the wall, one of his hands over her mouth.

Without a single thought Lucille snatched Sam with so much force Ellie flew onto the floor on her hands and knees. By the time she looked up Sam was gone. Lucille had grabbed Sam and carried on running further up the mountain, after a few seconds she stopped and did what she'd been picturing herself doing for days. She slammed him down and sunk her teeth into his neck, filling herself up on his life. When she was done Sam barely had a pint of blood left. He was uncontious, his heart rate rapidly dropping. She stood up and took a look at what she'd done.. "I don't have good heart." With nothing left to do Lucille grabbed Sams arm, lifted him in the air and walked to edge of the mountain.. then she dropped him off it. With nothing left to do she sat down and stared at his lifeless body below, blood pooling out of his mouth.. She was thinking about the first being she'd ever killed. How different it was to kill a weak defenseless human. Now she's a murderer. Lucille sat there until he sun started to rise.. she texted Phoebe. 'When everyone leaves stay in the cabin.'

'Where are you?'

'I'm alright.'

'That's not what I asked Lu.'

'I'll see you soon Pheebs.'

'Can you just tell me where you are?'

Straight after Phoebe texted, Ellie also sent one. 'Thank you.' Lu sighed.. Did she know what she was thanking her for? That her dickhead boyfriend was now her dead dickhead boyfriend?

Lucille picked a place close by where she could see the students leaving the cabin.. She saw Ellie come out last, glancing around nervously. Once everyone had left the area Lucille quickly snuck inside through an open window in the toilets in the back.. "Lu where have you been?" Phoebe asked worried.

"I decided to spend the night with nature. Trying to decide what I want from life.."

"You couldn't have done that in here?" Phoebe asked.

Lucille shook her head and walked to the table to sit down, Phoebe took her que and sat in the opposite seat. "Phoebe.. I have to leave."

Phoebe's face twisted in confusion and dislike for that reply.. "What why?"

"Because I don't belong here.. I can't do this."

"You can't go to school?"

"I can't pretend to be normal.."

"Please don't leave me again Lu." A lump grew in Phoebe's throat making it hard for her to talk.

"You can call me whenever you want.. I'll always be here for you.."

"You promise?"

Lu held out her little finger across the table and Phoebe linked hers with it.. "I promise Pheebs."

"Just please don't tell anyone that I'm leaving.."

"I won't."

The door to the cabin opened, Ellie stopped still, her eyes locked with Lucilles.. from the surprise on Lucille's face it was evident that she had not expected to see Ellie. Lu quickly dropped her gaze feeling guilty. Phoebe hadn't heard her come in.. "I wish I could understand."

"What is going on here?" Ellie asked.

Phoebe turned around to see Ellie.. "Lucille is leaving." Lu kicked her foot from under the table. "-Ow!.. It's just Ellie, she doesn't count."

Lucille sighed and rubbed her forehead before Ellie could start. "You're not going anywhere.. you can't." Ellie looked hurt.

Suddenly now Phoebe had become the confused one. She looked back to Lucille then back to Ellie.

Lu still hadn't looked back up. "Please don't do this now."

"Then when should I do it? After you're gone?... Please look at me Lucille." Ellie no longer cared if anyone knew how she felt.. if this was her last chance to talk to Lucille then she was going to say whatever she needed to.

Lu looked up.. a slight weakness in her eyes. "I'm sorry."

"Can someone please tell me what's going on?" Phoebe asked, still awkwardly glancing between them both.

Ellie looked to her.. she deserves the truth.. at least a part of it. "Phoebe.. I'm not sure how to tell you this but.. I think I'm falling for your sister."

Phoebe's mouth dropped open and Lucille's eyebrows went up.. Pheebs made a glance to Lu and back to Ellie. "What? Since when?"

"I don't know.. I'm sorry." Ellie apologised with sincerity.

"I mean, I always said you could do better than Sam.. but my sister?"

"I don't know what else to tell you.." Ellie frowned. She wasn't enjoying this either.. especially since Lucille was about to leave with no explanation.

"You know what?.. I'm just gonna give you two some space to talk.. then after breakfast I'm gonna have a one to one with both of you." Phoebe stated, suspiciously glancing between them. Then she left the cabin.

Ellie slowly walked to the table, she stood behind the chair infront of Lucille and put her hands on the back of it. "You said you wouldn't leave."

"That was before."

"All you did was save me, again."

Lucille stood up abruptly, the chair legs scratched along the wooden floor.. "No, I didn't.. he's dead Ellie.." Tears started to fall from Lucille's eyes, despite her feelings towards him he was still a human being. Lucille wiped her eyes on her sleeve as she sat back down but more came out.. "..I killed him." Lu had began to fall apart, breaking into pieces before Ellie's eyes, Ellie did an amazing job at holding back her own emotions.. despite what Sam had become, he had started out a sweet boy.

Ellie made a deep inhale, a dull stabbing pain started in her chest the moment she'd seen the tears fall from Lucille's eyes.. she slowly breathed out and reached across the table to take Lucille's hand. Lucille took her hand back. "It's not your fault Lu.."

"I need you to stop Stop making excuses for me.. please." Lucille spoke in a weak tone, very unlike herself.. Ellie felt out of place being the rock for once.

"I can't.."

The door went.. Phoebe ran back inside on her way to her bunk, she stopped when she saw Lucille with tears running down her cheeks.. "Did you do this?" Phoebe looked to Ellie and pointed to Lucille.

"No she didn't Pheebs, there's just alot going on right now."

"You can say that again.. Sam didn't go back to his cabin last night, the teachers are starting a search party.. are you two going to join?"

Lu shook her head no.. "Yes, we are.." Ellie answered looking to Lucille before turning back to Phoebe.

"We're meeting outside the lunch hall in five minutes." Then Phoebe left.

"I can't go Ellie."

"You have to.. how suspicious is it going to look if they find out you were out all night? And then you're the only one not out looking for him? And even more so if you disappear now. Whether you like it or not you're stuck here." After Ellie spoke Lu dropped her head face down onto her arm on the table. Ellie reached over grabbed one of her hands.. "At least you're not alone Lucille."

Lu lifted her head and looked to Ellie.. "What can I say that will make you understand? Any second you spend around me, could be your last." She spoke those words but still held onto Elizabeth's hand.

"You wouldn't hurt me.. we both know that." Ellie argued.. "-So please stop fighting me on it."

"I don't want to fight with you.."

"Then don't."

"Well then what am I supposed to do?.. Let you keep putting yourself in danger.. you're a shitty judge of character Elizabeth."

"Just let me be there for you.. that's all I want."

"That's the problem."

"Only because you're making it one.. I can't stop how I feel. You're the first thing on my mind in the morning and last thing at night. You know I didn't sleep at all last night?"

"You were almost assaulted."

"And you didn't come back. I waited and waited but nothing.. I thought you left for good. Come to find out my gut feeling was right."

"I was hoping I'd never have to tell you what happened.. too late for that now."

"So you were just going to leave and never talk to me again?" Ellie furrowed her eyebrows. "-Am I your reason for leaving?"

Lucille looked down to the middle of the table where Ellie was still holding her hand.. "Not the only one.. I thought you'd hate me."

"How could I hate you?" Ellie asked bewildered.

Lucille opened her mouth.. Ellie's voice came out.. "I know he's not the nicest, or the smartest.. or funniest.. but he's mine."

Ellie looked completely shocked.. "How did you do that?"

"Does it matter how?"

"..Lu I didn't know what was going on. I wanted to believe Sam was a good person.. but he's not, you didn't go out of your way to hurt him.. you were protecting me.. like you always do."

"What were you even thinking? Going out there on your own?"

"I was thinking that it was time to end things.. I didn't want to wait."

Lucille sighed.. "I guess we should go look for him."

Ellie nodded, she stood up and walked to Lucilles side of the table.. she took both of Lu's hands and stood her up, then wrapped her arms around Lucille's head. Lu's emotional strength was almost non-existant at this point. She just leaned down and hugged Ellie back.. "I'm sorry I put you in this position." Ellie spoke softly.

"I'm sorry too."

Neither of them heard the door go.. "Come on, oh.. uh.." Phoebe started and slowed as she saw Ellie and Lucille.. "-guys the groups are moving out.." And then she quickly left.

Ellie held onto Lucille's shoulders as she stepped back.. "Will you be alright?"

"Yeah don't worry about me." Lu made a small smile.

"I'm always worried about you." Finally Ellie took her hands back..

"While we're out there.. make sure you stay with the group."

"Where are you going?"

"I need to move his body."

Ellie took a deep breath in, she was not used to hearing those words spoken so causally. She slowly nodded.. "As long as you come back to me." She thought about correcting the 'me' to 'us' but she really meant what she'd said.

Lucille nodded with a small smile.. And then she left. It feels good to have someone in your corner. The two girls caught up with Phoebe.

Lu quickly walked up ahead and followed after the first group into the trees.. She made sure that a few people had seen her, then she ran off to the bottom of the cliff where she'd dropped Sam. But he wasn't there.. only a few torn shreds of clothing and a four foot blood trail. The animals must have done her job for her.. Lucille quickly ran back to her group and continued hiking around the mountain. After four hours a loud whistle echoed through the forrest, it was another group signaling them to return to camp. As they got back the teachers and park supervisors were rushing around.. no one knew what was happening. The medical cabin was swarmed.

Lucille made her way around the back and climbed in through a window.. she hid behind one of the curtains, listening. "It looks like an animal attack.." One nurse spoke..

"This injury looks like he took a fall.. no broken bones though.. that's unusual."

Lucille's heart dropped out of her arse.. all of a sudden Sam woke up and began screaming, crying out in agony with so much force his voice cracked. "Samuel, we need you to stay calm."

"It burns!! Make it stop!! Please let me die! Kill me! Make it stop!!" He thrashed and writhed around the bed, so much that the staff felt it was nesseccary to restrain him, strapping his hands and legs to the bed and giving him a sedative. He continued to scream and cry and all Lu could do was listen, and think back to her own excruciating experience. One of the nurses went into the back room to call an ambulance. Lu opened the curtain and saw the nurse trying to fight Sam and check his vitals.

Lucille grabbed the nurses face.. "I was never here, you heard the other nurse call for your help." The nurse repeated it back and left.

"What's, happening to me?" Sam was sweating and shaking like he was having the worst withdrawal of his life, feeling like his blood had turned to acid in his veins.

"I'll make the pain go away.."

Sam ripped his arm free of the restraints and grabbed Lucille's arm, his talons had started to grow and ripped into her flesh.. "You did this." He pulled his other arm free and grabbed Lucille's throat. He was considerably stronger than Lu due to it being his first transformation and Lucille being the one that did it. Lu grabbed his wrist with her free hand, trying to pull it off so that she could breathe.. his eyes flickered red, his other hand started to grow talons, ripping through and out the back of her neck.. She cried out in pain. The other nurse returned to see the mess.. Sam turned his head and hissed showing his large sharp teeth.. the nurse screamed and walked backwards. Sam could sense the warm blood in his veins.. he let go of Lucille and started walking towards the nurse, who now was running into the back room.

Lucille grabbed Sam and launched him out the window, quickly following out after him. Before he could regain his senses she grabbed him in a fireman's carry and ran him into the forrest, she made it around sixty feet before he stabbed his talons into her back. They both went tumbling over in the dirt. Sam rolled and bashed his head off a tree. Lucille touched her neck to try an gauge how bad her injuries were. "I didn't mean for this. You were going to hurt her, I lost control."

"No wonder, if you felt like this all the time.." Sam shook his limbs out, limbering up. "-Thank you for these gifts Lucille, now I'm going to kill you with them." Sam sped up and went for Lucille's throat again, she managed to bat his hand away and slash across his chest as they tumbled over onto the ground, Sam landed on top.

Meanwhile back at camp everything was turned upside down, teachers running around trying to get students back into their cabins. The nurse had said that Sam looked very sick, but his wounds had appeared to be healing, they'd never seen anything like it. The other nurse said that Sam must have caught rabies or something, but the first nurse disagreed.. "You should have seen what I saw.. I know what rabies looks like, this wasn't it. One minute I thought he was going to die.. the next he was going crazy.. I swear he looked like a monster."

"You said there was a white haired girl in there with him?.. Did you see where she went?" A teacher asked.

"I think her neck was bleeding, and there was a trail leading out through the window.." The teachers, nurses and supervisors of the grounds decided to wait for the authorities to arrive before taking any further action.

All of the students had been close by to hear Sam screaming in agony, begging for death. Some even heard the window break, but no one managed to see anything. Ellie was waiting for this exact information, she snuck away and found the broken window.. then another trail that led into the forrest. All she could do was follow it.. she ran as fast as she could.

Lucille had managed to get an arm over and punch the side of Sams head.. he let go of Lu for a second and she used it to escape shuffling backwards, then kicked him in the chin so that he fell off of her.. She scurried to her feet clumsily, trying to go faster than she was able.. due to the blood loss she was alot weaker than before. She made an attempt to run but it was no use.. he ran into her and pinned her to a tree by her throat, with so much force a new injury opened at the back of her head. Now she could see three of him, her eyes unable to fix on anything. Sam used his free hand and very slowly jammed his talons into Lucille's stomach.. she grunted, but all she could do was hold onto his hand, trying to stop it from going in any further.

"How does it feel?.. knowing you're about to die?" Lucille kept her mouth shut, her eyes doing their best to stay with his.. "-You don't like to talk much do you? Except when it comes to my girlfriend. At least this time you won't be there to get in my way." Sam tossed Lucille to the side. She rolled onto her back, trying to keep her eyes on him despite her blurry vision.

"Sam stop!" Ellie called out from fifteen feet away.

"Almost perfect timing.. I'll be with you in a minute babe." He winked and turned his attention back to Lucille.. straddling her and wrapping his hands around her throat. "-Does she look scared to you?" Sam asked Lu with a smile as he looked to Ellie.. with Lucille's last ounce of strength she thrust her talons up through his chin, so far that her fingers were in his mouth, the ends of her talons were sticking out of the top of his head. Lucille pulled her hand free and Sam dropped on top of her. Lucille wheezed and struggled for breath.. unable to move. Before she knew it Ellie was above her, pushing and rolling Sam off.

She could clearly see that Lucille was in a bad way.. "Fuck, Lu? What do I do?" Ellie's mind was in a panicked haze. Her eyes first landed on the wound on Lu's stomach, she knealt down taking her hoodie off, quickly balling it up and holding it firmly against the five holes. "I don't know what to do.." She looked back to Lucilles face and noticed her neck, seeing that there wasn't just blood smeared there, it was trickling a puddle of blood that was slowly seeping into the dirt. Far less than a human would be bleeding but still overwhelming. "-Fuck." Ellie's breath got caught in her throat, her eyes filled with water. "-You need to tell me what to do Lucille." Ellie moved one hand to hold the wound on Lu's neck.. still unaware of the gaping holes in her back below her ribs.

Lucille lifted her hand to wipe Ellie's tears.. "It's alright. You can stop worrying now." Lucille smiled. Blood had worked its way up into Lu's mouth, coating her tongue and teeth.

Ellie shook her head, baffled.. "No. You're not giving up Lu."

"I'm tired Elizabeth.." Tears started to fall from Lucille's eyes aswell. "-I'm so fucking tired."

"Do you need blood? I can give you blood." Ellie sobbed, stroking Lucille's neck with her thumb.. "Here. I just have to take the stitches out.."

"No, I don't want that." Lucille held onto Ellie's hand at the side of her neck. "I'm glad we met." Lucille smiled warmly despite the silent tears. "I just remembered, I forgot to thank you.. for helping me with Shiloh. She loves that car."

Ellie smiled through her tears.. "Glad I could help."

"Lucille!!" Phoebe came running over.. "I'll get a doctor.." Phoebe went white in the face. She took a better look at Lucille, her purple eyes, her talons and sharp teeth..

"Don't Phoebe, you can't!" Ellie begged.

"Why?! What is happening?.." Phoebe's eyes were wide.

"I'm sorry Pheebs.." Lu passed out.

"Lucille?!.. Lucille?!"

"Quiet, she's still alive Phoebe, she's just lost consciousness.." Ellie hushed her.

"..What is she?"

"Lucille would probably kill me for saying this but.. think vampire.."

"Vampires can't die unless they get a stake through the heart.. right?"

"Okay, she isn't an ordinary vampire."

"Oh shit is.. is he dead?" Phoebe noticed Sams body shoved to the side in the long grass.

"Yeah.. I'm pretty sure he's dead." Ellie answered unusually casual for the question presented.

"Right.." Phoebe looked away from Sam trying to refocus.. "So how do we help her?"

"Blood I assume, put your hands where mine are." Ellie spoke and Phoebe followed her instructions.. afterwards Ellie began plucking stitches from her wound.

"What are you doing?" Phoebe asked but Ellie didn't make a sound, until she starting tearing the wound open.. she hissed and scrunched her face. Ellie hovered her arm a few centimetres from Lucille's mouth, letting the blood trickle in. Lucille's eyes rolled around under her eyelids, then flicked open. She shocked Ellie by grabbing her arm and holding it to her mouth. "What the fuck?!" Phoebe fell backwards onto her arse kicking herself a few steps away, a horrified look on her face.

Though in quite alot of pain Ellie was just relieved.. She sat down properly, her other arm around Lucille. As the blood drained from her body she got weaker, and soon began to feel faint. She rested her head against Lucille's.. "Lu I... need you to.. stop."

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NOTES

Hello everyone, thank you all for your time, I hope you're still enjoying this.

My english teacher used to tell me that quality is more important than quantity, and I try to remember that, but then I also keep in mind that this is all unrefined and hardly read through, I just enjoy writing stories and put some here to share with whoever is interested.

To the one person who donates a powerstone everyday, thank you so much! I wouldn't have come back so soon if it weren't for you.. I just had to give you something, I sincerely hope it's worth it.