"And they know what we are?" I asked incredulously, "in my 300 years humans have always been oblivious, and the ones who did know were either interned or wrote ‘fiction’ books and movies about it."

"They don’t know exactly what we are," Dana said shyly, "but they know Jodi and her group are superhuman. I showed them some magic and told them our mission. They didn’t hesitate to join."

"So I’m guessing since you brought them up they’re gonna help us get into Jodi’s group?" Shane asked.

"Dana created a spell that masks a human’s life force," Tina said. "With the help of makeup and good human actors, we will stage attacks and deaths. We will do them in locations we know Jodi’s people are stationed."

"They will ASK us to join them!" I cried, "that’s brilliant!"

"Most especially you," Tina said looking at me. "That’s why you will ‘massacre’ a group of four people right in front of Jodi’s right hand vampire. She is the highest rank in the group and Jodi’s successor. Very powerful. I believe you know her, Helena?"

I let out a feral growl.

Tina averted her gaze. Damn it she knew!

I had met Helena back in 1824, she was an English colonist who had escaped her father’s tyranic control. I met her at a pub and she was whining and complaining that she wished she had the liberty to do whatever she wanted. So I gave her that liberty.

I converted her. She and I were a killing duo until she fell in love with me. I didn’t like her as a human and I liked her even less as a vampire. When I told her to go to Hell, she lashed out with destructive results. She captured and tortured me for weeks, leaving me with my hunger until I turned almost savage.

The funny part about this story is that I was left in a shed where I would the worst death a vampire could ever have, until a young human man wandered in and found me. The only thing I could think of was not killing him, so I told him to bring me an animal. He didn’t ask questions, he just did.

He untied me, invited me into his farm, brought me rabbits to feed, and healed me back to health. That was the day I turned good.

"Bette?"

"Hmm?" I snapped out of my thoughts when Tina spoke to me.

"I know you hate Helena, but this is your chance for revenge," Tina said, "you can kill her for what she did to you."

"Plus you’ll be able to read her mind and know the plans," James added.

Tina looked shocked, "vampires can read minds!?"

Why did she look so horrified?

"No, they can only read the minds of their fledgings," James said, "I don’t have any, but Bette has like 3."

Tina looked at me in surprise, "I thought Helena was your only one."

"I had two before her," I said, "one of them is dead and the other was traveling the world last I heard."

"Hey, we should call him up for help," Dana said.

I shook my head, "first of all she. Second of all she was a murderer as a human, I converted her cause I wanted her as my lover. Trust me, she’s not good, she just stayed away from the group because she prefers to do her own thing."

Tina looked bothered by that, "s-so you two…like split up?"

I nodded, "it was a mutual decision, we really couldn’t stand each other."

"I met her once, she nearly bit my head off," James said, "her name is Candace."

Shane grimaced, "I got in a fight with her when I was a pup."

"She hates werewolves," I commented, "sorry about that Shane."

"Not ur fault B," Shane said.

"HEY!" Tina interrupted looking really pissed off, "can we NOT talk about this Candace bi…vampire?"

Shane raised her hands, "sorry."

Whoa! What was that!? Jealousy?

Tina handed us papers, "here is what you have to do, follow the plan exactly and we’ll be in Jodi’s group in no time."

TBC