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fascinate
me.”
    “ You’re very morbid.” He
said and looked at me oddly.
    “ Are you going to tell
me?” I questioned.
    “ If you really want to
know.” He replied and watched me nod. He got up on his knees and
faced me. “First, I stare them down, make them succumb to my
charms.” He looked me in the eyes and smiled.
    “ That’s a good one.” I
replied and waved him off.
    “ If they don’t respond to
that, I get them into a trance.” Justin connected with my eyes and
I watched his turn red. I put down the doll and watched him come
closer. “They’re eyes do what yours are doing now, like a deer in
the headlights of an oncoming car.” He inched closer to me, with me
fully aware of his presence. I smiled as his lips curled back to
show his teeth. “They usually panic and try to run away, but some
stay and stare in wonder at something that isn’t supposed to be
real. I’ll move closer, like a cat sneaking up on its prey, and
then I pounce.”
    With those words, he was suddenly on
top of me, pinning me to the ground beneath him. I lay, with my
eyes closed, my head to the side and my hands up against Justin’s
chest. I assumed he was looking at my face, my eyes tightly shut,
and my mouth slightly open, but there must have been innocence
there, one that wasn’t visible when I looked at him before. His own
face changed, his fangs shrunk, his eyes returned to the dark brown
they had been. As his eyes looked over my features, down my neck,
over my bare shoulders, he listened to the slow beat of my heart,
the fast pace of light breathing, and he leaned down to my
neck.
    I breathed in sharply, as his cool lips
touched my hot skin, and I placed my hands on his sides, clutching
at his shirt. Justin didn’t want to move, but he couldn’t surrender
to me. He couldn’t move away as his lips trailed over my skin, down
over my shoulder and back up to my cheek.
    I turned my head and looked at him. He
looked young and unsure about what he wanted. I looked at the
sudden softness of his face, his wide eye, and his slightly opened
lips, which he quickly moistened, and I moved my hand from his side
to his cheek, and then ran it behind his neck. He leaned down to me
and as our lips touched, the fire seemed to erupt.
    A noise in the woods took his lips from
mine quickly, and I looked to my right as he hissed violently. I
watched Cristian, Taryn, and Bobbie walk out quietly. Justin moved,
suddenly standing, his fangs bared, his eyes red as fire, and
looked at Cristian, who held a stake in his hand, and Taryn, who
held a cross in hers.
    Cristian came towards us, which made me
stand. He was about to lunge at Justin, when I stepped in front of
Justin, putting myself between the two men. Cristian snarled at me
as he moved to aim at Justin again.
    “ NO!” I screamed and
raised my hand, quickly. Bobbie and Taryn watched the blue flame
ignite in front of me. Cristian stepped back as the flames rose,
and then reduced to almost nothing, but the light continued, as if
it were a collective energy, blocking Cristian from getting passed
it.
    “ He’s dangerous, Sage!”
Bobbie said loudly.
    “ He wasn’t hurting me.” I
said, defending him.
    “ He hasn’t yet, but he
will.” Taryn replied and dropped the cross.
    “ He won’t.” I argued.
Bobbie watched my hand drop, and then my body slumped. Justin
caught me before I hit the ground. He held me close to him and he
looked up at Cristian, the blue field still intact, but
fading.
    “ Can’t you see what danger
that you have caused her.” Cristian yelled to him.
    “ What was that?” Taryn
asked.
    “ Her power, it surged
because of her emotions, but her body wasn’t use to the explosion.”
Bobbie said and kneeled down beside me looking right at Justin. “I
just want to check her.”
    “ I’m not going to hurt
her.” He whispered. “Do what you must.”
    Bobbie looked over me, patted me on the
face lightly and watched as I slowly come too. I breathed in
deeply,