20. Rising out of the death

When I wake up, I look around me wondering why am not dead and still alive. I see myself laying in the backseat of a car with my head on Xandro's lap.

"Your awake, I was so worried I had been too late," he says to me with an unsteady voice.

I feel myself again slipping away into a deep sleep and when I wake up again, we are no longer driving. I look around in a small room with a little dresser and two doors. I step out of bed and walk to the first door where is a bathroom and the second door where I look into a small hallway. I hear voices from further coming into the hallway and I walk towards them.

"Xandros, what you did was dangerous! No human's life is worth this shit. You know the rules," I hear one voice speak as recognized as the voice of Remus.

"Finally I found someone that is word saving! And they can't take her away from me!" He screamed towards Remus in a panicked tone.

"What is wrong," I ask them. Only knowing I had laid myself on George and then everything turned black.

"You died Cleo," says Xandros looking at me in a sad voice, which made me think about what he had done. And how am I still here as I died.

"That can't be? I am still here?" I ask them both, with one looking guilty and the other looking scared, what I never saw on Remus his face before.

"I turned you, Cleo," he said with a voice full of guilt. He had what? Oh no, am I a vampire! No, no I can't be I don't want to.

I want to run out of the house, but I don't know where to go, or where we are.

"Keep calm, we will help you," Remus told me as he gives me a glass with a red fluid in it, I didn't know I was so thirsty and drink it all. "Is there more?" I asked and Remus gives me another glass. When I wipe my mouth my hand is full of blood and I looked in shock at them, "you are giving me blood!" I yelled in disbelief. "You are a vampire, Cara," he said to me calling me again Cara. It's some kind of nickname, but I am sick of his controlling behavior. "Xandros I don't want to drink blood and you can't make me drink it!" I yelled to him, pointing my finger at his hard chest, I wonder how strong I will be. I walk again to the bedroom to rest my body which is still healing from all the injuries I had from the games.

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Later that day I heard someone entering my room and I step out of bed hiding against the wall. I don't know why my body warns me but is a fun fact of being undead. Xandros is standing in the doorway looking right at me.

"If you think that would work," and he laugh when he said that to me.

"That bad?" I ask him, coming out of the dark place on the wall," you will learn, you only need some practice," Xandros said to me, standing in front of me, looking down right into my eyes.

Remus knocks on the door and comes in. "Xandros we can't stay here too long," said Remus with an anxious voice. What's going on? Xandros only shakes his head

And walked out of the room. I step after him out of the room and look at the bag that is laid on the table. Curious I step closer and open the bag as they are talking to each other.

The bag is full of weapons! What are they going to do? What is happing? Why didn't they inform me, about what this is all about?

Remus is the first who entered the forbidden forest where the Sick blooded live. Xandros runs after me and we are running for our lives when the vampires of the woods want to attack us, but ze tried the most to avoid them. Remus was faster than I and must hold back to not lose me. I was just turned and not ready for all this. "How long before we are out of this woods?"I ask Xandros who is behind me. "Almost there but we have to hide also Cara, our lives will be harder when we are with the humans," did he say humans? Are we going to Hymqurios? As vampires? That's indeed very dangerous. We have to adjust to not fall through.

After an hour, we have finally made it out of the woods, but not unharmed. Remus is been bitten in his arms when he defends me. Xandros is bleeding out of his head from a cut they made. I look worried at the two guys, but they don't stop and walk further into Hymqurios where everyone is asleep at this time. And there we stand at my home, I never thought I would ever see again. Remus knocks on the door as George opens the door and lets us in. I look at him, asking in disbelief what is happening here? Xandros want to explain but George is first, "Remus helped me to fight at the games and our deal was to hide you here if they needed it. I didn't know he would take that vampire with him." He said pointing to Xandros, who stood there not even sorrowful for what he did.

"I'm her husband, of course, I follow her," Xandros said, with no sensitive word in his voice. "I'm her husband, you dick!" Said Georg angrily to Xandros, who Remus had taken in his arms to keep him in line. Are they really fighting?! We have bigger problems than their differences.

"Stop it! We have to adjust here, not making each other angry!"I yelled at George and Xandros.

We take our baggage that Xandros had packed before running and drop them at the corner of our tiny house. We have only two bedrooms, where again a fight is starting about, "My wife sleeps with me!" Is Georg Yelling to Xandros who is against it of course," she's my wife too! And she is not human anymore do you want her still in your bed?" Asked Xandros a little rude and senseless.

"What is the worst she can do, Bite me?" Georg asked into the room, looking at us all.

That's indeed a thing I can do? But what more can I do?