Fire Rescue Duty

Chapter Nine

Chapter 9

Placing Kristen's dish on the table along side the other, Shelly asked, "Would you like something to drink. We have tea, coke, juice, water?"

"Tea would be fine thank you." Kristen answered.

"Sweet or unsweet?"

"Sweet please." Kristen smiled.

Hearing the side door open, the smell of steak quickly filled the house as Manny made his way through and over to the table with them.

Making sure that Kristen got the right steak, Manny said grave before they began to eat.

They ate in silence, Kristen knew that they were nervous so not getting them even more worried. She was waiting on the to break it first.

"I wasn't sure if you could use our silverware. So I found some that werent' silver. Being that you are a were...." Manny began to babble as he couldn't finish saying that word but quickly added, "I just knew you couldn't be around silver."

Holding back her laughter, Kristen knew that he was being serious however, she couldn't hide her grin. "Thank you for your kind thought, but you didn't have to go through all that trouble.

The silverware they make now doesn't really have that much real silver in it to hurt us. It's to tainted. Only pure silver can hurt us."

Seeing the look on their face, Kristen went on, "You really have to know what you are doing when you are making pure silver. It's specially done as it takes a lot of time and know how.

So it's not like you can go out and buy plain siliver. Don't get me wrong, plain silver will burn and get me sick but there is more to it." She explain a bit.

"What do you mean, 'Specially done,'?" Manny asked.

Taking a sip of her tea, Kristen explained more. "Even though you can buy silver bars or dig it up from the mountains. You have to clean it up, melt it down and get all the trash out.

You have to keep working on it until you get to it's purest form. Even there you can over cook it and then it will be tainted. You really have to know what you are looking for."

Seeing his interest, she added, "There is more out there that can hurt and kill us besides purest silver. Like mistletoe."

"Mistletoe?" Shelly choked.

"Yes. The famous kissing twig for Christmas can get us really sick when it gets into our system. As well as a plant known as Wolfsbane. The Silver Blood Hunters will mix them two as well as with some purest silver dust. That will kill us within moments."

"Who are these Silver Blood Hunters?" Kristen heard a lot of worry in his tone.

"Silver Blood Hunters are people that have silver in their blood. They have been around just as long as the supernatural have. They hunt and kill our kind as well as other supernatruals that kills humans.

There are a few groups out there that have been around. To name one would be the Protectors. They're not as strong nor been around as long. They don't even have the silver in their blood but they been killing our kind."

Seeing the worry in their eyes, she added, "Things have changed over time. They have a code as do we. They arent' supposed to just kill a supernatrual, they only kill if the supernatrual kills human blood."

"Can't the law take care of them?" Anger was slowly started to raise up as he now knew his son would be in danger.

Shaking her head, "They are smart and they have people in high places. However we do to. That is why we have been in secret. The only thing that we agree on is staying quite about each other."