Saving Peyton ( SP #1)

Ch. 14

Dereck's P.O.V

Once the room was out of my sight I stopped running and contained walking outside. The amount of guilt building up inside of me was unreal and I deserved every bit of it. I couldn't face her, because she would probably hate me more than ever now. I was lost in thought when Kayden came speeding towards me.

"She needs blood or she's going to die." He said.

I started to run back upstairs but Kayden beat me to the top of the stairs.

"You can't give her yours. Yours is full of hers and it wouldn't help her any, she will have to take mine." He told me.

When he said that I had lost it. I ran to the nearest tree, broke a limb off and ran back towards Kayden. I used the limb and stabbed Kayden in the stomach. I couldn't bear the thought of someone else giving Peyton blood, that was something only mates were to share. I ran into the room and looked at Peyton who was barely aw to stay awake. I was walking over to her when Kayden tackled me and stabbed me in the back with the tree limb I stabbed him with. We were throwing punches at each other when Peyton started coughing. We looked over and she was coughing up something red. Blood.

"Dereck you have to let me give her my blood, she only has a few minutes left."

I nodded my head and watched as Kayden went over to her, but the inside of his wrist and held it up against her mouth so that she would drink.

Kayden's P.O.V

I walked over to Peyton, sat down and pulled her into my lap. I bit the inside of my wrist and held it up to her mouth so that she would drink. After she had enough I pulled my wrist back and ran my tongue over where I had bit myself to close the wound. I laid her back down on the bed and got up. I motioned Dereck to come outside , we needed to talk.

He followed me, exiting Peyton's room. I closed the door and began talking.

"Here." I said as I held out a purple shirt and a note. Dereck took it out of my hand and said, "What is this?"

"Smell the shirt." I replied.

He smelled the shirt and looked back up at me.

"Where did you get this? It's Peyton's."

"Off one of the hunters, now read the note." I told him.

"Make sure she's dead" Dereck read aloud.

"They must have had the shirt to follow her scent but look at the seal on the note." He told me.

I took the note and looked closely at the seal. It was a sapphire blue circle with a silver butterfly in the middle of it.

"It came from your parents." I told him.

He nodded his head. If the King or Queen had assigned orders for Peyton to be killed there was no way they were going to stop unless she was dead.

"You know what this means and we're going to need help, a lot of it." I told him.

He nodded his head and replied, " I'll go around town and see if I can find any other vampire or witch that would be willing to help. You stay here with Peyton."

"No, I'll go. Peyton will need you not me."

"I can't be around her right now. Not after last night, I lost control and she almost died. She probably hates me and I can't blame her, I'd hate me to."

"Dereck I'm sure she doesn't hate you. She knew the risk when she agreed to let you drink from her. Believe me she is going to want to see you, especially because of the effects of you drinking her blood."

"Your right. You go. Just be careful and don't do anything stupid that will get you killed."
I nodded my head and watched as Dereck walked back into Peyton's room. After he closed the door, I headed out to go and see if anyone was willing to help us.