Protection

Chapter 2

POV Vanessa

Niall looked at Harry with anger in his eyes. He then looked at me as I was trying to get Harry off me but I wasn't strong enough.

"Let her go Harry and nothing will happen to you,'' Niall says his red eyes filled with anger.

"You are a weakling! You can't hurt me," Harry said with a smirk on his face.

Niall ran to Harry and got him off of me.

"Are you okay?" he asks.

I nod and give him a small smile. Niall then walks to Harry who is getting up from off the floor. Harry and Niall begin to fight one another in the room. Harry pins Niall against the wall and starts choking him. I can no longer watch. Before I leave Harry and I make eye contact. We stared into each other's eyes. After a minute he lets out a sigh, blinks, and his eyes are back to their original color. He lets go of Niall. He falls to the floor gasping for air. Niall got up and threw Harry against the wall on the opposite side of the room, causing a loud thud. Vampires are strong. I then heard someone run up the stairs. Niall walked toward me and hugged. He touched my cheek which Harry had slapped earlier. He kissed my cheek and went to stand in the corner of the room which his face in his hands.

"What happened?" Liam asked as he opened the door into the room.

Harry was on the ground on the other side of the room groaning. Liam walked towards Niall, Niall moved his hands from his face. His eyes were red, he was angry, he looked frustrated. He gave Liam a look and ran upstairs to his bedroom. I heard screams of frustration, thuds, and cries. I was about to go upstairs to Niall's room when Liam grabbed my arm.

"He needs time to cool off. He never liked being a vampire. Just leave him alone right now," Liam said as he let go of my arm and left the room.

I then looked at Harry lying on the floor. I saw that his chest was still rising to he was alive. I leave Harry's room and walked into my room. I sat on the bed and tried to take in everything that had just happened. I hear a knock on the door and see Louis. He comes into the room and sits next to me.

"Let's go to the living room," Louis says.

I nodded and followed him down the stairs. When we got to the living room the fireplace was lit. The boys were all sitting waiting for us. Everyone but Niall.

"Do you know how we become what we are today?" Liam asked.

'"No," I respond.

"Well, it all started when we were all captured by Elijah. We were his servants. One day he introduced us to a woman who practiced magic. She each gave us a small cup with a red liquid in it. She told us to drink it saying that we would become stronger human beings. We all looked confused. Niall then volunteered to be first to drink. He drank it all. We all did the same after seeing that it looked safe. But we were all wrong. After five minutes we were all on the ground in pain. We were becoming immortal. Our eyes turned a different color, we could fell a new strength that we have never felt before. Our human lives were ending," Liam continued.

"When we woke up she was gone. Elijah was trying to poison us but instead, she saved us. But I would rather be dead than have an immortal life where I see everyone I know grow old and die before me. After we figured out how to use our strength and speed we defeated Elijah and kept his castle as our reward. We've been here ever since," Louis says.

"You might be wondering how we eat?" Zayn says.

I slowly nod.

He continues, "We do have to drink blood but it does not necessarily have to be human blood. We drink animal blood. A pair of us usually go and hunt a large animal. We then bring it back to the castle. We drain the animal's blood into jars and store them in the fridge. We then skin the animal and sell the animal pelt. We then keep the edible parts of the animal and store the pieces in the freezer to eat."