The Darkness

Chapter 3

Tania woke up, her room was dark like it always was in the morning.

Tania shivered, when she climbed out of bed and stretched. Colder than usual, Tania grabbed the top blanket and wrapped it around herself.

Tania slowly limped down the stairs, sleep seemed to follow her no matter how hard she tried to shake it off.

Tania made it down the stairs and ran into Jay. "Tania! You're up finally!" Jay sounded relieved.

"Finally? What are you talking about?" Tania asked groggily.

"You've been asleep for hours, it's already noon, well it is in the Half-Time." Even though they lived in the Darkness, they still used the same time as where the sun rose.

"That's not possible." Tania muttered, before her legs gave out from under her.

"Whoa!" Jay exclaimed, grabbing her and supporting her weight.

Jake picked her up, as if she weighed nothing. "What's wrong with me?" Tania muttered as Jake carried her over to the couch.

Laying her down, Jake sat next to her. He pulled back her hair, revealing the scar she got when the Darkness came.

Jake looked Tania in the eyes, and asked. "When is the last time you drank?"

Tania knew what that meant. When was the last time you drank werewolf blood? To turn a human into a werewolves you actually had to bite them, but if a human drinks werewolf blood it gives them some temporary skills of a werewolf. Of course those skills were never as strong as the real thing.

"Um... Almost a month now, but I felt fine last night." Tania answered.

Jake pursed his lips, the down fall of drinking werewolf blood was that the human got a major hangovers when it wore off. The longer you take the blood the worse the hangovers got some to the point of death, but the longer you didn't need to replenish.

"I think your scars has caused the blood to run out faster," Jake answered. Jake stood and walked out of the living room into the kitchen.

He came back a minute later with a knife and a cup. "No, Jake, I-" Tania tried to object.

Jake cut her off. "Sh... You need it, and no one else is around."

Jake put the knife to his wrist and sliced it. Wincing Jake hovered his hand over the cup, watching it drip into it.

Tania could feel the blood calling out to her. Jake glanced at her and lifted his hand away from the cup, it was about half full.

Jay wrapped a towel around his wrist and handed her the cup. Dark red blood splashed against the sides. When Tania hesitated, Jake put the cup to her lips. "Drink."

Tania nodded and took the cup. As soon as the copper taste hit her lips she downed the whole thing. Tania set the cup down and Jay watched her wearily.

"Sleep, it should start working in an hour, or so." Jake told her, picking up the cup and walked from the room.

Tania closed her eyes, but the familiar feelings returned guilt, and she felt terrible, it reminded her of the vampires that ruled south side of the Darkness.

Slowly her eyes drifted close and she fell asleep.
~•~•~•~
Susan woke up to arguing, she glanced around, she was freezing even though there was like five blankets on top of her.

"She's a human, Doris, we can't keep her!" A low male voice argued harshly.

"She's just a child, Jared! Think of Jacob, would you have let him, or any other pup die?!" A women's voice argued back.

"That's low, Doris! You know that I would never leave a pup to die. We have to protect our own, but got thing isn't our own, it's a mundane!" The male voice yelled back.

Susan tried to sit up, but her head swam and a sharp pain caused Susan to cry. Susan laid back down and noticed the voices had stopped.

The door opened slowly and a dark skinned women walked in. "Hi, honey, how are you feeling?" She asked.

"M-My head hurts," Susan told her, "where's my mama?"

"Y-Your family left, they were scared and you were to sick too go with them," Doris told Susan.

"B-But I-I want my mommy?! My head and leg hurts! I want Mama!" Susan cried, pounding her fists on the bed.

"S-Shh-shh..." Doris said quietly, walking over to the bed. "It's alright, I'm here, and I won't let anything happen to you, ok?" She said in a soothing voice.

Susan looked the strange women in the eyes. She could see the honest care in them. "But what about my mama?"

The woman sighed, but said. "You get some sleep, that's the only way your injuries will get better, ok?"

Susan never got the chance to answer, because her eyes were drifting close.

"Good night, my darling." Doris mutter, before closing the door to the room.

Outside the room, Jared, her husband stood. "She's just a child," Doris muttered.

"She's not Alana, Doris, she's not even a werewolf," Jared muttered.

"I know, but I have to help her. Her family abandoned her, Jared, I couldn't just leave her to die!"

Jared looked at the floor, and shook his head. "Even if the pack excepted it, how would she survive, with the dark and the cold? All the other Darkened out there?"

"We'll teach her how to fight, she's tough. We'll figure it out, trust me," Doris told her husband.

"We haven't had a falling like that in years, the pack won't like it," Jared argued softly.

"We've made it through a lot worse," Doris told him.

"We have to be careful, the Dragons must never find out," Jared said darkly.

"I know," Doris whispered.

"Then I will talk to the elders and see what they think," Jared told her, before walking quickly away.

"Thank you," she whispered, gratefully.