A Rogue's Vampire

Chapter 7: A change to a dream

With every step I took up the stairs my throbbing head beat even faster, like the drums on Viking ships that would be beaten faster when going into battle. I wasn't enjoying this one bit. My headaches had never been this bad.

Pushing through the door to my room, I flopped down onto my bed. Maybe if I rest my eyes for a little bit, this headache would go away. My mind drifted off again into the land of dreams...

Photos. Photos scattered everywhere. Covering the floor beneath me. Images of so many memories, most not even mine. People like Jordan and Ebonnie seemed to shine out above the rest. So many different memories. Of so many good times. That's when they started to fade. One by one. Disappearing into the darkness. I reached out to grab one, but all I got was thin air. Soon no light shone around me, only the glow from the book in my hand showed only a few centimetres in front of me.

"Leave it Sophie, you stand no chance against me. I have worked too long for this, and no measly dog will get in my way. Back down or you WILL get hurt." boomed a voice that filled the space around me, echoing back and forth.

"You really think that's going to stop me," I shouted back, "I will never back down, not one bit."

"Then prepare to be eliminated." A sharp, stinging needle sensation rushed towards me. Hitting me in every spot possible. I was ready to fight back. Ready to win. When the space went black...

I screamed in agony. The pain rushing through me was like no other. It was worse than when I shifted. And that hurt a lot. What did you expect you were practically breaking your bones when changing shape. The needle like feeling hadn't gone away when I woke up. It still ripped through every part of me.

"Sophie! Sophie! What the matter?" mum came rushing into the room, coming up right beside me. I couldn't get any words out just screams and more screams. The sound filling every part of the room.

"Talk to me Sophie, please," Mum still pleaded, but I couldn't reply. Nothing absolute nothing. I didn't think the voice was so real. I had hoped that it was just a dream. I should have known. I should have known with all my other dreams becoming reality. This was a horrible curse to have upon ones self.

That's when Dad came rushing in, "Give her this, it will calm her down," he said grabbing my arm and shoving a needle in it. What was he thinking I didn't need any more needles being stabbed into me.

A blanket of relaxation covered me. Taking away the needle like feeling. Replacing it with the peace only the angels could give.

"What the hell was that Dad?" I asked, wiping my eyes, to rid them of the tears that had welled up with all the screaming I had just done.

"Just a very strong numbing liquid, special for shifters. It calms down all the nerves, and brings peace upon the person injected." His know-it-all voice coming through.

"What was all that screaming about anyway?" Mum interrupted, "You most likely wouldn't have stopped if it wasn't for your father and that potion thingy."

"To be honest I don't really know. I was having a dream, when I started getting this needle like stinging sensation all over my body, like someone was trying to attack me. Then when I woke up it was still there. It hurt so much, I didn't know what to do. The dream was different to all the other," I told my parents truthfully.

"What was different sweetie?" Mum asked. Could I really trust her with the truth? I know she is my mother but recently they hadn't been telling me anything. Maybe two could play at that game.

"There was just this booming voice, but I couldn't hear what it was saying," I half lied.

Sophie, you should probably tell them the truth. Lucia butted in

"Go away Lucia, if they wont tell me anything, I wont tell them anything either. It takes two to tango." I growled at her in my head.

Okay then, but I hope you know what your doing. I blocked her out after that. Bored of her always telling me what to do.

See that's the problem with having a wolf inside you, you never have your thoughts to yourself. Sometimes I just wished I wasn't a shifter like Mum and Jake. Some how it seemed like their life is a lot easier, than having to worry about shifting if your emotions got out of whack, or if you accidentally hurt someone because you were too strong for your own good. Life did seem a lot easier like that, doesn't it?

"You sure your all right now then?" Mum asked looking into my eyes, like all mothers do when seeing if their daughter is lying or not.

"Mum I'm fine. I just want to go back to sleep, for the few hours I can," I said looking over at my alarm clock which read 2:30am.

"Okay then sweetie. Night," Mum said getting off my bed, where she had perched herself.

When they shut the door, I snuggled under the duvet again. Letting the warmth engulf me. Why was everything bad happen to me recently? What had I done to anger the moon goddess so much? I don't know if it was destiny, or just plan bad luck to be caught up in this mess, but I could tell you one thing as I drifted back to the land of slumber, that I was no girl to be messed with.