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Chapter 4-Files and Founding families

When she came downstairs she was visibly relaxed and was wearing a loose T-shirt and short just above her knees.

"No," she replied to the question I had asked her earlier, "I live here with my parents and my sister. But they're not at home right now."

I nodded my head and noticed the thick files in her hands, "Are these the case files?"

Sherry sat down next to me and handed the files over to me, "They are, but I haven't opened them yet."

I sat the files down on my lap and felt Sherry shifting a little closer to me. She was probably pretty eager to find out what was inside them.

On the top of the bunch of papers with information about these murders, were the pictures of these victims. I heard Sherry gasp besides me as we looked at one picture after another.

They all had bite marks on their necks and were torn up in the worst way possible, probably to show that it was an animal that did it. These vampires were probably trying to cover their tracks so that we hunters wouldn't be able to track them down.

I was surprised that other hunters hadn't already taken care of it, but I could understand why. It was hard to make out the humans from vampires in this town. Hell, I'd just accepted a free drink from one of them and had no idea about it either.

As I kept the pictures aside and looked at the reports, I noticed that they all mentioned that all the blood seemed to have been sucked out of the victims' bodies. This left me with no doubt that it was actually vampires who were doing all this.

In the end of each report, it mentioned that these attacks could not have been caused by an animal, but they couldn't have been caused by a human either. As I was looking through the reports, a small piece of a paper fell on the floor. When I picked it up, I saw that there was something written on it-The Founders' Council.

"Hey," I turned to look at Sherry, "What is the Founders' Council?"

"Well, it's basically a council with the original founding families as the members. They even have council meetings once a month where they discuss stuff about the town, but mostly it's just an excuse to gather people and make them dance. They do have delicious food though," Sherry informed.

I nodded my head at her absentmindedly and looked back at the piece of paper, wondering what this was doing in the reports file. Dean would have loved the food, I thought to myself. Just then, Sherry took the piece of paper from me and turned it around.

"Look, it says something on the back," she said and read what it said. "-Urgent meeting. They're back!"

What did that mean? Did this council know about the vampire problem? And if so, why weren't they doing something about it? I wondered if that meant that this council was maybe a meeting for hunters. Those words could have meant a number of things, but it couldn't be a coincidence that this page was hidden in this particular report.

Now I knew that my next move would be to find out as much as I could about what actually went on in the Founders' Council and for that, I'd have to be there for this next council meeting.

"When's the next council meeting?" I asked.

"Umm....next week, I think," she said biting her lip and trying to remember, "wait a second, let me check." Sherry went into the kitchen but turned around, "Do you want something to eat?"

"No thanks," I said, shaking my head. I was slightly hungry since I hadn't eaten anything after my lunch stop at some diner, but Sherry had already done so many favours for me and I didn't want to add this to that ever increasing list.

"Something to drink then," she asked, and I could see the hopefulness in her eyes. I nodded my head. "Hot chocolate?"

"Yes, please," I replied and she came out with 2 mugs soon enough. She handed the hot chocolate over to me and sat down next to me.

"I was right, the next council meeting's next week on Wednesday," she told me and I noticed that her mug didn't have any hot chocolate in it.

"What are you drinking?" I asked curiously.

"Coffee," she said taking a sip of it, "cause I don't like hot chocolate."

"No way," I replied raising my eyebrows at her, "I have never met anybody who doesn't like hot chocolate."

"Well you just did," she simply said and for the next few minutes we just sat in silence, sipping our drinks from our mugs.

"Hey, is this council meeting like an open invite sort of thing or do you have to be invited over there?" I suddenly asked. It had occurred to me just now that I didn't really know anybody from this town.

"Well you don't exactly have to be invited, but you need to know at least somebody from the founding families," Sherry said.

Oh great, now entering this meeting was going to be even more difficult and I hadn't had much of a chance to begin with.

"So I guess I have no chance of going there to find out about this," I said pointing to the piece of paper.

"Oh no, don't worry about it. You already know someone belonging to a Founding family," Sherry said trying to hide a sheepish smile.

I narrowed my eyes at her, knowing that she couldn't be talking about herself since she had just moved here with her family. "Who?"

Sherry looked as if she was going to burst out laughing any second, "Caroline!"

Coming up next the Founders' Party!!!