I got a few comments about making Courtney so evil... even though I didn't think I had... I decided to tone down this chapter a little... just for my fan... who I hope will still be my fans by the time this chapter is over...

Please enjoy...

PS This chapter is kinda short and I don't want any comments about it. I know it is short. Find something else to comment about.

It was dark when Cody blinked his eyes open, staring up at him was the smiling face of a young woman. She was to most beautiful thing he had ever seen... Cody smiled and drifted back off to sleep.

The woman leaned over and pressed a kiss gently upon Cody's young forehead, brushing the hair aside as she did so. She then picked the young child up and cradled him in her arms, shielding him against the cold, harsh wind that tore at his clothes. She leaned her ear closer as the little boy murrered something in his sleep.

"What is it child?" She soothed in his ear.

"Gwen. I need my sister." Was torn from Cody's lips and carried in the opposite direction of the woman. Luckily, she had the hearing of an extreamly old vampire.

"I will find your sister and return her to you, I promise." Courtney whispered into the slumbering child's downy hair.

Duncan meanwhile was shielding two other boys by the names of Justin and Noah, towards the relative safety of a nearby church.

"You will be safe here. Hopefully you will grow up to be something better that what I turned into." Duncan prayed for the young children, remembering his own harsh past filled with drugs, alcohol, abuse, and other illegal activities.

Duncan glanced back at the mere babies lying sweetly, helplessly upon the alter, before glancing up the the figure of a man on a cross. Duncan bowed his head respectfully and whispered, "Please, watch over them." And was gone.

Days, or rather nights later, Courtney shimmered through a open window into a tiny, sick smelling apartment. Inside was a distressed looking woman who was smoking some sort of illegal drug with a man who was watching the bed with a gleam in his eyes. Courtney glanced at the bed, there lay a little girl, no more than one or two years of age. She was coughing violently, almost un-noticeable droplets of blood landed upon her cracked lips.

Courtney's heart immediately when out to the little girl whose name was Gwen, her ash blond hair was thin and straggly and she appeared not to have washed in many days. Courtney eyes filled with sorrow as she became jude, jury, and executioner.

Moments later she walked out of the door with little Gwen in her arms. She climbed into the car that Duncan had parked across the street and he drove her to the hospital. Hours later Gwen was receiving the care she needed, the care her mother had told Cody she would receive at the price of his vile services to sick people, money that actually went to pay for her drugs.

Courtney came back for Gwen six weeks later, by this time a social service agent was coming to pick her up. Courtney merely impersonated the other young woman and left the hospital with Gwen's tiny hand in hers.

Cody glanced up from playing with the other kids in his adoptive home. Standing on the sidewalk was the angle faced woman from his dreams.

Cody dropped the ball in his hands and ran towards her.

When he had drawn closer he noticed the bundle in her arms. "Gwen!" He cried.

Duncan smiled as Courtney climbed into the car with him. They didn't speak for the next few miles at they drove to a parking lot and abandoned the brand new car.

"Are you ready?" Courtney asked suddenly.

"To start my life with you?" Duncan replied with a question of his own.

"Yes." Courtney said, her dark eyes glancing up to meet his.

"Yeah, I believe I am." Duncan stated, and took her hand, planting a kiss in the center of her palm.

"Good. So am I." Courtney said with a small smiled, linking her fingers tightly with the man she loved.

"Well then, what are we waitin' for my princess. Lets go!"

And with that, they were gone.

Okay... I may not have me Courtney quite as less evil as I had planed... but this is who she is and how she is. In my story vampires aren't soft cuddly teddy bears. And Courtney especially, is from a brutal blood thirsty time, I didn't want her to be too soft. But I did try to make her feminine enough that she needed Duncan for support.

I hoped you enjoyed my story. This part of it is over.

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Duncan: WHAT!!! YOU MEAN OUR STORY IS OVER!!!!

Me: No. Just this part of it. I'm planing on doing a few one-shot sort of things about other adventures you two will have.

Courtney: Not to mention you never really explained anything about the Great One.

Me: ...Ya... I plan on doing a whole nother story to tie all of that drama up.

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Fear not! Courtney the vampire isn't over! Just this particular story line.

Come back for more in...

"A story I haven't titled yet!" (That's not the title it's me telling you I don't know what the title will be yet.)

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Oh and I won't be writing any more about these characters until these qualifications are met...

1. I will write a one-shot when I get a total of 70 or more reviews on that story.

2. I will write another one-shot when I get at lease 15 reviews on the previous story.

3. I will write the sequel to "Courtney the Vampire" when this story get 100 reviews, and/or both one-shots get 50 or more each.

Basically... REVIEW!!!!!