Once again, I found myself pacing back and forth across a room while trying to calm down. Also like before, I was waiting for an answer to something that could possibly change my life forever.

After I had told Bruce and Richard that my friend Terra had the birthmark and overall matched the description they were looking for, Richard and I had been ushered out of the room while Raven and Victor entered. Now I was pacing around while Richard leaned against the wall in my bedroom. We were forced to go to my bedroom since it was pretty much the furthest one away from Bruce's room which meant that Richard would have a harder time hearing what was going on in the room (not that the walls being sound proof wasn't already enough).

"Calm down Kory, everything is going to be fine," Richard told me as I continued to pace back and forth. Even as I answered him, my pacing continued as I tried to calm myself.

"Ever since I've been brought here, a lot of things that people claimed would be fine ended up going horribly wrong. I'm not taking any chances with showing hope only to have it crushed because I know things aren't going to work out fine." There was a pause before I muttered that I shouldn't have ever mentioned Terra.

"If you hadn't mentioned Terra then we all would still believe that you were the right girl or we'd be out searching again for who knows how long. Do you know how long it took to find you? They were all searching for almost ten years looking for you," Richard told me as he pushed himself off of the wall and walked over to me.

"Yeah, I know that, but I can't stop thinking of what I've done to Terra's life by telling you guys that. I remember the shock I went through when I was told that I was being taken by vampires and I'm still actually kinda getting over it. None of this was easy to take in, but now that I'm not the one you guys are looking for, I feel a little better. I just hate having to make Terra go through all of this because she's never done any wrong to anybody," I told him with a sigh while coming to a stop.

"I know it's a lot to take in, but if she's anything like you she'll probably do fine. As long as she doesn't have any jealous boyfriends and doesn't have a thing for incredibly gorgeous vampires everything should be fine," Richard said with a shrug acting as if he didn't slip in a complement for himself. I rolled my eyes before pushing him playfully. He in turn laughed at me and then there was silence between us which during it I realized the horrible truth.

"I'll have to leave…won't I." It was more of a statement than a question because I knew there was nothing else Bruce could do with me.

"We don't know that for sure Kory so don't say that. I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure you don't have to," Richard said, his voice serious as I felt my eyes heated up with threatening tears.

"What am I supposed to do if I stay here? Just keep going on like I have for the past couple of weeks? You know I can't do that forever just to stay with you and I'll just end up getting in the way. Terra will eventually become a vampire anyway to help you guys out and then I'll just be that stupid human in the way." My voice was shaking slightly as the tears began to form and I started to bite my lip.

"Kory," he spoke softly with a sigh before I pretty much lunged into his arms and started to sob. Richard was stiff for a moment before he held me and rested his chin on the top of my head as I shook in his arms.

"Will they c-come after m-me?" I asked in between sobs and shaky breaths.

"Who? Slade and the others?" Richard guessed and I nodded my head.

"Shit… I never thought of that. We'll have to talk to Bruce about all of this when he's done with Raven and Victor," he told me before I heard the door open.

"If you guys need to talk to him, you can. We're done," Raven announced from the doorway. I pulled away from Richard's embrace before nodding at her and following Richard out of the room and back towards Bruce's once again. Just like before, when we entered Bruce was sitting behind his desk and told us to sit in the same seats as before. The only difference now was that there was a thickness about the air and a serious look about Bruce that made me worry all the more about what was going to happen to both me and Terra.

"When are you going to go after Terra?" I asked, breaking the uncomfortable silence that had settled over the three of us.

"Soon, maybe tomorrow. We need to get her in our custody before Slade catches on to any of this," Bruce told me, his voice calm as if he was talking about the weather though I knew that inside he was thinking very much about everything that was going on.

"What's going to happen to me?" I finally asked the question that had been on my mind since the first day they even took me.

"Well, I can't turn you into a vampire because that would be against my morals and I doubt you want that right now. Keeping you here wouldn't help either so the only thing we can do is move you to another location aside from where you used to live and let you continue living your life," Bruce told me and I swear my heart stopped for a minute.

"So you guys are just gonna ship me off to some far away place hoping that I won't tell anybody about any of this and pray you never see me again?" I know I sounded a little bitter, but I was pretty pissed.

"It not that we don't want to see you again, it'd just be safer for you if we never did see each other," Bruce tried to explain and out of the corner of my eye I saw Richard stiffen.

"After fucking up my life completely, you think you'll just be able to take my friend, fuck up her life, and then dump me in some foreign place hoping that I'll be able to just restart my life?!" My voice was rising but I didn't care.

"I'm sorry that that is the way you see all of this, but it was never mine or anyone else's intentions to make you feel this way," Bruce said, his voice as calm as ever. He wasn't even fazed that I was yelling at him which only made me more pissed off because I wanted a reaction from him.

"Do you honestly expect me to just sit by and let you do all of this?! You're shitting yourself if you think I'm gonna let you ruin my friend's life for your own selfish needs!" I snapped at him, but there was still no reaction; only silence.

"Say something damnit!" I ordered while shooting up from my seat and slamming my fists down on his desk. Richard just sat there in silence and we were all quiet before Bruce rose from his seat and went over to the door.

Opening it, he turned to face me. "If all you're going to do is yell then I'm going to have to ask you to leave Kory." Bruce's face was blank and he told me nicely that he was kicking me out of his office. Glancing around the room, I found the first thing I could get my hands on and threw it against the wall. Turns out the first thing I could find was a rather expensive vase that I probably should have felt bad about breaking, but I didn't.

Pushing back my chair, I walked towards the door and on the way out I told Bruce that I hoped the vase had been valuable. Call me a bad guest, but hell; I didn't even want to be here in the first place!

"Kory," Richard called out to me as I began walking not towards my room, but towards the front doors of this large home filled with blood sucking freaks.

"Leave me alone Richard," I told him, but I knew that he was still trailing behind me.

"Where will you go Kory?" he asked and I wanted to turn around and collapse into his arms in tears, but I willed myself to keep walking. Truth was, I didn't know where I was going to go, but there was no way in hell I was going to admit that to him whether he already knew it or not.

"Wherever the hell I feel like," I snapped. My pace was quickening since I knew I would reach the door soon and I just wanted to get the hell out of this place.

"I can't just let you leave Kory," Richard told me and I spun around to glare at him.

"Don't try to stop me," I hissed through watery eyes, shaking muscles, clenched fists, and gritted teeth. With that said, I spun back around and began my walk once again only this time even faster.

"Are you even going to consider what you're doing?" He was still following me which was starting to piss me off since at the moment all I wanted to do was be alone.

"Can I get a moment alone where I don't have to worry about someone hearing what I say or breathing down the neck they want to use to suck the living hell out of me?!" That was a hit belong the belt, I knew that, but I could pretty much care less right now.

"You know that's not what we all want to do," Richard defended him and his horror movie kind with a stern voice that warned me to stop pushing his buttons. The subject of being a vampire was a sensitive one for him, along with mentioning Barbara and I knew that. Since Bruce hadn't given me the reaction I wanted though, I'd just have to push Richard until he got mad and I was able to yell at someone. There was an unspeakable rage rushing through my veins right now and all I wanted to do was beat the living shit out of someone with both my fists and my words. Call me mean spirited, a bad person, someone who takes joy in other's pain, but I honestly won't care right now.

"Of course it isn't. How could I have forgotten that you all want to ruin my life completely along with getting into my pants?" The question came out bitter, but everything about my attitude right now was bitter.

"Well it's not our fault you can't seem to keep people out of them," Richard snapped right back which almost made me smile. This was the fight I wanted because I knew that if I got Richard to get mad enough at me I would be able to leave because he wouldn't care enough to stop me. It was the wrong way to get out of this place, but I was going insane in here which wasn't really good either so I was pretty much pulling at straws when I concocted this plan.

"You're right Richard and I'm thinking that now I'm not even going to bother wearing them," I said this in a calm voice which seemed to shock Richard for a while since he didn't say anything back for a while. Since he wasn't saying anything, I decided to push his buttons a little more by starting to undo the buttons on my pants just to push my comment further. Seems Richard didn't take his to well since he snarled before pretty much ripping my arms out of their sockets when he pulled me towards him.

"Why are you doing this Kory? Why are you being so difficult?" he asked and I could see some of the emotions that were floating around in his gorgeous eyes. This would be it; this was my big chance to get the hell out of this place for good with Richard hating me so that he wouldn't be so hurt by me leaving.

"Because I hate this place, these vampires, my life, and you! I hate everything that you creeps have brought on to me for all the wrong reasons since all that you've caused me is pain! I've never felt this horrible before and I think that if I stay here for another day I might kill myself so how about you just let me go Richard?! I don't love you!"

My own heart stopped with those last four words just as I'm sure if Richard had a heart, his would've too. Everything around us was silence and I was sure that the other vampires in this place had heard my outburst.

"Just all the better because now all of them will hate me and will hopefully just leave me alone," I kept silently telling myself, but no matter how many times I thought it; I still couldn't find the right in what I had said. Saying that I didn't love Richard had been a hit below the belt and he might as well have been crumpled on the ground saying his last good bye to some children he could have had (had he been able to have children).

"Am I any better than Barbara now?" I thought and knew the answer right away.

No.

"All I want to do is leave Richard because there is nothing here worth staying for." My heart was slowly chipping away as I said these words to him because it was pretty much all a lie. I wanted to stay here with Richard, more than anything really, because I was in love with him, madly and deeply in love with probably the hottest vampire I had ever seen (and that was quiet a few since I had met two whole clans of them).

"Is that really what you want?" Richard finally spoke, his words weak as his voice cracked slightly. He sounded so broken which just made me feel more like a bitch.

"It's for the better." That one thought kept playing in my head as we stared at each other in silence.

"Yes."

That was the one word I needed to say to change everything and boy did it ever change some things. One thing that changed was the fact that only moments before I had been standing on my own but now I was being held by Richard as he ran off. Some part of me said that I should be putting up a struggle since I didn't know where he was taking me, but the other part, the part that stilled loved Richard (and probably forever would), said that I could trust him to do the right thing.

"If he's doing the right thing then why did we leave the mansion full of vampires which is where I really belong?" That question ran through my head until Richard finally came to a stop and I found myself standing in front of my old house. Well technically it was still my home, but just being away from it for those two weeks made it seem as if I hadn't been there in forever.

"Good-bye Kory." The words came out as barely a whisper before Richard was gone and I was left standing on the sidewalk. This was when I finally broke down into the tears I had been for so long holding in. My whole body was wracking with the tears that kept pouring from my eyes with no sign of stopping any time soon. At this point though, I didn't want them to stop because they were the only thing that made me feel alive since the only other person that had ever been able to do that just went running off in super human speeds.

Finally, I whispered the words that I have probably been dreading before I had ever even met him.

"Good-bye Richard."

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