Not Known Yet Ch.4

Silas' P.O.V.

Could that really be her? Why is she here? I felt something strange inside of me that I couldn't name. When I saw her I knew exactly who she was, I could never get that name out of my mind. Not since that last time I same her.
But my mind quickly changed to someone else, How could Vladimir do this, he knows the consequences of bringing her to me. Now I have to protect her no matter what. I have to take her home.
Without a second thought I finished putting the book I had in my hand on the shelf and called out to the other person in this store. "Kyle!" I yelled to the back of the store. "I'm leaving, think you could close up yourself?"
"Yeah," he mutters as he comes to the front of the store. "I don't know why you don't think I'm capable of doing that normally."

Ignoring his remark, I grab my bag and am out the door before he could mutter another word. I look around the small parking lot and walk quickly towards my carp car. A white, small car. I can't really tell you more than that, not the car-loving type of guy.
I start the engine and drive to the market. First I'll get some food for home, then I'll go looking for her. I thought to myself as I pulled into an empty parking space and made my way to the stands of fruit and vegetables. The market is extremely crowded today, probably because it's rare when there are this many vegetables. Slipping between people and trying to find the right food is extremely hard today, even if I am six foot four and a half inches. I stop at a no so crowded stand full of cherries and oranges, grabbing a bag of both and paying I suddenly smell him.
Vladimir.

He's here? Why? Hundreds of reasons rack my brain, but only one of them seems to fit. She doesn't know yet. The idea of her not knowing yet is shocking, even more so since Vlad is taking care of her. Why didn't he tell her? Why doesn't he tell her? Questions fill my mind, and I don't have an answer for any of them.
I grab the bags of fruit and follow the scent to a stand full of lettuce and tomatoes and eggplants, I find him filling bags of food that are already over flowing.
I walk over to him and he doesn't look up from his bags of food. Old mans senses are going bad. I note as I stand behind him. "Vladimir, we need to talk." I say just loud enough that only he can hear me.

I watch as his back tenses and his head moves slowly up and down. I point to a tree not to far but not where anyone else is. He nods his head again and I leave him, heading towards the small tree. I watch Vlad as he pays for the rest of his food and starts to briskly walk towards me. I smile to myself. He looks troubled, I wonder why. I think sarcastically.
Vladimir put down his things and sits across from me with a trouble expression on his face.
"Well, Vlad, what do you have to say to yourself?" I finally ask him.
He looks me dead in the eyes and doesn't respond.
"Are you going to answer me or not? You know this isn't supposed to happen."
Vladimir sighs and finally responds. "I know this wasn't supposed to happen. I didn't mean for it to, it just happened by chance. I didn't know you were in town, I've been with Lita ever since we left and we've lived here the whole time. This is her life, this town. I didn't do this, it was you. You came here, not us."

This news shocked me. Her name is Lita? What a strange name. I knew I would be strange, this is just weird though. I never got to learn her name, no one would even speak it around me, I just assumed it would be something from her own heritage, not 'Lita'.
"What is Lita mean?" I ask Vladimir quietly. I need to learn more about her, I need to see her.
Vlad looked at me, he knew what was happening, it was starting. "It's short for Lolita, it means sorrows. Look, Silas, I know this is going to be hard for you but . . . I need you to stay away from her."

I stare at him as I let the words sink in. "What do you mean 'stay away from her'? I can't, you know I can't. That just doesn't happen. Not until the day one of us dies we'll be looking. You know the rules!" I shouted the last part in fury, how could he ask such a thing? To stay away from her is like to not breath, it's impossible without dying.
"Yes, I know the rules. But she doesn't, she doesn't know anything, and that's how it's supposed to be. Her parents left me to look after her, and the only thing they asked of me is to never tell her of anything, leave her as blind as a human is to our world. I can't brake that promise, not when I promised to my best friend. I have loyalty to him even now."
"But she needs to know! There are people after her now, those are the rules.

Once they have met their protectors the Unknown come alive to destroy them! You know the story, it has happened to every single one that was kept from their protector after they met. That can't happen here, and you know it!" I took a deep breath, "If you have true loyalty to her parents then let her live through this, let her find her real self instead of being this lie." I close my eyes and take another breath. "She will become powerful, not all of you have protectors, she's lucky. She will live if you let her be with me, she has to too live."
The last sentence was so true it almost hurt, I don't know her and she already had me wrapped around her finger. She will die if she doesn't stay with me.

"Vladimir, if you don't tell her, I will." I warned him.
"I know, and I think that is what's going to happen, but you need to understand that she has another."
"Another? As in, like, another boy?"
Vladimir sighs, "No Silas, I mean another vampire."
I felt my jaw drop, and I couldn't speak. Another vampire? How is that even possible?
"Who?" I finally manage to choke out.
Vladimir sighs, "Her name is Nancy, she's been with Lita almost since the very beginning."
"Nancy? Like, thee Nancy?" I stammered, "The one every vampire wishes they could kill and can't? The one that disappeared of the face of the earth?"

"The one and the same." Vladimir looked like he was getting a kick out of this. "She just came over to our house one day after school with Lita in the fifth grade. She's taken care of Lita in ways I never could. You can't take her away from Lita, Nancy counts Lita as hers now. As most of us do with humans. She doesn't know about Lita's family history. But she has confided to me that she was drawn to her, that's one reason Nancy went off the face of the earth, to protect Lita. Lita has something in her that makes most people want to help her, but it also makes people want to hurt her." Vladimir paused for a moment. "When Lita was younger, and before Nancy came, she was the background. No one ever noticed her, but when they did, it usually ended badly. She is the complete opposite of us, of our nature. I sometimes wonder is she is really one of us, but whenever she is around, I can feel it inside of me that she is. We just need to figure out why her vampire side hasn't risen yet, she's already sixteen. It should have happened by now, I don't know what's wrong with her . . ." Vlad trailed off.

"Nancy," I mutter, "Do you think if I explain, she would leave Lita to me?"
"Honestly, no, I don't think she would. She is one of the most possessive vampires I have met."
"This isn't good." I say under my breath. Then I spoke louder. "I need to get rid of her than, that's the only way for Lita to be okay."
"You don't understand, Lita, right now, is like a half vampire. She's stronger than humans but weaker than us. We found that out when she was in P.E. it was kind of weird to see the smallest girl in class to lift the most."
"So she's strong?"
"Extremely so, it amazes me that she's not a vampire, she is so close she could pretend to be one if she wanted to."

"If she's not fully a vampire, than what is she? Wasn't both of her parents vampires?"
"Yes, of course they were. And I don't know what she is, she's a mystery to both Nancy and I. as you know, she's not completely vampire, but I don't know what the other half is. It would seem logical that the other half is human, it's happened before. But she doesn't act like all the others, that's what's baffled me since the beginning. She has some qualities that are strange to me, she likes to be out in the sun and in the woods, likes to be close to nature. She's also the fastest runner I have ever seen, faster than me even. We've tested."
"How can you test it if she doesn't know what she is?" I ask, a little bit suspicious.
"She knows she's special, she just doesn't know that we have an idea about it, she thinks were just as clueless."

I sat for a minute to think, She's not normal, she's an unknown . . . We don't know what she is . . . Not human or vampire and not a mix . . . Even stranger . . . my mind was working in slow motion, not really taking in everything. I'm supposed to protect a freak.
"Silas? Silas!" Vladimir yells. "Silas, I know what you're thinking, and you're wrong. She's not that different, and the ways she is, it makes her better than us. She can stop herself from doing bad thing, she can do things for others without getting something in return and be happy about it. We kill every time we feed, we lie, we cheat, we do things that are horrible! I know for certain that she is a least half a vampire, she has the skill and the mind for it, but the other part of her is making her better than us." he sighed and suddenly look a hundred years old. "Lita is an unknown, no one knows about her. No one except the humans, and Nancy, and I, and now you. She is different, and that scares the Council more than anything."
He looked me straight in the eye and said, "They will some here and kill her if you don't help keep this secret."
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Lolita's P.O.V.

I've been sitting in this car for more the forty minutes, what is taking Uncle so long? I had nothing to do when Uncle left me in the car, but now this is just getting ridiculous. I was about to open my door to go look for Uncle when I saw him sitting under a tree next to some stranger. I knew it was him for no one else is that pale or has the same, old-fashioned hair of his. But I couldn't make out who he was talking to, they were in the shade and the person was bigger than Uncle, but that's all I could see.
What is he doing? And leaving me in here! Without much more thought I opened the door of this ridiculous car and started to walk the opposite way of Uncle and the stranger. leaving me in the car! To talk to some guy! Ugh! Uncle's going to get an ear-full when we get home!

The market was in a parking lot right next to the big grocery store in the middle of town. In a huff I walked into the store and started walking through the halls. Nothing. Everything in this store is either over priced or you don't know what it is. I quickly left the store and kept going farther away from Uncle.
There was a bus stop a not too far away and the bus was just pulling up, digging in my pocket as I jogged to the bus, I pulled out two dollars and stepped onto the bus. I knew this buses rout, it stopped not too far from my house, exactly where I was heading.
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Silas' P.O.V.

"Do I get to meet her soon?" I asked quietly.
"Well, of course. I don't think it would be very fair if you don't." he says with a small laugh. How this man can laugh right now, I have no idea.
"How are we going to tell her?"
"We're not," he face suddenly grew darker and it scared even me. "She can't find out yet. Not until I find out what she is."
"Okay . . ." I trailed off, very uncomfortable.
"But there is one thing you can do." Says Vladimir, his face still unusually dark.
"And that is?"
"We need to get rid Nancy." he says without emotion.

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