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That's not a grenade, is it?" Christabel whispered. "Probably," I whispered back. "The have this awesome storage room full of cool stuff like that." "Grenades are cool?" She looked dubious. "Cooler than dead poets," I teased. "Hey," both she and Logan said at the same time."
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i knew if lucy broke up with me i would love her til i turned to dust
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Nicholas came up beside me. "Damn it, Sol. Ever heard of the speed limit?" "Oh, right, coming from the guy who got three speeding tickets the first week he had his license." "That's different." At least he had the grace to look sheepish."
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I don't like that look on your face," Quinn groaned. "I've just had an idea." He groaned louder. "I'll get protective headgear for everyone."
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You have to stop writing in the library books," Tyson said. "I will if you stop looking at me like I just kicked a kitten," I replied, sliding the offending book away from him. "I couldn't help it. Someone needs to edit these things." He sat back in the library chair. "Yeah, they're called editors and they already did that." I snorted. "Please. I could drive a truck through the holes in your education." "We're here about your education, n..
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Or to want to take a photo of Nicholas with his fangs out and wearing a black cape lined with red satin and then hang it over my pillow in a heart-shaped frame.
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I elbowed him. "Some people are scared of me, you know, like that guy over there." The guy in question paled when I looked his way and tried to hide behind a banner half his size. Nicholas snorted. "Ten points if you can make him hide behind that creepy little girl over there."
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I showed her the essay he'd marked. It was practically dipped in red ink. Jenna made a sympathetic face, then took a closer look. She rolled her eyes. "Well, no wonder. Helios-Ra don't wear spandex tights and capes. We're not superheroes." "But you kind of think you are." I winked. "I just wrote that to see if he was paying attention." "You wrote it because you're a brat," he muttered. I beamed at him. "Now you sound like one of the Drake b..
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Lucy grinned. "Nathan's going to be pissed, but they're so cute." "We really are," Quinn drawled, having only caught our last comment. Connor, standing next to him, rolled his eyes. "How did you fit that big head of yours in the car on the drive over here?" Lucy teased. "He had to stick it out the window like a dog," Nicholas added with a smirk as he came up behind Lucy. He sat beside her as Quinn pretended to look insulted. "It's not my fa..
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You know that you and Hunter aren't even remotely subtle," Kieran told me through the open window. I just grinned at him. "Wave to the top-floor corner window over there. Lia's got a crush on you." Kieran's ears went red. "How does she even know I'm here?" "I told her you were coming," I said, sliding into my seat. I dropped my knapsack full of weapons at my feet. "You're a menace." "I was twelve once." I shrugged. "A little crush in a plac..
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Let's start with the basics." He pulled a worn Helios-Ra guidebook of the top of the pile of books next to his laptop. "You got one of these in your orientation packet, right?" "I already had a copy," I replied. I'd picked Kieran's pocket this summer for it, to be precise. I had my own profile in the cream-colored pages. Tyson flushed. "Oh. Right. I forgot you're in it." "I'm famous," I agreed blandly. "Just this morning someone locked me i..
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So what are you guys doing?" "Tyson is tutoring me." Jenna burst out laughing. "Oh, Tyson. You're screwed." "Hey!" I pinched her. She just scooted across the table and dropped into an empty chair. "This I have to see."
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I eyed her. "You know I hang out with vampires, right? You could be scared of me like the others." She scoffed. "You and your pretty boys don't scare me." Jenna's mocking tone was soothing. If it wasn't for her and Hunter and Chloe, this whole transition thing would have been even worse. "Shush," I scolded her primly. "I am learning about the weirdo League of hunters who think they're in a comic book." "Your family now too." I drew back, ho..
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Some sweet sixteen," Mom said, sliding her silver spike into her boot, as the Chandramaa were too busy to stop her. "I don't remember sixteen being quite so treacherous." "I was there," Dad reminded her drily. "I'd say it's a family trait." She just laughed, winding her arm through his. It was her first true laugh sine my bloodchange. Duncan, Marcus, and I grinned sloppily at one another. Then Dad kissed her and we looked hastily away, grim..
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We need to buy some time," Connor said, frowning at the . "And we're running out of stakes." "We could blow up the car," I suggested. Kieran didn't even look surprised, though it was his car. "What is it with you and blowing up shit?" Quinn asked as Magda leaped off the hood, stabbing down with two daggers and catching two at the same time. She was like a feral cat in a rainstorm, all claws and teeth. "Hey, I didn't blow up that ghost to..
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Quinn glanced at me. "Gonna make it?" "Yeah, yeah," I answered. "Though what's the point? Mom's going to kill us anyway." "True." "If that thing doesn't kill us first," I added when the stench of rot and mushrooms hit us."
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Try not to look like a cop," I told Jenna. She shook her shoulders and tried again. "Or a bodyguard." She winced sheepishly. "I can't help it." "Try looking scared to death like Tyson instead," I suggested. Tyson just swallowed, his Adan's apple bobbing frantically. I patted his shoulder. "You'd rather come face to fang with a , wouldn't you?" "Hell, yeah. Way less scary than girls," he muttered."
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If Solange was't trying to get herself killed, Lucy was. I was beginning to think that all of my training wasn't actually about killing vampires anymore, it was about saving my girlfriend and her best friend from themselves. And it was a full-time job.
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I leaped toward her, landing behind her to guard her back before the Hel-Blar reached us. She shot me a half-surprised, half-grateful glance. The moon glinted on her sword and the chain mail sewn into the leather of her tunic, over her heart. "Stay close," I told her. She snorted. "I have a sword and you have a butter knife. Staying close is about your only option."
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You're smiling weirdly," Kieran said, shooting me a sidelong glance as we drove away from the school. "What's up, Hamilton?" "Nicholas is okay," I replied happily. "Well, mostly. And I'm finally allowed back at the farm." "Yeah, to get stabbed with needles. Is that any reason to look so deranged?" I grinned, propping my feet up on the dash of his truck. "Don't worry," I told him. "We'll save Solange soon and then you can be as deranged as m..
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You have to e-mail me every day," Lucy demanded. She threw a macaroon at my head to illustrate the seriousness of her request. I ducked it easily. "You too." I tossed one back at her, missed, and hit Nicholas in the temple. "Ow," he said mildly."
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I'm sure you can -" "Here." Marcus cut me off, shoving a glass of orange juice and a pile of cookies at me. Duncan snorted. "Like cookies are going to stop The Mouth." He hadn't called me that in years. "I met your girlfriend," I said, just to bug him. It was better than giving in to the nerves and anxiety threatening to burn a hole in my stomach. "She's nicer than you." Duncan just leaned over and shoved a cookie in my mouth. I flicked coo..
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Can I get you anything?" I couldn't remember if the Amrita family drank human blood or animal blood. "I'm just hiding out from my little sisters. They giggle." She tilted her head. "Where are all your famous brothers?" "Around." She rolled her eyes. "Are they as insufferable as mine?" I rolled my eyes back. "Worse." She looked unconvinced. "I only have the one," she pointed out. "My family has daughters the way yours has sons. His rarity ha..
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Christa's barely able to stand," I argued. "And she doesn't have any battle training, so get out of here already." Christabel propped herself up on Conner's shoulder. "I'm fine," she said thickly, too sleepy to enunciate. "Give me a stake." "You're lisping," I pointed out. "So maybe I have a lisp," she insisted. "It's rude of you to make fun of me." I exchange a glance with Connor. "Definitely related to Lucy," we said in unison."
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Shouldn't you be eating chocolate?" I asked. "Guaranteed cure-all." I motioned at Chloe. "Give her some." "She didn't want it," Chloe said. "And you can't have it." She stuffed the rest into her mouth, nearly choking. Hunter chuckled. "I swear she's going to choke to death on chocolate one day," she said. "I feel sorry for whoever has to write her epitaph."
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What about your pheromones?" Marcus asked thoughtfully, as he gathered the last of the blood transfusion supplies into a bag. "Were they partly Viola's as well?" "I don't know," I replied. "I can't tell." "We should try an experiment." "Make Duncan bark like a dog," Quinn suggested, jerking his head toward Duncan. "Or you could try something more difficult, like making Quinn shut up," Duncan returned. "Something simple would be best," Dad s..
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But since we've all nearly died horribly several times in the past few days, I'll give you a free pass just for tonight. But you might, oh, I don't know, to him." "And say what?" I asked, scrambling out of bed. I pulled my favorite jeans out of my closet and rummaged for a T-shirt. "Sorry I nearly chewed through your jugular? They don't exactly make a card for that." "I could draw one for you." "Ew."
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Connor said, quoting her favorite poem. " " He kissed her quickly. "And don't fall out," he added. "Don't die," she replied sleepily. "Dude," Quinn grinned. "Did you just recite poetry?" "Shut it," Connor shot back amiably."
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Hunter shook her head. "How much backup do you think we need?" she asked Chloe. "It's like sneaking a heard of elephants." "Jason's the best at locks," Chloe reminded her. "And I'm just here because I'm nosy," I added helpfully."
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Chloe's fingers flew over her keyboard. I raised an eyebrow at Hunter. "Is she Googling hunter-assholes? I doubt they have their own Web page." Chloe snorted. "You'd be surprised." "She's hacking the school files," Hunter said. "She does it all the time." "Don't they have security for that kind of thing?" Chloe snorted again. "Please." I knew that tone. Connor used it whenever someone called his computer mojo into question." --
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How are they different from the other hunters? Besides their barbaric fashion sense?" "They're not Helios-Ra," Hunter explained. "They do their own thing." "That's pretty much what Nicholas said," I admitted. "Drives the teachers nuts," Chloe said smugly. "Whenever they threaten to fail us, we threaten to become Huntsmen." " threaten that," Hunter said drily. "The rest of us just do our homework."
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Hunter paused on the bottom step. "Stay between Chloe and me, and only step where I step." I stared at her. "Why? Are there bombs?" You just never knew with this school. "Just don't want to get caught roaming after hours," Hunter explained. She darted nimbly up the staircase, avoiding certain steps. "School's bugged," Chloe whispered from behind me. "Is that even legal?" "Who would we tell?" I flashed her a grin. "My mom. She could picket a..
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We have treaties with some vampire tribes. And we also have several more departments, at the academy and at the college. And in the League at large as well. Things like Tech and Supernatural Studies." "What about Vampire Relations?" I asked. Especially with the local newspapers now reporting on the increase in missing persons. Apparently the last time something like this happened was in the eighties. "We need that. I could totally do that."..
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Turn left here," I said about fifteen minutes later. "I know what you're doing," he told me, but he turned anyway. The road cut through thick bushes and red pine groves. The moon was bright enough to cast blue moonshadow over the snow. If I squinted I could just barely make out a house light through the trees, close to the mountains. We passed the familiar landmarks: the lightning-struck ash, the boulder shaped like a bull, the hill where w..
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He turned off his bike, pocketing his keys. "I don't need a baby-sitter, Hunter." "No, you're special. You need three," I broke in. "There are three girls waiting for you on your doorstep, Black. Aw. Poor you." He shook his head. "You're a pain in my ass, Hamilton." I grinned. "I practiced on seven vampire brothers, remember? I could give classes."
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We'll just have to meet him off campus," I said. "Do your hacker thing and get a hold of him." Chloe rolled her eyes. "It's called a phone. No hacking required."
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I kicked a pebble into the pond, accidentally scaring the sleepy swan. He squawked and burst into flight, scattering feathers. Jenna and I both squawked back and threw a stake at it. He dive-bombed us, insulted.
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I stood between her and Jenna. So she punched me instead. I punched her back. Right now, my mother was reciting her nightly mala bead prayers to cleanse me of my violent tendencies. Not enough chanting in the world, Mom.
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And I brought chocolate," Chloe added, tossing him an extra bar from her bag. I eyed her. "Hey, you said you were out." "I lied." Hunter snorted. "She also stole that chocolate from my stash." Chloe was cheerfully unrepentant. "You're running low by the way." Hunter smirked. "I have another stash you don't know about."
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Ready?" Quinn asked when Sky wandered off and we couldn't avoid the family tent anymore. "Hell, no." "Me neither." Mom and Dad waited just inside the tent flap. The light from the oil lamps glinted off fangs, narrowed eyes, and Mom's weapon collection. "Congratulations." Dad spoke first, his voice soft as smoke before it fills your lungs. "I honestly don't know which of my children I'm angriest with right now."
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I'm fine." I ground my teeth. "I swear if I hear that from you or Solange one more time I'm duct-taping your mouths shut." "Can I duct-tape yours shut?" I grinned. "Like that would stop me."
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Can we just do this recon thing?" "I can multitask," I assured him, peering into the shadows of the first alley we passed. "Cat, raccoon in Dumpster, smell of pee," I catalogued for him. " See? Now talk."
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I yawned so widely a bear could've mistaken my mouth for a cave and crawled in to hibernate for the winter.
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The vampires, wounded and annoyed, scaled the brick wall and vanished over the rooftops. I stopped shrieking. The silence thrummed around us. My throat was raw. Kieran rubbed his ears. "Is there blood? Am I blind?" "Don't you mean deaf?" I croaked. "No." He half smiled. "You scream louder than mere ear damage."
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