Life compelled

71~Gone

Grayson's POV

I walk in the door and drop a folder of papers infront of him

He looks at the papers then at me. "What's that?"

"Documents. Ten people have been found dead in the past three days. The police say it was an animal attack"

He shrugs and stands up "and. So it's hunting season"

He looks at the folders again and then back at me "You think I did this?"

"I didn't say that I just" "You didn't have to. Thanks for having such faith in me brother" "it's hard to have faith when you mysterious sneak out at night. You think I can't hear you come in"

He rolls his eyes, picks up the folder and hands it to me "it wasn't me"

Isabella's POV

James, Brie and I all sit at the table

"Three more people found dead in the woods this morning. Making the number of people killed by animal attacks grow to ten this week" he reads

"Oh come on we all know these aren't animal attacks" Brie says. "How do you know?" "I watch the news. They were all drained of blood"

We look at each other. "I wonder what Melissa has them doing" I say

"Them?" Brie questions. "No. No Brie Ethan didn't do this" I say

"Are you sure? You haven't seen him in a week" "I know him" "and so do I. I knew him before he met you and believe me it's not a pretty sight"

"I don't care. This isn't him. We just have to found out who it really is"

Ethan's POV

We see one of Melissas so called "friends" come down the stairs and into the basement aka our new hang out

"New information. Melissa needs you to find a Vivian Lockwood" she hands us a piece of paper with her information

Grayson looks at it "a Lockwood?"

"Yep. Let's hope this isn't someone you're close to"

We hop in the car and drive to the location. We knock and a woman opens the door

"Hi. Is Vivian home?" Grayson asks

"Yes it is why?" The lady says. "Could we come in to speak with her?"

"Sorry I'm not allowed to let anyone in" she says. She been compelled

"Get her outside" I say

He motions for her to step out and she goes

"Does anyone else own or could own this place?" I ask her. "No" "good" I snap her neck

I step in side but Grayson pulls me back "you weren't supposed to kill her" "she was a lose end" "we don't know that. She's human" "and I'm not. So I don't care"

I had to not care about a lot of things in order to keep my sanity

We search the house but still no one. She must've lied

We walk back to our hide out and open the door

My heart sinks

Isabella's POV

Ethan and Grayson walk in and their eyes shot to me

"What's she doing here?" Ethan asks. "I told you, you couldn't-" "relax. I didn't invite her. She invited herself"

Ethan looks at me "can I talk to you for a minute?"

He grabs my arm and pulls me into a room

"Are you insane? You're supposed to be home. Relaxing. Not thinking about me" "how can I not think about you?"

"Why are you here?" "For dinner" "with her?" "I'm trying to make a deal" "every single deal you've made has caused you to be at risk. Stop sacrificing yourself. Go home it's not safe here"

"It's either me or the people I love Ethan" "I'm not gonna let you go"

I sigh

"I know. So this is my only option" I stab him with a wolfsbane and vervain needle and he falls to the ground

Grayson hears a thud and runs to us

He sees me trying to pick up Ethan

He looks at me and reads my mind. He picks up Ethan and they go to the basement

I walk into the kitchen and see Melissa opening up wine

I take the pot of spaghetti and put it on the table

"Oh no" she says. "Knowing you, you probably poison the food. I'm not that easy"

"Ethan thought so"

Angry washes over her face. I put my hands up in defense "look I'm not trying to fight with you. The spaghetti is fine"

"Hm"

I put spaghetti on both of our plates and she pours the wine

"You eat first" she said with a sort of cocky tone

I did. And just like I told her. The spaghetti was fine

"So. What do you really want?" "I want to remake our deal"

She laughs "you really are determined in this suicide mission" "it's either me or the people I love" "believe me. Safe yourself"

She finally takes a bite of her spaghetti. "Wouldn't you do the same?" I ask

"You can't survive if you constantly sacrifice yourself. You have to save yourself. Don't worry about others"

I chuckle "you sound like my grandmother"

"I've heard of her. The famous Katrina Petrova. Funny how she's related to a naive buzzkill like you" she sips her wine

"Yeah. Funny"

"I mean let's be real. In a fight against you or me...I will win. I am willing to take everything from you just to make you realize that"

"What was the point? About being human? Because I know there's not one careless bone in your body so there must have been some type of self advantage"

"I could ask you the same question"

I sigh and lean back in my seat

"There are some things I miss but there are also things that I love about being human. For one thing I don't have to be invited in"

I see her in the corner of my eye start to slightly cough "you're able to walk in any house and get away with it. It's pretty cool actually"

The plate and glass shatter as she falls to the ground on her knees coughing furiously

"What. Did. You. Do?" She said in between coughing

"I spiked the wine. You really should be smarter next time. Your door was basically open"

"I swear to God if you don't-" "if I don't what? Help you? I don't have to do anything. Your insides will start to burn off soon so as far as I'm concerned the only thing there is to do now is watch you die. Which, trust me, I've been waiting for, for a LONG time now"

After coughing a few more times I hear her chuckle

"You think you've won. You think you're the only one with a witch on your side? Guess it's always good to have a back up plan"

"What back up plan?"

"Thats the beauty of it all. You won't know it till it's too late"

She flops on the ground and I hear her last breath leave her mouth

She's finally gone