"What?" I said.

"You will hunt us Juliette. Your dad is one, your stepmom is one and I'm pretty sure your mom was one too. You'll probably be one too before your next birthday." Austin said cooly like he was just stating simple facts everybody knows. But there not facts, that's my life he is talking about. He's talking about me taking the life of my friends as if it were no big deal and happened everyday.

"No, I won't. I'm not gonna kill you."

"You'll hardly have a choice, it's in your blood. Even if you didn't, your parents are bound to find out and kill us themself."

"No! I won't let that happen, he won't lay a finger on you, I can promise you that much."

"Juliette, thank you. I love that your defending us but this isn't something you can walk away from or treat lightly. There your parents, and you don't really have a choice on the hunter thing, just like I don't have a choice about shapeshifting or Oli and being a wolf. It's in our blood."

"I know Austin! But I'm not gonna let them hurt you, I won't, they can't. You guys are my best friends, this just can't happen... Not again, I will fight them if I have too but they will. Not. Harm. You." I said crying. Every time I got remotely close to someone they died. Every fucking time, I will not just sit by and watch from the sidelines, I will protect them with my life. Oli walked up too me and gave me a hug.

"Don't you worry for one second Juliette, we can protect our selfs ok? Nothing will happen, we aren't going anywhere." He said trying to calm me down.

"Thanks Oli."

"No problem love."

"Uhh, Juliette. Um what did you mean by again?" Austin asked.

"What are you talking about?"

"You said 'you guys are my best friends this just can't happen not again'" what the fuck, out of all that, that's what he got out of it?

"M-my last boyfriend died in a car accident, it was a hit and run." Austin's eyes got really big when I said that.

"Oh shit, sorry Juliette, I wouldn't have asked if I knew... But that didn't make any sense, I'm sorry, I just made this really awkward huh... Well I'm gonna go in this general direction... Yeah." Austin said pointing all over. That boys on drugs. Serious, serious drugs.

"We should probably go get him before he hurts himself." Oli says. I shake my head in agreement and follow him back up the stairs and into my kitchen.

"Hey, we gotta go, but I'll probably see you In school?"

"Sure, ok bye!"

"Bye" they say and walk out. I let out air I didn't know I was holding and for some reason I decided that at that moment I really really wanted to play with all the dangerous things downstairs. What could possibly go wrong? It is in my blood after all. I ran down the stairs as fast as I could without falling and probably killing myself and made it too the bottom. I shook my fist and whispered yes, congratulating myself in not dyeing.

"Ok, what first." I said to myself. I walked over to the wall and decided to start small and not to dangerous. I picked up a gun. A machine gun. A very large heavy machine gun. I have no idea how to use it or even the name of the gun. This, this is thing that I picked.
"Yup, this will do." I walked into the room with the targets and found a station for guns. This room was really quite big, probably the size of a one level house? I don't know how to explaine it but it is huge. I walked up to a cubby looking thing were googles and ear muffs were. I put them on and looked at the gun, how do you even hold it? I tried as hard as I could to try and copy movies that had guns in them but I probably failed miserably. I put my right eye up to the sight thingy and braced myself. I pulled the trigger but nothing happened, the trigger didn't even go back.
"What the fu- ohhhhh. It's on safety. That would make sense." I pressed the button and put the gun back up to my eye. I breathed in then out and fired. I hit the dummy exactly in the head, hitting the target perfectly. I smiled and did it again except I aimed for its chest hitting it on target again.

*whistle sounds*
"Your a natural. Just like your mom" some one said from behind me. Hy heart leaped out of my chest and I almost shot the poor bastard in the face but I didn't. Instead I quickly turned around and aimed at his head, it felt almost natural to do this, like I didn't even haveto think.

"Dad."

"Yes?"

"What are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same thing. I see you found the basement. Did you figure it out yet?"

"Yes."

"Good, smart. I wish you could have found out a different way. This is not the life I want for you, chasing deadly creatures in the middle of the night. I wanted to wait tell you got out of school at least, before you knew anything."

"I know, but it's not your fault, but why are you here? I thought the wedding wasn't for a few days."

"I didn't go to a wedding, it was a hunting trip I needed help so I called the family here. Were still on goodish terms."

"Oh. uhh so about this hunter stuff. Do I have to have like special training?"

"Actually yea, I didn't think you would want to be one." He looked at me confused.

"Of course I do. Why wouldn't I? And besides, it's in my blood and I can't change that even if I wanted to." And boy did I want to. But I have to become a hunter. I have to protect them, I promised.

"Ohh, well I guess tomorrow if your up for it?"

"Yea. Sounds good."

"Ok we'll go to bed. You gotta long day ahead of you." I nodded my head and ran back up the stairs and into the kitchen. Lindsy was there waiting but she didn't say anything. She just looked at me curiously like I was a puppy that somehow got into her house. I gave her a very awkward side look, nodded my head and almost ran to my room. Ok then. I jumped on my bead and fell straight asleep. To tired to even take off my clothes.

*very very loud whistle noises. Probably a rape whistle. Who knows.*

I jumped out of bed and kinda karate chopped the air before I realized how ridiculous I looked and put my arms down. My dad looked at me like I was crazy. I probably was.

"Ok.... Get up, it's time for training!" I looked at the clock 4am what the fuck.

"It's four!!! In the morning!!" I pronounced every word perfectly to make sure that HE knew what time it was too.

"Yea, I know. Be grateful it's not earlier." I just stood there with my mouth open and my eyebrow raised giving him the 'are you serious look' reading my mind he says.

"Yes, know let's go go go!" He said loud enough to wake the neighbors.

"Oh god." I muttered under my breath. He threw clothes at me and left the room. They were skin tight stretchy shorts that went right above my knees, a long sleeved thermal shirt that I could put my thumbs through the sleeves and a short sleeved shirt to go over with some brand new running shoes. Everything here was brand new and expensive as hell looking. Good.He knows it's late winter right? I know it will be spring in a few but seriously? I changed and put my hair up in a tight but messy bun to keep it out of the way. I put on the shoes and walk out of my room to the kitchen were they were waiting for me.

"Good, your ready."

"Were are we going?"

"You are going to run while we supervise to make sure your not cheating." What? I thought I was going to shoot stuff. I was lied to. Ehhh exercise.
"You didn't think you were just going to shoot guns did you?" He asked and I shook my head no but it was to late. He already knew.
"There is more to being a hunter then guns and fancy weapons. You need to be able to plan things strategically, you need to be able to survive on your own in the woods. Anything can happen at any moment and you need to be prepared for it. You need to be physically. Mentally, and emotionally fit."

"Ok. So where am I running?"

"The forest." I groaned when he said that but he just chuckled. They both got up and we left the house.

"Oh god it's freezing. Why didn't you get a jacket?"

"Trust me. You'll be thanking me and you won't need one. You'll be running then were going inside to build your strength." Oh god.

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Hey guys! So I tried to lighten this up a bit with a few jokes, hope they made you laugh or at the very least blow air out of your nose fast. But yea so the part were she wakes up and karate chops the air is something that happened too me. I was sleeping and my dogs whiskers kinda tickled my face and I got really scared, jumped out of bed and karate chopped the air until I realized what had happened while my brother was laughing at me the whole time. It was pretty funny tho!

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