Novels by Val Heeren

“Why didn’t you pick somebody else?!” I shouted at Thomas. “Why me? Screw your damn feelings, I want the truth!” I flipped over a chair. It was the next day and we hadn’t heard anything from them. The only order I had was to stay here in my room until someone came and got me. It was only eight at night, and I swear to God, I was slowly starting to lose my mind!Thomas picked up the chair and calmly put it back where it was supposed to go. “Tammy, I told you the truth on the plane ride here. I thought you were…”“Shut the hell up! You’ve lied to me about everything else, why start telling the truth now,” I yelled at him. “I don’t want to have this baby if that’s all they want to use it for! Don’t you think that maybe they could find somebody else,” I asked.Thomas shook his head, “they don’t want to wait so long anymore. That’s why you are their only hope, Tammy. I just wish…” Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. Thomas opened it up, and tried to slam it shut again,

“I’m not going to tell her! Not yet, she doesn’t need to know,” Thomas yelled at me.“Look, she has to know sooner or later about the Hybrid plans. You should get right on it especially since the Vampire Council wants her to have a baby. The plans are already set in motion,” I said.Tammy and I had gotten back from shopping sometime around noon, since we had such an early start to our day. We spent the whole day with each other. It was quite a sight to behold. I had never remembered spending so much time with her, not since our childhood anyway. We talked and laughed up a storm. I forgot how fun this was. I thought Tammy was going to hate me for the rest of her life. I couldn’t believe all she had to talk about either!Tammy talked about what she would have liked to have done, if she had not been selected by the Council, what she’d like to go to college for. The cute guys that were her type, and blushing over it. Blushing! I didn’t realize that she was capable of doing su

I was on my sofa when Thomas gave me my blood coffee instead of my blood cocoa. There was something about mixing blood in with coffee that tasted oh so wonderful, and besides I needed the energy for what I was about to be told. “Now then, are we comfortable?” he asked. I nodded my head yes. He put his arm around me so I could snuggle closer to him. I sipped my coffee silently, not caring if the hotness burned my tongue.“Tammy?”“Yes?”“There’s some bad news that concerns you.”“Me? What bad news do you bear about me, Tom?”Tom breathed in deep and let out his breath slowly, “Tammy, the Vampire Council wants to move you up to Canada with them in their top secret facility. And then they want you to have a one-night stand with a mortal and get pregnant.”I spat out my blood-coffee and looked at him horrified. “THAT’S what the Vampire Council needed to discuss with you? That’s what was SO important about you taking off? What in the hell are they thinking? I don’t want any crot

Later on that night after my sister had finally gone to sleep, I snuck out to meet Thomas and Darien. When I got there, the first thing that Darien did was throw a bag of A negative at me. As I drank my bag of A negative blood; I realized it didn’t taste as good as O negative, but it would have to do.“Now Tammy, while I was away I was having reports done on you. Both Darien and… another source both informed me that you were not drinking human blood anymore. That even when Darien offered you a bag when you invited him inside, you still refused it and kicked him out… Even after you told me you would start drinking normally again,” Thomas said quietly.I could tell that I had really upset him. He wasn’t yelling or even looking at me, rather talking to me like I was a child in trouble. Which I guess I was, in a way.“I was not feeling myself, I guess you could say. I… just didn’t feel up to it.”In the darkness of the woods Thomas said, “Depressed, Tammy, is more like the word to

I was reading Mister B. Gone by: Clive Barker, a book about Demons, when my sister came in. She was pale, and you could tell that she was crying. “Hey, um, you want to get some pizza?” I smiled weakly, said sure, and put down my book. While we were in town, I looked at Pizza Hut, drooling at how wonderful it would be to taste the sauce on my tongue again. It has been awhile since I have had Pizza Hut, my sister was trying to cut down on us eating out so much.But my sister didn’t stop.She kept driving.I couldn’t believe it. We were passing the pizza place! “Hey, Pizza Hut's back there,” I gestured with my thumb. I looked in the side mirror of the car and saw it going farther and farther in the distance. My sister didn’t bother to look at me as she bit down on her lip.She sighed and said slowly, “we’re not going out to eat, Tammy. You are going to stay at a hospital where they help teens like you every day with the problems they have. This is what’s best for all of us.”“

"Annabeth, your sister here is out of control. We found her smoking in the bathroom, we took away one pack of cigarettes, but then she wiped out another cigarette from her bra. Is she getting these from you?” the principal asked. They found me smoking. Come on, who cares anymore?It was after school hours now, and it was starting to get dark out. Who has parent-teacher conferences this late? Oh yeah, that’s right. It’s a Friday, so they want to keep you from doing something fun. I rolled my eyes at my balding principal.“Yes, I know this. It’s still a little hard trying to keep her from doing bad things when I go to nursing school, and then trying to balance the job that I have as well. I’m thinking about hiring a babysitter for her,” my sister said as she gave me the evil eye.“Is there something else that I should know?” This guy obviously didn’t have kids. I looked at his finger. Huh, there was a wedding ring on there before Ann came in.My sister hesitated, looking th