We walked out onto the quiet dancefloor. The music had stopped, the punters were all gone and the main lights had been switched on, dousing everything in sight, but the room wasn't empty.

Will Jackson stood, dressed in a navy hoodie and jeans, his beaten-up white trainers offsetting his look. His messy black hair made it look like he had just jumped out of bed, and his eyes were shining red.

"Will!" I said with a smile as we made our way over to him "Oh, am I glad that you're here."

"Alec. Kian... good to see you again after all these years." Will said, his voice as hard as stone.

"1927, wasn't it?" Kian replied with a wry smile "Paris?"

I had no fucking idea what they were going on about, but the tension between the two just seemed to get more uncomfortable the longer they stared at each other.

"So, uh, you guys really do know each other then?" I asked.

"Know him?" Will replied viciously "He's the prick who turned me."

What the fuck? Kian had been the one to turn Will into a vampire?

"I was a different person back then," Kian replied softly "That was a long time ago."

"Long enough for you to forget what you are, what you did to me?"

But, that wasn't right. Kian had never forgotten, he had just learned to accept. His demons were literal as well as being figurative, and he was the victim of bad choices. And bad people, namely Dracula and Carmilla.

"I'm sorry, for everything I did." Kian replied, "I truly am."

Will smiled then, but it wasn't friendly. It was a look of dark glee.

"Oh, you will be sorry." He said, "We are going to make sure of that."

What the hell?

"We?" I asked him "What do you mean?"

"I mean The House Of The Apocalypse," Will replied "Surely, you've worked it out by now? Did you speak to Kaicius? I'm sure that bloody idiot demon spilt the beans. I knew he was a fucking liability, but I needed to separate you two. I needed to get you alone, Alec."

What the actual fuck? Will was the one behind The House? I didn't know if I was going fucking mad, but I was seriously hoping that this was a dream, a nightmare even. Anything but having this be real. After everything, Will had betrayed me, lied to me... had me attacked.

"You... you're the one who ordered Jonathan to turn me?" I said, shock still reeling through my mind.

"Yes, and no," Will replied "I ordered him to kill you, but that didn't exactly go to plan."

Kian saved me...

"You ordered him to kill me?"

"I did. You were meant to be our sacrifice to open the final seal keeping Lucifer chained up in hell," Will replied "Nothing personal, but of course, Kian, you had to bloody interfere with the plan!"

I glanced at Kian, who had turned pale, his hands were shaking with barely contained rage.

"Why me?" I asked, "You could have picked anybody, why me?"

Will hesitated for a moment, taking in my question. His emotionless blood-red eyes flashed as he locked his gaze onto mine, and I felt a shiver go up my spine.

"Because you were an easy target," Will replied "After you appeared in my basement the following day I knew that Jonathan had messed up, so I kicked you out. I couldn't have you getting suspicious, not then, anyway. I sent Dorian Gray to collect your soul. I'll be honest, I was hoping that I could still use it to complete the sacrifice and when you turned up in the Church Of Dracul... we were so close to having you then that I could almost taste it, but you got away."

Jay...

He had been working for Will, for The House... shit, and Dorian Gray. I had been so close to being in their grasp and I had never realised it.

"Dorian came back empty-handed, Jay with his throat cut... you were much more capable than I had given you credit for," Will continued "Then I found out who had been helping you to evade capture... Kian. It was like all my birthdays had come at once. My chance to get revenge. Jonathan was my last chance to take your life, but, you managed to best him and clear your name. I was stumped, I'll admit that, so I devised a new plan."

"You took Kian." I realised.

"Correct," Will smiled "I had M break into your shack and kidnap Kian. He made him write the note, I just knew you would follow the lead. We broke into his memories, released Kaicius and waited for you to follow the trail."

What a fucking bastard...

"You set me and Victoria up to die in that church," I realised "You sent the boggart after me."

"I did, and I tampered with the spell to make sure that you ended up in Dorian's hands. He was meant to force you to sign away your soul."

"But, you didn't bank on Michael getting involved." I said, "He saved us."

"It was a pain in my ass, that's for sure," Will replied "Heaven poking their noses in was... unforeseen. Then you managed to get Kian back. That really did it for me. I just knew that you were onto The House and so here we are. The truth is finally out."

"I'm going to rip your heart out and shove it down your throat!" Kian growled, his fangs out and his eyes glowing fiercely.

Kian started to run at Will, but before he could reach him he suddenly froze on the spot, his arms outstretched with only his eyes moving.

"Oh, yeah," Will smiled "I didn't come alone of course."

The air just behind him shimmered like waves of heat rising up as the form of M materialised. He wore deep purple robes to match the ring that hung from his neck and his long white beard was contrasted by the shortness of the rest of his hair.

"Thank you, M." Will said to the wizard as he walked around Kian's frozen form "Did you deal with the angel and the witch?"

Oh, shit... Victoria and Michael. What the fuck had M done to them?

"Yes Master, they never saw me coming," M replied grinning.

"Good. Now, Alec, we can have a reasonable discussion." Will carried on "I'll kill Kian later, no need to rush the fun. I've waited almost a century to pay him back for what he did to me, now it's his turn to wait."

I'm all by myself... crap. There's no getting out of this. Nobody to come and save me. It's just me. Shit. That wasn't a good thought.

"Why are you doing this?" I asked, my voice hardening as I tried to keep my anger in check.

I could feel my hands beginning to shake. Shit. Keep it together...

"I'm glad that you asked," Will smiled "Of course, you know that the purpose of The House was always to release Lucifer from hell."

"And start the apocalypse," I added.

"Of course, so we can rid the world of all the stinking mortal filth," Will replied "We will purge the Earth of the curse that is humanity."

He must be fucking mad...

"Not to pick holes or anything," I said "But, you're a vampire, right? You need blood to survive."

"There'll be a controlled stock of humans grown for food," Will replied "I admit it's not an ideal option, but needs must."

Keeping humans like cattle, that's just sick...

"So, that's it?" I asked, "That's what you're grand plan looks like?"

"Vampires will be the top of the food chain, where we should be."

"But, you still need my soul to release Lucifer from hell, right?" I replied, "Then you're going to have to kill me too because I will never give you want you want."

"Oh, I was planning on killing you too, don't worry," Will replied "I just need your soul for the spell, your body isn't of any use to me."

"I won't let you have my soul," I replied "So if you want to free Lucifer then you can just go to hell. Literally."

Fucking undead asshole...

"I was hoping you were going to say that, it gives me a chance to implement plan B," Will smirked "Dorian! Bring in our guests..."