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clean up."
    "Thank you Mrs. Williams!" Jake said, all but running to the door.
    "Call me Sandra!" she yelled after him.
    Jake rushed out of the room looking for Amber.  Instead, he bumped into Diana.  "Hi!" she said, stepping in front of him.  Her long brown hair hung braided down her back.  Jake caught a whiff of strawberry scented perfume.
    "Uh hi," he said, back.
    "I've been meaning to talk to you," she said, bouncing from one foot to the other.
    "Really?  Well I was just on my way . . ."
    "Did you know that Whisper, Amber, and I are going to train with you guys?"
    "Really?  I didn't know girls could hunt vampires," Jake said, absentmindedly trying to look past her.
    "Why wouldn't we be able to?" she said, the tone of her voice going from friendly to hostile.
    Awe hell.  Jake thought to himself focusing on the now angry deep black eyes looking back at him.   Big mistake.
    "I can hunt a vampire just as well as you can!"
    "That's not what I meant; I've just never heard of . . .” He didn't get to finish as she rushed away.  God I hate teenage girls!
    Jake continued down the hall into the game room where Buck and Donnie were playing a game of pool, their differences apparently put aside.  Chris was throwing darts at a dartboard in the corner and Amber and Whisper were lying on the couches watching the end of Titanic.  I’ll never let go?  Jake thought to himself remembering the first time he’d seen the movie.  There was plenty of room on that damn door, or table, or whatever the hell it was she was floating on.  All she had to do was move over and poor Leo would have been just fine.
    Jake walked over to the couch trying to decide just what to say.  Behind him, Talon Parker suddenly appeared seemingly out of the walls themselves.  “Everyone come into the den.  Our final guest has arrived.  It is time to get started.”
    Dammit!  Jake thought, but followed Talon into the den where he found his dad, Billy, Turner, and Ben already sitting along with two other men Jake didn’t know.  Talon leaned back against the wall next to the fireplace. 
    A middle age Hispanic man, dressed in an expensive gray suit with jet-black hair, stood up and walked into the middle of the room with his hands clasped behind his back.  In a metal chair next to Billy was a tall gangly man in a white short-sleeve shirt with short blonde hair and thick horn-rimmed glasses.  He smiled warmly at Jake and the other recruits as they entered the room.
    “Have a seat, Jake,” John said, motioning to the spot on the couch next to him.  Jake sat down next to him as the other kids took their seats around the room.
    “Everyone here?” Billy asked, standing up from a very familiar looking recliner.  Man I bet Grandpa would love to get his hands on that chair!  Jake thought with a chuckle.
    Billy looked around the room making eye contact with everyone.  “I would like to introduce you all to someone very important to our work.  This man has made all of this possible.  He has put his blood, sweat, and tears into helping us do what we do.  No one has sacrificed more than him to help us.  Without his support, we would still be scrounging for money and supplies like back in the old days.  On top of all that he’s a good friend to Ben and myself.”  He motioned to the man in the middle of the room.  “This is the Secretary of Supernatural Affairs, Daniel Hernandez.”  Billy sat back down in his recliner.
    “Thank you, Billy.” Hernandez nodded in his direction.  “I’m happy each and every one of you has come to the very serious decision to join our cause.  Myself and my associate Derek Carson,” he motioned to the man sitting in the metal chair, “are honored to meet you all.
    “Now, that being said, I am going to tell you right now that this is no joke.  This will lead to a very hard, very bloody life.  One that not everyone is cut out to do.  So if any of you want to drop out now, please speak up.  There will