When your life is in danger from supernatural forces, you have to lie to protect the ones you love to keep them out of the danger you're facing, as Darren Shan has to do in his stories when he becomes a half vampire. He lies to his girlfriend by telling her that Larten Crepsley is his father and Evra is his brother, when in reality, the reader knows the truth about who these creatures really are. Eventually, Debbie will find out who he really is when she finds that Darren was behind the scheme to have Murlough kill her and her parents and drain them of their blood when Darren and Murlough break into her house, where Darren drugs the wine he had brought over for their Christmas party with a tasteless potion of Larten's that knocked everyone out within ten minutes. As it turns out, Debbie and her parents were placed in the attic to avoid getting killed, so Murlough ended up seeing a goat that Darren had stolen from the zoo and he started sounding like a motor boat while he was sputtering. Larten springs from her closet, and he and Murlough start fighting, which results in Murlough's death, which occurred in self defense. Murlough would have killed all of them if he had lived. Now, Larten and Darren clean up the house, bring down Debbie and her parents, and place them in their respective beds. Darren then decorates a Christmas tree she has so she will see it when she wakes up after the effects wear off. He kisses her on the forehead, then leaves to rescue Evra.
When your life is in danger from supernatural forces, you have to lie to protect the ones you love to keep them out of the danger you're facing, as Darren Shan has to do in his stories when he becomes a half vampire. He lies to his girlfriend by telling her that Larten Crepsley is his father and Evra is his brother, when in reality, the reader knows the truth about who these creatures really are. Eventually, Debbie will find out who he really is when she finds that Darren was behind the scheme to have Murlough kill her and her parents and drain them of their blood when Darren and Murlough break into her house, where Darren drugs the wine he had brought over for their Christmas party with a tasteless potion of Larten's that knocked everyone out within ten minutes. As it turns out, Debbie and her parents were placed in the attic to avoid getting killed, so Murlough ended up seeing a goat that Darren had stolen from the zoo and he started sounding like a motor boat while he was sputtering. Larten springs from her closet, and he and Murlough start fighting, which results in Murlough's death, which occurred in self defense. Murlough would have killed all of them if he had lived. Now, Larten and Darren clean up the house, bring down Debbie and her parents, and place them in their respective beds. Darren then decorates a Christmas tree she has so she will see it when she wakes up after the effects wear off. He kisses her on the forehead, then leaves to rescue Evra.