Cynn had followed wordlessly, completely ignoring the dress Silvana tossed to her. She held it, her baby blue eyes focused intently on the female before Cynn moved to sit on her bed. Balto moved, sitting on the floor at Cynn's feet, and the female reached down, stroking the humans hair. After debating with herself, and wondering if she should have Zadist come and completely wipe out Silvana's mind, she shook her head. "Silvana. People don't just lose their memory. Maybe you just bumped your head at the club, right?"

"Maybe. That's why I was asking if you saw. This doesn't make sense, unless I... I mean I have a headache, you know?" Silvana said, glancing up at Lye. Her brows wrinkled with concern, and she blinked, her eyelids fluttering as she tried to think back to the club. All she remembered was... That she had been looking for Lucy and Marie. And after that.... All gone. She didn't think she had had any alcohol, or even something for someone to drug her with. So what was up? "Maybe a brain-eating amoeba is attacking my brain," she suggested, "Or something, and giving me a headache. And I'm losing my memory. Then I'll die." It would be strangely exciting to die by brain-eating amoeba. They could not even get into you unless you'd been by still, warm water in the wilderness and got some of that water up your nose. Of course, pools worked, too. Had she gone swimming recently? "Of course, I never got any water up my nose, so I dunno how that's possible."

"Uhh..." Cynn stared at the female, frowning, before something drew her attention away. Her phone was blaring, the song called 'California Girls'. She giggled, pointing to the purple thing before opening it. "It's my brother's ringtone, hehe!"

She listened for a moment, before her eyes grew wider, and she stared openly at Silvana. Great, Phayte hadn't cleaned up properly. Apperently, around her was a tiny sliver of paper with Zadist's cell number on it. Cynn hung up quickly, he resonse to her brother a growl. "Uh...so, Miss. Silvana, I'm so thirsty....And I could have a...doctor...friend...of mine come and look at you." Hopefully the human would jet downstairs to get her liquid.

Silvana did not like the California Girls song at ALL--it was really, really annoying and every time it played on the radio she wanted to smash something to pieces. So she said, "I only like the Hot and Cold song by her." She froze for a moment, thinking about the song. That song... Was... Deja vu? "Uhm, I'll get you some water." She stood up and departed from the room. She ran down the stairs, past her parents watching TV. They did not seem to notice her, or ever care about the fact that she and her clothing were very damp after the rain. It was still pouring outside when she glanced out the window. She opened the refrigerator and dropped a few ice cubes into a blue glass, then filled it up with water. Silvana sighed heavily, standing there for a moment. Her heart throbbed in her chest relentlessly. All of this felt meaningless now. Why was she even bothering? All she wanted to do was lie on her bed and stare at the ceiling, since brain-eating amoebas were murdering her dead. She raced back up the stairs, and threw open her bedroom door, holding out the glass of water.

(Lmfao, those were my exact words Saturday night.)

Cynn hadn't been sure what to say to Silvana's answer, so had simply nodded, and waited until Silvana left the room. Seemed almost like the girl had vampire speed, since a moment later, she burst back into the room, with Cynn holding the trash can upside down and staring at the door in alarm. Balto had opened up the dressar, and his arm was full of panties at the moment. He seemed even more embarressed than his mistress, glancing down and up awkwardly.

"Uh...this is so not what it looks like....I dropped a piece of paper...it...has....my boyfriend's number on it..?" Cynn informed the female, blinking rapidly. Lye was the professional liar in the family. Cynn just tormented things. Maybe she needed top impove on this skill.

"..." Silvana glared at the two strangers. Why had she let them into her house again? It was one thing if it was a friend or something and they wanted to dig through the crap that she owned. But she didn't even KNOW these people. And the man was holding an armload of her panties, for Christ's sake! She moved over to Lye, slamming down the cup of water. Some of it splashed out onto her dresser, but she didn't care. It would evaporate eventually anyway. "Okay, look," she said. Her voice started to shake again, and her eyes watered dangerously. She was not in the mood for this. Not even close. "I appreciate your help and all, but stop going through my stuff. And maybe it's time you left. Take the dress, and... Drink the water... But..." She glanced at Lye again, her eyes roaming over her pre-adolescent body. "Also, you're way too young for a boyfriend."

"Uh..." Cynn waved her arm at Balto, who immediatly dropped the underwear into the drawer, looking to his mistress questioningly. She ignored him, speaking quickly. "Friend, then. Please, I have to find the paper! It's just really tiny!" Cynn recited the number quickly, thinking the female would never remember it. "Please? It's here somewhere!" Man, if she had to knock Silvana out, and Zadist had to come and swipe her memory again, he'd be pissed.

"FINE!" Silvana cried, grabbing her short hair and wrenching it between her hands. "Look all you want for the stupid number! Jesus Christ, what is wrong with everybody! My brain is dying from amoebas, and twelve year olds have boyfriends! I haven't even ever had a boyfriend before in my life, and little kids are getting more action than me! WHAT THE HELL?" She screamed, a cross between a shriek and an angry growl, and ran into her bathroom, slamming the door. She glared at herself in the mirror, looking at her reddened eyes. But that was when... Silvana stopped, tilting her neck slightly to the side. She had... Faint black bruises on the side of her neck. Two small dots, almost exactly where her neck met her shoulder... Around the area of her jugular vein. She frowned. Okay... Today was just getting weirder and weirder. She hadn't been attacked by any.... She would not even say it out loud. It was too ridiculous for her even to contemplate that something like that had happened, even though it would have been totally awesome. But for some reason, thinking about it made her start to weep again. Like she was so angry that it hadn't happened. She really, really wanted... She started scrubbing at her face, sobbing.

Cynn moved to the bathroom door, out of her element. Balto could be heard behind her, shuffling through the room. Since the girl hadn't seemed to realize Cynn's multiple boo-boos, when she called the woman by her name, the girl continued to do so. "Silvana...I...I'm sorry...I didn't mean to upset you. And what do you mean you haven't had a boyfriend? You were m-oh! Uh. Yes. That is so unfortunate. Perhaps I could introduce you to some lovely....human...boys?" Cynn glanced back at her slave, who shrugged and shook his head. "Like Balto's brother...uh...uh...uh...Ryan?"

Silvana opened the door, glaring down at the girl with reddened, teary eyes and a runny nose. "W-W-What do you mean h-human boys?" She sniffed and sobbed, wiping her face on the back of her hand. She probably looked completely disgusting, and it did absolutely nothing to improve her mood. "Human boys suck. The don't like me. I should marry an alien. But that doesn't work, you see? I shout at the sky sometimes for them to abduct me and they never come. What the hell?" Silvana staggered out of her room, collapsing onto the bed, on her back. And then she stared at the ceiling like she'd wanted to, her mouth agape. After a while, she stopped. "You know, I used to get really angry when I was little... Watching those movies with girls who get transported to another world... A fantasy world. And they are such ungrateful little... Grrr... I mean, they go, 'I wanna go home, I dun like you!'" She tilted her head up, gazing at Lye to make sure she was listening. "Like the Labyrinth? The movie? I would have totally married the Goblin King. But that stuff doesn't happen to people like me. Only stupid idiots like Sarah who don't know a good thing if it punched them in the face."

Cynn fell silent, finally sighing and glancing to Balto. "This is just so not working. That's it. I'm getting Zadist here. Besides, Grandpa..." She began muttering into the air once more, before her servant lifted her purple cell phone, texting quickly, and placing the phone in her pocket.

The tiny vampire moved to the bed, her conversation finished. "Okay, Silvana. Im'ma get your vampire boyfriend back, okay? My brother will be here in a few minutes. I doubt he'll be able to keep himself from returning your memory after seeing you. For god's sake, this is killing me!"

Silvana shot up, staring at the girl as though she had suddenly grown an elephant trunk and antennae. "What? What are you even talking about? I wasn't attacked by a vampire. Sure, I have these bruises..." She pulled her collar aside and pointed at them. "But as cool as that would be, I definitely don't have a vampire friend or boyfriend." But... Why was her heart suddenly racing when Lye had said that to her? And she was dialing a number and... Well... It had been extremely convenient that Lye had even managed to find her after she lost her memory... Maybe the girl knew something that she didn't know? She was still sniffling and mopping her ugly, tear-streaked face. "Besides, if it was a vampire, he would kill me. Because I'm stupid and annoying and I talk too much about weirdo crap." Her eyes widened at the girl. She didn't seem to be stopping. "And what about Grandpa? Whose Grandpa? What did Grandpa say?" She was really curious about this Grandpa fellow. Maybe he was cool and had a funky beard.

"Grandpa Aair. He didn't like it when we started to kill the humans and segregate the made vampires." Cynn explained. "I'm actually Cynn, though you may meet Lye someday. This is my human slace, Balto." She nodded to the male, who'd sat a her feet.

Since the woman didn't believe her, Cynn tugged on the male's hair. Balto stood quickly, leaning over Cynn on the bed, tilting his head. His bruises and bites were even more noticable, and Cynn opened her mouth, her fangs growing, and bite into him. The human moaned, whether from pain or pleasure, it was hard to tell. After a few moments, Cynn pulled away from him, letting Balto sit unsteadily. Her baby blues turned to Silvana. "You believe me, now? My brother, Zadist-" Cynn paused, lifting her cell phone and popping it open. "Eh...Will be here when he's done with the made vampire he has right now." She flipped it closed once more. "You two were dating. He even marked you. Even though mother is gonna have him whipped for it, he still did it. Romantic, huh Balto?" The human nodded, and Cynn smiled, petting him. "He didn't want you to be a pet."

Silvana fell quiet, staring at the girl. But what she said... Strangely... Made sense to her. She still could not remember any of it, but her heart was drumming very hard in her chest, and instead of the agony she'd been feeling, her body was soaring with some sort of elation. But why would he have taken her memory away? And... If Lye--no Cynn--was any proof... Why would someone that amazing and beautiful want to talk to her or be with her anyway? She felt the bruises on her neck, which started to sting when Cynn bit into Balto's neck. It... Stirred something within her. It just seemed strange to her, that she would not remember something as important as having a vampire boyfriend, which she'd been dating since... Between the time of the club and what had happened now. "Why are you telling me this?" she asked finally, clenching her hands into her fists. "If he was so keen on making me forget him? I mean, what makes you think he wants me now? He just might kill me, or destroy my entire memory altogether... So I can never go back to him."

Cynn shrugged, and sighed as if Silvana was being terribly annoying. "Because, I want Zadist to be happy, and I've never seen a human so brokenhearted. He was so upset, Grandpa Aair said he took your stuffed pink elephant to remember you by. But, Melody." Cynn hesitated, and sighed before continuing. "Melody was his first human girlfriend. She tried to kill him, but Zadist was blind to all the bad things she did. He even put himself in danger and got himself beat for twohundred years, because he changed her like she wanted. Well, she tried to kill you earlier. He took away you memory and set it up so you'd be protected until his marking faded from you."

There was a rustle at the door, and Phayte was sitting in the window, staring at Silvana. "You're so weird. Couldn't just stay out of it? Couldn't leave him be?"

"And this," Cynn introduced, "Is Phayte. he doesn't like you, and I doubt you liked him very much!"

+

Cynn was right. The moment she looked at Phayte, no matter handsome and freaky he was with his white hair and vivid eyes... She still had an unbearable urge to punch him in the face and yell at him for making her so miserable. "Hello, Phayte," she said coldly. Her eyes lingered on him for a moment, and she glanced back at Cynn and she relayed the past events to her. Gosh, it sounded like a lot had happened... A lot of really heavy stuff. She rubbed the back of her head, grimacing because it hurt so much. What was going to happen to her now? All these vampires... Suddenly... Her life was a lot cooler than Sarah from the Labyrinth's life, although she wasn't quite sure how she felt about it yet with no memory. And it was difficult to believe that everything would be suddenly amended with no further problems for her... Once this 'Zadist' arrived. Her heart fluttered at the name. It was really weird. "My elephant?" She stood up and wandered over to the closet, digging around for it. Nothing. "I got it at Disneyland, when I was five," she explained, going back to the bed and sitting beside Cynn again. She clasped her hands together tightly. She was so nervous... "Phayte, I'm sorry you hate me... I wish I could make you feel better." She had no idea why she'd said that.

The male vampire didn't respond, baring his fangs. He moved inside after a moment. "Zadist is coming. He'll be pissed, Cynn. I doubt he wants to give her her memories back...I wouldn't."

Cynn shrugged, glancing at Silvana. "She needs them. Look at her...her face is splotchy and she was crying and up-"

Cynn fell silent, sniffing and facing the window. The was a whoosh, and Zadist appeared, panting lightly. He'd clearly showered, the blood/sweat rinsed from his body, and his white tendril damp. He obviously hadn't been informed of the events going on, because he looked around questioningly, avoiding looking to Silvana. He'd assumed she remembered a bit of something, and that he was here to take it away...however, no one was acting like that, no one was holding her down or telling her to be quite. After a moment, he turned to Cynn. "Well?" He questioned, his emerald eyes blazing, his fangs showing for a fraction of a second.

Silvana had not been prepared for her reaction to Zadist. He was so... Her heart gave a painful squeeze, it wrenched within her. She shot up from the bed, backing against the wall and suddenly she was crying again for no apparent reason. Just weeping, burying her face in her hands. She sank to the floor, crouching down and crying, falling within herself. Her mind kept trying to pull things out of her sub-conscious. The image of Zadist's handsome face was like a catalyst for it--her mind was trying so hard, working so hard to use that image like a keycode to unlock what she'd forgotten. Unfortunately, it wasn't working. All it managed to accomplish was to make her heart pound like a drum, until that rhythm spread into her body and her head... Until the beating of her heart was all she heard, and all she felt, except for the tears streaming down her face and soaking her hands. "Oh, God..." she moaned. She had definitely forgotten the vampire. This was it--this was the reason for her agony, and it had taken his face to know that for sure, even if she could not recall anything behind it no matter how desperate she was to do it. Silvana was suddenly nauseated, and she fell onto her hands and knees, gagging from the tears and her stomach, which was twisting into knots. She didn't vomit, though. She stopped herself.

Cynn hadn't responded, motioning to Silvana. Zadist watched in a alarm for a fraction of a second, before moving over to Silvana quickly, scooping her into his arms. Zadist glanced helplessly to Phayte, who shrugged. "Apparently, she doesn't remember but is all down and sucidal or some shit."

Zadist began rocking the human gently, nuzzling her and growling at his siblings, who disappeared out the window, Cynn catching Balto as he fell out. "Silvana...shh....I'm here...talk to me...why are you so upset? Don't be, sweetness...give this a chance, alright? If you let youself, you could be just as happy as you were before me..."

"Why?!" Silvana cried. She couldn't see the room through her tears, just colorful blob objects. But she could see something making its way to her, and from the painful squeezing in her chest, she knew it was Zadist. "Why can't I remember?!" Suddenly, she was pressed up to the male, whose body was cool rather than warm. But he held her and stroked her, and murmured to her. And it soothed her body until she was clinging to him herself, terrified that he would go away again. She could not remember him, but her body did. Her heart seemed to. "I dunno why I am upset," she moaned softly, squeezing her eyes shut. Her head hurt so badly right now. She was really dehydrated, between all the crying and... Well, who knew what else. All she knew was that she felt worse than she'd ever felt before... Or at least as bad as when she found out that Invader Zim had been canceled from Nickelodeon when she was a child. "But I feel so... So... Horrible..." she finished, one hand suddenly in Zadist's hair, brushing through it. "Why do you want me to be gone?" she whispered. "Am I hurting you too much....? Please, tell me what I did to you...Why you made me forget..."

Zadist sighed, wiping her eyes and lifting her head, glancing into her eyes, letting everything he'd taken from her float back inside. "Here, Silvana. You can have them back, for now. I took them because you are in danger, everytime you are around me. You reek of me. And that puts you in danger." Zadist moved them across the room, his head tilting towards the hand buryed in his hair. "If Melody caught you...If she caught you, do you know what she'd do?"

It all came flooding back. But instead of being happy about it, she was suddenly furious, struggling to get out of Zadist's grasp. "Don't you think I knew that?!" she shrieked, trying to wrench herself away from the vampire, but he was too strong. She was miserable again, hurt that he had actually gone through with taking her memories. Angry that he still wanted her to forget. It had taken Cynn to bring him back, she was not so heartless as to deny Silvana for her feelings, regardless if she was in love with a dangerous monster or not. "I WANT YOU, that's all! I don't understand myself, either! How can I answer you?!" Silvana gave up trying to get away, instead sinking against the man and shuddering... She had no more within her left to cry. She had already cried all she'd had to cry... If she did anymore she was going to faint. "I don't want you to go away anymore... Please... Please don't leave me..."

Suprised as the female began struggling and shrieking, Zadist almost dropped her, but gripped her tighter instead, glancing to the door. "Silvana, hush...your parents are awake. I...you...we...We will talk about this in a bit, alright...Here." He lifted the glass Silvana had placed on her dresser earlier, holding it while he held her with one arm. "Listen to me for a moment. You said you did not want to be a vampire, right?"

Silvana took the glass from Zadist's hands, frowning, and started to drink the water. She drank almost the entire thing in one go, to give her anything else to do to scream or moan or cry and alert her parents to the stranger standing in her room with her. But she knew that sound did not carry well through the house and that they were watching sports on the TV anyway. "My parents can't hear me, and even if they did, I'm crazy. It's not like they care... I make lots of noise all the time." She stared down at the glass in her hands, hearing Zadist's remark. "No, I don't want to be a vampire..." she said finally.

Zadist took the glass from her gently, setting it back down with a soft clink, then moving to the bed, laying Silvana down and slipping next to her. "If Melody captured you, she wouldn't kill you. Wouldn't torture you. She's turn you. Because she knows that would keep me from you and hurt me more than anything. The only way to keep you safe, is to take you out of our world. And if I do that, I must take your memories. What can I do to make you understand this, sweetness?"