It seemed like the same thing was on Phayte's mind, and he grunted at her, "No twenty questions?" After he drove in silence for a bit, he glanced back to his drunk sister, and tossed Silvana an almost helpless look. "How...how do you two do it? The relationship...thing?"

The human in the back once more dislodged Cynn from his lap, where the female had left a new gash on his neck.

Silvana was extremely surprised that Phayte had initiated conversation on his own. And she made her surprise extremely obvious. She turned her face to him in a deliberate fashion, gawking and dramatically looking from side to side as if searching for someone else that he might be addressing other than her. "I'm not asking twenty question because I don't want to piss you off," she said finally, scowling. She then crossed her arms. But then she was surprised again by the second question Phayte asked her. Which was... Decidedly less venomous than what he usually said to her. She shrugged a little, averting her gaze. "It's not easy. He's always trying to dissuade me. And none of you want me around, either. I've only managed it to keep it together for several days. I don't think you should award us a gold medal just yet..."

Phayte seemed to avoid her gaze for a bit, before sighing. "You don't need to worry about pissing me off. I'm always pissed. Especially here lately."

He hesitated once more, his sister clearly having gotten a good hold on Balto, from the thrashing going on. "H-he hurt you, when you first met, right? W-well,how did he get you to forgive him? Do all humans forgive so easily?" He shifted in his seat, seeming uncomfortable with the conversation, his expression almost pained.

"I'm sorry you're upset," Silvana said softly. Something inside her gave a tug... A happy tug. As though somehow... And she could scarcely believe it... Phayte was giving her a small chance to explain herself to him. She would have to try very hard not to mess this up. The girl weighed her words deeply before replying. "Humans aren't very forgiving in general," she said. "Like vampires... We're not all the same. Zadist just happened to run into a stupid one, I guess." Why was she putting herself down like this. "I was really scared of him at first. But I just kept talking and talking, which is something I do when I get nervous. And, unlike a lot of people I know, he seemed actually interested in what I had to say. He hurt me, but then... He was nice. I guess that..."

She shrugged her shoulders again. "...I guess that I was more interested in his reception of 'me' than what he'd done to me physically. He likes who I am, which is something I've had trouble with before, concerning guys. It's mostly irrelevant to me that he's a vampire, where our relationship is concerned. I'd still like him if he was a human bad-boy." She glanced at Phayte, attempting to smile. "In general, I'm independent and self-sufficient. I add my own excitement to my life. I still have trouble believing that any of this is happening. But, I don't regret it." She thought for a moment. "It's okay that you broke my CD... I know you're just worried about him."

Instead of being consoled by her words, Phayte looked more upset, chewing on his bottom lip and growling softly. He shifted in the seat and glanced at her once more. "W-what if he hadn't seemed interested in you? He'd raped you and marked you without your permission, then forced you to sleep with him all day. Then...did the same thing that night. B-but he did feel bad about it. What would it take for you to forgive him if he did that?"

Why was Phayte asking her these questions? Had he himself did something similar to a girl before and been rejected? It was very confusing. In fact, Silvana did not know how she would have reacted to this hypothetical situation. If if had happened in such a way, it would have not been like Zadist at all. What made this whole scenario come to pass was that it happened in precisely this way. And she could hardly say if they would have ended up together if fate had taken a different course altogether. "I don't know," she admitted. "I think if he had not liked me at all, I would have been very sad. I would eventually forgive him for what he did to me, if it had been forced. But it's like unrequited love, isn't it? You can't force someone to love you who is not interested in you like that." She was silent for a moment. "I don't know how to answer you, Phayte. Things are the way they are because... They happened the way they did. I appealed to him. He appealed to me. And now I like him a whole lot. I can't really explain how this works, because if I knew... I'd write a book on it for everyone else to know."

The vampire didn't speak then, his hands tightening around the steering wheel. It was only about fifteen minute longer, before he was pulling up to a house. It was tiny, but well kept. Phayte moved to the backseat, lifting his sister up, letting the slave catch his breath. The human male wobbled a bit, though he managed to follow Phayte inside, leading the drunken Cynn off into the house. Inside, it was a bit different than Zadist's apartment, and the house itself was old. It was clean, though had various antique furnishings. Without glancing at her, Phayte lead the way to the living room, finally turning to look at her. "You'll stay here for a bit. It won't be suspected. Kitchen has food and junk...yeah..." He shifted awkwardly, nodding to a female who was barely noticable. A tiny little dark haired thing, whose large brown eyes seemed too big for her face. She was dressed in a nightgown, blankets wrapped around her body. Her brown eyes were focused on the vampire warily, the female seeming to sink into the blankets more. Phayte avoided looking directly at her, muttering an introduction, "Silvana, Chloe, Chloe, Silvana..." He rubbed the back of his head, moving into the hallway. Shuffling and such was head, and before Phayte came back, the slim woman had turned her gaze to Silvana. The girl was human, and Chloe's eyes seemed to dart directly to Silvana's neck. She whimpered quietly, closing her eyes right before Phayte returned.

He glanced at the woman momentarily, grimacing quickly, though he smoothed out his features almost right away, handing Silvana some blankets. "I'll be back in about a half hour. I'm gonna go out and check the security system really quick. Movies, books, internet. Help yourself. Don't bother Chloe." Without another word, Phayte turned and moved out of the house.

Silvana was completely and utterly... Confused. Beyond confused. She sort of gawked at Chloe for a while, as though she were an invader from Mars. A human... In Phayte's house. A human... In Phayte's house. A human............In Phayte's house. What was more, it was a human girl. Silvana's eyes threatened to bug out, so she ran to the fridge, digging through it for something. The vampire had instructed her not to bother the other human girl, so she followed his directions unless she got pestered by said girl verbally on her own. She located some strawberries, chose the ones without mold, and washed them in the sink. Then she began popping them into her mouth and chewing thoughtfully. Should she question the situation? She was so bewildered by now.

Silvana turned and wandered out of the kitchen, into the living room. Everything was antique. Not so dark and bat cave like... But still closer to the sort of house she had expected a vampire to have to begin with. There was a TV, and a cabinet, which she searched for movies. She did not find any to her liking, so she plopped onto the sofa and switched on the set with a remote. Silvana selected Cartoon Network and started to view The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

All throughout this, Chloe watched Silvana warily. She remained mute, though after Silvana turned out the television, she shifted, tugging the blanket away. Everypart of her that was visable was either bruised or bitten, including the petite feet poking out.

Soon, the front door was opened, Chloe automatically whimpering and tugging the blanket back over her body. Phayte came into the living room, viewing the bruised female for a second before looking to Silvana. "I...actually thought of something you could help me with...A-and I'll do anything you ask of me in the future...?" He took a deep breath, glancing at the other female awkwardly, before beckoning Silvana into the kitchen.

Silvana decided, half-watching the cartoon on the TV... That the weird questions Phayte had asked in the car referred to something he'd done on his own. She guessed it, but... Never realized that it had happened to him so soon. Did Zadist know about this, yet? Still, she thought it best not to comment, though when her indigo eyes flickered to the side to glance at Chloe now and then, it was obvious to Silvana that the girl was staring at her ceaselessly. Silvana noted that she appeared to be even younger than her. Not by much, but still. Vampires were, decidedly, pedophiles. Not that age meant much to them, anyway. At least physically the girl appeared adult enough. She had to be eighteen, at least. Or almost eighteen. Who knew.

Silvana switched off the TV when Phayte returned, asking her for some sort of favor. Which, she would help him with, because she wanted him to stop being such a jerk to her all the time. Nothing else. "Okay. I'll help you. Just don't be grumpy with me anymore, even if you don't like me." She shook her finger at him, and walked up, ready to be led to wherever it was he was referring to.

The vampire eyed her for a moment, before averting his gaze, something akin to shame ghosting over her features. After a moment, he whispered to the female. "She won't eat. I even tried hynotizing her...she couldn't keep it down...And I can't really cook this human food, anyway..." He moved to a cabinet, wrenching it open and tugging out a boz of hamburger helper. It was shoved at Silvana. "You make her eat, I'll never be 'grumpy' again." His voice lowered once more, and he bite his lip before speaking, "She's been here five days. Still won't eat. I've tried giving her gifts, apoligizing, being gentle. I don't know what else to do to make her forgive me, or at least eat."

Oh, the poor, poor vampire. Silvana almost laughed in Phayte's face, but she swallowed it down, nodding twice and winking at him with a huge grin and a thumbs up. The girl got to work right away, but she did not make Hamburger Helper. Instead, she rifled around in the cabinets and got to work on something much better--a brothy soup with small noodles in it. "If she has not eaten for a long time, then we don't want to feed her anything heavy. That will be too much for her stomach," Silvana said while she cooked. The girl was pretty good at making food, because a lot of the time her parents would not be around when she got hungry in the middle of the night and she spent lots of times entertaining herself by trying out recipes.

"Likewise with the drink. If you had some ginger tea, for instance, that would also be soothing and good for digestion." After some more searching, she found what she needed--some green tea, lemon, and ginger, which she cooked alongside the soup to make a homemade tea. Silvana filled a bowl halfway with soup, then a mug with tea, and she carried the two items out into the living room and setting them down on a small side table beside the couch. She eyed the girl in the blanket, still wary of her. But Silvana smiled warmly and just started to talk to her as if nothing weird was happening at all.

"Hi, Chloe. I'm Silvana. It's nice to meet you. I'm nineteen and I go to the university. I made some soup and tea, because I'm hungry. I was wondering if you might want any? There's a lot of it. It's chicken noodle. One of my favorites." She switched the TV back onto the Cartoon Network, patting the sofa next to her. "C'mon, have a seat and watch this show--it's really funny. At least to me. I'll get you some soup." Silvana stood up and wandered back into the kitchen, but ducked to the side and watched secretly to see what the other human girl would do.

Phayte had replaced the box, scowling at Silvana. "Stop thinking like that." He muttered after a moment, folding his arms, resembling Zadist as he pouted. "I can see it in your eyes. You think it's funny. You think I'm getting what I deserve, huh?" Soon, however, he watched what Silvana was doing with rapt intrest, as if taking notes.

As Silvana moved out to the living room with the food, Chloe was clearly suspicious of her, tightening the blanket around her body more, and throwing a revolted look towards the kitchen, where Phayte was peeking around the corner. She didn't respond when Silvana spoke, though after the female turned around, she did eye the soup curiously, though she didn't eat, instead turning her brown eyes to the television.

In the kitchen, Phayte frowned, and nudged Silvana gently. "That's not eating. Why isn't she eating it?" He growled, starting towards the female. "Dammit! I'll make her eat! This is ridiculous!"

"NO!" Silvana cried, grabbing Phayte by the sleeve and tugging him back. "If you did what I think you did, then she doesn't want to be anywhere near you right now. Women might go through a phase of man-hating after they get violated. So go do something else." She pushed him towards another doorway, practically glaring. "If you leave me alone with her, she might talk to me."

Silvana moved back to the pots, filling another bowl and cup, then returning to the living room with a cheerful expression. She set the soup and tea on another table, though closer to Chloe, and picked up her own bowl and plopped down into the sofa. "Isn't it funny! I like the whale. Uhm... What's her name.." She scratched her head. "I forget. Wow. I need to watch this more. Guess I've been kinda busy with my homework and stuff." She glanced at Chloe, who had not even seated herself.

Her brows creased with evident concern and she shifted as far to the other side of the couch as possible. "If you don't want me to be close to you, Chloe, I'll just sit over here, it's okay." A funny moment happened in the cartoon, with a guy's beard stretching really big and doing a dance. Silvana started to giggle, leaning back against the cushion.

Chloe didn't respond once more, glaring at Silvana. When the woman began laughing, the bruised female's glare deepened. It was easy to tell when she spoke that Chloe rarely yelled, though she certainly was now. Luckily Phayte had stomped off, growling, otherwise he surely would have burst in. "S-stop it! You don't deserve to laugh or be happy! You're one of their pets you're sick! I...I just wanna go home..." She sniffled, finally collapsing on the couch, sobbing quietly, her slender form shaking under the cover. "Why would you let them?

Victory! Silvana turned her head, staring straight at Chloe with big, indigo eyes. She grinned, leaning over the girl sobbing underneath her blanket. Boy, was she completely wrong about the relationship between her and Zadist. "Excuse me, Miss Chloe, but I am not a pet. Actually, I would say that my vampire is -my- pet, but don't tell him I told you that." Silvana knew better than try to touch the girl or comfort her, because she would certainly lash out. She did not know Silvana. "This marking," she continued, "Is one of mutual consent. I happen to love Z very much, thank you. What, Phayte won't let you go home?" Silvana continued to act as though everything were perfectly fine. Because someone needed to have a cool head in this situation.

[Font"Book Antiqua"]The female's big eyes evaluated Silvana for a moment, her sniffling slowly subsiding. "Why did you agree to that?" She questioned, before answering Silvana. "And no, he won't. I...I...I..." Chloe held back tears, clearly with effort, "I begged him to let me go home. Even said I wouldn't tell. B-but he said he wanted me to stay with him. To keep him 'whole' he said." She sniffled repeatedly, lifting her head from the blanket, frowning. "But, I wanna be happy. And he doesn't make me happy. He can't control himself. He keeps hurting me..." She muttered, spitting out each 'he' as if the mere word was poison.

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"Hmm..." Silvana blinked as the girl relayed the information to her. Well, it sounded like something Phayte would do, honestly. He was completely and totally bizarre, and a total hypocrite. "Well, for me, it's a long story. I'd be happy to tell you about it. But I want to know about you, first, because this is surprising for me. Phayte... To be honest, I don't like him." She leaned in confidentially, cupping her hand over her mouth to make sure that no one other than the two of them heard her talking. "He's really mean to me, since I've been with his brother. But... Him having you here, it's news to me. How did you run into him, anyway? Did he kidnap you or something?" She spooned some soup into her mouth, slurping up a noodle. Maybe eating in front of the girl would make her hungry subconsciously.

Chloe's tounge did dart over her lips as she watched Silvana take a spoonful. The female sat up slowly, letting the blanket pool in her lap. "I had taken my little sister to the park..the sun was setting, and a saw him walking. I'd thought he was handsome, at first. It was strange, cause he stopped and kinda sniffed the air, then looked right at me. I...I just remember telling Maria to run. H-his eyes scared me, they were silver. I knew he was dangerous. B-but I wasn't really afraid."

Chloe hesitated, reaching over and lifting the tea, sipping it slowly. "Then I heard him, in my mind. He told me to sleep. I didn't want to, but I couldn't help it...I woke up here that night, and he was..." She looked away, biting her lip. "I should have run, too." Chloe seemed to debate with herself, before glancing at Silvana, frowning. "The strangest thing is, I'm not afraid of him. I'm afraid of what he does to me, but not of him... I...I want to leave, but at the same time, it's like something is holding me here. I can't imagine life without him, even after what he's done to me. He keeps trying to be so kind, but I don't think it's something he's used to. And sometimes he looks at me like I'm the only thing he needs to live...and other times like I make him sick...I'm so confused, and I want to see my family. I want to know if Maria got home alright!" She almost began sniffling again, but batted her eyes quickly.

This time, Silvana did reach out, to gently pat the girl on her head. She'd noticed the bruises all over her body, and... From the story, it seemed like the two girls could relate to each other. "I know exactly how you feel," Silvana moaned. "The same thing happened to me like five days ago, too. Maybe longer. I can't really count. But, look." She lifted up her dress, not really caring that the girl saw her panties. Because what she wanted to show her was the bruises on her body, particularly around her ribs where Zadist had rammed her against the side of the car and almost broken them. The she pointed out the scratches and scabs on the side of her hips. Finally, the girl tugged her skirt down, smiling sadly. "I was at a night club with my friends. My friend Lucy went outside with this man, and I was scared for her so I followed. He turned out to be.. Well, you know. Fangs. Silver eyes. I tried to get away, but he caught me, took me back to his apartment..." She sighed heavily.

"Then he took my 'purity' away. He was mean, at first, but then... He was really nice. Something about him. Now I am completely in love with him. Long story, like I said. A lot has happened." She reached out to smooth the girl's hair down again. "You look younger than me... Anyway. I understand being hurt, and bothered... And then the mood swings Phayte has, because Zadist, his brother, is like that too. I guess he's been nicer to me, though, because I go home and go places without him. And he takes me on dates." Silvana winced. "Though you're lucky, in a way, because you haven't met their mom yet, or had all these made vampires trying to catch you and change you."

Silvana paused to eat more soup, and then held out the spoon with some more towards Chloe's mouth. "Do you want some? To be honest, I made it for you. Because I know the position you're in, exactly. It's good, I promise." After a moment, Silvana added, "I am going to talk to Phayte about it, after you eat something. I'll make sure he lets you see your family."

Chloe listened quietly, her eyes taking in Silvana's marks, and flinching away. "Why would you be willing to love it?" She questioned away, giving into temptation and reaching for the soup, not bothering with a spoon, instead sipping on the side of the bowl.

"You said you're nineteen?" Chloe continued, then shook her head, "I'm older than you. Twenty. Everyone thinks I'm younger cause I'm so short and skinny. And have a big head!" She giggled, though it was hesitant laughter. At Silvana's suggestion, Chloe downed some more soup. "It is good. T-thank you. He isn't a very good cook...And I don't think he'll let me. I begged. I even offered to...to..." Chloe flushed. "To..uh, willing participate,,,"

She fell silent, her eyes widening and turning towards the kitchen as the front door opened once more, Phayte cursing quietly in Czech.

Chloe quickly placed the bowl on the table, tucking herself under the blanket once more, glaring at the doorway defiantly.

As Phayte stepped into it, he flinched under her glare, averting his eyes and instead speaking to Silvana. "Is she eating?"

Silvana laughed, shaking her head. "Dude, you're not that much older than me! Maybe by a month. I'm going to be twenty soon, myself! Anyways, I'm really short and scrawny, too. We should be sisters." She nodded as-a-matter-of-factly. She liked Chloe's laugh. It was nice. Personality-wise, it seemed that the two of them would get along. "To be honest, I don't know why Zadist likes me. I'm really weird. I just babbled nonsense when he first caught me, because he was going to kill me. But I mentioned Mulan and how I liked it, and then he took me to Blockbuster so we could rent it and..." She paused at the girl's blank expression and snickered. "Yeah, vampires like Disney movies, I'm not lying. I even made him watch Singing in the Rain tonight and he liked it! I'm pro at dealing with vampires. You just have to be stubborn and confusing enough." She was about to ask the girl what she was studying at school, but then they were rudely interrupted by Phayte coming in the door.

She joined in the glaring. "Yes, she is. And you're interrupting our girl time, so you need to turn around and march back out that door." Silvana started nodding again, as though to confirm the validity of the statement to herself.

"I meant why you like it. If it does that..." Chloe spoke softly, staring pointedly at Phayte.

At Chloe's words, Phayte flinched away, though at Silvana's words, Phayte's eyes flashed silver, and he shook his head. "Mine! Not yours!" He ground out, stepping towards Chloe again. He hesitated as the female burrowed deeper into her comforter, averting his gave.

After a few moments, he settled into a chair next to Silvana, though his eyes remained rivoted on Chloe. The female had begun to tremble, doing her best not to look at Phayte, instead pleading with her eyes to Silvana.

Silvana met Chloe's frightened eyes, and then turned to glare at Phayte while he sat in his chair. "I know what the problem is," she said. "Why she won't eat or forgive you. It's because you're keeping her locked up like an animal! She's human, not a house cat!" Silvana lowered her voice and averted her gaze, whispering to the man. "You asked me in the car... How Zadist and I make it work.. Well, I'll tell you. If he crowded me like you are doing to Chloe, I would definitely not like him very much either. I don't care if you get angry by me saying this. It's the truth." Silvana grabbed her tea and took a drink from it, also in a defiant manner. "What's more, I'll tell him about, this, too, if you refuse to listen to me."

Phayte stood quickly, grabbing the cup from Silvana's hand and flinging it across the room. "Don't you think I know that? I don't even want a human! I mean: I don't want to want her! But I can't bear the thought of her out of my sight for one minute!"

As she threatened him with informing Zadist, Phayte growled, stomping to Chloe and gripping her wrist, wrenching the female up, despite her cry of protest. "Tell him, dammit! I doubt he'll get mad, considering I saved his mate's ass tonight, he'll leave me and mine be..." The male growled, baring his elongated fangs at her before tugging Chloe down the hall, slamming a door loudly.