Disclaimer: Happy Halloween all! As a treat, here's a new chapter. As with previous chapters, none of the characters in this story belong to me, but to themselves. The only characters I own are Adam, Ileana, and Cara.

Two weeks later found Ileana curled up on Adam's couch, eating a bowl of liver and lung soup. And in that time, Adam taught Ileana how to drive so that she could borrow his car if need be, put in his two week notice for work, being extra careful to avoid John, and stalked up on extra bodies so that the two of them wouldn't have to leave his place unless it was absolutely necessary. Said brother was in the kitchen pouring himself a bowl of the same substance. Their dinner tonight was courtesy of a drug pusher who decided to set up shop near Adam's building, and on at least two instances hit on Ileana. Thankfully, he didn't have a lot of customers to miss him when he disappeared. Right into Adam's prep room. When he came to sit down next to his sister he was in all around good mood. But Ileana was slightly worse for wear.

"I don't know how much longer I can take off from work". She said worriedly.

"Well that's why we've been practicing your driving. So that you can take my car as opposed to getting on public transportation and have your scent all over the place". He explained. But Ileana could only shrug her shoulders and take another sip of her soup.

"Maybe. But I do need to go back in sooner rather than later. The day after tomorrow, if possible". To this, Adam nodded his head and leaned back on the couch with his food.

"Speaking of work, have you seen John around lately?" Asked Ileana. After taking another sip of his soup and wiping a small dollop of blood off of his chin, Adam exhaled and responded.

"No thankfully. I probably looked suspicious ducking corners and looking over my shoulder every second; not to mention putting leftover sushi in my pockets to mask my own scent. But all in all I managed to avoid him". Ileana looked at her brother as if he'd grown a second head.

"How old was the sushi, do you think?" She asked half joking and half serious. Adam shook his head as if shaking away a bad memory but Ileana knew that it was probably just cringe worthy.

"A week, at least. But by the end of the day, the guys were all calling me "musty dude" behind my back. As if I wouldn't hear it. When I was walking to the office to clock out for the day, a bunch of ghouls standing in line for the soda machine sniffed the air one time before they looked in my direction and started laughing and making faces. Then they started to fake making a run for it, like the black plague was coming for them. I'm actually surprised John didn't pick up on it. Word travels pretty fast in that place". He explained.

"It's probably for the best though. But if I have your car, how are you going to get to work?" Asked Ileana.

"The same way you've been getting to work. Public transportation. And this may be a good way to see around the city and see if there were some vampiric stalkers that you may have overlooked". He explained. Ileana merely nodded her head and went back to her soup.

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Not only were Jake and his friends super cool, but they were also fast workers. They managed to secure a one story warehouse that's about the same square size a department store. With Andy and Ashley's help, they all cleaned it up and turned it into an passable haunted house. Ricky even went out of his way to gather a few humans off of the street and convince them to come and test run the haunted house. Unaware of the fact that they would become part of it. Andy and Ashely hid behind the black drapes that were hung up near the entrance. The two vampires were two feet behind them, but they couldn't hear the footsteps above the music that played through the speakers that came with the building.

By the time they realized, it was too late. Their necks were snapped and their bodies were stored away until the house was complete. All together they managed to gather 7 bodies. Two sets of couples and three joggers. With their collective teamwork, coupled with Andy and Ashley's vampiric speed the building was cleaned, decorated, and completed in the span of 5 hours. The final stage was to cast a mirror spell on the building to ensure that the exit couldn't be found. And from Ashley's near frantic state by the end of the test run, it worked perfectly. The bodies however, wouldn't be prepared until a few hours before opening night.

At the moment all of the guys were sitting outside of the building eating lunch of different varieties. Chris was contently eating a meatball sub, Ricky was preparing to eat a slice of cold cheese pizza, while Josh, Ghost, and Ryan all pooled their money together to buy sushi. Meanwhile, Andy, Ashley, and Jake were draining the blood of a bunch of hookers that were all smoking together. Once again, Andy snagged the biggest haul out of all three of them. At the moment, he was on his third body draining the blood out of the hookers inner right thigh. Jake watched him with slight interest before he swallowed his ounce of blood and started up a conversation.

"I'd be careful if I were you. You don't wanna spoil your figure for your girl". he said. But Andy just glanced at him out of his peripheral vision and went back to his feeding. He didn't respond until he was done draining the blood from his victim completely.

"I'll be fine. I just need to worry about not spoiling my role in this plan". He said half joking and half serious. Jake just nodded his head and went back to his own meal. From what Ashley told him, Andy kept his cards pretty close to his chest and outside of Ashley, didn't divulge much of his personal life to strangers or even his bandmates. Jake respected this enough to not pry any further. The lunch break went smoothly for another 15 minutes until it sounded like a commotion was occurring near the building. From what the vampires were hearing, it sounded like Jake's friends were arguing with someone to get into the building. And the trespasser had a voice that Andy was all too familiar with.

When the three of them came around to where the rest of the guys were, the talking was beginning to escalate into shouting and threats. From what they observed, Chris, Josh, and Ryan attempting to keep an agitated Juliet from getting past them and into the building. Ricky and Ghost were standing by as backup in case things escalated.

"Look, it doesn't matter what kind of relationship you guys had, you can't be here. You need to leave. As in right now". Said Chris authoritatively. But that only served to anger Juliet further.

"I'm not going anywhere until I see him. I know he's here. I can smell him all over this building". she began to shout. Seeing that the situation was going nowhere fast, Andy intervened at lighting speed and pulled the kitsune away by her arm. The look in his eyes was less than amused.

"Look, I was being nice the last time, but this is getting embarrassing . We're done. How else do you want me to say it? We fucked around for a bit and that's all there was to it. Beyond that, we have nothing in common. Maybe if you look hard enough, you might find someone to make love and music with but it's not going to be with me. Okay? Now go". By the end of his explanation, Juliet just looked even more angry. To the point where her eyes morphed into that of a felines.

"Maybe for you, but not for me. Despite this shit hole of a world that we live in, anything in life that's worth fighting for, is more than enough to eclipse the pain, anger, and bullshit. And that's what you are to me, Andy. A reason to fight and live. Whether you see it or you don't. And I'm not going to let that be taken from me just because you're going through a vampiric mid life crisis. Plus I doubt your new friends can stop me". She threatened vaguely. To which Andy narrowed his eyes.

"Stop you from what?" Before Andy had a chance to react, Juliet grabbed him by the hair and pulled his head towards her lips so that his ears were vulnerable. A second later, the piercing sound of an F sharp pierced Andy's eardrums, clouding his vision and forcing every hair and cell in his body to stand to attention. Immediately following that, was the feeling of his mind being submerged into an ocean of darkness, making it difficult to breathe and even more difficult to see. The vulnerability and weakness of it all, was foreign to the vampire but it ended as quickly as it started when he felt himself regain control of his body and his vision begin to clear up.

The sight before him showed Juliet trapped in Ashley's grip as he held her arms from behind. She struggled against him, but it wasn't able to break his vice hold. Chris and Josh stood closely on either side of him, with their arms out in front of Andy's middle. At this point, Juliet looked livid even as tears began to well up in her eyes.

"A fucking ghoul? You're rejecting me for some fucking carnivore that left you? Out of all the chicks you could have, you chose the runt of the litter. That's almost as bad as choosing a human, Andy. She doesn't even want you, yet you're still trying to sniff her ass. It's pathetic and you need to forget about her!" She shouted. That was the last straw for the vampire and in three steps, he was in Juliet's face grasping her cheeks in one hand, forcing her to look up at him. Fangs bared, and eyes ablaze with fury.

"That's enough! I don't want to hear shit from you about being the runt of the litter. The only thing that's pathetic is your fucking refusal to take no for an answer. Let this be my last time telling you: Stay away from me, and make damn sure you stay away from her!" He shouted. Andy shoved her face to the side as Ashley began to haul her away from the group, keeping an eye out for anyone who may have witnessed the altercation. As if reading his mind, Josh spoke up.

"Don't worry. We can always cast an airborne spell to alter memories, in case someone saw all that". He said. Of course this was directed at the rest of the group as well. Andy who was still fuming, found it in himself to calm down and answer as clearly as possible.

"I think we're good. Let's just get back to work". With that, he began to retreat back into the building leaving Jake and the dark magicians all bewildered and terrified by his strength and fury. If Ileana kept up this game of cat and mouse any longer, she was in for a hell of a surprise.