Michael is in cave, drinks from the bottle, dun dun dun! Look who's a half vampire!

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"Okay okay." I hold up my hand, marker in the other as I sat on the floor with a pad in my lap. "So." I look down at the steps to our little plan. The boys sat around me, watching as I listed them off, step by step.

"Step one, we need to have the movie play out like before. Star and Laddie, and I, will go to the concert, which is when Michael will see how hot she is and be like oh my god gotta have that. Stalking of Star ensues." Marko and Paul chuckle at my description, making me smile up at them. "Then! Lucy and Max meet, he's like hm, gotta have that. Next step is you guys' initiating Michael. I then take Laddie, hanging out with him before Star and Michael meet again. They talk, then wanna go for food. Aka, enter David who has Michael challenge him which leads to a wicked beach ride scene, and I am so excited to do that ride-you've got no idea."

"El." David interrupts, and I nod.

"Right, right." I clear my throat. "Michael is in cave, drinks from the bottle, dun dun dun! Look who's a half vampire! Y'all take him to bridge, train comes, blacks out and wakes up at home. Yadda yadda. Step seven? Yeah, seven, I go to Sam and the Frog brothers, interrupting their weird head vampire thing and try to talk them into it. They do the dinner thing, Max is invited in so all the crap goes to shit. I meet up with them later and tell them that if a vampire is invited in then it doesn't work."

"Sam tells Michael about it, because he knows his bro is a vamp now. Michael confronts David asking where Star was, because they did the frick frack to which I conveniently had Laddie help me build a small fort in the cave and we spent the night watching movies and slept there. Michael wants to know about Max, and David is all like, how you know bout that? Blah blah."

"Star tells Michael about how killing the head vampire is the only way. They come to the cave, I stay up that day and watch over you guys. Ain't nothing's getting past me, not a bunch of loser boys." I roll my eyes, "I've got a bat, and I know how to use it. I let them take Star and Laddie, because she's gotta believe she's got the upper hand. They go away, to the Emersons, and then make a plan to kill Max. Max brings home Lucy, and then Grandpa Emerson breaks is wall down, thus, killing Max and turning the halflings back to humans."

I drop my pad on the floor. "Boom. Done. No Star, no Michael, no max, and no more people join your gaggle of vampires." I smile up at David, "Yes? No?"

"It sounds solid." Dwayne nods, glancing to David, "What do you think?"

"It'll work." I nod, blowing a large breath of air as I let my body relax. I couldn't believe it. We had a plan, after an hour of brainstorming I was able to come up with something that was taken from different fanfictions I've read. It was a good plan, one that I was confident would work. The boys discussed that they didn't want Max around anymore, while he was the head vampire it was obvious that over the years he didn't care anymore. The movie just brought it to light I guess for the boys. David would be the leader, the head vampire after Max was gone.

I clap my hands, "Okay, who wants to go get Laddie and Star?" Paul grumbles at the mention of Star, but I ignore it. Paul, I think took it harder than his brothers. He was very loyal, so seeing his family be betrayed is very hard for him.

"The concerts tomorrow, we'll let you take them. Say you saw flyers for it." David says, and I nod, putting my things back just as Star and Laddie entered the cave. I smiled at Star from over my shoulder.

"Hey Star!" She smiles at me, eyes flashing to David before dropping. "Guess what!"

"What?" She sits beside me on the bed, Laddie had gone to Paul's side, watching the rocker dance to some music.

"There's a concert tomorrow night, I've got a sneaky suspicion that you're gonna love it." I smirked at her, wiggling my eyebrows.

She shakes her head, "We couldn't go, at least I can't. I have to watch Laddie." The way she said it made it seem like a chore, like that's all her life was now. I didn't think so, because while yeah the boys have her watch the kid, it's because they have to do things that he cannot.

I shrug my shoulders, "So? We'll bring him! It'll be fun! I promise."

She looks at me, biting her lip as she thinks it over. "David wouldn't let us." She lowers her voice and I scoff, rolling my eyes.

"David shmavid!" Her eyes bulge at that, causing me to laugh. "It'll be fine babes, live a little. Ya knows, YOLO?" Her brows furrow and I sigh, pinching my nose, "Right, modern terms aren't really the forte here. "Yolo means 'you only live once', it's like this saying that was cool in my world about a couple years ago."

"I'm going to live forever." She mutters sadly, looking off into the distance.

I bite my lip, humming. Something needs to be talked about. "Star, is there a place to bathe around here? Besides the ocean? Salt water ain't good for the human skin." I tease and she blinks away the foggy thoughts in her mind, nodding and leading me away. I follow her deeper into the caves, twists and turns, before we come to a large underground pool, water clear and cool.

I sit down, patting the rock beside me. "Sit, sit."

"What is it?"

"Why are you so sad Star?" I ask, look over at her, "I mean, I understand that you didn't have a lot before the boys, but...I mean, here you've got a family right?"

She shakes her head, "I don't want to be a monster. David tricked me." She glances at me, as if I was going to reprimand her and tell her that David gave her a gift.

"I'm not here to judge you Star, I can see that you need to talk. I've got ears and a shoulder, I won't judge or tell you right from wrong." I offer a smile, watching as she relaxes. "Now, David tricked you? Is that true?"

"Yes, he-he didn't tell me what he was. What they are. He promised that I wouldn't be alone, that I'd be able to live with them, be apart of them...I didn't realise that he was a monster. He made me a monster." I blink, silently listening to her go on about them being monsters, how she didn't want that, blah blah blah. To be honest, it's hard to put myself in her shoes. Of course, as a fan I've fantasized about being a lost girl before, a part of the pack, shared by all of them in that really hot sexual way but also on a deep emotional level too.

"What do you think?" She asked after a moment of silence, and I hummed, shifting to face her. "Am I wrong?"

"No." I shake my head, voice even and low as the sound of running water surrounded us. "I don't think you're wrong for feeling what you feel. No one can tell you what is right or wrong for you. That's for you to decide. Perhaps...perhaps the way things unfolded were wrong for you when they worked for others. I won't say David was wrong or right.

"I believe that you are in a very hard place right now. It's understandable, the way you feel about it. Suddenly finding a group that wants to help you, treats you better than anyone else, talks of how they'll accept you, how you can be a family...then," I explain slowly, looking up into the cracks, seeing the light of the moon seep in and illuminate us. It was so serene. "And then you find out what all of that will cost. It all comes with a price, Star. Everything in life does. It's like gambling, that's basically what life is. One big gamble. You either fold em or hold em ya know? Having this offer of a lifetime thrown at you, I have no doubt that you jumped at it!" I laugh, watching a sad smile appear on her face. "You didn't know what it would cost, that you were giving up basically everything to have everything. It's a lot to take in, and I don't blame you for acting this way, for feeling what you do."

"Thank you," Her voice was weak, her bottom lip trembling, eyes watering as she looked at me. "I've never been able to talk to someone about this, not even Laddie. He doesn't understand."

"Well, Laddie's a kid, and a boy, he doesn't know what it's like to be a girl." I shrug my shoulders, rolling my eyes as I winked at her. "He's in heaven. He's got older brothers that care for him, a roof over his head, a good home. It's probably all he ever wanted." I bite the inside of my cheek as I think for a moment. "Star, why haven't you gone through with your transformation? I mean, you are already a half, you can't change back..." I trail off, not wanting to make her upset.

"I don't want to be a monster." She shakes her head, "I will wait until I can't."

"I won't say they aren't monsters, because vampires are literal monsters." She gives a weak laugh with me, "But, there are a lot of different monsters out there. Human monsters."

She frowns, "What do you mean?"

Jeeze, do I need to spell it out for you? "rapists, murderers, pedophiles, abusers...you name it Star. A lot of times, the worst monsters are human. I understand that the boys were human once, and now they still have a sense of right and wrong, but it's entirely different when they feed off humans to survive. A tiger will stalk and kill prey just like the boys would. It's survival."

"But they-they enjoy it."

I nod, "Yeah, that's a scene I'm not too sure I'd like to watch too much." I mutter, looking at the water. "It's their life Star, and I'm sure that it was hard for them too in the beginning. But just because they enjoy it doesn't mean you have to."

"I won't ever enjoy it." Yeah, I know.

"Have you ever thought of killing the bad people in Santa Carla?" They boys wouldn't take her, I knew that, but I wanted to ease her tension with them, at least on her part. They boys would remain after the whole killing Max thing, and I didn't want her to hate them. She knew the layer, knew where they slept, and leaving her human and hating them wasn't a good idea. She could leave the Frogs here after everything was over and done with. I didn't want that. Not when I wouldn't be here to help them.

"Yes, I have...I don't think I could." At least she's thought of it and didn't just sit and wallow.

"Well, enough of the heavy, let's talk about something else." I bumped her shoulder, smiling at her as the sound of Paul's rock box echoed to our location.

Star smiles, "Okay."