Sorry guys. My love life has taken a crash twice in two weeks. So now, I'm sitting with my Love Metal music and trying to type a new chapter. I am a senior and government and chemistry is a real bummer but I will do what I can. The answer by the way, was the Sailor Moon manga.

Hitomi hummed slightly as she skipped down the hallway with a boom box in hand. All the curtains covered the immaculate windows, which were covered because it was still light out. She had found that she required less and less sleep.

Grinning, she stopped in front of Folken's lab. She had gotten his permission to play with the chemistry sets as long as she didn't burn up the lab. She had even begged enough to let him allow her to play music in there.

She plugged in the boom box and turned on the cd player so that her song Join Me In Death by HIM played. Focused, she took a needle and drew blood from the crook of her arm. She then placed it in a culture plate and looked at it under a microscope.

She watched passively as her white plasma cells dissolved very quickly. "This must bring on the hunger…" she muttered to herself. "How can I reverse the effects?" She sighed after thinking for sometime and picked up the culture plate to put it on a table across the room in order to start experimenting.

"Hitomi?" Varie's puzzled explanation rang in the dark.

She gasped in surprise and dropped the glass culture plate, causing it to shatter and the blood to blossom on the concrete ground. She quickly dropped to the ground with a scrap piece of cloth and tried to wipe up the mess.

"Oh dear, let me help you." said Varie as she knelt next to the mess.

"No I have it." Hitomi said as she quickly started picking up the glass with her hands. Varie ignored her and continued.

"I said I have it." Hitomi shouted in anger.

Varie stopped and started worriedly at Hitomi. This made Hitomi even more furious.

'Why is everyone watching me like they don't trust me?' She though furiously.

"Fuck," she hissed as a piece of glass two inches big embedded itself in her thumb.

"Here," Varie said softly as she tore a piece of the modest black dress she was wearing to wrap the wound.

Hitomi let out an angered breath and looked at her newly bandaged hand.

"What were you doing in here Hitomi?"

"Folken gave me permission to use his lab."

"During the daylight? Hitomi you need you rest. How did you manage to slip past Van in the first place?"

"He's a heavy sleeper." Hitomi said dryly, which was true because he had slept on even as she untangled herself from his body.

"Never the less, please go back to bed. You are yet newly made you know. If you do not get enough sleep you will lose your hold on your sane mind. Where will you be then? Now what were you doing in here?"

Hitomi looked away and blew out a frustrated sigh. "He'll never let me go, ya know?" she said quietly.

"Van? He is quite fond of you. I for one do not fault his choice of companions."

"Why? I killed your husband! I ripped apart your family! Don't you understand anything! I am your enemy!"

"I understand Hitomi, I understand a lot more then you think I do, perhaps more then you do. You did not attack without provocation. What my husband did was forbidden. Using a child for sacrifice is wrong."

"Sacrifice…You know."

"Oh Hitomi, I know more then that. Your mother and your father and your brother, they were good people and the best friends I have ever had."

"You knew them!"

Varie smiled sadly. "Yes, I knew them. They were happy people. No one could understand your mother chose Jeremy to be her husband out of all the noble hunters that were presented to her, why she picked a human, but I knew. It was because he made her happy, not feel like a prize to be worn on his arm to show his friends."

"How did you meet them?"

"I was like you once." Varie's eyes started to tear up. "Just like you, a huntress."

"A huntress!"

"Yes." she said quietly. "But I foolishly gave it up to a handsome gentlemen, a man who took me to parties and let me get a taste of true freedom. My niece is aquainted with you I believe, Yukari is it?"

"Yukari is related to you!"

"Yes, she is my sister's child, a sister who turned me away when I was carrying Folken, a dhampir or half vampire, in my womb. When she turned me away, I had no other place to turn but back to that devilish man. He made me a vampire so that I would survive Folken's birth.

"Survive?"

"Most often then not, dhampir children come from the mother's womb clawing at her from the inside until the out. Fortunately, Folken was very well behaved and came out quietly. So did Van, not even a cry but that was because he was a vampire child already dead and not breathing, not in the first five minutes however. Think of a vampire birth as a still birth, a baby with no heart beat and no breathing until their soul enters their body."

"That's why Van is the Prince of Darkness, not Folken."

"Yes, Folken is only half blood, not fit enough to be their father's heir. He will only inherit Van's title once Van decides when he wants the coronation to be."

"Here I have been wallowing in self pity when you went through worse then I."

"It's the same is it not? I kind of chose this, you did not. Van made the decision for you, did he not?"

"Yes, but…" Hitomi shook her head. "No use arguing."

They sat there in a moment's silence before Hitomi spoke up. "I'm really scared." she said quietly.

"I know." Varie said before embracing Hitomi as she wept for the past and the future on the cold ground of the laboratory.

New quiz. Try and guess what band the title of this chapter comes from or what song. It's a band from late 80's early 90's.

Night of the Raven