Disclaimer- I do not own Lost Boys or anything affiliated with it. I do however own the plot.

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The wind changed around the Emerson house. Nanook barked.

"Nanook, I left him outside." Sam ran outside to bring him.

"Sam wait!"

"Stop him!" Mike and Star came out to see what all the commotion was about when he saw his brother Sam run out the door.

"Sam!" Michael ran out following his brother.

Sam made it to Nanook and struggled with untying him.

"Mike!" Michael made it up and untied him. They hurried back into the house.

"Sammy," Mike hugged him, "don't you ever do that to me again ok?" he nodded.

"Where are they?" they all turned to Star. "Where are they?" she was looking back at them from the window. "They should be here by now, where are they?"

"I don't know." Mike said, and he didn't and neither did anyone else.

They waited the night out with nothing happening. Sam and Michael's grandfather returned suspicious about everything, but saying nothing about the date that neither he nor the Widow Johnson had known about. Lucy returned later, and told everyone they should go to bed. Star looked at the clock.

"We can go to sleep." They turned to her. "Look how close it is to sunrise, they won't risk anything this close to sunrise. They just didn't come."

"Is that normal?" Sam asked. Star shook her head.

"I don't know what's going on; I wish I could tell you." She looked one more time outside. "Yes, we can go to bed."

Star and Michael slept in Mike's room. Edgar and Alan didn't want to leave the weapons they had unguarded. They moved the bow and arrow into the bathroom connected to Sam's room and they guarded the holy water. Laddie wanted to be with the dog, since it was Sam's; he and Laddie shared his bed. Laddie had trouble sleeping, and Sam read a comic book to him. They fell asleep a little later than the others, but it didn't matter, all was well.

They woke up in the early afternoon. Edgar and Alan wanted to take another shot at the vampires. They left Mike sleeping, Edgar and Alan reminding Sam that Mike had no purpose to come this time, and a full day of rest would be good for him. After locking the door to Sam's room and bathroom they headed out to the cave.

With holy water they were more prepared, but not for what they saw when they went down the tunnel again. For what they saw was beyond explanation. Nothing.

Where the previous day there had been four vampires hanging upside down, here there was nothing. There were no vampires. They checked a few more tunnels, they even checked the area where Mike had said the bikes were, and there were no bikes, no tracks, as though no one had been there.

Everyone ate in Sam's room. Sam, Edgar, and Alan reported what they had seen.

"Are you sure?" Star asked. They nodded. Michael and Star looked at each other. They both had the same thought. It took several minutes of convincing, and many reassurances, at a time, close to sunrise, when they would be able to easily get away, Michael and Star were going to check out the cave.

Michael and Star entered the cave quietly.

"Star, what's going on?"

"I don't know, they're not here, they're really not here." Star vanished, but wind echoed through the cave. She appeared in front of him suddenly.

"No on is here." She said. They haven't been, they left last night, and they haven't been here since. You can tell by the scent, that and they can only move at night."

"You're one hundred percent positive that they aren't here?"

"I am Michael, they're gone."

The Frogs spent two more days at the Emerson house, and during those two days they watched the caves, and at night, they waited. They even sent Star and Michael out, separately to the boardwalk. They always came back. Edgar and Alan went once, and that was it. The last night the Frogs came back with big buckets with lids. Sam had cleaned a few buckets himself. They threw away the garlic and they filled the buckets, the buckets Sam had stayed with him, in his bathroom. The buckets the Frogs had brought went with them to stay at their place. The bow and arrow stayed with Sam, along with the stakes. The Frogs said they had plenty. Sam nodded and the Frogs went home. And that was that. No more vampires, no more hiding, no more fearing they would become bait. All was over and returned as it was supposed to. Lucy had more dates with Max, and Sam apologized, and hand grated Parmesan cheese. Mike and Sam and Star and Laddie, though confused, were no longer afraid of the night, or the boardwalk; though Laddie never strayed far from Nanook or Sam for that matter. There was just something about him that Laddie liked. Sam said it was the comic books and Laddie laughed. Star said it was the dog, and Mike said it was because Sam was too much of a kid.

Lucy didn't really mind, Sam had company, and through a slightly truthful tale they explained Mike's behavior. Saying that Star had been a prisoner sort of, living with these boys that found her when she had run away from and abusive family; naturally Lucy's nurturing side had kicked in and she had someone to help her with the housework.

Daylight was becoming a little less of a problem. And things seemed to be changing at warp speed. Though it was only a month it felt like longer. But time is like that sometimes. It moves swiftly and slowly at the same time, fooling us into thinking so little or so much time has passed, when in reality not that much or a lot of time has passed. And yet, in reality a lot of time has passed. Or just enough to lull you into a routine.