A/n: What am I getting myself into? SO. MANY. STORIES. AT. ONCE. BUT...I can't stop...

On to the fanfiction! Pfft, I came up with the storyline at dinner a couple of hours ago. And I should be doing homework...

The old house on the hill creaked and moaned one stormy night. Such nights were soothing to the little blonde undead girl who was laying in her bed upstairs, playing with her doll. Well, he was in a doll's body, but he was a freakin' vampire scourge! Lenore insisted on playing dress up with Ragamuffin yet again and to which the vampire sternly disapproved.

"Aww come on, Ragamuffin!" Lenore whined, waving around a doll hat that looked very girly and embarrassing. "Put it on! You gotta look pretty!"

"No, Lenore!" Ragamuffin frowned at the zombie child. "I am not going to dress up in something stupid again!"

Lenore glared at him, one of those glares that made your blood run cold. Ragamuffin shuddered then sighed, taking the hat. "Fine, give me the fucking sissy hat..." He put it on, much to Lenore's delight. "Okay, I put it on. You happy now?" Lenore nodded then jumped up and down on her bed now, making a God-awful racket.

"Lenore, stop it!" Ragamuffin snapped irritably. Lenore stuck out her tongue and continued to jump. Ragamuffin fell off the bed since his size made him vulnerable to such energetic activities. Lenore stopped and looked at the fallen doll.

"Ragamuffin! You okay?"

"Do I look okay?" Ragamuffin groaned, crawling back onto the bed. He frowned at her.

"I'm sorry," Lenore said quietly, hugging Ragamuffin.

"Yeah, yeah," he muttered. "I think it's time you go to bed anyway. The sun's almost up and you've been up all night."

"No!" Lenore frowned, crossing her arms.

"Lenore, don't start with me-"

"I'M NOT GONNA GO TO SLEEP UNTIL YOU READ ME A FAIRY TALE!" Lenore shouted, getting up to jump up and down again. Ragamuffin groaned yet again.

"Okay okay, just get under the covers." Ragamuffin carefully hopped off the bed and went under the bed to find Lenore's fairy tale treasury. He decided to pick Cinderella. Lenore became sleepy quickly as Ragamuffin kept reading. "...and then Cinderella wished upon the star so her dreams could come true and that she could live in the palace with the prince..."

"RAGAMUFFIN!"

"What?"

Lenore grinned. "If I wish upon a star do you think I can get my wish for being a pretty princess just like Cindyrella?!" Ragamuffin rolled his eyes. Lenore was cute, yes, but he just wasn't in the mood tonight for her childish antics. He had to break her from her innocence soon. She seemed to have been sheltered for way too long and she needed to face cold hard facts. He sighed and closed the book.

"No. Lenore, fairy tales aren't real. And you can't get what you want just by wishing for it," Ragamuffin tried explaining. "I know. I've tried. But reality is, you can't wish for what you want. Some dreams have to be acheived by working for it yourself, and some dreams are just too plain impossible to even happen..."

Lenore ignored him, having already fallen asleep. Ragamuffin shrugged and decided to go to sleep as well. Lenore sure drained the energy out of him.

The next night when they woke up from their nap, the pair of friends walked into town, since Lenore insisted on going to some arcade...place...Chuck E. Cheese? Who the hell knows? Ragamuffin didn't care. Once they got inside the arcade place and Lenore got her tokens to play the games, she ran off to play some.

"Now Lenore!" Ragamuffin called after her. "Keep in my sight!" Lenore ignored him and skipped off to play skee-ball. Ragamuffin hid himself where he could still see her but that he couldn't be seen by drooly kids who would want to take him home. He looked around at some kids being stupid and shook his head. He looked back to Lenore, but to his dismay, she was missing. He frowned. Oh shit. Where had the girl gone to? He snuck around, trying to get away from kids, while he kept looking for her. "Lenore! Where are you!"

He heard loud and stupid music coming from the front of the room and he saw a guy in a Chuck E. Cheese costume come out and dance for some kid's party. And sure enough, there was Lenore grinning as usual. She was having fun until the guy in the mouse suit turned to her and tried to dance with her. Lenore overreacted and screamed at the sudden event. She grabbed the knife from the birthday cake from the birthday party and stabbed Chuck E. multiple times.

"Mommy! That weird girl's killing Chuck E.!" the birthday boy cried, pointing at Lenore. All of the kids cried and the parents looked shocked. Lenore pushed the dying mouse man to the ground and pulled at his head which came off. "That's not Chuck E.!" the birthday boy wailed again. The kids cried harder. Lenore frowned.

"This mousey's a lying mousey!" she said, throwing the mask to the side and kicked the now dead man's head.

Ragamuffin had had enough. He pulled Lenore away by the hem of her dress through the crowd quickly so they wouldn't get stopped by security. When they were out of the establishment and far enough away, he turned to her, enraged.

"Lenore! That was uncalled for!" he yelled at her. She frowned.

"But I was just defending myself-"

"HE JUST WANTED TO DANCE WITH YOU LENORE!"

"But-"

"No! Lenore, I'm tired of this! Now while I'm guilty of some savage killing myself, I need to do it in order to feed myself and to stay alive! I don't kill just for the hell of it unlike you!"

"Raga-"

"Lenore, you're so damn stupid! You could hurt one of your friends one day! Would you handle it if you killed me? Huh? Or what if you killed Taxidermy? Or Pooty!?" Ragamuffin glared at the girl.

Lenore's eyes widened, tears threatening to pour. "I-"

"Come on, Lenore. Let's go home," he muttered. "I can't believe you're so stupid!"

When they were back home, the two avoided each other all the rest of the night. Finally Lenore came into the room Ragamuffin was in. He looked up but said nothing. Lenore folded her arms, her dead kitty dangling from her grasp.

"Apologise."

"Lenore, no. I meant everything I said today! And unless you change for better, I'm not going to be your friend anymore." He put his attention back to the roaring fire in the fireplace. Lenore bit her lip.

"I'm going to bed. Goodnight stupidhead." She stormed up the stairs to her bedroom and crawled into bed, cradling her fairy tale book close to her chest. She sniffled a little and let a tear fall. "...I'm not stupid, just immature," she whispered to herself.

A couple of hours later after Ragamuffin went to bed, Lenore quietly got out of bed, leaving Ragamuffin a note that read:

Ragamuffin,

Since you think I'm stupid and don't want to be my friend anymore, I'm doing you a favour and running away. Don't find me.

-Lenore

Satisfied with her note, she placed it on her pillow, and she quietly sneaked downstairs and out the door, still with her dead kitty. It was still dark outside, but the sun would come up in an hour. Lenore marched through the tall grass until her mansion was no longer visible. She finally became tired and sat in the grass and looked up at the sky. She gazed at the biggest star she saw and sighed.

"If only fairy tales were true. I really want to make a wish...but then again, I don't know what I'd wish for...maybe that I never met Ragamuffin. Or that he wasn't mad at me anymore. Or maybe that Mr. Gosh never existed...or...I don't know..." she muttered, hugging her kitty. Suddenly the star lit up so brightly that it appeared daytime and it hurt Lenore's eyes, so she looked away. Then the brightness died down and Lenore looked again, only to find what looked like a pixie-fairy-queen thing flying in front of her. Lenore stared wide-eyed at the creature.

"What are you?" she asked the little pixie thing.

"I'm the fairy of that big star you just thought about wishing upon," the fairy replied nonchalantly. "What is it you desire, Lenore?"

Lenore's eyes widened. "You...know my name?"

The fairy giggled. "Of course I do, silly. Us star guardians know everything about everyone and everything in the history of Earth!" Lenore just stared in amazement. "So what do you want to wish for?" the fairy asked kindly.

"Well..." Lenore replied, fidgeting. "I'unno...I feel bad I made Ragamuffin upset but I'm also tired of him always calling me stupid..."

"Hmm..." The fairy rubbed her chin in thought, then flew over to Lenore's face. "Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if you had never died over a hundred years ago, Lenore?"

Lenore thought. Sure she had. Especially before her blood woke up Ragamuffin after she found him in her chest upstairs. She'd been so lonely and missed her family. And at times when Ragamuffin ignored her or called her stupid, Lenore would keep her pain inside and at night she would lie in bed, thinking of her loving family who would never say such things to her. Of course Lenore remembered how her family abandoned her after she came back from "just sleeping." But they were just frightened by the aspect that the daughter they had had died but came back to undead life.

"Think about it Lenore," said the fairy, smiling at Lenore. "You'd have all your old family and friends. You'd have a more loving environment to live in. You could have cats and not accidentally kill them. You could have a chance to grow up and experience life at its greatest, Lenore! Don't you want it?"

"Well...what about Ragamuffin?" Lenore asked, looking at the fairy who merely kept smiling.

"Nothing bad will happen to him, I promise," she replied. "However, I'm afraid to inform you that you won't have any memory of this life you're in right now. It will be, however, in your deep subconscious and you'll think of it as merely a dream. The sun will be out soon so you have to wish really soon."

Lenore thought some more. If she wished for all of this, she would be back in the very late 1800s, the borderline of the new century, and she would start her life over from when she was ten. And she could grow up and have a more normal life. But also if she wished for it, she wouldn't see her friends she came to know and love for the past century...

Lenore looked up at the fairy. "Yes, I wish that I never died and that I could go back to being ten years old for real. I want to have a real life!"

The fairy nodded and smiled. She snapped her fingers and Lenore blacked out.

"Lenore, sweetie, it's time to get up!"

Said girl yawned and sat up in her bed. She looked around and her eyes settled on her mother who was sitting on the edge of her bed, smiling at her.

"Come on sweetie, it's time for breakfast," said the mother, Mrs. Lynchfast, and she got up and headed out the door.

"Coming mom," replied Lenore as she got out of her bed to get dressed. She looked in the mirror and smiled. Her face was full of the colour of life and her hair glistened in the bright morning sun.