Well, I hope you all like the last chapter. Lavender is a character from a vampire story I've been writing since I was in middle school, so I do own her. Anyone try to take her and I warn you, there will be blood.

(insert scary threatening music here)

So, anyways, I'm sorry about killing Haruhi's dad. I could honestly find no possible way to have him in the story. Makes me sad a bit, but it's just the way things are.

Hope you like the next chapter.

II.

Emersion

"No matter what though, I promise I will protect you……."

Such a beautiful voice. It rang in Haruhi's mind, swirling in the darkness like an erethral mist as light began to pentrate her senses. With a groan, Haruhi slowly opened her eyes.

The first thing Haruhi saw was white, like a doctor's office. Her lungs felt like they were made of lead. She tried to breathe, tried to draw in any breath. Her chest made no movement, no sort of recognition that there was any air passing into her lungs. Haruhi felt panic flood into her veins as she continued to try and breath.

"Calm down, relax. I know you're most likely in distress, but it will not help you to go into hysterics," a pleasant voice with a slight British accent said.

Haruhi did what the voice stated and felt air flow into her lungs. She breathed slowly and deeply, and soon the leaden feeling was gone. She opened her eyes again and looked around the room. A tall woman with long Lavender hair was standing against one of the walls. She wore a long white lab coat and currently had a very pissed off expression on her face. She looked at Haruhi and gave a small smile.

"How are you, Haruhi right?" Haruhi nodded and tried to speak but her voice didn't sound like it was coming out right. The woman smiled and walked over to her side. "It's like breathing. Focus on talking. It may be hard at first, your vocal chords were severed in the attack. I checked you out this morning and the 'change' seems to have healed the everything okay, but it may be a bit hard to speak at first. Just focus on speaking, and stay calm. You don't want to panic and go into hysterics, okay Haruhi? Is it alright if I call you that, or do you have another name you wish to be called?" Haruhi gulped and nodded. The woman smiled and walked over to a fridge in the corner of the room.

"W-w….whe….where am I?" Haruhi asked hoarsely. The woman chuckled and walked over with a bag of something red. She walked over to the IV stand besides Haruhi and hooked up the bag or red, which she guess had blood in it. She inserted the needle into Haruhi's vein and tapped the clasp to ensure the blood was flowing the way it should.

"Alright then, time to address your questions, Haruhi, First, you are located in the basement of 'Bathory's Dungeon,' an exclusive host club. Second, the creature that attacked you was a vampire. Third-"

"H-hold up. Vampire?"

"Yes. A vampire, such as Brahm Stroker's Dracula or Anne Rice's Lestat. We think he may have been a new blood, a vampire that's recently been turned. They are usually the ones that lose their minds and attack and kill humans, such as yourself. It was a very grim scene, and the vampire did a great amount of damage to you. He ripped your vocal chords and tore a large hole in your jugular. If you had not been contaminated, you would have bled out in a few minutes. However, the wounds healed extremely quickly after the 'change' took place."

"Change?"

"Yeah, that's number three. You were turned during the attack."

"Turned?"

"Into a vampire."

Haruhi sat straight up and looked around. She then looked at herself. Nothing seemed different, nothing seemed any different at all! She then looked at the woman. She just rolled her eyes and walked over, picking up a scalpel from the tray next to the bed. "Hold still dear," she said, before plunging the scalpel into Haruhi's hand. Haruhi screamed and looked at the blade sticking out of her hand. The woman twisted it before pulling the blade out and cleaning the scalpel.

"What the hell?!"

"Look at your hand Haruhi dear."

"I saw! You stabbed me!"

"Look. At. Your. Hand."

Haruhi looked at her hand and saw the wound, which should have been pretty horrific, was not there. The woman walked over and cleaned the blood away, revealing the soft pink flesh of her hand. The woman looked up at Haruhi and smiled kindly.

"By the way, my name is Lavender. I'm a sort of the scientist around here….well scientist doctor. I've been studying medicine for over three hundred years, so I consider myself something of an expert. My current task that I've been working on," she paused to remove the bag of blood from the IV stand, "Is studying what exactly we vampires are. It's been slow going for the last few years, but I believe as technology advances we can actually get closer to maybe a cure for ourselves, or a way to at least go out into the sunlight." Lavender then chuckled and brushed some hair out of her eyes.

"It helps that the owners of this club have a pretty good amount of money and are interested in finding some sort of cure. They hired me here as a doctor to the donors that come in, I mean what use would there be otherwise for someone like me when vampires have no health problems whatsoever, and if we do get injured we instantly heal up if we're well fed." She sighed. "In addition I treat people like you, people who are going through the 'change.' It's a pretty violent process because the body 'dies' and then gets restarted. Each cell in the body reforms into vampiric cells. During the process, the person 'changing' has got to be kept calm and sedated or else they risk causing harm to themselves or others." Lavender smiled at Haruhi. "You were calm during yours. I used sedatives, just in case, but even when Tamaki carried you in you were sleeping like a little baby."

Haruhi brushed the hair out of her face. She guessed it would be hard to continue going to school if she was a vampire. After all, vampires couldn't go out in sunlight, and now she was going to have to drink blood, and she couldn't be near garlic, and everything else that came with being a vampire. She looked at Lavender and gripped the blanket tightly, her knuckles turning white with the fear she felt. Lavender smiled and ruffled her hair.

"Don't look so freaked out, it's not that bad. First things first, we should go over the rules you'll be following now that you're, well, a vampire. First, no sunlight whatsoever. This includes times of rain or cloudy days. Unless it is pitch black, you will suffer an excruciating burn and most likely die if exposed to sunlight."

She waited for Haruhi to take in what she'd said before continuing on with her lecture. "Second, you're a new blood. You need to feed 3-5 times a week for a few years. The longer you're alive, the longer you'll be able to go without blood. Your need for blood increases if you're hurt because your body will need more blood to properly heal itself. If you fail to consume enough blood, you risk going into blood lust, which generally means that you'll go, to quote my employers, bat shit crazy and start killing to ensure that you consume enough blood."

"Like the guy who attacked me?"

"Exactly. Third, be careful when feeding from live prey. You don't become a vampire from being bitten, you become one when your blood interacts with that of a vampire, and even a drop can turn you."

Haruhi rubbed her head and Lavender smiled. "Too much information dear?" asked Lavender, brushing Haruhi's hair from her eyes. Haruhi nodded and Lavender chuckled. "Consider yourself lucky you have someone like me here to explain it to you. I became a vampire back when we thought those afflicted were, well, demons or something of the sort. Now, with the information we have, we know we're not some kind of demonic apparition but maybe a new form of human, or something of the sort. Now…where were we on the rules? Oh! Right. Fourth, you need to eat foods other then blood. Just because you're a vampire doesn't mean that your body doesn't need the nutrients that come from a balanced diet."

Lavender stopped and laughed, snapping her fingers. "By the way, in addition to rule 4, garlic has no ill effects on you. You can eat it, drink it, roll around in a giant pool of it if you wished, and nothing is going to happen." Haruhi chuckled weakly at the notion of rolling around in garlic.

"Now, fifth, don't worry about sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. Our bodies are very well equipped for battling anything, and even if you drank blood from an infected host or something like that, nothing will come of it. There was this scare a few years back because some vampires reported…well…getting crabs from some donors but when it was studied, it turned out to be a lie because our blood does not transfer into other species of animal so well and it kills off any blood suckers that go after us."

Haruhi cleared her throat. "What did you say about pregnancy?" Lavender nodded and bit her thumb. "Yes, well, when you go through the 'change,' your body dies. When it is…restarted, some parts still remain….dead. Those include the sexual organs. Now, this is nothing like a vampire guy can't get a stiffie, pardon my language, but what does come out when he orgasms is nothing that can cause life. For us females, we no longer go through periods and the sort so we can't conceive children." Lavender just shrugged and looked forlornly at the wall. "It may not sound like anything, considering where you are in life, but when you get older and really wish to have children, especially when you're with someone you love...well...it is hell."

Haruhi went silent as Lavender continued to look at the wall with a saddened expression. The silence ended when Lavender cleared her throat and brushed her hand over her eyes. "Sorry, got lost in thought for a second. Now that you kind of know the basics of your new situation, what do you think you're going to do?" Haruhi went silent and bit her lip. "What am I going to do? I mean, I was going to go to college, and I was going to get a good job. Now what can I do with this damn curse?" Lavender just ran her hand through Haruhi's hair. "It isn't the end of the world dear, it's just a new path. Whichever way you want to go depends on you Hun."

The door to the room opened and a blonde haired man walked in. Haruhi blinked, then blushed a deep red color when she realized she was naked, with only a sheet to cover her, and currently the blonde was trying to look away from her bare breasts. She quickly drew the sheet up around her chest and stared at the boy. He wore a School Boy's uniform with a blue jacket and black slacks. Lavender smiled and gave the man a hug.

"Well Tamaki darling, what brings down here? It too early for the club to be closed, do you not have business to deal with up there?" asked Lavender. The blonde boy, Haruhi guessed his name was Tamaki, smiled and ran a hand threw his own hair. "It's a slow night, might have something to do with the rain. I was wondering how our sleeping beauty was doing, but I see she's already up and about." He looked back at Haruhi, who blushed and tightened her hold on the sheet. Tamaki smiled and looked back at Lavender. "Send her upstairs soon, we might as well have her meet the club."

Tamaki left after that, leaving Haruhi and Lavender alone. Lavender left the room and returned with some clothes. "Sorry about these, they're the only clothes I got on hand." Haruhi took one look at the clothes and got why Lavender was apologizing. It was a school uniform, similar to the one Tamaki was wearing. She dressed quickly, thankful that Lavender atleast had some ladies underwear for her. She dressed and instinctively reached around, her fingers searching for her glasses. Suddenly she realized, she could see clearly and her glasses hadn't been on her face the entire time. Not only that, the fractured memory of her glasses scittering across the pavement came to mind, and she guessed that they had not fared well in the attack. Assuming her improved eyesight came from her change, Haruhi jumped off the bed and worked to steady herself on her wobbily legs.

Lavender looked back at her when she got off the bed. "Go down the hallway and up the stairs to get to the club. Don't worry, you look cute and I'm sure they'll be pretty nice with you." Haruhi followed Lavender's directions and ended up in a posh looking kitchen, if you could describe a kitchen as 'posh.' The blonde, Tamaki, was already there, carrying a tea kettle and several cups on an expensive looking tray. He peered up when she came into the room and gave her a friendly smile.

"Well hello. I see you're up and about. Would you mind carrying that tray in?" Haruhi looked over and spotted another expensive looking tray with a tea kettle and cups. She walked over and picked it up, making sure to be careful with such an expensive looking set of dishes. She followed the blonde into a very posh, gothic looking room. It was set up so there were six tables with about five seats around each one. A few women were gathered around some of the tables, and at least one man sat with them. The blonde walked to one of the tables, where a group of girls was gathered and giggling, leaving Haruhi standing by the entrance holding her tray with no idea of what to do. She looked at the blonde, who motioned to a table where the group of girls were squealing and giggling. Haruhi walked over to the table and blinked at what she saw.

"Oh Kaoru, you've cut your thumb. You have to be more careful, for a wound to you cripples me with pain!"

"Hikaru, please treat me like you did, back when we were children. I long for your healing touch once more."

The fluffy twincest-ness ended when both boys noticed Haruhi standing by the table with the tray. She set the tray down and began to walk away but was stopped by a quiet "Ahem." She looked over and saw the twins, as well as the other ladies, staring at her.

"Tamaki, is this him?"

Haruhi's eye brow raised and she looked at the blonde, no, Tamaki. He smiled and burst forward, taking Haruhi in his arms and giving her some sort of hug, tackle before spinning around and around with Haruhi in tow. "Yes, this is my new child who we rescued from the depths of hell not only three nights ago!" Haruhi's face was becoming a new shade of red as she tried to pull away from the psychoatic blonde but it was like trying to pull away from grizzley bear with steel arms. The twins walked up and succeeded in pulling her away from the blonde in order to look over her with curiosity. The girls from the table began to crowd around, all commenting on the cute boy who had now joined them. Across the room, a younger blonde boy with a older looking and much taller attendant looked over to see the scene that was going on with her. Haruhi felt a bit flustered and tried to get some kind of grip on the situation that was going on. Before she could say anything, a voice from the other side of the room caught everyone's attention.

"Alright, it is currently three in the morning, and in a few hours the sun will begin to rise. Please begin heading home, and remember to be careful on your journey. We have not kept the vampire responsible for Thursday's attack."

The girls began groaning but Tamaki and the twins abandoned her to see the girls out. Haruhi stood still, her mind racing with the insanity if the scene she had just witnessed. A man wearing a pair of glasses walked across the room to look her over, and Haruhi felt herself blush a little at the attention. She couldn't help but feel uneasy when being looked over like a peice of meat. Before she could open her mouth, the man cut her off.

"¥8,000,000,000."

"Excuse me?" Haruhi asked, blinking at the statement. The man pushed his glasses up further and faced her again. "The medical costs for caring for you during the change. When you were undergoing the change we needed to give you seditives, pain killers, and blood so that you would not suffer at all. The total cost for your change, with tax, comes to ¥800,000,000. Payment may be in cash, check, credit, whatever you wish."

Haruhi felt her heart seize up. "I...I don't have that kind of money," she whispered quietly. Hell, she barely had enough money to get food for herself. Haruhi was in the process of thinking over all this information when Tamaki walked up to the two of them. He was still smiling, and something about that goofy smile made Haruhi's heart flutter.

"What did I tell you? Did you see the girls when he entered? They loved him!"

Haruhi cocked her head and the man with the glasses nodded. "Indeed," he began, "That reaction seems promising. this idea may work out to be beneficial."

"Um, hold up. Idea?" Both men looked back at Haruhi and Tamaki nodded. "Yes, you see, it took a lot of money to help you after we found you. Kyoya and I were wondering how you may be able to pay the bill, we could tell you were less then fortunate from your attire. Then I noticed that you are a very cute girl and can pass yourself off as a very cute male very well and it hit me!"

A long silence followed before a loud squeal broke the silence.

"Tama-chan! You haven't introduced us!" the small blonde boy that Haruhi had spotted earlier yelled. His tall assistant nodded and stepped forward.

"I'm sorry. Haruhi," Tamaki began, rising from his seat. "Allow me to introduce the host club."

He walked over to the small blonde boy and his attendant. "This adorable little Lolita is Mitsukuni Haninozuka, or Hunny for short. The silent man with him is Takashi Morinozuka, or Mori for short."

"Those two mischievious brothers," Tamaki started pointing at the twins from ealier, "Are Kaoru and Hikaru Hitachiin."

"I am Kyouya Ohtori," the dark hair man with glasses interrupted. Tamaki threw a pout Kyouya's way but the man just rolled his eyes and began typing on a laptop.

"And I am Tamaki Suoh," Tamaki finished, taking Haruhi's hand and laying a gentle kiss upon it. Haruhi pulled her hand away and didn't catch the hurt expression that crossed Tamaki's face at the gesture. Tamaki smiled and sat down facing Haruhi.

"So, about this idea of yours?" asked Haruhi.

"Right!" Tamaki exclaimed. He looked over at Kyouya who stopped typing and turned the lap top around so Haruhi could see the screen. On the screen was what looked like a contract. Haruhi blinked and looked back at Kyouya.

"The reason I had Lavender send you up here was to see how the ladies would react to you. It was good, it seems you will be a very popular host."

"H-host?" Haruhi stuttered. Tamaki nodded with a smile plastered across his face.

"Yes. If you work for us as a host, you would be able to easily repay your debt," Kyouya said, cutting off a hurt looking Tamaki. Kyouya smiled and continued. "Don't worry, we'd train you while we were helping you become accustomed to this new existence of yours."

"Y-You want me to work as a host? I-I-I don't even know what I'm going to do now that I've become a vampire. I-I….uh…You expect that I could make a decision like this now?" Haruhi said in a tone of extreme distress.

Tamaki made a motion with his hand and Mori brought Haruhi a seat. She sat down and rested her head in her hands.

"We don't have to have you work as a host," Kyouya stated. He turned the laptop back towards him and began typing again. "You could," he began, "just work for us as a servant, doing little chores and the like. It would not repay your debt as fast as working as a host would."

Haruhi shook her head and felt a cold hand brush the hair from her face. She straightened up and backed away from Tamaki, who was kneeling before her.

"I know this is hard to accept," he said quietly, "but you are a vampire and there's no going back. What you do now is your choice. Please, make the right one."

Haruhi took a deep breath and looked at the faces of the Host Club. With a sigh, she made her decision.