Disclaimer: Victorious - Not mine.

A/N: Everything will later be explained, but first patience grasshopper. BTW: PLEASE R&R :D

Hardy har har

"Ahh..Liz." I say still laughing. "Someone's been taking too many drugs." I shake my head at her, and start laughing again.

I throw a glance at her, and she looks mad. "I wasn't joking, and I am not on any drugs."

I look at her with a light smile, still disbelieveing her. "I'm serious." She says sounding actually very serious. Now I'm starting to worry about her health. Better said her sanity. "Oh please look at you." I say my hand gesturing at her. "You look like you haven't slept in days, you're skin looks paler than usual, you look like a nervous wreck, you look like you've escaped a mental institution!" I gasp. "Oh my God. Liz is that really where you've been? Look if you need help it's nothing to be ashamed of, I can help y…"

"Stop! I am telling you the truth. I can't believe you don't believe me. I AM a vampire. Ariana please." Her eyes are begging.

Jokingly, and challenging her 'truth', I smirk and say, "Really? Prove it, you all mighty creatu.." My words drop dead. Less than a second ago she was sitting on the other end of the couch. Now she popped out of nowhere here next to me. Kneeling on the floor with her arms on the armrest and her head resting on them. She's looking up at me amused at the shocked expression I'm probably wearing. "That was fast." I choke out. "But.." Again I am speechless when I hear the sharp hissed noise as fangs reveal themselves inside Liz's mouth. Fangs! In one jump I end up on the other side of the couch.

Liz gracefully gets up. "Those aren't real." I squeak. I'm sitting with my arms extended grasping the couch, and my knees bent up. Slowly Liz reaches me, and places her arms on either side of my body. Her head almost laying on my belly. Again she's looking up at me amused.

I'm still shocked but I manage to shake my head. At that Liz quickly moves her face an inch apart from mine. Okay, now I'm getting scared. "Holy fuck!" I yell as I close my eyes. I keep my eyes closed, and I hear her hearty laugh. Slowly my eyes open to see her on the middle of the couch, holding her stomach, laughing. She's laughing so hard, I'm expecting to see her start crying at any second. Now I'm mad.

I get up from the couch and stand in front of her. "It's not funny!" She starts laughing even more. "I didn't find your joke HILLARIOUS. It's stupid!" Once I said that she finally stopped laughing, but she still had a smile on.

"I wasn't joking." She says. Her smile would make it all seem different, but her eyes are sincere. As she gets up and takes a step towards me, and I step back. "For Christ sake Ariana!" She says exasperated. "I'm a vampire and now you won't even let me get close to you. I thought you trusted and loved me more than that." Her eyes show hurt and amusement at the same time.

"I just can't believe it." I whisper.

"Well I'm not lying to you." She looks at me sternly. "point is I came here to protect you. They're coming for you. The same vampires that came for me. They want that ring. "She says and point to my left hand. "I would take it from you, but I can't. Ryan isn't stupid. As soon as he found out I transformed he had a witch cast a spell so if I even touched the ring, it'd set me on fire. I can't touch it." She simply says.

"You still haven't told me what's up with these rings, and who's Ryan?"

"They immortalize. In the full sense of immortalization, and Ryan is the vampire that came to my house, the one that knocked me out, and drained me."

I cringe as she 'drained'. "Liz I'm so sorry to hear what you went through." I feel sadness to imagine the pain she must have put up with. "But about the rings, how is that possible? Nothing is immortal. There's always some way…"

"Nope. With those rings, there is no way, and I mean absolutely NO WAY, you can be killed. Destroyed. Stopped. Whatever you want to call it."

My eyes feel like they're gonna pop out of my head. "Well if they have one already…"

"They need both. It only works if you wear both." Liz interrupts me once more.

"You know you really need to stop interrupting me." I give her a motherly look. "It's rude."

Liz raises an eyebrow, and I hear her mumble, "Cranky."

"Am not." I say slightly offended.

"Are too." She has one of those slight smiles she usually wears.

I return her smile. I've known Liz for years, but I can't help to feel there's a stranger in my living room. I mean I know her. Who she is, and how she is, but she feels different. I look at her face with detail and see that she looks tired, physically and mentally. I step closer to her, both of my hands of the side of her face. Sure she's clearly different now, but that's nothing some good quality time, and catching up can't fix. God I have missed her.

"I've missed you." I say sincerely.

"As I've missed you." My eyes start watering up. I don't know why, but hearing her say that brings me so much joy.

She moves closer, and plants a loving kiss on my forehead. Then she gets a hold of my hands, and removes them from her face. I see her step away from me, and pace a bit before stopping, and looking at me once more. Now her face is serious again.

Her tone turns once more firm, and commanding as she says, "You can't leave, or go anywhere without me." She said it so slowly and clearly it made me feel retarded for a second. "You need to tell me, at all times where you are, if I permit you to go anywhere."

"Permit?" I chuckle. "Who do you think you are?" I say crossing my arms.

"I am the one that's gonna save your life. So you're gonna do what I say." Now her face is an inch away from mine, and her tone is harsh.

"And what if I don't?" I say bitterly.

"You die." She shrugs. My eyes are wide. I can't believe she just shrugged my death! "Now I'm tired, so common let's go to bed."

"On the same bed?"

"Yes." Liz says matter-of-factly. "It's not like we haven't slept on the same bed before."

I know Liz didn't say that trying to make it mean anything else than it actually means. She meant it truthfully with no subliminal message, but I couldn't help and blush a bit. I really hope she didn't catch me blush. How embarrassing.

"Ok." I squeak. I swear I'm on squeak away from turning into a mouse. I walk past her, heading towards my…our bedroom.