Miku felt as if she lost all ability to move. All ability to speak. All ability to think. Even all ability to breathe. Why didn't she see it before? Perhaps because it's impossible, but the similarities were too great to ignore. A boy and a girl with the same face, blonde hair, and clothes that Miku herself knew she had styled. The only explanation, as crazy as it sounded, was that those children were her childhood dolls! The very realization sent Miku into a crazed laugh.

"Why, you're laughing," Rin said as she placed her fingers on the corner of Miku's lips, acting as if Miku was laughing over something silly and not like the mad woman she truly sounded she was becoming. "Isn't that the cutest sight?" Rin said as she tilted her head in a cute way.

"Why are you trembling before me like a scared little mouse?" Len, deciding to join in on the teasing, said with faked pain.

"Y-y-you can't be," Miku whispered. She was shaking, and thanks to the tightness she felt in her chest she was also breathing.

"Do you remember now?" Len asked. He wasn't being unkind or teasing her now. Len acted as though her was asking her any ordinary question in a polite fashion.

Miku nodded ever so slowly. "Rin and Len, my old rag dolls."

"Correct!" Rin said loudly, making Miku jump. "If you had kept your blindfold on you wouldn't have see us in our true form."

"How long was I wearing the blindfold?" Miku asked, slowly recomposing herself.

Rin's lips curled into a grin. "I put it on you when you were asleep in the woods. After I told Len about you and brought him there you began to wake up. Good thing I was smart enough to put it on first or I might have never had the chance!"

"What do you want from me?" Miku quietly asked as she tried to keep her knees from buckling under.

"The same thing you gave us every day before you abandoned us: your love!" Rin said.

"Meaning," Len said, "that you are never going to leave."

"I can't spend the rest of my life here!" Miku's voice got louder as the thought of being a prisoner suddenly made her more determined.

"Well," Len said, "if we can't have you . . ."

"Nobody can!" Rin finished for her brother as she held up a large knife that Miku didn't even know the girl was carrying. "We tried to do this the easy way, but if you won't come willingly then I'm afraid Len and I will have to force you."

Miku barely managed to avoid the stab that headed in her direction. She jumped to the left and crawled her way from the living dolls, then stood up and tried to run away. Where to, she didn't know; all Miku wanted to do was escape. She ran through a door just in time to see the knife fly into the doorframe.

"Missed!" Rin poutted.

Getting over the shock of being so close to becoming a flying knife's target, Miku ran through the hall and made multiple turns as she tried to lose the dolls' track. When she was certain she wasn't seen, she ran into a room and hide under the bed. As childish as it was to hide there, Miku felt somewhat safe.

It was then she heard foot steps come from the hall and into the room. Miku couldn't tell who it was based off the shoes alone, but whoever it was searched rather thoroughly except under the bed. Miku began to grow so nervous that she squeezed her eyes tight hoping that when she opened them she would find that this was nothing more than a nightmare. Soon the footsteps grew quieter and quieter until they slowly disappeared all together. Miku released the breath she was holding and let out a sigh of relief. Relief didn't last long for she was grabbed by the ankles and dragged out from under the bed.

"Did you really think an obvious spot like that would fool me?" Len said. Miku froze in horror of the large knife he had with him. "I really don't want to do this," he said, "but if we can't have your love then nobody ever will." Before he could stab her in the heart Miku raised a hand and yelled at him to stop. "What is it?" he said a bit annoyed, but secretly Len hoped that she was agreeing to stay.

"I just remembered something," Miku said. "I heard that on Halloween night bodyless souls will gain bodies for this night only."

"So?" Len asked rather harshly, not caring if that had anything to do with what was going on.

"So," Miku continued, "how are you and Rin alive? Dolls have bodies, but not souls. If you two are just dolls then you shouldn't even be here."

Considering to answer Miku's question, Len offered his hand to her. Miku, though very cautiously, accepted his hand as he helped her to her feet. Len was, Miku noticed, suddenly rather gentle with his handling of her.

"There you are!" Rin shouted when she saw Miku with Len. Rin threw her knife at Miku, not bothering to know why Len had yet to attack.

Miku, too shocked to do anything but watch, stood still as the blade came her way. Faster than the human eye can see, Len grabbed the knife with the point just less than a inch from Miku's face. "Rin," Len said as he moved the knife away from Miku's nose, "I think she has a right to know."

"Know what, Len?" Rin asked, even though it seemed she already knew the answer.

"About us," Len answered.

"Do we really have to talk about it?" Rin said with an obviously fake smile, not wanting to choose now to explain anything.

"She has a right to know," Len repeated. "She should know . . . what we really are."

Author's Note: This chapter wasn't even all that long. T-T I hate uploading short chapters. It's like I didn't even try!

zhane17: Well, here's another cliffhanger. :/ And so sorry that the chapter is so painfully short. T-T

Hana Okita: What's wrong with Len-Kun wearing a shawl? Only real men wear shawls, and Len-Kun is manly! XP

nekopyon: Well of course you would be looking forward to it. Honestly, Neko-Chan, you strike me as the kind of girl who could be dropped off at a haunted house and have the time of her life.

Well, everyone, I hope you're all looking forward to the next chapter~.

-Ray