It was raining around 4 AM as I found myself staying after school to catch up on some missed assignments. I never though public high school could be so difficult compared to being home schooled. The classroom was empty, as everyone else had left, including Yui and the brothers. Or so I had thought.

There was a loud crash of thunder and flash of lightning, which caused me to leap out of my seat from the startle. The lights went pitch black. The classroom door slammed open all of a sudden. A shadow made its way inside from the darkness. I couldn't see anything in front of me whenever the lightning flashed outside.

There was pulse from my chest as the fear crept in. Who was there with me in the dark?

"Laito, is that you?" I asked impulsively, silently hoping it was just him playing a trick on me. I gasped as hands grabbed at my arms and pulled me towards them, emitting a low, "I have finally found you."

For a moment, I thought I must have been mistaken. This couldn't be…the person I had been running from…

Like a freight train, a whole anthology of the memories I had forgotten before coming here returned to me as a gut wrenching scream escaped my lips. It felt like I was being torn up from the inside. My hands shook at my sides and desperately clung to myself to keep from falling apart.

"Please stop, don't hurt me anymore, Frederick…" I sobbed fearfully. The memories inside my brain was replaying itself in high definition quality.

"It hurts, it hurts," I was panting it out louder now, my breath swelling out in heaves from my lungs. I was so scared I couldn't breathe.

"Oi! Who the hell is Frederick? What's wrong with you?" a voice called out as the lights turned back on to reveal Subaru standing before me, wearing a confused/concerned expression. For some reason, I couldn't calm down. All I saw was the illusion of black hair and golden eyes standing over me. My biggest nightmare had recollected itself in my mind and wasn't going to leave until I remembered every detail of my greatest punishment.

"D-Don't touch me," I muttered out, as Subaru kneeled down in front of me and pulled me into a soft embrace. He whispered, "I don't what happened to you but please calm down. No one is hurting you. It's just me."

I looked up and met his eyes with a fearful expression. This wasn't the past. This was the present. Subaru won't do anything to me like this…I need to calm down. On his face was an expression of worry and confusion. I swallowed and relaxed in his arms. I had remembered the reason why I had come here…but the reason itself seemed silly to me now. I was running from the enemy…into the hands of a greater one…

"What did you come here for?" I asked Subaru when I had finally mustered the nerve to talk after my frantic, somewhat embarrassing episode. He made a somewhat frustrated look before explaining, "You weren't waiting at the car and everyone else had already gone home. I was asked by Shu to see you made it back."

'Oh," I murmured before he continued to say, "Yeah, that's all I was here to do but the lights went out before I could open the door. Then you started freaking out and screaming at me. What scared you?"

I sighed and looked at the ground. I couldn't explain my situation to these vampires. I had come solely to burden them with my presence. There was no logical reason to tell them anything.

"I just…thought you were someone else," I muttered as he stood up and held a hand out to me. I grabbed it and told him, "Please don't tell anyone else about this, okay? Just take me home."

He nodded distantly before guiding me out of the room, never once letting go of my arm.

Laito wore a dark expression as he watched Subaru and Jade walk out of the classroom holding onto one another. He had witnessed everything that happened and was trying to piece together the connection to this and her lost memories. His eyes glowed in envy at Subaru's warmth, before he chuckled lowly and spoke in a soft whisper, "So, so fascinating. If my theory is correct, then Jadey-chan and I were destined to find each other."