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-Phanny

Sam looked at Danny, asking a silent question. Danny glared at her, given her a silent, but aggressive "no." They would not use Riley as vampire bait, no matter how bad Sam (and surprisingly, Riley herself) wanted to. Apparently it had always been one of Riley's dreams to have vampires fight over her, living out her own little Twilight fantasy. Danny couldn't allow it in good conscience.

"Please please please please please," Riley begged, "I wanna help. You guys never let me do anything! You won't even let me be on the sidelines."

"Because you wear your cheerleader uniform and make up cheers for me while I fight," Danny said flatly, "…bad cheers."

"Not my fault nothing rhymes with Phantom!"

"Anyway," Danny tried to change the subject, "I can tell there's another reason you came over here."

"Oh yeah!" Riley opened her backpack and took out three things that looked like juice boxes, "I know Sam's a vegan, so I thought I would use my awesome cooking skills to make, like, blood substitute. Like vampire tofu." Riley ignored Tucker's gagging noise as she went on, "I even did research to see what kind of nutrients were in blood! Research. Me. Aren't you proud of me?"

"Uh," Danny said, "sure?"

"So anyway, I made these, so they should be okay!" Riley handed them all one of her juice boxes. Sam sniffed it tentatively and grimaced.

"It smells like shoes," she said. Riley huffed.

"You haven't even tried it!" Sam sipped it.

"It tastes like shoes."

"So picky," Riley rolled her eyes, "also it may or may not cause irritability or bloating. I don't know. I'm not a doctor."

All three vampires pushed their juice boxes to middle of the table, not touching them.

"You guys are so ungrateful," Riley pouted. Within a moment, though, she was back to her cheerful self, "so can I be vampire bait right can I can I can I—"

"Fine!" Danny just wanted her to shut up, "but you have to do what we say so you don't get hurt."

"I will." Out of gratitude she hugged Sam, who was right next to her at the time.

"Don't hug me."

"See? Irritability."

They arrived at Lake Eerie later that night, hoping to lure out the vampires that bit them from the surrounding woods. Riley bounced up and down in place as she waited for Danny to give her instructions.

"Just go into the woods," Danny told her, "we'll be behind you so they can't hurt you, they just need to smell you."

"Okay!" Riley said, louder than she should have as Danny shushed her immediately afterwards, "sorry. Let's go."

As they walked into the woods, Riley out in the open and Danny, Sam, and Tucker secretly trailing her, Riley began to feel a bit apprehensive, but she wasn't going to show it.

"Oh wow," she said loudly, "I sure am full of blood and other good stuff! If I were a vampire I would totally eat me!" It sounded like a bad audition for a school play.

"Stop talking," Sam whispered to her.

"Sorry," Riley muttered.

After a good amount of walking, Riley decided that this was taking too long. Finding a sharp rock, she made the rash decision to cut her palm so that the smell of blood would be in the air, and within minutes it was.

When she heard aggressive hissing around her she thought she had succeeded in their plan, but when she looked around what she saw were three familiar, fanged, yellow-eyed teens looking at her hungrily with some sort of inhuman desire. Panicked, she backed away from her suddenly ravenous friends.

"I probably should have thought that through a little better," Riley gulped.

Are you an idiot?