"It's okay, Katie, nobody's going to hurt you." Willy soothed.

Katie looked at him. "I have one guy wanting me dead, another trying to hurt me for that person... Willy, did I do something wrong?" She asks softly.

"No, dear... I promise, it's not your fault... There are just bad people in this world, but as long as you have someone to protect and take care of you, it'll all work out fine in the end..." Willy soothed her, gently stroking her hand. "You were just at the wrong place at the wrong time, but I will still love you just the same."

"Wh-Who said anything about the amount you loved me?!" She gasps. Do you not love as much anymore?!"

Willy's eyes widened. "Katie! You know I love you, I know it, you know it, Cherry knows it, everybody knows it!"

Katie hugged him tightly, trying to calm back down. She knew he loved her, the pain made her emotions run high a moment.

"It's okay, my little swirl... I won't let anyone hurt you..." Willy stroked her back in the hug. "It's going to be okay now... I'm sure of it..."

Katie smiled a tiny bit and as was pulled closer to him wasn't flat on the bed. The sniper received a message across his earpiece and then did his job. Jim wanted him to shoot as Nichole wanted the girl dead now. He aimed and shot.

Willy felt something wrong and moved Katie right away from the bed before the shot could hit either one of them. "Oh, no... I-I've spoke too soon... Katie... We have to get out of here..." he pressed a button to make an announcement throughout the factory. "Guard the factory, protect yourselves, Katie and I must go!"

Katie blinked shocked. The sniper quickly aimed again, hitting his target, though not in the way he intended. As in, not this instant.

"I'm sorry, Katie, but we have to go..." Willy whispered, he still carried her as he rushed out of his room and went to take her out of here and find a place to hide away for a while.

Katie didn't realize she was hit, and probably Willy didn't either, until she felt a strange rush of warmth where there shouldn't have been.

Willy took Katie to a van, he wasn't sure where else to go besides Cherry's. He looked over. "Katie, are you feeling okay? Katie...?" He then gasped as he noticed she was injured.

Katie put a hand over it, and pulled away. It was red, but her face belied curiosity instead of fear or pain at the moment. "Well, would you look at that..." she muses, softly.

"Katie..." Willy grew devastated.

Katie looked at Willy with a childlike curiosity look on her face. "I'm bleeding~" she says softly.

"Goodness..." Willy felt sick to his stomach. "We better get you to the emergency room."

Katie shook her head. She wouldn't make it for that far. Willy wasn't sure what else to do, he kept driving, unsure what to do, passing Cherry's house and the church which was across the yard from the house. Katie saw them and tried to get Willy to stop. Cherry and Forte could help!

Willy somehow sensed that Katie wanted him to stop right there, so he did, but the tires screeched a bit. Luckily, he didn't do any further damage. "You poor dear..." he sighed, he really hated to see Katie in any kind of pain.

Katie was putting pressure on her wound. "Cherry and Forte..." she whispers.

Willy blinked, but then carried Katie in his arms and knocked on the front steps' door of the church.

Forte eerily opened the door, looking out and looked down as his bony hand grasped the end of the door. "Hello..."

Katie smiled weakly, the eeriness was slightly amusing.

"Katie says you can help... She's been injured badly..." Willy stated his business.

Forte looked down at them and let them come inside. "Follow me, I have a bed in the former office..." He let them in and led them to the door that used to be the office of the church before Forte had made it into his bedroom, despite not needing any sleep anymore.

Cherry looked over as she was sitting at one of the tables with a chess board with the black and white pieces as she glanced at the visitors, she wasn't mad at them, just bored of this Chess game. Katie winced and sighed softly, in pain, but hiding it. Willy still carried Katie and lay her down on the bed.

"How badly is she injured?" Forte asked. "Why didn't you bring her to the emergency room?"

"She thought it might be too late if we went there." Willy looked over his fiancee with the maestro.

Katie coughed softly. "It's... Too far..." she whispers, eyes half closing.

Willy looked very sick when he saw that. "Can't you save her?"

"She can be saved by an unholy force of nature," Forte concluded. "She could die soon... If she wishes to remain in life, she must be bitten by a vampire."

"A vampire?" Willy looked doubtful, he didn't believe in those creatures of the night.

"Yes," Forte informed "Since she is a friend of mine now, she can either be bitten by me..." he then looked to the girl by the chess set. "Or Cerise who has yet to bite anyone..."

"She's a vampire too?" Willy asked.

"I turned her," Forte confirmed. "I couldn't let her drown to her death on her birthday..."

Katie gave a weak smile. "I'm not too picky right now." she jokes weakly.

"Cerise... You should do it..." Forte looked over to the girl.

"Do you think I'm ready?" Chery looked over to him.

"Yes... Save your 'sister'..." Forte nodded.

Cherry came over top of Katie. "Pain or pleasure?"

Katie looked at her friend. "You choose..." she says softly, closing her eyes slowly.

"I haven't done this before, so if it hurts, I'm sorry, but I promise it won't last very long..." Cherry said, she then got her fangs to pop out from her gums, it actually hurt the first few times the fangs would come out, but she had been doing this long enough without actually biting, she barely felt it.

Forte held back Cherry's hair so she wouldn't get blood in it from the biting.

"Goodbye Katie the Mortal..." Cherry whispered, she then lunged forward and bit Katie right on the neck, making the older girl's blood trickle down between the fangs and nearly onto her chest.