That awful need to touch someone, to be touched. For some of us, it just won't die. And eventually that need will take you to your breaking point. Frankenstein's monster, poor bastard, couldn't stop reaching out. Dracula had it easy. He drank, he killed. End of story. He wasn't interested in being friends.

-Josh Levison

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"How is it that I always seem to fall right back into your evil clutches every time you kiss me?" I questioned Aidan as he pecked another kiss on my lips.

"Because you're totally in love with me." He laugh.

"Ok, I hate to ruin the moment for you two but you gonna kick their sociopath asses?" Sally asked. Aidan and I walked to the window and saw two boys bullying Bernie. Aidan sighed.

"I can't."

"They've been torturing all week!"

"You mean ever since his mom was screaming in the street that I'm a pervert. If I so as much as look at Bernie, she rounds up the vigilantes with torches and baseball bats." Bernie snatched his skateboard and book bag from the boys and backed out into the street from them. A car's screeched and swerved sideways, hitting Bernie. Aidan was out the door in seconds and across the street, leaning over Bernie, blood in a puddle on the ground.

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It doesn't matter if you're dead, undead or somewhere in between…because it's you humans that haunt us. And you won't let us go.

-Josh Levison

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I sat on the table, nipping at my fingertips. Josh and Sally came into the room and Josh grabbed some stuff to make an egg salad sandwich.

"Nick was like a demigod in the classroom, even though he was only a TA." Sally said. "He was brilliant and inspiring."

"Are you in the Dead Poets Society right now?" Josh asked her.

"It's weird, right? He and I both die years apart, and then find each other again in limbo?"

"You know what? You're a ghost talking to a werewolf making an egg salad with a vampire dog shifting girl on the table. I no longer compute what's weird. So, back then, what happened between you two?"

"Class, coffee, intense sessions of editing my papers in his very small stifling office."

"I though Danny was the love of your life."

"This was pre-Danny. And if I hadn't thought that Nick Fenn was so out of my league with his 5' 11" Harvard Kennedy school girlfriend, I probably wouldn't have shacked up with Danny after five dates."

"Five dates? Jeez!"

"I'm a serial monogamist, without the serial part."

"Me too. It's like an undiagnosed disease."

"Nick was always the one I was supposed to be with. He would have never talk to me out of moving to New York, working for the UN."

"You were gonna do all that stuff?" I murmured, still staring out into space, biting my fingernails.

"I was gonna try. Is it crazy town to pursue a relationship with someone when you're both dead?"

"Honestly, I don't know if any of us should be in relationships." Josh said.

"Choose your words wisely, mutt." I snapped.

"Anytime we try and connect, people just get hurt…" He sighed. "Or worse."

"Have you seen Aidan?" Sally asked.

"Not since this morning." I said. "But if I were him…" My eyes grew wide as I reviewed the list of places Aidan would be. "I know exactly where I would go." I got off the table and snatched Josh's jacket from the closet and ran out the door.

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I walked into the blood den and held Josh's jacket up to my nose to breath in the stench instead of the lustful smell of human blood.

"Mi—Mis-Miss Glaceon." The man at the door stuttered. Most vampires were terrified of me. Some consider me as a familiar and expected me to eat them. Others knew that I would kill anyone that stood in my way.

"Where is he?" I asked, my voice muffled by the jacket.

"Last one on the left, My Lady." I stormed through the hallway, passing rooms that contained vampires feeding off of humans. As I neared the last one, the sound of an irregular heartbeat got louder. I dropped the jacket and ran the rest of the way to the room.

"Aidan!" I pushed past the curtains and pulled Aidan off of a girl who was almost empty of blood. "Aidan! Stop it!" Blood dripped from his mouth as he still longed for more blood. Using my left arm to hold Aidan back, I used my right arm to pick the girl off the couch and pushed her out the room. "Get out!" Aidan's body slammed against mine. It was like brick wall hitting brick wall.

"Get away from me!" He yelled. "She's mine!"

"You've had enough!" I placed my hands on his bare chest to hold him back and when he tried to get around me, I pushed him down. I sighed. This once strong man that I knew just turned into a weakling over one kid.

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"He saw me." Aidan whispered. We were at the far end of the blood den, leaning against a pole. He finally came to his senses and immediately broke down about Bernie. My fingers played across the back of his hands. "And he wanted me to help him." He sniffled as he fought back tears.

"Aidan, this is not your fault." I breathed.

"Oh no? That little boy is going to die."

"Rebecca saw me on the way here. Long story short, she knows what happened and she wants you to turn Bernie. Though I completely disagree with her, she wants you to turn him." Aidan sighed and then gave a light chuckle.

"Yeah, and look what that's done to Rebecca and me. Look at you. Over a hundred years old and you can still barely control your lust for human blood."

"We manage."

"I don't wanna manage anymore!"

"What does that mean?"

"Glaceon, what's the point? What is the point? What is the point of having this power? I could that little boy's life, but I'm not going to." I gently placed my hands on his face to soothe him as he started to cry. It broke me in half. I bet a stake through the heart didn't feel nearly as bad as watching Aidan cry. "I'm just gonna sit and watch him die."

"Hey…Oh…*You were once my one companion. You were all that mattered. You were once a friend and father. Then my world was shattered.*" My singing voice echoed through the blood den. Aidan leaned down and pulled me into a bear hug, relaxing to the sound of my voice.

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I paced the length of the couch as I tried to take in the news that Aidan told me and Josh the next day.

"You turned Bernie?" Josh wanted to be sure.

"No, not me." Aidan said, sitting on the edge of the couch. "Rebecca."

"And you, you caused Rebecca. Oh! Oh my god, Aidan! How could you keep this a secret?"

"Look, I didn't tell you because you couldn't help and I knew that you would disintegrate, like you're doing now."

"What about me, Aidan?" I questioned him, trying to control my anger. "I could have helped."

"I didn't tell you because I knew you would get pissed at Rebecca and go after her and kill her."

"Yes, I would have. Jesus Christ, Aidan! We're talking about the monster who tried to kill me in the alleyway. You only tell us things when—when crap has already exploded! When its raining down on us! When you don't have a choice! And now three boys are dead because of you. And Cara and Rebecca and god knows who else-"

"I'm telling you this because you two are my best friends! And you're right. Yeah, ok. Things have gotten out of control. And it may be I have to leave for a little bit."

"Excuse me? Did I just hear you correctly? Were you going to me this, Aidan?"

"I was going to, Glacey, I'm telling you now."

"We are best friends." Josh said. "But maybe it's better if you did leave."

"Josh!" I exclaimed.

"It's for the best, Glaceon."

"For the best my ass!" I phased and ran out the door.

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It was late by the time I got back from home that night. I walked up the steps of the silent house and made my way quietly down the hallway to my bedroom. As I past Aidan's room, I smelt salt and heard sniffling. I slowly backed up to the room and gingerly opened the door to Aidan's room and saw him sitting on his bed crying. He looked up at me and my breath hitched in my throat at the sight of the tears cutting and slicing at his beautiful, flawless face. I walked in and closed the door and sat down next to him. I grabbed his hands and brought them up to my face. He laid back onto his bed and I ran my hand down his face.

"My love," I whispered. "My beautiful love. Don't cry. Oh, Aidan. My Aidan. It's gonna be ok. My love. *Could it be the world's gone colder? Or maybe I'm a losing soul? The more I try it just gets harder, and my pain is getting old. Somebody said that nothing lasts forever. Just a storm so I've been told. But it seems that when it rains, it pours.*" I watched as Aidan drifted slowly into sleep, clinging to my hand.

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A/N: The first song Glaceon sang Aidan was Wishing You Were Here by The Phantom of the Opera. The second song she sang to Aidan was The Rain Don't Last by Hope.