Disclaimer: -I own nothing but Arianna and Alex…. unfortunately.

**Arianna's POV**

I hate her! I hate her so much right now. I swear I'm going to kill her! As soon as she turns around I'm going to… to… damn it. Who am I kidding? I probably couldn't even hurt a fly. That still didn't mean I wanted to do this! Sure we had said we'd think of something for Godric yesterday, well more like late last night/ early morning. But why did we have to help out like this?

"Calm down already!" Alex snapped. "…before you end up sweating like a pig."

"Eww." I said making a face.

I hated sweat. I don't know about you but I was never really okay being covered in that sticky, gross stuff. It was in no way appealing. Eww. I also was 'never really okay' about being forced into doing something that was bound to fail. But apparently, Alex doesn't seem to care.

We had about five hours of sleep. Well I did anyways. She was able to snore for another two before finally waking up, but I just hadn't been able to go back to sleep no matter how hard I'd tried. After all, we needed to look normal, okay, not about to fall on our faces It was a lot easier to sleep this time too. The guys had once again turned to stay in the basement, no doubt Eric was still using the lock too.

We'd decided to just go out for breakfast instead of even going into the kitchen that morning, or actually noon. So make that lunch. I would've just gone without it and sucked it up for a few more hours to do this, but she would've just force fed me something anyways so I didn't bother. Now we were all full and looked good enough to pass, even though I felt dead on my feet.

"I'd say about five more minutes."

Great. Almost there. What a joy. On the bright side, she did do one thing right. John, a guy on my street, had had a crush on her since before we can remember. Let's just say he didn't put up much of a fight considering we were now driving down the street in his car.

"Come on, Ari. Calm down."

"We're about to rob a hospital for a shitload of blood! How the hell do you just accept that?" I countered.

"Easy. We're not gonna get caught."

"Hmph."

This was the problem right there. Her great plan involved us just stealing a bunch of blood. From a hospital! She was crazy! I'll admit that we hadn't come up with anything else, but I just couldn't bring myself to go along with it. It was a hospital for Christ sake! The whole thing just seemed so wrong. Doesn't it?

I hadn't exactly let it go either. We were arguing pretty much up until she got the car out of nowhere. The thing is my uncle used to work there and my mother used to be a nurse there before she got transferred, so I knew the place about as well as my own house. Not to mention all the time I spent there with a cousin when he took an internship a few years back. Then, it just so happens that they were having their annual blood drive yesterday. So as Alex had said, 'This is perfect!'

And in a way, it was. We had a pretty awesome opportunity here compared to going out and draining someone or having them hunt down half the city's population. Even if Godric resisted, and commanded Eric to do so too, they could only hold off for so long, right. Chances are they end up doing something eventually, and I'm willing to bet they wouldn't be really happy about it happening either. So this was a pretty good plan. I just couldn't stop being such a pessimist right now. Honestly! Things like this never go as planned for a reason.

"We're here!" she said so cheerfully it sounded like we'd just made it to a Baskin Robin's or something.

I didn't even look at her as I let out a loud groan as I looked around the hospital parking lot..

"Oh lighten up, pal. After all, we're supposed to be here to help cheer up patients like the good girls we are." She said smirking at the last part.

I couldn't help but let out a small chuckle. We grown up here and as big as the city was, people around here where we lived were pretty used to seeing us since we were really young, with my mom's job and all. Over the years it was pretty common knowledge that we were always around each other, for those who knew us. And even though we could be pretty mischievous sometimes, we were pretty much thought of as a couple of 'helpful, considerate, and caring young girls'. Just another reason she thought this would go smoothly.

"Fine! Okay." I said turning to her. "But I still don't like it."

"You don't have to. I'm just glad you're willing to help." She said with a smile.

"Aww. Now let's go before I change my mind." I said and opened up the door.

We both walked over to where we knew the visitors' entrance was. I was honestly very nervous that we were going to get caught, but I was also a bit nervous about a lot of things at the moment, so it really didn't push me over the edge or anything. I had two ancient vampires, from another 'reality' I might add, currently staying at my house, I still had to figure out what to do about the front door, my parents were out of town, and it was just a matter of time before Alex's mom called her home at least for a few hours before letting her slip away again, and who knows what I'd be able to do on my own.

"Oh my lord! Look at you girls! You are both such pretty little things."

"It's so nice to see you again, Margaret!" I said in that one perfect hundred watt smile I knew she'd easily fall for.

"Oh, darlin'. Always so sweet I see." She said smiling at as like she just wanted to bring us into a hug.

We hadn't been here, even for checkups, in about three years so I'm willing to bet she did.

"I'm sorry, Margaret, but we were wondering if we could stay awhile. You know. Help out by cheerin' up some of the patients like we used to." Alex said with that innocent little charm of hers.

I almost believed her myself. It was like looking at a teenager with the innocence, heart of gold, and helpfulness of a five year old. I was actually kind of jealous. I could act all innocent and sweet, but never to that extent. Poor Margaret didn't stand a chance. She never really did, actually.

Her eyes immediately softened and I could have sworn her heart just melted at the thought of us 'big teens' being so 'darn sweet'.

"Oh, my girls. Of course you can. You know you're always welcome here whenever you like. We always need some helping around here and we'd be glad to have you as long as you can. I only wish more children nowadays were like you two angels." She said eating it up just like we'd hoped.

"Oh, Margaret. Stop." She said giving her a very girlish and shy giggle.

"Yes. Please do." I said, not even having to try at all considering I meant it.

"Oh, you girls. Always so modest." she said giving us an appreciative look. "Well you two should still know your way around still."

"Yes ma'am."

"How could we forget." I said, although this time throwing Alex a quick look, even with the smile plastered on my face.

"Well take these." She said handing over two of the 'volunteer' tags that basically gave you access to wonder around without question, just like Alex had bet on. "Go right ahead girls."

We took them and put them on quickly before sharing a few more words goodbye and making for the big doors over to the side.

"You know. For somebody who was so against this, you sure could've fooled me with that acting." She said smirking once we were alone in the hallway.

I just let out a sigh while shaking my head slightly.

"Just because I was, am, against it doesn't mean I was just gonna bail on you. Being friends does mean something, you know."

I really wasn't expecting to be crushed in a bear hug just then, so the sudden squeal that left me wasn't exactly planned.

"Aww! I knew being friends with you would pay off someday! I really am a great judge of character, huh?"

"Oh, shut up!" I said just as I pushed her of me.

Even so, we were both chuckling at ourselves in no time.

"Honestly though," she said turning to me. "Thanks for backing me up and helping me with this."

"Any time." I said with a big smile.

She smiled a genuine smile too before deciding to ruin the moment all too soon.

"Now. Let's go get us some blood! Woo!"

I groaned as we kept on walking and she only started laughing before catching up.

**LATER**

Thank god for Alex! I know I was sort of hating her earlier, but she had really thought about pretty much everything we were going to need. That included the large enough bags/purses she'd found us to stash the blood in.

I was still so incredibly relieved nobody had seen anything or noticed us at all. We didn't take it all, since about a quarter of the city always turned up for this, but there was still an okay amount missing. I had thought somebody would have noticed some missing by now. Then again, barely fifteen minutes was probably a bit of a stretch.

"Hold on there."

I froze mid step, wanting nothing more than to take off running. Lucky for me, Alex kept her cool.

"Yes? How can we help you, sir?" she said turning around with me not far behind.

It was one of the late afternoon security guards. He was a good five inches taller than us, clad in the typical grayish uniform, and complete with the big gut.

"Spoke to Margaret a while back. Said both of you two were gonna be helping out for the day. Why you two leaving so soon?" he said, eying us suspiciously.

"My mom called. She said she needed me home soon. We have to leave early so I still have time to stop by her home first." She said politely.

"Don't forget your mom wanted us to pick up some dry cleaning before they close." I put in to make it more believable. "We should go, if you don't mind."

"Of course. You two girls drive safe." He said.

We smiled, turned back around, got in the car, and drove away after waving goodbye at the still suspicious looking security guard.

It took about twenty minutes to get back home, but even with everything going on, I was happy when we were.

"We really should fix that door." She said as we walked to the kitchen.

"Later. We've got to put these away first."

And that's what happened. I was almost done putting away the second when she finally spoke up.

"You know, I probably should go."

"What!"

"Don't worry, I'll come back. You're parents are out of the country, so my mom could care less if I lived here for the week. That still doesn't mean I don't have to check in every now and then." She reasoned.

"Fine." I sighed.

I knew she was right. Her mom was pretty much the most understanding parent, let alone person, I've ever met. She deserved to at least talk to her for a bit.

"Don't worry, buddy." She said before giving me a quick hug. "I'll be back as soon as I can. You can handle then for a few hours, right?"

"But what about the…"

But she was gone. I could hear the car leaving the driveway and I was here, alone, with about two hours till sundown. Great.

"I sure hope I can do this." I whispered.

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So there you go. For all those that were left thinking and wondering with that kinda cliff hanger last chapter… there you go. Yes I know that they could fend for themselves. After all, those two doing so for the past 1000(and 2000) years proves it. But I just thought about what they might honestly try to do. I know if I were them I'd probably try and keep them inside my house and worry about the rest myself. (Yes, even with how illogical that might seem. And don't point fingers because I'm sure many of you out there would do that too.)

p.s. -I've gotten some comments about it being a bit hard/confusing with me changing up the POV's and all. I try to make them all as obvious as I can but I'm pretty much just going to go back & write in who's who in all the chapters. So please ignore all the story update's or whatever for any chapter but THIS one. THANK YOU!