"The plan here is not to draw attention to yourself, dear. Just find someone you think would be rather….easy to persuade, and get them out in the back, where it's dark. Then work your charm, but don't show those pearly whites until he's under your spell. Alright?"

AJ nodded as she held William's hand as the two walked into the bar. Instantly cigarette smoke and alcohol hit her nose, which she wrinkled in disgust.

"It's alright. I'll be waiting, right here. Now go, have fun. Just remember, we need to be home by sun up." He murmured, kissing her pinned up hair as AJ slipped out of his reach, smiling at all the different scents in the room.

'Hm…this is going to be easier than I thought.' AJ thought, winding through the crowd out the dancefloor to the main bar.

Sitting just a few seats over from the jukebox was a pretty twenty something, brunette hair pulled back into a braid.

'Just work your charm' William's words rang in her head. Easily done.

"Mind if I set here?" AJ asked the girl, who shook her head.

"Go ahead. You scoutin' for a date too?"

"Guess you could say that." AJ replied, looking across the bar towards William, who nodded, walking off toward the backdoor.

"So…what are you drinking?" the brunette asked.

"Oh…uh, I don't. Just like the atmosphere. Y'know?"

She nodded, "yeah…the music. I had a friend like you, she'd just go to bars to listen to the band, maybe to find a hot guy to oogle at when he thought she wasn't looking."

AJ smiled, she could barely remember liking anyone but William.

"That's fun…if you want, we could leave this bar and go to other one, I've got a friend in a band that plays every other night and his friend is pretty good looking. And single," she added with a laugh.

The brunette smiled, "Yeah, that sound fine. It's too smoky in here for me, anyways."

And with that, AJ and the brunette got up and headed out back into the darkened alley where William was waiting.

It was just her luck Amelia had ran into AJ at the first bar she'd headed to. It appeared as though AJ didn't recognize her at all though, as Lucian had said would happen.

"So…I'm sorry I forgot to ask, but what's your name?" she asked.

"That's not important. You shouldn't care." AJ replied icily, stepping into the shadows of the alleyway, only to be found in William Beckett's arms a second later.

"You did well, my love…first time out and you have yet to kill," he observed, his hands resting on her sides, rubbing them soft enough to ease a moan out of her as she tipped her head back against his shoulder.

Amelia couldn't believe it. Lucian was right, she had fallen in love with him.

"Y-Yet to kill? Please, if I had my weapons, you and your prissy little girl would be dead." Amelia retorted, the demon already growing restless.

"Prisy little girl? Girl, who do you think you are?" AJ questioned her tone distant, and sharp.

Amelia saw her lip twitch in a snarl baring her fangs as Beckett must have tightened his grip around her, "Easy darling, she doesn't mean that. Do you, my dear?"

Amelia wanted oh so terribly to rip the vampire apart right there. Not only had he sired AJ, he'd just called her 'dear' as though that was supposed to entice her to listen to him and do as she was told. Like that was going to work.

"Oh I mean it. You and your little girlfriend need to fly on back to your mansion and make out there, not in some dark alley. And oh, I'm so scared….vampires. Wow!" she taunted sarcastically as she noticed the hurt crossing AJ's face.

"I'm not prissy. I'm just high class, unlike you. You know, you smell different then normal mortals…can't quite figure it out, but I'd sure love a taste."

Amelia's eyes widened. That had been the same thing Chislett had said to her when they had been enemies. She shook her head, "Good luck. You don't know anything about me."

"How about you come home with me and I'll learn?" said Mike Carden, stepping out of the shadows beside AJ and William.

Amelia internally faceplamed.

'Great….Lucian's going to kill me.'

'Easy my child. Allow them to take you, then try to talk to AJ…only you can put her memory back in place!' the demon argued.

'Yes my Lady…I just hope I don't die in the process.'

"Fine…you're single, I suppose?" she asked, turning to look at Carden, noticing the longing glance he threw at AJ before responding, "Good thing too, because you're a pretty one."

Instantly he came forward to take her hand, lifting it to his lips. Amelia involuntarily shuddered.

"You're real warm," Carden observed, looking into the girl's eyes. Somehow she seemed familiar…

"Let's go then. AJ, you did well, dear." Beckett told her, and Amelia knew if the blonde could have still blushed she would have. But she only smiled gently and took his hand, linking their fingers as they began to walk back to the mansion. Amelia followed Carden's lead.

"You look familiar…have we met before?" he asked.

Amelia gulped, trying to think of a lie, "My sister lives in town, I come to Chicago every few months, so it's possible you've seen me before."

"Oh…I was wondering why you look so scared…something bothering you?"

"Well…I've heard there's vampires in town here…I'm not supposed to be out after seven…but I didn't listen. Could you protect me from them if we get caught by them?" she asked, playing dumb.

Carden smiled, inadvertently revealing his fangs, "Afraid it's too late for that, sweetheart."

On instant, as if it was the fight or flight reaction, Amelia screamed and tried to run, only to find Carden's viselike grip keeping her still. And before she knew it, she was back in the Dandies mansion, in the room she had been in before being moved to the underground bunker.

"William can I please just taste her? Please? I'll leave most of it for you and the boys…." AJ whined as she paced William's office, waiting for him to finish his work.

"Darling it's not about saving it….it's about not killing the girl once you start drinking, you're a newborn so you're still liable to trigger the frenzy once you taste her blood," he reasoned shaking his head.

"But ba-"

"You can go talk to her, but you're not to bit her until I'm present, to keep an eye on you, is that understood?"

AJ pouted slightly, but nodded, "Fine."

AJ headed down the hall to the small bedroom they were keeping the girl in. Hesitantly she opened the door, "You awake?"

The girl sighed slightly, "What do you want?"

"Just to talk. I'm not like the others, don't worry. I'm…much younger, you could say."

Amelia laughed. Damn straight, AJ was younger, only….what? Two hundred and ninety some years William's junior?

"Yeah…you are huh? So…AJ…you think William really loves you?" Amelia asked, smiling as AJ's face twisted in horror.

"How do you know my name?"

"It's Amelia. Your friend."

"I don't have any friends named Amelia."

"That's because William's wiped your memory. You're not yourself!"

"Wiped what memory? He saved me from a gang of vampires and protected me. I'm like him now."

"He just changed you because you let him. You think you're in love with him."

"I am! What do you know?"

"AJ…you're not in love with him. He's destroyed your mind! AJ…listen to me! You like Big Time Rush! Green Day! U2! Matchbox Twenty! Our first concert was Keith Urban when your were twelve! Remember me!" Amelia almost screamed, almost ready to cry.

"I don't know you…I don't know you…" AJ repeated softly, shaking her head.

"Fine…but maybe you'll remember this." Amelia said bitterly, not wanting to do this, but she had to. She hated singing. But if it was the only way to get AJ to remember, she'd have to.

"Cause you're not alone, girl Look over your shoulder You don't have to wonder
Cause you know, you know, you know You're not alone, girl
I'll be there to hold you I'll stay til it's over And you know, you know, you know
That you're not alone That you're not alone..."

She looked at AJ. Tiny tears were at the corner of the hybrid's eyes, her face smiling with recognition.

"Rae…it really is you!…oh god….where am I? And…ew, why am I wearing all this lace?"

"Beckett. We're back in the mansion. He…uh, tricked you into falling in love with you. When you went left with him from the underground bunker, I knew he was up to something. And uh…you're not a lycan anymore."

"N-Not a lycan anymore?"

"Beckett bit you. He…you're half vampire now."

"Ew….wait, bit me?"

"You have fangs. And I'm assuming with the way he's been talking to you that you've been sleeping together…"

"Oh god…I've been sleeping…with William Beckett? Th-the leader of the Dandies?" AJ blinked and then fell onto the bed, swooning.

"You okay?"

"Yeah…I think. But…how are we getting out of here?"

"Well, do you know where our weapons are?"

AJ nodded.

"Good. I've found Gerard and Mikey, they've got Lucian with them. They're waiting til the full moon to attack."

"Attack?"

"AJ, they're going to kill the Dandies. Don't you remember Patrick? He sent us on this mission to kill them."

"Oh….right….oh…okay. But what do-"

"Dear, are you okay? You've become terribly quiet!" William's voice floated down the hall.

"Uh oh…I gotta go….should I…"

"Just tell him I know Gerard. We'll get through this. Tomorrow's the full moon." Amelia reassured, giving AJ's hand a squeeze as she got up, going to spend some time with William.

The minute Adeline walked out of the room the human was in; William sensed something different about her.

"Love, is there something wrong? You seem…confused about something." William stated, lifting her chin with a finger, surprised to see her flinch.

She didn't look in his eyes, wouldn't smile. There really was something wrong.

Deciding to entice her, he leaned in and went to kiss her, only to be met with a muffled sob and teary eyes.

"Ssssshhhhh…..what's wrong? I'm here…ssssshhhh…." William soothed, as she buried her head in his shoulder to cry, still wondering what was wrong. AJ gulped for air against his suit jacket, before pitifully pulling her lips to his.

There was something wrong with this kiss, William thought. It was too….desperate, too…filled with pain.

Abruptly he pulled away to hold her face, study her for any sign.

"What did the human say, love? If you'll tell me, I'll rip her apart right now." He growled, not wanting to see the girl in this condition any longer.

"S-She knows….kn-knows…Gerard….said they're coming. Full moon….oh, William…we're all going to die!" she wailed, tears inconsolable.

William was infuriated. The girl they'd brought back? She was the one that had escaped Brendon and Mike from the bunker. And now here she was, telling him of his death? More importantly, she'd told not him, but the girl he'd trained to love him. He couldn't bear to see her like this, not when she'd have to fight the next night.

So he held her as she cried, every so often humming an old song he knew, hoping it would calm her.

"W-William?" she sniffled, able to catch her breath.

"What is it, dear?"

"You won't let them get me, will you? I l-love y-you…" she stuttered, kissing his neck, any part of his skin she could reach.

William smiled reassuringly as he rubbed her back in small circles, "Of course not. I'll keep you safe forever if I have to, to my death." He promised, blinking.

Too bad he hadn't seen the tiny smile AJ's lips had turned into. Playing him right into his death trap was going to be easier said than done.