Hi and hello. It's been sooo long. Did I develop my story more during my absence? NO?! OTL

I was considering to revamping this story actually. But I decided...not yet. Not yet.

Anyways, disclaimers. And enjoy~!

p.s i think this chapter suck

Yui sat in front of the mirror in her bedroom. She looked at her reflection in the mirror and didn't like what she saw; a weak and indecisive girl who couldn't do anything on her own.

She always thought it was because she was the weaker one: the prey and livestock: the human in a vampire's lair, but after seeing Marie, Zane, Azura and Esme, she realized it was just because she was just weak. She had no excuse.

The four girls were also humans(as far as she knew), but they could all fend for themselves from both normal everyday humans boys to vampires and even other monsters. Never had she felt so ashamed of herself. Why did she always require protection from others?

Yui looked at the tube in her palms and slowly let out a sigh. She might as well do as Marie told her. She squeezed out a bit of the ointment at the tip of her index finger and rubbed it on the cut on her cheek. The ointment had a cool and soothing sensation on her skin and took away the pain she didn't know that was there. Yui couldn't help but smile at the feeling and be grateful to Marie.

She took a deep breathe of the scent of the ointment. It was surprisingly good, unlike the nasty potions and other things Reiji would make for her. The ointment smelled like roses, thyme and another particular scent that she couldn't tell what it was, but it smelled familiar.

She hummed to herself as she wiped her hands when she dropped the tube, dazed. "I, I know this scent….," her lips quivered as she whispered to herself.

"I know that I know it," she clenched her chest in pain. Yui felt unexplainable pain in her heart and she felt so sad. Tears fell down on the floor as she had another unwitting flashback.

...

She was in a unfamiliar room where she could smell various scents of plants.

"You should have been careful, Yui, and what were you thinking, going to the werewolves' forest? I've told you that it's a dangerous place!" Someone scolded her. Yui felt herself sadden at the tone of person's voice because she knew that person was truly worried for her.

The person used a cotton-bud to apply something on her knees. It smelled like parsley, sage, rose, and thyme.

"I wanted to get this for you," the younger Yui said as she held up a plant still with its roots at the person.

The other person stood still for a moment and then took the plant from Yui and patted her head. "You are such a sweet girl, Yui. You got this for me all the way in that forest?"

Yui nodded.

The other person's lips curved upwards, "Thank you, Yui."

Yui looked upwards to the person's face and smiled happily.

….

"Well, at least they weren't drinking her blood," shrugged Azura at Marie.

Esme rubbed her temples and sighed, "But that is not the point, Azura."

Zane wrote down something more in her notebook and chewed her lips. "So, their personalities wasn't affected much by the potion. I thought all their violent tendencies had to do with their vampiric instincts, but now I guess not." Zane looked at Marie with worry.

Marie was sitting on a couch and she had her eyes closed shut.

"Yes, Zane. The potion didn't affect their behavior because it has nothing to do with being a vampire. It's just who they are. They had terrible parenting, after all."

She the creases on her forehead deepened.

Subaru punched the wall hard at the mention of parenting. "What did you say, you wench?" Esme looked at him like he was crazy.

Marie raised an eyebrow but still had her eyes closed, "I don't have sex with every male I encounter and I don't sell my body, you son of a bastard. The term you just used is actually more fit for your own mother, Christa."

Reiji, despite his pitiful situation - his face was covered with scratches, his glasses were broken, and he had a pack of ice against his forehead - chuckled at what Marie had said, which only got him a fierce glare from Marie.

The other vampires, however, all went pale at what Marie had said. The other three girls and Yui looked nervously at Marie. The three girls knew that Marie was right now very angry and disappointed at both the result of the potion and the behavior of the vampires, but they were also well aware how Subaru was very sensitive about his mother.

Subaru's nostrils flared and jumped at Marie. Just as his fist was about to reach her face Marie opened her eyes and caught his fist with a swift movement and slammed it on the floor, smashing him face first to the floor. Laito and Ayato both winced at the sight.

"Oh, that looks bad," mumbled Laito.

Ayato absentmindedly nodded in agreement. "If she is the person who made me unconscious with a single hit, yeah that's going to hurt a lot. I feel for him and tableware-otaku."

"Foolish boy," Marie said as she picked Subaru up and threw him on the couch she was sitting. Subaru groaned and held his forehead, and fist that was caught by Marie. "I apologize. I shouldn't have said what I've said about Christa when i knew about the situation. Since as a matter of fact…."

She turned to the triplets and frowned, "The slut of this vampire family is Cordelia."

Ayato was indifferent about the statement, but Laito and Kanato were offended.

Laito did have a sexual relationship and attachment to his mother and Kanato was always pleading for her attention, so they both still had some sentimental feelings for their late mother, unlike Ayato who never had any soft spot for the women who was emotionally abusive towards him and threatened to drown and disown him if he disobeyed her.

Marie slumped down next to Subaru and sighed, "Really, the only real horrible mother in this family was Cordelia, yet you all turned out psychotic. Well, being a bad parent doesn't always means they have to be abusive and sexually frustrated all the time." Laito's eyebrows slightly twitched at her words. Marie glanced over at Ayato and Kanato and scoffed, "I forgot to add having a major superiority complex and being destitute of attention."

Shu narrowed his eyes at Marie. "Why does it matter that our mothers were good parents or not?"

"Because I'm starting to have the desire to either resurrect them all and give them a very long lecture on how terrible they were and kill them again or go back through time and kick their butts just for my satisfaction." Marie said and her stormy grey eyes glinted dangerously.

"Or maybe I could just killed Christa," Marie added cynically, and her grey eyes seemed to turn amber. "I don't like her either. Delusional, meek, and mentally unstable. Not a good mother either."

Subaru clenched his fist and shook visibly from anger.

Esme looked at Marie with wide-eyed, Azura bit on her nails and Zane looked at Marie with worry. They all knew too well that Marie was capable of doing it and feared for the ones who would have to face her wrath and her powers.

The vampires however, looked only slightly amused and surprised at Marie's words.

Reiji seemed the most interested.

"Bring back the dead? How on Earth will you do that?" He said at Marie.

"Don't act like you weren't researching for a way to resurrect your mother, boy."

"….I have no idea what you are talking about."

"What was it that you wrote in that book of yours? The asphodel has to be picked on the night when the blood moon is full so that the plant gets the energy of the death and life, because if not, she'd be only half alive even when she is 'resurrected' by the ritual?" Marie made mocking quotation marks with her fingers and smirked.

"Only half alive? Like a zombie, you mean? Ha! I can make her fully come back to life if I wanted, you fool!" Marie laughed cynically at him.

Reiji clenched his fist and tried to keep himself calm. He imagined her to rummage through his studies when they weren't looking. Sneaky and stealthy, he admitted , but he only found her ridiculous. However, the next part bewildered him.

"You also added that you might need a vessel to contain her soul, just in case you wouldn't be able to bring back Beatrix's body as well, which I may add was very smart of you to take note of." Marie smirked at him. "But do tell, who were planning to use as the vessel? Hmm? Care to share, Danny-boy?"

Reiji felt his hands trembling.

Marie looked at him hard in his eyes, "Who were you planning to use to contain Beatrix's soul, just to kill her again? I'm sure it wouldn't be any human girl or even vampire, for that matter; you absolutely idolize you mother, even now in the back of your mind after all. Pray tell, who is this near-perfect girl chosen to be your mother's vessel?"

Reiji's hands were visibly shaking now, because that part about the vessel was never written in any of his research documents. It was a highly classified bit of information he had, in his mind. He had never written it or recorded it in any form.

Reiji looked at Marie, and he instinctively knew that this….woman also knew who he had planned to use as the vessel. "H…How?"

"I have my ways," Marie said calmly, pleased with the effect of her knowledge.

A cold silence filled the room.

"Hold on a sec," cried Ayato, "Four-eyes, I have a feeling I know who this vessel is going to be…," his voice shook with anger. He grabbed Reiji by his collar and shoved him to the wall, "If you ever even think about using what is mine, you will pay the consequences!"

"Nice to know someone wants Yui alive," said Marie as she clapped her hands and gave Ayato a crooked smile.

Zane looked thoroughly disturbed. "He was planning to use Yui?" She gaped at Reiji. "Yui was going to use as a vessel to hold a dead vampire's soul? And on top of that, he was planning to kill her afterwards? What is wrong with you?" Zane looked absolutely appalled at the idea, "You are sick!"

Laito smirked at Zane, "So, our little Bitch is not the only one to care so much about others, eh? It's actually quite sweet to watch. It makes me wonder how you'll taste."

Zane gave him a rare glower full of contempt, "Stay away! I don't want to be near any of you!"

She looked like she might cry, "How are you fine with the idea of bringing back your own mother back from the dead, for the sake of killing her again?!"

"It's not me who's the strange one here! Any creature with the right sense will find the idea appalling! It's you who are the psychotic wretches!"

After she had let out her frustrations, Zane took a deep breath and tried to steady herself. Esme patted her.

"Yui, would you mind making Zane a cup of tea?" Marie said to Yui.

Yui stood up immediately, "I'd be glad to." She took Zane by the hands and guided her out the room.

Once they were out Marie gave Laito a bemused dry smile, "I get that you're finding her intriguing with her intelligence and compassion and all, but you'll never get her the way you got Cordelia, or even Yui, for that matter. Zane is the most honest and compassionate one out of the four of us, thanks to her living the 'normal' life before." She smirked at Laito, " And her idea of 'love' is certainly truly very different from you."

Laito kept a straight face, but did feel a bit uneasy at what Marie has said; regarding his attitude, and he and his mother.

"And you redhead, let him go now." Marie gestured at Ayato and Reiji.

"None of you are better than the other anyways. Dying from blood loss, being used as a sacrificial lab rat, or being turned into a wax doll…what's the difference? She dies anyways."