Otis knew, from the moment that he smelled Vladimir's blood, that he was dead.

Nonetheless, he ran as fast as possible to the place his body lay.

"How is he?" He huffed to a nurse. She shook her head sadly. Tears flowed down Otis's face.

First Nelly, now Vlad.

Who would he lose next?

When he arrived home, he collapsed onto the couch.

When he awoke, he was in a daze.

The next day was a Saturday, which meant that Otis didn't have to go to work.

He spent the day walking around the neighborhood, passing the time by peeking into peoples head.

He happened to peek into Meredith's, and what he found angered him.

He walked up to her, anger slowing his footsteps.

No one else was around.

"Why?" He croaked.

Meredith looked up, a puzzled look on her face. "Pardon?"

"Why did you kill Vladimir?" Otis's voice cracked a bit.

"I didn't." Meredith opened her book and kept reading as she walked. Otis grabbed her shoulder. "Tell me," he growled, "Or I will rip your heart out and shove it down your throat."

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his heart. Crimson red flowed from his wound onto the ground.

A drop of blood fell from his lips, then a fountain of it burst as he coughed. Otis turned.

Behind him was Joss.

"Wh..."

Joss's face was grim.

"Meredith didn't kill Vlad. He attacked her, and she defended herself." Joss stepped forward and ripped his stake from Otis's chest, making him scream.

"Don't ever-" Joss's face was serious, grim, and furious. "Say that again. Your nephew was a killer - I was right in the begining. I was wrong to trust him once, yet I trusted him twice. What an idiot I am!" He laughed bitterly. "I didn't - no, wouldn't- see what a monster it was."

"You're...wrong..." Otis choked out.

"Wrong? No, you just don't want to believe it. Vlad tried to kill-"

"Joss? Otis?"

Everyone turned to Henry, who had walked in on the scene.

"Why is Otis..."

"He tried to attack Meredith. I had to protect her." Joss said calmly.

"No...Meredith...killed...Vla..."

Henry's eyes widened. "She killed Vlad?"

Otis nodded weakly.

"No, she didn't!" Joss screamed. "Why won't you believe us?"

Otis looked up at Joss's face, his eyes steady. Gently, he pushed his memories of looking into Meredith's mind into Joss and Henry's.

"No..." Joss whispered. "No...you...you can't be..." he turned toward Meredith, his eyes burning with regret, anger, and betrayal. "You killed Vlad? Why?" Meredith shrugged.

"I wanted him, he didn't want me. It was that simple."

Joss flinched. "What about me?"

Meredith waved his question away with her hand. "I just used you to get Vlad."

Joss looked like he had just been slapped.

Henry stepped forward and growled, "Give me that stake, Joss."

Joss looked at him and obeyed.

Henry turned it, enjoying the feel of the wood against his palm.

He leaped forward with amazing speed and tackled Meredith to the floor, surprising her.

Henry lifted the stake into the air and brought it down.

The next day, people started talking about the newest deaths - Meredith Brookstone and Otis Otis.

"Did you hear? They caught the killer!"

"Really? Who was it?"

"Well, more like killers."

"Who? Tell me!"

"Henry and Joss McMillan."

Three months after Meredith's murder, Henry and Joss McMillan were sentenced to a lifetime in jail.

Mwahahaha, am I mean, or not?

Vlad: poor Henry and Joss... *sniff*

Snow: *hands tissue to Vlad* Remember, REVIEW! Senbei accepts flames too, so feel free to curse at him/her/or whatever gender senbei is...