A/N: Well we are rocking and rolling here, I hope you are enjoying the story as much as I am enjoying writing it. I know that I haven't really gone into Astrid's past as much as I should have and I plan on fixing that. Please bare with me, this is my first Izombie fic and the characters are very complex, especially Blaine's. As always I don't own Izombie or any characters there in, I own Astrid though. ENJOY! PS the title of this story is a line from the song Darkside by Kelly Clarkson.

Chapter 4- Don't Run Away, Promise me You'll Stay-

Astrid looked at her bandaged hand in annoyance. "Im a zombie and my hand hurts like a bitch."

She looked at Blaine. "We can feel pain?" Blaine nodded with a smile. "We can feel pain, we're not invincible." Astrid leaned back into the couch. "This sucks." Just then there was the sound of Skillet's Freak Show going off somewhere on Blain's desk. "That I guess would be your phone." Blaine said getting up and retrieving Astrid's phone off his desk. "Nice ringtone." Blaine laughed handing her the phone. Astrid smiled meekly. "Hey its a good song and I like Skillet." She said looking to see who was calling.

Liv.

She hit the answer button nervously and put the phone to her ear. " Hey Liv." "Astrid where are you?! Its nearly midnight!" Astrid bristled at the annoyance in her cousins tone. "Hey, Im an adult I can stay out as long as I want Olivia, and on top of that your not my parent." "Astrid just please tell me where you are." Liv pleaded. Astrid smirked slightly and Blaine had to admit it was cute. "You won't like the answer." "Your with Blaine…" Liv said softly almost to herself. "Yeah, and for your info he isn't as bad as you make him out to be." "Please let me talk to him." Liv said with an icy calmness. Astrid handed her phone to Blaine. "She wishes to speak to you." Blaine took the phone and put it to his ear. " Liv." "Blaine please bring her home, be a decent human being for once and do the right thing." Liv stated as calmly as she could. Blaine looked at Astrid as she studied her bandaged hand. He knew she needed to patch things up with her cousin. He didn't want her and Liv to have a fall out, he knew that kind of pain all to well. "Sure we'll be there soon." He hung up before Liv could say anything else. He handed Astrid her phone and sighed. "Astrid I know your mad at your cousin, but you have to fix things between the two of you." Astrid looked at him. " I know but its not as easy as you think, she lied to me. She kept secrets from me. I've bounced from home to home all my childhood life with my family lying to me. And when I came to live with her she promised to never lie to me or keep secrets…And what did she do? She broke that trust, that trust that was hard for me to put in her."

"Astrid I know how that is, trusting people is hard. I had a huge fall out with my father, he was never around when I was a kid and I had a horrible childhood. Trusting people for us is not an easy thing. The thing is, I don't want you to have what I have with my father…Which is a violent non existent relationship." Astrid looked at Blaine. "Why do you care so much about my relationship with Liv?" He smiled. "Well as much as her and Peyton have painted me a bad guy, I do care about a few people. Not only that I've been trying to turn my life around." Astrid smiled back. "And I'm one of those few people?"

"Maybe."Blaine said with a smirk. "If I may ask, why don't Liv and Peyton like you anyway?" Astrid asked trying to stay calm at Blaine's answer to her last question. Blaine looked away for a moment. "i've done somethings that Im not proud of and they really have the right to be angry at me." He said vaguely. Astrid decided to just let the subject drop. "Um well, if your going to take me home Im going to need my clothes." She said changing the subject. Blaine nodded and stood up and left the room to get her clothes.

Astrid stood up and stretched. Her once long black hair was now solid white and her eyes that where once a honey brown where now a honey gold. She was afraid to go home and have Liv see her new state. She knew Liv would blame Blaine but Astrid was determined to keep that from happening. Blaine returned with Astrid's clothes and Astrid saw that they had been washed and dried. "oh thanks for washing them." She said with a smile. "No problem, I couldn't have you wearing wet dirty clothes." Blaine chuckled. Astrid took her clothes and stepped into the bathroom that was attached to the office and closed the door. She quickly changed and stepped back into the office. She looked at Blaine who was staring out a window deep in thought. "Blaine? You okay?" She asked. When he turned and looked at her the moonlight hit him just right and he seemed to have a halo. Astrid swallowed hard and cleared her throat, her heart beating a mile a minute. "Yeah Im fine Im just thinking." Blaine said looking at her and then back out the window. Astrid walked over to him and placed a hand on his arm. "Hey, I just want you to know I don't think your a horrible guy. Everyone has a dark side, or a terrible past they don't want people to know about. But you can't peg someone a terrible person because of their baggage. If we did we would all be horrible people." Blaine turned and looked at her. "How do you know Im not such a bad guy?" Astrid smiled. "Call it a sixth sense."

_Later_

Blaine parked his car in the apartment building parking lot and killed the engine. He looked at Astrid who was visibly nervous. "You okay?" He asked. Astrid nodded. "Yeah Im just worried about how this is going to go over." Blaine smiled. "It'll be okay, just remember Liv loves you." They got out of the car and walked up to the building and walked in. They took the stairs to the second floor and headed to Astrid and Liv's apartment.

Astrid stood outside the apartment door nervously looking at the door handle. "Its okay Astrid, Im right here." Blaine assured her as he took her hand gently. Astrid looked at him and smiled lightly. "Thank you." She opened the apartment door and stepped inside, Blaine following after her. Liv looked up from looking at her phone. "Astrid? Oh my god where were you!?" She asked, then her eyes shifted to Blaine. "Why are you here?" Astrid stepped between Blaine and Liv. "Liv…" She said gently stepping into the kitchen light. Liv looked at her and it finally dawned on her the appearance of her cousin. "Oh my god…" Liv whispered walking over to her cousin and touching her hair and face. "How?" She turned angrily to Blaine. "YOU! YOU DID THIS!" She snarled her eyes going red. Ravi and Peyton who Astrid had just noticed where standing in the kitchen looked between Liv and Blaine. Peyton looked angry, while Ravi looked as if he didn't know whether to intervene or not.

Blaine glared at Liv his eyes going red. "I didn't do anything, I saved her life from a zombie that was going to kill her. The guy infected her." He growled. Liv stepped towards him but Astrid stepped between the two of them. "LIV STOP!" Liv looked at Astrid as if it was the first time she had seen her. Astrid looked at her cousin pleadingly. "Blaine didn't infect me, he's not lying" Liv's face softened and she looked at Blaine who nodded. "Blaine, if this is true…Then I owe you an apology." Liv said as her eyes went back to normal, but the anger was still there. "Im sorry for accusing you, and I thank you for saving her." Blaine's eyes went back to normal but he could still feel the anger coming from Liv, Ravi, and Peyton. Astrid looked at Liv and then at Ravi and Peyton. She could see that they were still angry and it pissed her off. "What is it with you guys?! Why are you guys being so mean? Can't you see he's trying to change?" Peyton laughed. "Change? Him? What all has he told you Astrid? huh? Did he tell you everything?" Astrid looked at Blaine. Blaine looked at her then turned and left slamming the door. Astrid turned and glared at Peyton. "I'll tell you what I told Blaine. Everybody has a dark side, or a terrible past they don't want people to know about. But you shouldn't peg someone as a bad person because of their baggage because then we would all be bad people." Peyton looked at Astrid surprised at the comment. "Why would you say that?" Astrid's amber gaze flared. "Because if you damn him because of his past, then you have to damn me because of mine."

_Next time in Zombie Angel_

Blaine looked at Astrid with a strange look in his eyes. "Astrid there is something you need to know about me. Astrid looked at him afraid of what he might say. "Blaine before you say anything…Just let me say something first." She said timidly. Blaine looked at her curiously. "Yeah?" Astrid stood there for a moment trying to figure out what to say. Blaine watched her and could see she was fighting herself. Before she knew what was happing Blaine gently pulled her against his body and kissed her….

A/N: Another chapter ended and another will be posted again soon. please read and review!