Ok so, first off:
I'm so sorry it took so long!
I've been ridiculously busy with work and I shot this wedding so
I have a bajillion pictures to edit... blah blah blah.

And I had MAJOR writer's block. I had this chapter written but had NO idea how to follow it.
I didn't want to post it until I knew the direction.
But I think I've figured it out.
But it's also pretty different, so I'll just make it a sequel.
Yeah, sounds good.

Hopefully I didn't lose all you kids with my month and a half absence!

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CHANGING TIMES.

An hour before sunrise, they all stood in the living area of Grandpa Emerson's house. Lucy sat between her sons on the couch while Edgar sat on the arm by Sam and Alan stood behind him. Mirroring the Frog brothers on the opposite side, Star leaned on the arm next to Michael, holding Laddie close to her. Grandpa kept wandering from room to room. Sometimes he was at the fridge, sometime behind the couch, sometimes nowhere to be seen.
The five vampires stood in front of the couch, facing the humans. David stood in the middle, a step forward from the rest. Dwayne and Paul stood off to his left with the latter directly in front of the Frogs. He was very disappointed that he couldn't kill them... at least not yet. But he was enjoying scaring them. The entire time the group talked, Paul never took his eyes off them. The two boys fidgeted nervously under his glare, their fear increasing every time he teasingly licked his lips. If he couldn't physically torture them yet, he was going to at least make sure they lived the rest of their lives in fear. On the other side of David, Marko stood behind Kaiya with his arms hugging her neck and shoulders. She was holding on to his forearms, letting her elbows hang down. She stood proudly next to her family and flashed the same smirk that she guessed Marko was wearing too. She couldn't help but be amused by the fear radiating from the humans in front of them.
"So do you understand what happens now? Are you going to keep your end of the deal?"
"Yes. You let us live, we won't kill you," Michael responded to David's question. Then, for the first time since they gave her the Readers Digest version of all the relevant the events, Lucy spoke up.
"Um, I think Santa Carla isn't the best place for us anymore. Michael, Sam, we should take Grandpa and move away. That way no one will bother anyone."
"Good idea, Lucy."
Michael twitched at hearing David address his mother. He didn't like it, but he didn't dare say anything about it. He just turned to his mother and little brother.
"It would probably be best." He glanced back at the other two former half vampires for a moment before continuing. "But I want Star and Laddie to come, too."
Nobody objected. It only seemed right. They couldn't just abandon them. They hadn't actually done anything wrong and they were human again now. Star and Laddie both broke into huge grins at the thought of a real home. No more caves, no more strange sleeping patterns. They could have a real life, not a nocturnal one. David sneered at Star's happy expression. After everything she had done, he thought that she didn't deserve it. But he quickly erased the thought from his mind and face. He was finally rid of her and it was all worth it. Sure, he wished that Michael wouldn't have taken Star's side, but not everyone can handle the life of a vampire.
"Now that that's all settled, let's go." David turned back to Kaiya and the boys, signaling their departure.
"Wait!"
They all turned back to the woman who was now standing with something clearly on her mind. Nobody responded verbally, so she just continued with her thought uninterrupted.
"Kaiya, is this what you really want?"
"Yes, Lucy. It is. I finally feel like I belong somewhere."
"You never felt that way with your father? Not with us?"
"Not since Mom died. Something was always missing. But I found it in these boys. I will always love you guys, though, and I will always think of you as part of my family. And I stress the 'always.'" She winked as she looked towards Sam and he nodded back at her.
Lucy smiled at her with sadness in her eyes. "I want you to be happy. Even if that means you're a ... vampire." She said it with a slight chuckle while rolling her eyes. Kaiya could tell that she still just barely believed any of what's been happening. Kaiya smiled at them before turning her back and following the boys out.

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Within a week, Lucy, the boys, Star and Laddie had all moved out of Santa Carla and out of California. Grandpa had refused to leave. He knew about the vampires long ago. That night hadn't changed anything. Plus, he was finally getting somewhere with the widow Johnson. The only problem remaining was the Frog brothers. They had stopped forcing the vampire comics onto their customers as was part of the deal, but every now and then a copy would mysteriously fall into a customer's bag. David didn't worry about it as long as the brothers weren't pushing it. He had to wait for them to take a huge step in the wrong direction before unleashing the impatient Paul on them. Otherwise, the others might take it as a sort of breach of contract.

As far as Kaiya's new life, she never felt more whole since her mother's death. She fell right into place, like she had never lived anywhere else. She knew that this was what was meant to happen to her. Not only was being with Marko her fate, but so was being a vampire.

"THIS IS NOT THE END. IT IS NOT EVEN THE BEGINNING OF THE END. BUT IT IS, PERHAPS, THE END OF THE BEGINNING."
--Winston Churchill

I know it was short.
But this seems like it could end here?
I was going to end it with a cliffhanger, but it wasn't a story ending cliffhanger.
Just a normal one. So I cut it short.

Guess you'll just have to read the sequel? =P
It'll start with a cliffhanger. How's that?
I think I've decided to name it Bye Bye, Dollface.

Hope you all enjoyed my all too happy "ending."

Love, peace and chicken grease.