***Zoey***

"Hey guys I know you're tired and want to kill each other, but you're looking really good up there," Erik said from the orchestra pit. All the girls were swooning over his words like he was personally addressing them. Erik smiled at me. "You're amazing Zo," he said before he went back to his seat in the back of the theatre. "Let's run it one more time from Todd's line at the top of scene one act two."

"Action," Damien yelled giving us our cue.

Todd was amazing in his role and it made me nervous about our scenes together. He really commands the stage with his presence even when he has no immediate lines you'd find yourself watching him. Aaron and Olivia were great, but Todd was amazing. He reminded me a lot of Erik. "You're better then you give yourself credit for Zoey."

"Thanks Liv," I said to Olivia as we sat on the edge of the stage for our daily critiques.

"She's being serious," Aaron added.

To say my head was inflated from all the praise I was getting for my role as Nyx would be an understatement. I was on cloud nine and I never wanted to leave. Damien, Erik, and I were heading back to Erik's place for dinner. We hadn't eaten anything in a while, and Erik promised Damien takeout from an Ethiopian restaurant Roxanne loved.

"What are you doing here?" Roxanne asked when Erik opened the door.

"What does it look like?" he asked with a sarcastic laugh.

"I mean," she said looking over his shoulder at Damien and I.

"Damien knows and it's a matter of time before everyone else does so… It's not like we can hide her forever," Erik said causing me to look at Damien. What did he know that I didn't? Did it have something to do with their fight? Had Erik marked another fledgling red?

"We still need to talk," she said stepping aside and letting us in.

"Start talking," he said.

"I'd rather do it in private," she said smiling at Damien and me.

"What's going on?" I asked unable to keep my mouth shout any longer. I couldn't stand not knowing what they were talking about and the awkward way they were not fighting.

"We have a daughter, her name's Isis," Erik said as if it were nothing. I couldn't wrap my head around this. Erik and Roxanne were vampyres how could they have a kid?

"That's impossible," I yelled.

"Not if you really think about it," Damien said making himself at home. "Erik wasn't a fledgling when he and Roxanne had intercourse so it's plausible," he concluded.

Roxanne and Erik hadn't seen each other in almost two years. She had been keeping the truth from Erik for that long. Erik must have been furious when he found out. How could she keep that from him? "Why would you keep something like that a secret for so long?"

"It's okay Zo," Erik said.

"No, it's not okay. You insisted that Aph's vision was wrong, but it clearly wasn't. You shouldn't have lied to us like this Roxy. I trusted your judgment and I possibly put my friends' lives in danger. How could you?" I asked her.

"I know you feel betrayed Zoey, but I'd never put anyone in danger. They're my friends too," she said looking between me and Damien. "This was just something I wanted to tell Erik at the right time in the right way. I'm sure you can understand."

I knew what she meant and that made my blood boil. Why did she insist on bring up Loren and what happened? I'm not that person anymore and I'd never lie about having a child. "This isn't the same thing. I can't just forgive you Roxy. If you'd lie about this what else are you keeping from us? I know there hast to be more."

Roxanne's eyes dropped to the floor giving me my answer. Erik looked troubled, but he didn't press the issue. "That's not our place Z," Damien said stepping in on Roxanne's behalf.

"I'm calling Aphrodite," I said grabbing my phone.

"Zoey don't," Roxanne begged.

"It's not your call to make. This changes things drastically. Who knows the implications of her vision, or that poem Kramisha wrote. You knew all this time what was going on and you never said a word. I really don't believe this Roxy."

"Zoey just calm down we can deal with everyone else in the morning," Damien purposed. "Let's just eat and let them deal with this."

"Thank you Damien for being so understanding," Roxanne said. She gave him a huge and I noted the hint of a smile on Erik's face.

"What is it you wanted to tell Erik earlier," I asked as the boys went into the kitchen to put the food on plates.

Roxanne looked as if she were going to explode. "Zoey I just want to talk to Erik about this and work things out. I owe him that," she said getting up and rushing into Erik bedroom. Erik soon followed after Roxanne. I felt betrayed by Roxanne and I couldn't understand why he and Damien were acting so indifferent about what she did.

~Roxanne~

Erik slowly closed the door and stood there for a moment just looking at us. I wanted to know what he was thinking, but I could feel that he was happy, so I didn't pry. "You still wanna talk?" he asked slowly walking over to sit beside Isis' bed with me.

"Zoey's right I should have never kept this from you. I'm sorry," I cried. Erik wrapped his arms around me. My tears stained his white button down as he comforted me. "I love you," I hiccupped.

"I know and I love you too," he said before he placed a gentle kiss on my forehead. "I know that it was hard for you, and I understand why you did what you did. It hurts, but I love you and I want to be here for you and our daughter."

I looked up at Erik and I knew now was the time to lay all my cards on the table. Erik had a right to know what he was jumping into before this went too far. "I need to tell you more about what happened after you got marked," I said wiping my tears away and putting on my big girl face.

"Okay," Erik said letting me go and looking into my eyes. I could tell he was worried about what I was going to say next.

"When you left I just took off," I got into my car and I just drove. I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do when I got there; I just knew I couldn't be there without you, and without Roz. The world was just so dark and lonely. Before I realized it I was out of gas and stuck on the side of the road. There I was alone and scared. I was on the verge of calling my dad when a van pulled beside me. Inside was a woman a vampire. She took me in and helped me get a job as a waitress. I was gonna sign up for school and get my GED.

"I had everything figured out until one night I had this dream. I was with you in a cell and you were mad at me for lying to you about Isis. Of course I had no idea I was pregnant then, but there she was. And…People found out I got pregnant by a fledgling, and she had Nyx's marks. They were going to kill her. And there was nothing we could do about it…Nyx came to me and told me I could take her place"-

"What does that mean?"

"I'm not a vampire and I'm not human. I'm something in-between, a sacerfice," I said and his eyes got wider.

"I'm not going to let you die," he said looking at me.

"If I don't she might. I don't want anything to happen to either of you. Not if I can prevent it," I said crying.

"So Isis is half vampire and half human?" he asked.

"Yes, do you think Neferet and the Jesus freaks are going to just let us leave happily ever after? This is why I had to find the right way to tell you. I had to protect her. If I lost her I'd just…I can't loss her Erik."

Erik held my again as he tried to absorb all I told him. I'm sure he didn't take in account the possibility of Isis being half vampire since they were sterile. "No one is going to hurt you guys. I'll find a way to keep you both safe."

"I'm sorry that everything is so missed up, and Zoey hates me. I just can't loss anything else Erik. I don't want to be alone," I cried and we stayed in the room and held each other until Damien knocked on the door.