Frank's POV

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Fallyn had her back turned to me and was looking at the huge sign that sat snugly against the building and claimed it as the 'The Bloody Evangeline'.
I knew she wasn't going to miss the place, she'd made it quite obvious through her thoughts.

'This place is fucked up on all fronts.' She thought and I had to hold back a laugh, Fallyn viewed the world like no one else I'd ever met before. Her hair fell straight down the back and from the angle she was one I could see the bite marks on her neck.

When she gets on the bus I'll have to heal them up, Gerard didn't give me a chance between all his yelling.

'I still can't believe you did that.' Gee had been complaining not stop since Fallyn told him to calm the fuck down.

'You need to take some chill pills.'
I thought at him, he was already on the bus and relaxing on the couch.

'Just so you know you've been rebanned. You totally blew any chance of me letting something go on between you two.'

'Seriously, you have some serious dominance issues that need to be addressed. She's not your property.'Gee needed to learn the importance of human rights.

'She's a girl and I'm gonna protect her from you, your idiocy and the testosterone that comes with it.'
I snorted, I'm not an idiot, I'm in control of myself and each section of my brain.

'I'm not in the mood talk to with you right now, you're being a domineering ass.'
He didn't say anything further and shut up, I took it as a blessing from god, he rarely kept his mouth shut when he had an opinion.
Fallyn had yet to move from her spot outside the bus, her gaze was locked on the hotel and she didn't look like she'd be moving anytime soon.

"Fal's are you coming?" She turned around and gave me a small smile while I held out my hand to help her up the steps.

"Fuck yes, get me the get me the hell out of here, now." I gave her a grin and Greg closed the doors behind her while she walked up the stairs.

Without asking I took her duffle bag and put it with the rest of our luggage while she reminded me she was capable of putting it away. We both knew she couldn't reach the overhead compartment and after I reminded her she was unable to get high enough to put her bag away she sighed, gave up and went to sit on the couch with her latte and food filled bag. Once everything was closed and locked to avoid the bags falling out and trashing the bus I went into the living room.

Fallyn was sitting on the couch next to Gee, they weren't talking because he was staring intently at his art book and she was eating.

By the looks of it Gerard was drawing something that would probably be finished within the next two minutes. I grabbed my coffee and food from the kitchen then sat next to Fallyn on the couch, she gave me a grin before going back to eating.

How a girl that small could eat so much food I didn't know, somehow she was able to do it, maybe she had a black hole in her stomach.
It didn't matter though, she was still cute and adorable.

"What?" She frowned and put down her sandwich. Oops, looked at her for too long, busted.

"Uh, your face is kinda cute?"

What the fuck brain?!
Seriously what the fuck?
Could nothing intelligent come from me when I had to say something off the top of my head?

Gerard didn't even look angry at me for saying something like that, although his expression did say he thought I was a moron. Her pale white face flushed red and her heartbeat got faster.

"Thanks, Frankie." She immediately went back to eating her sandwich and stared at it intently the whole time.

Bob, who had been in the kitchen, walked in laughing, great he got to hear me embarrass myself.
During a bout of self pity I went to get Pansy to practice a couple of our songs and tunes, it'd be a while 'til we performed again but it kept my hands and mind busy.

I sat on my bunk bed, strumming on the unplugged guitar and mouthing the words Early Sunsets Over Monroeville.
I wonder what's up with Gee, he's usually laid back and a fun guy to be around, now he's being a jerk.

If Fallyn stays with us to New Jersey where will she live?
With one of us I suppose, probably Gee and Mikes, although I don't think it would be a good idea for Mikey to live with someone who is human and can get hurt easily. Fallyn can be prone to bad stuff happening.

Since she's been staying with us she's broken two ribs, been knocked unconscious, cut her finger and had her wrists accidentally slit.
Whether intentional or not she'd be the own cause for her death, she's like Mikey.

He can't die now but when he was human Mikes attempted to stick a fork in the toaster so many times he's lucky to be alive. My heart went out to the Way parents when trying to raise him, it would have taken a fair amount of effort.

I changed the song to Demolition Lovers, my hands didn't feel like playing anything too fast today.
I'm the kind of person who can't be bothered with practicing when it's needed but goes over every single note a thousand times when it isn't.

My eyes went to the window while I continued to play, we're out of the city now, it's back to good old New Jersey. Everyone in the band missed NJ, except for Bob, he grew up in Chicago so he didn't have the same emotional attachment. He doesn't understand the place like we do.

Like the past few years since the bands been together I'd be having Christmas with the Ways, mum and I weren't on speaking terms and Gee and Mikey's family were like a second mum and dad.

Oh, a random trivia moment to kill any fangirling that people might have. Gee and Mikey call their parents Mummy and Daddy, let that put you to sleep.

Fallyn would get along with Donald and Donna, they'd offer her a place to stay and everything would be fine.

That would only be if she agreed to stay there, she said she wouldn't be staying with us permanently but the other guys acted as if she'd be here forever. I'd gotten hints of hesitancy in her mind on occasion, she'd be listening to one of us or watching tv and it would cross her mind.

Where would see go if she left?
Would she kill herself or get a job and an apartment?

If she were to bother getting a job what kind would it be, because she is definitely not the kind of person who would work in Burger King. She'll be okay no matter what, she's got Katelyn and the band. She's beautiful and she's an amazing guitar player, the world will find a place for her.

I finished the song and put the guitar next to me with a sigh, I don't feel like playing right now.

Good thing we're on a break, if I suddenly refused to play at a concert the band would be pissed, I wouldn't do that to the fans though.

Fal's pushed the bunk curtain out of the way and sat on the bed next to me, looking sullen and concerned.

"What's the matter Frankie? You're acting cranky and you're starting to fit in with the emo stereotype." She leaned against the wall at the foot of the bed and didn't look like she planned to move until she got a response.

"Gee's being a pain in the ass, did you know I get stuck with his thoughts every fucking moment of the day?"

He was a whiner, a really annoying one, it only took me a little while to learn how to shut him out.
It's a learned talent, not wanting to kill him, we were great friends before the vamp thing but being stuck with someone's thoughts all the time made you want to kill them.

"What's he thinking about?" There's no chance of me telling her he's rebanned me from making any romantic advances towards her.

"Me biting you, he's not gonna be over that for a long while." He wasn't gonna be getting over anything for eternity, we all knew he had it.

"He's always seemed like such a nice guy, in the interviews and stuff." Gerard usually was a nice guy, I'm not sure what set him off to acting like a total douchbag but I'd like to know.

"Maybe he's got PMS." She laughed and I curled my knees up to my chest while leaning against the wall.

I miss the old him, the one you didn't want to brutally murder with a hatchet or any other weapon within reach. I gave her a grin, trying to pretend I didn't want to kill one of my best friend and band mate. She giggled once more then moved closer.

"Do you realise you have blood on your face, like all over your chin."

No wonder people were looking at me strangely when we checked out. They would have thought I attacked someone or was attacked. As she continued to giggle I wiped my chin and flakes of blood came off in my hands, there was no doubt it was hers.
It was real freakin great of the guys to point it out, cops are gonna pull us over any second and arrest me for suspicion of murder.

"You still haven't gotten it off." She licked her finger and started getting the blood off my face. This girl was not normal by any stretch of the imagination.
A normal person would scream and run when seeing someone with a bunch of blood on them.
Not her, she'd offer to get rid of it.

"Better." She smiled once more then sat back and pushed her hair away from her face and inadvertently exposed her neck. My bite marks were there and guilt raced through my head, I shouldn't have bitten her, it's my fault she's got those marks on her neck.

"Do you want me to heal those?" I gestured to her neck and she looked down as if she'd be able to see the wounds.

"Okay, that'd be good." I should have healed them up when Gee walked in the room it wouldn't have killed me to take an extra minute.
My fangs flipped down and I went to bite into my hand then Gerard walked in and interrupted, like usual.

"What are you doing?" He was a fellow vamp, it should be obvious to him, even if he wasn't here for the conversation.

"I'm gonna fix up her neck, duh." He instantly started frowning, for some reason everyone on this bus just loved to frown.

"No more vampire stuff. We're gonna act normal, no biting, fangs and abilities. She knows and it's enough, you're gonna take advantage of the freedom if you get it."

Is he saying I'd bite her again if given the opportunity?
If that's what he's talking about he's wrong, I'm not doing it ever again.
What about her neck anyway?
She shouldn't be stuck with these wounds, they've got to hurt at least a little.

"Aw, why? I think all the vampire stuff is really cool." Fallyn pouted and the look on Gee's face became even sterner.

Wow, she's not getting what she wants, I would have thought he'd cave almost immediately.
He must be incredibly determined about the no more abilities thing.

"What about you? Except for me you're the one who enjoys using their abilities the most." I was right as right can be and Gee knew it.

He loved using every part of being a vampire, the advanced senses, speed, strength, I think the one he liked the most was the reduced need for sleep. It meant he could stay up for five days straight just writing song lyrics and drawing.

I preferred to do stupid things no one (even vampires) should do. Like 'hey watch me stand on the roof of this moving bus!'
Yep, I wasn't exactly a genius when it came to doing smart things, I was the same as a human, just more restricted by mortality.

"I'm quitting it as well. Unless you have to use them, no more abilities and I know you're smart enough to know when they're needed." He was fully aware I wouldn't be able to claim ignorance, he was teasing me and it wasn't funny.

Without saying it I still knew we wouldn't have to give up the mind speak, after all, how else would we fight without waking her up when she's asleep?

"Fine, ruin all the fun of immortality will ya, what's the point of putting up with all the sucky parts of being a vamp if you can't have fun?" Gerard probably didn't care and only wanted to ruin all the joy in my life like a bitch.

"You can have fun once you stop acting like an idiot. You'll try to make her do stupid stuff with you and she'll get hurt." Fallyn's arms were crossed over her chest, she obviously wasn't happy we were discussing her as if she weren't there.

"What's your problem then? We're vampires, if she does get hurt we could fix her up and worst case scenario, she becomes a vampire." She sighed then stood up from the bed, yeah, she wasn't happy at all and she was too nice to say anything.

"I don't want to be a vampire, ever. Hasn't it occurred to you, you'll never be able to die? What happens in a hundred years when everyone you've ever loved has died?"

I opened my mouth to say something and she continued to talk. I realized that, I just didn't want to think about it.

"You'll never be able to have kids or someone to love because they'll die or get old. What about in ten years when people start to notice you haven't aged? You won't be able to stay rockstars forever."

Gerard was completely shut up. None of us could imagine being anything other than musicians, even Bob who was dragged into the band.

Although the main thing that shut Gee and I up was about the children. Despite not having a girlfriend or wife Gerard has always wanted kids.

I've always been a kid myself and I'm only twenty two but in the back of my mind of always wanted children. Maybe Ray wanted some as well but I was positive Mikey and Bobbert didn't want any, they were the bachelors of the band.

"I want the chance to fall in love and have kids, that would never happen if I was a vampire. I want to die one day, there's only so much of life one person can take before they want it over." Tears started falling from her eyes and she walked out of the room after giving us a pitying look.

That was an unexpected explosion, she went from stating her opinion to flat out crying. I sat there with my mouth hanging open and Gerard stood there with the same expression.

Screw Gee's 'no more vampire stuff' rule. With my fangs now hidden I stood up and a second later I was sitting on the couch next to Fallyn. She was crying into her arms which she'd crossed over the knees she'd pulled up to her chest.

Her tears dropped off her arms and soaked into her jeans.
What managed to set her off this easily?

I put my arm around her shoulders and lightly pulled her towards me, she responded by burying her face in my chest and continuing to cry.

'Katelyn's never gonna be able to live like I will. I'll get a career, have children, fall in love and she'll never have it.' Fallyn's thoughts were so sad, no wonder she was crying, anything Katelyn related seemed to be her trigger.

"Oh, Fal's, it's okay." From what I'd put together of the Katelyn I'd met, she was an absolute bitch and a horrible angel but I should still support Fallyn. Gerard was still in the bunk area thinking of what she'd said, he'd been really shocked through the realization.

We've been like this for nearly a year and a half yet it hasn't occurred to any of us whether or not we'd be able to have kids one day.

"I'm sorry, Frankie. What I said was rude and bitchy and uncalled for on so many levels, I'm sorry." Her crying took its time but went away in increments.

"Don't worry, it's fine. I know I'll never have kids or someone to grow old with and I'm ready to accept I can't be in music forever." The words were bitter to say even if I was telling the truth. If I was to be anything other than a guitarist I'd actually consider becoming a record producer or an author (you heard me right).

"Frankie, I didn't mean it like that. I'm only saying being a vampire wouldn't be the life I'd choose. You'll find a girl and you'll be able to tell her about everything and you could be vampires together."

Right now with her leaning against me there was only one person I'd want to spend the rest of forever with...and she'd made it very obvious only minutes ago she'd never want to be a vampire.

Her clear words soon turned into mumbles and her body sagged against me, she hadn't slept for nearly a whole day and she had to be getting tired after all that's happened.

"I'm still sorry Fra..." Her mumbles faded away and her breathing became regular as she fell asleep. Fallyn looked like she wasn't going to wake up any time soon and I got ready to sit still for the next couple of hours.
Good thing I'm a vampire and don't get the urge to move all the time.
I stroked her head, she sighed and I grinned, she's so adorable.

It was obvious she'd put some thought into being a vampire or she wouldn't have come to the conclusion of never wanting to be one.

It's a shame she'll never want to be a vampire, I couldn't imagine wanting to spend my immortality with anyone else.

Notes

I suspect that we're nearing the end of the story so have this gif of Frankie