Frank's POV

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"Something's wrong!" I shouted, jumping up from the couch and watching the guys immediately stare at me, Gerard being the only one who didn't react since he'd dosed himself up on Mikey's sleeping pills and gone to sleep.

"What do you mean?" Bob asked and I didn't know how to explain the feeling I had but it was that something was very, very wrong, I'd been sitting down, minding my own business and watching tv then I suddenly felt sick and just plain wrong like what you'd get when watching a horror movie and being able to guess when the psycho was about to jump out.

"I-I-I don't know but something's wrong. I think something's happened to Fallyn, I don't know what but I feel really weird and I don't like it at all, we have to get to Blackford right now." I started walking nervously up and down, my stomach still felt strange, like it was being tugged down the road and I wanted to throw up, it as like the first time I'd gone onstage and was so nervous I nearly puked out an entire days worth of food.

"We're only an hour away, I think she'll be fine." He hadn't even finished talking before I was shaking me head, this was bad and I know she's not okay, something bad's happened and she's in danger or she's been hurt.

"No, no we need to get to Blackford now, right now." The bus was already going pretty fast but in should ask Greg if he can go any faster, with how I'm feeling I think something like a speeding ticket would be the least of our problems, Fallyn's more important and I think the band can afford something as small as a speeding ticket.

"Frank, you've been freaking out ever since she ran off. Are you sure you haven't been hit by more nerves again because there's a pretty good chance it's that?" I was already walking along the bus as Bob talked, shaking my head again and heading for the drivers cabin to talk to Greg while I tried to ease the feeling of dread that hung over me like some sort of emotional and physical anvil.

"Greg, can you go any faster, we need to get to Blackford soon, very soon." I didn't rarely sweated when I wasn't onstage but my palms were clammy and the most I could do was wipe my hands on my jeans and try to take deep breaths while looking at the bus driver.

"I can go a little faster and that'll shave off thirty minutes but if I go any higher and we'll be passed the point of ticket and into a chance of getting arrested." Okay, getting arrested is not what I or anyone else needs at this point, I need to keep calm sort my thoughts and try to not feel like I want to throw up or start panicking like a lunatic and run screaming around the bus, I don't think anyone will appreciate that.

"Thank you," I sat down in the passengers seat, "do you know how long it'll take for us to get to Blackford?" I added, keeping my fingers crossed and hoping that what I was feeling was just me being anxious and that Fallyn was completely fine because it didn't feel like that at the moment, it felt like bad shit was going down.

"At this speed? Around an hour. Iero, you alright? Your eyes have gone black and you're acting a bit crazy." My eyes had gone black again? I know the guys mentioned it when I was thinking about Fallyn but they'd done it again?

I pulled down the visor and looked in the small mirror, he was right, my eyes looked like something from a horror movie and I flinched. I didn't feel good and my face was a reflection of how I felt, thank God Fallyn's not here to see this, I know my eyes looking like they do would freak her the hell out and she'd probably pass out or something like that.

"I've just got the feeling that something really bad's happened and I'm worried because I don't know what Fallyn's doing right now and she could be hurt so I just want to get to Blackford as soon as possible and make sure she's okay," I explained, putting the visor back up and looking at the open road that stretched on for miles, it didn't look like we only had an hour until Blackford but then again I'd been in the back of the bus when we were passing through.

"Making it's whatcha call it, ah, intuition." I'm usually pretty bad when it comes to things like that but I guess it's a possibility, I mean vampires exist so of course it can happen.

"Well, I hope that whatever it is, is just me being worried, I don't want anything bad to have happened to her. If something bad's gone down then it'll be all my fault." I'm damn good at blaming myself for everything but then again everything is usually my fault, if something's broken or lost then it's probably me who broke or lost it and I'll admit to that.

"She's been in that town for a couple of hours at most. What do you think the worst thing she could do is in a couple of hours? She's not going to run into a murderer, she said she's okay so she's not going to kill herself and she's somewhere where she's got internet so she's probably safe and comfortable." He said that but I still didn't believe him, for once I was going with my gut and wasn't planning on changing my mind until it'd been proven that nothing bad's happened to her, until then I'm going to worry.

"Only an hour?" I double checked, looking at the road anxiously then staring at hrs sky that'd gone an ugly shade of gray, it looked like one motherload of a storm was about to come down and it wouldn't be good.

"Give or take a couple of minutes."

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"Uh, guys! I think we're here!" I called out as a town came into view, it was hard to see through the windshield because of how hard it was raining but we'd passed a sign a little while back that'd said 'welcome to Blackford' so this' got to be the right place, it feels like the right place.

I'm no meteorologist or anything but to me it looked like we'd driven right into a tornado or something like that except it was a tornado that happened to be pissing down rain and just looking at it made me cringe, knowing Fallyn was somewhere out in the middle of that.

I went into the back of the bus, looking at the guys who were putting on their coats and shoes, Gerard still waking up since he was partially off his face on about two bottles of sleeping meds that'd knocked him out cold so he was slurring ever so slightly as he tried to sort out what we should he doing. Hearing Gerard slur reminded me of the days when he used to drink himself stupid, snort coke and pop antidepressants before performing show, barely managing to get off the stage at the end and throwing up after.

It hadn't been a pretty time for the band but it'd given him some wisdom he didn't have before.

Trying to keep my mind focused on the task ahead I put on a couple of layers of shirts before tugging a hoodie on, I may have a bit of trouble feeling the cold but I know when I'm getting rained on and I know when I'm wet and I didn't like it. I already had my shoes on do I didn't have to do much except for wait for the guys, Mikey almost having to help Gerard into a jacket since his brothers brain wasn't operating at full capacity yet but now that he was awake the pills would wear off fast.

"Just so you all know it is raining like a motherfucker outside," I told them as we walked to the front of the bus, Greg having already pulled the tour bus over somewhere that looked like Main Street, it had a lot of buildings on it anyway.

"Okay, we don't even have to do that much though. Get Fallyn, get back to the bus so let's do this." Mikey charged out the doors ahead of everyone else, pulling his beanie down as far as possible so the harsh wind didn't carry it away the second he stepped outside.

I was shocked by how strong the gale was, the rain hit my face hard enough that it almost stung and acted as a good reminder how grateful I was to be a vampire sometimes because it would suck even more to walk through this if I was normal human, I almost pity anyone else having to walk around in this.

We'd only been outside for a couple of seconds when my nose picked up a familiar scent, it was Fallyn it was definitely her, after spending an entire night awake with her right next to me I'd be able to recognize her scent anywhere but the only problem was that it wasn't fresh, it's not like she was standing in one place and the breeze blowing past her reached me. It was more like she'd left something she was wearing behind and it was a second had smell if that even sounds like it makes the faintest bit of sense.

"I've got something, follow me!" I had to yell over the roaring wind to have them hear me as I walked in the direction of the smell hoping it was just my nose and it would turn out she was there, waiting or something like that.

We pushed through the rain and wind, me walking towards the smell and almost laughing when I thought that we'd never see the bus again, I could see now that I was outside but everything was tinted by gray despite it being around ten in the morning. I wasn't used to this kind of weather, sure the band had travelled all over the world but I've never seen anything like this, the storm was almost unnatural and prayed it'd go away soon because with how it was going at the moment it felt like it was going to turn into a tornado.

The silhouette of a building came up in the distance and I was surprised when I recognized it, not from my own memories but I remember seeing it when I was turning into one of Fallyn's dreams, it was the school she went to when she lived her. It was tall, brown cinderblock and looked more like a prison or tacky apartment block than somewhere you'd want to send your kid to learn and things like that, I can see why she hates the town.

We kept walking, getting closer to the school and eventually passing through the huge gates that made me think of the high school I went to in New Jersey, it was a Catholic boys school but it had the same prison vibe that I didn't like.

"And what makes you think she'll be here?" Gerard called out, stumbling and almost landing on his face, barely managing to grab Mikey in time to keep himself upright, well he's awake enough to start acting like a jerk.

"The article on Fallyn's phone said the service for Katelyn would be held at the schools auditorium which is where she'd be going, this is the school and besides, I can smell her. She's either here or has been here recently so that's why, have you got any ideas where she might be?" I asked, challenging him to contribute something but he remained quiet and let me search for the source of the smell while wishing the storm would magically disappear because it sucks, the snow's only fun when Fallyn's around.

I finally reached where the smell was coming from, it was on the ground and bright red against the white of the snow, it was blood surrounded by the shape of various footprints as if people had just been running around.

"Fuck!" I shouted, I just knew this was going to happen I fucking knew it and something's happened to her, that blood is hers and fucking hell something's happened to her and it's all my fault, if she dies I'm never going to forgive myself.

"What, what is it?" Gerard and Mikey trodden through the snow towards where's I was standing and stopped when they saw the huge (and when I say huge I fucking mean it) patch of blood they froze on the spot.

"That's hers," Gerard whispered and I saw a brief defeated look like he was ready to give up and go back to the bus which I was going to let happen over my dead body, he was part of the reason of her running away and I wasn't going to let him leave that easily.

"Which means something happened to her and someone's come to get her which also means there's gotta be witnesses. We just need to find someone who saw what happened to her and we'll find her, everything will be okay." It sounded like I was just speaking to myself and it kinda felt like it too but I knew the guys were listening and hoping she'd be okay just as much as I was, I was also expecting an apology from Bob at some point for doubted the feeling I got which would have been her getting hurt.

"Maybe there's some people in the auditorium? The storm's going pretty hard so they might use it as a storm shelter." Ray suggested and I agreed, in a town this small it's guaranteed they'd use a place like that to gather during any problems, like an emergency centre, I've never had to go to one but I know how they work.

Gym class and meetings hadn't been a part of Fallyn's dream when I was listening in so it took me a while to figure out which would have people inside since everything was too chaotic for me to simply listen in for heartbeats. So after looking through a tool shed, something that resembled a garage and a sport equipment shed we finally found what we were looking for and pushed the door open, walking straight into the auditorium.

There were a fair few people inside sitting on what appeared to be gym mats and it didn't take long for them to notice there were a couple of guys, soaking wet and slightly dazed standing in a doorway, staring at the rest of them. Not knowing what else I was supposed to do I waved then looking around for someone I'd recognize from Fallyn's dream, hoping that they'd have some idea where she might be or at the very least what happened to her.

There were a few people who looked at the band and me as if we were here to murder everyone, I could understand why Fallyn didn't want to live here, everyone judged in a couple of seconds and if you looked different they'd instantly decide you were an outsider who they should move away from if you walk by them. The town I'd grown up in wasn't much different but it was still better which wasn't that hard considering every now and then someone would see me wearing a Black Flag shirt or something similar and give me a thumbs up.

At first while seeing all the bland face I thought there wouldn't be anyone I knew here but a couple of moment after I thought that I hit the jackpot and saw someone who I'd happily punch if given the chance.
It was a kid by the name of Brock, the one who gave Fallyn grief, had no idea how you're supposed to treat woman and needed a Manners 101 class since what he was already doing wasn't working.

"Hey you, kid," I said walking over to the teenager who was sitting with a girl around the same as as him and groping her, she wasn't smiling but she wasn't stopping him either, some people just confuse me.

"What's up?" He asked, looking at me and keeping his hand on the girls upper thigh while she looked down, blushing brightly and seeming embarrassed for a technical adult to be talking to them whole he was copping a feel.

"I'm looking for a girl, her name's Misty." The name was weird on my tongue, I was so used to referring to her as Fal's or Fallyn that referring to her as anything but that wasn't right to me but he'd only know her as Misty.

"The blonde, short one with the temper and the big tits?" It only took that for me to want to jump on him and kill him, I had yet to kill someone but would have had no problem making him the first, the only hitch in that plan was the firm grip Ray had on my belt, making sure I couldn't commit flat out murder.

"That's my sister you're talking about you motherfucker!" The unfortunately everyone had forgotten that Gerard was just as protective of Fallyn as I was and didn't like hearing how Brock described her either.

I barely managed to grab Gerard by his jacket and pull him back, if I didn't get to murder someone then he didn't either and he'd have to just let his anger boil for a little while then take it out on a wall or car.

"Whoa, so you guys are real and she wasn't just babbling like a crazy." That got everyone's attention, none of us would have guessed that Fallyn would talk to anyone about us so it calmed everyone down enough to listen.

"What do you mean?" I asked, half talking through my teeth since I still wanted to kill him and my teeth hurt because of how hard it was for me to hold my fangs back and appear as a normal person who couldn't kill someone in the blink of an eye.

"During the service for the dead chick Jules said something she didn't like so she got up onstage and started insulting everyone, saying she'd been kidnapped and she had brothers who were in a band." I should have guessed Fallyn would do something like that, if I were to find out I was from a good family after growing up with a shitty one I'd be telling everybody about it too so she was within her rights there.

"Well she's right there, do you know where she is?" Ray was the one who had to ask since I was still stopping Gerard from killing the stupid teenager and was having to hold him back with both hands while Mikey tried to get his arms around him to hold him still.

"I dunno, I think she's in the hospital. She tried to commit suicide and jumped off the school building ya know? Stupid bitch." I was planning to say thank you then leave but he shouldn't have muttered about my Fallyn being a stupid bitch.

My hand flashed forward and I banged Brock's head against the wall, not heard enough to kill him, just hard enough to knock him out and make sure he woke up with a splitting headache he should feel lucky to have considering I wanted to kill him instead but decided not to.

"Miss, you can do a lot better than him. He's an idiot, believe me there's better people in the world," I told the girl with a horrified expression sitting next to the knocked out boy before turning around and looking at the band, "looks like we're going to the hospital."

Fucking hell Fallyn, please still be alive.

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