Authors Note: Last chapter…and then epilogue. Wow. I did not see that coming.

~Natty

He was a vampire, or, he felt like one at least. He stood there in the doorway, frozen to the spot. He felt cold, like ice had just shattered inside of him, leaving this freezing and empty feeling in the place of something warm and fuzzy. He felt like a baby, who's lollipop was forcibly taken away and he was left to cry. He felt like-

Look, I could use a million different fancy and clever metaphors for how he felt at that exact moment as he stared at the two that were staring back at him. Rodrigo was smiling at him, Vanessa just looked disturbed, not saying a word. So it was true.

He felt…angry, and now irritated. Carl frowned, looking agitated more than anything, scowling. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to…interrupt anything important…"

Vanessa was quick to defend "What? No, you didn't-"

"Actually…" Rodrigo grinned, stepping forward. "You are. Why don't you come back later, no? We-" He wrapped his arms around the girl who squirmed in his hold in disgust "-are very busy and require a bit of privacy, so why don't you-"

"Get your hands off of her!" The intern yelled and lunged forward, successfully delivering a roundhouse kick to the Spanish teen's face.

Rodrigo sat himself up from the floor, glaring and wiping the blood from his nose with his sleeve. He stood back up, closing in the space between him and the red haired boy. "You are going regret doing that, Senor Carl."

"Bring it, Como!"

The boys ran at each other, starting to fight. Vanessa watched them go at each other, fists connecting, kicks, dodges, witty comebacks. So much violence was happening before her, between two guys that she might like, maybe even more than that…

"Vanessa!" Rodrigo said "There's something you need to know about Carl!"

Of course she wanted Kasey to win, it was Good vs. Evil, she always wanted Good to prosper. Kasey was on her side right? She barely even knew the guy, now that she thought about it. He had been a complete stranger, who just so happened to open the police car she was sitting in and after not a lot of explanation, they had driven away in said police car, which, now that she thought about it, the whole idea sounded ridiculous. What kind of policeman would just loan their car to someone? Especially a teenager, at least, she thought. He was shorter than her anyways…

Actually…now that she thought about it, some things were kind of questionable and a little bit wrong. Why would this boy- whom she's never met before and now doubted her father even knew him –have keys to her father's 2nd suburban house, and better yet, keep it hidden in his shoes? And why does he even own a gun in the first place? She didn't really think he was a cop or anything. Maybe he was a spy… Who was this kid? She didn't know him at all, she didn't even know his last name! Speaking of which, how did he even know her name? He always called her by her last name and…why was he so formal? This Kasey boy was a whole mystery on his own, and it was now that she was really starting to question it.

"Carl?" She asked, turning to the boy whose real name was in question "I thought you said your name was Kasey?"

"With all due respect Ms. Doofenshmirtz…" The intern dodged a hit and continued "I never told you my name, you just took it upon yourself to nickname me."

"But you said your name was Kasey!"

"No, those are my initials backwards. You just mistook them as a word in its own…and besides…it would have been better for everyone if you didn't know my name."

Vanessa murmured the name 'Kasey' a few times, finally realizing her mistake and play on letters. "So…your initials are K.C., then?"

"Well, you actually have to reverse the-"

"Don't listen to him!" Rodrigo told her, interrupting, the two males having stopped their fight. "He's already lied to you once, don't think he won't do it again!"

"I didn't 'lie'. She simply mistook my name for letters that just sounded like my-"

"Quiet Carl! If that's even your real name!" The Spanish boy accused.

"Rodrigo, you know my name, my real first name and that's it! It's Carl."

"Well, what's your last name?" Rodrigo asked him.

"Karl" He answered and leaned back casually to avoid the junior scientist's pointing finger that was all but thrown in his face.

"You see?" Rodrigo spoke to Vanessa "You cannot trust him!"

"Shuddup Como!" Carl retorted "That's my full name!"

The taller boy ignored the smaller, still trying to get through to the girl "Do you see how he insults my heritage and name? Is that not wrong? He is the one you cannot trust! And I will wait with you until the policia arrive to arrest this scoundrel and then I can take you and your brother back safely to your father. He must be worried sick for the both of you, no?" Rodrigo took a step toward her with his hand held out to her and she stepped back, not necessarily accepting his offer. Then again, she didn't not accept it either.

"I..." Vanessa looked between them. She didn't know. Could she trust either of them anymore? At all? They both stared back at her, waiting, some more patient than others…

Rodrigo was giving a smile that threatened to stretch off his face, all the way past his cheeks if that was even possible, his hand clasped together as he hummed hopefully. Carl rolled his eyes at the Spanish boy.

She heard a groan beside her and looked to see Platyborg lifting his head a few inches from the floor, he hissed in pain and laid it back down. Her eyes went wide when she saw that his head was bleeding on the floor, his eye shut as he moaned in pain, quite overdramatically actually. Vanessa turned her attention back to both of them. "L-look I- I can't, I-…I have to get him back to my dad. He's hurt and…" She trailed off, fighting back tears as she backed away from both boys, shaking her head. She was too hurt, too confused and conflicted. This wasn't Twilight! One of them wasn't a vampire! She picked up the cyborg in her arms, tears starting to spill. "I- I can't…" She ran out the door.

Carl blinked and Rodrigo just glared at the intern.

"Do you see what you've done? You have ruined both of our chances! You fool!"

"Why don't you see this?" He asked and gave the Spanish teen a kick in the shin. Carl ran to the computer while Rodrigo was incapacitated and waited a few seconds before hovering his finger over the button labeled 'Caution!', thinking better of it he clicked the one next to it that was colored like a bumble bee. An alarm started buzzing.

"Self-Destruct Sequence Initiated…" The female computer voice announce and everything was over.

"What have you done?!" Rodrigo cried, limping to stand and head for the door to escape their impending doom.

The intern tackled him, successfully pinning him down. "It's over." Carl said, the pain in his heart now throbbing. "It's all over…"

Vanessa laid the cyborg down gently in the backseat of their dark colored car that was apparently towed here or something, trying to nudge Platyborg awake or at least into semi-consciousness. If she was going to go home and pretend that nothing happened to her father, then she needed the cyborg to at least be able to nod his head to somewhat back her up. "Platyborg…Hey…wake up sweety…"

"Hm?" The cyborg was dazed opening his eye a bit to squint at her, he whimpered.

"Hey…how are you feeling?"

"The u-unicorn s-stole my r-rainbow…"

"Shhh, its okay. Look, I'm going to need you to back me up with dad when I say that you were kidnapped by some guy you don't know the name of and couldn't possibly identify if you tried, when I tried to save you, they captured me too and we were both drugged so we don't remember much of anything that happened. Can you do that for me?"

Platyborg tilted his head at her, looking her up and down in confusion. "Who are you?"

Vanessa didn't looked pleased and asked him "Can you nod your head yes?"

The cyborg shook his head no at her.

She shrugged "Close enough." Vanessa jumped, something catching in her throat as she heard an explosion almost directly above both of them. She saw the building imploding behind her through the rearview mirror and she turned around, mouth agape and silenced. She couldn't do it before but now she could. She discovered her true feelings in that instant and stared as the one she most definitely loved died before her eyes.

As the one she loved had said before, it was most definitely over…