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[Lois had to admit: finding her journal just lying around waiting for her in the random forest was creepy. It had 'trap' written all over it. But she wasn't about to complain. Yet.

The first part of the entry is a recording:]

This is Lois Lane, and I'm with Lucy Saxon and Jo Harvelle. We're all in one piece, though currently about eight degrees left of lost in the middle of nowhere. We haven't seen any landmarks yet, but we've been sending up signals where we can, so those of you patrolling keep your eyes on the skies. According to Clark's stick trick, we're northeast of the castle somewhere.

More importantly, we ran into some... people out here.

People from ... the town, that is. I think they got dumped out here too, so whatever took us wasn't just doing it to castle residents. They weren't exactly the best conversationalists, given that they were practically talking in tongues, tripping over themselves to run back towards the castle and muttering stuff about how they needed to get there right now or else. "Or else what" we couldn't get out of them, because they got physical anytime we tried to restrain them to even talk to them. I'm thinking they've got that same pull we do towards the place, but theirs seems to be amped up to 800. Maybe someone should keep an eye out around the town for when they start getting back. You might be able to get more out of them then. [Assuming they make it back alive and don't run stupidly into a tree or something.]

And hey, Akihiko, you better not have been beating yourself up over me disappearing. That one was all me. [Do you hear that, Clark? Don't blame him. :| ]

... Not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet, so I'm curious to hear from the other people it happened to, but it sure felt like something had dropped us when we woke up.

[handwriting takes over then; it's jittery because Lucy's hand is shaking from the cold. November + outdoors + pajamas = incipient hypothermia]

I was taken in the morning, but I didn't wake up in the Dead Zone until nearly nightfall. I don't know if that's important at all, but I thought it would be worth mentioning too.

[Jo waits until Lucy is done and when the journal is handed to her, she balances it on her knee, holding it in place with her sprained wrist as she crouches low to the ground]

I was taken on Friday, right out’a the damn walk-in at the Lux. Last time I had checked the time it was about four-thirty, but I woke-up to pitch-black night. I tried to look for any of the other missing people… but I only found Lucy and Lois. [she won’t be mentioning that she is injured and she sure as Hell isn’t broadcasting that she killed an eight-legged sheep to survive either…]

I’m fine, though. [Sam, you can breathe now.] Just a bit worn out and ready for my wilderness adventure to be done.

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[she blinks at him, once, and then nods again. She's fairly confident that she's lost the ability to be surprised by anything, and she learned not to judge others by their appearance long before she came to Paradisa. If Nikola Tesla says he's over a hundred years old, then she'll believe him]

[He stands up and paces for a bit in front of her. To tell or not to tell? That was the question.]

[He stops and turns, a curious look in his eyes.]

Tell me, Lucy. What do you know about...vampires? I'm just curious.

[Lucy watches him pace with an odd sort of closed-off expression on her face, and when he asks her about vampires, reaches out for the pad and pen again--though she thinks for a moment before beginning to write]

"I was bitten by one here, a long time ago, but I couldn't tell you about it. I know what books and movies say about them. But I know enough to think that none of it is true."

That's because they aren't. Well, at least where I'm from. Vampires were actually the rulers of the world, before they were wiped off the face of the earth.

[And he falls silent, a rather serious look replacing his amused smile. To be reminded of that was upsetting, to say the least.]

[she can believe that. It isn't that big a stretch at all, not with the things she's seen and experienced. Lucy doesn't move for a long moment, taking in how he's suddenly upset, before she signs as a gesture from him to continue--]

"Okay."

[The scientist bends down to next to her ear, his voice solemn as he whispers.]

Lucy, what I'm about to tell you is a secret. Only two other people in the castle know about this, and I would like to keep it that way. Understand?

[deja vu absolutely cannot help crawling up her spine when he does that, hard enough that she actually stops shivering and a bitter taste blooms in her mouth. She's overwhelmingly reminded of the night Harold Saxon told her all HIS secrets, and she closes her eyes against the sudden emotion that surges in her chest. Then she nods, once]

[He leans in, and utters the words directly into her ear.]

...I'm a vampire, Lucy.

[He backs away, his eyes on her face, seeing how she would react to his revelation.]

[Lucy shivers, very very slightly, and not from cold this time; her heart skips half a beat and her eyes widen, but she doesn't flinch away or otherwise show any signs of fear. She slides her gaze sideways towards him as he pulls back, then finally turns her head to look directly at him. She doesn't move for a full sixty seconds.

"I'm not human, Lucy," she hears in her head, and can't help but wonder if Tesla is the abusive type.

Without taking her eyes away from him, she scrawls on the notepad:]

"My husband was an alien."

[He almost expected her to deny it, to say something along the lines of "Come on, you must be joking!". But she took it seriously. That's good- laughing at him would have only made him frustrated.]

[He glances at what she wrote, and a smile quirks on the edge of his mouth.] Alien? Those don't exist...do they?

[good GOD does she ever wish Tesla was telepathic. The thoughts she could send his way...]

"Vampires aren't supposed to really exist either, but you do."

[He chuckles.] Then I guess we share in lot in common, don't we? You're the wife of an alien, and I'm a vampire. Almost seems like something out of a book, doesn't it?

[that chuckle doesn't sound nearly as threatening as Harry's came to be, a fact Lucy finds comforting, so she tries smiling at him while she replies]

"And we're both trapped in a magic castle. The Brothers Grimm couldn't make this up."

That they couldn't.

[And a thought comes to him.]

And if you're worrying about the fact that I'm a vampire and all, I'll just tell you that I don't drink blood. I made a promise to a friend of mine a long, long time ago.

[she shakes her head, and writes]

"I wasn't worried."

[the idea that she should have been didn't even occur to her until he brought it up--maybe she's too complacent now. Or she doesn't care about her own life. She's fairly certain it's both]

That's good. When most people meet a vampire they run the other way and never come back. Makes it hard to meet people at parties, really.

[despite--or in spite of--herself, Lucy cracks a silent snicker at that. Her shivering's starting to lessen a little, which means the grin doesn't make her teeth clack together so much, and her handwriting is improving]

"I've seen things that would make vampires run the other way and not come back. I'm not afraid of you."

[He raises an eyebrow, looking amused.] Really, now? Not afraid of me? Believe me, I haven't shown you what I'm capable of.

What things do you really think would make me run?

[she considers that, and contrary to the snicker she just let out a moment ago--and the fact that she takes his "I haven't shown you what I'm capable of" as a dare that she won't be able to resist taking--she does NOT look amused. At all]

"I've watched entire countries burn. I've been to the end of the universe. I've seen how the human race ends."

[there's nothing she can say about the abuse she endured from the one person she trusted most in all the universe. Maybe vampires don't think that sort of thing is horrible anyway. Lucy stopped assigning human emotions to non-humans about six months into her stay on the Valiant]

[And at her look, he grows slightly taciturn, his own face taking on a slightly sad frown.]

And I saved over half the world's population by helping kill someone very important. And on top of that, I had to go around the world and fix the extensive damage that a group of sadistic imbeciles caused because they were too foolish and power-hungry to know better.

Just because I haven't actually experienced the end of the world doesn't mean I wouldn't know how it feels like.

[Lucy looks down at her still-shaking hands for a long moment. He was right... they DO have a lot in common. Change the circumstances, switch out a few words, and it would give you an exact description of her last day on the Valiant and subsequent banishment to prison.

Instead of writing, this time she does her best to sign, using the words she knows]

"Did you hurt?"

...

[He's silent for a while. Thinking about Ashley's death...even though she didn't mean that much to him, seeing the look on Helen's face had made him put aside his own plans to take down the Cabal once and for all.]

[A nod.] Yes. Yes, I did.

[she watches him with the same closed-off expression from before while he thinks, and when he finally speaks, she decides to take a chance and reaches out to take one of his hands in hers]

[He gazes at her in slight surprise, but then sighs and puts his other hand on top of hers. Stupid memories, making him feel like this.]

[and when she doesn't get slapped, or rebuked, or otherwise somehow cast off, muscles Lucy hadn't even realized were tensed to flinch away relax. Stupid memories, indeed. She wants to say that she hurt, too, at the end of her world, but offering a hand to hold is much more simple for her to do.

After a while, in which she tries not to grip his hand too hard during particularly strong shivers she signs "sorry"--mostly for something to say, and because it only requires one hand]

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