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"Cheaters!" I cried

"We were so happy to make your sister&039;s acquaintance"

"I&039;ll bet, ya big cheater"

"Eric canceled our ht I&039;d coot that," she said

"It was alood to be true," Asshole said "It&039;s so rare to find a va relatives And to have one walk into our hands"

"Right! Rare Don&039;t you guys think that&039;s weird? I randdaughter, she&039;saboutwithconditions," Laura said helpfully, still clutching the vampire&039;s hand "But this seems kind of extreme"

"Maybe your mother could help us out," I said, then waited We all waited Laura looked puzzled-orher eyes, I couldn&039;t tell "You know, yourHumph! Typical The devil: never around when you needed her

"Look, you don&039;t want to do this," I told Klaus and the cow at the bar and Toer "You really don&039;t"

"I think she&039;s right," Laura said, practically up on her toes "I think you should try a walkout first I think hostage-taking should be a second resort Maybe third"

The vampire jerked her head, and she cried out

I rubbed my eyes I had to admit, I hadn&039;t foreseen this

What should I do? What if I lied and told them they could have their sheep and their hoot Laura out of danger, then reneged? Could a queen go back on her word? The other vaht lose respect for et into this any further, I just want to clarify: What exactly do you guys think happened to Nostro and Monique?"

"The king helped you"

"Okay And, just for the record, do you see the king around anywhere right now?"

Klaus hesitated "No"

"I better leave one of you alive, then I&039; really tired of this &039;Sinclair must have helped her&039; bullshit If one of you spreads the word about me, that would really help me out"

"Ouch! That really hurts," Laura said to the vao?"

"Shut up, sheep"

"Are you particularly attached to this man?" Laura asked me

"I&039;ve never even met hiive you the wrong iot before a shaft of reddish gold light burst from the vampire&039;s sto-he didn&039;t even have time to scream, it was that fast

I screamed Not very monarchlike, it&039;s true But I couldn&039;t help it See, in real life, vampires didn&039;t disappear when they were killed They didn&039;t collapse into a dramatic dust pile or burst into flaht They didn&039;t even die when you poked theut

You stuck a stake in their chests and/or cut their heads off, and they died forever They didn&039;t get back up Well, I did that one tiht cases, there was always a body, noher hair doith her right hand and holding a-I guess it ord of sorts-in her left Proof! Proof she was hell spawned she was a lefty!

"Sorry about that," she said "But I just couldn&039;t stand to have his hands on lanced at the flaloith such heat, it was actually a little hard to look at "Oh, this&039;" she asked, like I was asking her about a new bracelet "Well I can forge weapons from hellfire"

"And you can kill people with that?"

"Not people," she said helpfully "I&039;ll be glad to fill you in later"

"This-ah-this changes-changes nothing," Klaus said, looking like he was trying not to barf I knew the feeling "We still-we still-ah-deet close with that," Tohh!" He said "arrgghh" because, quick as thought, Laura&039;s sword changed to a crossbow, and she shot Toht, just like the other one

She lowered the crossbow to her side and looked modest Which she actually pulled off She was so beautiful, she looked like a fairy-tale princess With a weapon of mass vampire destruction

"Ha-ha!" I crowed "How about that, Klaus the mouse? Hah? Hah?"