I walked back to my cell after my veggie breakfast. I was no longer handcuffed and barely escorted. Most of the time, I just went where I needed to go when I was released from my cell. I was still locked in but I was free to roam. I worked out in the gym, alone and showered alone. I would help in the lab or read with an occasional chess match with Citron, that was my day and it was about over. I knew it was early morning for my group.

Now, I was in my cell listening to my group arguing two floors above me. I was guessing that Gem's office was there.

"Gem, we have to show Viper." Citron was defending me or so it seemed. My ears perked up when I heard my name.

Gem sighed. "But I don't know how it will affect him to have this information. There's nothing that can change it. It's already done and he doesn't have any memory of them so why cause more pain!"

Good argument.

Dr. Comet chimed in. "But Viper trusts us. What if he finds out some other way and then finds out that we knew... I can't do that to him. I would rather tell him and be the one to console him when he finds out. Okay?"

Citron agreed. "I agree. He's got us now, Gem. We can be there for this and be his friends. Come on!"

Gem sighed. "Peri, what are your thoughts?"

Peri was quiet for a long time. I shifted in my seat. "Tell him. If it was me, I would want to know."

Gem must have agreed. "Fine. Go."

Citron spoke. "Wait! Who's actually telling him?"

I didn't hear anything else. I also didn't know when they were telling me this terrible news. What else could there be? I lost everything and live in a jail cell. What's next? I paused. I freaking drink blood to survive. For crying out loud!

I sat in my cell and pouted. Waiting for them to ruin my oh so perfect life.

Oh! And the fact that the man I love hates me just for being alive. I can't forget that painful thought. Damn it. If I could, I would kill myself.

I growled, stood and punched the wall.

"Problem?"

That smooth sexy voice gave me goosebumps. I looked down and turned. "No." I sat. "What do you want?" It was the man that would never be mine. Fuck my life. He was giving me the bad news.

I inhaled as Peri opened the door and walked inside. It must be bad because he sat beside me. "Uh, we actually had to draw straws for this task."

"Are you here to kill me?" I sighed. "Because if I had to die, I'd want it to be you."

Peri blushed again and cleared his throat. "No. Viper, I have news...on your family..."

"Okay? Look, I know it's bad news. Just.. tell me." I was already in tears. "I don't remember them anyway."

"We...I mean Dr. Comet did some digging..." Peri handed me a phone.

It was a cell phone. I couldn't remember having one but I knew what it was. This one wasn't mine but my face was on the screen but different. I had green eyes and a bright smile. I looked happy. My dark hair was short and tamed. I looked like a normal person.

There was a video clip, several videos were in the queue. I was standing with a man, we were getting married. I had a husband. There were lots of pictures of me and him doing things or being goofy.

Other pictures was of me holding a child, I was smiling with the man and the baby. We were still in the hospital. I was in bed.

There were more pictures. The baby's first birthday, and that picture had a video. He was small and we looked happy. I had a swollen belly. I was pregnant again if I had to guess.

Another picture...lots of pictures of the man and the baby. Another of me in the hospital bed with a baby. Pink blankets. A girl. I had two kids. A boy and a girl.

The pictures kept going. The kids got older and looked happy. Around ten or eleven. Our anniversary. We were kissing under a number thirteen. Thirteen years of marriage that I don't remember. The last pictures were of a camping trip with a group of people and then nothing.

I was in tears.

"Do you want to know?" Peri whispered to me.

I cleared my throat. "What?"

Peri nodded. "Okay. After some research, his name was Timothy and your name was Joshua. You preferred Josh. Your kids were Kevin and Ruth. You were happy together." He cleared his throat.

"Where are they now?" I was so upset and I couldn't remember them.

"Died. It was about three days after that camping trip. Your town was attacked by vampires. No survivors. I'm sorry, Jo.." Peri began to say my human name and I couldn't hear it.

"Viper! Call me Viper! I'm no longer that happy man in those pictures!" I threw the phone to the floor and watched it shatter. "Fuck!" I was standing and punched the wall again, fell to the floor and cried for the people that I couldn't remember. I cried for the life I couldn't remember and those happy memories that were gone. Those people were strangers. Joshua was a stranger too.

I cried for a long time. I figured that Peri would leave soon. I didn't have any hope of being happy. Ever. I was once and maybe that was all that mattered. I did have everything once and lost it all. I hated vampires even more. I fucking hated them.

"I want to go on your next hunt. Please." I whispered. I would have demanded it if I had to.

"Okay." Peri was still there. Why?

"Thanks. For telling me." I still couldn't move. I was on the floor like an idiot.

"Come on." Peri picked me up. I was being carried in his arms, big strong arms that made me goo. I was helpless to wriggle away or get upset. I was goo for this man.

Peri could throw me in a vat of chemicals or a volcano of lava, it didn't matter, I would still be goo for him. I would let him kill me.

A door opened and closed. I was half asleep by now. I felt a soft bed and blankets being pulled up. I was asleep.