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"Hey baby. Is it true what they say about redheads? Hot temper?" A snortle came from a flock of guys who walked past the redhead as she moved through the city streets. "I'd like to see some of that fiery temper in bed." Another chimed in before Prudence spun around and just flipped them the bird. They would have been disappointed anyways. The quick, hotheadedness that defined Prudence and made her what she was, had vanished months ago. Maybe too much time in the fade. Maybe because she just didn't care anymore or maybe she was growing. Changing. To what extent was yet to be determined.

"Woah baby! If that's an offer, sign me up!" The first guy who spoke to her stepped out of the crowd to give her his full on attention. An eye roll was all they got from the woman dressed in a black ying yang tank top that bleed from the white at the bottom of it, accompanied with tattered denim shorts, ripped nylons and black combat boots. Her hands stuffed their way down deep in the pockets of a coat that was longer than the shorts she was currently wearing. The male thrust his hips in Prudence's direction, and that almost got a rise from the woman. Well, a standard, Prudence rise. Instead, all she did was smile and tip her head, long red locks partially covering her face.

"Baby, I wouldn't even know what to do with all that. I left my tweezers at home." Prudence cackled, spun around as the guys whooped and slapped their mate in the back. Following a procession of name calling towards and at the redhead. That was all they were going to get before Prudence disappeared into a used book store to try and find a book she needed for class at a bargain price. As she scanned the aisles, her phone went off. A text from J.J. her usual night lead bouncer.

Blondie's back. Causing a scene. Best get here before the pigs do.

Prudence groaned. Go figure Jane would cause a commotion in her bar. That ***** had pushed her luck too many damn times with Prudence. Tonight, Jane was going to find her way a few feet under ground. She stuffed the phone in her coat pocket, without bothering to reply, headed to the back of the shop and used a tome given to her by CC's crazy ex. Well, maybe that was an unfair assessment, but the ***** certainly was off her rocker lately due to the loss of her baby, CC and other factors in life. Which reminded Prudence to slap the **** out of CC when she saw her next. For someone who was so in love, her mini vamp sure did **** off at the most inconvenient of times. And left Prudence to baby sit. She hated babies and baby adults. So whatever she dished out to CC was well ******* deserved.

Prudence ducked through a portal that took her to a train station, which would only get her about half way to her location. She started off in a slow jog, then a run and used her natural killer abilities to complete the gap between her and her bar. "Where the **** is that dumb ****?" Prudence demanded as she appeared, pushing her way through a throng of patrons.

Only to be surprised by who it actually was. It wasn't Jane. It was Lori. All Prudence could do was groan. How did Lori suddenly become her problem all the time? "Come on. Help me get her to the back room." Prudence shoved her shoulder between J.J. and Lori, so that she could collect Lori in her arms. Legs over one arm, back against the other and head on her shoulders, Prudence made her way to the back room with her. "What the **** did ya do?" Prudence growled in annoyance as the pair made their way through the bar, and to the back room, followed by J. J. as he waited to hear what he should do from the boss lady.

Prudence ignored the words Lori spoke as she continued to carry her to the back. "Get a bottle of alcohol. Might need it." She told J.J. before he left with a nod and went to carry out the chore at hand. There wasn't time to get the actual alcohol she needed, so the liquor in her club would have to work in a pinch.

When she got to the back room, there was a small crowd of people in the back watching a fist fight between two males she had seen once or twice, but didn't really know personally. "Free shots in the front bar. Go see Ryker now." Prudence started clearing a table without another thought, beer bottles crashing to the ground as they broke, before she set the human on the top of it. Her eyes looked around to see a couple stragglers who were more interested on what was going on here, than a couple free shots. "Get the **** out before I crack yer skulls wide open." The redhead's voice boomed as she amplified the intimidating message with a little help from the allurist path. Most didn't need to be told twice, but one guy needed a little extra help it seemed as he moved to the door sideways and slowly.

"Don't got time for this ****." Prudence moved towards him, only to see J.J. bump into the guy. "Toss his ***** *** out. Black list." J.J. Nodded, placed the bottle of clear vodka on a surface near the door and grabbed the guy by the scruff of his shirt and shoved his *** out the door. The tall red head moved towards the door, scooped up the bottle and headed back to Lori.

"Take a drink." Prudence said as she uncorked the bottle with a quick yank from her teeth and spit it to the floor. A hand went around the back of Lori's head to prop it up as she offered her a quick swish of the liquor. "Ya ain't going to the hospital." Prudence shook her head. "I can stitch a little. At least I can on dead things like frogs and pigs." She shrugged, thinking of the biology class she had been in last year. "Let's take a look at ya."

She didn't wait for Lori to agree or disagree before a hand went to the hem of her shirt and tugged it up. Prudence knew she was hurt from somewhere, as there was blood on her shirt, but she didn't know if she was shot or stabbed. When she saw the large gash, Prudence was slightly relieved. No digging out a bullet. Just a quick stitch job should work. "Alright, ya been stabbed. Shouldn't be too hard to close it up." She assured Lori as the hand behind her head was removed, and Prudence grabbed out her cell and texted J.J. to bring her the med kit under the bar. The phone was stuffed back in her pockets before Prudence poured vodka over her two hands. "Let's get started. It's gonna sting like a mother ******. Nothing I can do about that." She warned before the vampire poured some booze over Lori's wound.

Was she alive? Prudence gave the woman a shake, a quick one to try and muster up some form of reply from her, when the booze that spilled on her wound had gone, pretty much for the most part, unnoticed. The up and down of her chest told Prudence that she was. Prudence realized what had happened. Her body had endured a lot more than it was used to, and she had passed out. "Aww, no ya don't." Prudence gave Lori another shake, this one possessing a little more oomph behind it in an attempt to rouse her.

Why Prudence cared about this human was beyond ******* her. Humans died all the time. She killed them. ALL THE TIME. But deep down, she knew the reason why. Guilt. It was small at first, but each time she saw Lori, the guilt grew bigger and bigger. CC had abandoned her in Lori's greatest time of need. CC was her mini-vamp. And the one thing that Prudence despised, was someone abandoning their responsibilities. Only because she had experienced it a lot of times in her short stint as a vampire. She was, now the leader of her own lineage, divorced and though she tried (and failed miserably), she wasn't as close to her mini's as she should be. As she would like to be. Mostly because they were all too damn stubborn in their own way and believed they knew best. But Prudence never abandoned them. Even with how pissed off and sometimes disgusted she was with the **** they did, she always kept an eye on them. They may feel different, her mini's, but that was how she felt. She gave it the best she could, but without a proper display of how a sire should be to their mini's, Prudence failed often.

"*****. Wake the **** UP." Prudence growled before a back of her hand went across Lori's cheek, the last attempt she would make before the vampire would abandon the idea of saving her human life.

Lori wasn't budging. She didn't groan, moan, tell Prudence to stop. She did nothing. Her head just flopped back and forth like one of those bobble head things, as Prudence shook her silly. Nothing the redhead did was making the woman come to. Which meant one thing. She was dying.

No matter how quickly Prudence could stitch the wound up, at this point it was too late. The woman that entered her life by accident, and Prudence tried to keep out of her life for the sake of CC and even vampire secrecy was on her way out. Or already was. Prudence let go of the woman, in a clear conundrum.

She didn't really know Lori. Not the Lori that CC apparently knew. Apparently she was something special, but Prudence only knew the Lori that was morbid, moody, and down right ******* depressing. All over a baby. Maybe it was harsh, but the baby was probably better off. Harper Rock was full of vampires, zombies, fae, humans with wicked bad *** powers, and a zillion other things! Being a normal human probably sucked when she really thought about it. Being a baby? Even worse! They didn't even have a chance to remain normal anymore. Not with the retards who loved showing off their vampire powers like this place was Washington and sparkly vamps were so ******* cool. No, they were downright creepy and that guy in the books was a ******* pedophile. Creeping on whatever her name was.

"Need some help?" Prudence had forgotten about J.J. How loyal he was to the bar and to her. She gave her employees a lot of leeway and they had a lot of fun, sometimes too much fun. Prudence looked up at the guy, then shook her head. "Nah. There ain't much we can do. Body's shutting down." J.J. hovered in the doorway, wondering what he should do next. "Don't call the cops. We can't take that right now. Not with last month's incident." Prudence knew she was a suspect in the death of one of her mini-vamps; only his parents and the cops didn't know he was a vampire. Just that his trailer was on one of her properties, it had started on fire (caused by her in an attempt to clean up) and it smelled of some sort of foul-play. That's what the police chief said, apparently. Though there were other targets; some from the Carnival and some who were known to have issues with carnival workers. It was all the same in every city. Some loved the carnival; others hated it and were jerks about it. Such was life. "Go see if we need to do any damage control inside the bar. Make sure people are drinking, be fun and stupid. Be you."

Prudence paced along the length of Lori's body. She didn't want to sire anyone else. She told herself that time and time again, but somehow she kept caving. First Macro, who was now gone; then Aeyrn. She shouldn't do it. She sucked being a sire; and Prudence knew it too. But she felt guilty. If she were a better sire, or had stuck to her guns and made CC end things with Lori, maybe Lori wouldn't have lost the baby and be whatever she was now. Lori would be alive, be the Lori CC claimed she was and had a baby and be living as normal of a life that a human could live in Harper Rock. "**** it. Ya owe me big ******* time."

Prudence ripped into her arm with the fangs that were always there, lifted Lori by her long hair and forced her to drink. A hand went to her mouth, prying it open since the woman was in no way with the program and let her blood pour into her mouth, around it and even out of it. When Prudence was satisfied, she moved her arm away, grabbed Lori by her jawline on both sides and cracked her neck, ending the woman's suffering. For now.

The first signs of life, or unlife showed in an unexpected form. Prudence took this as the woman being overwhelmed, and could partially relate to the feeling. She had been when she was first sired, but Prudence took it a completely different way. Prudence had been excited to become a vampire and embraced it to its full potential of infinite possibilities. Pushing herself further, than she had as a human, knowing death was possible, but so was returning. Of course she hadn't done anything that would risk society as a whole, just herself in the privacy of her own home, her bar and other places that had little to no human traffic.

Or maybe Lori believed she had died and she was crying in whatever place they went to had they died as a human. "Uhhhh, Lori?" Prudence placed a hand on the woman's shoulder and gave it a gentle shake. "You're alive. Sorta. But alive. Ya made it through." The tone in Prudence's voice was evident; Prudence saw it as she had given Lori a gift and a mighty fine one at that. Because in her mind, she had.

"Ya see, you're alive, but you're kinda not. I mean, I had no choice really. Well, I did, but I didn't. Ya weren't gonna make it through if I didn't do what I did." Prudence crawled over the woman so that they were now face to face, as it seemed Lori was in no state to move. Either she didn't want to, or she couldn't. Prudence had a quick fix for that. "You're a vampire now." Prudence told her, the redhead trying to get a glimpse of Lori's face that was hidden beneath her arms. "It was the only way."Deep down she knew it wasn't the only way to solve the solution. She could have let Lori die, but Prudence didn't want to. For a multitude of reasons, not just because she felt guilty, but because a little bit of Prudence had thought about siring her weeks ago. Sure, Lori was strange, but she was quite useful too. "So, ya can stop crying now, cause yer alive-ish." Again a hand was placed on the woman's shoulder in an awkward fashion, as Prudence tried to comfort Lori.