((Paige, I could make a male character for you if you want me to. c:))

Crystal was in the hotel-like room sitting on her bed, staring at the red curtains over the window.  It was nighttime, and she should be sleeping.  But how can you possibly doze off when you've been captured and have no clue whats going on?  The only clue she had was when the man who captured her said, "We'll pair you up soon."  What did they mean by 'pair you up'?  Pair her up with who?  This certainly wasn't a good thing, or at least she thought so.  She hated it when she was in a situation where she had no idea what was going on.

Just then a woman came into her room, and looked around to make sure everything was alright.  "You should be sleeping." The woman said softly, wondering why Crystal wasn't asleep yet.  "Is there anything bothering you?" When she asked Crystal if anything was bothering her Crystal had a billion things to say.  Well, yes there is!  She felt like to yell that loudly, but she didn't.  Crystal stared at her for a while, and the woman had a slightly puzzled look on her face.  Crystal didn't realize that her face was red.

"Um, theres nothing bothering me." Crystal said quickly, trying to hide the slight anger in her tone.  All she wanted was for the woman to leave right now so Crystal could cry herself to sleep.  All she remembered was waking up in the morning, going outside, and then these odd people grab her and she falls unconscious.  Then when she wakes up it's nighttime and she's in this terrible place.

"Are you sure?  You sure don't sound fine." The woman said, sounding slightly worried.  Why does she care for me if she was part of the group who captured me? Crystal thought angrily.  Everything was so confusing for her right now.  And there was another reason why she didn't want to go to sleep, because she fears that they'll do something terrible to her overnight.  Seriously, anything could happen in a place like this.

"Is it because you're lonely?  If thats why then don't worry, because we'll find you a partner soon." The woman said softly, concern in her voice.  There it was again, the word 'partner'.  Crystal once again wondered what they meant by 'partner'.  Partner her up with some creep?  Partner her up with someone who'll torture her?  Crystal stared at the woman's soft blue eyes and her light blonde hair that had streaks of gold in it, then sighed.

"Please trust me, i'm fine." Crystal said, trying not to sound annoyed but failed.  "I just need to be left alone for a while." She hoped that the woman wouldn't ask more questions, because if she did Crystal would surely lose it.  It was already enough that she was very confused, and to have someone bother you doesn't help.

The woman nodded, then left the room.  As soon as the door closed, Crystal burst into tears.  She didn't care if the woman heard her wails, all she wanted to do right now was cry her head off.  It just wasn't fair.  Why'd she have to suffer like this?  Crystal knew that others were experiencing the same things, but she still thought it wasn't fair. 

Eric opened his eyes when he heard the footsteps coming towards his room. His half lidded ice blue eyes watched the door knob moved, a human wouldn't have noticed the movement is they were sitting right in front of the door. He listened and heard the sound of metal on metal as a key was inserted into the other side, the tumblers were hit and the lock clicked, announcing its unlocked status.

He hadn't moved an inch, if you didn't know any better and walked into his room you would have suspected him to be made of stone and just one of the many decorations that littered the room. The door was opened and a few men stepped inside, hands behind their coat lining and touching the guns that were hidden there. They suspected him to attack and try to escape.

He heard their nervous fingers group the cool metal of the guns beneath their coats, and that delicious dark liquid rush faster through their veins as their heart rates increased steadily. This made him smile, the edges of his lips curled delicately, revealing an exposed fang. He caused them fear, and he knew it. He cocked his head to the side slowly, staring at one of the bigger ones until he couldn't looking anymore and had to turn away, a slight shutter in his breath.

"Evening boys." Eric greeted quietly from his bed. "No funny business." One of the braver ones spoke, his voice slipped however. Was that supposed to scare him? "We have a partner for you. She's just arrived and is waiting in her room." Eric lowered his face a little, acknowledging them. Not responding any further obviously confused them, being as they then looked to each other for comfort of some sort. Eric exhaled, resisting the urge to roll his eyes and decided to humor them. "I can't wait to meet her."

They seemed to like this response and looked at him again. "Well, what are you doing sitting there? Get up and come with us." The brave one ordered again, Eric complied. And was beside him before he could bl
ink. He shuddered in terror and flinched away. Eric was still once again, waiting for him to recover. That would teach him to act brave when he was nothing but a sniveling weakling. A human.

"G-go." Another ordered, making Eric moving. Eric did what he was told and left the room. "Right." They ordered and he turned right and headed down the hall. Eric listened to the multitude of people in the rooms as he pas.sed, some were obviously new and let quiet sobs escape their lips. Other already had their partners and there were some conversations going on behind closed doors. "stop. Here." Eric stopped, his curiosity actually peaked a little. 

The door was opened and he was nudged inside. 

Sara laid on her bed crying until a random guy walked into the room and gave her some food. She looked at the guy and tackled him. She quickly pulled out a pocket knife from her jacket and asked, "Where am I?"

"You're in a hotel room that nobody knows about," he replied.

"Why?" she asked becoming more agitated.

"They're going to pair you up, kinda like a blind date."

Sara let him go and remained on her bed. She was scared, and tired.

Eric stopped eying the knife, the men behind him however pushed him farther inside and closed the door behind him. He was stupefied, they didn't take her knife? He sighed, "My name is Eric Garcia." He said, reaching up to move some hair out of his face. 

She was terrified, Eric could her her heart about to fly from her chest. Did they not ttell her anything? 

Hayden had worked for a over a month. Carefully pulling loose the floorboards under the carpet in his room. It had been all about timing and patience. It wasn't much but he had finally worked enough to get enough of the floor boards up with ease and in silence. His ears were tuned to the sounds outside of his room. He had lost track of how long he'd been here but he was never fully idle. He'd pull pranks and been a general pain in the backside but he wasn't stupid enough to take on keepers as he privately called them. Not yet. Hayden looked at his handy work with a smirk. He'd taken to putting some water under the floor boards. A nice moldy moat hiding under his thickly carpeted room. He couldn't wait to see the look on the next humans face as they fell through.

Hayden lounged on the couch his eyes on the celing. A knock on the door after he'd counted the footsteps to his doorway made him smirk slightly. "I'm still here." he said with false cheer.

In came one of the keepers Hayden dubbed Red for his brilliant red hair cut close to his head, Red hadn,t stepped all the way into the room after unlocking the door. Red had dark brown eyes and lots of freckles on his cheeks. After seeing the room in what appeared to be good order Red entered the room. "We've got a partner for you." 

Hayden nodded his head softly, he counted Red's steps. "I was wondering what was next on the agenda." 

Red took 12 steps and then creek, crack, crash, splash. 

Red's face went through a series of expressions before he started yelling, cursing and actually laughing in the middle of it. 

Hayden helped clean up the mess and took the new shirt, pants without complaint. The shirt was jade green and pants were black simple and comfortable. He avoided meeting any gazes as he was walked to a new room. 

The new room was spacious, a couple of love seats in wine red, table set for two, He snorted slightly at that. There were books on the shelves even a few he'd not yet read. Numerous CDs lined a shelf above a cd stereo. There were some roses, orchids and other flowers around the room as well. 

"Sit down and behave for once." Red said, Hayden sat down and waited for his 'partner' to be shown in.

OOC: if that isn't okay just let me know and i'll edit :)

The woman opened Crystal's door again and smiled.  "We've got you a partner, you can stop crying." The woman said in a kind voice.  Crystal wiped her tears with her sleeves, then got off her bed and followed to woman.  She was curious to find out who her partner was.  Finally she could know what they meant by 'partner'.

They left the room and went into a hall, covered with romantic-like decorations.  Looking at them made Crystal giggle slightly.  But just because she giggled doesn't mean that she's in a good mood, she's still very upset.  She was just slightly happier.  She isn't the kind of person to stay upset for a very long time.

The woman glanced at Crystal, and seemed rather happy to see Crystal not so sad.  "Are you excited?" She asked, sounding cheerful.  It bothered her when people were upset.  Sometimes she would even cry if someone were very sad or depressed.

Crystal tried not to glare at the woman.  When the woman asked that it sure didn't help brighten her mood.  She didn't like talking when she was upset.  She often gets even more upset when that happens.  So Crystal didn't answer.  Instead she just simply shrugged, not in mood for a conversation.

The woman noticed that Crystal wasn't in mood to talk, so she stopped talking to her.  She didn't want to keep Crystal waiting, so she quickened her pace so they'd get there quicker.  Crystal quickened her pace a little, too.

Finally they reached the room.  "Thats your partner." The woman said, gesturing towards Hayden.  Crystal blushed a little, thinking that Hayden was handsome.  She stared at him for a while, and then she realized realize that the woman was already at Hayden's table motioning for Crystal to sit with him.

Crystal walked over to them, hesitated, then sat down.  She waved at Hayden shyly.

"I'm Crystal." She said, smiling.  She tried to act cheerful, but truthfully she was scared and sad.  Scared because she didn't know what to do, and sad because she doesn't like being in this place.  And she doubted that she was the only one who hated this place.  It was pretty obvious that they had other people too.

The woman was still making sure that Crystal wouldn't run or try to escape.  Or at least she was supposed to.  She was actually watching Crystal hoping that she'd be happy with Hayden.  She also dislikes when people are lonely.  Basically, she dislikes when people are in a bad mood or are feeling unhappy.  She wants the world to be peaceful and happy.  Thats why she joined the as.sociation.