It all started with Danny. I met him shortly after I moved away from my home in Southern Missouri. Hell, after living my whole life with five older brothers and an overprotective daddy, he was a dream come true. He was everything they would never have let within ten feet of me. We'd been seeing each other for a while when I wandered into some kind of fight at a club called the Rose and Shield...owned by Heaven Blackblade. Due to the situation, I found out that she was a vampire. I was afraid at first that Danny would think I was crazy when I told him, but he just looked at me and said that he was, too. You could have knocked me over with a feather, you'd have thought I woulda noticed somethin' like that about the guy I was falling head over heels for. He taught me a little about their kind, but not much. I'd like to think it was 'cause he was tryin' to protect me, but with the way things turned out, I have a hard time believing that.

Apparently, some real bad types took an interest in him and figured that they could get to him through me. One of them, a twisted, shadowy sumbitch whose name I never did learn--found me sitting out on the front steps of my apartment building. Most of the details are still fuzzy...but, thinkin' he was Danny, well, I won't go into details of what exactly happened, but the sumbitch gave me my first taste of vampiric blood, then let me see who he really was. Next thing I knew I was on the floor of Heaven's club with Danny flippin' out so bad that Heaven had to knock him out. That was also the night Nando got shot. We rushed him to the hospital, and once he was out of surgery, he got me to get some of Heaven's blood for him, then break him out and take him home. I really can't remember where Danny was at that point...off doin' something more important than takin' care of me, I guess. I spent the night with Nando, just holdin' him and comfortin' myself by taking care of him. Danny kept on givin' me blood after that, though it didn't last long. Danny found out who it was took me from my apartment that night, and that was the last I saw of him...though he did leave me his dog.

Since I had nowhere else t' go, I moved in with Heaven, and she took over givin' me blood. I was less tempermental at that time, and she was content to let me come and go as I saw fit. Durring that time Nando and started gettin' close, which got him in a lot of trouble with his ladyfriend, since he was her ghoul. Seems she didn't approve of the way he kept runnin' out any time I got myself in trouble...like when I ran into the guy who shot him, a real unfriendly type that went by the name Edge, and the guy bit me. We fell in love, and snuck around behind her back for a while. I was happy with him, even if we did have to sneak around. Even found out that Edge was Nando's twin brother, and after a while, we got to be sorta friends...but in the end, Nando made it clear that he'd always choose her. I had to respect it and walk away.

And then there was Laughs...ran into him one night on the street and just about knocked him on his ass. He introduced himself as Mike Hunt, then "stole" my nose. The next day he took me for a picnic and a swim in a nice, quiet lake. Despite the way things were goin', he kept me laughing and smiling as much as he could. After a while, he offered to take me away and help me break my addiction to the blood. Heaven was all for it, so off we went. Before I knew it, we were married. After that, he had me cut ties with Heaven, and everyone else I'd grown to care about...even Papa, an old bum that became my guardian angel, and then a surrogate father. I convinced myself that I didn't mind it, until I was viciously attacked and awoke in the hospital alone. He showed up long enough to heal me and sneak me out of the hospital, then vanished.