32 (UISYA)

Below is the description of Ann and Larie's **32nd meeting** (EARTH 5) from the Ed, Edd n Eddy fanfiction series, Until I See You Again.

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## Story

>    The vampire race is tired of staying hidden underground and plans to force themselves onto the human population.
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> Because they excel in strength and durability, they believe to be more worthy of being the dominant species on Earth, but despite having racist views on humans and unironically seeing them as monkeys, the vampiric aristocrats leading the war suggest they shouldn't create hysteria and do their takeover gradually.
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> Humans are given the illusion of choice, and as they tend to feel empathetic for the vampires as a neglected species, they're easily abused.
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> Still, not everyone is as open-minded and soldiers are stationed at different locations as to corner everyone into complying with their demands. The current world's country leaders make their own statements on whether or not they should tolerate the undead newcomers, though each city and village seems to have their own idea on what to do.
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> The communities that actively want the vampires gone are made an example; and subjected to inhumane battle tactics, where human residents are turned into vampires and set loose onto their own loved ones.
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> Fullblood vampires rarely fight themselves and prefer to strategize or perform civil discourse, though the latter is a parody. "Made vampires" are considered expendable and have trouble controlling their urges around living beings, making them especially violent. Because living creatures will automatically transform when bitten and spared by a born vampire, the perpetrators are able to get excused by contributing it to mere accidents and outlier situations.
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> Larie is a rare pureblood, directly related to the first demon (Larie from Earth 4) that spawned the vampire race. This is proven by the blue colour of his hair, as families that have mingled with a human once before are blackhaired. All other colours represent even lower ranks that have more human involvement. With only 4 other purebloods left in the world, they're considered valuable royalty, yet Larie chose to join the army and prefers the relatively simple title of "lord".
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> As he's lived for a long time, he juggles between feelings of entitlement and disinterest for most people and events. He joined the army as an attempt to spice up his endless life, though it ended up being a disappointment because of the semi-peaceful strategies chosen by those in the lead. The bored villain does not see the appeal in leading the world's armies himself to get what he wants.
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> He's openly racist towards humans and kills on a weekly basis, while his colleagues do a better job pretending to strive for equality. Soldiers are ordered to buy and drink only animal blood when stationed in cooperative towns, though Larie's crimes are not halted by anyone because of his superior status.
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> One day, Larie's team is placed in a simple village until further instructions. The inhabitants are quick to adapt a slavish mentality, with exaggerated smiles constantly given, but one morning becomes unusually noisy when Larie's protective parasol gets caught by the headwear of a nervous lady powerwalking past him and the other high-ranks. The public's attention is grabbed when he starts to violently boil and burn in the exposed sun. Ann hastily returns his parasol and Larie turns back to normal in seconds, with the situation seemingly being shrugged off, yet he follows her into a grocery shop and later to her house, where it becomes clear he wants to kill her for embarrassing him in public.
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> Her apologies are futile and she's chased around the house like a rabbit. Heavy furniture is thrown around loud enough for people outside to hear, but nobody comes to check. A man who is Ann's husband then arrives home, but surprises both her and Larie by immediately exiting again. Ann is startled and hurt by this, while Larie's playful sadism motivates him to let her go and have her deal with the fact her husband left her to be killed.
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> Larie leaves contentedly, but then hears sounds coming from the house that don't match his expectation. Ann is beaten by her husband, who justifies it by assuming she had angered a lord. Because Larie can't disagree with that reason, he goes his way.
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> The next morning, he notices the same woman sneaking past the usual cliques of vampires to visit the same shop. He follows her again and learns from her conversation with the clerk that she wants to buy meat for dinner to please her husband. But she was given an impossible budget to work with, so Larie steps up to buy her the items she originally wanted, before she leaves with her handful of rice. It confuses her and she can't think of what to say to yesterday's attacker. Larie's gifts appears not to be free, though, and he says she owes him a drink for accepting. His weird tricks displeases Ann, but she's too aware of the fact there's no one to turn to, thus he's allowed to follow her back home. The coffee he demanded is left there to become cold, as expected.
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> Larie sticks around for hours and is a silent spectator to her routinely chores. She hopes to bore him away with her own silence, but he manages to waste the entire day watching her, until it's time to start dinner and he asks multiple questions about her husband. They get curt, but polite answers.
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> The emotional distance starts to anger him and he commands her to come closer. Ann pauses her work and does so with hesitance, whereafter she's pulled onto his lap. His face keeps brushing against her neck and it appears he wants to bite her, but Ann's husband happens to interrupts them again, as if Larie's impulsive fondling was planned for this moment. He sees the two sitting together, but greets the intruder like nothing is going on. It doesn't take long for Larie to become disappointed and tired of the man's grovelling and fake cheerfulness, and with Ann acting along, he decides to abort the prank and leave.
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> Outside, he again hears the husband's tone change, with Ann's infidelity being punished. Larie is happy with his delayed success, though starts to have second thoughts when her crying stops. He re-enters the house and sees the man is about to dump the pot of boiling rice over this floored wife. Larie feels no enjoyment from this outcome and uses his supernatural abilities to petrify the man's body from taking another move. The man's confused and claims Ann is deserving of it, but Larie argues it's unfair that she's expected to meet standards he doesn't care for himself; insinuating he followed and learned about the husband's double life. Ann is suggested to go upstairs and not come down for a while.
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> She hears her husband seemingly being mauled to death. An hour later she's called down and asked to clean up the blood, while Larie goes off to bury the remains of the body. The crime scene and his casual treatment of it bothers her, but Larie doesn't stay to help her cope or check her lethal abuse. After this incident, Larie is summoned elsewhere and disappears for a week. Ann is unable to deal with the past events and feels more lonely than before. She finds it difficult to explain her husband's disappearance to her curious neighbours or her family, who gave her hand to this man.
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> When Larie returns, he finds her at the shop trying to trade some of the items he bought for her a week before. He becomes enraged and renders the products useless by knocking them onto the floor. Ann snaps back in return and says to have lost her source of income and is in need of medicine. Larie uses this situation to make her more indebted and starts paying for her daily needs from that moment on. He gives no real reason and Ann can't refuse him when he shows up at her door. He uses the visits to demands drinks or meals he can't even digest, as if he's trying to replace her husband. He's seen as a bother and Ann's reluctance to speak makes the visits awkward. Because Larie is not being entertained, he starts to wonder if he only bothered with her because she was a scapegoat he could trick, and killing the husband is what ended his fun new game. He starts to feel bored with life again.
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> The other aristocrat vampires pick up on Larie's nightly disappearances and figure out where he's been staying. They warn him he's not allowed to show that kind of interest in a human, as his bloodline has to be protected. Larie knows he won't get punished, but it won't improve his reputation and the boring Ann will meet deadly misfortune he doesn't care to witness, so promises that their relationship isn't like that. Nevertheless, the group isn't convinced and plan to visit Ann's house to kill her.
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> Larie shows up in time and claims to have been hired by her to kill her abusive husband, whereafter Ann supposedly agreed to be his servant. She plays along with his story and gives him a massage on the dinner table, while he throws slurs at her. The vampires believe it the longer the show goes on, so depart.
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> Larie enjoyed their ruse and thinks keeping up this act is the best course of action, but Ann argues the opposite and says her safety lies in them cutting ties entirely. He is insulted by her continuous ungratefulness, but heads for the door anyway. He leaves her with the question; between vampires and humans, which group has been the cause of her troubles in the past and now. Ann refuses to answer, so he adds she shouldn't cry over a man who didn't want her.
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> The following days, she's mostly left alone by her neighbours and the vampires, except for some glaring. Realizing she can't hide indoors forever and needs a job, she shows her face again, but once outside, she gets grabbed by some army men and taken to "her master" Larie. When she meets up with him, he's preforming the unfitting task of fixing up a vehicle. He won't even look at her, but again bails her out by saying he fired her for being too weak-jointed. The vampires are reassured his disinterest in her is genuine, thus Ann is released.
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> After having an unsuccessful day of finding work in the economically decreasing town, she passes the same plaza where Larie is still seen working on the army jeep. As he noticed her entering an antique shop earlier, he asks if she has the money for that. Ann doesn't want to get friendly with him, but answers she's on a quest for a job.
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> As she passes the car, she spots a defect and notes Larie on it. He asks her is she's a mechanic, but she can only confirm she's a hobbyist, like him. Nevertheless, Larie feels lazy and offers her money if she fixes the car for him. A good sum is promised, so she agrees to give it a try.
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> A spy notices Ann and Larie again interacting and goes off to inform the nearest aristocrat. Shorty after, a soldier and a blackhaired vampire named Martin show up to "check on the car's progress". There's little social exchange between Larie and Ann, but Martin is skeptical because of the fact the two keep meeting up. He whispers instructions to the soldier to pay attention to Larie's face, while he goes off to flirt with Ann. Martin manages to come across as honest and kind, turning Ann slightly more chatty and granting him a few smiles as well. This makes Larie increasingly restless. He warns Martin they're not allowed to date humans, but he gives him a political answer back saying that their strife for equality will make human and vampire relationships an inevitable. Since his bloodline has already "failed" and he has a human relative, he insists he can date humans. The jab makes Larie furious, but reveals that Ann is the reason of his visit.
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> She fixes up the car within minutes and Larie feels generous enough to offer her a job as an army mechanic. She shows reluctance to help the vampires with their take-over in this manner, but he sends further signals that would imply she should accept. He then asks the two intruders to sod off and go set up a contract for her, allowing for Larie to inform Ann that vampires are talented seducers and Martin has no real interest in her. She shrugs it off by saying she's not planning to date anyone after her husband died so recently, and is just in need of -and appreciative of- Martin's kindness. Larie reminds her it's fake, but she chooses to believe otherwise.
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> The following days, Martin shows up often to chat with Ann. After a few months, they're seemingly a couple, though she reveals to her co-mechanic Larie that he refuses to meet up with her in private. Larie has become a friend to her, though there's still an invisible barrier between the two. He makes it clear not to care for her stories about Martin and has repeated the same about him since day one. Ann still doesn't believe anyone could or would perform an act for this long.
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> One day, Martin gives another excuse to why he can't go on a date with her and the tears are hard to miss in her eyes. Larie sets up a plan to indefinitely prove he's a fake not worth the waterworks and asks her to play along. She doesn't care about "testing his love", but he promises it doesn't take much effort.
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> Ann and Larie sit themselves down and pretend to be infatuated with each other; so that the spy watching them can report on this. It doesn't take long for Martin -who just said his goodbye- to show up again. Ann asks him if he has time now, but he again gives an excuse and leaves. Larie considers this solid evidence, but she's doesn't, so they repeat the steps and then earn themselves a more distanced visit by Martin and a group of soldiers.
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> She argues they might just be going this way, but after repeating the game for a third time, Ann too becomes suspicious. But there's not much time for her to think about it further, as Larie's still approaching lips earn her a surprise attack from Martin himself. His falling dagger is swiftly taken by Larie, and his body kicked to the other side of the plaza. She's stunned by Martin's sudden change of demeanour, but Larie smirks triumpantically over his correct assumption. Martin understands his cover to have been blown and can't take on a bodyguard like Larie, so comes clean and reminds Larie of his duty to protect the bloodline. He responds that the ones lecturing him about it the most are most unfit to do so, then orders him to leave.
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> Ann tries to keep her composure, but to learn that the man she liked for months could've killed her without remorse upsets her. She thanks Larie, but then only cries.
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## See also

* Until I See You Again
* An, Ann n Anny
* Ed, Edd n Eddy Highschool