"Why do you care? Your sis doesn't care about what I want at all."

"I'm just sorta curious. You're friends with a vampire. Has he never offered?"

"...Don't want to want blood."

"Huh. Seems like kinda a little thing."

It's like a dam breaks, she speaks very fast. "I don't want to maybe turn evil. Everyone has a moral obligation to stay good. God said so, and maybe you don't believe in God, maybe I don't anymore, but that don't change things. You still have to be good."

"Are the vampires evil? I mean, they're jerks and sister-stealers, but I haven't heard about the old punker queen killing anyone. Has the wimpy one?"

"...No." And she shuts up again.

"I mean, it seems like vampires aren't that much meaner than anyone else. I did something kinda mean a few days back."

Shrug. "Could turn me meaner. Dunno."

Joey decides to try lightening the mood of this kidnapping. "You worried about losing the farmer's tan?"

"Nope."

Well, he tried. "We have a lot of farmers in Romulus." 

She has gone back to the silent treatment.

He smiles. "You're the first human not to giggle when I say the name. Nobody will tell why it's so funny!"

"I think it's in a movie or something."

"Never really seen movies."

"Can I call my friend, please?"

"You aren't gonna make the phone blow up or something, are you?"

"...What? Phones don't blow up. I just want to talk to him."

"...Okay. But be quiet about it."

He brings her a phone.

She calls Danny. "Hey. It's me."

"Hey, Gren, sorry I haven't checked my messages yet."

"Well I just had a random thought and wanted to tell you... Remember when you told me about game theory?"

"Yeah. People in jail asked to turn the other guy in, Batman stuff."

"It works the other way 'round too. After you read your texts, you should tell your mom and aunt and Terence and that doctor vampire about it. I mean all of them."