"Human or vampire?"

"You. Or Miss Crazy. Or Yvonne. Don't trust adults much and humans aren't that useful."

"I think I'll handle bodyguarding. Because Tabby might've heard that."

"Well, she's getting better lately. But yeah. We'll handle the engineering bits, just want you on standby in case the punkers or bridge trolls bother us."

"Agreed."

Meanwhile, Angie is getting impatient. 

"They're stalling!"

"I guess they can't decide whether it's better to abandon me to the wolves or lose control of vampireness."

"Maybe he hasn't gotten the text yet?" 

To be fair to Joey, he's not all that familiar with digital communication. He's imagining sometching like post.

Shrug.

(They've been stupid about phones this long, she won't give it away.)

"Wanna play checkers?"

"What have I said about hostage checkers?"

"You said 'no'. Y'all are doing a great job being boring though."

"Not my fault Angie's bossy."

"I still think you're doing the wrong thing."

"It's her thing!"

"But yer kidnappin' to get what you want. That's a villain move. The villains always fall into a bottomless pit at the end of the movie." Maybe  that will be convincing.

"Bottomless? So, what, you starve to death?"

"I think they just don't like putting blood on TV, so a pit means dead."

"She has a point, Angie."

"Please, that would take ages to dig."

"It only needs to be so deep to look bottomless. I guess the bottom is supposed to be spikes or something."

"I'll take my chances."

Meanwhile, the plan is underway.