Birth Name||; Alexandria Rae Hampton

Alias ||; Dazzling

Foster Mother ||; Raine

Birthplace ||; Cairo, Egypt

Apparent Age||; 17

Real Age ||; 15

Blood Type ||; A positive

Height ||; 5'1

Looks ||; Strawberry blond hair, emerald colored eyes. Pale skin. Freckles. Very pink lips. Bulletwound sized scar on her left shoulder blade.

Orientation ||; Straight

Relationship status ||; Single/Scared of Relationships

Likes ||; Owl City, New York City, music, rainbows, happy people, candy

Dislikes ||; Death, Tormented, change, scary movies, dark alleyways.. being alone




Why don't you and your pretty eyelashes hurry up and ask her out already!

I only pick on you so much because I love you!

You are like a wonderful big brother to me..

You know, you're pretty cool. I like that book of yours!

Please, please, just.. you stay away from me.. I'm not like you.


High-rise, veins of the avenue
Bright eyes and subtle variations of blue.
Everywhere is balanced there like a rainbow above you.
Streetlights glisten on the boulevard
Cold nights make staying alert so hard.
For heaven's sake, keep me awake
So I won't be caught off guard.
Dear Pacific day, won't you take me away?

Slow down, heart of the new year.
Brought down by gravity crystal clear.
City fog and brave dialogue converge on the frontier.
Make haste, I feel your heartbeat.
With new taste for speed out on the street.
Find a road to a humble abode
where both of our routes meet
The silver sound is all around
and the colors fall like snow.
The feeling of letting go, I guess we'll never know.

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes
And tell me when it rains
Then I'll blend up that rainbow above you
and shoot it through your veins
'Cause your heart has a lack of color
and we should have known
That we'd grow up sooner or later 'cause
We wasted all our free time alone

Your nerves gather with the altitude
Exhale the stress so you don't come unglued
Somewhere there is a happy affair
A ghost of a good mood
Wide-eyed, panic on the getaway
The high tide could take me so far away
VCRs and motorcars unite on the Seventh Day
A popular gauge
Will measure the rage of the new-post modern age
'Cause somewhere along the line all the decades align.

We were the crashing whitecaps..
On the ocean (on the ocean, on the ocean)
What a lovely seaside holiday, away
A palm tree and Christmas lights
My emotion
Struck a sparkling tone like a xylophone
As we spent the day alone.

Cheer up and dry your damp eyes
And tell me when it rains.
Then I'll blend up that rainbow above you
and shoot it through your veins.
'Cause your heart has a lack of color
and we should've known
that we'd grow up sooner or late 'cause
We wasted all our free time alone.


Dazzling runs from Raine, scattering papers and pencils and anything around in an attempt to get away from her. "Tormented started to cry when she told hers! I don't want to do it! You don't want to hear it!" She screeches. Raine shakes her head and corners Dazzling, who climbs up the dresser beside them and sits on top of it, sticking her tongue out at Raine. Raine reaches up and plucks Dazzling down, cuddling the girl in her arms. \\\"Now, now love. I\\\'m sure your story can\\\'t be that bad. I had to piece together a lot of Tormented\\\'s story and write it in documentary form. I think we can just do yours like this.\\\" Dazzling squirms, then realizes she\\\'s defeated, settling herself on the couch beside Raine.

\\\"Alright Dazzling, what\\\'s your full name, who are your parents, where were you born and where did you grow up?\\\" Raine starts off with the simple questions. She knows it usually gets them going anyways. Dazzling inhales slowly.
\\\"My full name\\\'s Alexandria Rae Hampton. I was born in Cairo in Egypt.. my mother\\\'s name was Femi Suyuti and my dad\\\'s name is Louis Hampton. Dad was visiting Cairo for some business trip or what not, brought him and a bunch of his French friends down from Paris with him to sight-see while they were there. Met my mom.\\\" Dazzling\\\'s eyes drop. \\\"Didn\\\'t fall in love with her. Slept with her. Paid her. Never saw her again.\\\" She coughs, looking at Raine with a weary expression that\\\'s new to her face. \\\"I met him a few times. He looked a lot like that guy from Interview with the Vampire, the older one that Claudia kills.. Lestat I think. Anyways, he came down now and again for some business thing and gave my momma some money to take care of us. But he was gone just as quick as he came.\\\" She shrugs, eyes looking off somewhere, digging into her memories. \\\"I grew up in Cairo. Momma taught me how to sew and cook.. she taught me a lot of things a woman should know, I suppose. Her motto was always that the woman belonged behind the man.\\\" Dazzling\\\'s eyes grow dark, making Raine shudder.

\\\"Momma belonged to a man, I guess you could say. He was not fond of me, and I was not fond of him.\\\" Dazzling\\\'s thicker accent begins to come out, much different from her fluent English. \\\"Momma did not like him much either.\\\" She squeezes her eyes shut, voice cracking. \\\"So she told me one day while we were sewing dresses to sell at the market, \\\'Alexandria, I\\\'m going to get rid of him. I want you to contact Louis any way that you can and run away from Egypt.\\\' And I just looked at her with disbelief.\\\" She exhales slowly. \\\"Momma bought some sort of poison - it was a long time ago, I cannot remember what it was - and stuffed the rest of the money Louis had given us in my dress.\\\" Dazzling\\\'s eyes unhaze for a moment and she looks at Raine. \\\"I couldn\\\'t let her do it,\\\" she explains softly, \\\"so I did it myself.\\\"

Raine\\\'s heart stops for a moment, or so it feels like it does. I bet that\\\'s something not even Flannery knows.. Dazzling killed somebody. She continues, \\\"So when people started asking questions about where he was, I said I did not know. Truth is,\\\" she looks sick to her stomach, \\\"we cooked him and fed him to the locals. We said it was boar, or some other meat I cannot recall. As for the bones, we fed them to the dogs. For a long time, life was good and nobody expected a thing from us. We had an abundance of money because we didn\\\'t have to feed that fat man anymore.\\\" She exhaled sharply. \\\"But all good things must come to an end, and when people finally started to ask what happened to them, my momma was blamed and taken from me. I was only eleven at the time; I thought that after he was gone my biggest worry was what I was wearing to town the next day.\\\" She looks up at you, water filling her big emerald eyes. \\\"They executed her.. for wishful thinking. It was my crime to pay for, and I let them take her instead. A street thief ratted her out, but he was wrong..\\\"

The room is silent for a moment. Raine watches a few tears splatter on the soft fabric of the couch. She doesn\\\'t do anything but watch the defenseless Dazzling, the girl she knows to be vibrant and full of energy. When the tear flow slows down, Raine asks softly, \\\"What did you do after that happened?\\\"

\\\"I did what Momma told me to do. I paid a script to write me a letter - I didn\\\'t know how to write - to Louis telling him what happened and asking him for help. Several months passed and I was having a hard time making it when he sent me a bundle of money with a note attached. It read: \\\'Come to Paris.\\\' He wasn\\\'t going to let me stay with him, of course, but he had connections. So I escaped the hellhole of Cairo and made it to Paris. When I got to Paris, I was actually sent over to London. There I moved in with a lady named Adelaide and her son Christopher.\\\" She laughs. \\\"Such a small world.. Captivation was flirty as usual, even to an eleven-year-old girl. Although Egyptian girls do look much older, I was always odd. I look a lot like my father, you see, not a typical Egyptian girl, but then I had the skin of one, and he apparently like that. But goodness, he must have been.. what\\\'s our age difference..\\\" she stares down at her fingers and counts for a moment, \\\"he must have been seventeen by then!\\\" She giggles.

\\\"Life with Adelaide was pretty nice; Captivation and I became close to best friends. We had enough money to get by and I was treated like a girl and not a slave. When I was 13, Captivation said he wanted to run off and live in New York City ; he said it sounded fun. His mother was all very supportive of it. When I told him I would be sad to see him go, he offered me to go with him. There wasn\\\'t much hesitation. I said goodbye to Adelaide and London and flew off to The Big Apple with Captivation.\\\"

\\\"A thirteen-year-old girl and a nineteen-year-old boy off by themselves in this crazy city?\\\" Raine laughs. Dazzling shoots her a look.

\\\"I wanted to be here because I had seen it on TV. I was dazzled by the lights, the dancers, the Broadway shows..\\\" She grimaces. \\\"I can see where Tormented and I are slightly similar.. but I\\\'m not her.\\\" Dazzling pops her fingers one by one before continuing. \\\"I know I was only thirteen, but I wanted to live my life in the fast lane. I wanted this dazzling life of a New Yorker. I wanted to forget Cairo and my momma and how I was a mistake that Louis never meant to create. And so I did. Captivation met a rich friend and I bummed money off of him a lot, you know, told him it was for clothes and such.\\\" She closes her eyes. \\\"Truth is, I passed for looking a lot older than thirteen, so I was going in the alleyways to look for drug dealers. Adelaide had warned me about these things, but I didn\\\'t think I would ever get mixed up in them.\\\" Raine gazes timidly at Dazzling, unsure if she knows who her foster child is anymore.

\\\"I was pretty heavy at first; I did everything that could kill me at first. I liked things that made me see in rainbows and feel happy again. My brot- Captivation never said anything would I would act overly giddy around him. Not a damn thing. It was like he didn\\\'t care, but I knew he did. He stopped giving me money and insisted he go with me whenever I left the house. \\\'Alleyways are dangerous!\\\' He would say.. and he was right.

\\\"I guess it really ***ed me off that he wanted to go everywhere with me. I was addicted to the stuff and I just wanted more. So I would sneak out whenever he got distracted with Elizabeth bringing Sara-Wylie to the house, screaming that something was his fault.. he never really let me see what Tormented had become. I would steal money from him.. and if Sara-Wylie left her stuff lying around, I would take whatever she had. I knew she was rich. Well one of these nights I went to go get some good stuff. I needed it - or thought I needed it - badly.

\\\"Well I get in the alleyway and I starts talkin\\\' to him and he says something like, \\\'You know this shizz can really eff you up, right?\\\' And of course I knew it. He sounded inebriated so I just went along with it. He started to scream at me for no apparent reason. \\\'What the eff are you doing in the effing allyways, kid?\\\' He screeched.\\\" Dazzling shudders as her voice raises to match the intensity of the story. \\\"Then he pulled out a pistol on me, just a small handgun, and told me to give him everything I had on me.\\\" She snorts. \\\"I was pretty stubborn two years ago.

\\\"I told him no, and he shot at me. He was so drunk he missed, but I somehow managed to stand there and tell him no. I was scared out of my mind, but I was stubborn and I liked trying to play hero. He kept asking and I kept saying no, that he was a drunk..\\\" she hesitates, and Raine knows what she means, ushering for her to go on. \\\"I said no again and he shot at me again. It tore into my shoulder blade.\\\" Dazzling is wearing a pink long-sleeved top, and she pulls down the shoulder of the left arm to show you a nasty scar. \\\"He ran. And what was I supposed to do, being alone in a dark alleyway in New York City? I caused a scene in the middle of the sidewalk, and eventually someone tended to me. I never told police what really happened; said I couldn\\\'t remember. But they patched me up and called me a lucky duck and sent me on my way.\\\" She smiles softly.

\\\"I never touched a drug after that. Not a drug or a drip of alcohol. I\\\'ve started to appreciate what I have now; it\\\'s better than my life was in Cairo, for sure. There\\\'s no point in sadness. I guess that\\\'s why I\\\'m so hyperactive and happy now. I\\\'m making up for my lost childhood and improving my life since my close encounter to death. Life is beautiful, you know.\\\" Dazzling looks at Raine, whose expression is dim and lost. \\\"I told you that you didn\\\'t want to hear it.. it wasn\\\'t what you were expecting from the dazzling Alexandria with the bright personality and big green eyes, I know. But you wanted to hear it. Anything else?\\\"

Raine looks at Dazzling for a lingering moment, then stands. \\\"No, I have everything I need.\\\" She begins to walk off.

As she\\\'s walking, Dazzling calls out to her, \"Don\'t tell anybody.. especially Flannery.\" Raine turns and looks at her, nodding solemnly with a very subtle smile. Then Dazzling purrs, \"And honey, you know I still razzle dazzle you.\" At that, Raine grins and walks away from her foster daughter.




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