About "Pittsburgh"
The evening, from Abby's Point of View, 2-Jan-1984:
[from LMI2's Chapter 8] Abby gets up at/after dusk, finds Owen is not going to leave her, plants kisses all over his face, they steal a car from a Pittsburgh suburb, she flies off to find dinner.
[from P's Ch1] Abby flies into the area of a Pittsburgh street of row houses. Her goal is to successfully feed quickly and return to Owen. She spots two parents driving off in a car, leaving one figure alone on a quiet street. Setting this guy as her target, she drops onto a nearby darkened porch and goes into one of her strategies. She picks the "I'm locked out" strategy. Monitoring his moving on/off the porch, she feels he is sufficiently distracted and off-guard. She moves down the street to him and gets invited inside.
[from P's Ch2] After getting inside she soon finds her target is not alone. She needs to know who else is in the house because in order to feed, she needs time. She gets to use the phone as a stall tactic but over the next couple of minutes she finds she is no further towards figuring out whether the other person in the house is a threat. She also begins a dislike of her target, due to how he treats her. Fortunately he offers to head to the basement, which she sees as a positive development. She follows along. Once he's in the basement, he is far better target, if she can subdue his quickly. She sets up and he continues to be majorly distracted. Unfortunately his friend arrives, setting her back.
[from P's Ch3] The friend's arrival has her concerned for a short while. She cannot subdue two people who are in different directions from her with yet a third person in the house. She would not be able to feed. Her initial target then really angers her by talking about her in the 3rd person while she's standing right there, fully indicating his distaste for her. It takes control for her not to simply go after him at this point. Fortunately the new arrival moves down the stairs and into the basement. She moves back onto the stairs to keep them hemmed in. At this point she knows she could take them both out. Yet the new arrival proves to be friendly and soon offers to take her away. Once outside she can try any number of options on him. Things are looking good but yet again her initial target angers her as the more recent arrival exits. Yet she takes off after the departing meal.
[from P's Ch4] We find Abby decided to abandon Dale and return to Randy - who had been left alone in the basement and had remained there, far enough from whomever else is in the house. After feeding, she returns to Owen.
[from LMI2's Ch8] Abby returns to where she left Owen. She cleans up. She and Owen leave the Pittsburgh area.
The evening, from Randy's Point of View:
Gets up late after having been up all night on New Years Eve. Has something to eat. Annoys his sister. His parents leave for the evening. He knows Dale is about to arrive. He likes to Dale; Dale can be manipulated to do what he wants him to do. He wants to set up the basement and practice. He is excited about getting a band formed. Some loser girl arrives, tells him a lame story about being locked out (he's not sure she's at all telling him the truth), lets her tag along as he goes to the basement to set up the band equipment. Just before Dale arrives, the girl badly scares him - he has no idea what's up with her but takes a strong dislike to her and wants to get rid of her asap. Dale arrives, they do a very small amount of playing. Dale takes the kid away...
The evening, from Dale's Point of View:
The stores are closed because of the holiday but Dale ends up at his local employer helping set up the store for the coming week. He gets off work, drives to Randy's place, finds he has an unexpected guest. Realizing Randy the girl seem about to get into a fight - which he finds odd - he tries to reduce the stress. Eventually decides the girl needs to be helped out. Plus he cannot stand Randy's stand-off mood. He leaves with Abby.
The evening from Amy's Point of View:
As her parents leave the evening, she heads to her room so as to avoid her brother. She remains there. She hears Dale's noisy arrival and knows he has joined Randy - probably in the basement. Later, is confused to then hear Dale's voice on the answering machine. Heads to the basement to find what's going on.... When asked about the evening by the FBI Agent, she lies and said she never heard anything prior to the answering machine.
The story from Agent Alvirez' Point of View:
Spends the 2-Jan-1984 arriving in Brooklyn, touring the scene at the Hospital and starting to get a bearing on what might have been in progress. Learns of a suspicious death on 3-Jan-1984, spends day learning more of situation in Brooklyn. Flies on 4-Jan-1984 to Pittsburgh. Tours house, talks to parents and Amy. Goes to police station, listens to tape. Interviews Dale. Goes to morgue. Wraps up he can learn and returns to Brooklyn 5-Jan-1984.
Things I added for fun:
Decided to not state conclusions the Reader can make on their own. 1) Randy has to have said "You may come in." 2) It is Dale that interrupts Abby at the end of Ch2. 3) Abby made a choice between Randy and Dale. - The most important aspect of the story, that Abby makes a decision of who lives/dies - is excluded from the story. The inclusion of the death in Ch4 is intentionally made uninteresting to assert that this was not the point of the story. We knew all along that somebody was going to perish.
Abby projects some of her planning, possibly without her knowing. 1) Randy in Ch2 ponders that he has cut off her escape path. 2) Dale in Ch3 realizes he and Randy are isolated in the basement.
Little Lessons Learned:
Don't be a jerk. Don't anger vampires. Don't make Abby angry at you.