Chapter 47 #2
“You two about done with your bull?”
I glare at him. “Shut the fuck up and take me to your vampire brother.”
Ben looks surprised that I’ve said it directly but he doesn’t say a word and stalks out of the bar and onto the patio.
There’s a couple of people out there drinking beers.
They go silent when they see us, but Ben and I don’t pay them any attention.
He keeps walking and so do I. We head out of the patio and round the corner towards the docks.
We walk for a minute before he stops and looks over his shoulder at me.
“You think you’re so fucking smart, but a real smart woman wouldn’t have drank that drink.”
I’m already reaching into my bag for my gun when two others step out of the alleyway to the left.
I pull the water bottle of holy water out and pull my gun on them.
They don’t move as slow as Ben does, they’re lightning quick and at his side in a second.
Great. Three vampires. Lucky me. I look the vampires over.
More of Brian’s loser buddies–a man and a woman.
Definitely tracks with what the newspaper staff told me.
There’s only three here and there should be eight. Where are the other five?
I look around, making sure there’s no one behind me. “Well, a smarter vampire would have realized I knew exactly what I was getting myself into, and he would have wondered why I still drank it.” I uncap the bottle and cock the gun.
Ben looks from my bottle to my gun and laughs. “What the fuck is this combo?”
“Shut the fuck up and tell me which one of you threw the car through my window.”
Ben laughs, well and truly throws his head back and laughs. “I heard you had some balls on you, but this is something else.” He steps back and motions for the two vampires at his side to move. “Get this bitch, and remember what mother said. She wants her alive.”
Fuck their mother.
I don’t even wait for them to move. The second I’ve processed they’re taking me somewhere I fire two shots off, hitting the male vampire in the chest before I throw the water in my bottle at them all.
There’s a scream when the holy water lands on the woman’s face.
She staggers to her knees and covers her face while steam rises from it.
The other vampire is frozen in place and stares at her in horror.
“Get up,” Ben yells at her.
“It burns!” She screams, clawing at her face. “I can’t see. Oh my god, you said we would be invincible!”
Ben tears at his hair and kicks the female vampire in the side. “You are! Now get up!”
It’s right about then that I start to feel the effects of whatever he put in my drink. “Oh fuck,” I whisper and hold out a hand to steady myself. The male vampire gets to his feet slowly. He holds a hand over the gaping chest wound I gave him.
“I didn’t sign up for this shit, Ben,” he growls. “This bitch is a killer. Brian told you what she did to him.”
Ben crosses his arms and jerks his chin at me when I stagger to the side. “Look at her. Does she look like a fucking killer now? I roofied her. She’ll be down in a minute and then we’ll have our fun with her.”
I try to shoot Ben in the face. “Fuck your fun,” I rasp. He laughs, he dodges the bullet easily but he doesn’t dodge the one I put in his knee. He drops with a scream. “You fucking bitch!” He shoves the other vampire forward. “Get her, Jason!”
Jason the vampire lurches towards me like he doesn’t know how to walk and maybe he doesn’t. I’ve seen him around. Mostly squatting in the old longshore huts and doing meth in the alley near the newspaper. I was disgusted by him before and now I’m going to kill him.
I take aim at him but Jason gets his sealegs and manages to get the gun out of my hand.
He catches my wrist and throws it to the side.
It lands somewhere near where the female vampire is whimpering and covering her eyes.
Jason starts to choke me and I drop my bag, breaking his hold. Fuck. I can’t get to my taser.
“Get back here!” Jason yells when I manage to break his hold. I kick him but he catches it and yanks me towards him, but I bring my other leg up and throw my weight on him so we both go down.
“Fuck!” Jason loses his grip on me when we hit the ground. I roll away, wheezing and seeing double. Everything is going in and out of focus and my body feels heavy. I shake my head to clear it and force myself to fight.
I am not dying here.
I refuse to die here.
I stand and grab the knife from my boot.
Jason’s eyes go wide when I launch myself at him and drive the knife into his throat.
It doesn't have quite the same effect as it did when I slit Mike’s throat but it slows him down enough that I stab him again.
I try to stab him a third time but my hands are clumsy and I fumble the knife.
A second later I’m yanked off Jason by one of the other vampires and slammed to the ground.
The world goes out of focus and then comes back a second later, and when it does I see all three vampires standing over me.
“I’m going to fucking eat you,” the woman snarls. Her fangs are sharp and her face is already healing.
“No!” I scream and try to swing at her when she reaches down at me but I can’t control my arms anymore. I can’t move. She grabs me by my jacket and pulls me to her, and I can’t fucking stop her.
I’m going to fucking die here.
I close my eyes and think about Julian. I’d rather think about him than what’s about to happen to me. They might kill me but I don’t have to watch it happen.
“Julian,” I whisper and everything goes black.