He's What I've Waited For (ManxMan)

Kill Him 2

Hunter (POV)

Maybe I could kill him. I thought. But that was a stupid idea. He is a vampire. He is stronger and faster than me. Damn, the only thing I can do now is sit and wait to die. I saw the light move closer. I didn't move. For some reason, I thought maybe if I stayed still and held my breath he wouldn't see me. When I turned my head to the left I was surprised to see the pole I was tied to. That meant I wasn't far from where I started. I probably just walked in a complete circle.

The light came closer. I watched it, not moving. But my brain was clicking along in surprise. It wasn't the slanted, focused beam of a flashlight. It was the more diffused pool of light from a lantern. When he made his way to the pole he stopped and just stood there. This is your chance. I thought. I really hope he doesn't turn around and see me.

I stood up and quietly walked up behind him. Now was the time. My muscles could feel how I had to stab him with the sharp rock into his back. I knew how to do it.....but I couldn't. I couldn't stab somebody in the back. somebody who wasn't menacing me at the moment, who didn't even know they were in danger.

Oh, my God! I thought.Don't be stupid! Do it!

Frustrated almost to the point of hysteria, I heard myself let out a breath. It was wet. I was crying. My arm dropped. My muscles collapsed. I wasn't doing it. I couldn't do it.

Christopher slowly turned around. He looked both beautiful and eerie in the lantern light. He looked me up and down, looking in particular at the sharp rock in my hand. Then he looked me in my face. "You're the strangest boy," he said, in what seemed to be genuine bewilderment. "Why didn't you do it? You were smart enough to get yourself out and get yourself a weapon. Why didn't you have the guts to finish it."

I was asking myself the same thing. Now I'm going to die and maybe for good this time and only because I don't have the guts to kill someone who I know is completely evil and completely determined to kill me.

"I suppose some of Adam has rubbed off on you," He said, "or maybe you're just weak."

And a victim. I've spent a long time being the victim. I guess I've got my part down perfect by now.

"Oh, well. It doesn't really matter why," he said. "It all comes down to the same thing in the end. Now. Let's get this over with." I stared at him, breathing hard, feeling like a rabbit looking at a headlight. Nobody should live as a victim. Every creature has a right to fight for its life. But I couldn't seem to get my muscles to move anymore. I was just too tired.

Christopher was smiling, fixing me with his dark eyes. "Be a good boy, now" he crooned.

I don't want to be a good boy.......

Christopher reached for me with long arms. "Don't touch him!" Adam said from the cavern mouth. My head jerked sideways. I stared at the new pool of light on the other side of the cave. For the first few seconds I thought I was hallucinating. But, no. He was there. Adam was standing there with a lantern of his own, tall and almost shimmering with coiled tension, like a predator ready to spring.

The problem was that he was too far away. And Christopher was too fast. In the same instant that it took me to make my brain believe my eyes, Christopher was moving. In one swift step, he was behind me, with his hands around my throat. "Stay where you are," he said. "Or I'll break his little neck."

Adam(POV)

I knew he could do it. Christopher was very strong. He didn't need a weapon. I put the lantern down and raised my empty hands. "I'm staying," I said quietly.

"And tell whoever else you've got in that tunnel to go back. All the way back. If I see another person, I'll kill him." Christopher said. Without turning, I shouted to Liam and the other men, "Go back to the entrance. All of you." Then I looked at Hunter. "Are you alright?"