Ice Cold Fangs

Chapter 22: He knows

Author's note: Yes, I know what I'm doing. No, I don't regret this.

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It was the night of April 7th when Killa saw Three again. She hasn't seen that traitor since he left about eleven years ago... what was he doing here?

She followed him, to a random apartment building. "That's odd." She watched from afar, whispering to herself. "What's he doing here?"

Her question was soon answered when a human man opened the door and pulled Three into a hug. Killa's eyes widen, an evil smile began to form on her face.

"So," She hissed. "The little traitor has a boyfriend. ~" Killa rubbed her hands together. "Oh, this... I have to tell this to Zer0."

She flew off, not wanting to be caught when Three left his human's place.

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Three knew he said he would leave after Luke fell asleep, but his mind was thinking back to what Luke had said a couple of minutes earlier.

'There are others like me... I always wondered what happened to the first two "smgs".' 

He looked down to Luke, Three could hear his steady heartbeat in his ears. Another more angsty thought entered his head.

'Luke... Glitchy, if we go into the next step in our relationship... Then, he would have to become a vampire.' Three felt a knot forming in his stomach. 'I... wish I could be human again. I don't know if I could pull him away from his family, or his friends, or his future...'

Three sighed internally. He shook those thoughts out of his head, he was over thinking things again... If Luke wanted to become a vampire, then Three would do it. But right now, it's a little too early to be thinking about that.

He gave Luke one last kiss on the forehead before he left.

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Killa entered the base to see Bob and Scorpion in the corner smoking weed, Whisk was nowhere to be found, and Shark and Viper were playing poker.

Shark looked up from his cards. "Killa!" Viper, and Scorpion turned their heads to see their leader at the door. The three of them lined up and gave her a salute.

Killa smiled, before it turned into a frown. "Where's Whisk? She knows she can't go out by herself anymore."

"She's in her room. She's working on fixing the TV."  Viper, the other female member of the roller derby team explained.

"Good, I don't want her getting us into more trouble." Killa put her hands to her hip. "Now, is Zer0 here? I have some quite juicy news about a certain vampire that he's been looking for." 

Shark shook his head. "No, sorry mam. He's not here, my only guess is that he's with another pod right now..."

Zer0's clan is spread into different pods throughout the city, as it's so big, having every vampire would be difficult to have in one place.

Killa groaned. "Of course, it's never that easy." She snapped back out of her slump. "Well, if you need me, I'll be contacting him."

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Niles was looking at photobook from when he was still human. Currently he was looking at an old photo of him, Zero, and their best friend, Fred. It was taken during the seventies, when Fred was turning nine years old.

Niles face twisted into a scowl as bitter memories began to play in his mind. 'Why? Why did you have to do it Zero?' 

He could still see Zero so clearly in his mind. He laid in the hospital bed, his left eye damaged. Zero was in a coma, and he didn't seem like he wasn't going to make it.

So, Niles did something crazy and desperate...

But before he could continue his trip through memory lane, he was getting a call.

He groaned, Niles opened up his flip phone and put it to his ear.

"Hello?"