Fracture

chapter 14

The Awakening Part 3

As the sirens wailed from the distance, I could feel my heart start to race as I watched my father be loaded into the ambulance. My sister stood next to me just looking and crying. I didn't blame her I wanted to cry to but I knew someone had to strong. I was so tired and I wanted to scream but my sister needed me and I had to be strong. I had to be strong for her. Then in the corner of my eye, I saw the black bag come from the front of the ambulance. I had always thought I would never see that in my life. I knew what it was from movies and such but I never thought that I would see it in real life. I never thought I would see it for my own grandfather. I grabbed my sister hand as they walked near the body. I knew she wanted to run to him, but running to him would not make a difference. He was already dead and nothing she did or say was going to change that. Her hand felt so cold as I held it. I could feel her tears on her hand. They felt so cold on my dry hand. As she moved toward him, I gripped her hand tight. She moved her hand to mine and tried to make me let go of her, but I wouldn't let her go. I wanted to tell her to stop but I also wanted to let her go. My eyes started to well up as I watch my grandfather head be covered up with the body bag. Before my eyes, he was gone and I did nothing to stop it. I saw another ambulance come for my grandfather in the distance. Then a man came up and asked if we wanted to ride with my father. I was about to say yes when Jun father walked up and told the man that he was going to drive me and my sister to the hospital. I guess all the commotion made him come and see. It nice to have neighbors I guess. The ambulance started to drive off and I finally let my sister go she ran after it for a while until Jun father stopped her. She fell in his arms and started to cry again. I was happy he stopped her I didn't have the strength to stop her. Hell I wanted to run with her all I wanted was this to be a dream but it was real. I fell to the ground and looked at my self I was covered with blood. A single tear came from my face. I was so tired of feeling this way. I was so tired of losing people. I want my daddy back I remember thinking. I want my mother back. I want my family back. I don't want to live this life. I want everything to be how it was. Why am I so weak why can't I stop this from happening I thought to myself? Something must be wrong with me. The tears ran down my face one after another.
"Why am I so weak why can't I have saved my grandfather? Why can't I save my mother", I yelled.
As I yelled, I remember watching Jun father hold my sister tight. She was crying too. I remember thinking I wanted to be held too. I fall head first into the grass crying as I never cried before in my life. I cried and cried and cried. I couldn't stop crying. Then I felt two hands pick me up. It was Miss Joy Nivea mom. She has walked over too see what was going on and she picked me up and held me tight. I closed my eyes and felt my body being picked up off the ground. She held me tight as if I was a baby and sat down on the grass with me. I opened my eyes for a moment and looked in her eyes. There were tears in her eyes too. She had lost a friend I remembered that both families were very close. I put my head in her lap, started to cry, and just screamed. It seemed like I was like that for hours but it was only 20 minutes. I felt so sleepy as I finally stopped crying I got up and walked to my sister. She had fallen asleep in Jun's father lap. I told him that I was ready to go. He smiled and said that Jun and Nivea will ride up there will both of us and will wait with us. I shock my head to agree with him. I walked out to the front yard where I saw both of them on my father car hood. Nivea ran up to me and hugged me. Jun followed her. It felt so good to be hugged. I was happy to see their face after all this I wanted to see familiar faces right now. Jun father then put my sister in the car and then I, Nivea and Jun got in the back. I laid my head down on Jun shoulder while Nivea held my hand and laid on me. I remember feeling him just brush my head as I looked up at him. I could feel his hands go back and forth on my face. He wiped the tears from my face. He held me close as I closed my eyes. I felt Nivea hold me tight as I felt myself falling asleep in Jun arms. It felt so comfortable. I needed to feel that right now. As I felt his hand on my head, I could hear him speak. It felt like a whisper in the wind as he spoke. I felt the heavy burden of the day all at once fall on me. My eyes felt heavy and old. My body felt so weak. I could no longer move. I was trapped in his arms I could no longer move or speak. I could only listen.
"Samantha I am truly sorry for what you have gone though I know that I can't do anything right now to help you, but I know I want to help. Ever since I move here, I felt as if I gain a new family with you and Nivea. You both mean more to me that I ever let on to both of you. If anything would ever happen to any one of you, I don't know what I would do without you both. I wanna make a promise to both of you and don't know if you will remember this but I wanna tell you it anyway. I promise to always protect both of you with my life. I will always protect you no matter if we lose touch or not friends anymore. Your both my heart and I cannot live without my heart. I don't want to ever leave your sides. Without both of you in my life, I don't know how I could live. My father always says that people meet other people because it is their destiny. He says that everything in the world is made up of one path that everyone is taking together. We don't know it but it because free will makes it change but the end and the beginning is the same. We all meet and die. He just says some of us are lucky to find people to enjoy our short lives with. He says people like that are blessed because they get to have all those memories. He says that heaven is made up of the happy memories that we share with the ones we love. I guess what I'm saying is that you both are my heaven", said Jun.
I closed my eyes as he finished speaking. When I woke, I was in the hospital in a car with my sister. In the distance, I saw Miss Joy and Jun father talking. My sister was still an asleep. I got up and looked around a little bit. The hospital seemed very old by how the title looked on the floor. I looked at the charts at each of the rooms in the hall I was in until finally I found my father room. I walked in the room and saw him laying there. He seemed to be asleep, but I wondered who could sleep with so many tubes around him. I sat next to his bed. Then I looked at his chart for a moment. It said that he had a fractured pelvic bone as well as three broken ribs. The chart also said that he had internal injuries also. I wondered out for a moment.
"What kind of man could make these kinds of injuries", said Samantha.
"Samantha would you like to know who you are", said her father.
Samantha was frightened but was happy to hear his voice. She rushed over to him and hugged him.
"Oh honey I'm happy to see you but I have to talk to you about what you have just witnesses today", said Samantha Dad.
"Daddy what happened today", said Samantha.
"Honey I have been a fool. For a long time I thought that, I could hide you from what me and mother life was. I thought that your destiny could be changed but I believe that your uncle will not let you have peace. I'm sorry Samantha but I have to tell you the truth from now on about who you really are", said Samantha father.
"Daddy what are you talking about who am I", said Samantha.
"Samantha I will tell you the story about uncle, your distant family member from Africa. A long time ago almost 1,000 years ago there in the Congo lived a village of people who believed that they could control the evil in a person by pulling it out of you. There in this village was a witch doctor and his brother who were the best at it. One day from a far village they brought in a man who was bitten by a bat that they had never heard of called a vampire bat. The people said that travelers brought it from a land far away and it got lose in their village. He started to display crazy and frightening actions so that brought him to our family members to heal him. Our family member worked day and night to help him, but nothing worked. Finally, the brother made a decision to take the disease and put it in him then push it out. The idea seemed good since he was strong and he thought nothing could hurt him. Samantha he was wrong once it took hold of him he turned into a vampire. The uncle as we call him now then killed everyone in the village. All except his own family. It seemed that his family was the only ones except the sun that could hurt him", said Samantha father.
"Wait why could his family only ones that could hurt him", said Samantha.
"It seems the treatment he used to put the disease in him used the blood of him and his brother. Only those that have his blood line can kill him", said Samantha father.
"So what are you saying then? Are you saying I have to kill uncle", said Samantha?
"I'm saying that you have a duty that has been passed down through many years and many generations. My mother and I never worked for the city as accounts honey. We worked as vampire hunter for a special unit for the Chicago police department", said Samantha father.
"No wait I don't get this if that true why I have not heard about this on TV", said Samantha.
"You haven't heard about it because the government have been getting ready for many years to expose them ad other creatures to the public. The government needed time to find people that could handle the dangers and knew the creatures first hand", said her father.
"So what exactly am I supposed to do then I can't fight them", said Samantha.
"Actually your special Samantha since our family has the blood bond with Uncle we have slowly gained strength more then any human speed faster then living creature and agility faster then any animal. Why it pales to him, it helps us battle vampires. You are stronger then what you think. If I train you can kill any vampire with in two weeks I guess", said Samantha father.
"No I can't accept this is wrong. So what are you saying wait I wanna know something about that night with my mother did she really come back", said Samantha.
"Yes Sam she came back. You see some vampires come back and are just like whom they are but they have a thirst for blood while others only have the thirst. Your mother had the thirst. She also long ago said if she ever turned, she did not want to live like uncle. She wanted to die and live like a human. When she turned, I knew she would come for the house. Vampires thirst for the blood of their family members that why I told you not to open the door that night. I knew she would call for you. I thank god that I came in time. She would have killed you both and drain your blood", said Samantha father.
"No she would never hurt me or my sister", said Samantha.
"Honey that why vampires are such a threat they may look like them but there not. She stopped being your mother when she died. Few come back with their mind and even then, some become insane. Only pure blood vampires can be trusted but they hate humans for what we have done to them over the years", said Samantha father.
"So what you want me to be a vampire slayer then", said Samantha.
"Yes I do because you need to kill your grandfather", said Samantha father.
"I can't do that I can't hurt him", said Samantha.
"I would never ask you this so young but as you can see I can't do this and I don't want to ask the city because they may not be able to fight him. Since uncle turned him, another family member can only match his strength. I know what I'm asking of you is a lot but I need you to yes because if we don't he may rise and kill other people. I can't live knowing that. I know your grandfather would never want to live like this. He always hunted vampires since he was younger then you with his father. He even tried to hunt your uncle. Samantha I need you to tell me answer to this we don't have much time to train before he may rise", said Samantha father.
"Daddy I just don't know what to do", said Samantha
"Sammy just tell the me a yes or a no. are you going to do what your blood line has done for over 1000 years or are you gonna let fear take hold of you. Are you my daughter or aren't you. I know you can do this. So what is Samantha is it a yes of is it a no