Next thing I know Brian was all in my face with a finger up pointing at my head.
“Didn’t I tell you I’d make you kill her if she came after you boy! Shane! Maurice! Watch that alleyway and bring her to me if you find her. Bring her to me so our little Bastien can see that what I say I mean!”
“Noooooooooooooo you can’t, she didn’t do anything!”
“She messed up your kill, a very important kill that would fuck with Ronan’s mind.” I got dragged back to hell and shoved into a room and told to wait until Brian called for me and that if I tried to run I’d be the one to kill Lottie and all of her family. So I waited hoping against all hope that Vera had dreamt about this happening and she would have helped Lottie to get away. I know that sounds messed up right, counting on a little girl to keep my girl safe but knowing what Vera had told me about her mother hopefully her skills extended to her father too and how the hell do I know that Lottie is with Vera? I smelled her scent on Lottie when she was in the alleyway. It is distinct. Honey mixed with Mint. Not a vampire smell.
Brian stormed into the room where and caught me by the ear and dragged me up the common room and ordered Maurice to tell me what he told him.
“She’s gone” my heart felt relieved. It had worked. “She was in Market Street, I smelled her scent in the flat above the butchers but the scent is old. There was another scent with her and Lucy McBride was there too. Obviously that’s where they went after the alleyway. It looks like they left in a hurry. The place was a mess. We followed her scent to the beach but after that it disappeared. She’s gone. I’ll say she’s not a problem Brian.”
“Bullshit, you dolt, she saw Bastien, she’ll be back and she won’t be alone fucking brilliant! PUT HIM IN THE ROOM!” he bellowed at Maurice while pointing at me. I didn’t know what the room was but it was basically a room that had 3 steel walls and one completely open one. But I couldn’t escape the room for 2 reasons. 1. If I escaped and got away to warn Lottie Brian and company would hunt me down and kill whoever was in my company and 2. There was a guy sitting on a stool just outside the edge of the room and he was somehow creating a mental barrier that burned me every time I tried to get out. It reminded me of Lottie’s barrier burn. Fuck how am I gonna warn her? The steel prevents my thoughts from getting out or from anyone else’s from getting to me? I couldn’t afford for Brian to find out about Vera and I knew that Lottie would keep her safe. I was sad then as I slumped down defeated in the corner of the room thinking about Lottie and Vera, hell she hadn’t even called me daddy yet and now I’ll never even get to see her as Brian definitely won't let me go now dam what am I gonna do? I could feel myself sinking into a well of depression, the darkness clouding my brain, swirling clouds of doom. I don’t know how long I sat there lost in my mood but I suddenly got an idea, like a little light switching on in my head. I began to smile to myself, thinking myself very clever.
“Hey, how long you gonna sit and babysit me for?” No answer.
“You must be deaf and dumb hun” still no response. So I continued to badger him and insult him and goad him and still I got no response. So I tried harder and I started dancing and making faces at him, calling him a girl, getting a woman’s job minding the troublemaker kiddies, I even out of desperation made suggestive remarks to him. Still no freaking response. My good happy thoughts started deserting me. The dark started circling me again and then one last daft idea popped into my head. I used a little child voice and said
“I need a drink of water daddy!” he turned on me suddenly with a look that chilled me to the bone but my window of opportunity had just opened and as I caught his eyes and stared into his I used that split second to steal his gift and screamed
“VERA” at the top of my lungs! I climbed back into the room again and closed my eyes. Seconds later the man lay dead at my feet. Maurice and several others came dashing in and like me were staring at the only vampire I’d ever seen dead on the ground whilst still being intact.
“What the hell happened freak?” Maurice screamed at me?
“I dunno, he just stood up suddenly and screamed out VERA and then collapsed on the ground. I’m as wise as you are.
“Brian’s gonna go nuts for sure, Dammit!” said Maurice.
