The Way You Bleed

Nineteen.

Sleepily I looked around the room, the shadow by the door instantly waking me up and he took that as his sign to move. Locking the door as he left his place by the wall, Troy was glaring at me in such a way I was certain I could feel my skin burning from the heat within it and my shock gave way to fear.

He was supposed to be dead.

The shadow of Death leaving us came to me as a blinked and now I understood it. He hadn’t been there for me; it was why I couldn’t touch him. He was waiting for Troy and he left knowing there was no more for him to claim that night. If I only I could see how this would play out, looking around he wasn’t here yet.

Maybe there was some hope.

I quickly pulled the IV from the top of my hand, barely feeling the pain or the tingle as my skin healed itself quickly. Sitting up I had nothing to use to defend myself with and looking back to Troy, he looked as calm as he always had except that anger that had his eyes glowing.

“Good evening Lucy” He stalked around the edge of the room and I slipped out of the bed, hating the fact I was in a hospital gown. Keeping the bed between us I wondered if it would be worth running over to the door in a bid to escape. The doctor was a vampire, could he help?

“Troy” I answered coldly, “I expected the next time I saw you would be, well never”

“Alek is a fool to think he could get rid of me so easily”

“Obviously” I muttered rather bitterly, looking around the bed for something I could use to hurt or even kill him.

“And where is he now?”

“I don’t know”

“Just like you never knew where Dominik was? This all could have been so much easier if you just played the game”

“Well apparently you never played by the rules either” Being in his presence made me realize he wasn’t as old as Alek. Who better to kill an old vampire than an even older one?

But he had a point, where was Alek now?

He nodded, chuckling slightly under his breath before he opened his jacket and pulled out a gun, making a show of loading the bullets in it I started to panic.

“Zombies are rather amusing creatures. Ruled only by instinct to feed as their brain has been destroyed leaving nothing but a shell of the person it once was”

“What? Zombies? They don’t exist” It was the one creature I had been told wasn’t real and I didn’t want to hear his answer as he finished.

“Of course they do, what do you think a vampire is without a brain?” I raised the gun, the black barrel aimed directly at me as he took a step closer. “What is that phrase, blowing your brains out? I’d ask you to tell me how it feels but you wont be able to”