Helpless in the night

Chapter 7

"Well come in won't you?" 

I walk into my home. The home I have had dreams about to once re-enter. I look around seeing everything in place like it was before, I never thought of it being the same. I look into my dads eyes and the expression on his face is weary. He has bags underneath his eyes and looks like he hasn't slept in forever.

"Dad are you okay?"

"W-What do you mean I am okay? I have been looking for you!" He sighs and closes the door. "I'm so sorry Emma. I should have protected you, I should have hid you better." 

I hug him letting tears roll down my eyes. I didn't seem to have a craving of blood in that moment and I knew that my father was my kryptonite. 

I pull myself away from him. "Where is mom?"

I see him start to swell a tear in his eye and he sits down. "I'm so sorry Emma." He cries and looks down into his hands. "They got to her, I wasn't there in time." 

"Dad what do you mean?" I draw my hands away from him and wrap myself with them feeling every heartbeat speeding up as he spoke. "It was the man.." I felt as if he words would fade away from reality, this must have been a dream. "right in front of me they killed her and..." I fell back. Killed, there is no way she was just like me how could they kill her.

"D-d-dad." I said distressing the sleeves on my shirt. "Who are they?"

"They are these people, like-like you honey."

I stared at him in utter silence.

"What do you mean like me?"

He smirks. "You think I didn't realize when my daughter shows up at the door she is a vampire?" He steps in front of the mirror with me. "Honey I am one of you kind come on you should have suspected this when you morphed. 

"Wait so you were a vampire all your life?" 

"Yes honey, that is why you didn't die and changed instead. That man must have turned you."

"What man dad?"

"The man that took you honey, he has been hunting for us the past couple years trying to take you and your mother away from me. To kill or turn you, I was never meant to have a family darling."

"Is that what happened to mom? The man?"

He looks at me in silence and reached for my arm, I tugged away. "They came at night honey, they ruined us, the followed us." He sighs and sits down. "It was only at night, we would look forward to when the sun rises, it was like we were helpless in the night sweetie."