Vampire Hunter. {Discontinued}

6

Unconsciousness came for me again, and I greatly slipped out of the terrifying world of reality. The euphoria which had gripped me in its warm embrace had now gone, and left me longing for more blood to just exhilarate that amazing feeling. Luckily no one came, otherwise I probably would have killed them as well.

I was woken hurriedly by a figure, a lone figure. I could smell the blood in him, pumping through juicy veins. If I could take just one mouthful, just one mouthful more of sweet delicious juicy blood... I would probably kill him, to be blunt, in another feeding frenzy.

"Wake up Kelly." He said, whispering into the oblivion, my name calling me back to the dull land of reality.

"Wha-Who are you?" I said madly in a desperate bid for time, more time to regain my thoughts.

"Don't you recognise me Kelly?" He asked, voice full of concern for some reason. I knew he was a vampire, and I'm pretty sure he was a he, but I couldn't remember him, not for the life of me.

He stared me in the eye as he bent down to undo the chain holding my ankle. His face flashed through my mind, and even though the dim light showed barely any facial details, I recognised him immediately.

"Gavriel?" I asked tentatively, not daring to believe it was him.

"Finally. You'd think that risking my neck would be enough to get memorised, but no. What does it take these days?" He joked as the chain slid off my ankle, the burning pain flaring up, but disappearing immediately.

"You're here to rescue me? Why?" I asked. I didn't even know if he was rescuing me, it was just a guess. Why would he rescue me?

"You didn't abandon me when I was captured, in fact you shot your first shot to save me. I always repay debts." He said solemnly. He opened the door and checked no one was out there. "If we get out of here quietly enough I know where there is a car that we can steal then drive off without to many people noticing. Obviously we can't take your van because you vampire proofed it to well." He looked at me for conformation, then must have seen my dazed look. "What don't you understand?" He asked sharply."I'm pretty sure I explained it clear enough-"

I interrupted him, finally regaining my voice enough to speak. "Why are you helping me?"

He looked guilty. "That's a bit of a long story. I'll tell you once we're free if you can hold off the feeding  frenzy, and then get to a car. Deal?" He asked raising his eyebrow. I nodded. "Perfect. I've disabled the security cameras, and there are a diversions and short cuts we can take to minimise the amount of times you come into contact with other vampires and humans. Following so far?" I nodded and we stepped out of the room I followed him down a series of twists and turns, feet making gentle noises on the metal floor, and impossible task we were managing quite well with.

He led us outside, and the sun felt harsh on my skin, but it didn't burn me. However, if I had still had my teeth and claws out, I would be burned too a crisp. During daytime, vampires are weaker in the sun, but as long as we remain our human forms then we can still walk in the sun without burning, otherwise if we have our fearsome teeth and claws we burn for some, unknown reason. But if it was nighttime, the we can have our teeth and claws vampires are famed for, all we like from dusk till dawn.

We had encountered no one, so we moved swiftly to where there was a car. I wished we could have taken my van, but I had vampire proofed that so it was impossible.

A scruffy man came out of a nearby building and started muttering something about protocols and admin when Gavriel drew his knife and slit his throat. The blood bubbled and it took all my effort not to rush over and drain him, drain him dry.

The cars engine roared to life as Gavriel put the key in the ignition and twisted it. Some more people came rushing out the building but he was off, speeding the car through roads which they tried to follow on foot, but failed after a few metres. They evidently weren't used to running. Even as a mortal I probably could have outran them, I was quite fast, fast enough to catch a slow vampire, which is faster than most mortals can run.

The car sped down country lanes and neither of us breathed. It was hard to imagine we had just broken out of a secure council building and had just escaped, but we had. None of us dared to break the heavy silence that descended on us until it was clear he was waiting for me to speak.

"Why are you helping me?" I asked again.

"I don't like the council, and this seemed to be the best way to get back at the council."

"What by kidnapping a newly turned vampire?"

He kept his eyes on the read, carefully studying and assessing the multitude of potholes and scrapes the dilapidated road had acquired before answering. "Yes." Was all he said.

I had to try a different approach, this one hadn't worked so far, and probably hadn't. But I still needed to interrogate him. But he was a vampire, therefore stubborn as hell, so this would be hard.

"Why do you hate the council?" I asked trying to open him up to find more information about why he had rescued me.

"I don't hate the council, the council hate me." He said, practically asking for another question or ten.

"Why does the council hate you?" I tried.

"Thinking of training to be an interrogater? Then again, you probably don't need any training at all." He said wearily with a grim smile.

"Just answer the question." I said, my voice equally wearily. I had expected some resistance, but not this much. This guy was obviously an expert when it came to dealing with annoying interrogaters. But he hadn't met me of course.

"Fine." He snapped, his good mood having apparently vanished with the morning sun, for dark clouds had descended from the heavens and it sounded like it would rain soon from the thunder that was being omitted from the heavens. "I once killed a few of their operatives. Happy now?"

I was tempted to say 'No, im not.' but that would just bring about his bad mood, and lock it in place. And I really didn't want to deal with an angry vampire. Not in this short amount of space. A lightning fork lift up the sky and the heavens finally opened. A torrential thunder storm poured down, soaking anything and everything it could reach. If this car had any leaks we'd find out in a minute. "I knew it was going to rain." I said instead. I knew I could get any more from him about the council, but I hated sitting in silence when he was around. Everything g felt so awkward(TT), and it was impossible not to feel self-conscious.

"Budding meteorologist in disguise then?" He said sarcastically.

"Maybe." I said in an equally sarcastic tone. He was getting really impossible to get along with.

He didn't answer so I took this as an end of conversation.