Vampire Hunter: Corey Crowgarden's guide to killing vampires for fun and profit.

Lesson 3 part 7

"What does it mean, Bobby?" Crystal asked.
Carrie was up now too, walking around in a housecoat that her mother had made for her making some coffee and some eggs.
"I don't know," Bobby said. "We can go check the cameras and see what they picked up?"
"Camera's?" Crystal said.
"Yes, your grandfather had a really solid security system and we were able to update it. There is a little camera at the top of the door pointing right down the stairs. It gets lots of light from the floodlights. We'll have a nice 8x10 glossy of who or whatever that was."
They took their coffees down stairs to the basement where there was a computer and monitor set up.
"It's so weird seeing a computer set up in grandpa's house," Crystal said.
"There is wifi too,"Carrie replied. "Sorry I didn't think of it last night."
They checked the security cameras, fast forwarding until just before 3AM. Lot's of rain and a flash from distant lightning and then the flood lights and a solid black silhouette. No face, no detail, as though there was a hole in the video. It moved quickly and Bobby paused it as whatever it was was standing at the edge of the porch, right in the path of the camera. The 8x10 glossy shot that Bobby had promised.
Blackness.
No face, nothing, just a void where a person was silhouetted.
They let it run a little further and the blackness was now in front of the door. Crystal could be seen shining through the strange, man shaped tint that stood before the door.
"It should be blocking you out of the shot," Bobby said, but it clearly wasn't. Then a small red light appeared at the edge of the camera, indicating that the bolt and had been turned and it was preparing to sound the alarm.
Then the alarm sounds and the void is gone, down the steps, not reappearing on the garage area camera, except maybe as a blurred shadow. On the porch camera Bobby suddenly appeared, pistol in hand with bed head and bleary eyed.
"I need a haircut," he said. "Look at that bed head."
Carrie smirked a bit and then said "But what is it?"
"I think we just saw what a vampire looks like on camera."
Crystal started to cry, "So Tim is a vampire now?"
"I don't know, are we sure it was really Tim?" Bobby asked.
"Take us through the whole thing again," Carrie asked.
Crystal went through the whole story, with every detail.
"So, you didn't feel right about it at the end," Carrie asked.
"No, but I couldn't stop myself," Crystal replied.
"That's definitely a vampire messing with your mind," Carrie said and Bobby nodded.
"How did they know to come here?" Bobby wondered. "What do we really know about vampires," Bobby asked.
"Just what Dad wrote in his notes, and maybe what we can find out from Harry."
"It's really early and I can't sleep now anyway," Crystal said. "I'm going to look through what I've got of Dad's notes."
"You have them?" Carrie asked.
"Online," Crystal said,"he was thinking of putting it together and making a book and wanted me to go through it."
"Maybe you can cast a protection spell?" Carrie said.
"I do every month," Bobby said."But maybe we need something stronger."
"What makes you think I'm any better at it?" Crystal said.
"Oh Please," said Bobby, "you are kind of married to THE wizard."
"Fair enough," Crystal says.
"I'm going to go and check everything outside," Bobby said. 
Carrie turned to Crystal, "What can I do?" she asked.
"Let's go looking for ingredients," she said.
They searched through the kitchen cupboards and through their grandmothers boxes and storage. Old boxes of stationary, pens and envelopes. were stacked on top of old blankets and table cloths.
"What I don't get," Carrie said, "is how they keep finding us?"
Crystal looked at the stack of stationary.
"Hmmm..." Crystal said. "I have a plan."