Hamartia

Chapter Six: In The Darkness

Song - NF - Destiny

Recap: 

The door slammed open.

Desdemona stood there, and then she looked down at the thin glittering line, that spoke 'I'm a tripwire' at her. She wasn't dumb; she knew to look for traps, especially in situations like this. She then leant forwards, avoiding the tripwire but stepping over it. There were no motion sensors. Perhaps, the person who had set this up ran out of time. Or maybe they had a much worse plan waiting in the wings. She checked the rafters, and hoped for the former. 

Chapter Six: In The Darkness

"What on earth are you doing on the floor?" Knox's eyebrows furrowed as he took in the view of Bobby kneeling in dirt, shirtless and sweaty. He gave off a smell of old socks, or that fusty old people smell which clung to old houses, that rank but all too familiar vampire smell from the gym when people got too lazy to wash, just because they all were going to live forever and they just no longer cared less.

It was disgusting. And one of the reasons he'd left.

"Agh. What are you? How did you get there so fast?" Bobby slipped forward into the sloppy surface of the concrete which he had so messily created, maybe ten minutes or fifteen minutes earlier.  

"That's an idiot question, so I'm not going to answer. From one vampire to another, I'll only ask again. What on earth are you doing on the floor?" Joining Knox slowly, Gunner arrived, closely followed by Hector who was buttoning up his shirt. A clear indicator of what must have gone on in the room a few minutes prior, which Bobby would have noticed had he looked up, got up or turned around.

"What am I doing? What are you doing?" To save face, Bobby was not going to answer the question that Knox sent his way, but he was going to deflect them with questions about why they were stood around at a stalemate.

"What are we doing? We're wondering why the heck you're on the floor. Why are you on the floor? Nah, keep your whys and whats. You can shove them where the sun doesn't shine." Hector stepped past Bobby, into a lump of odd looking liquid. He peeled his foot away from the floor, noting the discolouration on his shoes. He looked at Knox, who was struggling to hold back a smile. He let out a low growl, before he lifted his leg back and kicked Bobby to the side.

"What was that for?"

"You owe me a new pair of shoes. You disgusting waste of eternal life." Hector spat on the floor, a move that even made Gunner raise his perfectly done eyebrows. Knox took a handkerchief out of his pocket and gave it to Bobby, who used it to wipe his face down. He held it out once he was done but Knox refused to take it back, claiming that he had many napkins and hankies the like back at his apartment.

The reality was that he didn't want to touch something he saw as ruined. That silk hankie was now covered in various unnamed bodily fluids, which he didn't want to have to wash his hands a hundred times over, so he just outright lied about having hundreds at home. He made a personal note to order some new ones on the way back. Perhaps,some red ones with little daisies on them which could be cute - it might gowith a suit he had at home. Granted, the suit he had was purple not red. Butwho said he had to match? It wasn't like the fashion police were watching. 

"Besides the sun doesn't shine on vampires in general. If the sun ever did, then we would die." Bobby got his last quip in, but Hector only had to make a threatening move towards him to have the younger vampire slamming his mouth shut. Shaking his head, Gunner walked forwards, assuming that Desdemona had already reached Hector's sister Elyssa, or she wouldn't have gone already. And to be gone for so long, would have been unusual, but he didn't know her that well, so he didn't want to assume what was unusual and what wasn't.