BLOOD and Revenge

Chapter 28: The Waiting Room

Three days it took before I saw James again. Three days of sitting in the small cell by myself with my only interaction being a wolf that would come by once a day with food. A small bowl of soup and a glass of water.

Every day my hunger grew and I started to truly hunger for the wolf that would drop my food off. I obviously didn't mind the taste of wolf blood seeing as how I didn't mind Logan's when I bit him but I was famished. At least on master's no human blood I had options of any other type of blood from anything else.

But I hadn't had any blood for three days and I was starving.

"Get up vampire! The alpha wants to talk to you." I handed the wolf behind him the tray of human food, still untouched, and allowed myself to be cuffed with handcuffs that cut into my wrists painfully. I weakly followed, hungry more than anything for some blood and couldn't help my fangs being out seeing as I had two meals in eye sight and more in the hallway.

My eyes glowed brightly and I could see the apprehension in their eyes as I entered the hallway and was directed to the door on the end. It was open to reveal a lone chair and I started to struggle a bit as I did not want to sit down. I had been sitting down for three days. Occasionally I would get up and train so that I didn't lose my touch but I would always sit down and wait for James to make up his mind.

"Don't struggle vampire. It will be easier if you didn't." Eventually I settled down and allowed for them to put me into the chair. But when a female wolf with gloves approached me with rope that smelled flowery but rancid, I started to choke on the scent and screamed as she started to wrap it around me.

Vervain ropes. Way to be wolves. Way to be.

When she finished wrapping them on me around my midsection, she cuffed and secured my legs the same way. More vervain rope was attached to me and tears streamed from my eyes the longer this went on. Finally it stopped but the pain remained.

"Oh if I thought you guys were bastards before, you really take the cake now." I squeezed my eyes shut as I focused on blocking out the pain.

"We can't be all that bad now could we?" I froze. That voice... My orbs opened to reveal Alpha Cole standing before me, his his dancing with anger and menace.

"I helped you," I spat and hissed as the action of speaking caused the rope to rub against my flesh.

"You are a vampire who helped to put vervain around my compound. You tricked me into believing that you were human. Did you even do the vervain treatments right? No, never mind, it is being redone as we speak." I hung my head and closed my eyes, not wanting to deal with him right now.

"I'm not an exterminator so I went along with it. You were kind so I did the spraying to the best of my limited knowledge of the trade. Mind you I was actually a fan of how you were. Not only did you treat me kindly but you also gave me an MP3 player when one of your men saw me dancing and singing while I was working. Or did you think I didn't notice?" He roared and grabbed the back of the chair while his face was in mine, making our eyes connect.

"It doesn't change the fact that you are a vampire!" My face fell. I knew what I was. But why did wolves hate us so much? Three days in isolation will make you feel small, that I knew for sure.

"I may be a vampire but did I harm any of your men? No. Did I withhold any information that you asked of me? No. Have I killed anyone in my almost four months of being a vampire? No. So why do you be so cruel in believing that since I'm not a wolf that I deserve to not exist?" Alpha Cole's expression was one of shock and he backed away before turning and exiting the room. Left alone with my thoughts again, my head hung and my eyes closed as I sobbed.

"I didn't want to be this. I didn't choose this willingly. I just wanted to live. I wanted to keep living and even now I still do. I didn't want to die in that ally. I wanted to live." I heard the door open but did nothing to respond to it. I was too tired and too hungry to do much else other than stay awake.

"Janine." I didn't move but I shuddered at his voice.

"James," I responded.

"The council has agreed to see you in two days. They will decide what to do with you but until then I need to know what information that you have for them so that I may relay the message. If they find it valuable, they will see you sooner." My lips remained closed. I didn't want to say anything yet. It wasn't time. Ten days I had before Halloween. I wanted to make every one count.

"Why do you do this to yourself. You could have avoided this pain by staying hidden yet you surrendered to us and said that in exchange for your information that we will kill you. Why do you want to die?" I finally looked up at him, my eyes glowing from hunger and my fangs dropped past my lips.

"Why you ask? Look at me James. Not as a wolf but look at me. I survive on the blood of the living. Without it I deteriorate. Already I am so weak that fighting back is futile. These ropes cause me pain but I can feel the strength to push on growing far away. This isn't an eternity I want to live. I want to end it on my terms . The way I want." I could tell he wasn't expecting my words because not only did he looked just as surprised as Alpha Cole but he looked as terrified by my confession.

"And how to you want to end it?" I smiled a genuine smile and with the most loving face I could manage while being hungry and in pain said,

"By your hand."