Haunted by Vampires (The Lost Boys)

The Fireplace

Lily's little body was currently going through way too many emotions for one night, she briefly entertained the notion that this was all a nightmare, but her body was sore from her fall and the bodies underneath her felt real, the sounds, smells, her fear was real.

As real as the monster that came from the new hole in the wall and she was alone with him. Her grandma wasn't moving, and her ghostly friends weren't around if they even were her friends... they caused this...

Liars, killers, monsters... that's what her grandma had said.

Lily didn't know what to believe. She wanted to believe in them but...

But the only thing she did know for sure was that she didn't want to be around the thing in front of her. Lily shakily stands up and tries to run only to take a few steps and slip in something wet, she barely catches her fall with her hands but they too slip bringing her almost face first into the red substance beneath her.

The monster laughs cruelly, and Lily just wants to curl up and cry as she pulls herself back up, her hands stained red from catching her fall, it's on her knees as well but her eyes only see her hands and she quickly tries to frantically clean them the only way she knows, by rubbing her hands on her shirt.

This only smears the blood further panicking the girl.

Because it is blood, real blood and it's everywhere, it's on her!

Max stops laughing and surveys the area, "David and my boys always did know how to make a mess and as their father I was and am as always left with the cleanup." He sighs and removes his glasses while pulling out a piece of cloth from his front pocket to clean them.

His words catch Lily's attention as she desperately clings to his words in an effort to forget about the blood, "Father...?" For once she wants her dad.

He makes a noncommittal noise of agreement, "It's not just my job to clean up after them, oh no I must also discipline them as well..." He puts his glasses back on and looks at the small scared girl before him.

She takes an unsteady step backward as something in his eyes is urging her to flee but her legs won't corporate completely.

"Sadly, I don't think there's much hope for them, I may have to start all over." Lily didn't understand but it appeared that he was mainly speaking to himself for the moment. "Unfortunately, you won't work either... already so rebellious at such a young age, it seems like you're just another mess to clean up."

He looks around as if trying to find something all the while he continues to talk, "How about I tell you a story hmm? It's the story of a man who only wanted a family, a perfect family."

Lily took another step back as he started to walk around the room looking at the bodies, searching for something. "Sadly, for the man, his wife was not only barren but unfaithful as well." He bends down and carefully searches one of the corpse's pockets as not to get any blood on himself before speaking again.

"Luckily the man met a person who understood him, who changed him and his life for the better. He gave him a gift. Immortality." He searches another corpse just as carefully while Lily glances towards the hallway wondering if she can make a run for it, "Now the man had all the time in the world to get what he wanted, the perfect family."

He stands up with something in his hand and looks at Lily with a smile, "So the man returned home and got rid of the useless ungrateful wife and started his quest and after years of searching he found a son." Lily wished the story was over, she really didn't like it.