DRACULA: A VERY SPECIAL FLAVOUR

The Brooding Beast - Part 2

Leanna's skin was ice cold where she laid upon the dirty hard pavement. Beth Green and Susie McGuver from the office were the ones that found her as they came back from smoking cigarettes out on the street.

Leanna was gasping for breath as the clubs security was forcing on lookers to back off and give her some space. Susie had gone in the club and alerted Cecile.

Leanna touched her neck and looked at her fingers. Why was she bleeding?. What was going on? Where the hell was...where was he? Where was Dracula?

"Are you okay miss? Did somebody attack you?", asked the fat security man with a bald head.

Cecile was then at Leanna's side kneeling down in the frigid night air, she took her hand, "Oh my God, Lea your hands are so so cold! And look at you...you are so pale"

"I don't remember, what's going on? Where's Dracula, we were just talking..."

Susie leaned down, coat tightly wrapped around her scanty clad dress, "you were on your own...I saw you faint...you fell like a sack of spuds"

Leanna tried to push herself up, but she was incredibly weak and felt ever-so giddy.

"I don't feel so good"

Cecile squeezed her hand, "I've called your Mum...she'll be here soon as you know it"

VV

Andrea was in a line of traffic. She honked her horn like others did, but the row of vehicles was not going anywhere. She reached for her iPhone and put it to her ear, "Cecile? Is she okay? Look, I'm gonna have to meet Lea at the hospital...I'm doing a U turn and will meet the ambulance there...okay?"

"okay"

"Jesus Christ this traffic...I'll meet the ambulance at the hospital...I'll see you soon and stay with her for me"

"I will"

Andrea hung off and beeped her horn again. She the did the U turn in the road and went down a side street.

She shivered. And it wasn't just the cold.

VV

Leanna was in hospital. The doctors had said that they couldn't find a reason for the blood loss...she had clearly lost a lot, but there didn't seem to be a source or wound.

"But it's my neck...my neck feels sore", she whined.

Andrea took her daughters hand and rubbed the back of it, "Lea...your neck is fine...there is nothing there...look"

She fished into her purse and pulled out her vanity mirror, her daughter took it and scrutinized her neck in it...one side and then the other.

"See...there's nothing"

Leanna looked concerned, "But...I...", she closed her eyes and could smell the scent of roses. Red roses. She was in some meadow was all peaceful and tranquil. She smiled, "I feel good Mum...I feel like...like I've just been to this beautiful place...he took me there and I felt so so safe with him..."

Andrea stared at her daughter and looked at her questioningly, "Who did? Who took you where, you are not making any sense?"

Leanna met her mothers eyes and smiled again, "it doesn't matter...I feel so much better"

Andrea could see that there was no longer a deathly pallor to her...that she was rosy red if anything. She then reached and touched the chain around her daughters neck, "When did you get this? I haven't seen it before"

Leanna grinned at her, "do you like it?"

"It's...well...something I wouldn't have thought was to your taste"