Graveyard Shift.

2. We only come out at night.

Paul slept uneasily so it was no surprise when he jolted awake what felt like mere seconds later.

A quick glance at his phone said that it was eleven pm so he'd managed to get a bit of sleep. He swore he could hear people walking around, swore he could feel the presence of people but that was dumb.

Until Paul looked in the doorway.

A scream tore from his throat. There was a person there though they didn't look much like a human. They looked more like a wolf, pointy ears, claws, teeth and all. It fucked with Paul's brain but he still scrambled out of the sleeping bag and held the knife up, shocked when the...thing, held its hands up in what seemed like a surrender.

"Okay okay kid calm down!"

"How can he calm Vinny? You scared the hell out of him"

"Do you ever shut up Angelo?"

Quickly glancing behind him, Paul screamed again. There was a person hovering behind him, see through and clearly a ghost. The wolfman, apparently named Vinny seemed smug,

"Oh I scared him did I?"

Paul held the knife at the both of them, scrambling back until he was on the bed, back pressing painfully against the headboard and he could feel his heart hammering in his chest.

Vinny tried to step closer towards him and Paul shrieked, a high pitched noise he'd never heard himself make before,

"STAY THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME"

Vinny kept his hands up, Angelo floating over beside Vinny before another creature entered the room. This one had stitches all over his body and had two bolts sticking out of his neck.

"Vinny? Ang? What-...oh"

"We seem to have a predicament here Justin" Vinny said calmly and the...thing, named Justin just stared at Paul with mismatched eyes.

Paul felt his limbs go limp and before he knew it, he'd fainted.

~~~~

"Think he's actually gonna wake up?"

"He's gotta Rick"

"Besides, I can hear his heartbeat"

"Whoa whoa back up I think he's waking up!".

Paul groaned weakly as his eyes fluttered open, staring at the people or rather the things surrounding the bed.

The patchworked man waved, "Hi, I'm Justin"

Paul blinked stupidly at him before he laughed weakly, "I'm dead"

"No I am" Angelo said and a black haired man tried slapping the ghost only for his hand to go right through him. Paul felt bile building in his throat.

"Just let me go" Paul said weakly, "please just let me go" 

Vinny opened his mouth to respond but was interrupted by another voice cutting through, 

"What are you guys doing now?" 

"Hey Chris, its a human"

Paul heard footsteps and another man was standing over him. This time, Paul thought he was well and truly dead and this man was an angel. 

He had long dark hair, dark eyes and was paler than Peter was which in Paul's book was an achievement. He raised an eyebrow when he saw Paul and reached towards him, making Paul flinch away and his dark eyes softened a bit, 

"Well? What're you waiting for? Let him go" 

Vinny looked kinda shocked, "Chris-" 

"He looks to be a college student Vinny, who's going to believe a college student? They'll think he was drunk or high". 

The man looked back down at Paul, this time, Paul saw the fangs poking from his upper lip and he felt faint again. 

Paul giggled weakly, "I'm dead..." 

The vampire rolled his eyes, "You aren't, call me Chris" 

"Chris" Paul echoed, nodding, "I'm Paul"

Chris just hummed and Justin hesitated a little before speaking, 

"Shouldn't we wait till morning? You know how Valo gets" 

Chris' lips twisted but he nodded, "I do...Ricky? Vinny? You two stay with him"

Another dark haired man and Vinny nodded. Chris, Justin and Angelo walking off but not before Chris gave Paul one last glance which made butterflies appear in Paul's stomach. 

Paul sat up, grabbing at his head and looking at Vinny and the man who must've been Ricky. Ricky would have looked quite normal had it not been for the horns poking from his hair or the thin, whip-like tail he possessed. 

"Are you guys going to kill me?" Paul asked miserably and Ricky shook his head, 

"No, Chris would kill us...we aren't like that" 

"Why're you up here anyways?" Vinny asked, 

"Was playing truth or dare with my siblings and cousin...they dared me to spend the night here" 

"Shocked you actually got here, Valo's usually-" 

Vinny elbowed Ricky in the ribs, Paul raised an eyebrow, 

"Who's Valo?" 

"...Someone" Ricky said, "someone not very nice" 

"He's nice he's just...unhinged" Vinny said and Paul nodded, leaning his head back and staring out a window. He really could see the whole town from up here. 

Paul had questions, he had so many questions but he doubted he'd get any out of the wolf-man and what appeared to be a demon. But he figured he could get one out of them, 

"So, I can go home in the morning?" 

"You can" Ricky nodded, "we aren't monsters" 

Paul stared at Ricky with a raised brow, Ricky shrugged, "not all monsters do monstrous things"   

Nodding, Paul just stared out the window, waiting for the sun to rise.