Joining Forces
Detective Higgins squinted down at John. The lawyer
was stubborn and was not talking at all. In the past four hours that they had
grilled John, Don and Alex had gotten nowhere.
The detective had nothing to lose, so he used his
triumph card. “What do you know about vampires, John?”
The lawyer’s face whitened and his eyes widened,
“W-w-what?”
There was a long silence while the detectives waited
for the lawyer to answer.
John finally shrugged and looked down at the table, an
obvious sign of guilt. “I only know what I’ve read and seen in movies. We
all know vampires don’t exist.” The lawyer laughed, it had a fake hollow
sound to it.
Higgins looked at Alex who was carefully watching
John. Fields moved closer to the lawyer. “Do we really?” He asked. “John,
do you believe in vampires?”
The detective watched John squirming in his seat. Don
was convenience that a human wasn’t killing the girls but a vampire. Higgins
motioned to Alex to follow him outside the interrogation room.
His stocky partner reluctantly followed Don outside.
“What?” Alex asked, Higgins could tell he was
annoyed.
“There’s no point questioning him any further.”
The detective said watching the lawyer through the window.
“What do you mean? We’ve finally had a break in
the case.”
“Think about it Fields; who’s going to believe its
vampires killing those girls? Do we have any proof? No! We only have our
suspicions. We have to let this one go.”
“Let it go? Impossible.”
Higgins groaned. His partner was a good guy, loyal,
tough, but very stubborn. Once Alex had made up his mind there was no changing
it. “Listen, what about this – what if we follow John around and see what
he’s been up to, perhaps if he needs assistance, we’ll be there. But honest
Fields if we tell anyone it’s vampires they’ll laugh at us and our
reputation will be ruined. Nobody believes in vampires.”
His partner was silent for a long time. Higgins
assumed Alex was racking his brain for any alternative options. Finally Fields
agreed. “Fine, we let the lawyer go and then we follow him. But Don I am not
happy about this at all. We’re police and we should be able to fight and
arrest anyone, human or not.”
Don Higgins opened the door to the interrogation room.
He was going to make a deal with the lawyer before he let him go.
Sarah’s head hurt and she was tired and weary. Hayer
had been vigorously training her for the past week on mind control and physical
training. The girl had worked hard and could leap across buildings. The keen
knew she was still no match for Garath, but at least she partially had some
supernatural abilities.
Today Hayer had asked her to summon John to the
elder’s secret hideout. Sarah had sat on the floor all day trying to plant the
thought in John’s head. But something continuously blocked her. She was
getting frustrated and had had enough training for the day.
“I’m tired Hayer and I just can’t do it.” The
keen whined.
“Take an hour break. I need to discuss some things
with Trinya.” Hayer said and in a blink of an eye, he had disappeared from the
throne room. Sarah wearily stood up and walked out of the rooms. The girl had
been given her own room about a week ago. She was still getting used to not
seeing sunlight and the odd hours of being up at nights. Often Sarah would get
depressed and spent a lot of time alone. The keen needed some sort of purpose,
at this point her days just blended together and she missed her old life.
Entering her room the girl looked around. It was
furnished with antiques and had a bright patterned quilt on the bed. The elders
had said she could furnish it however she liked, but nothing in it was really
hers. Sarah didn’t want to stay with the elders much longer; she needed to be
out on her own. Thus the training, in order for her to make it on her own she
had to learn how to survive.
Flopping on her bed, Sarah closed her eyes and tried
to pretend she was still alive.
Hayer knocked softly on Trinya’s door. He had kept
his distance since he had found out the attraction between Trinya and him was
mutual. The elder was not ashamed or afraid of the attraction; it was just not a
good time to pursue it. They were immortals after all and he had plenty of time
once they had dealt with Garath.
Not waiting for Trinya to answer, he opened the door.
The tiny elder was levitating; she was floating about five feet above the floor.
Hayer stood patiently waiting for her to notice him. He was afraid if he said
something she would lose concentration and fall. Hayer was positive she would
sense his presence. She was close to the next strongest elder after himself of
course.
“Hello Hayer.”
Trinya opened her eyes and looked at him. The elder thought his heart
would tear in too. Whenever he was around the woman he had trouble thinking.
“Hello Trinya, do you have a minute to talk?”
“For you, always.” Trinya landed gracefully on her
feet. She moved to the couch and Hayer sat down in the chair across from it.
“What do you want to talk about?”
“I’d like to talk about Sarah’s progress.”
“Oh, is something wrong?”
“No, I wouldn’t say that. She’s smart and has
quite a lot of ability. But she’s holding back. I’m not sure why she is, but
I can feel it. It’s like a wall in her mind. Today I asked her to summon her
brother and she is half trying, and the other half of her is resisting. It’s
rather frustrating. I’m not sure how to fix it – it’s almost like she
doesn’t want to lose her humanity.” Hayer looked deep into Trinya’s blue
eyes. “I was wondering if you could talk to her, or maybe we should get
another elder or vampire she can relate to. The girl seems so depressed too. I
know we all go through a shock phase when we become vampires, but she’s been a
keen for two or three months now. Maybe I’m just old, I just can’t relate to
her.”
“Well how is she at the physical stuff? The running,
leaping, and floating?”
“Sarah’s really good at that. That’s another odd
thing. Most vampires have trouble with the physical training because they
can’t let go of the reality that mortals hold. She can but she can’t seem to
let go of the reality when it comes to the more mental stuff. I can also sense
from Sarah that she really wants to leave us.”
Trinya frowned. “I’m not sure I can relate to that
either. Perhaps we should ask some of the elders their thoughts on this. It’s
been such a long time since we’ve trained a new vampire. Are we ready to meet
with John now?”
“Yes. I’ve been watching his progress and he
handled himself well with both the police interrogation, and the killing on the
vampire house. It’s time for a meeting with the mortal. Sarnia got a vision of
another vampire sect that Garath has created. It’s also full of his followers;
apparently he had been busy converting vampires to his side. It’s alarming to
see that some of our kind have more faith in him than us.”
“Really. I guess our days really are numbered
aren’t they? If his army gets much stronger will we be able to stop it?”
“Trinya, I don’t want you to worry about that
right now. If I think it’s going to be a problem I’ll call a council
meeting. Sarnia and I are confident that we can handle it. Please just try to
talk to Sarah and see if you can get her to concentrate on her training.
Thanks.” Hayer stood up and walked out of the room. He felt drained and needed
blood. The elder was old enough that he didn’t require daily blood for
nutrients; he could go without feeding for a few weeks. Talking to Trinya was
always a draining task what with his emotions going crazy and her inquisitive
questions. The tiny elder was always very inquisitive and demanding. Perhaps
that was a large reason he liked her, he could not be sure at this time. In fact
he was so drained he was having trouble even thinking.
John stood out in the sunlight and took a long deep
breath. It had been a stressful day and night. He had killed a vampire during
the day and had been interrogated by police for the night. The lawyer needed
some sleep.
Before the detective had let him go Higgins had
explained to John that his partner Alex Field and him would be around in case
John needed any help dealing with the vampires. John wasn’t sure if the
detective had been really serious or not. It was nice though to know the lawyer
wasn’t going crazy and other people believed in vampires as well.
John stood outside for a long time just watching the
traffic driving past him. He was not sure what kind of path he was on, but he
knew that something big was happening.
Ready to move on, he started walking down the street.
Suddenly he felt a presence in his mind, it was his sister Sarah.
John I need you.
“Sarah is that you? How is this possible?”
I’ll explain later. Please just come to where I
am.
The lawyer was confused, but he felt the love and
warmth of Sarah and decided to go with it. John felt his sister gently guiding
him towards her. He wondered what
surprise awaited him now.
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