Part One
The Itsy Bitsy Spider...
A/N: Hi. This is the first part of A Severe Case of Vampirism! Hope you like.
The room was dark and it smelled of blood. Shadows danced around on the floor and walls as the fire burned and crackled in the fireplace. The two boys standing in the room were staring at the large, dead hare on the floor.
It really did smell terrible. Simon's back ached from being thrown across the room. That, mixed with the smell, made him want to throw up.
Baz shifted, his gray eyes gleamed in the firelight. "So, you haven't even been killing the others?"
"No. Like I said before, the note only said to find them."
"Crowley, Snow. It must have been a pain to teach you how to eat!"
Simon rolled his eyes. "Oh for the love of-"
"'That's it, Simon,'" Baz squeaked in a high voice. "'First you pick up your spoon. Yes, that's it. Then you lift it up - like this, see?-and then you-"
"Alright, Baz! I get it," Simon snapped. "Maybe I should have done a little more than find them."
Baz snorted and shook his head. The two of them turned and looked at the dead rabbit on the floor. It was huge, the color of snow, red eyed, and covered in blood.
Simon risked a glance at Baz. He looked tired from the fight but his eyes were shining with life, honestly, Simon had never seen Baz look so ready to fight something in his life.
"You sure that you're okay?" he asked again, knowing that he probably sounded like someones grandma fussing over a kid who tripped.
Instead of answering, Baz shot Simon a glance and started toward the door. "You coming?"
"Where?" Simon followed slowly. Still uncertain about getting too close to the blood-covered boy.
"You've got one more to find, right? Plus the others to kill."
"The note didn't say that I needed to kill them."
"Aleister almighty, Snow! They're just a bunch of rabbits!"
Huge rabbits, Simon thought darkly. Huge rabbits that could break somebody's back with a swipe of their foot.
"I'm not the one who made cakes for them... and then got really pissed about it."
Baz stopped walking and turned to face him. "Baking is not my highest point, Snow. I worked hard on those cakes."
Simon sighed. "Listen, I know that you must be brimming with energy or whatever... But I'm exhausted. Can we please worry about the others later?"
"Weren't you the one pacing the room like a hyperactive madman?"
"Yes! And now we've only got one more hare to find, a good night's sleep won't ruin that, will it?"
Baz puffed a sigh and blinked at Simon. "Fine. You go to bed."
Without another word, Baz turned and darted off. His tall form was swallowed into the shadows.
Simon had always thought that kid was strange... now he was also a vampire. Nothing ever seemed to be simple….
When Simon got back to his room, he quickly changed and then fell onto his bed in exhaustion.
Spiders.
He could see them. Tiny little spiders were darting across the ceiling. Simon had never been afraid of spiders, so this didn't really alarm him... but there were quite a few of them...
Slowly, Simon stood and looked around the room. His lamp was on, so he could see the small spiderwebs that were collecting under his desk, around the lamps, and on the windowsill.
Gosh, he'd known he was messy but he hadn't thought it was that bad.
Simon stood and squinted at the spiders as they made their way down the wall and into some cracks in the window. He couldn't tell what kind of spiders they were but he did notice that they seemed to be... marching. Walking in single file and hurrying along as if they had a place to be.
Wow, Snow, Simon thought. You're more tired than you thought you were.
He went back to bed and closed his eyes, at last letting himself relax after a long night.
A/N: Well, there you go. First chapter. I'm gonna try to post every other day so hopefully that'll work out. Future chapters will be longer, sorry this one was so short.