Staring out into the darkness I was, alerted by high emotions coming from Lissa. I knew before she started screaming that this was the same nightmare about the crash. I quickly scurried away from my position in front of the window where I had been scanning the area outside and moved towards the bed before she started screaming. I saw flashes of blood and debrea flashing through her mind and she was tossing and turning like anything with sweat pooring down her face.
"Lissa wake up!" I murmured while shaking awake. She awoke suddenly and started crying into my shoulder, while I held her. This was a normal event for us since leaving the academy. After her sobs deceased I got a good look at her face. Her skin was way too white and there were bags under her eyes.
"When was our last feeding?" I asked, astonished how bad she was looking. Lissa looked down guiltily, "a few days, but I thought I could handle the blood loss" she said almost whispering.
"Screw that!" I said before tossing my hair back. She sighed, as she turned to face me. She always hated this part since it caused my pain. She looked straight into my eyes and I felt the compulsion building up inside her.
"You will feel a mild pain from this, you will not enjoy this bite."
I felt myself nod, Lissa brought her face towards my neck and bit into the vein. I gasped at the pain that was shooting through my body. I was never ready for it but I always asked lissa to do this to make sure that I was still alert for the rest of the night for attacks. If I was high on drugs I could easily allow a strigoi to walk in.
Lissa was done in a few minutes, I felt weaker but I knew Lissa was better since her skin had returned to its normal skin tone, which was still fairly pail. She stood up and started walking out of the room calling behind her shoulder, "I'll go make you some hot chocolate."
I sat back on the bed staring at the ceiling, the pain was still there only it was dulling, but I knew from experience that it wouldn't be gone for a few hours. I slowly moved my self off the bed and sat again at the window. I had only left for 5 minutes but I saw the extra shadows and figures surrounding the area. I knew that they could see me since I felt something hit the side of my neck with force. Luckily for me it didn't hit the bitten side. I used my hand to pull away the object and soon realised that it was a dart. I felt my vision clouding so I stood up quickly and hurried downstairs having enough sense to collect the emergency bag from next to the door and our coats.
I hurried downstairs often tripping over my own feet, I could feel the pull towards sleep getting stronger so I had to push myself to keep awake. I saw Lissa in the kitchen and one look at me and she knew something was wrong. Just like we practised she grabbed the keys off the hook where our housemate, James always left it and helped me out of the house onto the foot path. James left his car a few blocks away so not to get fines. Right now I would have done anything for the car to be just outside the house. Lissa had to drag me down the path since I was so close to falling asleep that if I blinked I would have fallen asleep. I knew she was in danger so I pushed my body to its limit to keep running.
We were literally a few meters from the car when a guardian stepped in our way. The need to protect Lissa gave me an extra boost and I stood in front of her in a defensive position. I saw the guardians closing in around us, "Don't touch her" my voice came out as a low growl which made the guardians around us uneasy, I was sort of glad I had that kind of effect, but then I drew my attention towards the guardian in front of us. He looked surprised and I had a feeling he was the one who shot the dart at me which made me even more angry.
He stepped forward with his hands trying to show he meant no harm, but that step was far too close. I leapt out with a kick which hit him straight in the chest and sent him back a few paces. Unfortunately it also caused me to collapse from the effort, I was a whisker away from passing out but I made myself stand. I needed to protect Lissa, I was about to attack again when Lissa used the connection to tell me to stop. I looked at the guardian in front of me straight in the eyes. "Do you promise to protect her?" I asked him, I needed to make sure, they were guardians but there was no way to know they meant no harm. The guardian nodded and I took this as a sign I could finally accept unconsciousness.