As expected, I can't sleep. Whenever I close my eyes I'm there. In a space that's not so much bigger than me, in the dark and alone. Luckily being the Slayer meant I could go for long periods of time with hardly any sleep at all. About the only thing in the pro's section of the Slayer package.
I thought back over the night and I felt stupid for not killing the vampire following me. I just didn't have the energy. But then that went for everything now. I just wanted to stop and stay still, let my mind shutoff. But I knew that the moment I did that and really realised what I had lost out on then my mind and body would go into self-destruct mood. I don't think I could come back from something like that, so instead my body was just on auto-pilot.
I was broken inside, I was in no state to fix things back in Sunnydale. At the moment I felt like turning my back on it forever, I didn't want to be within one hundred miles of the place. After some time had passed then who knew, I might make my way back there. But that day was looking so far in the future that I put my life and Sunnydale in a tiny box, locked it up and pushed it to the furthest recess of my mind that I could.
By the time dawn came around I was already showered and dressed. I headed off in search of any sort of semblance of a coffee shop that I could find. As I hit the centre of the town I came across a sign that read: Welcome to Mystic Falls. So that's where I was, I had just caught a bus and then got off when I felt like it, but it was nice to put a name to the place.
Eventually I found the coffee shop; this town seemed to have quite a few. Clearly a step up from Sunnydale's one, The Espresso Pump. Their coffees were miles better too. Mystic Falls was getting better and better.
I wondered through the streets and explored the new town I was living in. It seemed like a normal type of town, exactly what I needed right now. After doing some grocery and furniture shopping there was something else I needed, a drink, something strong. I needed all the help I could get to try forget what I had been pulled away from when I was brought back. So I headed to the place that I now worked. The Mystic Grill or something like that. I only worked there two days a week so they wouldn't be that bothered by my drinking there as well hopefully.
I walked through the doors and straight to the bar, sitting on a stool and ordering a drink. I'm just lifting the glass to my lips when I get the familiar 'tinglies', alerting me to a nearby vamp. I look to the side without moving my head and see that the sun is beginning to set. It's still too early for a vamp to be out though. I don't turn, I just casually take sips of my drink. "If you eat anyone while I'm here you'll be even deader than you are right now" I say quietly enough so no one close to me hears knowing the vampire will pick it up.
I 'feel' the vampire change direction and start towards me. I blow out a sigh as I tip back the rest of my glass. I only want to result in slaying if I really need too. "If you're planning on starting a fight in public that you won't win then I'll be forced to turn you into a pile of ash just floating on the wind." But still I feel the presence coming closer to me.
