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So...not sure if you read the warning on the previous chapter about depictions of violence, but this chapter has some :)

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Chapter 2 -Greeting the dawn-

I walked to the complete opposite side of the church complex where I'd parked my car, a silly smile plastered on my face. In a sudden rush strong arms where on my shoulders as my back slammed against something hard . I let out a groin. "We meet again", said an eeril voice in my ear. The shock wearing away, it dawned on me, this was the same vampire that had nearly bit me a moment ago. Except this time there wouldn't be anyone to stop him. My hands raised up instinctively scratching at his face wildly. I might be lower on the food chain but I was gonna make him work for it. "The fuck" he let go of my shoulders. I made to kick him in the groin, but in the second it took me to think about it he had me raised off the ground by my throat. I found myself wheezing and coughing for breath. "Gah your breath smells like garlic, that wont do" he said with a frown. I was glad I'd eaten those two extra bread sticks at dinner. Then everything when black.

I was underwater, no I was drinking water. But it tingled. My eyes flicked open. I was in a small fancy looking bathroom, the kind you see at hotels. "Good your awake", it was the same vampire from before, he looked annoyed. I started to squirm in his grasp. "look at me". I desperately tried to wiggle away, panicking was getting me no where. It was strange the way he was looking at me, and "it...it felt weird" I thought to myself. "you will rinse your mouth out then be a good little blood bag". "No" I growled at him, the anger rising in my voice. He let go of me a shocked looked on his face. Not wasting a second I kneed him in the groin and began punching him repeatedly. He howled in pain as my silver rings made contact with his skin and stumbled backwards. I took that opportunity to scamper out of the open bathroom and make for the main door. I could see it, hope welled up inside me. I'm going to live. Then it was getting farther away. He had grabbed me by the leg and was pulling me back. I kicked for all I was worth, but it did nothing as he sank his fangs into my thigh. There was a scream. I found myself beating on his head, every second getting weaker as my life was drained away. Hot tears ran down my face as a prayed to God "I don't want to die, not like this".In a last ditch effort I grabbed his head in my hands and thrust my thumbs into his eye sockets, my silver rings burning as they went. There was another scream, but this time it wasn't mine. My mind in a haze I frantically made for the door, and down the long hallway. His angry growls behind me as I ran to the stair well. I rushed up the stares before I knew what I was doing, cursing myself all the way up. "This was exactly how victims in all those stupid horror movies die, because they go up, how could I be so stupid" I chastised myself. He was still behind me as I pushed on the door to the roof hoping maybe just maybe I could somehow push him off the ledge, but I highly doubted it.

I came to a sudden stop a few feet out the door. "I must be hallucinating", I thought as I took in the two people standing on the roof in the cool night air as rays of sun light threatened to rise any minute. I was confused. What was the the vampire from the church, the one clad in all white who had saved everyone, doing on the roof when the sun was about to rise. I didn't have much time to muse over this as I was grabbed from behind, a voice I knew to well growling in my ear, "play time is over". For what felt like the hundredth time that night I thought I was going to die, but it never came. "retract your fangs" his calm voice stated. "Sheriff, she..." my assailant started, but he was cut off. "I care not the reason, but while I am still here there will peaceful coexistence, have I made myself clear?". "Yes Sheriff" my captor mumbled as he released me. "good, now go". I let out a small sigh as I heard the door to roof close. "I am truly sorry, I will make amends" the vampire from the church the one called Sheriff said as he appeared before me. This was the first time I had seen him up close. He was, breath taking. "I will make amends I swear it", he said again as he turned and started walking back to where he had been. I could see the sky growing lighter, then it hit me he was going to commit suicide. "no, no, no, NO" I thought as my legs propelled me forward. "this is wrong" I found myself saying, coming to a stop a few feet behind him. He turned, a sad smile on his face, "I am wrong, I must make amends". "No! suicide is wrong", I shook my head, a dull throbbing sensation greeted me. The Sheriff turned back to where the sun would be in a few moments. My brain desperately racing, "This is not right, you can not make amends by committing a sin, suicide is a sin". "Vampires are not right, we do not belong here", his sad smile broke my heart. "NO" tears began sliding down my face,"God created all creatures, and he loves all of them. If he wished for you to meet the true death you would already be gone, suicide is not the answer" I was pleading with him, pleading desperately. I had only know him for such a short time, but what I had seen told me this was a good man, a man worth saving. "Are you sorry?" He looked at me a pained expression on his hansom face "yes". "Then he has forgiven you already" I smiled softly at him. He looked at me his expression perplexed searching for any sign of doubt in my eyes, but there was none. He turned and took a fleeting glance at the first raises of sun light as they escaped over the horizon, steam rising off his shoulders, and then he was gone.