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Chapter 2

A couple of days have passed since the last attack and my clue of what is killing the people in the town is close to zero. It didn't help that the press and people were getting restless and just pressing for answers. Everyone was stressed, the town wanted answers and they wanted them now.

As I was closing the door to my apartment I noticed a person next to me in the hall.

Oh god no, please not now

"Alice"

"Analise"

To say Analise was a very interesting person was an understatement, and I'm not saying that for her preference for dark clothes or how she always wears her smoky eyes make up and red lips, that was not it. Is the way she looked at you, not showing any kind of emotion unless you count the glare she usually wears. It didn't help that she was taller than me. Analise didn't exactly intimidated me, okay maybe a little, but I knew that she was kind of harmless. Unless you count her weird interest in vampires.

I remember the day I move in and I saw her outside her door. I consider myself a friendly person (unless I'm working, in that case I turn in what I like to call 'detective mode'), so when I gave her a small smile that first day and she just glared and closed the door I knew a friendship wasn't on the cards. After a few weeks I noticed her vampire love. I remember I was walking out of my apartment and her door was open. Being a detective I couldn't stop myself and I took a small look inside. The decoration was dark (no surprise for me) a full book-case, candles in many places (there were not lights on) and paintings everywhere. A few of them were recreating the moment when a vampire was biting a woman and blood dripping from the woman's neck, others were of the face of a vampire with long dark hair and electric blue eyes with his fangs out and blood dripping from his mouth, other were kind of erotic to be honest, the only thing all of them had in common was the theme: Vampires. I actually liked it, I mean it wasn't exactly my style but it showed her eccentric personality. After my small observation I left quickly to my job.

Now, the thing that was bothering me in the moment she said my name wasn't exactly the fact that she was talking to me, actually in the few months that I have lived in this apartment she have never talked to me, the thing that was bothering me was the reason she was doing it. The stupid vampire case, there was no doubt about it.

"I heard there was a new attack in town" she said with her usual 'I don't care' tone

"Yeah"

"I also heard that the police asked help from your boss"

"Yeah" I was noticing she wasn't exactly happy with my one word answers, but what more could I say? it wasn't my fault that her questions could be easily answered with just one word.

"Have you guys found something?"

"No" ok maybe I was being annoying but this case and how the press was taking it was starting to annoy ME so I was trying to share the spirit and I knew she knew it the moment she raised her eyebrow. The detective in me was saying that I was only doing that one word answers because I couldn't share anything about the case, so to feel professional let's say that was the real reason.

"The moment everyone get their heads out of their asses is the moment everyone is going to see the truth"

"And that truth is..." I asked her the question of which I already knew her answer

"Vampires" she said at the same time I said it on my head

Give me a break

"Ok, I guess I better prepare my stakes and holy water then"

She was about to say to said something until she changed her mind. I guess she wasn't going to bother with an answer so I wasn't exactly surprised when she glared and left to what I assumed was her job.

Taking a deep breath I waited until she took the elevator and it arrived to the lobby. I wasn't exactly thrilled to share an awkward elevator ride, so I waited. I arrived at my job just in time and happy to see that my boss was back, which I felt weird about because I'm pretty sure not a lot of employees think that when they saw their bosses.

"So, vampire case huh" aaand the happy feeling is gone, thanks

"Yes, but now that you're here I guess is all yours... Right?" I said with a hopeful smile

"Not a chance. The demand to solve this case is too big to do it all by myself, they are actually trying to contact the FBI. So that means you are going to be working exclusively on this case with me"

"I blame Hollywood for my pain"

He laughed "Come on Alice, is not THAT bad. Besides the sooner we solve this the sooner you would put this behind you. I'm going to interview some people who live around the crime scene, maybe see if I find some eye-witness. You can see if you find something on some old cold cases, maybe there was a murder just like this a long time ago but nobody gave it the press coverage as this one. Who knows right? "

Four hours later and I discovered nothing. Well actually I discovered something: A new level of frustration. Letting out a groan, my eyes left the computer screen and went to the door when I heard someone open it and Sharon was on the other side.

"Hey Alice. Feeling better?" Taking a step to enter the room and putting her lunch on her desk.

"Not exactly. I think I have to look for the older cold cases that are on the police station, so wish me luck with that"

"Can I be honest with you?"

"Sure" I said confused by her question

"Why is so hard to believe that maybe is not something human that is doing all this"

Here we go again

"Look..."

"No you hear me for a second" she interrupted me with a fierce expression and I was surprise to see this new side of the usually calm Sharon "How long have this attacks been going on? A month maybe, and there are no clues, not even a trace of the person who is doing this. No finger prints, no DNA, nothing. There is no logical answer on what is going on but you guys are so close minded that thinking outside the box is some sort of crime or sin. Could you please for just one second forget every logic and just see what is going on around you before is too late!"

I sat there for a few seconds in shock. I have never seen Sharon so serious in the entire time I have been working here. Maybe it was the frustration I had or maybe the fact that I was hungry, but I couldn't deny that a part of me was curious.

"Ok, let's make a deal" I said after a few seconds of thinking " I'm going to eat, check a few of the cold cases on the local police and if I don't find something that could help me with the case I would let you talk to me about your theories ok" After all what harm could be done if I heard her right?

Apparently that was all it took to make her good mood appear again.

The next couple of hours were spent on eating my lunch, sneezing thanks to the dusk that were around the old boxes of cases, talking to my boss about his discoveries and almost dying when a rat came out of nowhere. Yeah, pretty normal.

It was 6 o'clock when I left to the office. I texted Sharon letting her know that I was going to hear her theories. As I was getting closer I was trying to convince myself to hear everything with an open mind, something that I was pretty sure was going to be hard. Don't get me wrong, I actually believe in supernatural stuff let's just say that I stick with the classics, like a ghost for example. I believe that maybe the soul of a person can stay with us, I believe that some of them can have an unfilled business and some others just can't rest in peace. But believing in vampires, werewolves or shapeshifters was a whole new story.

I told all of this stuff to Sharon when we were in the middle of our conversation and her answer kept repeating in my head for a while.

"That is the problem that we as humans have. We like to believe we know everything. We like to believe that we are the only ones living in the universe even thought we haven't explore everything of it. We like to believe we know everything that is on the deepest part of the sea even thought we haven't explored it. We like to think we know all the answers when in reality we have none. We are scared of find something that is different from us, something that we cannot explain. That is the reason why everyone like to think the same, because everyone know that if someone thinks different from the masses that person would be considered some kind of freak, some crazy person that spend a lot of time watching movies or reading books. Why is so bad and hard to believe that maybe there is something out there that is different from us? Tell me Alice have you ever seen a ghost"

"No"

"But you still believe in them right?"

"Yes"

"Why?"

" I..." How could I answer that? I haven't seen one but I still believe they are real, I can't explain why I just did.

"Exactly"

At the time we ended our conversation it was pretty dark outside. We decided to continue it tomorrow. As I took I cab to my place I just couldn't stop thinking. Could it be real? Could this be caused by a vampire? I think the real reason I couldn't believe in it was simpler than I thought: I was scared of failure. What could happen if I believed in it? no, the real question was: What could happen if I believed in it and I was wrong? My reputation as a detective would go down the drain, my family would think I was crazy; there were too many things I could lose.

Before entering my apartment I decided that I needed something to relax. For a lot of people that was a drink, you know, a cold beer or something like that, for me it would be one delicious yogurt/ ice cream made with Oreos. Oh god just thinking about it is making me happy, I'm so weird sometimes. I walked a couple of blocks from my building and I enter to the small local, I made my order and I sit on a small table waiting and then eating my small piece of paradise. When I finished it was time for closing and it was later than I expected, 9 o'clock.

Crap

I left and started to check my phone on my way home. I was so distracted reading a message from my mom that I didn't feel a presence behind me until it was too late and someone was grabbing me around my waist.

"You better not scream dollface"

The moment he finished my elbow connected with his stomach, something that caught him by surprise but didn't make him lose his hold on me, in fact he didn't even seem to lose his breath after the punch.

What the hell

"Oh feisty, I like it"

A movement in front of me caught my eyes and I saw two guys holding another one who looked unconscious, each one was holding an arm of the guy, I only saw his dirty blond hair. I felt that the guy behind me started to move and I begin fighting against his hold but it was like being hold by a statue, impossible to get out, he was so strong. I thought about screaming but I didn't want to drag an innocent to this, that and I was too damn proud to scream. Once we were in small ally the guy holding me talked again.

"You think you are better than all the others my friend" by the way he said friend it didn't take a genius to realize he didn't exactly meant it" but I'm here to show you how wrong you are"

A few guys came out of the shadows, there were at least 6. My eyes went again to the guy that jackass number two and three were holding, he wasn't looking up and in a closer inspection I didn't see his chest moving. Is this guy dead? That didn't make any sense since jackass number one was talking to him, Right?

Everything changed when I heard some sort of growl.

"Oh look who is back" Jackass number one smiled "We were already missing you"

The rest of the guys made a circle around us and the guy who was held hostage looked up. I stopped breathing for a second, even in the dark I noticed this guy had the blackest eyes I have ever seen. I couldn't stop the small shiver of fear I felt when jackass one started to move close to the hostage guy. I was now one foot away from him. I saw how his eyes left the guy behind me and focused on mine. My heart started to beat faster.

Those could be contacts, right? Please let them be contact lens

The guy took a deep breath closing his eyes for a second, before opening his mouth and letting his fangs come out.

No no no no. This isn't real. This can't be happening. They are not real.

"Yes. Come on Zacky, just one bite"

No, please no

Hostage guy (which name I assumed was Zack) started to get close to me, his face went directly to my neck, I felt his nose travel the length of my neck and then his fangs grazed the pulse point on my neck. This was the moment I started to panic and because of that I almost didn't hear what he said, key word: Almost.

"Run"

What?

Everything happened in a blur. Suddenly the guys that were holding him were on the ground and jackass number one lost his hold of me.

"I said run" Zack screamed and I didn't need to be told twice.

I started running like I have never done in my life, avoiding the hands trying to grab me, ignoring the few growls behind me and the sounds of what only could be blood splashing on the ground. Only one thing was on my mind.

Get to my apartment and get there fast.

That was long o.O ... Hope you guys like it! Please let me know what you think so far, see you next chapter =D