The Vampire Stalker-After Vigo's Death-Chapter 2

I was finally home, away from the busyness of the hospital and able to sleep comfortably in my own bed for the night. Mom and Christy had visited me nearly every day during the four days I was in hospital; checking to see how I was.

Alexander went into the kitchen to get me some tea and I sat myself down on the sofa. Mom and Christy were out, they knew I was coming home, so they had left a note on the table near the door saying they had gone to get some groceries.

I switched on the TV and straight away the news came on, saying that there had been 2 mysterious killings over the last 3 days, and police were investigating further to identify what had happened.

At that moment, Alexander came into the lounge; he sighed.

'It must be Leander.' He said, 'There is no other explanation.'

I turned back to the TV. 'Do you think he knew who I was, or was I just another one of his victims?'

'I do not know. But I have to find him, I have to track him down and kill him, before anything worse happens.' He looked tired, very tired; well he would have been, he'd hardly been sleeping the last four days whilst I was in hospital.

This was the first he'd known of the killings, I could tell. After all, he had stayed with me the whole time I was in hospital and he wouldn't have known about anything on the news.

'How could Leander have gotten through the portal into this dimension? I thought it had closed forever.'

' We'll go to Ms P's tomorrow and ask.' I replied, as he came to sit down beside me. 'But for now, don't worry about any of it, you need to get some rest.' It was typical of me to say, because I knew already that I myself wouldn't be able to sleep a wink knowing that Leander was out there. Nevertheless, I snuggled up to him and he put his arm around me. I realised I would never feel happier than I was in his arms; he made me feel safe, and I never wanted to let go.

We both awoke when Mom and Christy came bustling through the door with loads of shopping bags.

'Amy!' Mom said, putting the bags on the floor and coming over to me to give me a hug. Alexander took away his arm from around me as I reached up towards her.

Christy was much better now, and was a lot more like herself, so she didn't bother giving me a hug, but simply said, 'Hi, Amy.'

Does she know about the 'mysterious killings'? I thought to myself. Well, even if she did, she might not even suspect that it was a Vampire... I turned to Alexander and knew straight away that he knew exactly what I was thinking.

'Think she knows?' I mimed the words to him.

He looked at Christy, then back at me. 'No.' He whispered, 'Let's hope not anyway.' He gave me a gentle kiss on the cheek and went into the kitchen, asking my Mom to let him help unpack the groceries.

I lay on the sofa and closed my eyes, trying not to think about the killings, and Leander, and how he'd attacked me... but the thoughts flooded in as I fell asleep and I couldn't help dreaming about everything that was happening, and everything that could happen...

I dreamt that James and Hannah had tried to make peace with the other vampires, but where unsuccessful and Leander had somehow found access to the portal. I woke up in the morning thinking 'What if it's true...what if that's what HAS happened? What other explanation could there be?

I walked into the kitchen to find Mom making eggs on toast.

'Morning sweetie.' She smiled.

'Morning.' I looked through to the Lounge to find Christy watching TV -the usual teen drama stuff that she was so heavily interested in was playing away.

'Where's Alexander?' He had been staying at ours since he killed Vigo, simply because we loved each other, and he felt more comfortable here than anywhere else.

' He left last night after carrying you into your room. Said he had some things to deal with?' Mom replied.

'Oh, OK.' I looked at the clock immediately- it was just past ten o'clock. Wouldn't he be back by now? I thought to myself. I already started to think about the possibilities of what could've happened if he'd actually found Leander last night.

'Did he say what time he'd be back?' I asked

'No. I offered him a bite to eat, and he said, ''Thankyou, but no.'', and that he had something to deal with.' She replied, without any questioning of where he might have gone. 'And then he just, left.'

'Ok, thanks Mom.' I smiled and left the kitchen into the lounge with the plate of eggs on toast she'd given me.

I asked Christy what she was watching, just to make conversation- (as if I didn't know it was one of her soapy programmes), and she grumbled a reply, keeping her eyes fixed on the TV.

Where is he? I thought.

I finished my breakfast and left the lounge to get ready. I could only worry about Alexander, but I knew he would somehow be OK, and so I left for Ms P's house after thanking Mom for the breakfast and telling her I was heading to Ms P's for help with a book report.

I left the apartment and set off, thinking about all the possible ways Leander could've found, and travelled through the portal...but then again, so many impossible things had happened since I met Alexander...and I didn't know what to believe 'Possible' anymore.