Adventure
Phade's run away but what has she run to? Who are the new weirdo's and is karma coming to kick her rear because this isn't normal.
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I got on the freeway heading south though I'm not sure I knew why. I had no idea where I was going just that moving was better than sitting still and thinking, thinking was worse and that's my problem. I'm always thinking, trying to change things in my head, wondering how I could've made things work out better.
My vision blurred and I had to wipe my face but by then the tears ran down my cheeks and there was no stopping the sobs. Even alone I tried not to make noise. I hate crying. I hate seeing others cry and I hate being the one doing the crying. I see it as a weakness and when others see that they try walking all over you.
"I'm not weak." But I couldn't stop crying. I felt so lost. I had nothing to look forward to.
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The persistent knocking on my window woke me from an uncomfortable sleep. I hadn't dreamt, at least I didn't think so which was good. My dreams tended to become a reality really fast. I'm not happy about that, not at all but I gotta say it comes in handy when something's coming to kill me.
I turned with a yawn to see who was knocking and only got a flannel covered chest and a fist knocking on my window, again. I grumbled sitting up and turned the key to lower the window just a crack. Hey, I'm not stupid I know what can happen to a girl all by her lonesome in some dark rest area out in the middle of nowhere in the early hours of the morning. Though as I glanced at the sky I could see dawn was still a couple of hours away. I looked at the dash board clock and realized I had only been asleep for about an hour.
"Hey, can you help us out?" the guy bent down slightly and smiled tucking his hands into his jean pockets. "We kinda got stranded."
"Stranded." I repeated as I looked him over once more. The guy kept fidgeting which didn't make me feel like getting out to help him.
"It's cold out here." He shrugged seeing the frown on my face. I checked him over again still not liking him but I figured there was nothing he could do to me, considering… vampires, demons, lawyers.
"What do you need?" I quickly asked so I wouldn't dwell on the reason I was out here in the first place.
"Battery's dead. You wouldn't happen to have some cables on you?" he asked. There was that smile again. He really shouldn't do that, it was giving me that 'Eew' vibe and not helping him. "We already got a guy says he'll give us some juice just doesn't have the cables."
"Yeah, they're in the back." I reached towards the glove compartment and remembered the weapons I had stored in plain sight. "Shit." I sat back with a sigh and turned to the guy. "I'll bring 'em over. Where are you parked?"
He turned pointing towards the darkest area where I could barely make out a van. I hadn't noticed it when I had pulled in then again I hadn't been looking. There was another car next to it with the hood open but I couldn't see anyone else.
"That's us. We're on tour now. I play guitar." He smiled again and if he thought the musician part was going to impress me, Ha! Dad always said I should get one if I didn't mind sharing.
Guess what?
I'm not the sharing type. Dante found that out quick enough.
"Mierda!" Why did I have to think about it?
"You cool?" the guy asked.
"Yeah." I said waving him away. He left looking over his shoulder at me every few steps. I got out and went to the trunk. First thing I took was the wrist cuff which was full. I buckled it on and pulled my sleeve down as I shoved things aside to get the jumper cables. I figured anything else would be to big to carry and I couldn't hide my Sai. So, with the cables in hand I closed the trunk of my car and walked over to the van.
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"I need coffee." Oded stated. They had been driving north since the last job which had taken them out to the deserts of northern México. He was tired, dirty and as he sniffed himself, smelly. They had left without taking their well deserved rest at Jessy's insistence that she wanted to get back 'home'. Since the last three times she'd been out voted Ryan had decided it was her turn to get her way before she went 'fem' on them.
Jessy, for her part, was usually quiet. Ryan, on the other hand…
"I need to piss." Ryan blurted out. He looked at Oded who ignored him.
"That makes two of us and no. I won't go in a bush or behind a dumpster or whatever else you think of." Jessy glared into the rear view mirror. "Find me a bathroom."
Ryan laughed. He was about to say exactly that and instead turned on the radio. They'd been going on an hour with out it because there was nothing but static and as for his ipod well, he'd have to get a new one.
"Rest Area mile and a half." Oded looked in the rearview mirror at Jessy. She nodded.
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"Anyone else want a jumps start?" I asked the band boys surrounding me. I had the cables clamped onto the little black cars battery and shoved them towards the vamps. Had I known this would burn them up just as good as fire I would've done this sooner. Its amazing the things you learn.
"Get her!!" flannel shirt ordered. I laughed thinking this was just too stupid to really be happening. I was still dreaming.
"You get her." the one on my left said. I think my laughing pissed them off more but I really didn't care. I mean how stupid was this?
"Sometime before dawn, you dead things. I'd like to get some sleep." I shook my head. I wasn't annoyed, yet but it wouldn't take much.
"Oh, you'll sleep. You'll sleep like the dead!"
"Blah, blah, blah. You know that's the problem with half breeds. There isn't enough of a brain between all you put together." That must've really pissed him off because he came at me full vamp face and fangs. I stepped aside and shoved him into the engine one handed. The others came at me together and I had to drop the cables in order to get out of the way. They were unorganized and only five left but they still managed to get my favorite jeans dirty.
"What the hell? Look at this!" I exclaimed grabbing one by his neck and pointing at my leg. "You got blood on these! Do you know how much I like these jeans?" I asked. I didn't wait for his answer, that's how much he pissed me off. His face hit my knee with a crunch and he fell to the ground. The others didn't take long to untangle themselves and came two at a time. I blocked most of their blows but as I tried to get a stake they got me good enough to bleed.
"AAH!" I ducked away from them angry and wiping at the blood on my lips. One of the vamps licked his knuckles suggestively making noises.
"You taste good. Real good." He said.
"I'll give you good." I retorted pulling out two stakes. "You have no idea who you just pissed off."
At that the one on the floor sat up. His nose was crooked and dripping blood on his chest. He looked at me, his eyes going wide as his face changed to human.
"Slayer!" he scrambled to get behind the others repeating it over and over.
"Hey!" I held up my hand with a stake and pointed at myself. "I am not a 'Slayer'."
"It's the dark one!" he shouted while cringing behind the others.
"No way." Flannel shirt said behind them. "They put her in a cage." He looked at me.
"What did I just say?" I asked. I took a menacing step towards them and they flinched. "What the hell? I'm not a Slayer!" I yelled.
They seemed to want to turn and run which now that they'd woken me up and dragged me out of my uncomfortably cold car and pissed me off I wasn't about to let them go. Not that I would've let them go in the first place but you know…
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Ryan looked up sharply at the shouts. He wiped his hands on his shirt and headed towards the door. Outside the sounds of fighting carried perfectly on the cold breeze. He hunched inside his leather jacket and tried to get his hands completely dry as both he and Oded headed towards the sounds.
Oded sipped calmly from the small cup blowing on the steaming liquid. Right then Ryan wished he had a cup too, just to warm his hands. Seeing the look Oded lowered the cup and frowned. "No."
Ryan opened his mouth but Oded raised a finger. "No." he repeated then slowly took another sip of his coffee. Both men turned to the sound of a car being hit by a body.
"Should we wait for Jessy?" Ryan asked absently as he looked towards the back of the rest area. There were trees and bushes in the way but he thought he saw sparks.
"You saw that?" Oded asked putting his coffee on a newspaper rack. Both men hurried to the trees while keeping their hands on their guns. They reached the tree line and pushed through the bushes jumping down the little hill. Oded pulled his gun from the side holster and fired a round. Ryan shoved his arm and the bullet changed directions. From behind them another shot rang out and both men turned to see Jessy.
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I flinched. Yes, I know how that sounds but I flinched. What do you expect someone to do when they hear that? In any case, the sound completely took me by surprise and I flinched. The vampire behind me ashed but flannel shirt swiped his long nails across my face and neck. I turned with the blow trying to keep him from cutting anything vital. I heard another shot and then flannel shirt grabbed my shoulder and pulled me in. My back burned and I would've fallen had flannel shirt not been holding me up. Then again he did bite into my neck something I wasn't about to let him get away with. I still held the stake in my hand which I gripped harder and though my shoulder felt like it was coated in lava I shoved the stake into flannel shirts under arm, straight to the heart.
I felt the little sparks on my skin as he ashed then my knees hit the pavement hard and I pitched forward. I held most of my weight on my good arm trying to catch my breath. The pain in my shoulder seemed to intensify with each inhalation and that was getting harder to do. I barely heard their heavy footsteps as they ran towards me. At first I thought there were more vampires but I was wrong.
A dark-skinned man leant down but all I saw through my hair was his arm and then his hand as he tried to take mine. I fell aside not wanting him to touch me and ended up on the other guy. He wrapped his arm around me so I rested against his chest. When I looked up into his face I couldn't help but stare. If I hadn't been able to breathe before it was much harder now.
He had the most gorgeous eyes I've ever seen. They were dark brown with green flecks framed by long lashes though in no way girly. I liked that his eyebrows were shaped not bushy like most men and this close I could tell he had a five o'clock shadow.
'Oh, boy! Not good…' I thought feeling my stomach tingle and feeling every bone in my body burn. I couldn't help it! I just love the five o'clock shadow just thinking about how it feels against my skin…
'Jesus Christ! I'm going out of my mind!'
"Can you get up?" he asked me and like some idiot I only nodded though I'm not sure I was saying yes. He helped me up and I finally looked away as my shoulder burned fiercely. He must've heard me because he let go quickly and I moved away from him.
"Are you hurt?" he asked. When I looked up I saw the other man with him and the girl a few feet behind them. She had a gun.
"Who are you?" I moved away from them not getting a good feeling and I realized I was having trouble walking. I stumbled almost falling and I had to use the black car to keep my feet. Both men reached for me and I suppose they meant to keep me from falling down which I can say wasn't so bad, not the way I felt.
"We won't hurt you." The dark-skinned man said. He held his hands out palms up and moved closer. I pushed away from the car and went around the front of the van heading towards my car.
"Sure you won't." I said looking around. Things seemed to blur then come into focus making me a bit dizzy. I wiped at my face and searched for my car again finally seeing it over to my left.
"Wait." The guy said but I headed towards my car. I could feel something wet drip down my arm onto my hand. Even though I didn't want to see it I looked down at my hand knowing it would have blood.
"Christ let her go." The girl said. She didn't sound particularly friendly but the closer I got to my car the dizzier I felt. I couldn't hear them anymore through the buzzing in my ears. My hand slipped on the door handle as I tried to get it open. I took the keys from my pocket remembering I had locked the doors but by then I couldn't even find the keyhole. Just as suddenly the lights went out and I heard the sound of rushing water then nothing else.
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"Shit!" Ryan ran to the girl as she fell. He crouched down next to her seeing the blood on the car door and on her hand. He pulled the sleeve of her sweater up feeling the sticky blood coating her arm. "Shit." He repeated and sighed as he pulled the sweater off her shoulder. There wasn't much blood there and he took his knife ripping the neck of her shirt in order to see the skin beneath. She had a deep cut oozing blood with a silver liquid. He hung his head running a hand through his hair. "Shit!"
Ryan looked over his shoulder at Oded and glared at Jessy. "She's wounded. Silver nitrate in her blood, its going to kill her if we don't get her to a hospital."
"We can't do that." Jessy stated. "If we go to a hospital there's likely to be questions and police."
"We don't kill innocent people." Oded retorted feeling just a little disgusted.
"We aren't leaving her here either." Ryan slipped his arm under her shoulders and his other under her legs lifting her. He held her cradled against his chest as he walked towards the others.
"What are you doing?" Jessy asked getting in his way. Ryan threw the keys at her which she caught automatically.
"Wipe the blood from the door and follow us in her car."
"What? You're out of your mind! You need to put her back where you found her. We can call the police from the pay phone and let them take care of her-."
"You didn't hear me. I said get her car!" Ryan ordered. "We don't need the police looking into whose bullet is still inside her." he nodded towards the girl he carried in his arms before moving off into the trees.
"If you'd kept your gun holstered we wouldn't be having this problem." Oded said as he gave her a push towards the girl's car. Jessy wasn't happy but she went anyway. She pushed the button for the trunk which opened. Inside there was a jumble of clothes which she shoved aside looking for a rag to wipe the door and found a black pouch. Opening it she took out a silver stake.
"What the-?" Jessy turned the pouch over letting the rest of the stakes fall out. She dropped the bag and looked through the clothes until she found a leather duffel. She undid the metal buckles and pulled the flap open. Inside was an array of concealable weapons, knives, short blades, daggers, exotickly shaped throwing stars and some three pronged fork knives. Then there was the wooden case which just happened to be locked. That she left alone since she could hear their SUV getting closer. She grabbed whatever was at hand and slammed the trunk closed then went to the driver side door and wiped the handle. Once clean she unlocked the door and got in throwing the bloodied shirt in the back.
Oded pulled up next to Jessy and flashed his lights. He heard the engine turn over then the lights flashed on and she pulled out. Oded sped past getting on the freeway again with Jessy following close behind.
"She's burning up." Ryan looked for the bottle of water they had in the back.
"Here." Oded handed it to him along with some towels. Ryan took them and began to wipe her face and neck with them. "How long?" he asked.
"I have the radar on and I'm speeding, Ryan." Oded kept glancing from the dash to the road and the radar making sure they didn't get stopped.
"Call it in. They'll need to get set up." Ryan watched as the girl twitched and shivered simultaneously. Her face was flushed with the fever as the poison surged through her blood. Jessy hadn't seemed the least bit sorry about what she'd done. Shooting an innocent… it was an accident any of them could've committed yet she didn't-."
'What's wrong with her?' he wondered.
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