Chapter 3
The next morning was totally normal, thought Christina. She walked to the lab and was surprised that everything was still dark there. "Hello? Anyone here? Matt? Mary?" she called into the building as she opened the door. Christina looked for the light switch to turn the light on. She found it and turned the light on and found herself totally surprised by her co-workers. "Congratulations!" they called all together and gave her a glass of Champaign. "What happened?" asked Christina startled and took the glass. "A pharmaceutical group and a few hospitals decided to test the vaccine this year! We succeeded!" said Matt happily and gave her a hug. "Well done Miss Young!" said also Mary, one of Christina's assistants, and shook her hand. "Oh, wow….this is….awesome" answered Christina surprised, "I-I don't even know what to say….I didn't expect them to answer that fast." She took her coat off and sat down to get over the shock when she wanted to take a sip from her glass she realized that it was Champaign. "Wait, wait, wait, this is alcohol! Didn't we say alcohol is forbidden in the lab? Let's go to work again!" said Christina and got up. "No Ma'am, today is your day off. You deserved that" protested Matt and made her to sit down again. "But we can't! There is so much work to do…" mumbled Christina and wanted to hide in her beloved laboratory. "No. We can manage this on our own. You. Go. Home. Enough said" commanded Matt and shoved her out of the door. "Geez. Fine, I'll go home!" said Christina and stood already in front of the closed door.
Without any plans for the day went Christina into the town. She wanted to do some groceries. But her new plans got quickly cancelled when she walked past the local park. A lot of people stood around a place and were watching something. Interested as Christina was she went to them and was shocked by the thing she saw. A corpse. Christina gasped and made a step backwards, she already wanted to run away but then she saw something…bite marks. Something must have bitten the corpse. It was a woman, not of a really old age. Christina doubted that an animal might have bitten her, the bites were only to find at her neck and her wrists. Suddenly arrived the police and closed off the area. Confused and a bit scared went Christina home and locked the door. She totally forgot about her groceries and just wanted to hide. She took a shower and then sat with a blanket on her sofa. After about 2 hours she turned on the TV to watch the news. "In the Memorial Park found walkers in the early morning a corpse. The identification proved that it was the 31 year old Emily Parker. It is suspected that she was killed at night. Like in the previous murders were bite marks on neck and wrists of the victim found. Most of them were criminals or women. The police didn't find any traces that could lead to the murderer, some suspect the people died of animal attack," said the voice from the TV, "the police does also suspect some kind of cult or a sect because all bodies were found without any drop of blood in their veins. The agents say it's like someone sucked the blood out of them" Christina was shocked and quickly turned off the TV and tried to think who might commit such a horrible crime, but she could only think of one thing. Vampires. Christina quickly shook her head and tried to get rid of the images in her head. Once again she tried to call Jared, but without success. She took a book and tried to read a bit, but she was too confused, too scared. She sat numbly on the sofa and didn't realize how she fell asleep.