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Order 3: Fight and Flee
Not very soon after starting, Katherine began walking herself to school. She didn't like the thought of needing Seras to do everything with and for her. She sipped her breakfast, idly, and looked up at the school. Parents and their kids were there saying their goodbyes for the day. Katherine shrugged and began walking through the crowd when a gathered group of kids from her class caught her eye.
Alisa, the girl who sat beside her, was clearly being harassed as she was in the center of a circle of laughing girls. Her schoolbooks had spilled to the ground and tears were brimming behind her too large glasses. Katherine didn't bother to listen to what was being said; she just had to stop it.
"Hey!"
The girls immediately stopped and looked up.
"Leave her alone," Katherine said simply.
The one in charge, a big loud-mouth by the name of Gabriella, sneered at the Draculina. "Oh, you suppose just cause you think you're some kind of Princess we're supposed to listen to you?" Katherine smiled cruelly at her. Such an insignificant cockroach, so easy to destroy. In fact, it was as though the rest of the world fell away. As Katherine stared, Gabriella's heartbeat began to grow louder and louder until it echoed around the school. The flow of her blood could also be easily heard and Katherine could basically see inside and watch it move. She could picture herself biting into that soft white neck.
"Hey, you freak! I'm talking to you."
Katherine blinked. But that would be against mother's rules.
"No one believes that stupid rumor that you're a vampire. That's just some dirty lie you made up."
Katherine stepped closer toward her. She was a mere inch from her, their noses almost touching. And Gabriella was not backing down. Commendable. "It's called contacts," she said, commenting on her crimson gaze. Katherine had to pause. She wanted to rip her nails into the girl but Seras had said she couldn't. The bell rung cutting their conflict short. Gabriella smirked and turned her back on Katherine.
The Princess blinked a moment then looked at Alisa. "Are you okay?" The mousy little girl nodded anxiously. Katherine smiled, her Nice smile and held out her hand. "Then let's go to class." They walked through the hall together but Alisa paused at the classroom door.
"Katherine?" she squeaked.
"Yeah?"
"I believe you are a vampire. And even if you made it up, I still think it's cool."
Katherine shook her head. "I didn't make it up."
Her eyes brightened. "Then you're really one? Honest-to-God?"
Katherine reached up and with one finger pulled at the side of her mouth and exposed to Alisa her three inch incisor. The girl was breathless. "Wow." Katherine nodded. "And I'll show you something else too." They took their seats in the back of the class, passing Gabriella on the way who gave Katherine a dirty look. Katherine stuck out her tongue, wishing she could unfurl it to its true length.
Twenty minutes into class, Katherine got Alisa's attention through telepathy.
Wanna see a cool vampire power?
Alisa turned and looked at her. "How did you-?"
Ssh. Just think it and I'll hear it.
This is so cool, Alisa thought, excitedly.
I'll show you something better.
The shadows under Katherine's desk began to creep and come to life. There was the sound of a sharp intake of breath from Alisa's direction. The shadows slithered under to Gabriella's desk when swiftly and silently they tied the young girl's shoelaces together. Alisa giggled behind her hands.
That's so bad, Katherine!
Serves her right, Katherine thought satisfied.
When Gabriella got up to answer a question on the board, the result was immediate. She crashed, hard and heavy onto the wood floor. She shrieked out in pain and surprise. The teacher immediately ran to her side. "What's the matter, Gabriella?"
"I tripped," she said through her bloody lip. She looked down to see her tied shoelaces and then up at Katherine who was barely stifling her laughter and flew into a rage. "You did this to me!"
Katherine looked at her seriously. "I haven't moved from this desk."
"Katherine Victoria Tepes, you wicked girl! How dare you lie to my face!"
Katherine looked over at Alisa. "Have I moved, dearest Alisa? Surely, you of clean conscience wouldn't lie." Enthralled and a bit frightened, Alisa shook her head silently. "See?" Katherine said turning back to the seething Gabriella. "Now, how could I have tied your shoelaces together if I were sitting here the entire time? Only someone with magic powers like...a vampire could have done such a thing." And she grinned, a full-fanged grin.
Gabriella took a frightened step back then another then fled the room. The class was staring at Katherine in awe and fear.
-
The rest of the day passed smoothly enough, despite the fact that Katherine was getting a few odd looks. She shrugged it off and walked home by herself, sucking down her third blood pack of the day. She winced at the bright sun and hurried faster to her home. She opened the door and called out, "Mother?" She slammed it shut behind her. "Mother?" she called again, moving into the house. She threw her bookbag to the ground, retrieved more blood from the freezer and moved into her room. She jerked to a stop at the door.
Seras was lying in her coffin, lid-up, pale as death. She was not sleeping; her breath was low and ragged and ever few seconds her closed eyes would tighten in pain. Tiny moans escaped her mouth. Katherine swiftly crossed the room, puncturing the pack with her fang, and tilting her mother's head up. Seras' head flopped lazily back and she moaned faintly, cracking her red eyes a bit. The young draculina turned the pack upside down and emptied it into Seras' mouth.
Seras' eyes opened wider and after a moment and one more pack she was able to sit up, albeit a bit weakly. Katherine had to force her to drink it. "Why're you starving yourself," she asked slightly frustrated. Seras, for the most part, ignored her daughter, angering the young vampire.
"I just don't know what to say to you anymore. We. Are. Not. Humans! And I'm sick of pretending to be one. I'm tired of going to that stupid school. I wanna sleep all day and kill FREAKs at night. This mediocre existence may be alright for you but not me!" And Katherine stormed from the room and slammed the door behind her.
-
The next day Katherine walked to school in a depressed mood. She was silent, head lowered, hiding under her bangs.
Katherine sat at her desk, head down, morosely and stayed that way for most of the morning. She found it odd, every few minutes Gabriella would turn and hiss, "Sssh!" at her, as though she'd been talking. She ignored it however, until Gabriella unexpectedly stood up and shouted: "Teacher! Katherine keeps talking and won't shut her big mouth!" Katherine shot to her feet with a shriek. "What!" The teacher glared at her. "Katherine Tepes, take yourself to the Headmistress right now!"
Katherine glared right back at her. "I won't! I've done nothing wrong."
"Young lady, you will do as I say and leave this class immediately!"
In response, Katherine crossed her arms, stomped down both her feet, and looked at the nun defiantly. Angered, her teacher snatched up a ruler and charged at the little draculina. Katherine lashed out, snatching the ruler and snapped it between two fingers. "Why you little-!" Red in the face, the teacher grabbed Katherine around the wrist.
Bad idea.
The young girl's pupils dilated and in lightning speed, she lashed out once more taking the teacher's wrists and then twisted it with a definite snap. The arm now hung loosely by the nun's side. Katherine bared her teeth and hissed at her and her teacher gasped in horror. "God Almighty in Heaven." She moved away and began reciting a prayer. Katherine turned to Gabriella with the same ferocious look in her eye and the girl backed up and stumbled in fear. She growled in anger and before anyone could stop her, she'd lifted a desk over her head and thrown it at the blackboard. The desk splintered into many pieces of wood.
Katherine calmed down slightly and looked around the room. The other students had backed up to the farthest wall in fear. All except Alisa. She stood apart from the others, staring at Katherine in sadness. Katherine returned the look.
Goodbye, my friend.
Farewell, Alisa...
And she turned and jetted from the room.
Katherine returned home at about one o'clock. Her mother was still sleeping soundly in her coffin. With the speed of a fugitive, she packed enough things for a runaway bag and was finished in under thirty minutes. She carried two large bags of clothes, books, and blood. She paused at the table, something caught her eye; a letter from the school addressed to Seras. She opened it without hesitation:
Ms. Tepes:
It has come to our attention that your daughter has been spreading a slight rumor about herself. She claims to the other children that she is a vampire. Here at St. Joseph's we do not tolerate something as anti-Christian as vampires. Please speak to your daughter and tell her to desist from such behaviour. Otherwise, I have no choice but to suspend her.
Katherine shook with rage. Anti-Christian! The Hellsing organization has been around for a century, destroying vampires in the name of God. How dare that presumptuous bitch! Katherine flipped the letter over and wrote on the back in her tidy scrawl.
You have one year to join me. Father misses you and there is no apparent complication to stop you from seeing him. If you're not with me in a year, I'll come get you.
Katherine hefted her bags up and with a final glance around the house, she fled to her true home, to her Father.
