It took Kerry about forty minutes to get Sebastian cleaned up. She rolled up the left leg of his pants, or at least tried to. She ended up having to cut it off with a pair of scissors. When she saw the leg, she almost passed out from the sight of all that blood. Once she was able to wash it away, she saw that the reason for all the blood was that there was a long cut running down his shin, even though it was shallow. Kerry wrapped his leg in gauze and went to work on his head.
The cut on Seb's forehead was going to need stitches and Kerry didn't know if she would be able to put them in. Then she remembered those lessons on how to insert stitches that she got from her friend, who was studying to be a nurse. Carefully, Kerry stitched the wound closed and thanked God that Seb was asleep. The injuries to his arms were minor and easy to clean. With a lot of effort, Kerry got him onto the couch. She found a blanket and a pillow and got him as comfortable as he was going to get. Then she plopped herself down onto the chair and waited for him to wake up.
Kerry didn't go to that class after all. She ended up sitting on that chair for five minutes before she got restless. First, she went into the kitchen and cleaned up the sandwich she didn't get to make. Then she went around and picked up all the bloodied pieces of cloth that she had used to clean up Seb's wounds. She filled the tub with cold water and left them in there to soak, knowing that the water should get some of the stains out.
When she sat back down on the chair, she noticed that Seb was stirring a little bit. Kerry held her breath, wondering if he was going to wake up.
Slowly, he opened his eyes. At first, they were relaxed, but they tensed as soon as he realized he wasn't at his own place. He sat up, looked around, saw Kerry sitting in the chair, and groaned. She frowned, but kept quiet. He looked at her and his eyes became sad. "Beth is dead," he reminded Kerry.
"Yeah, I know. You kind of threw that into my face an hour ago, and then you passed out." Letting out an impatient sigh, she added, "Maybe you should still be resting. Anybody else who took the beating that you did would've been out like a light all night. I won't ask you everything I want to until tomorrow if you decide to rest."
Smiling a little, although not happily, Seb asked, "What kind of questions do you want to ask me?"
His smile turned into a frown as Kerry fired off the list. "Were you hunting a vampire or was it hunting you? Who was the vampire? Was there more than one? Did they kill Beth or change her? How long have you known about vampires? How much do you know about—"
He cut her off abruptly, "Maybe I should've taken a rest…" As if to prove it, he lay back on the couch, a bit too quickly so he ended up hitting his head on the armrest instead of his pillow. "Ow! That hurt."
Suppressing a laugh, Kerry said, "I wish you would stop hurting yourself. If you stopped, then you wouldn't get as many bruises and cuts as you did last night… I'm assuming that this was last night, right? Vampires wouldn't come out during the day because of the sun." She said this so it sounded like everybody knew that little fact. What would Seb thing if he knew that she knew about vampires? Would he think she was friends with them? Would he try to kill her? Kerry knew that she couldn't let him know that she knew about vampires, whatever the consequences.
Seb looked at her quietly, wondering if she really knew the truth about vampires and sunlight. "What exactly do you know about vampires, Kerry?"
She looked at him, surprised, and said, quite convincingly, "Well, aren't they killed with a stake? They don't like holy water and they don't like crosses. They also have an aversion to sunlight. Am I right?"
He looked at her and sighed. "That's what everybody thinks nowadays. All those myths about vampires…"
Kerry cocked her head and said, again believably, "So, what people think they know about vampires isn't true?" He nodded. "Then what's the truth?" She leaned forward, wanting to know how much Sebastian knew about vampires.
But he just sighed and leaned back, carefully this time, and said, "That's a conversation for another time. Besides, I don't want you getting hurt, too." He looked sad for a moment. Kerry felt for him. It was hard to lose somebody you loved. She thought about her mother, but got more angry then sad thinking about her. What kind of a mother leaves her children?
Kerry forced herself to stop thinking about her mother. Seb realized Kerry was distressed and asked why. "Nothing, just my mother. She left us a long time ago. I tried to stop beating myself up about it because I was always sure it was my fault she left, but…" Kerry stopped, wondering why she was opening up to somebody who she never had much reason to talk with in the first place. She realized that she and Seb were going to get closer as they dealt with Beth's death together.
I'm super sorry this took longer to update than I thought it would. I kind of lost my train of thought in the middle of the chapter. But I do have a pretty good idea of what I want next chapter. Requests are open to what you want. Send some ideas!