Disclaimer: I do not own Cirque Du Freak
We had reached the hospital in record time. "What just happened?" I asked, shocked.
"That is called flitting. Very convenient." Mr. Crepsley replied as we made our way over to the shadows.
"Will I be able to do that?" I asked hopefully.
"Not until you are a full vampire. Flitting aside, you will still be faster that you were before." He said. "Now which room is your friend staying in?"
I pointed to a window on the fourteenth floor. Mr. Crepsley nodded and then lifted his hand and shoved his fingernails right into the bricks. "It is crumbling, but it will hold us." He said. "Wrap your arms around my neck, and if we fall do not worry, I can land on my feet."
"What if I fall?" I asked.
"If you do not let go, you will not fall."
I decided not to ask any more stupid questions after that, and climbed on his back. As he started to climb higher and higher, I found myself struggling not to look down. I had a small problem with heights. I squeezed my eyes shut and let out a small breath I hadn't realized I had been holding.
"Relax." Mr. Crepsley groaned, obviously annoyed. "I have done things like this many times. Look, we are here."
I looked up and realized that I was looking in Stephanie's room through the window. I didn't bother to look down. Mr. Crepsley unlocked the window and climbed in. I slid from his back and landed smoothly on the floor.
Stephanie looked worse than when I had left earlier. She was pale and sweaty. When I touched her arm, she was freezing.
Mr. Crepsley walked over to her and grabbed her other arm, checking her wrist for the pulse. For a few minutes he said nothing, then he grunted and put her arm down.
"We are in time." He said quietly.
I felt my heart leap, and sighed with relief. Mr. Crepsley reached into one of the many pockets in his coat, and produced a small glass vile with some sort of liquid. He then uncorked it and tipped the contents into his mouth.
"What're you…?" I trailed off, and he didn't even glance at me.
He then used his sharp nails to make a cut on Stephanie's neck. Finally, he covered the cut with his lips and blew the antidote into her bloodstream. When Mr. Crepsley leaned back, there was only a tiny scar on her neck where she had been cut.
Mr. Crepsley spat the remaining of the serum into the garbage. "I am always afraid I will swallow it by accident." He said.
I continued to watch Stephanie, half expecting her to wake up, but her eyes stayed shut.
"Come. We must go now." Mr. Crepsley said as he walked back to the open window.
"I want to stay here for a little longer. To make sure she's okay." I said without looking up.
"You mean, to make sure I have not tricked you." He snorted.
Suddenly Stephanie began to shake, and the monitors began to go crazy.
"What's going on?" I asked frantically, as I took a step closer.
"It is only the serum, starting to take effect." He said, grabbing my arm and pulling me back toward the window. "Now we must hurry, someone will be here soon to check on her."
"No…" I said quickly as I pulled away and locked eyes with him.
"…I see." He sighed. "You are going back on our deal."
I didn't say anything, only stared at him.
"Mark my words!" He boomed as he leapt to the windowsill "You will come crawling back to me for help. You will not be able to handle it.!" And he disappeared into the shadows.
Behind me the door swung open as a nurse ran in. "What are you doing here? You're not supposed to be here!"
I quickly ran past her into the hall and toward the stairs.
When I got home, my parents were freaking out. They had been about to call the police. Later after they had calmed down, the phone rang. It was the hospital calling to tell us that Stephanie was getting better, and was expected to make a full recovery.
I felt like I could finally rest as I went to my room. I changed into some shorts and a tank top and went to turn off the lights. As I was headed back to bed for the night, I saw something out of the corner of my eye in the window. When I looked past the curtains it looked like someone was standing in our backyard looking at my window.
I reached up to the cord and pulled the curtains away, but whatever had been there was gone. Now before all the events that had occurred in the last week and a half, I would have probably brushed it off as a cat or something. But given that not thirty minutes ago I had been arguing with a vampire, I decided it was probably a good idea to lock my windows tonight.
I dreamed that I was like Dracula in a coffin, but I was being buried alive, and hungry. And while I suffocated in my coffin which was under six feet of dirt, I could hear constant laughing from all around me.
Stephanie wasn't in school for the next three days. I was starting to get worried, but on the fourth day she was in before me, surrounded by kids wanting to hear her story. She proudly showed her neck where she had been bitten. Luckily if anyone saw it, they didn't bother to point out the scar where Mr. Crepsley had given her the antidote.
Later when she was able to talk to me alone, she asked me what I had done with Madame Octa.
"I killed her." I said.
"Really?" Stephanie asked surprised. "How?"
"I crushed her with one of my textbooks and then drowned her in my bathtub." I recited.
A friend of ours, Logan, came running up to us before Stephanie could ask another question. "Hey you gotta see what Lily can do on the field now! She's a beast!" He exclaimed.
"Oh really?" Stephanie smirked. "Been getting better behind my back?" she teased.
"Wouldn't you like to know?" I replied sticking my tongue out as we headed toward the soccer fields. I reached up beside her hear and when she turned to look at me, I flicked her in the forhead. It was something we did to each other.
"You and me! Right now!" Stephanie laughed as we headed to the center where teams were being picked.
We wound up on the same team but I didn't care. I was glad that things were starting to get back to normal. Or it was starting to, until Logan fell and scraped his knee on a rock. It was bleeding.
"Hey Logan, you okay?" I asked walking over to him. When I was only five feet from him, the smell of the blood hit me like a slap in the face. I wanted that blood.
"Yeah just need…a…" He trailed off as I leaned over him and started to lick the blood off his knee.
I had only tasted the coppery blood before I realized what I was doing, and everyone on the field was staring at me. Not good.
"I am the Vampire Lord!" I shouted as I jumped up, Logan's blood running down my chin. "I will eat all of you!" I cried dramatically before smiling like an idiot.
"EW! Lily you are just nasty!" One of the girls screamed. "You are so wrong!"
"You're so weird!" Another girl squealed.
The guys mostly thought it was funny, and I laughed along with them, as wiped the blood off my chin. I glanced at Stephanie smiling and giggling like an idiot. Stephanie was not smiling or laughing. She was staring coldly at me. I quickly looked away, and helped Logan up to go to the nurses office.
That night I went to the bathroom to brush my teeth, my mom was already in there, getting ready to take a shower. As she sat on the edge of the tub I could hear her heart beating. She was saying something about my homework, but I wasn't paying attention. I held up my hand and she stopped talking, eyes transfixed on my hand. I was hypnotizing her! The water was steaming, but she made no move to start the shower. Her heart beating loudly in my ears, I was starting to go crazy.
I ran out of the bathroom and when I got to my room I slammed the door shut. I had almost killed my own mother just now. I couldn't control this. It was too much. Mr. Crepsley had been right. I needed him to help me with this. And I knew that if I went back to him, I would be throwing this life away.
AN: So yeah I ended this chapter the same way the book did. I was thinking that I might do the next chapter with part of it like a songfic because I think I found a song that seems to fit. If you want to know what the song is, either wait for the next chapter or leave a review xP