The pounding of Alexandra's racing heart was like music to his ear's. This is going to be fun, he thought to himself as he slowly moved towards her small frame shaking in the hospital bed. His steps were light but quite forceful, he moved like a predator of the wild rather than a man. Had he the rolling shoulder blades and yellow eyes Alexandra would have likened him to a tiger or jaguar she had seen once in the New York Zoo. She almost laughed out loud at the silliness of what were surely her final thoughts as her stalker clearly had malice in his crimson eyes.

She tried to steady her shaking body and retain some composure, she would be graceful and dignified in death as she had been in life. She ran through a list of things she wished to ask her killer in some bid to delay the inevitable. But all she could think were the same inane questions that she had read every damsel proclaim before her impending doom.

"Why?" she whispered finally, afraid that any tone louder would result in cracking and tears.

"Why not?" he smirked back, he did not care for long winded explanations. He was a predator and she his prey, no further details were required. His eyes rolled into the back of his head as he got closer and her scent became even more intense. He often wondered how he had never sensed such potency during his human life, but now during his second life he realised that each individual came with their own unique tantalizing odour. He reached the foot of her bed and swiftly manoeuvred his way over her bedpost so that he lay merely inches from the soles of her feet. He began to crawl towards her, his impressive yet frightening body pressing down on her. The air was being pushed from her body, she scratched at his torso in a lame attempt to defend herself. He was now lying on top of her completely, were someone to walk in on them they would assume they were in some lover's compromising position.

He ran his fingers through her hair, stroking her face leaving his cold touch on her skin. She let out a tiny gasp as he brought this mouth towards hers, lingering there for a moment until he gave her a harsh, slimy lick. Alexandra recoiled in horror at such a foul act, she willed herself to speak or scream, at the very least try and defend herself properly.

He grabbed her face by each cheek between one hand.

"Listen sweetheart, while you're out here in the sticks you're off limits. Certain-complications have arisen, turns out this is a marked territory."

His voice was harsh and his words did little to explain her nightmarish situation.

"So right now the game has been postponed" he continued "but that doesn't mean we can't have a little…fun." An ugly grin spread across his handsome features as he once again plunged towards Alexandra's mouth.

She whimpered as he lay a forceful kiss upon her, she writhed with discomfort under his touch. Freeing her lips from his she let out a an almighty scream. This outburst forced the creature off her, he seemed to fly to the furthest corner of the room.

"So kitten doesn't want to play right now, well not to worry there will be plenty of time to make up for that later." He zoomed across the room at inhuman pace. "Just remember as soon as you set so much as toe back in New York you become fair game." He grabbed Alexandra's wrist and dug his fingernails leaving crescent shaped marks in her pale skin, he pushed his mouth down towards her neck and softly kissed it before leaping out the window just above her head.

The door suddenly burst open and two orderly's and a frazzled looking nurse rushed in to check on the screaming Alexandra.

A/N: Right I'm sooo sorry i havent updated in a long time and that all i have to offer you is this but bare with me. I am planning some major developments and I have some free time coming up soon so I will seriously update then! Sorry and much love to all my readers. Please feel free to leave reviews, I love getting feedback!