When we woke up and fed, we took off for the Emerson's House.
Allan got the door and when he saw us, he flipped. "There here! There here! Edgar!" He raised a little water pistol and I ducked, hitting Marko in the chest. He screamed while Michael ran down the stairs followed by Sam and Edgar.
"STOP! Leave them be!" Michael shouted.
"There vampires!" Allan yelled back.
I grabbed him by the shirt collar and lifted him off the ground, my yellow eyes showing. "And we're gonna save your skinny ass, so you can either put that away and help us, or you get get the f-"
Grace clamped her hand over my mouth. "We're here to help, big guy. Let us in. Nora put the kid down."
I looked at Allan, watching him squirm in my hands. His face was panicked, and turning a little blue. I set him down and he ran back to Edgar.
Once Mike invited us in we began talking over plans. "Max took Lucy, your mom," I nodded to Sam once we had all sat down, " to dinner at his place. Now after today, she'll get worried and come home. Max will be there with her. We need to kill him and you're all free to go, and we'll leave you all alone. Got it?" Everyone nodded.
"Now, Edgar, Allan, Sam, when they come in the door, you guys are gonna come from the kitchen. Stand around Lucy, make sure she doesn't get hurt. Marko, Grace, Hope and Dwayne, you guys will stand near the railing on the landing and the stairs. David, Michael. You guys are gonna go into the taxidermy part. David your gonna pretend to be dead." He nodded, scowling. The Frogs looked at me and slowly moved their heads in confirmation. "Now Michael, you're going to be with David, only you won't come out of hiding till after Max leaves the room and sees David's fake dead body."
"If I remember correctly, he should call us out," Hope added.
"True. Paul and I will be with David and Michael."
They all nodded.
"Good. Now, everyone in the taxidermy part."
"Why?" Edgar asked.
"Animal blood. Gotta make the fight look real. Sam, Allan, knock some things over, push a picture off the wall. Make it look like a fight happened. Also, shoot one arrow above the stereo and knock that lamp over." I said and they began working. Grace, Hope and I grabbed some of the bottles of blood on the counter that Grandpa had left over. Thank god he hadn't gotten rid of it yet. We stood in front of the boys and opened the jars, tossing the jars at them. Well, the blood in the jars. We all began coughing and hacking, ending up spreading more blood.
Sam and the Frogs looked at us weirdly, along with Laddie, who would be hiding with them when the time came.
"What's your problem?" Allan snapped at us, smearing some more of the blood around as all the vampires in the house including Michael and Laddie, who was staying away from everything in the kitchen, coughed and wheezed.
"Bad blood," Dwayne explained. "It's rotten. Smell's like shit.
They couldn't smell it. Lucky.
"Alrighty." I coughed. "That should be it. David..."
"What?" He asked coldly.
"I'm going to have to impale you soon. In the stomach of course but still, so be prepared."
He scowled even more and stayed near the table, away from everyone.
"Why are you doing this?" Edgar asked.
We all looked at one another, well us vamps anyway. "Because we're sick of being controlled," Paul said for everyone.
"We want Max gone just as much as you," Marko added.
"But he's your Sire." Allan insisted.
"So? We still hate him." I smirked. "We want freedom. We may be vampires, but we don't have freedom."
"So you want freedom. To what? Destroy us all?" Allan persisted and I snarled. Grace took over.
"As Nora said, we may be vampires but we still have a little good in us. Us girls more so than them." She jerked her thumb back at the boys and they chuckled. "We want our freedom and explore. Be vampires."
With that last note, we heard Max's car pull up and we all jerked to attention.
"Places everyone," I said and they all scattered. I did a quick glance around the room. It looked like a war zone. The boys did a good job.
Turning quickly, I rammed the antlers into David from behind, missing his still heart and gently lad him down on the table with Michael's help. Paul pulled me to him as David shut his eyes and Michael joined us in the darkness behind the door.