I woke up with a start and felt Mei's body wrapped around mine. I smile as I see her lying next to me naked and her arms around my chest and her right leg wrapped around me. God she was beautiful, I thought as I gently pry her off me trying not to wake her. She lets out a small groan and roles over but did not wake. I got off the bed and felt restless…like I couldn't sleep and glanced at the clock and saw it was a little after three in the morning. I smile at Mei again as I pull the blankets over her naked body and then suddenly frown as I thought of what we did. I cared for her and loved her in my own way and I knew she loved me, but I could never love her like I loved Carly.
"Damn Carly…what am I going to tell her? Do I tell her?" I said aloud as guilt got to me over what I did and put a robe over my naked body.
"Yes, what are you going to tell Carly?" I heard a voice say and my head snaps up and I see her walking to me. Carly was dressed in skinny black jeans and a red sweater. Very casual and I liked it. I always preferred the casual Carly over the dressed up Carly. She loved to dress up and always look so…untouchable. I guess that was why I liked her dressed casual…it made her more attainable to me.
"Fuck me." I groan aloud as she walked to the bed.
"Why, Samantha, I do believe you already had that tonight or did your pet cat not leave you satisfied?" She said sarcastically.
"Why did you bring me in your dream again, Carly, and why did you bring Mei?" I asked.
Carly laughed, "My dream? Oh no, my dear, this is your dream."
"Then why are you here then if this is my dream?"
"Because as you can enter mine I can enter yours…I told you that we could do that with the marks." She stopped at the foot of my bed and was staring at Mei in a way I did not like. She looked like a tiger about to pounce on its prey.
"Then leave…I don't want you here right now." I said in a defensive manner. Yeah I know getting angry at her for something I did. That was me…I always had to direct my anger at someone other than myself.
She looked at me and smiled and it was not a pleasant smile. "Make me…if you can. But I don't think you can, Samantha. You do not know how." She then looked at Mei again.
"You know, Samantha, I have never liked her. I have always been jealous of her and I have never been jealous of anyone before." She walks around the bed and pulls the blanket off Mei. Mei lets out a small moaning of "Sam" and Carly laughs. "She even calls your name as she sleeps…how endearing." She leans down and reaches to Mei.
"Stop it, Carly! Leave her alone!" I shout.
Carly looks at me and smiles again. "Make me, Sa-man-tha." She pronounces the syllables in my name harshly. She then looks at Mei and runs her hand down Mei's naked back. "She is very lovely isn't she, Samantha? So pretty." Carly traces her hand up the other girls back now.
"Leave her alone…don't wake her. If you have a problem with what I did talk to me…I was the one who invited her up to my bed, Carly."
Carly's head snaps up and her smile is gone. "She will not wake. I will not let her wake. So tell me, Samantha, is she better than me? Is that why you have her in you bed? She has always replaced me when I was not here. Don't think I don't know that. What is it about your pet that appeals to you, Samantha?" She was taunting me now.
"Stop it, Carly! I never hid her from you…I never lied to you about her and I. I…I care for her and like you said you were not here! How many times did I wait for you? How many months did I wait for a word from you over the years and then one day you would just show up and stay for a few weeks and then leave! We agreed to date other people, Carly!"
Carly laughed, "Why yes we did and you took it to heart didn't you? Well since I know of your lover should I tell you of mine? Should I tell you of all the men and woman I bedded and then ripped their throats out after a night of lust? Maybe I should…you don't hide yours so why should I hide mine? And I fed every night, Samantha! That means every night I was fucked by a different person and when dawn was coming I killed them as I drank their blood!" I knew she was taunting me to make me jealous and to hurt me…and it worked. I knew she did not have a string of lovers, Carly may be a lot of things and done things in her life that were terrible and evil but that was not her; but she put the thought in my mind and I did not like it.
"Why are you here, Carly?" I try to change the subject.
She smiled at me, "Because I wanted to see you again…as much as possible before she claims my body…but I now see you do not care since you have your whore already taking my place." She turned her focus back on Mei and leaned down as if to kiss the sleeping girl's naked back as she started stroking Mei's long silky hair.
"I could kill her, you know. I should have killed her long ago. I almost did…remember, Samantha, I almost drove her mad and she would have killed her self to get those thoughts out of her head but I didn't and maybe that is a mistake I should correct right now." Carly ran her tongue over Mei's back once more and Mei let out a pleasurable moan in her sleep.
"You know I can't let you do that, Carly. I won't let you harm her." I take a step to the vampire and she looks up and me and laughs.
"And what are you going to do about it, Samantha? How are you going to stop me?"
I look over at my bed and see my gun in its shoulder holster hanging from my bed post. I didn't know if I could shoot her and hurt her in my dream but I thought there was a good chance I could since she was talking about killing Mei in the dream. Of course she was a vampire and a strong one at that so maybe it was only something she could do. I had to at least try. I was not going to kill her…I couldn't do that over her threats…but I would shoot her and hurt wound her to get her away from Mei. A silver bullet in a vampire's leg or arm would hurt like hell and would take a while for her to heal. I took a step to my gun and then suddenly my legs would not longer work and I heard Carly laugh at me again.
"Oh how sweet…trying to protect one lover from the other. You always did have a soft spot when it came to protecting her. Of course she is so weak for her kind she needs protecting." I look at Carly and she runs her long finger nail up Mei's back again and then looks at me and her eyes were red.
I knew she was using her power to stop me from moving. I could feel her mind inside of mine and I tried to force it out but she was just too strong. "What is the matter, Executioner? Do not take me for weak, Samantha! Just because I allow you to fuck me never think of me as weak! I have more power than any of my kind you have hunted down and murdered!" She hissed at me and it sounded like a voice from hell and I felt her power wash over me in a blast of heat like I was suddenly thrown into an oven and my skin felt like needles were sticking into every pour. She was not longer the girl I loved but the vampire I feared.
"I…I hate this part of you, Carly. I love you…but this part of you I hate." I say weakly as I try and catch my breath which was sucked out of my body when she revealed her power.
Carly ignored me and turned back to Mei, "Maybe I should wake her first and fuck her, Samantha. I could make her want me so easily. Maybe I should see why you are so drawn to her." Carly leans down and whispers in Mei's ear and I see Mei smile.
"Umm…Carly." Mei moans out and Carly laughs.
"Oh how delightful…she no longer wants you, Samantha, she now only wants me. But no I will not lower myself and fuck a shapeshifter. But her blood…that is different." Carly grinned and her fangs jutted out and she brought her mouth close to Mei's neck.
"If…if you kill her then you know I'll come after you, Carly." I tell her and try to move but with no use. She had me trapped with her mind and with Carly trying to fight that was a losing battle.
She looks at me and laughs once more, "Oh how humorous! I am already dead, Samantha. And I want you to destroy me before She claims me…you promised me that! But it will not happen. You know that you cannot find me in time…our Dark Mother has me and I am already lost. It is just a matter of time before she has me completely." She looks again at Mei's neck. "So why should I not enjoy my last moments." She lowered her head again and just as her fangs were about to pierce Mei's neck she pulled back and gave her evil smile.
"But no…that would be too easy and I want her to suffer for fucking the girl I love! Maybe torture her mind." Carly looked at me again.
God I hated her right now and I was scared of her. Yes I loved her but right now this Carly I hated. I hated her anger and her jealousy and I hated how she made me afraid.
"You know how I can use her own mind against her don't you, Samantha? I can drive her mad and make her suffer and she will kill herself to stop the madness and the delightful thing is that for her…being a shapeshifter…killing herself will not be easy. Oh it will be delightful to watch…her trying to kill herself." She looked back at Mei again. "Oh and she has so many new painful thoughts in her head. So much new pain to use against her." Carly then feigned shock, "Why, Samantha, did you know your poor pet was suffering so…the poor dear is in so much pain and torment and her heart is breaking." Carly taunted and she ran her hands gently through Mei's long black hair. "The poor cat has no hope…no since of belonging. Oh am I cruel enough to use that pain against her?" Carly looks at me and grins. "Why of course I am."
"Leave her alone, Carly!" I tell her through gritted teeth.
In a blink of an eye Carly is not longer leaning over Mei but now she stands in front of me. God they could move fast. Her hand reaches up and she runs her fingers through my hair and I pull my head back.
"What's the matter, Samantha? You no longer prefer my touch over that of your whore?" She hisses at me.
"She is not a whore! Stop calling her that!"
"Oh but she is, my dear Samantha, I saw into her mind. She whores herself out to my kind…how delightful." Carly teases me. "And she no longer has the protection of her pard." Carly makes a mocking frown, "How sad for her. Did you know that tortures her? That makes her cry? Did she ever tell you how heart broken she is over that?"
"What do you want, Carly? Tell me…tell me how I can help you break free of Lilith." I try to change the subject.
Carly laughs and runs her hand through my hair again and I felt it. I felt he power but not her power. I felt fear. "Break free? Oh Samantha you are a silly girl…but again you are mortal so it is what I expect from you. Why should I want to break free from her? She offers so much, dear child. She offers power like you can never imagine."
Carly touches my face with the back of her hand and caresses it softly but it burns me. I scream and drop to my knees as I feel her power and the fear wash over my skin. God I had never been so afraid as I was right then. No vampire I ever faced made me so afraid. I look up into her eyes but I don't see Carly's chocolate colored eyes; instead I see darkness…such darkness that draws me in like a long lightless tunnel. I can't look away. She caught me in her gaze and I could look away from her. I was stupid! Rule number one was never look them in the eyes…never! She had me and I was sinking into that dark bottomless pit of her eyes and what I saw in there terrified me. I saw only hate and death…no not my death...worse. I saw what I was to become…what she wanted me to be. I scream and try to will my hand to my cross with my mind. But I can't move…all I can do is sink deeper and deeper into those eyes.
"You pathetic holy symbol will not effect me, girl." Carly says like she read my mind, which I knew she did. "He has no power over me!"
I am frozen with her gaze and my own fear as I see Carly come closer to me and she kisses my lips gently. Her lips are cold…so cold I want to push her away but I can't. "She tells me your blood is powerful and I can smell it. I will feast on your blood, girl…every drop of it." I knew then that she was not Carly as she opened her mouth and her fangs grew. Not two but four…she had four fangs like an animal…or a demon from hell for surely that was what she was. The Mother of Darkness…Lilith…was not vampire…she was more much more.
I could not move as she came closer to my neck and I could not longer scream. Lilith runs her tongue over the pulse in my neck and all I can do is wait…wait for her to bite me and make me one of them.
"Leave her alone!" I hear a voice in the room and Lilith's head snaps up and her face…Carly's face…is twisted in anger. I take a deep breath and find that I can move and I do. I crawl to my bed, not trusting my legs, and grab my gun as I look around the room for my savior but I don't see anyone else.
"Go! You are not supposed to be here! You are asleep…I made you sleep as I took your body!" I hear Lilith scream out. I fire my gun and two bullets hit her in the head…or I thought they did but they just pass right through her. She turns to me and I see her eyes are now a pale blue that hold no life and appear to be soulless.
"Stupid, bitch, you cannot kill me in your dreams! You have power…and ancient power that I know and hate but it is nothing compared to mine!" She screams at me as she walks slowly to me in Carly's body.
"No! I am wake now Lilith…you cannot have my body anymore!" I hear the voice again and I recognize it as Carly's.
Lilith stops and turns to the sound of the voice. "I will deal with you later!" She says and suddenly she collapses to the floor and I see a dark mist rise above the body and vanish.
I crawl to Carly and take her head in my hands and brush her hair out of her face. She looks at me and gives me a weak smile, "I am sorry, Sam, she gains more control over me everyday. I am sorry."
"Shh…it's ok, Carly…shh." I whisper as I brush her hair back.
"No, Sam, you must find me…you must kill me before she claims me and comes after you…please, Sam…please destroy me."
"I…I…I can't, Carly, I…I can't…please." I cry as I bury my head to her chest.
"Yes, Sam you must." She tells me. "Find me, Sam, find me and destroy me before it is too late." Carly grabs my hand and places something in it, "Take this…wear it along with your cross. The cross cannot hold her but this can." With that Carly vanishes quickly.
I wake up and scream as I hear my phone ring. Mei wakes up when she hears me and places an arm around me.
"Sam…God, Sam, you are dripping with sweat. What happened?" She asks me but I ignore her and grab the phone. As I reach for the phone I notice an object in my hand. I glance at it as I grab the phone with my other hand.
"H…h…hello?" I manage to say. My throat hurts and my voice sounds rough.
"Sam, its Stan. We got another one and I need you to come look at it." I hear the detective's voice say in a business like manner.
I swallow hard, "Yeah…ok…umm…same as the others?" I take a deep breath. After my dream/nightmare looking at a mutilated body would be easy.
"No…different and not related to the other case…this ones a vampire…as in the victim is a vampire."
"Shit!" I mutter. "Ok…where are you?" Hell tells me and I hang up the phone.
Mei sits up on the bed next to me and puts her arm around me again. "Hey, baby, you ok?"
I look at her, "You…you don't remember anything?"
Mei gives me a grin, "Well…yeah I remember a lot before we went to sleep…very wonderful memories."
I smile at her, "I just had a bad dream." I kiss her cheek, "Go back to sleep. I have to go…police business."
Mei frowns, "Ok, Sam…I'll have breakfast for you when you come back."
I nod my head and get up to get dressed and then remembered I had something in my hand. I open my hand and look down. What Carly gave me was a round smooth flat stone with an image carved in it and there was a hole through on of the edges. The image was of some type of bird that was flying out of an egg made of fire toward what appeared to be sun rays. At the top of the sunrays was an eye. Just one large eye looking at the bird and on the other side was writing in a language I did not know…of course I was no expert on ruins and ancient languages. And it was ancient…that I could tell. The stone looked old and worn but the images were clear and looked newly carved. I ran my thumb over the stone and shiver as I felt power flow from it. It was a nice feeling…pleasant and warm. I had no idea what it was but I liked the feeling it gave me and if Carly told me it would help keep that bitch away from me I was damn sure going to keep it. I slip off my cross, unclasp the chain, slip the chain through the hole, and put the chain back around my neck.
I glance back at Mei and she gives me a curious look and I just smile at her and bend down and kiss her lips. "Go back to sleep, baby." I whisper. I was glad she had no memories of what happened in my dream. She yawns and smiles at me as she pulls the blankets over her body and curls up.
I get dressed in black jeans, a vintage concert tee shirt of the Beatles, my black converse high tops, and put my holster on. I check the 9mm Browning Practical's ammo clip and notice no rounds had been fired. "Damn" I say under my breath, "I'm getting real tired of these vampires metaphysic shit!" I shake my head and wonder how can Carly give me something in my dream or not dream and it cross over but when I do something in the dream it is not real…or was it. Fuck…questions to be answered later I guess…I had a murder scene to get to.
