Rob leans against the doorway to his room. Cook had left a half hour ago to look around. He hadn't been back nor has he tried to contact him through his phone. He cocks his gun from his partner recovered from the scene. Peering out into the hall, he slowly makes his way out, pistol leading the way.
Beck runs into his view and the cop readies his trigger finger.
"Freeze!"
The long-haired mercenary is caught off guard by the command to cease. He walks toward Rob, holding up his hand.
"Don't shoot," he says nervously. His gaze concentrated on the gunman. "Are you a cop?"
"Yes, so you better know that I'm serious that I will shoot if you don't put whatever you're carrying down." Rob studies the object in Beck's hands. "What is that?"
"A hunting rifle."
"What the hell do you hunt with that?"
Beck half smiles. "You really want to know?"
Rob cracks his neck in a swift motion. "You still haven't relinquished your weapon."
Beck looks up briefly. "I'm afraid I can't do that."
"And why's that?"
"LOOK OUT!" Beck pointing above Rob's head.
He turns to find a crazed lady on the ceiling like an insect. She stares down at Rob with wide eyes and a gaping maw. But in a flash of light and blood, the person? melts away and leaves nothing but the faintest of ashes on the white floor. Rob just stared at the sight and then back at Beck, whose rifle emits a buff of smoke from being recently fired.
"What the fuck was that?"
Beck walks over to Rob and gestures for him to lower his gun. "Now listen to me very carefully."
Tori races down the stairs to get to the ground floor. It wasn't until she got down to the lobby, that her friend flashed into her head. Damn, I should have made sure Max was alright. But she immediately forgot about all that when she saw her father on the floor.
"DAD!," running over to him.
She turns him over and he groans like he normally does when he has a massive headache. Did somebody knock him out?
"Dad! Wake up; please wake up!"
"Tori…Thank God you're safe." Mr. Vega says, holding his head while attempting to rise.
"What is going on?"
"I don't know. Some crazed lunatic came in here babbling about an assault on the hospital and then the lights went…"
"Dad, something IS going on here." Tori hesitates before the next words. "I was attacked."
His face hardened but his eyes remained sympathetic. "What? What happened? Are you okay?"
"I am, dad. Thanks to Jade."
He blinked, confused. "Who's Jade?"
"She's the one who came in and saved me."
"Well, it's good to hear that somebody like that is out there; I'm afraid there's more than just who came after you."
"Where are you going?"
"I've got two of my men in this building, still. One of them got shot the night before."
Tori nodded, fighting back tears. "Okay, you're right. Please be careful."
"You do the same," he says hugging his daughter. "I want you to stay by the front of the lobby. Stay close to the daylight."
"Okay," she said nodding.
"So, it pretty much handles the same way a standard one does." Beck says. "It's all in the bullets."
Rob feels the strange weapon with his hands. "This is absolutely insane, you know that?"
"Trust me, friend; these things are real."
"Oh, no problem there. We better split up. I'll take the west wing." The begin to part ways but Rob turns around. "Wait."
"Yeah."
"Any special way to hit these things?"
"With what you're packin, not really. Just do yourself a favor."
"And what's that?," Rob sounding mildly annoyed.
"When you shoot a bloodsucker, you better not miss."
"Great, thanks."
"CAT" one of the small girls shouted and hid behind the doctor.
"What is it, Caitlyn?"
"I heard something. I think it's a monster."
"Well I happen to know for a fact that monsters are afraid of the doctor."
"But we're not afraid of you," one boy nearby says.
"Exactly," Cat smiles. "So you are all braver than any monster out there. Nothing's going to get you."
Caitlyn lays her head on Cat's lap, looking up at her. "Promise?"
Cat swallows a gulp and pats the girl on the head, comfortingly. "I promise, sweetheart."
The whole room is startled when the main entrance begins to pound furiously. Someone (or something) was trying to get in.
"It's coming!" Caitlyn cries.
Jade roams the halls. She gets ambushed by two vampires and the fight
"She killed Lyriz," one of them says.
They have at it back and forth between the walls and even make it onto the ceiling once or twice. When Jade finally got the angle she was looking for, she snapped the neck of one hard enough to sever the head. The other one runs away but before he could disappear from sight, he vanishes in a cloud of burnt flesh.
Beck stares at his recent captor, raising his gun.
"What are you doing?" Jade asked pissed off.
"You think this changes everything, Jade?" Beck coldly responds. "That I was going to let you go? So you could feed on some hapless victim? At the end of the day, you're just another bloodsucking demon."
"You son of a bitch! Can't you see that I'm trying to help?"
"You want to know how you can help? By turning into the dirt your body was meant to dissolve to."
Déjà vu rears its head when Captain Vega points his gun at Beck.
"You have got to be kidding me," the vampire hunter growls.
"Drop it," the cop orders.
"You don't understand…"
"I understand that you were going to kill this young lady."
"Looks can be deceiving, officer."
Vega moves in closer, having a more confident kill shot. "Listen, buster, that woman there saved my daughter's life. So I suggest you put your weapon down!"
Beck slowly kneels down and places his gun gently on the floor. Vega handcuffs him and brings him back to his feet.
He looks at Jade. "I don't know who or what you are, but I've seen what you can do."
Was he watching that fight back there?
"You're not…usual but you want to help. And in times like this, that's enough."
Jade nods and runs away.