I have Dex locked back up in the cage in the house. A cross tied across the lock and hanging from all four corners of the cage.
Im watching throug the guards eyes as he sits there, unconcious.
I have to giggle, "Pathetic."
The bars been long closed by the time i get back, the only one in there was the bartender. I'd stopped at home to grab the diamond claws and gun i forgot in my haste to be here.
The whole team, minus Jessica and Eliot, are standing outside in the alley. I hear Roger laughing as Jake tells the story of what happened, but all goes dead quiet when I walk in.
"It wasn't funny. She knows. And I bet she's dead." I see Bobby shrug out of the corner of my eye.
"It doesn't matter huh?" I march over and slap him, letting the claws rake lightly over his cheek. "She's gotta three month old baby and a husband sitting at home, no idea their wife and mother is probably condemed because you idiots have no self control!"
"I dont remeber you having much control when you feed. Remeber Texas? It was in the news! Mysterious killing spree, all sucked dry!" Bobby shouted when i was a safe distance away. I smirked. then i turned around.
"I wasn't on a mission then. and i stuck to wearhouse gangs, drunks, and a jerk who tried to run me down." I hear Alicia give a burst of laughter and then I walk over to the back door.
I feel the metal door, looking for a weak spot. Then I point to it, "Roger?"
Dex is the strongest in our group, behind him Eliot and then Roger. All used to be something like jocks when they were human, really strong and muscled and such.
Roger felt the weak spot i found, then reared back and threw his himself, shoulder first, into the spot. the door crumpled and then he kicked it down. It made a loud bang as we all filed in. I heard the bartender begin running to the backroom.
"Mina?" I called and I watched her flip and cartwheel in, smacking the man at the right moment when he opened the door with her heeled foot. The bartender lept back, holding his right temple and then Mina kicked him in his large stomach. He fell back and Mina stood over him, her heel dangerously posed above his jugular.
"We need him alive Mina." I say, walking forward. Mina steps back, giving me room as i crouch down.
"Now," I say making my eyes going pure black, "Do you know how this ended up out by your back door?" I held up the cross by the chain. It was safe to hold them by the chain, you just couldn't touch the actual cross.
The man just shook his head, but Mike leaned down next to me, "He's a liar." He grinned.
I smiled to, that made this fun. "Good," I said, "I like doing this the hard way."
Mina stood protectively across from me, ready to tackle me out of the way if the bartender tried anything. I didn't think he would.
Mike sat on his knees by the guys head, holding a knife tauntingly over his face. He held it loosly and the bartender squeaked in pure fear every time Mike made it drop for a second. Mike was grinning.
The rest of the team pawed and tore through the whole place. The backroom being checked out by Kelly, Jake, and Roger. Behind the bar by Chad and Eliot, and the small office of to the side in the backroom by Alicia and Kim. and Jasper stood by the front door, keeping watch.
Somethings wrong with that guy. I think as i sit beside the Bartender.
"The faster you talk, the faster we leave. Now I'm gonna say it again." I leaned in close.
"Our friend Dex, he's missing. We got reports of a cleaners truck coming down the road here and we found a cross by your back door. what can you tell me about the truck?" I shouted the question in his face, trying to scare him further.
"N-nothing!" he cried.
"He's lying!" Mike called.
"Not good enough!" I shouted at the man, "Chad!" we heard a loud crash as Chad dove feet first into a booth, smashing the table. Then he raked his claws through the seats, stuffing going everywhere!
This was the third table he'd destroyed.
"Start talking or we'll escalate." Mike threatend.
"Reid!" Alicia ran out of the office, followed closely by Kim. She held a thick yellow envelope and a few papers in one hand.
In the other she held a cross by it's leather strap.
I turned back to the bartender, a smile on my face that he cried at.
I reached out and took the papers and the envelope. The papers were emails Alicia had printed out I guess, they were between the bartender and someone who asked alot of questions about vampires.
Especially a large male vampire with rusty colored eyes and brown hair.
"Hmm, this is intresting," I read aloud what one said, my anger growing, "'I'm enjoying watching the fear in his rusty colored eyes as I hold the crosses out before him. You were right, they do leave burn marks if you leave them their long enough. I wonder if it would burn those brown locks of his if i held it there?' Oh and this one, 'How do you deal with them when they try to escape? He got close but we managed to subdue him. Would garlic work i wonder?' Oh, oh and Alicia, this ones my favorite, you ready? 'He's passed out now, but he'll come around soon. Will the crosses we tied to his cage locks and corners be enough? It's a small cage, he cant even sit up straight in it!'"
Alicia, and the others, all looked at the bartender with murder in their eyes.
"Mike?" I signal.
Mike lets out a shout of fury and jumps into the air, throwing knives out of his sleeve that pin the man by his clothes. Then he flips over and breaks a glass bottle, peices going everywhere, espcecially on the man. they leave small cuts and glass slivers the man cries in pain from. Mina kicks him in the temple, "Shut up." she commands.
Alicia catches Mike, holding him back before he can throw the whole bottle.
"Mike!" I shout and Mike catches himself. Then he nods but he walks forward, making sure to step on his hands with his black hiking boots.
"TALK!" he screams in the bartenders face.
"Wait! Hold it!" I poke my face into the envelope, and I see wads and wads of cash. I pour it all out onto the floor, snatching a peice of paper that flutters after the cash.
Its a fancy thank you note. Written on it in blue ink is "Thank you for your help in this transaction. Your efforts have been rewarded!"
"So you definently helped in the abduction process." I say, giving the card to Alicia. I lean over, grabbing one of the knives Mike threw, and place it gently on his neck. Then I bare my fangs at the guy, leaning closer and closer to his neck as i talk.
"Talk now and maybe I dont kill you." I heard the team snarl behind me, they demanded his blood. "Where did they take him? Where's the truck." My fangs were touching his neck, poking into the flabby skin. small droplets of blood coming up to meet them.
"He, he drove the truck into the alleyway." The man whimpered, tears flowing freely now. "And, he had a bunch of vampires waiting here. They all dragged him through here and into a van waiting infront of the bar. Then their leader kept emailing me questions. Questions on how to hurt vampires. I thought it was weird, after all, he is one. Like you guys."
"Did you see the license plates?" I smile, asking sweetly as I move my head side to side slightly, the fangs poking at the small holes they'd already made.
"No." the man sobs. "It didn't matter though, they groaned when he did some damage to it saying it was a rental."
"Truth." Mike called, hanging over him.
"Do you know where the man is who was in charge of this?"
"No." he sobbed again.
"Truth."
"Did you see which direction they drove off in?"
"That way." He lifted his arm that hadn't been pinned by a knife to point behind him.
"Truth."
I straightened up, "Anyone else got anymore questions for the man?"
"Me." Alicia stepped forward, "Why?"
"I hate you leeches! You kill mecilessly without looking back! I lost my wife to you monsters!"
"F.Y.I. buddy. In this place, in this time, you dont participate in the kidnap and torture of anyone. human or not. I dont care what your story is."
then I stood up and waved Mike and Mina off.
"Alicia? You wanna finish this?"
Alicia didn't even acknowledge me, she just hissed and jumped on him, tearing into him and shredding him to peices.
"Lets go." I told everyone else, bending over to scoop up the money and slide it in my pocket. I let Kim stay behind, Alicia would need help cleaning up the mess.
"Make sure she doesn't eat any glass!" I called before walking into the dark night air.
Ta-Dah! That's interagation, Vampire style! :p
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