The cop wasn't having any of the stalling or attitude that David and the boys were giving him and David was dishing out plenty, much to Paul's delight. He loved it when David was sticking it to any authority figure and encouraged him to do more when he started. None of them had fed and David was ready to snap well before this had all gone down and now he was being told what to do by a power hungry cop? David was ropable but at the same time he was enjoying giving the cop assholes, it totally suited his mood. Star had disappeared and he couldn't exactly tell the cop that he had to go and find his new wife because she was a half vampire who was pretty close to needing to feed and was liable to lose control, especially with her being off her face on some incredibly strong ecstasy. As it was, they had searched Paul and found a substantial amount of weed and had managed to handcuff him and arrested him on possession and had placed him in the back of a Police car, much to David's surprise but Paul was too out of it to put up too much of a fight. They were trying to search Dwayne, who was calling them faggots and putting up a struggle as they tried to place their hands in the pockets of his jeans and the large cop was busy telling David how much trouble him and his idiot friends were in. David was literally biting his tongue not to tear the guy in half right there and instead just smiled at the cop and said nothing.
'Where's Andy?' Asked one of the cops holding onto Dwayne.
'I don't know, I thought he'd be back by now.' Said the other one wrestling with Dwayne's jacket. That made David think of Marko, who he thought would have Star by now, and he tapped into his thoughts.
'Where are you? Have you got her?' He asked Marko.
'Nah, she got into a car with some dude and took off. I couldn't get them. I got the cop though.' Marko replied laughing. What dude? What the fuck? His rage enveloped him again and the noxiousness within him returned and he immediately tapped into her thoughts.
'If you don't come back now, you will regret it. I mean it Star.' He waited but got no response and he wasn't actually surprised, she would have heard him though. The problem with hard drugs was they interrupted the telepathic communication process and this only proved to make him more belligerent towards the cops and the large officer had had enough. With no cooperation from David or Dwayne in producing any ID, they'd found none on Paul either, the large officer forced Dwayne in the back of one car with Paul and pushed David in the back of the other car and reported in that they were bringing in three and officer, A Petersen #53753, had gone in pursuit of the fourth and requested another car to follow up. David smiled upon hearing this and the cop caught it.
'If you know where your friend is, it's in your best interests to tell me.' The cop said with a sigh.
'And it's in your best interest to get the fuck out of my face and to let us go.' David shot back.
'Well, that ain't happening.' The cop turned and prepared to drive them off. 'We'll find him. The officer who went after him is one of the best on the Vegas force.' Again David chuckled. 'Shut up!' The cop spat frustrated at David's attitude and he started the car.
It was around half three in the morning, the clubs had all closed and the streets had begun to thin out, especially down towards the cop station near the western end of the boulevard. The street became darker being surrounded by the desert hills and this suited David well. The cars conveniently came to a stop at a red light with David and the large cop in the car behind the one holding Paul and Dwayne.
Suddenly the mutilated body of the missing officer was dropped onto the front of the large officer's car, his face slamming into the windscreen making the cop swear out loud. At roughly the same time, Paul tore the cage inside their car open and he and Dwayne attacked the two officers in charge of their transportation, splattering blood and brain matter all over the car. The large officer was shaking as he reached for his RT and began to try to report in. He looked behind at David who sat calmly in the back seat watching and not moving and the cop was incredulous. He turned back around to see Marko standing illuminated by his headlights and Paul and Dwayne standing either side of his car, all of them smeared in blood.
'What the fuck is going on?' He said panicking.
'I told you, it was in your best interest to let us go.' David repeated over his shoulder and he turned to see David in full vampire form staring at him before he launched at the cage, tearing through it like paper and he began to unleash all Hell on the man. All of his anger and frustration and fury of the night was being poured out on the officer and David was obliterating him in the most brutal and painful way the boys had seen in a long time. The viciousness and depravity in which David dealt to the man shocked even Marko, who could be a callous prick when he wanted to be. Dwayne looked over at Paul, who was cheering David on, and then back at David. None of them would want to be Star, or the man she drove off with, when she was found. The boys got out of there shortly after with Dwayne snapping the dash cam off the car and crushing it and Paul retrieving his weed before they went back to the hotel to try and come down a bit, make sense of what had happened and to try and calm an enraged David down enough to work out what he wanted to do next. The way he looked, he was ready to take down half of the town and on the hour long trip back to their hotel, he'd managed to pick off two more randoms and snap them like twigs just for the sake of it. He didn't even feed off them, he just broke them.
The boys entered the room and Paul was skinning up as soon as he could. He hadn't seen David like this since the night Marko had been staked and Star and Laddie were missing. He didn't know if the E was making him worse or if it was just the fact Star was gone or what it was, but a joint was going to make Paul feel better and he hoped it was going to make David chill out, cause he definitely needed to chill the fuck out. Marko appeared equally as worried but just as angry as his leader, of course he blamed Star for this, he blamed her for everything and she was dead to him now, whether she was David's wife or not. The next chance he had to take the bitch out, he would take it and happily take the consequence. Surely it couldn't be as bad as watching David go through this, she was tearing David apart before his eyes, not showing him the respect he deserved or even showing him an ounce of remorse for the pain she'd already inflicted, let alone what she was doing now. He would not let her fuck his family again. Dwayne however just sat there analysing the whole situation. He had suspected David was going to be potentially worse after he'd married her, more possessive and controlling but nothing like this. He was manic. There was something wrong, something else but he couldn't pick it, even before she had run off he was hopped up and unstable but now she was gone, he was going to be unbearable. Paul finished rolling and he sparked the joint and passed it to David who inhaled it and went to pass it on.
'Nah, that's all yours. I got more for us, man.' Paul assured him and he picked up another one and threw it at Dwayne then another and fired it towards Marko, where it hit his knee and bounced off on the floor.
'Catch your drugs, bro!' Paul laughed at him. He then sparked his own and they all sat there with their own smokes in relative silence. Paul grabbed the remote and flicked on some music on a music channel as the smoke began to take effect.
'Which way did the car go?' David had calmed enough to ask Marko.
'It headed north as far as I could tell.' Marko reluctantly said. He wanted to tell him to forget her and to let the bitch go and to make her survive on her own but he knew David well enough that he didn't want to hear that right now.
'What was it?' David's jaw was clenched.
'A grey Ford Mondeo. Older model.'
'What'd he look like?' David was staring ahead and not making eye contact with anyone.
'Tall, dark hair. A bit Michael looking.' David flicked his gaze up at Marko with death in his eyes. Marko had thrown that comment in to piss David off and to remind him of her betrayal in the hopes he'd finally fuck her off. He'd only managed to inflame David's rage again.
'What the fuck, man? He was chilling out!' Paul projected into Marko's head but Marko ignored him. Dwayne rolled his eyes in Paul's direction and David inhaled again.
'She's going to regret this.' David finally said.
'Dude, she's as high as a kite.' Paul tried to subdue his thoughts.
'I don't give a fuck if she did it because she's smashed or not, she's going to pay for this. And pay hard. I'm going to make sure of it.' He finished his smoke and stood up. 'Stay here boys. I got something I gotta do. And when I get back, we are heading back to Santa Carla. Time for us to take our territory back. Fuck everybody else. We're going home.' He told the boys before he walked out to the balcony and disappeared. The boys sat there mildly stunned but not overly surprised at David's announcement.
'Is he serious?' Marko remarked, lifting his head from the head board of the bed.
'Oh yeah,' Dwayne smiled. 'We're going back home.' Dwayne was keen as to get back to Santa Carla. He had a girl he who he was quite keen to see again and wanted to track down.
'After what we did tonight, we gotta get the fuck outta this town, that's for sure.' Paul said impassively. 'That mess will be all over the news tomorrow.' He laughed finishing his smoke. He was smashed.
'He's not going to be back tonight is he?' Marko asked, yawning and dropping his roach out the window before getting up to pull the thick dark curtains closed and sitting back on the bed.
'I'd say not, looking at the time' Dwayne said.
'The dude's fucking crazy. Crazy. And that girl don't make him any better.' Paul said kicking off his boots as he lay on the couch.
'Fucking maggot.' Marko spat
'Ugh, drop it bro' Paul dismissed his comment and turned the music up.
'Well, fuck this. I'm outta here. There's a girl out there who's needs my attention and it'd be such a shame to waste such a good E.' Dwayne got up to leave.
'Fuck you're a slut.' Paul teased him.
'Fuck, you can talk…' Dwayne fired back.
'Yep, I can. You're a slut.' Paul replied with his eyes closed, laughing. Dwayne looked at him lying there off his chops and laughed and shook his head before he walked out.
'You staying here?' Marko asked him as he got up to follow Dwayne.
'Yeah, I can't be fucked going anywhere. But if you wanna send a hottie back this way…' Paul raised his arms and pointed at himself.
'Ha! Will do…' Marko laughed as he left.
David flew up to San Francisco and went to the hospital to find Laddie but found he had been discharged and the older charge nurse was not about to pass out any patient information to a man who looked like he belonged in a gang. David did however catch the eye of a younger nurse who was more than a little interested in the striking tall blonde man in front of her. The charge nurse was called away and David made his move, laying on the charm and smiling at everything she said, making her blush and want to continue the conversation in any way possible.
'What are you doing here?' She finally asked him after about ten minutes of flirting.
'I came to see my cousin. I have just come back into the country and I heard he was attacked or something and he was here but he's not and my uncle and aunt have moved. I don't know where I can go to see him and your boss was none so helpful.' He said looking down the hallway where the charge nurse had gone.
'Well, I could check his file?' She offered.
'Oh, I don't want you to get into trouble…' He said looking down and shaking his head before looking back up and into her eyes, staring directly into her soul and making her hands begin to shake. It was so easy, the young ones always were. He could almost smell her attraction to him.
'I can write down his address for you. You are family after all.' She said smiling at him and taking a pen and a piece of paper out. She scribbled down Laddie's details along with her name and number and handed it back to him.
'Call me?' She said shyly. He leaned over the desk and brushed a stray piece of hair from her eyes.
'You got it.' He said winking at her before spinning on his heel and striding out past the charge nurse, walking out just after she exploded on the young nurse for breaking standard procedure. Laddie had gone back home to his parents' place in Oceanside and it was time for David to go and pay his 'cousin' a visit.
The night had gotten away on him and instead of consummating his wedding as he should be, he was heading back down the coast at break neck speeds before the sun began to rise. He knew he wasn't going to make it to Oceanside in time so he diverted to Santa Carla and decided to go back to his cave to stay for the day only when he got there, he heard a loud banging coming from inside. There were people in his home. He stopped as soon as he heard them and began stalking those who had dared to invade his sacred space. Paul's stereo turned on and he heard smashing of glass and laughing. He guessed there were about three or four guys in there.
'Fuck, this place is mean!' One called out. 'The Doors poster is mine!' Another smash echoed out the entrance of the cave where David crouched.
'This place stinks.' Came a girl's voice. 'And what are those bones over there? Are they from an animal? Gross.'
'What are those bottles? Are they candle stick holders?' Someone asked.
'They're fun to smash, that's what they are.' Said another with an almighty smash following his comment.
'No, they're kinda cool, save me one!' Came the first voice.
'I love this bed, come fuck me in it' Laughed the girl with another one joining in in her laugh.
'I'll fuck you anywhere.' Said one of the men, making the girl scream in delight as he grabbed her and David assumed they were on Star's bed. He felt a wave of sickness wash over him.
'Ooo look, there's some jewellery here!' The other girl said excitedly.
'Get off me!' Cried the first girl. 'Anything decent?'
'Look, there's another room back here!' Came a distant voice from inside the cave and suddenly David realised they were in his room. Time to put a stop to this before they found something that actually still meant something to him. He almost felt sorry for them, they didn't even know they had walked into their own worst nightmares. But David never felt sorry for anyone and in the mood he was in, he was going to enjoy this.
David jumped down and into the cave and surprised the four people in the main room. The girls stood near Star's bed and one of the men stood up from behind the lobby desk while the other man stood over where David's bottles once stood.
'What do you want, fucktard? Huh?' The man behind to desk carelessly asked David.
'Yo, we got company!' The other one called out towards the back of the cave prompting three more guys to appear out of David's room. David smiled, seven people for him to play with.
'What does this dick think he's going to do?' One of them laughed, speaking about him as if he wasn't there and with confidence that they had the upper hand and assuming David was defenceless against the men. How sadly wrong he was. David just stood there smirking at their extreme arrogance.
'He's kinda hot.' One of the girls said and David flicked her a sideways glance.
'Shut up.' One of the men snapped.
'You're trespassing on our turf fuckhead.' The man next to the bottles shouted. 'Get the fuck outta here.' It was a pity the boys weren't here with him for this, especially Paul, this was right up his alley. But David didn't need his boys right now. He was fully primed to handle this by himself.
'I don't think so, pal.' David said the monster that lived within him morphed his features and he flew towards the man speaking to him and within a second had slammed his head into the cave wall so hard that his temple had dented in dropping him dead to the floor. He then turned and tore the throat out of the man standing next to him and stood with his trachea hanging out of his hand as he looked at the third man and smiled. The girls were screaming by now and David took the third man and threw him across the room at the girls, knocking them over like bowling pins and the man bounced off them and crashed his head into the corner of Stars bed side table making a sickening cracking noise come from his neck. One of the two men who were in the main room took off out of the cave while the other had picked up a broken bottle to defend himself and was screaming obscenities at David.
'Stay the fuck away from me or I'll rip you a new asshole, you freak!' He threatened. 'What the fuck are you?'
The girls were screaming at the fallen man at their feet to get up. They were both too scared to move past David in order to get out of the cave.
'Call me Death.' David responded as he kept walking slowly towards the man.
'Don't come any closer!' The man held the bottle out in front of him waving it at David and, too quick for him to even see, David had taken the bottle out of his hand and had swiped his hand across his face, his nails tearing the flesh from his skull leaving his face half hanging off. The man was gasping for air through the mangled mess that had been his face. David had even impressed himself with the move and cocked his head to the side and nodded slightly at his artwork before he latched on to the man's throat and got his fill from his jugular.
'NOOOO!' One of the girls screamed making David drop the man and turn to look at the girls, thick red blood painted on his chin. The man on the floor was bleeding profusely from the back of his head and had begun to vomit which basically left David alone with the girls.
'Don't be scared.' David addressed the girls with his unnaturally calm tone and the girls backed up as he walked towards Star's bed.
'No, please. Please don't hurt us. We won't tell anyone.' They were both crying.
'Oh, it's not going to hurt.' David smiled as he grabbed one of the girls and snapped her neck. The other was pleading now, begging and hysterically pleading for her life and he suddenly saw her as Star. He saw straight through her like she was transparent and all he saw was Star, the girl who had betrayed him and lied to him and left him and she was begging him for forgiveness. His over whelming acrimony took over him and he reached into the girl's chest, shattering her rib cage, and he pulled out her still beating heart. He stood there for a few seconds and watched it cease beating before he dropped it on the floor next to Star's broken jewellery. He looked around at the mess he'd made and heard a gurgling from the man on the floor, looking down he booted the man in the mouth, breaking his teeth and killing him. Remembering then the man who had taken off, David shot out of the cave to find him scrambling around at the top of the Bluff trying to escape. He heard David coming and began frantically screaming as David swooped down on him and picked him up and gouged a large gaping wound in his shoulder with his teeth before dropping him out in the Pacific Ocean.
David returned to his cave, disposed of all the bodies out to sea and cleaned up as much as he could be bothered doing. After the night he'd had, he was exhausted. It had taken him ten or so kills but he finally felt like the internal turmoil he'd experienced all night had finally subsided and he began to calm down. He thought now he would be able to sleep relatively peacefully, or as peacefully as he could, considering. His initial intention was going to have to wait until tomorrow night as the sun was on the horizon and his energy was waning but he was fully prepared to fulfil his promise to provide a very painful reminder to Star never to defy or evade him again. He retreated back into the bowels of the cave and slept.
