Chapter 3
That night the prison was quiet. The darkness was deep and long, like the subway tunnels in New York. Yuffie could not sleep to save her life. She kept tossing and turning. The events that took place the night before weighed heavily on her mind. The screams, the blood, it all kept her up at night. And the doctor, being a bastard, never gave out sleeping drugs.
She walked up to the bars and tried to see some sign of movement. She was also wondering which cell Vincent was in. She only knew him a day, but she felt something for him. He made her feel a tingle throughout her body. She shifted slightly thinking about him. Those eyes of his were so nice…
She sighed, "Yeah right Yuffie", She whispered, "He's a vampire and they don't like humans the way you think they do."
She looked down at her feet in the shadows. She felt so alone. No one wanted to be her cellmate, mainly because she refused to fool around with any of the prisoners. Tifa and Aeris were the only really pretty prisoners. That, and she really wasn't into kinky stuff.
"Trouble sleeping?" Asked a familiar male voice from the shadows.
Yuffie looked around. "Vincent?"
"Yeah, its me. I heard you talking to yourself." He smiled even though she couldn't see him. Nor did she have any idea where he was.
"Which cell are you in?" She asked feeling a bit nervous.
"The one next to yours, for now. The left one."
She sat and relaxed a bit, "Don't you sleep?"
"I'm a vampire, Yuffie, we are mostly awake during the night." He leaned against the hard steal wall that separated them.
"Hehehe, I knew that." She smiled to herself.
"Hehe… are you afraid of me Yuffie?" His voice was low, he almost seemed afraid to ask.
She thought for a moment, "Should I be?"
He ran his left hand down the wall, "No, I don't want you to fear me for what I am." He paused for what seemed like ages, "I've killed 12 people in my 900 years of life. The disease used to control me; it was the sickness that killed the people. No one listened Yuffie, so the put me in prison for life."
"I'm sorry. I killed my boyfriend and the girl he was cheating on me with. He was going to ask me to marry him and everything. I thought we were happy. Guess I wasn't good enough for him." She looked away from the wall.
"Yuffie, you are a beautiful human. And he deserved what he got, they always do. Human men are cruel and rash. You deserve the best the universe has to offer."
"Are you trying to say something?" She was aroused and tense at the same time. Maybe he was trying to offer her something.
"Possibly- - listen." He went silent.
Yuffie also stopped talking. She listened hard but heard nothing. Suddenly she did hear something. It was above her cell in the crawlspace that the electricians used several years ago. It was a kind of scratching, like someone digging his or her way through the blocks. It kept going down towards the lower cells.
What followed the scratching was the screaming and yelling for help from two of the prisoners. Then came gurgling and screaming of a higher pitch. By now other prisoners were yelling for help. The lights came on and guards started running to the end of the cellblocks, rifles in hand.
"Holy shit!" Yelled Yuffie as she looked down as far as she could manage.
"They are dead." Was Vincent's only remark.
"Yeah no shit…" She sat on the stone floor and kept watching.
Vincent lied down in his bed and went to sleep. Perfect end to a perfect day, he thought. As he started to fall into his usual deep slumber he thought of Yuffie. Was he going to kill her, drink her blood, or actually try to be with her?
All of his previous relationships had ended in violence or the girls running once they came out of the trance he had used. Maybe it was about time to actually try to start a real relationship with someone.
The next morning everyone was in the massive mess hall eating what Vincent thought was a shitty breakfast. Old eggs, a tiny piece of burnt sausage, and a dried piece of fruit… possibly an orange? Every bite was followed by a cringe.
He looked up to see Yuffie and a posse heading to his vacant table. No one would dare sit next to a vampire, let alone eat with one. Yuffie, Aeris, and Tifa sat around him and said their good mornings.
"How about that shit with the dead girls last night?" Tifa started.
"I think its awful, those poor women were torn apart." Replied a gloomy Aeris.
Tifa leaned in closer to Vincent, "The word is though, one of the bodies was recovered. And that it had bite marks."
"So what?" Hissed Vincent.
"The body had human bite marks. HUMAN!"
"That is nasty", Stated Yuffie, "Some of us are trying to eat ya know."
Vincent looked over at Yuffie she obviously didn't sleep after it happened,
"Didn't sleep afterwards?"
"Fuck, how am I supposed to sleep? Everyone is getting ingested by a psycho!" Yelled Yuffie.
"Perhaps tonight I can help you fall asleep like no drug could ever accomplish." Whispered Vincent as he gave a look of pure lust to Yuffie.
"How about you sneak in my cell and try a little on me?" Replied a horny Tifa.
Vincent looked into her eyes, "I doubt you could keep up with me." He smiled evilly at her.
"You are an asshole." Tifa stated calmly.
He looked back into Yuffie's eyes, "What do you say?"
She looked back at him, lust now filling her eyes, "Sure, can you sneak in?"
"With the guards that work here, I could sneak in the Trojan Horse and not get caught." He smiled sweetly at her, "I will see you tonight Yuffie."
And with that he stood and left the mess hall. Yuffie sat back in her chair, a little flustered.
"Wow, you are going to sleep with him?" Asked Tifa anxiously.
"I honestly don't know Tifa… maybe."