September 2219
I walked in on the end of my wife Clara's lecture. Her voice was authoritative, and her subject matter bleak, but her under tones were still sweet, they showed her soul. I leaned against the black wall to listen to the rest of the lesson
"So does anyone know what ordinary object, makes the best weapon, to use on humans?"
The class was silent; a joker would have never made it this far. So Clara was forced to answer her own question "A pencil, simple really, if messy, through the eye then it hits the brain"
I winced, I wasn't used to killing humans yet, and I hoped that I never would be. But now there so many vamps, they had to be more selective about whom they made. In order to be made you had to prove yourself. You had to go somewhere a vampire couldn't and then kill at least three people.
Thousands of humans were turning against there own kind, just to get a glimpse of immortality. So now in our hour of desperation, we could no longer trust our own kinf.
My wife's voice brought me back to realty with the line "So read chapter seven in Russian Martial art's simplified, and attend class on Monday"
The class cleared out quickly. I approached my wife and kissed her gently on the cheek. Her pale skin flushed.
"So, did you enjoy my class"?
"A bit brutal don't you think?"
Clara nodded, and moved closer for a deeper slower kiss. That's when my phone rang, we jumped apart, shocked.
"That thing has no sense of decorum," Clara said.
I picked it up reluctantly, I didn't expect good news but I didn't expect Spikes contorted English accent either.
"Hello, Red" Spikes voice said.
I dropped the phone. It's plastic exterior split, and shattered, the second it hit the tile floor.
My wife's eyes interrogated me, but I stayed quite, in till her phone rang. I answered it first
"Hello?'
"Bloody hell, is that any way to greet your in laws, I always knew that your marriage was a bad idea"
"Shut up" I said low and strong."But then again if you hadn't married, there wouldn't have been any sweet little grandkiddies to drink."
"No" I said my panic showing in my voice
"Not yet, if you give me your wife, then maybe they'll live"
"Hardly"
"if your wife is outside of the old Loews beach hotel in Santa Monica, in three hours. Your kid s will have a chance otherwise"
With that there was a click, my wife had heard it all. Her face was ashen and her hands shook, uncontrollably.
"I have to, I have to. I have to." She just kept on repeating those three words again and again.
"No there must be another option" I insisted,- An Hour Later-
I left the office, and climbed the stairs. There were windows everywhere in stairwell, letting in the sunlight, just in case the vampires were idiotic enough to attack during the day.
I left the stairwell on the fifth floor, and walked down the hallway. The guard nodded at me when I arrived, distrust in his eyes. No one outside of my immediate family understood our connection to Liam, my ancestor-in-law. The guard pushed a button and slowly the bars parted and I entered.
I stood there for a second in the stone hallway, in till the next set of bars opened. When I walked into his cell, Handel was playing, and Liam was hanging upside down from a metal gym bar, reading the paper.
He recognized the sadness in my eyes immediately, even though it was nothing compared to his own. As he flipped down from the bar to the floor, I pressed my watch; it had an electronic nullifier built in, with the rest of the gear. We would be safe from the video camera for only 50 seconds, but that would suffice.
I spoke slowly careful to annunciate every word "You said once, that if we ever needed you, you could get out, no matter when we asked."
Liam nodded
"What about now?"
Liam didn't reply instead he grabbed a blanket off the bed then, tore the metal exercise bar out of the wall. I, along with everyone else had forgotten, how strong he was. He swung the exercise bar at the corner of his cell. I saw that he had loosened the bolts, in advance, then the bar and the cage collided.
The wall's fell away, with a clang and the guard was suddenly at the outer gate. Liam picked up his bed and threw, it at the guard. The beds leg made it between the bars, even if the actual bed didn't, and hit the guard. The guard slumped to the floor.
Liam still somber, walked to the outer gate, reached through it and hit the switch. The gate opened slowly, and we ran threw. Alarms were going off every were now.
We started up the stairs, but soon there were guards on either side. Liam shoved his hand threw one of the hallway window. I heard the sizzle when his flesh hit the sunlight. If it was painful he didn't show it. Instead Liam took a step back, and quickly wrapping the blanket around himself. Then he jumped out the window, I followed suet.
Halfway down I realized how far the drop was. There was no way, that I could survive it. Then a few second later Liam caught me, with an oomph, which is a much pleasanter sound then the one your skull makes when it touches your brain.
Liam then dropped me the remaining meter.
We ran, I pointed out the Mauve car to him and we both jumped in.