2. Never let strangers come in!

"Hannah? Hey, Hannah, who was it?" Michelle shouted unsuspectingly from the living room to her friend.

The unknown boy looked into the direction of the living room and lifted a hand.
Brian, who froze in the middle of his movement, understood, nodded and let Hannah off. Then a dirty grin came on the faces of the vampires.
The unknown boy walked into the direction of the living room and Brian followed who pushed Hannah in front of himself and still covered her mouth with his hand.

"Hannah?" Catherine asked now, because they didn't receive an answer at Michelle's call.

In this moment the both vampires and Hannah came into the living room.

Catherine got wide eyes and stared at them with open mouth and whispered, "Oh my god..."

The others, which sat with the back to the 3, turned around to see about what Catherine was frightened. When they saw the 3, they frightened as well.

"Hannah..." was the only thing Alicia could say, while she stared at the vampires.

Sarah swore quietly to herself and could slap herself that she didn't notice the vampires earlier with her Slayer-sense, while she sized up the situation.

"Let her go!" Sarah said to the both and stepped towards them.

"Why should we?" the unknown boy asked.

"'cause I said it!" Sarah replied calm.

"Is that her?" the boy asked now turning to Brian without letting go his glance from Sarah.

"Yeah, it's her!" Brian confirmed.

"Well, well, the Slayer..." the unknown boy said and sneered.

Sarah frightened a bit, because he knew her. Then she looked angry at the vampire and said, "Yeah, that's me! Nice, that you know me, but unfortunately our acquaintance won't last very long, I guess..."

"Oh, do you really think so?" the boy asked.

Sarah only growled as answer.
There the vampire rushed at Sarah without warning. This one fell with a scream to the ground. And the vampire already was above her and they fought together.
Sarah reached for a small bureau and smashed it. Then she rushed with a broken leg of the bureau to the vampire. But this one avoided her attack skilful and pushed her temporary stake with an aimed kick out off her hand.
And before Sarah could do anything the vampire held her tight at the ground, clenched her wrists and laid her neck free.

"Sarah!" Michelle screamed, who watched stunned the fight with Catherine and Alicia.

She would rush to the vampire. But somehow they couldn't move, because the unknown vampire held them tight with his look, so that they couldn't move any more.

"I wouldn't try that if I were you, little one!" the vampire meant and looked up sneering at Michelle. "I've got your friend under my control! Surrender!"

"What? Surrender? Never ever!" Alicia growled and would rush to Brian, who stood next to her.

But this one reacted to that quickly and evaded Alicia, so that this one stumbled into emptiness and nearly fell down, if she still hadn't hold on to the armchair in time.
And in this moment Brian sank his pointed teeth into Hannah's neck and started to suck her blood.
Hannah winced and gave a choked scream, because Brian still covered her mouth, while he turned her neck towards his face. But she didn't have enough strength any more to defend herself against the vampire.

And when every eye was turned to Brian and Hannah unbelieving, the other vampire went to his work: he held Sarah's wrists even more relentless tight and got closer to her neck as well.

"No, don't! Let me go!" Sarah screamed and defended herself desperately and wished her friends would wake up from their involuntary daze and come to help her.

But she knew it better: the vampire saw to it that none of her free friends could move at all. That's why Alicia has missed Brian.

She even felt that she hardly could move. She was handed over the vampire completely helpless. And in this moment her first dream returned to her mind and she knew now, how helpless Valerie, one of the previous Slayers, must have felt when the vampire defeated and killed her in the french mausoleum.

When the vampire bit in her neck with his pointed teeth and began to suck her blood, she gave a scream and defended herself much stronger. But there was no use for her. Sarah sensed how the vampire took her strength away. She felt her strength declining more and more and sometime she stopped defending against it and let it happen. She couldn't do anything against it!

She breathed slowly and heavily more and more. And then the vampire let her go, somewhere between life and death...