Disclaimer: I own most of the characters like Katy, Maria, and Diane.
CHAPTER 7-CLUBS AND FIRE
"What are you doing here," Katy asked with an excited and amazed smile on her face as she and Gina walked back towards the back of the club.
"What's it look like Katy, I'm a waitress here, and in a pinch I can fill in for one of the dancers if they don't show up," Gina replied with a sarcastic smirk on her face as she held the door open for her cousin.
"So you're a dancer to," Katy said with an amazed look on her face before the two walked back to an open seat in front of the mirror.
"Only in a crunch, I prefer to work for tips, not dollars stuffed into my g-string," Gina replied with a soft chuckle as she flipped on the light switch and the area lit up.
"Oh…so you don't, go the whole way then," Katy asked with a modestly surprised look on her face as she casually opened the top drawer.
"Sure I do, it's just that the guys that come in here are usually already wasted by the time that they arrive and they start throwing money at me before I can even get everything off," Gina answered with a joking smile on her face before she turned and looked up at a rack of outfits.
"We didn't have that problem in California, the bouncers at the club that I used to work at were pretty on top of things like that, if a guy got a little to close they'd throw him out on his ass and tell him to come back when he got some more money and sobered up," Katy said with a sigh and shrug of her shoulders as she swiveled around on her seat and took in the rack of outfits available to her.
"Sounds reasonable, so you're going to dance here tonight, gotta say that I'm surprised that they're letting you, Bill usually doesn't let anyone dance that he doesn't know pretty well," Gina said with a mildly surprised tone to her voice as she stood up and began to sift through the different outfits.
"Well I might have promised him a little something special after closing time," Katy said with an impish grin on her face before Gina got the gist of it and snapped her head back around with a completely flabbergasted look on her face. "Don't worry we'll be long gone before he even remembers, besides if the worst happens you can always tell him that I have a std, that should cool him off," Katy added quickly with a shrug of her shoulders and wide smile on her face before the two shared a laugh.
"I gotta say Katy, you have definitely changed," Gina said with an almost giddy smile on her face as she slowly shook her head.
"I've changed, look at you, you used to be a flat chested stick with more acne than," Katy started to tease back with an energized smile on her face before Gina cut in.
"What can I say, puberty hit hard and my acne cleared up, got this gig after college didn't work out as I had planned and my parents, well they split up and aren't exactly speaking to me right now so…here I am," Gina said with a slightly nervous and sad tone to her voice as she recounted how she got into her current situation.
"Sorry to hear that…really, I started when a guy gave me his card on the beach, it seemed like good money and I've been doing it ever since," Katy said with a somber half shrug of her shoulders as she quickly told her story.
"Lucky…so what's the story with you and," Gina started to ask with an interested look on her face before the two picked up where they had left off years before.
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Katy's turn came up and she walked confidently out onto the stage and did her best, getting a rousing chorus of cheers from the patrons in the club. In the end she had chosen a warrior maiden's outfit, complete with a metal bikini that pinched her breasts when she swung around the pole. When it was over she had given most of her earnings to the man that had allowed her to dance before she took a quick shower and then rejoined Maria and Paul out at one of the tables, just as Paul had come back in after refusing to stay and watch Katy dance, though he had watched all of the dancers before her.
"That did not look comfortable," Maria said with a sympathetic look on her face as Katy sat down at the table in the chair closest to Paul, with Gina occupying the closest chair to him on his other side.
"You have no idea, that thing kept pinching me every time I got close to the pole, and don't ask about the metal panties, it was criminal," Katy replied with a weary expression on her face as she let out a sigh and leaned forward far enough to pick up Paul's drink and then take a sip.
"Well at least it's over with and we didn't have any vampire attacks to worry about, looks like this stop was a bust…figuratively speaking of course," Paul said with a sigh of relief as he sat back in his chair before Gina took advantage of his odd choice of words and leaned in a bit closer to him, making sure that he couldn't help but look down her dress, much to Katy's chagrin.
"Oh of course," Katy said with a not very pleased tone of voice as she angrily squeezed a napkin into a small ball and tried not to grind her teeth, a habit that she had grown out of as a child but it would return whenever she was overly stressed out about something.
"Then maybe we should get going and move on, we can't let Anastasia catch up to us unless we want another brawl," Maria said with a tired yawn as she slid up to the edge of her seat and checked her watch before Gina spoke up.
"You mean Anastasia from Gainesville, she was in here last week, Alice to, they said that they wanted to start some kind of union or something for dancers, a few of the girls signed up," Gina said with a curious look on her face as she sat back up straight in her chair and leaned her weight forward onto the table.
"Really, what happened to those girls, any of them act weird, are they here tonight," Maria said back with a surprised and nervous tone to her voice as she looked up from her watch.
"Not yet, they don't usually come in until about…well now," Gina answered with a relaxed smile on her face as she shrugged her shoulders before she looked up and nodded her head towards the stairs. Coming down the stairs was four dancers, two that looked to be identical twins and the other two didn't look like anything out of the ordinary. Not wanting to make the same mistake that she had made back in Florida with Alice Katy closed her eyes and tried her best to try and sense if any of the dancers were vampires, though all that she got was a sinking feeling that she should of thought twice about taking a few bites of the food in the dressing room. For Maria however warning bells and sirens were going off in her head, though she wasn't quite sure what they meant. She guessed that they meant that at least one of the dancers was a vampire, but which one and if there was more than one was still unknown.
"Great," Katy mumbled softly with an unhappy frown on her face as the twins walked calmly by her.
"You say something bitch," One of the twins snapped with an appalled sneer on her face as she spun back around to glare at Katy.
"No," Katy said back with a calm tone to her voice and look on her face as she kept her temper in check and remained seated.
"Damn right you didn't, you're not good enough to speak to us," The other twin added with a holier than thou expression on her face before the twins headed back to the dressing room.
"Don't let Audrey and Stacy bother you, they both act like they own this place, and therefore treat everyone else like shit," One of the other dancers said with an uneasy smile on her face as she adjusted a duffle bag over her shoulder.
"Thanks, but we won't be here much longer so we won't have to worry about them," Maria replied with a warm smile on her face before the dancer nodded and smiled back.
"You sure you're up to this Callie, you still look like you're limping a little bit," Gina asked with a concerned and worried tone to her voice and look on her face as she started to stand up to offer Callie the chair but the brunette dancer politely refused.
"No rest for the wicked, nah it's okay…mostly, honestly I can't afford to stay at home much longer, the medical bills have really hit my bank account hard, if I don't dance I'll soon be looking for a new place to live," Callie said with a nervous smile and shrug of her shoulders before she smiled at the group and then headed off to the dressing room.
"That's Callie, she hurt her knee a few weeks ago and isn't really supposed to be back yet, just hope she doesn't really get hurt," Gina stated with a nervous look on her face as the other dancer that walked in with Callie and the twins, walked by the table and headed towards the dressing room, but not before pulling out a water bottle and squirting a bit of red liquid into her mouth.
"Well I think that we can say to a pretty high degree of certainty that Callie is not a vampire, if she was her knee would be fine," Maria said with a relieved look on her face before she took a sip of her water.
"Thankfully, though since it doesn't appear as if we're going to find any vampires tonight…anyone want to see a movie or something, just for fun," Paul asked with at first a relaxed smile on his face before he blushed a bit as he turned first towards Katy and then Gina's.
"I'd love to, my shift's over in half an hour if you guys want to wait that long, there should still be a few good movies showing," Gina replied with a happy smile on her face as she perked up a bit and sat up in her chair before looking over at Katy and waiting for her response.
"Yeah…sure, of course we could do that, we can wait outside in the bus, it'll be fun," Katy replied with a shaky tone to her voice and smile on her face after she looked back and forth for a moment between Maria and Paul but found that neither was willing to help her out.
"Great, just let me go tell Callie, she was supposed to give me a ride home tonight but since you're here then she won't need to, be right back," Gina said with a happy grin on her face before she slid off out of her seat and then hurried off towards the back room.
"Thanks a lot guys," Katy grumbled with an unhappy pout on her face as she rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Hey now, what did we," Paul started to say in his defense before everything in the club was stopped immediately by a loud scream that came from the back room.
"What was that," Katy exclaimed with an overwhelmed and confused look on her face as she started to slide out of her chair.
"It came from the back, come on lets," Maria started to reply with an instantly serious look on her face before Paul lifted up each of his pant legs and pulled two stakes out of their specially designed holsters.
"What the hell," Maria started to ask with a confused look on her face before another scream ripped through the club and the music went silent.
"Extra stakes just in case, let's go," Paul shouted with a very serious look on his face before he handed one stake to Katy and the other to Maria, just as the former tore off towards the back room.
"Gina are you…oh God," Katy shouted out in alarm as she shoved open the door of the back room but stopped instantly when she saw the scene in front of her. It was a scene that would stay with her to her dying day.
"Katy what's…Madre de dios," Maria started to shout with a scared look on her face before she also caught sight of the terrible scene and covered her mouth with her left hand.
"Hey come on, what's the…shit," Paul started to argue with an unhappy scowl on his face before he pushed into the room between Katy and Maria. On the floor several feet away Callie lay half sprawled out on her back, her clothes ripped apart and covered in blood. Audrey was kneeling down behind her, lifting her up by the hair and licking her lips. Her game face was clearly evident and the joy in her golden eyes when she looked up was unmistakable. Stripped down to her underwear Paul might have thought that she looked hot except for the part about being a vampire and the fact that she was killing Callie. Stacy was on her hands and knees beside Callie, wearing nothing but a devilish smile when she turned back to face Katy, Maria, and Paul, her game face firmly in place and a large amount of blood lined her lips and dripped off of her chin.
"Callie no," Gina moaned with a horrified look on her face and tears in her eyes as she and the others got their first look at her. Her throat was mostly ripped out with several puncture wounds all up and down her neck. Despite her wretched condition she fought to breathe and fought to stay alive.
"You shouldn't be back here," Stacy growled with an unhappy sneer on her face before she pushed herself up off of the floor so that she was on her knees, licking the blood from her lips.
"Guess we're going to have to kill them to…such a pity, we could have had so much fun together," Audrey added with a mocking pout on her face before she let go of Callie's hair, letting her drop to the ground with a sickening and bloody thud.
"You call this fun, you're sick," Maria exclaimed with a furious scowl on her face as she recovered from the initial shock of the moment and raised her stake.
"But not for long," Katy added with a very serious look on her face as she took a step forward in front of Maria and Paul and raised her stake.
"Uh oh sister, looks like we have a wannabe slayer on our hands," Audrey said with a very mocking tone to her voice as she stepped over Callie's body and gave her sister a quick look before she launched herself at Katy, only to find the point of Katy's stake driven straight through her heart.
"To bad for you I'm the real thing," Katy said with a very confident and proud grin on her face through the exploding cloud of dust that was Audrey.
"You'll pay for that," Stacy growled with a furious sneer on her face as she stood up and wiped the back of her hand across her mouth, cleaning much of the blood away.
"Not in this lifetime sister," Maria exclaimed with a very angry and frustrated scowl on her face before she jumped in front of Katy and took a swing at Stacy. Stacy moved just fast enough to get out of the way of the punch, though Maria's just did manage to graze Stacy's nose, breaking it ever so slightly and sending a gush of blood out of her nostrils
"Ah…you bitch," Stacy screamed both in pain and anger as she staggered back and hunched over, holding her nose tightly as it continued to bleed.
"There's no way out of here you're trapped," Paul announced with a very firm tone of voice as he pulled a small stake out of his pocket.
"Oh really…you should look again," Stacy shot back with an arrogant laugh as she straightened up and gleefully began to lick up her own blood. Katy began to open her mouth but then suddenly got a very bad feeling about what she had just heard. As if on cue the back door of the room opened and several vampires entered the room, looking more than ready for a fight.
"Okay, this could be bad," Maria said with a scared smile on her face as she kept her stake raised but took a step backwards away from Stacy and the other vampires.
"No…ya think," Gina grumbled with an equally scared look on her face as she got back up to her feet and began to slide her way along the wall until she was behind Paul.
"Now you will pay for killing my sister," Stacy exclaimed with an insanely furious sneer on her face before the vampires charged, teeth bared and golden eyes glittering.
"Watch out," Maria exclaimed in a hurry before she found herself pushed back up flat against the wall by the sheer force of the vampires charge.
"Let go of her," Gina shouted with a scared but angry scowl on her face before she took a swing at one of the vampires that was attacking Maria. Her fist connected with the vampires jaw and it was sent rocketing back into the rush, knocking several of the other vampires down.
"Everybody out," Katy cried out as loud as she could as she did her best to fight off the vampires but due to the large number of them her still limited skills were no match. Awkwardly and disjointedly Katy, Maria, and Paul managed to get themselves and Gina back out of the room, though in their retreat Gina knocked a light over and into a stack of cardboard boxes stacked in the corner. The heat of the light and the spark from a flicked away cigarette instantly lit the room ablaze. The first quickly spread through the back room and then out into the rest of the club.
"What the hell," Diane exclaimed with a shocked and horrified look on her face as she and Shandra stopped halfway down the steps.
"Fire," Shandra shouted out at the top of her lungs as she quickly hurried down the rest of the steps and ran towards the bar, just as Katy and the others fully backed out of the back room.
"Katy, what's going on here," Diane exclaimed loudly as she headed towards the bar along with Shandra.
"Get everyone out, hurry," Katy shouted back while keeping her attention and concern focused in front of her as some of the vampires had followed them back out into the main space of the club.
"On it," Diane replied with a hurried look on her face as she grabbed a startled bartender and began to drag him back and out of the club.
"What about the dancers," Shandra asked with a concerned look on her face as she started to head to the back room but was stopped when one of the vampires lunged towards her, only to be met by Gina's foot in its stomach. Acting more on instinct than on anything else she followed the kick up with a rising knee attack, striking the vampire in the nose and smiling when she heard bones breaking.
"They're all dead, we have to get out of here," Katy screamed back with a now almost frantic look on her face before Paul grabbed her arm and started to pull her towards the stairs.
"What," Shandra started to ask with a look of disbelief on her face before another of the vampires charged towards her. This time Gina grabbed her arm and started to physically pull her back towards the stairs.
"Everyone out," Maria shouted at the top of her lung with a very fearful look on her face as she stepped onto the bottom step.
"This isn't over," Stacy screamed through the flames as now the entire club was going up in flames.
"If you say so," Paul shouted back with a sarcastic look on his face before he pushed Katy in front of him and the two raced back up the stairs.
END OF CHAPTER 7