I clenched my fists as I watched my mother disappear from my line of sight, slowly I turned cold eyes on Richard. "You are a foolish child." He snapped before he struck me across the cheek with a metal bar.
Spitting out blood, I stated simply. "I won't scream, I won't lure him here."
"Your blood will do." He went to strike me again and as his was bringing the bar down, I spoke. "My mother doesn't love you, she is using you. You are nothing." He faltered at the last moment and as he did I felt free, realizing I could move again I grabbed the bar and shoved it up as I got to my feet. Wrapping my hand around it, I kicked, striking him in the hip hard.
"Dear Clara," He chuckled, "Your mother never told you what we are did she..." His grin was feral and sent chills down my spine, my hands squeezed the bar tighter like if I let it go I was going to die. All of the sudden he was chanting, I stepped back but the room began to shake. This couldn't be happening... none of this is real, I have to be having a nightmare. This isn't possible! I didn't get much time to dwell on the insanity of what was going on around me.
Hearing a crash to my right, I glance over through my peripherals to see my mother hit the floor. I could see another person just barely out of sight, damn mom's making a world of enemies today. I clenched my teeth as I quickly came to the decision to help her, not for her though. For the unborn child she carries, for my sibling.
I bolt to the right, skidding to a stop between my mother and a woman. My mother was clutching both her stomach and her throat, blood around her lips and on the hand she had pressed against her throat. "What did you do?!" I snapped, demanding answers from the other woman.
"Oh... you live. I surmised that Richard would have seen to your murder by now." She hardly seemed to care about my presence. "You can leave now, I certainly have no need of you here."
"My mother's pregnant... as much as I want to leave I cannot abandon the baby." I told her truthfully.
"But you could turn your back on her?"
"She meant to sacrifice me."
"Indeed... well since we both have similar purpose for being here. I seek to take the baby from her body. She's ill fit." I didn't disagree with her but I knew right then that this bitch was crazy, how it the hell was she going to do that! My sibling wasn't far enough along to be able to survive being cut out. Before I could form a rational response though... some type of blast shot past me and I heard Richard intake a large amount of air then fall. "Step aside girl." I was horrified to find my body moving against my will. "Please watch, you are ill equipped for the world in which you live." My eyes locked on the scene in front of me, I couldn't even blink, I couldn't move.
My mother looked so helpless in this moment as she struggled to beg. "Hush now, this will all be over soon." The woman looked elated in this moment, like all her dreams were finally within reach. Mom looked towards me and I could see just how horrified she was... I cried out for this to stop and next thing I knew I couldn't speak. "I need silence child." She began casting something, words in a foreign language that held no meaning to me. I struggled against whatever hold I was in but it seemed pointless. Mom reached out to me... just before a blast of energy wrapped around her. She seemed to say something I couldn't quite make out before it hit me in the next second and I was helpless. I felt myself be blasted off the ground and through the basement window, out onto the lawn where my body hit the ground hard. I could faintly hear the woman rejoicing in her success.
I need to run, I can't fight this. I need to... I chocked back a sob as I forced myself to get to my feet, glass embedded in my thigh and left arm. If I pull it out I'll bleed out. I began limping across the yard, heading towards the trees. This was a dangerous gamble, animals did live in these woods and my blood would draw dangerous predator's. Vampires. My mind helpfully supplied in this moment.
