The longest pause in update history. And now, on with the show. ( I know it's short but I wanted every one to know I'm still alive.)
Seleena stood out side the woman's apartment wrapped in several hospital sheets, from which smoke was raising more and more frequently. She was exhausted, she'd carried the woman from the hospital, and to her disappointment found she lived to the east.
She waited, huddled as close as possible to the door as her host struggled with the key. "Hey… uh" damn what's her name? "I know your nervous or whatever but…" she shuddered as one of the lower sheets actually caught fire. "Some speed would be nice."
The woman glanced over her shoulder at her rescuer and almost dropped her keys when she saw the flame. "ys... yeah, sure" she pushed open the door and the screen clattered behind her.
Seleena put her hand on the knob and the already burning flesh hissed back at her in reproach. "Damn curses." She mumbled.
"What are you waiting for?" her companion asked evidently growing concerned.
"I can't come in." she glanced anxiously around for some shade.
"What do you mean…you'll die out there. Get in here!" she insisted.
Seleena grasped the handle and hurried inside. Without pausing she crossed the room and closed the blinds.
"What was that all about?"
"Doesn't matter." She threw off the flaming cloth and began stamping it out on the hard wood floor. "You have any water?"
"Yeah, but I mean, don't you drink…."
Seleena glared at her. "For the fire you idiot!"
"Oh right." She ran to the kitchen and came back with, not a bucket of water as Seleena had hoped, but a fire extinguisher. After the fist spurt of dust and gas the fire was out but the woman was coughing up a lung. "Oh Jesus, how is this safe?"
Seleena strode over and clapped her heavily on the back. "It is, for larger fires."
She looked up and down the vampire wearily. "You're not wearing any clothes."
Seleena looked down at the body and pulled a piece of charred fabric off her leg. "I guess I just can keep them on me huh?"