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Later Abby walks to the room that housed their new guest. She had finally gotten a few hours of sleep and she hoped King had as well. Quietly she opens the door where she sees King, head flopped back over the chair, sleeping in an awkward position and snoring slightly. 'Awww' she thinks. The girl is barely visible underneath the comforter where King has tucked her under. She pads into the room and kicks King's foot. He quickly sucked in air as he was shocked awake. "What?" he asks in a gravelly voice as he wipes his face with his hand. Abby motions with her hand towards the door. He dramatically huffs and gets up cracking his neck following her to the hallway.
"Why did you wake me?"
"What are we going to do with her?" She said.
Running a hand through his hair he sighs, "I don't know, I didn't really think this all the way through at the time. We couldn't just have left her there."
"I know but maybe we should just drop her off at a hospital before she wakes up."
"No we can't do that. We need to know why she was there. Why didn't they just kill her or turn her? It looked as though she had been there for months. Abby I found a glyph on her too. You got to admit this is strange."
"A glyph means practically nothing. You have one too remember."
He glares at her, "Yeah well let's just wait and see. Ok? After she wakes up we can decide what to do."
King looks at Abby once more as he backs into the room again. He turns around. The girl is sitting with her legs over the edge of the bed with her head in her hands. She was a short woman so her feet barely touched the ground because of the height of the bed. She looked tiny sitting there.
Quietly he said, "hey, are you ok?"
"Look at me do I look ok? "She says looking up angrily with her watering eyes. King couldn't really think of what to say. He walked over and sat across from her in the chair he'd been slumbering in earlier. Her eyes follow his as he moves.
"Lemme try this again. My name's King, Hannibal King, but you can call me King." He looks at her expectantly waiting for an answer. She stares blankly at him as silence fills the room. "Well usually at this point the other person introduces themselves." He says as if to prompt her.
She looks away and breathes out, "…grace…" it's barely audible and if you weren't listening for it, but King was.
"Thanks" he says acknowledging how scared she seemed to be. "Well Grace we found you in a vampire hideout, do you remember? I think you were drugged and you've lost a lot of blood."
"Did you kill him?" she said biting her nail.
"Who?"
"Nicolai. Did you kill him?" she repeated.
"Yeah, I did." He said looking at her to see her reaction.
Her shoulders slump as she lets out a breath. "Thank you… for everything. But, I really should go I, I've been gone for months. I need to get back to work." She says as she attempts to jump up.
"Woah," King says as she wobbles. He grabs her arm and sets her back onto the bed. "You're not going anywhere. Your job cannot be that important."
"Yes it is. I'm… I'm like you, a hunter." She says as her head is spinning from the blood loss. "You know we ought to have a union or a convention or something." She slumps down against the mattress passing out again. King sighs as he lays her onto the bed again. "Passing out on the first date." He chuckled to himself. Confident that she wouldn't wake for a little while King was able to go off in search of Abby. He found her in the kitchen eating a sandwich while reading a book.
"Careful you might get mayo on your book, and we all know how that would look."
Glaring at him Abby said, "Did the patient wake up yet."
"Yeah, she did. The patients name is Grace. She said she'd been down there for months. Abby she said she's a hunter. You ever heard of her?" He said pouring him a cup of coffee.
"Nope never heard of her, 'Grace', doesn't ring any bells, friend or foe." She replies. "How does a vampire hunter get to being kidnapped by a vampire?"
"I didn't get that far she passed out before we got to talk much more. I guess they must have been taking her blood, that must be why they were able to keep her that long. They must have really hated her. Any other hunter they would have killed way before we got a chance to find her."
"Yeah I agree. Want a sandwich?" Abby said after getting up to put her dish away. She proceeded without waiting for an answer to make him a sandwich
A Few Hours Later.
King is downstairs on the computer doing some research trying to find any information on Grace; a missing persons report, driver's license, address, anything. Taking a break from research Abby goes upstairs to check on Grace. When she got there the door was open and looking inside she discovered that Grace wasn't in bed or even in the room anymore. Abby went back to the doorway and yelled "KING! She's gone!"
