Drained

Gertrude Brooks cried silently as the executioner tied the rope around her neck.

"Mama! No! Please, she's innocent! Abigail lied! She was never afflicted!" Tally cried as she ran to the front of the crowd in an attempt to save her mother.

"Silence you silly girl!" The judge screamed.

Tally tripped and fell to the judge's feet. "Please sir, my mother is no witch! The town loves her very much and you of all people should know that your daughter and niece are just wanting attention!" Tally stared at the large man with tears streaming down her face.

"Uncle! Oh uncle she's torturing me with her witch magic and voodoo! Tally Brooks is a witch just like her mother, I tell you! A witch!" Abigail wailed and fell to the ground twitching.

"You little whore!" Tally shouted and lunged at Abigail, clawing at her throat.

"Get her off me!" Abigail cried.

Hands grabbed at Tally and placed her next to her mother on the gallows with a similar rope around her neck.

"Tallin Anna Brooks, you have hereby been arrested on charges of witchcraft and will be sentenced to death immediately!" The judge said.

"Without a trial? What evidence do you have but the word of a dimwitted ninny as your niece?" Tally yelled.

"Tally, mummy loves you sweetheart and I always will. I will see you in the next life darling." The wood beneath the two women gave away as they both dangled in air with the ropes around their necks.

Tally slammed on the breaks as she remembered what had happened. "Mother..." Blood tears started falling from her eyes and onto her black leather jacket.

"You alright there?" Someone knocked on her window.

She sniffled, "I'm fine." And refused to look the man in the eyes.

"You sure? Doesn't sound like it." She could see the man smile from the corner of her eye.

"Leave me be." She said sternly.

"Now I can't do that." He laughed and showed her a stake.

"You threaten to kill me? I don't think so, mortal." Tally's form shimmered and she was outside her car holding the man by his crotch.

"Harriet, now!" The man yelled. Tally was overcome with pounds of silver chains. A burning sensation crawled throughout her body as she was brought to her knees.

"Stupid fuckin' vampire." The man mumbled as he kicked Tally in the ribs.

"Shouldn't of...stopped..." Tally said before she blacked out.

"Oh baby is her blood good!" The woman called Harriet exclaimed.

"Calm down, sweet pea. We'll have enough for ourselves and to sell once we drain every last drop of her." The man replied as he pumped more of Tally's blood out of her arm.

"Gahh!" Tally groaned as she awoke and struggled to get the silver chains off her.

"Now calm down, vampy! You sure are tasty, yes you are..." Harriet smiled.

"What...?"

"We're draining you, vampy."

"Stop...I beg you." Tally managed to choke out the words as she fell back into unconsciousness.

"Get off her!" Natalie rushed up behind Harriet and struck her in the head with a baseball bat.

"You sonofabitch!" Kevin yelled at the man and began beating him.

"Hold on, Tally. I'm here, it's ok now." Natalie slowly pulled the chains off her cousin.

"Natalie..."

"Ssh, everything's gonna be alright Tal." Her cousin cooed as she stroked Tally's long curly dark brown hair out of her face and did her best to remove the leaves and twigs.

"Alright, that should be it. They won't be wakin' up 'til late tomorrow." Kevin wiped his hands on his jeans.

"It's almost dawn, Kevin. We need to get her home quick before she fries." The couple picked up Tally and put her in the backseat of their car.

"What about Tally's car?" Natalie asked.

"I'll drive it back and follow you home." Kevin replied as he opened the door and got in.

"How come you get to drive the nice car and I have to take our dumpy SUV?" Natalie whined.

"Stop your whinin' and save your damn cousin, Nat!"

"Alright, alright!" Natalie threw her hands up as she started the car and headed down back to their home.