I stood there, frozen in my place. I could have peed on myself if I wasn't so scared. How did he find me? He barely caught a glimpse of me in the forest for heaven's sake!
Liz took immediate action, throwing the mirror at the man, uh, vampire thing. Actually he seemed so much younger now that I could see him properly. I dodged the shattering pieces when it broke against his skin.
"Hey, hey! What's the problem here?" he complained. What the hell? Shouldn't he have sucked my blood by now?
I took a shaky step back. "W-wha-at do y-you want?" I said.
He leaned against the wall, fiddling with his fingernails. "What I want? Well, first I'd like to say that what you did, interrupting my feeding and throwing the mirror at me, wasn't very nice. I didn't even touch you!"
What the hell?
"Uh," I said, relaxing a little. Whatever he was planning to do with me, he wasn't going to do it now. At least I hoped so.
"Well?" he said a bit impatiently.
"I-I didn't-t mean to int-terrupt you, but you s-smell really weird-d, and I was c-curious. And I didn't throw the m-mirror at you, my f-friend did-d."
"Oh really? I don't see anyone else here." he paused,"Ah, right,"he said under his breath, as if reminding himself something, "And as for my smell, " he continued,"I'll just take that as a compliment." he ran his fingers through his dark hair and walked over to me.
"Well, y-you can't see her-r bec-cause s-she is a g-ghost-t."
He stared at me, and his face lightened up, "I thought you were a werewolf, uh, Corrie, is it?" he said almost amusingly. His red eyes shining with humor. Huh, they weren't rimmed with black anymore.
I lifted a brow, "How would you know?" I asked, taking a step back.
"Well, nothing can really smell me except for werewolves. Aren't you a necro?" he took a step toward me. I stepped back. How'd he know that?
"Yes, I'm a necromancer too, if that's what you're getting at." I blurted out quickly. What was the point of hiding it from him? He practically already knew.
"And you're ghost friend here is- or shall I say was- the Agito half demon?" he asked taking a few unnecessary steps toward me so that I was back up against the wall. What did he mean by the. I looked at Liz. She seemed so hopeless, and attempted to give me a sorry smile, but all I saw was worry. I didn't blame her; she couldn't really do anything now. That guy was as hard as rock. And all she could really do was throw things at him. Not to mention the lack of furniture.
"Uh, y-yeah."
"How interesting.." was all he said. His scent was making me dizzy.
"How did you find me?" I asked.
"You're scent. I have a keen sense of smell too. But enough of that now. I need your help."
What? I thought I heard wrong.
"Excuse me?"
"You heard me," he leaned over, the strong smell exhausting me,"I. Need. Your. Help. Well, more like you need mine."
What the hell? Wasn't he supposed to be practically, uh, eating me by now? Okay, this is weird.
Really weird.
"With what?"
"Well, Edison Group messed me up too. So I was thinking you and your run away friends could help me. I mean, we could work together and bring them to an end, Chloe."
I stifled a gasp. Edison Group? And how'd he know my name?
"How'd you know about all that?!" Seriously, he was freaking me out more than just a little.
He stepped back and sighed. "Well, it's a long story," he ran his fingers through his dark hair. "I used to be normal. Edison Group grabbed a few humans to experiment on, a long while ago. these groups are worldwide cooperation, Edison is just one of their many branches, and they got their hands on some ancient vampire venom." he gave me a tired smile. "That's another story. Look, we need to get out of here first. That counter guy just got off the phone with the police. We'd really better go."
"I'm not going anywhere. And why the hell should I believe you?" Did he really think I was that naive?
"Look, I know this is all really weird, and I don't blame you for not trusting me. But you're gonna have to get outta here sooner or later, and Ed Group isn't going to end itself." he looked at me, and I heard the pleading in his voice. "We need to stop Edison Group, they messed us up, and now it's time to give'em what they deserve."
I couldn't really tell him anything, and , no matter how tempting it was to believe him, I wasn't thoroughly convinced. I whispered to Liz, "Go check downstairs. See if Doug called the police."
she nodded and walked through the wall. The vampire was looking out the window, and I could see the sadness in freakish red eyes. "They took my little sister." he whispered. I didn't say anything, so he continued, "I don't know where she is; she didn't escape with me. Told her I'd be back for her. It's been months."
I opened my mouth to say something, but I closed it again, not finding words. I wanted to comfort him, but I just couldn't. I didn't wanna mess up and get into anymore trouble.
Liz came through the wall and nodded, "He just got off the phone, and he is coming up here."
Oh crap. What now?
"Maybe you should go with him." she said.
"Are you nuts, Liz. For all we know this could be a trap."
"It doesn't seem like it," she said, and pointed to the vamp. He was just standing there, looking out the window. His eyes shimmered, telling me he was on the brink of tears. I sighed, "Fine, I'll come with, but I swear if you try and do anything you'll be in for it." I really didn't know what chance I had with a vamp, and honestly, I didn't look very threatening. But now, as with what happened with Ramon, I had to make a decision, even if I didn't know how bad the outcome may be. And I only hoped this would be as right as a decision as mine with Ramon. He smiled and ran up to me with blurring speed "Thank you, oh, and my name is Will"
"Whoa, how'd you-"
"I promise I'll explain everything, but now isn't a good time." He pointed at the door, and I heard footsteps. I bit my lip. "O-ok-kay." I said.
He did the running thing to the window, and opened it. I walked toward him, feeling like jelly.
He jumped out the window and I would've screamed if he hadn't come back up in record time.
"Come on, take my hand." he held out his pale hand to me. I starred at him.
"Trust me?" he said.
I hesitated "Fine, but you have a lot of explaining to do." I didn't bother think how stupid it was to take his hand, and let him jump out the window again, hanging on to me.
We landed perfectly on the soft grass. "Okay, we have to get out of here quick before counter guy comes and sees you gone."
Liz was standing beside me, but I couldn't read her expression. I sighed and prayed that I hadn't made the biggest mistake of my life when he grabbed me again and raced down the freeway; I was about to protest, but his feet were faster than my words.
"Hey, wait up!" I heard Liz call back, but she disappeared as Will traveled like a speeding bullet. It was amazing and terrible at the same time. We traveled a mile in seconds but his scent , mixed the super-fast running, made me nauseous.
"Okay, we are far enough now." he said, looking totally relaxed. I, on the other hand, was breathing hard, as if I was the one running that fast. Sheesh, man can that guy move!
"Ya think?" I told him.
He laughed, and I hoped that it wasn't the 'evil genius' type.
"First I need to find my friend." I said suddenly thinking of Derek. He was gonna kill me when I found him. And hopefully I would.
"Who may that be, Chloe?"
"When, I, uh, caught you feeding, there was someone with me. I need to find him."
"The guy who beat you up?" he tilted his head to the side, "Why would you wanna find him?"
I tensed, "It was an accident, see, he's a werewolf too-"
"Ah," he said, as if he suddenly understood, "Souza? The young werewolf?"
It scared me that he knew so much about us. "Uh, yeah, Derek. That's him. We were heading to Rochester to get the rest of our friends, and somehow find a way to stop all this."
"Rochester? Is that where the main headquarters is?"
"Yeah, and we need to get there as soon as possible."
"Okay, so where can we find Derek?"
I sighed and literally had no idea.
"Well, he sure didn't take the van, the wheel is flat." I said, trying to narrow down possible places.
"Unless he replaced the wheel,"
Damn.
"Okay, this is going to be tough."
I tried, failingly, to think of anywhere where Derek might be. Then it hit me.
"Oh no." I whispered.
"What?" Will asked, confused.
"The Pack."
