"Oh my God, Ady is that a car?" Kenlie frantically asked as we cruised along the dark, desolate highway.
"Call 9-1-1" I calmly ordered as I slowly pulled off the road stopping behind the van that's front half was wrapped around a tree.
"Stay here." I added, throwing my door open and getting out.
Immediately my instincts and years of training kicked in and something about this situation didn't feel right. I could hear Kenlie in the background as she spoke with Emergency Services and below that and the sounds of nature was a barely audible wheezing type sound.
I cautiously approached the driver's side almost immediately realizing that the body in the van was not only deceased, it had been a Vampire. I took a step back and held my breath as I once more took in my surroundings.
"What's happening?" Kenlie hollered from our car.
"Nothing." I replied with a wave of my hand.
"Just stay there."
"What is it?" Kenlie's voice rang like a loud bell in my head. My momentarily heightened sense of hearing and her sudden close proximity was Hell on my ears.
"I told you to stay there!" I scolded, my eyes falling once more on the body in the van.
"Someone's missing." I said quietly as I took a step forward and got a better look inside the vehicle.
"How can you tell?" She asked.
"The way the windshield is broken on the passenger side." I began as I turned around, stepped passed my partner, and made my way toward the back of the van.
"The glass is shattered on the driver's side, quite a bit still intact; the passenger side glass is mostly missing. Indicating something relatively large either hit it or went through it." I explained further, bending down to pick up a large piece of splintered tree for a stake should I need one.
As I rounded the back of the smashed van the wheezing sound from earlier hit me once more, this time it sounded louder although I could tell that Kenlie could not hear it. My eyes scanned the ground next to and in front of the van and locked on what I could tell was undoubtedly a man.
"Is he dead?" Kenlie inquired as she peeked around my shoulder.
"No." I stated as I gripped my improvised weapon and started towards the man.
"What are you doing?" Kenlie asked as she followed nervously behind.
"He's a vampire, Lee. What do you think I'm doing?" I snapped back haughtily as we reached him.
I didn't take a good look at him, I didn't need to. He was a vampire and I would dispose of his accordingly. I hovered above him one foot on each side, my grip getting tighter. Kenlie protested saying that he could be useful for information and that it was unnecessary to stake if since he would just die if we left him anyway. However, her words and reasoning fell on deaf ears.
I took a deep breath, brought my hands together above my head and dropped to my knees, distant sirens ringing in my ears. As I dropped to the ground everything seemed to happen in slow motion and when the tip of the stake hit his chest everything just stopped. My momentum was gone and the soundtrack of my surroundings was no longer clear to me. My hands still tight around the stake and for the first time I looked at the creature beneath me.
My clear blue eyes peered through what my brother referred to as my "hipster" glasses, into the clouded black eyes of the being and the words he barely spoke hit me like a freight train. He didn't have to say anything, I could see it in his eyes but his voice quietly rang anyway.
"I don't want to die."