Chapter 8

Screaming. Darkness. He was surrounded by it. He couldn't see anything. All he could do was clutch the sides of his head and hope the screaming would stop. As for the darkness, well, he was rather thankful for it, afraid of what he might see if it wasn't.

"Stop..." He whispered to himself. The screaming was beginning to become unbearably loud. It was coming from all sides, surrounding him completely. He fell to his knees, not caring where he fell. "Stop!...just stop screaming!!" he found himself yelling at no one. His voice echoed back to him, but the screaming continued, except now,
there was laughter too. It was a deep, sadistic laugh. The laugh that never failed to make his blood run cold. His father's laugh.

"I found you..." The words were barely even a whisper, but he heard them. Loud and clear. "No, you're dead!!" He shouted. "You're DEAD!"

More laughter. The screaming was slowly beginning to fade into the background. Alessandro's laugh overpowering it. "NO!"

Mail sat bolt upright still screaming. "No!, No!, No!" he kept shouting. "You're dead!"

He was gasping and holding himself tightly. His whole body was shaking, why was it so cold? Where the hell was he?

Mail looked around the room. It was too dark though, he couldn't see a thing, and for a second he thought he was still asleep, and stuck in his nightmare. Upon moving a little to the side though and he knew he wasn't asleep anymore, 'cause pain shot across his back, and he almost screamed. He let himself fall back onto the bed.

'Wait...b-bed?' Mail, ignoring the white hot pain that was radiating in his back, opened his eyes and moved his hands across the cold silky sheets. 'It is a bed...'

He tried sitting up again, but only got about half way up before he fell back down again, crying out in pain. "Fuck!" he shouted. 'What the hell happened...' His thoughts were cut off abruptly. The temperature dropped dramatically, and he fell into a deep sleep.

Mello moved his hand back away from Mail's forehead. He didn't want to have to do it, but the boy was suffering. So, he had put him to sleep. "Who is dead?" He asked no one. "Who is screaming?" he asked again. He wanted to know who had caused the boy so much pain, and trauma to the point of waking up screaming the way Mail had done twice already in the same night.

The blond sighed to himself, and sat down beside the red head he had found half dead in that alley. "Who would do something like this...to such a beautiful child" he murmured to himself. Mello shook his head and growled under his breath. Where the hell had that come from? His gentle side was gone, what the hell was so special about this...this human...that had him backtracking like a sap. Mello stood up, and made for the door, easily able to navigate through the thick darkness. He paused though.

He paused and he looked over his shoulder at the boy in his bed. The red hair stood out in contrast to the black surrounding it. Mello suddenly felt thankful for getting human props. They sure came in handy. Its not like he ever slept. He couldn't. The kitchen was fully stocked with food, but he never ate. It didn't do anything for him anyway. although, he did eat chocolate often. Why? Cause the damn shit was addicting, thats why!

The blond snarled again under his breath and walked out of the room. "I should suck him dry, and put the brat out of his misery..." He wasn't fooling anyone though. His face had softened and guilt was already stabbing at his chest just from the mere thought of killing the broken, innocent child in his "bed"

"Fuck..." He hissed. Mello sauntered into the small kitchen of the house, and he pulled the fridge open, pulling out a Hershey's bar. In the blink of an eye, he had the wrapper torn off. He bit into it, and let it melt on his tongue. Ah, Chocolate. The second best thing to blood. Together maybe...Hm, Well Mello had never tried it. But it was on his things to do 'before the psycho vampire that is after my ass shows up and beheads me' list(1)

Mello's lip curled up over his fangs at the thought of the vampire. Light. The blond snorted. Light? What kind of fuckin' name was Light? The fucker was the farthest thing from being any kind of light. He calmed himself down with another mouthful of chocolate. 'Relax...he'll have a hell of a hard time finding you here in New York' He thought to himself.

With that thought in mind, Mello made his way back to the small living room, but not before making a quick stop to the bedroom to see how the boy was doing.

Mello leaned against the door frame, a piece of chocolate dangling from his lips. 'His heart sounds closer to normal rate...' he thought to himself. The blond closed his eyes and listened to the sound of Mail's breathing. 'Hm...breathing pattern seems normal,' He let out an annoyed sigh, and he turned into the living room to plop himself down in front of the T.V to watch the news. 'He should be better in the morning'

Mello got himself comfortable on the black leather couch. He turned on the T.V and flipped through the different channels until he got to a news station. He sighed quietly to himself. "And now, we wait, and watch..."

Breaking News tonight.

A series of unexplained phenomenon has been leaving many local residents baffled, and frightened. One young girl, has this to say. Tom?

Mello perked up at this. He took a bite of his chocolate bar, and waited patiently.

"Yes Kelly, I'm here with Wringshire Academy student. Candy Carrington, Now Candy, what is it that happened? "

Mello felt his unbeating heart drop into his stomach. 'Holy shit...It's the same girl from last night!'

The girl, Candy, was looking around nervously. She had her hand over her neck, obviously over the place Mello had bitten her. The reporter waited, with an anxious look on his face as he held the Mic up closer to her face. "What can you tell us about your experience, Candy?"

Candy finally took a breath, and said one word. "Vampires"

Tom, The reporter, chuckled and brought the Mic to his own lips. "Vampires, is that it? That's what attacked you?"

The young blond girl frowned at the reporter. "He didn't attack me...H-he just sort of...you know," She moved her hand away from her neck and pointed to where the bite marks would have been, but there was nothing there. There was only smooth pale skin. No markings whatsoever. "Bit me..." Candy was blushing at this point, either embarrassed at how silly she looked on T.V, or remembering the night she had with Mello.

Tom nodded in a serious business like manner, and turn to face the camera. "There you have it, back to you at the studio, Kelly"

Kelly, the woman reporter was on the screen again, shuffling papers like all the reporters did. "It seems that many cases like these have begun to spring up all over the area. People waking up in strange places with bite marks, only to have them disappear soon after, "

The woman paused, and the camera angle changed, to make the shot more dramatic. "Are there really Vampires roaming around New York? More on this story, and others later tonight at Eleven. I'm Kelly Richmore, for NPH News,"

By the end of the broadcast Mello's jaw was hanging open. Had the floor not been there to stop it, his jaw might of kept going until it hit China. 'Crap...That's the last time I'm hunting around here again...' He growled in annoyance, and attacked his chocolate bar, inhaling the remaining candy in a single bite.

He swallowed, and turned his gaze away from the T.V and instead focused on the falling snow outside. "I'll just have to find other means to get blood..." His gaze turned in the direction of the bedroom, and a light bulb suddenly lit up in his head. "Hm...That just might work..."

The corners of his lips twitched up in a smirk. "Problem solved..."

1. Yes, Light shall return, when? Nun ya, you'll find out eventually. We haven't seen the last of him.

A/N: I totally fail at trying to write out a newscast haha bite me. If you're confused as to what Mello did, he put Matt to sleep. Being a vampire and all I wanted to give Mello at least something to work with. Hm, what else. Oh! the names! ugh...I fail at making up names too! ahh!...oh wellz, you may laugh. Haha, this chapter probably sucks a bit cause its short. But, I had to leave a cliff hanger to move into the next chapter.

Anywho, Mello has an idea! What can it be? No one knows...Well, heh I know of course, but you guys will have to stay tuned to fined out what our Vampy is cooking up. Yup, you guys do that.

Review Please, I got a lot of reviews on chapter seven, Meaning I obviously did something right. So yes, drop off a review and tell me what you think. You'll be much loved.

Matt.