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Chapter Two
Annie stood outside the hospital doors, bouncy hair plastered down with rain. She was observing it silently, watching the people inside.
Where was the man? If he was doing any experiments to do with health, this is where he should be.
Hmmm...
Wait, there he was! Coming out of a corridor with a smug grin on his face. Whatever hideous thing he'd been planning, he'd done it. He glanced out of the doors, obviously looking for someone, but he saw her. she stood her ground, staring him down.
He walked briskly out of the hospital and came up to her. "You!" he hissed.
Annie spat on his feet. He recoiled, disgust clearly displayed on his face.
"You hideous child!" he growled.
"You pathetic excuse for a human being!" Annie yelled. "What are you doing? Who have you killed this time?"
"You know nothing of my experiments, child! You will see! A new dawn is coming. You'll see the beginning, but I'm afraid my wonderful creations will kill you. My first one has been given the job. So watch out."
Annie watched him walk back inside the hospital. What was going on?
Josie woke up.
Her head hurt like hell, and she rubbed her forehead with the heel of her hand for a good minute
before opening her eyes.
"In the hospital. Again," she groaned. She looked around, expecting to see doctors staring at screens and to crowd her immediately, taking blood pressing and checking her over. The room was deserted. "Hello?" she called, her voice filed with confusion.
A man with not much hair and a white coat came in, smiling.
For some reason Josie didn't look at his face first, but at his neck. She could see a pulse beating there. Funny. She'd never seen that before.
"If you'd care to pay attention for a moment," the man said.
Josie tore her eyes from his neck and forced herself to look at his face. "What do you want? Who are you?"
"I am Dr. Jones," the man announced calmly. "I am here because while you were unconscious, you took some of my V-drug. It has clearly saved your life."
"So?"
"I don't think you quite understand. I have saved your life. You owe me a great debt."
"That's not how hospitals work."
"It's how I work."
Josie swallowed.
"Now, I have a job for you. If you do not do it, I'm sure I can make a point of not saving your life again."
"Are you blackmailing me?"
"Slightly."
"Go on."
"Well, I have a proposition for you. I need you to kill someone for me."
Josie almost had another asthma attack right there. "What!"
"A girl. About your age. Knows too much about my experiments. I need you to dispose of her for me before she becomes a major threat."
"Are you crazy? I don't kill."
"No, you didn't kill. Now it is a different matter." he reached into his pocket and pulled out a bag filled with a thick, red liquid. You can smell it, can't you? You want it. And you want to make more from me don't you? You want to tear my throat out and feel the delicious blood running down your chin. You're not human, Josie. Not any more."
Josie closed her eyes and lay back on the bed, trying to calm herself down. Of course she didn't want it. What would she do with it. Drink it? What would it taste like? Josie suddenly found herself licking her lips. No!
She sat up. "What have you done to me?"
Dr. Jones dropped the blood on the bed. "Figure it out. And I want you to kill Annie. Kill her slowly and painfully. She'll be somewhere around here. Short brown hair, black leather jacket. Find her, Josie. Kill her."
Madeleine was sitting in the hospital waiting room. Waiting.
She fingered the thick bandages wrapped round her head. Ow.
She looked around for something to take her mind off how unbearably painful this was. She saw something she wasn't bargaining for.
"Skye! What are you doing here?"
"Trying to see Josie," Skye replied haughtily.
"Oh."
"You?"
Madeleine pointed at her head with a grimace.
Skye nodded, patting the seat next to her. Madeleine sat.
"Have you seen Annie?" she asked.
"No. Why?"
"She's not at school today."
"Neither are you. How do you know?"
"Didn't see her walking."
"Oh."
They sat in an awkward silence for a while. the waiting room was busy, but quiet. A silence was beginning to fall over the room until –
BANG.
Everyone leapt to their feet and ran. No questions, no pausing, just running. Skye and Madeleine were about to join the crowd until they saw her. Josie. Leaping out of the hospital corridors like an angry animal. She had long, white fangs, smeared with blood, blood also splattered down her clothing. Her eyes were flooded black.
Skye and Madeleine glanced at each other, then back at Josie, then both ran faster than they'd ever run before.
The hospital was in chaos. Dead people were occasionally lying on the ground, others injured and pleading.
Josie, however, didn't stay in the hospital long. She ran into the night, dark brown hair flying behind her.
Skye and Madeleine leant against a wall for support, both shaking violently.
"Oh, jeez," Skye croaked. "Josie..."
Josie hugged her knees. Oh God, oh God, oh God. She'd killed people. And she'd actually enjoyed it. Oh God.
What had happened before?
What had caused her to momentarily turn into a monster?
And... why?
Josie wiped away the tears staining her red cheeks. she bit her lip and tasted blood. She frowned and felt her teeth. Normal, normal, ow! That was not normal. she drew her finger away and saw blood on that too. Her teeth were sharp, almost like... fangs...
Josie howled. Why? Why her?
"Are you alright up there?"
Josie's eyes snapped open. There was someone in the alley below. She was sitting on an abandoned fire escape, half shattered with rust. Josie sniffed and shuffled to the edge of the fire escape, squinting at the shadows in the alley. She could see someone down there, moving in the darkness. In her direction. Josie's eyes suddenly adjusted to the darkness and there was... Annie. Her Annie.
"Annie?" Josie croaked.
Annie stepped out of the darkness. "Josie?"
Josie opened and closed her mouth repeatedly, shock gluing her fingers to the edge of the fire escape. He'd said Annie... but what were the chances of it being this Annie?
"What are you doing up there, Josie?"
Josie went back to her previous position, eyes clamped tightly shut, hugging her knees, rocking back and force, muttering calming words, imagining empty places, and solitude, and sunshine...
The river turned to blood and Josie was laughing...
"No!"
Josie leapt to her feet and began climbing up from the fire escape, up the building.
"Josie, where are you going?" Annie called, concerned.
"No! You have to go! Now!"
"Josie... what?"
Josie turned back to Annie, eyes black as ink, fangs glinting. Josie howled again and bashed her head against the wall. "GO!"
Annie was frozen on the ground, gaping. What? Josie?
Then she realised. They'd wanted children for experiments. None of the homeless had survived. They were making vampires! Josie had been nearly dying, they'd took advantage of her desperate mother.
Annie almost growled. They were sick! SICK!
"Josie."
Josie paused, held on the wall by impossibly strong fingers.
Annie looked all around, searching for the source of the voice. Wher had it come from? She'd recognised it...
The balding man stepped from the shadows, grinning.
"Oh, Annie! I was expecting to find you here. I see Josie hasn't killed you yet."
Josie swayed on the wall, eyes shut.
Annie ground her teeth. "How do you know my name?"
"I have... sources."
Annie spat.
The man recoiled.
"So, Dr. Jones."
The man looked at Annie first, then realised it wasn't her and looked up at Josie, who was crouching on the fire escape, eyes normal.
"Why?"
Dr. Jones had opened his mouth to reply, when Skye and Madeleine burst into the alleyway.
"Get away from our friends, creep!" Skye yelled. Madeleine threw something. It connected with Dr. Jones' head and he crumpled.
Skye raised her middle finger at him as he sat up, dazed.
Skye and Madeleine high-fived.
"And that," Skye said, grinning, "is how we deal with weirdos."
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