David retreated back to his chair and the company of his boys, and they smoked and laughed and did a good job of distracting him from her and the bullshit she had caused but he would still glance over to her and catch her eye and be consumed with the hate and hurt she'd inflicted upon him. He didn't know why she just wouldn't submit like the others had and the only thing he could think of was what Max had told him and that made him even angrier, not just that Max had been right but that he'd been too arrogant to listen. Paul was fucked and Marko was well on his way too, so he led Paul out the back and they crashed while David sat there sucking on another cigarette and he became aware of Dwayne looking at him.

'You alright?' Dwayne projected to him and David caught his breath before answering him.

'How am I supposed to feel? The bitch fucked him.' Dwayne continued to look at him surprised David was showing him any kind of emotion. David only ever displayed and malice and a superiority over anything he chose to engage in. 'Fuck it, it's either tomorrow night or never.' He covered his slip up and flicked his cigarette into the nearest barrel. Dwayne dropped it, getting up and lifting Laddie up from the couch and putting him in his bed then he left David to it and David sat there in the silence and looked at her. He'd fought too hard and wanted her too much to just let her go and he needed to see if he still had her. If he could still affect her without compelling her. He stood and walked to her motionless body and looked her over. He brushed her hair from her shoulder, exposing her supple neck to him and he ran his finger along her neck, rousing her from her short sleep, and as she looked up at him, he saw the old Star looking back at him, the way she used to in the beginning, and he held her gaze for a minute. He rolled her onto her back while holding her jaw to the side as to keep her entire neck open to him and he leaned down and ran his tongue from her collar bone almost to her ear and, feeling aroused, and he kissed her. He kissed her again and he scraped his growing fangs along her the surface of her pale skin and he found he could already taste her and he was quickly unable to control his instinct to penetrate her, so he did, and he was instantly reminded of how sweet her blood was. She was like the sweetest most potent drug he'd ever had and he was beginning to feel torn over what to do with her. Being made aware of the hurt she could cause him and everything he'd put up with, with her, he could go so far as to say he loved her now but he still felt the need to tear her in two. He pulled away and slit his wrist and hovered it above her, letting it dribble onto her mouth and she reached up and grabbed it, placing it straight to her mouth and the way it felt when she drank from him, she may as well be sucking his cock with the effect it was having on him. He saw the effect it was having on her too and he felt a tinge of satisfaction, then he abruptly pulled his arm from her grasp and he stood up triumphantly. She wanted more of him badly and he saw the familiar tinge in her eyes as she lay there distraught he'd taken the serum for her infliction away from her.

'You still want me.' He mocked her. 'You need me to live Star. Don't you ever forget it.' He stepped back and walked away from her, knowing he was leaving her wanting more. She was so close that he was certain tomorrow she would fold like a deck of cards. David went to sleep confident in the knowledge everything was going to change and he would have everyone where he wanted them to be again and if he didn't, he was going to wipe out Star, Michael and Laddie, damn near everybody, if it made him feel better.

0o0

'Aaarrgghh!' Marko began screaming and David felt a sharp pain in his chest and he woke up and began screaming also, only to see Marko falling to the ground and landing on two guys with a huge stake protruding from his chest. Dwayne and Paul were screaming too and David looked at the young teenagers just as they looked up at him.

'You're dead meat!' David screamed at them and they freaked out and yelled even louder. If they thought they were scared before they had no idea what they were in for now. David flipped down and hissed at them as they struggled to get through the main passageway that led out to the main cave and he shot after them. He grabbed one of the kids legs and pulled him back to him but the other two held fast to the boy and, being in the middle of the day, David was struggling to maintain his grip with the limited strength he was finding he had. Then suddenly his hand was pulled into a shaft of sunlight and he let out a piercing scream of pain and he had to let the little shit go. David sat back in the shadows processing what had happened and trying to think where he'd seen the kid before, then it hit him. He had been at Michael's house a couple of nights ago. He was Michael's brother and he began laughing, there'd be no stopping David now. First Michael had fucked Star and now he'd orchestrated Marko's killing. Michael was a dead man and David didn't give a fuck what Max wanted now. David flew back to the sanctity of his sleeping cave and sleep took him instantly as it had Paul and Dwayne and they slept the sleep of the dead until the sun rose. David awoke and Marko was at the forefront of his mind and he screamed to wake the others. David was hurting already and he was fucking angry, his Marko had been taken and there was no way he would be refraining from any revenge tonight. He was ready to rip apart anyone who crossed his path. He shot out of the passageway to wake Star and put his boots on but then he got a second hit when he saw that both Star's and Laddie's beds were empty. Paul appeared with a filthy look on his face with Dwayne looking similar behind him and David stood up.

'Who the FUCK?!' Paul roared and David stepped towards them.

'Michael.' David answered him. 'Look who else is missing.' He watched as his remaining boys looked over to the two empty beds and Dwayne became even more ropable.

'They're fucking dead.' Dwayne growled and they flew from their cave home on their mission of revenge. David flew like a bullet train inland towards Michael's rural house, a myriad of torture techniques running through his head and David could feel the rage emanating from his brothers over Marko and it was making their flight even more urgent. They approached the house and saw Michael and his little brother out in the yard untying a dog and Star and Laddie standing on the porch yelling at them to come inside, along with the two who had killed Marko and it all came together for him. So she was there of her own volition, she was part of this and she would be taken out as Michael would be. David zoned in on Star and suddenly she screamed to Michael that he and his boys were coming and Michael, having untied the dog, looked up at David and ran for the house, shutting the door behind him. Paul flew in through the balcony doors upstairs while David slipped in through the garage and Dwayne made the distracting and more dramatic entrance through the fire place. David flew up into the rafters of the bottom floor and perched, taking pleasure in watching Dwayne swing from the old chandelier and boot Michael in the face, sending him flying to the ground, smashing a lamp and tripping a fuse and bringing the room into a comfortable darkness. He knew Star and Laddie had gone upstairs and he heard Star scream and he fought his instinct to go to her and he stood fast when he heard Paul's voice in his head.

'She's up here.' Paul told him.

'Deal with them and leave the bitch to me.' David said back to him and then he heard Paul confronting the two boys over Marko and then he heard them screaming and he smiled. At the same time Dwayne flew out of the shadows at Michael's brother, who was bent over Michael trying to wake him, and Dwayne picked up the screaming boy by his face and lifted him 10ft in the air, laughing at him. David sat on his haunches enjoying the anticipation Dwayne was creating with the boy when the boy pulled out a water gun and squirted him between the eyes and Dwayne dropped him like a stone, screaming in pain. Suddenly David heard Paul cry out and it was the most brutal searing scream David had ever heard then at the same time Dwayne postured against the boy and he flew towards him and the boy fired a bow and arrow at him and Dwayne silently went down and David froze. Paul had stopped screaming but there was now a low grinding noise in the walls and suddenly the kitchen began erupting with bloody water but David was too focused on Dwayne to pay too much attention when he saw Dwayne suddenly stood up, laughing. He tried to contact Paul and got nothing and he looked over at the exploding kitchen and realised it was the remains of Paul.

'You missed sucker.' He said, walking forward and David prepared to fly down and help him.

'Only once Pal.' Michael's brother said priming another arrow and he fired again, hitting Dwayne square in the chest forcing him back against the stereo and bringing it to life. Dwayne screamed above Michael Hutchence's singing until he imploded and David sat shell shocked at what he was seeing. What the fuck was happening here?! Michael and his brother jumped up and clambered up the stairs, stopping to look at the water spouts appearing in the kitchen, and David made his move and hung down in front of Michael and pushed him backwards down the stairs, laughing at him. Michael's brother continued up the stairs, leaving Michael alone with David and Michael stood up looking around for David and David was pleased he looked scared. David flew at him and kicked him in the face sending him to the ground again and Michael stood up wiping blood from his cheek.

'Afraid to face me David?! Huh!' Michael called out and David stood up on his perch, creating a shadow on the opposing wall. 'Come on.' Michael dared him.

'I tried to make you immortal.' David told him.

'You tried to make me a killer!' Michael screamed and David again flew at him and drove his boot into the face of his opponent. He landed in the corner of the room on the rafters in front of Michael, laughing again at him. Michael was a pussy. Michael turned to face David and David saw he'd turned and he stopped laughing.

'You are a killer.' David confirmed and the true game had begun. David watched Michael lick the blood dripping from his nose and David launched, meeting Michael in mid-air and he wrestled around with him until Michael managed to drive him backwards against the wall, missing a deer's head mounted on the wall by mere inches. David looked at the dead animal then back to Michael. 'My turn.' David shot forward with all his strength and he knew he had Michael. David headed straight for the old man's taxidermy room filled with plenty of sharp bones and antlers sticking up from the table but Michael grabbed the top of the door frame and held David off. Michael was strong and would make a decent vampire and David couldn't help but think that Max really knew what he was doing when he chose pack members. 'Stop fighting me Michael, I don't want to kill you. Join us.' David said to him, trying to coax him one last time. Regardless of everything, David's boys were gone and all David had now was Max and Max wanted Michael.

'Never!' Michael denied him but David kept pushing him.

'It's too late. My blood is in your veins.' David reminded him when suddenly Michael's momentum changed.

'So is mine!' He screamed and David's eyes widened in shock when in a split second, his jacket was grabbed and Michael flicked him around and pushed him onto the table of skeletons, piercing David's chest on a pair of long antelope antlers. David screamed out in pain. He had lost.

'No! Ahhh… Ahhh…' He held onto the protruding stakes as he rocked and struggled with what had just happened to him. His hands fell to his side, his head fell back and he began to close his eyes as he felt the life drain from him until everything went black and he was out.