"Danny, wake up… It is only a dream" Amos shook Danny, scared by the screams that came out of his mouth.
Danny opened his eyes… "Rupert… he's here. He is coming after me…"
"Rupert Clark is dead."
"You killed him." Danny sobbed. "Did you have to do what… what you did… Tear him apart… dismember him? And then he was coming after me. He was in pieces... And the pieces came chasing me, telling me that it was my fault…"
Amos sighed. "I wish you had not seen that… but you were screaming, and I could feel your pain, and your anger…and."
"I know… I think that I wanted him dead… or punished…but what you did…"
"If I had been thinking straight, I would not have done that…You know that I do not leave a trail of corpses behind me. but you were in pain, and I could feel it as if it was me."
"You mean…"
"Danny, I do not want you to blame yourself for what had happened. But I have taken blood from you more than once. With the blood comes a bond. You can feel when I am in need, yes. But I can feel what you, or anyone I fed on feels. Most of the time I am aware of it, but I know it is not me feeling that. But your pain was too strong, too close. It was not your pain and rage. It was mine. I killed Clark to make the pain stop, and I did not care how brutal I was…"
"So you did what I wanted."
"Remember what he was doing to you. You were not very rational then either… And Clark was mocking you, telling you what else he was going to do if you did not give him what you wanted…."
"So, he died."
"His greed killed him. He pushed us to a point where we had to respond….and respond we did…Danny I am sorry that you saw that. But think, if he had kept on going, if he had ended up killing you, he would not be having bad dreams about it."
"No, he would not."
"So, if he comes back, tell him that he got what he deserved, and to leave you. He killed himself, and that was that."
Danny nodded. He let himself calm down, then saw Amos fly away as he had not fed yet. He went to the kitchen to make himself a tea, trying to calm himself.
He did not want to go back to sleep, not yet… The dream was too vivid in his mind, and he did not want to see it again…
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In her bed, Wendy woke up, as a thought rushed into her mind.
"I did not tell Frank my dream… I never did… I know what I said, and the dream was not in it. so why did I have it?"
How could two people have exactly the same dream, one after the other?
She heard the bat by her window, and let it in. "Amos… do you know anything about dreams?"
She told him what she had dreamed and what Frank had told her, as he fed.
When she was done, Amos shook his head. "I do not know."
"But you are…"
"I am still figuring out what I am and what I must do. But you can ask Professor Romney. He knows a lot of those things. And Beverly might know, too. She is in contact with him"
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Danny's head dropped. He did not want to go back to sleep. But his eyes were getting heavy. and his mind began to wander…." Should have gotten a strong coffee"
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Rupert Clark was there, and he had to run… Try to get the door to open, to escape those torn limbs running by themselves…
Instead, he turned and faced Clarks' body parts. "You were torturing me. I told you I had not treasure, but you kept hurting me. You pretended to be my friend, but you were not… I have the scars of what you did to me. You killed yourself. So, stop blaming me for what you did."
The door opened slowly. And there stood Louis
"I will take it up from here" Louis said.