Malina's Revenge (14 page)

Matt was passionately kissing my neck – something that usually makes me oblivious to anything but him when I first heard it. „
Sarah
" the faint gasp said in my head. It was so faint that I couldn"t recognize the voice. I leaned back and looked at Matt. “Did you hear that?” I said. He grinned “What? Hear you moan? Yes I did,” then he leaned in and started kissing me again. „
Sar….
" this one choked off and I gasped. “Stop!” I said. Matt looked at me,“What"s wrong?”

I squeezed my eyes shut “Link with me, quick, somebody"s in trouble but I can"t tell who it is.” Most vampires have the ability to link minds and pass thoughts and images to other vampires. I felt Matt in my head as his mind joined with mine. I squeezed my hand in his and tried to will whoever it was back. Suddenly brief images flashed in our heads. Whoever it was must be on a ship as I saw the steel room they were in and the door in front of them. From the angle they were at, they must be lying on the floor. Suddenly the door burst open and in walked an angry-looking man, dressed all in black, carrying a machine gun and shouting something I couldn"t understand. He walked over and I watched in horror as the butt of the gun came down on the person"s head, then the image went black. “No!” I gasped. I kept my focus on the black
“Come on,” I whispered, “Come back.”
From next to me Matt whispered “That"s got to be a cargo ship near Africa. That had to be a pirate.” We waited for what seemed forever. Slowly a few blurry images began forming, the room started to come into focus again. The view started to move from the walls to the floor as whoever it was tried to get onto their hands and knees. I felt my own body move as I tried to send them the strength to stand up– even though that wasn"t possible.
I didn"t even know who this person was, but I desperately wanted to help them. I saw the floor move as they shook and swayed. My God, they were so weak. Ever so slowly, one hand moved forward a few inches, then the other as they tried to crawl toward the wall. They made it a few feet then collapsed onto the floor for a few minutes. „
You can do this
," Matt thought.
„
Come on, please get up
," I thought. Now we were both concerned and trying to help them. Our encouragement in this stranger"s mind seemed to help a bit as the room moved a bit almost like they were nodding in agreement to our words.
They struggled back to their hands and knees. „
That’s it, keep going
," I thought as they slowly moved forward again, finally reaching the wall. One hand came up to the wall and then the other. We could hear them grimacing as they tried to stand, failing the first three times. Finally they made it, and stood gasping, their head resting against the wall. They reached and grabbed something off the wall and brought it down in front of them. It looked like some sort of frame. A picture? No, not a picture “A mirror,” I whispered. Their legs gave out and they sank back to the floor, the mirror coming to a rest upside down in their lap. All three of us heard the first explosion just as the mirror began to come around. Boom, boom, boom, the rhythmic explosions moved closer as the charges that the pirates must have set began to go off. The mirror came around and I saw who it was right before the explosion blew the wall out next to him, throwing him into the far wall as the water began rushing in and the ship quickly started to sink. I didn"t scream, I didn"t utter a sound. I could hear Matt next to me saying “Oh my God, no. Oh shit, it can"t be,” as I just clung to him and his mind, willing it to stay.
‘Sarah, help me’
he gasped. As the image inevitably began to fade in my head, I felt the panic and thought „
Please don’t go
." Just before he lost consciousness again, as strongly as I could, I thought „
We’re coming, Carlos.
" My mind refused to believe that it had just seen our best friend – my best friend since I had met Matt, Matt"s best friend for over a hundred years – blown out of the side of a ship and into the deep black waters of the sea.