Vampiric (6 page)

Jess walked with a light step through the double glass doors that fronted the Clearview Police Department. Her mind wandered from the mundane nature of everyday police procedure.

Her thoughts were firmly with the man who had introduced so much love and passion into her life, and her heart overflowed with these same emotions. She had not felt love like this before, it was an exciting feeling.

This excitement morphed to terror the moment she walked through the entrance of her office area to face a scene that made her skin crawl.

Scarlet’s holding cell stood open and empty, its door ajar and its air rancid.

Standing just outside this cell was a young man who she immediately recognized as Vernon Culver. Vernon one of her deputies at the Clearview Police Department.

Only now the skilled, high ranking police officer looked more like a lost little boy. He regarded Jess with a sorrowful expression that chilled her blood.

“
Vernon, what happened?” She barked, running to his side. “Where’s our prisoner?”

“
I’m afraid I can’t answer either question, Ma’am.” Vernon shuffled his feet. “I kept an eye on her, just like you asked. I questioned her about why she was so darned mean…”

“
Well that one doesn’t exactly take a police detective to answer.” Jess rolled her eyes. “She’s cute and psychotic enough to get away with it.”

“
You’re telling me.” Vernon rolled up the sleeve of his police uniform shirt to reveal a long, bloody gash trailing up the side of his arm. “As I was questioning her she started crying hysterically, saying she was sorry for the mess she’d made of her life and threatening to commit suicide, right here in our cell. When I went in to intervene, she took those insanely long fingernails of hers and scratched up my arm pretty bad. The pain distracted me just long enough for her to get away.”

Taking a deep sign to compose herself, Jess ordered Vernon to follow her as she made for the door.

“Come on Vernon.” She made fast tracks through the entryway of the Clearview Police Department. “You’re headed to accident and emergency. I myself am en route to Nightingale Park.”

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After dropping off an apologetic Vernon at Clearview General Hospital, Jess tore across town in her royal blue roadster in the direction of Nightingale Park.

She pulled up at the entrance, jumped from the car and raced to its center. She was relieved to find Hathen seated, safe and unconcerned, on the border of the cherub’s fountain.

“Darling!” He greeted her with open arms and a broad smile. “You’re here early. I’m so glad to see you.”

“
Don't get too excited yet Lu',” Jess ran forward on the grass, thrusting a restraining hand in her lover’s direction. “Scarlet has escaped.”

His smile dissolved. Hathen said nothing as he bounded with determined feet toward the trees that bordered Nightingale Park.

“Clotilde and her brother never came back tonight,” Hathen mentioned to a following Jess as he kept his gaze trained on the forest before him.

“
Not good,” Jess muttered, racing after him with her gun drawn.

“
Like I told Sebastian”, reconfirmed Hathen, “It’s going to be a bumpy night.”

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“Karl, this is ridiculous.” Clotilde stood beside a tall oak tree at the center of the forest, pleeding her brother with an irritated frown. “It’s getting cold out here and I want to go home.”

Karl shook his head.

“Clotilde, you’re not the only one in the family who’s been dabbling around in some pretty strange stuff.” He folded his hands before her. “A few months ago, I started getting voices in my head.”

“
Oh no, not again.” Clotilde buried her head in her hands. “Do we need to renew the prescription on your meds?”

“
Not that type of voice.” Karl smiled, but only briefly. “This voice was soft and soothing. She promised to help me help you. To get you away from the people who are ruining your life.” He looked at her with cold eyes. “But in order to do that, she told me I had to infiltrate your group. To give her information about your corruptors.”

“
Oh my God,” Clotilde froze, putting together the pieces of the puzzle. “You’ve been talking to Scarlet.”

“
No, not Scarlet. Her name is Ruby” Karl beamed, obviously enthused by this new woman's voice. “She’s stopping by this evening to talk some sense into you….”

“
Well the wait is over, Folks. I’m right here. And your sis had it right, sucker. My name is Scarlet.”

Clotilde’s eyes flew wide with terror as she bore witness to a nightmare.

Jumping forth from the bushes before them, a transformed Scarlet grabbed hold of Karl’s shoulders and sunk her teeth in his neck. This hideous creature had coal black eyes, wild hair and sharp fangs.

“
No!” Clotilde shrieked, watching the color drain from her brother’s face as he collapsed to the ground. His blood rushing free from an open bite in his neck.

“
Oh, that was just an appetizer.” Scarlet surged forward, blood dripping from her smiling lips as she grabbed for Clotilde. “You’re next pretty one.”

“
Um sorry, I’m afraid you’re next, nutty one.”

Clotilde sighed with relief as she saw Clearview Police Chief Jess Green tackle the rogue vampire, holding a gun to her head and wrapping her arm around her waist.

“Sorry to tell you Chief,” Scarlet seethed, “but you can’t shoot a vampire.”

Turning in Jess’s arms, Scarlet flung herself against her tackler and knocked her to the ground. She cupped Jess’s throat in her hands, baring her fangs as she descended on the stunned police chief.

“I’ll see you in hell Green.” She went straight for Jess’s throat.

Springing into action, Hathen reached beneath his waistband to withdraw a short, sharp stake. He plunged it deep into the back of Jess’s raging attacker.

Arms falling to her sides, Scarlet collapsed on top of Jess with an agonized howl. Her eyes rolled back in her head, and fangs receded in her mouth.

Assuming control of the situation, Jess rolled the dying vamp off of her and onto the ground. She pulled the stake from her back, watching with no small degree of horror as the life drained from Scarlet's eyes.

“I had to do it.” Hathen raced to her side, watching as Scarlet’s features relaxed to reflect the serenity of death. “She was going to kill you.”

Hathen, Jess and Clotilde watched with sad eyes as the demon that plagued their lives morphed to assume the form of a beautiful, calm faced young girl; one who wore an eerie smile in the face of her own demise.

“I had to do it,” Hathen repeated, this time on a sob that shook his entire being.

Rising from her place on the ground, Jess rushed without a word to the side of Karl, Clotilde’s fallen brother. A man who now sat upward on the ground, covering his neck with his hand.

“Well for a vampire, she didn’t have all that great of a bite,” he whined, before adding with a shaky voice, “I’m betting this is nothing more than a flesh wound.”

Jess grinned as she watched a relieved Clotilde fall to the ground beside her brother. She wrapped her arms around his shoulders.

“We’ll take you to the hospital and get you checked out,” she kissed his cheek, “just to make sure.”

A nodding Karl gathered his sister in a warm, brotherly hug.

“I’m so sorry Sis.” He ran his hands through her pure gold hair. “This is all my fault.”

“
This is Scarlet’s fault,” Jess corrected, turning to a sobbing Hathen. “We did what we had to do.”

Jess watched off Clotilde and Karl, before turning her attention on their leader. Sweeping her lover’s body up in an all-consuming hug, she cradled an emotional Hathen as he struggled to collect himself.

“I’ve never killed anyone,” he looked into her eyes.

“
You were saving my life,” Jess reminded him, rubbing a soothing hand through his long blond hair.

“
Just as you saved my den when you took that creature into custody.” Hathen planted a hot, fierce kiss on Jess’s moist and welcoming lips. “I am your keeper, Jess Green, just as you are mine.”

“
I love you Hathen.” Jess leaned forward, losing herself in his embrace.

“
I love you too, Jess.” Hathen held Jess closer than close, basking in the rays of the moon above as they christened their newfound love.

The End... For Now.

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J A Fielding.

Other books I have written include:

1.
       
Coffee And Vampires
(A vampire romance)

2.
      
Is My White Mr Right
(A 'black woman white man' romance)

3.
      
Why Do I Like White Men?
(A 'black woman white man' romance)

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