And All Things Will End

We kneeled behind the counter and waited for what seemed like hours.
Chrissie had taken a butcher knife from the kitchen draws and was steadily crouching next to me, the blade gleamed brightly as she turned it slightly in her hand to get a better grip, she looked ready for a fight, her eyes stayed focused on the door like a wolf hunting it's prey.
I couldn't help but wonder what they were so fearful for.
If the vampires needed an invitation to enter the house we should be safe right?

knocm knock, the front door creeked open, I could hear Matt and Brian talking to someone, from what id heard they hadn't invited anyone in.
Then I heard footsteps from the lounge and the squeak of the couch as someone sat down, Chrissie wedged the kitchen door open ever so slightly so we could see what was happening in there.

There seemed to be three new men in the room, two tall fat guys in body guard suits and a slimmer much more elegant man sitting facing away from me on the leather sofa.
he was wearing a pin stripe dark grey suit with a long black fat tie. Oddly though from what I could see it looked
like we was wearing doc martins with his outfit.

"So how have things been around here, I haven't visited in quite some time" the man said,
Matt looked un easy, his eyes roamed the room, he locked his gaze with me and slowly nodded his head.

The man saw Matt's gesture and turned his head to meet our eyes peeping through the door. He smiled softly as he pushed some of his black hair from his face.

"you might as well come out girls, I could smell you the second I walked in the door" he yawned.

Brian tightened his grip on the vile he was holding as the man slowly stood up and walked to the kitchen door.
I looked at Chrissie who shared the same fear stricken expression that was plastered on my face.

He bent down to the crack in the door and peered through, his skin was whiter than Chrissies and that was saying something and his eyes, they looked like an ocean, great colors of turquoise and blue swam around as he looked in.
I could hear a dull buzzing sound in my head as he tapped on the wooden frame.

Chrissie shrugged at me as we decided to surrender and slowly pushed the door open and walked to the lounge, Chrissie stood by Matt. She still held the blade close to her thigh as Matt placed an arm on her shoulder.

I took a seat beside Brian, he was so focused on the man in the suit that he flinched as I sat beside him. I could see his muscles tense as the man wondered back over to his chair and lent forward to us.

"So, this is Kayla I assume" he grinned, I could see the tips of his fangs pointing out from behind his top lip, it made me shiver I crossed my legs over one another to stop my knees knocking together.

"Now now, there is no need to fear me dear, my name is James Owen Sullivan, son of the founder of Huntington, you may also already know there are vampires in my
town".

Although James had been very nice since his arrival Matt, Chrissie and Brian didn't seem to think there was no reason to fear him.
He stuck his hand out for me to shake, his long hand inviting me to accept.

I gently pulled my hand from my jumper as Brian shot me
a warning look, his eyes begging me to ignore James' request.
I couldn't refuse James, I was scared he might hurt us if I appeared rude, so I slowly and carefully took his in mine.

His skin was ice cold to the touch and the second my hand brushed his he pulled me into his chest,
i let out a quiet whimper as he brushed his hands over my hair,
"now, does someone want to explain to me why a minor is living in this house?" He hissed
"do you all know what could happen if my mother discovered this?!"
His long fangs fully showing he growled at the three occupants of the house, he looked down into my eyes as his once blue oceans were now a deep pit of firey oranges and reds.
I tried to pull my hand away and move back to the safety of the couch but he held on tightly and twisted so I couldn't budge,
i let out a small whimper at the pain that ran through my wrist
"please don't hurt me, I dont want to be killed by a vampire!" I yelled

"darling, I am not a vampire, I am THE VAMPIRE" he cooed.
He released me from his death grip and I scampered over behind Brian who stood with his legs apart and his hand on his waist, I hadn't noticed but he had pulled a miniature cross bow from the back of his pants and was now pointing it steadily at James' chest.
Matt had pushed a very pissed off Chrissie behind him
as he pulled a wooden club from behind the chaise.

"Don't be stupid guys, you know that won't kill me"
"yeah but itl put a nice new dent in your face" called Matt,

The body guards who had been watching intently at our quarrel eyed James, he shook his head at them and their stance relaxed.
We on the other hand were still tensed and ready to go.

James laughed as he placed his hands on his hips.
"Well if it ever comes to that Matty I hope you come a bit better prepared"

huh Matty? This guy was on nickname basis with Matt??

"ok enough of this" he giggled, he actually giggled, I looked dumbstruck to Matt who shrugged and relaxed his weapon then nodded to Brian who dropped his cross bow arm.
What the hell was going on here?

"You, girl" he pointed "you need to understand here in Huntington we have rules for both species that occupy our town. And you living in this house without proctetion makes you fair game to all the other vampires."

"I'm sorry?" I asked shocked by his words, game? What like prey?

"Yes prey" a voice said in my head
James stared at me intently, his eyes never left mine as the voice continued

"it's me your hearing but no one else can. I have a proposition for you, and if you accept I will give you, and the others valid protection from hunting."

"What proposition" I said out loud,
clearly no one else could hear James speak as they all had confused looks on their faces, when James started to talk again I couldn't hear what anyone else was saying

"I would like you to work with a close friend of mine, his name is arin and he is a physicist like yourself. He is working on something and I believe he would need assistance from someone a little more... In the know"

i thought about his request for a moment, all this guy wanted was for me to work with another scientist? Hell, that's nothing bad I would be doing the same thing in school anyway.

My eyes darted to Matt who was mouthing something to me, all I could make out was 'don't', don't what?

"Look, James" I thought loudly, clearly if I could hear him he could hear me,
"call me Jimmy" his grin grew on his face,

"ok... Jimmy, I want my friends to be safe, and I mean no more vampires knocking on our door, and I want to be paid for my time working with your physicist, and I want to be able to stay here in this house for as long as I need"

"those demands are fair" his turned his gaze to brian
"and what of this one, I am rather close to Mathew so I can let his attempted attack on me slide, but Brian will have to be punished"

"NO" I yelled
"I'll work for as long as you want and for however long you want me to, just don't hurt them, they're the only people I know"

Jimmy tapped his temple as a clear force washed through the room

"agreed" he chuckled

"no!" Yelled Brian as the wave flushed past, blowing his hair from his face.

In an instant Jimmy had disappeared from the room along with his guards leaving Matt, Chris, Brian and I facing an empty seat.

"What do you think your doing!" Yelled Brian
"you just made a deal with the devil, no one makes deals with jimmy! Their always two sided!" His hands were on either side of his head as he paced the room.

Matt try also had a hand to his forehead as he placed the vials on the lamp table,
"what did he ask you" he groaned

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