Part 7 (1/2)

”How many?”

”Too many to count.” He said to me and turned to watch Gunner lying still in the bed.

”Fine.” I said to him as I reached out and closed his door as quietly as I could. I then turned as he stared at me.

”What?”

”You need to get over this.”

”Over what?” I said.

”Being all distracted with him.”

I started to walk and he jerked my arm back and I pulled it from him as it angered me.

”I am not distracted.”

”This will get you killed and not a purgatory death, a real death.”

I looked at him as his words started to anger me. ”What's the difference?”

”A real death means you are gone forever, no coming back, no more chances.”

I shook my head and walked back to my room. I slammed the door behind me as his words bothered me almost as much as the ones still lingering in my mind from Lucifer's lips. I then tried to shake it off as I walked to my closet and stepped in, ready to suit up and kill some beasts. I definitely need a release.

”f.u.c.king hold him still!” Finna yelled out as Ari tried his best to wrestle a seemingly small 14 year old boy still. I lowered my goggles and then saw it as it truly was, as the vampire hissed and spit. It suddenly darted and Ari lost hold of him as Finna rolled her eyes with a stake held up above her head.

”d.a.m.n it Ari!” she said as they both ran after him and left me alone with Dorin in the street.

”This is it tonight? Just one small vampire?”

”Vampires are not easy.” Dorin said to me as I realized I may have insulted him.

”I didn't mean it that way, you are a bada.s.s of course.” I said as he smiled at me.

”Halo.”

”Movies really have ruined it a tiny bit...”

”Halo.”

I stopped talking and looked him over then continued on. ”You know, you are so pretty that you could be a vampire in a movie.”

He then knocked me aside as the vampire came running towards him, Ari came running back around the corner and Finna followed closely behind.

”I told you to hold him still!” Finna yelled and Ari rolled his eyes, trying to ignore her as usual.

I pushed myself up and watched as Dorin took a stronger stance and then pulled a wooden stake from his jacket. He then crouched down as the vampire sped up and lunged at him. Dorin spun as he rose up and rammed the stake straight through the bottom of the vampires chin and up out the top of his head, Ari and Finna stopped running as they saw Dorin do this. He then leaned up and whispered something to the vampire as he jerked it out and slammed it into his heart. The vampire screamed, a terrible sound that rose up and cracked a couple of car windows, it also set off a car alarm and I watched as the vampire started to change into dust, it rose up into the night sky as Dorin stepped back and watched it, almost looking like he was saddened by it.

”Well good catch.” Ari yelled out to him as Dorin nodded and glanced over at me. I just stood there wondering how he could kill his own, but I quickly swallowed it. I mean I had killed ”my own” to, when I killed Travis. It was no different to Dorin. Beating heart or not, he was still a h.e.l.lhound, as was I.

We sat at the table and ate. I tried my best to eat as I watched Ari and Finna eat like ...well, they eat like Vikings, all messy and loud, spilling drinks and everything. Dorin eyed both of them as they quieted down. ”You need to loosen up Dorin.” Ari said as Finna kissed him on the cheek and they decided to leave us sitting in the large dining room at the table alone. The candles were lined up and down the middle, each one lit and the only source of light in the room. I took a bite and then sat back as I chewed. Not so much hungry as just needing to eat. I know it would seem that we don't need food, but we do. Food is just something that fuels us as we spend a ton of energy when we hunt. Dorin had nothing on his plate, but he did have a gla.s.s filled with what I will pretend is red wine, even though I know it is blood. He took a slow drink and enjoyed it, maybe a bit too much. He placed his gla.s.s down and watched me chew. I swallowed and then took a drink from my gla.s.s, careful to smell it first. He grinned and leaned back in his chair.

”I would not slip you any blood, if that is what you are thinking.”

”I never said that.”

”But you thought it.”

I took a long drink and downed the wine, quickly searching the table for the bottle. Dorin stood up and grabbed it; he walked to my side and leaned down as I held my gla.s.s up to him. The flame from the candles making him even prettier than he already was. He finished pouring the wine and lingered for a moment longer until I took a drink and turned to ignore him. He smiled and set the bottle down next to me as he returned to his seat and picked up his gla.s.s. He played with the edge of it with his fingertips until a low note rose up from the gla.s.s and I watched him.

”So what did you say to him?” I asked as I set my gla.s.s down. He stopped fingering his gla.s.s and looked at me.

”To the vampire?”

”Yes, you whispered something to him.”

”I said only the truth to him.”

”What is the truth, Dorin?”

”I told him that no one is free.”

I watched as he took a long drink and he leaned up, almost as if he had more to say to me, but with that came the sound of a chair pulling out from the table against the wooden floor. We both looked to our right as Gunner sat down and leaned up, pouring wine into his gla.s.s and saying nothing to either one of us. He took a long drink as my heartbeat sped up in my chest. Once he finished his gla.s.s he set it down and filled it again. Dorin leaned back and sighed.

”Feeling better?”

”I will after I drink this bottle.”

”You are welcome.” Dorin said as he stood up and walked out of the room. I knew what he meant, but for some reason Gunner never said thank you to him. I wasn't even going to guess as to why. He took another drink and then stood up as he looked down the table at me.

”Have you been hunting?”

”I have.”

”What have you killed?”

”Two demons.”

”No vamps yet, huh?”

”We killed one tonight, I mean, Dorin killed one.”

”He is good at that.”