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“Tegan, where are you going?” Ethan calls, but I’m already out the door before he can catch up with me. Slowly I peek my head around the frame, and as I do I can hear a disturbing sound, hiss, hiss, hissing. The scene I’m confronted with literally freezes me in place. I know that it’s Amanda even before I see her face because there’s no mistaking her electric blue hair.
Jesus. I don’t know whether to vomit, hurl abuse at them or just walk away. Lucas looks as though he’s giving her a massive hickey, but I know that’s not what he’s really doing. He’s sucking her blood. What a pair of deluded, disgusting bastards. I know what they’re up to because a drop of blood is running down Amanda’s neck as Lucas sucks on her.
“What the hell is…” but before I can finish Lucas’ head snaps around in my direction, and I fall down from the shock of it.
His eyes are red, blood red, and black veins mark his forehead. Then Ethan grabs me, and in a blur I end up back in his office. I shake my head in an effort to get rid of the dizziness, but I look up just in time to see him lock the door.
Chapter Five
Come Into My World
“What the hell did I just see?” I ask Ethan, my voice shaky. He stands at his desk, his head tilted downwards.
“It seems that Lucas and your friend have been getting to know each other better,” he sighs.
“Oh yeah, pull the fucking other one, I know what I saw.” I shout at him, courage racing through my veins to confront him even after the horror I’ve just witnessed.
I sit down in one of the chairs and a moment later Ethan approaches me, kneeling down in front of me. He looks me directly in the eyes and for some reason I feel like there are bricks attached to my eyelids and all I want in the world is to sleep forever. I shake myself out of it quickly. But, wait a second. Where the hell had that come from? I’d felt more tired than ever for a second and then I’d felt normal again, not sleepy at all.
“What was that?” I ask, instinctively knowing that Ethan was doing it to me. He says something in Romanian that sounds a lot like a curse. I get up from my sitting position and make my way toward the door.
“Where do think you’re going?” he demands. “Sit back down, now.”
I gulp, but struggle to ignore the fear spreading like a plague inside me. “I’m going to get Amanda and make sure she’s okay.” I hiss at him, even though know I can’t go out there. I can barely breathe. Barely think. Let alone be a hero.
I’m about to place my hand on the door handle, despite knowing it’s locked, when my eyes are confronted with a blur of motion and suddenly Ethan is in my way. Fuck. He’d moved so fast. Unnaturally fast. Like a movie in super speedy fast forward. I falter backwards, my head dizzy.
“H-how?” is all I can say.
“Sit down.” He demands with all the authority of a thousand year old dictator, and this time there is no warmth in his voice, no flirtation. I fall to the floor right there and then, because, and I hate to admit this, I am frightened. Frightened of how motionless and cold his face has become, frightened of how my perception of reality has been distorted, and all within the space of a few minutes.
Am I losing my mind? Is my sanity slipping? Because if there was a Bible in front of me right now I would unhesitatingly place my hand upon it and swear that I saw Lucas transformed into a monster and feeding on one of my friends. Feeling a chill I wrap my arms around myself.
Ethan sits down on the floor with me. “Could you relax, your friend is going to be fine.”
“Don’t tell me to relax!” I shout. “What is he? What are you?” I ask frantically, all the while inching myself away from him on the cold floor.
Ethan laughs. “Backing away isn’t going to do you much good honey, you’ve seen how fast I am.”
“What are you?” I repeat my question, because my head is scrambled and my thoughts can’t seem to move forward.
“What do you think I am?”
“A freak.”
“Very funny,” he replies harshly and his tone makes me feel unsafe.
“Why don’t you just explain it to me then, because all I know is that Lucas’ eyes were blood red and he had black veins showing through his skin and for some reason I know he wasn’t playing dress up.”
“I will have to have a word with him,” says Ethan, more to himself than to me.
“What? For trying to kill my friend?”
“We do not kill people Tegan, at least, it is our policy not to.”
“Oh so it’s a “we” then is it? Are you trying to tell me that both you and Lucas are - well that the two of you aren’t exactly human?”
“I’m not trying to tell you anything, I am trying to figure out how to clean up this mess.”
