Bayou Moon (2 page)

             
More memories flooded back into his mind of the cemetery. He remembered the fate of his coworker, and his untimely demise. Then the memory of the woman flooded his head as his own attack was replayed in his thoughts. Out of reaction he reached his hand up to feel his neck, unfortunately, the memories had been real. The two puncture wounds that he felt were a grizzly reminder. “Damn witch, she really bit me!”

             
Kreel then turned his attention to his surroundings. Over on the far side of the room he spotted a door. “If that’s the way out, then I’m taking it!” Kreel started for the door, he stopped just before getting to it. The sound of squeaking hinges came from behind him. Turning slowly, Kreel noticed another coffin that he had not caught site of before. Slowly the coffins lid began to open, and the woman from the cemetery rose from its confines.

             
Kreel turned making a mad run for the door. Only when kreel went to reach for the knob, there was none. He slammed his body into the door but it would not budge.

             
Kreel turned and stared at the woman in horror. The vampire just looked back at him as if he had lost his mind.

             
Kreel wondered why she was just staring at him. He knew at any moment she could be on him faster than the blink of an eye. “Lady I like your place, but I think it’s about time for me to be getting the hell out of here. So if you would be kind enough to tell me how to open this door, I can show myself out.”

             
She looked at him bewildered by his words. “Leave, why would you want to leave?”

             
“Why? Well let me think. I seem to recall you draining my coworker’s body drier than the Sahara Desert, and then trying to turn me into your own personal chew toy!”

             
She laughed. “You’re funny, chew toy. I have to admit, I have never heard that one before.”

             
“There is nothing I find funny about this situation lady. I don’t know what kind of crap you’re into but you’re just too damn freaky for my liking. What are you anyways, like one of those Goth Chicks?”

             
She looked at him odd, confused by the words. “Goth chick?”

             
“Honestly, I have no idea what you are lady, but in all my born days I have never ran across anyone like you!” Kreel got a chill that ran up his spine as the memory of the graveyard began to replay through his thoughts again.

             
Maggie threw her legs over the casket and stood up. Kreel watched her as he backed his body further up against the door. “No, I’m sure you have never met anyone like me before.” she said

             
Kreel could feel his heart rate increase. “Lady, do me a favor and stay where you are.”

             
She stared at him with a quizzical look. “Do I make you nervous Kreel? And the name is Maggie.”

             
Kreel’s eyes shot wide open as he gave her a look of shock. “Nervous? Lady you make me more than just nervous, you scare the shit out of me!”

             
She took one step towards him. “I don’t mean to, scaring you is the last intention that I have.”

             
Kreel laughed uncomfortably. “Oh no?  Then what the hell would you call the stunt you pulled in the graveyard? Some calling card you have there lady. Now why don’t you be nice enough and let me out of here?”

             
She hung her head as the light in her eyes dimmed with the smile that had been on her lips. “I can’t do that.”

             
Kreel’s mouth gaped open. “You can’t do that or you won’t.”

             
She only shook her head. “That’s what I just said.” She rolled her eyes at him in frustration. “Why do you keep repeating everything that I say?”

             
Kreel stood there gawking at her with his mouth open again. “Lady, do you think this is some kind of game?”

             
She seemed to have an enthused look on her face. “A game, no, would you like to play one?” Maggie pointed to a stack of board games.

             
Kreel followed in the direction she was gesturing and noticed a stack of old outdated games covered in dust and spider webs. He lifted his head to look back at her. “Hell no I don’t want to play a damn game! Lady, you really need to get out more.” Kreel reached his hand up and rubbed his neck. “But lay off of the neck biting part.”

             
Maggie looked a bit disappointed. “It can’t be helped.”

             
Kreel looked at her with a bit of his own confusion. “What can’t be helped, the getting out part or the biting?”

             
Maggie shook her head and sighed. “Both actually, my kind only live a half existence.”

             
If kreel wasn’t on edge before, he definitely was now. Figuring he had nothing else to loose, he decided to ask the question he wasn’t sure he was ready to hear. “Umm, your kind?” he suddenly felt he should not have asked. He was sure he wasn’t going to like the answer he was about to get.

             
Maggie wasn’t sure how much she should reveal just yet. He had already seen in the graveyard what she was capable of. She decided it would be better to tell him under the circumstances, but she would choose her words wisely. “What would you like to know?”

             
Kreel thought out his question carefully. “Why have you let me live and not kill me like my coworker?” He waved his hands in the air in front of him. “Hey, don’t get me wrong, I’m glad to be alive.” Then Kreel had a thought of a cat playing with a mouse before striking the fatal blow. Kreel swallowed hard.

             
Maggie only shrugged. “I knew you were the one when I saw you; I only knew that I wanted you. It may have been selfish on my part to take you away from your world like that, but I don’t care. The instant I saw you I knew we were meant to be with each other, when I saw you standing there in the graveyard, I knew you were mine.”

             
Kreel looked at her like the woman was raving mad. “Believe me when I say that I am flattered, truly I am, but I don’t belong to you. Lady, what you did is called kidnapping! So how about you let me go and I promise not to say anything to the police about any of this.”

             
Maggie looked at him with contempt, her eyes as red as fire. When she spoke, her voice sent shivers down Kreel’s spine. “I will not be letting you go, understand that, your place is here with me now!”

             
Kreel looked at her and shook his head. “What do you want from me? You have already taken my blood; all I have left is my life. I don’t know you, or what I could have done to upset you enough to act this way.”

             
Maggie only looked at him with eyes that held sadness. “In you I see my mate, and someone that can understand me and share the pain and torment that I feel.”

             
Kreel lowered his head. “I agree. Bringing me here the way that you did was entirely selfish on your part.”

             
Maggie smiled. “When you have lived as long as I have, sometimes being selfish is the only thing that you have left.”

             
Kreel stared at her as if caught in a trance. “Why do you say as long as you have lived, as if you are talking about hundreds of years?”

             
Maggie lowered her eyes back to the floor before finally speaking in a hushed tone. “I cannot die as easily as others; I suppose you will come to know that now that you are like me.”

             
Kreel’s eyes got wide as shivers went through his whole body. Every nerve ending roared to life telling him something was not right.

             
She smiled. “Yes my love, a child of the night, a vampire.”

Chapter Five

             
Maggie smiled a dreadful smile, and one of cruelness. “One should not live alone; to do so is a curse. The night I met you, my curse ended. They say the soul cannot survive unless it is whole. They say to live so is only to live a half-life. Last night my soul became whole once again, and you my love have saved me from a lonely death.” She watched him now as she spoke the words. “I have given you the gift of immortality my love, in doing so, you have become the same as I, a vampire.”

             
Kreel could not believe what he was hearing; her words were a thousand miles away along with the soul she had stolen from him. She was danger, one that he could not escape. “And what is to become of me if I refuse this life you have offered me?” he asked

             
She shrugged her shoulders. “If you refuse to feed then you would surely die, but why would you look for death when I have offered you immortality? There is so much that I can show you, a world you never knew existed until now.”

             
Kreel laughed at the words. “It’s true; to never die holds its qualities. But it was also your own words woman that you just spoke, until you came into the graveyard last night and met me, you had no more use for living, and now like some crazy person, you have placed that same curse on me!”

             
Her eyes widened.

             
“Did you ever think to ask me what I wanted; if that was even a life that I would choose? There is one thing that rings true in your words woman, you are selfish!”

             
There was no smile on her face.

             
Kreel continued. “I may have been frightened before, but if what you say is true woman, then it’s best to take my life now as there is no way I plan to live a life feeding off of other peoples blood. You cannot force me to choose that life. If you wish to try then trust me, I will find a way to end my life myself, so take it. Drain me and leave me here to die. I don’t care.”

             
“I wouldn’t take your life, or allow you to take it, my love. You will soon come to see that my words are right, we are destined to be together.” Her eyes were like fire as she stood on her feet and came over to him. She knelt on the floor in front of him, and cut the skin of her arm open, baring her blood for him to take. “Do not depart me when I have only just found you,” she said. “It is my life that I give you; you have no need to fear me, for my heart belongs to you. Do not forsake me; if you reject me, then I have truly already died.”

             
Kreel stared at her. Her eyes were full of pleading and fuller yet with sorrow. The act she had displayed overwhelmed him, his body was betraying him, and he could not fight it.

             
She stood slowly, and the hunger she felt for him overshadowed the pain that she had felt. She reached for him, clasped her fingers around the nape of his neck, and drew him closer. With her lips, she kissed softly along his jawline, down to his neck, to his shoulder, until he was breathless from the pleasure she was giving him.

             
Then she brought her lips upwards again, to his neck. She parted her lips and kissed the skin where she had bitten him earlier, feeling the pleasure building in him as surely as she could feel the owls of the twilight calling to them to hunt this very night.

             
Cupping her head in his hands, tilting it back just enough for his lips to find hers, Kreel kissed her just as she brought her arm up to his mouth to feed.

Chapter Six

              The scent of her blood shook kreel to the core. So ferocious was his need to feed that he pushed the vampire away and stumbled backward. Falling to his knees, he became overwhelmed by what had just happened. Fighting to his feet, he hurried away from her. His head began to swim, and then just as fast as he tried to steady himself, Kreel lost consciousness.

             
“Kreel, wake up.”

             
He shook his head trying to rid himself of the light headiness. “What happened?”

             
“You don’t remember?” she asked

             
Kreel remembered the kiss, followed by the scent of the blood. “You tried to seduce me and make me forget.”

             
“Had I tried to make you forget, you would have no memory of it now. When will you see that I mean you no harm Kreel?”