'Til Death Do Us Part (94 page)

You get the imagery
, right? It was that bad.
I
wanted
to forget that this had ever happened
. T
he human misery these two were doling out was without rival. They actually reveled in their kills, playing with children much like a cat does with a mouse. Even going so far as to toss one back and forth as they took small measures of blood, the mother screaming in horror as she would run from one vampire to the other in a desperate bid to get them to stop. If I could have stepped through the barrier of time to never return to my own era just to have the chance to stop them I would have. I was merely a voyeur to their disease.

This repeated to the point whe
re I just stopped watching. S
he had each kill catalogued in her memory like a soccer mom stores dinner recipes on a little rolodex, although really
,
how many mom
’
s still did that up until the end. Most likely all of that was either on a smart phone or a tablet, these days though it would be whatever was scavenged. It was only by mere chance that I caught what unfolded next, I was getting a crick in my non-existent neck and pulled my head back up from my penny finding pose.

The Stranger was completely old-school as far as vamps go, he was sleeping in a coffin, but where there should have been dirt I saw what looked like the finest of silks, apparently blood thirsty creatures of the night liked their comfort also. Eliza was staring down at him, she was on the far side of the coffin her hands guiltily behind her back
,
from this angle I could not tell what she was hiding. She was about as coy as a five year old with chocolate all over his face and a busted cookie jar on the kitchen floor, adamantly denying any knowledge to the events in said room.

She kept inching closer to hi
m
, peering intently at his face. It was impossible to figure out what she was doing but she looked to me like she was trying to find his soul.

“
Good luck with that,
”
I said aloud.

Eliza looked straight up and at me as I said the words, she startled the shit out of me, I was pretty glad I was
incorporeal
at the moment or I would have had a hell of a mess to clean up. After my heart stopped trying to dislodge itself from my chest I realized she was looking through me and at the doorway where something heavy had scraped against stone, at least that
’
s what it sounded like. When she looked back down at The Stranger
,
his eyes were open and he was eyeing Eliza curiously and I might add a little warily. It seems the same noise had disturbed his beauty rest.

“
Up early
,
my dear?
”
h
e asked.

Her head moved back
,
but she did not. Eliza nodded once and I could tell she was wavering with whatever her plan had been.

He began to sit up;
that was all the trigger Eliza needed as she pulled a large wooden stake from behind her back. What happened next was too fast to track with human eyes, but when I caught up, Eliza had plunged the stake at least 8 inches deep into The Stranger
’
s chest.
H
e in the mean time had wrapped his large hand around her slender throat, he was dying but he seemed very determined to take her with him. The world would have been a much brighter place had they both succeeded. Eliza finally wrenched free as the vampire
’
s heart began to beat its final rhythm. Eliza stepped back
and placed
her hands to her bruised and blackened throat.

“
You will never lay your hands on me again
, Victor. No one will,
”
s
he rasped heavily.

“
I was wondering when you would turn. I knew I s
hould have killed you weeks ago,
”
Victor said as he placed both his hands around the stake.

I thought he was going to try and pull it out
,
but he seemed incapable of much more than
lying
there as his...what poured out? His death? Can death pour out? Nobody spills death. I
’
d let future theologians worry about it. I was glad beyond words that this monster was dying but he had bred one that would far surpass his mastery.
T
hen Eliza hit me with words so hard I was knocked back into the reality of the Zombie Apocalypse.

“
I curse you
,
Victor Talbot, my hope is that you walk the world in eternal darkness. I will destroy every seed that you have ever sowed.
”

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