Be Careful What You Wish For

Chapter 5

In the previous week or so, he entered her house in his bat form. Turning back to his human form, he drank her blood while she slept. He could do that since when he pretended to be the policeman, he hypnotized her into inviting him into her home.

All those times she was having nightmares, it was her unconscious warning her against the danger she was in.

As he viciously bit into her gentle flesh in the park, again and again, lapping up her blood, she knew it was too late for her. She could sense that the handsome monster didn't only want her blood, it craved her death as well. It felt as if it was taking revenge on her, but she didn't wrong it in any way, she didn't even know vampires existed.

As she lay there being drained by a vicious vampire, she thought how naive she had been. She had always been fascinated by vampires, and even secretly wanted to be one of them.

That was all before she knew they existed. At that moment, as she was being slowly and savagely murdered by that horrific creature, she realized how wrong she was. Wrong in wishing to be that...that thing. There wasn't any remorse or guilt in it, only insatiable hunger, that could never be fully satiated.

She could feel the pain of the vicious bites invading her body, but she could also feel a different pain. It felt like acid running through her whole body, as if it was burning from the inside out, slowly, organ by organ, inch by painful inch.

"Be careful what you wish for!" she screamed inside her head, overwhelmed by the excruciating agony.

After what felt like hours to Cecilia, she could feel that the biting had stopped. She was on her own, in the dark. She was left to die, alone and in pain. She couldn't move, and she felt colder than she had ever felt before.

It was impossible for her not to feel the life slowly draining out of her, the same way the monster drained her blood. She tried to move, but there was no strength left in her broken body, so she just lay there, waiting for the sweet release, death.

Incoherently, she wondered if she was cold because she was dying, or if it was just the chilly winter air. Everything started going dark, and the last thing she felt before she embraced the darkness, was the gentle snowflakes coating her face. It was such a strange contrast to her torturous moments that she couldn't help but enjoy it.

"Snow! I always loved the snow. It's nice that it came to say goodbye to me," was her last incoherent thoughts.

Her body was sprawled on the ground and the amount of snow covering it started increasing rapidly as it continued snowing heavily.

When Tobias arrived, he decided to try to help the poor girl, who was already covered in a thin layer of snow, as much as he could.

The smell of fresh blood was so potent that it made his canines involuntarily come out, and slice through his lower lip.

Nevertheless, he was old enough to get his instincts under control, after a moment's pause. He knew the girl had already suffered enough, and that he owed her to at least control his bloodlust.

The surrounding snow was soaked in bright red blood, dripping from her unsealed bites. The heavy snow turned into a snowstorm, as he hurried on to try to do something for the poor, broken girl, to in a way redeem his kind.

He could hear that she was alive, but her heartbeat was getting weaker and weaker every second that went by. As he scooped her up in his arms, he got a close look at what the other vampire did, and he was thoroughly disgusted.

"It must've hurt like hell! That bastard! Poor little one, you didn't deserve this." he said as he carried her off to a warmer place.

He knew that it didn't matter, but he wanted her to at least have a few comfortable hours before dying. When she didn't get the respect she deserved in life, she could at least get it in her dying hours.

After carrying her to his house, he lowered her gently in the bed of his huge guest room. For the first time in a long while, he was close to a human, and he couldn't help but ponder over how fragile humans were.

There was nothing he could do but tuck her in, and make the last few hours of her life as comfortable as possible. Although he was pretty sure she couldn't hear him, he kept talking to her. He wanted her to feel that she wasn't dying alone.

"Everything will be okay, little one. You are safe. No one will hurt you ever again. You can relax. It's okay." he said in a soothing voice.

Not knowing anything about the girl, he decided that maybe he could just read to her. He knew it sounded pathetic and not very helpful, but he didn't know what else to do.

Tobias read her some of his favorites, in the hope that his soothing voice might at least help ease some psychological pain since he couldn't do anything for the physical pain she was going through.

After a few hours, her breathing became shallow and weak, and her heart stopped.

That was when she died.