Shadows

Prison or Safe Haven?

 I continued to scream until I felt a hand slap my face, it stopped me screaming, and it actually shut me up. But when I looked at the person who had done it I began to back away, reaching up to touch where he had bitten… but all I could feel were two tiny little lumps, like gnat bites.

“Don’t...” he started, reaching for my hands “You… dare” it was a warning, or rather a challenge I kicked upwards in hopes of hitting his balls but I didn’t feel it collide, instead my I realised that my wrists were now pinned behind my back like when a policeman arrests you “Cool it!”

“Get the fuck off me!” I screamed, eventually I felt him let go which in turn made me fall to the floor. Once free I scrambled up on my feet and darted forward but yet again he grabbed me, spinning me around to face him

“I told you to flee... I told you!” his face expressed anger but his eyes showed cockiness, he didn’t give me time to explain as he picked me up and flicked me over his shoulder with one sweep of his arm “You scream, I’ll break your neck” I held my breath… was this kid for real? Deciding that listening to him was the safest option I sighed but remained quiet.

   The next thing I knew I was thrown in the back of a car and told to wait, once he as out of sight I tried the door handles… locked, knew my plan then. What the hell just happened? Vampires? No way, they didn’t exist… my drink must have been drugged I started hallucinating.  A few minutes later I heard men talking not far from the car

“What the hell are we going to do!?” my captor asked

“Well can’t just kill her can we, not after what you felt…” the other guy replied to him, I heard a grunt which was probably from him

“Damn it Seth… what am I supposed to do… she’s seen too much, I can’t just let her go now can I!?”

“Calm yourself old friend, you could… the worst that would happen is that she’s locked up in an asylum somewhere”

“Or she would accidently tell a hunter? I can’t take that risk… but the weird thing is that I can’t read her mind” read my mind? I keep my thoughts to myself asshole.

“It seems that we only have one option then” I gulped, what were they going to do?

“Yes… I suppose so” Things went silent for a while before I heard the car becoming unlocked and the two me slipped in. Seth sat next to me in the back, probably to keep an eye on me whilst my captor sat in the driver’s seat. Neither of them said a word, I fastened my seatbelt up and braced myself for whatever they had planned.

  I gazed out of the window to the constant cloud covered moon, it looked bluish tonight… strange… much like what was going on right now. I didn’t understand how on earth any of this was even bloody real

“Miss…” I turned around to see Seth Staring at me “What’s your name?” I said nothing “Awww come on now… I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours.

“What’s the point if you’re going to kill me anyway?” That’s when I heard both of them burst with laughter “I fail to see what’s funny” I retaliated

“If I was going to kill you I would have done it when you were screaming like a lunatic, if I wanted you to die… I would have let you kill yourself” my captor replied, I lurched forward in my street, panic ridden… the only thing that stopped me touching him was the restraining seatbelt

“That was you!?” I exclaimed “Why… why didn’t you just let me die!?” tears stung my eyes but I held them back, determined not to show weakness

“I was...intrigued...” he said, almost dismissively

“By what!?” I spat

“At the fact I could not read your mind…. Precides, I don’t kill people unless they either beg for it or it is absolutely necessary”