Author's Note: Here's the second part of the last chapter, also there are only two chapters left.
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David was bored watching the humans, but it was finally nearly midnight and that meant that it was almost time to finish things, at this point both so-called vampire hunters should be dead and as neither Dwayne nor Paul told him otherwise he'd assume that they'd show themselves any time now to finish things.
His eyes drift over to the brook closet where the unconscious old woman lay, he'd moved her from the shed to the closet during the party once everyone had gotten more than a little buzz going and by now most of the humans were drunk, high or both.
Seeing as it was nearing time David willed himself to become visible and then went to the closet and opened it, looking down at her he couldn't bring himself to feel bad for her.
Bending down he smacked her face hard enough to wake her but not do any real damage, she jerks awake and glares at him while shaking and tries to talk before realizing she's been gagged.
He smiles as she tries to move her tied hands, "You brought this on yourself Star." He pats her reddening cheek making her jerk her aching head away, "I offered you everything and you threw it back in my face." Despite her heart pounding from fear, she kept on glaring.
He sighed, "Even Michael realized what he had thrown away..."
Her eyes widen, and her voice came out muffled as she tried to speak, David's colorless eyes gleamed with barely suppressed delight, "You mean you didn't know? You must've suspected it."
Star looked away from his eyes trying to conceal her feelings from him as he moved closer, "I killed him. I killed Michael, it was no accident."
Star's eyes burned with both tears and hate as she looked back at him and he gave a fake sympathetic look, "You know I couldn't have done it without one of you giving into me and Michael always regretted it, deep down he wanted it but gave into fear and so he let me in and well I'm sure if I had been able to stay calm about the whole thing I might've been able to free us sooner with his help but well... I let my temper get the best of me and as soon as I had enough energy to make my hands solid... you know the rest."
Star's tears freely flowed down her cheeks as she shook her head, "Don't believe me? That's fine because if there's an afterlife like you so strongly believe you can ask him very soon."
Standing back up he grins, "Just be patient though I plan to save you for last."
Star tries to speak around the gag, but David just shuts the door again and standing there is Paul, "You really get off on tormenting old ladies, don't you?"
David says nothing, but his lips twitch up a bit, "So I took care of my Frog where's Dwayne he should be done too right?"
"He is a bit late probably having too much fun." Paul looks aghast, "Dwayne having fun? Think he knows how?"
Ignoring his fellow ghost, the leader of the boys looks around for a moment before concluding, "It's about time I have some fun tonight as well." Paul grins and nearly bounces in excitement, "Really we can do it now?"
"Dwayne can join in once he arrives but yes we can start now, Paul you get the front door." Paul nods, usually, Marko blocks the main entrance and he'd totally throw a fit if he knew about this so first thing Paul plans to do when he finds the smaller vampire again will be to rub it in his face, though he might wait until he helps bring him back before he starts on that.
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Lily had dozed off at some point somehow despite the awful loud sound coming from downstairs, her hand was holding onto her handheld and the dog on the screen was running around none the wiser that the player had fallen asleep.
Suddenly a scream has the girl jolt awake and look around frantically, "What? A nightmare?" She rubs her eyes tiredly as the dog on her video game barks and she looks at it and yawns before turning it off and laying back down. The music was still really loud, so it must've woken her up she decides while closing her eyes and trying to ignore the sound when she hears other screams and sits back up confused.
Was that the music? It could be but somehow, she didn't think pop techno computer generated stuff sounded like that. Part of her was scared and another said maybe it was a horror movie, they might've plugged those speakers into the tv... maybe it wasn't even screaming she heard, Lily shakes her head and grabs her stuffed animals to hold onto while diving underneath her blanket and pillow hoping to hide from the sounds that might be terrified screams.
It seemed to last forever but then suddenly it stopped, no not the awful music but the screams.
That had to be a good thing, right?
Lily laid there for a few more minutes before crawling out from under her blanket and off the bed towards her door wondering if she should open it when the music died.
The whole house was quiet.
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Downstairs three figures more solid than ever before stood bathed in blood and surrounded by dead bodies, Dwayne was watching the blood drip from the body pinned to the stereo.
"So that's it then? The blood in the spots we died and our graves? Because I don't feel like I'm undead yet..." Paul looks at David who calmly smokes a leftover cigarette from one of their victims, it wasn't easy for him to get them but Paul wondered if when he did if he could even taste it or if it was just the familiar action well he had wondered after all he could taste the blood only it was more of a phantom taste though much stronger than any before still...
"There's one more step but before that..." His voice trailed off as he looked towards the closet he'd left Star in, no doubt she was terrified if he didn't hear her heart pounding at the moment David would be worried that she'd had a heart attack from listening to them feed.
David makes his way to the closet while the other two remain where they are looking on, opening the door he finds her shaking form and all the anger and hate from before are gone the only thing in Star's eyes is fear.
"Hey, Star I told you that wouldn't take long." He smirked around the cigarette while reaching down to grab her arm and toss her out of the closet and onto a dead body causing the older woman to scream behind her gag and try to flop away from side body like a fish, this resulted in her just landing in a spot with more blood and Paul watched amused as she all but hyperventilates.
"Better do something before she dies of fright David." He laughs.
David agreed as he listened to her heart, "You're right her heart can't have that many beats remaining."
Watching her try to keep away from the bodies as well as the blood quickly lost its humor just like everything else that involved Star for David, so he drops his cigarette and approaches her, the old woman's eyes see him, and she tries to the best of her abilities to flee but sadly for her it doesn't do any good.
He's kneeling in front of her again like when he confessed to the murder of her husband she wishes the gag was gone so she could yell at him for it but the thought quickly leaves as her hand touches something warm and wet behind her as it helps to support her.
Jerking her hand away she doesn't have time to try and dodge his hand as it grabs her face and makes her look at him, their faces are close, and she tries to pull away only to have his nails dig into her face in response, so she stills.
"I think I've had more than enough blood tonight and I don't particularly want yours," She sags with slight relief despite knowing that he still means to kill her, at least he wasn't going to feed on her. He notices her body language right away and smirks, "But I will anyway." She tenses back up and tries to pull back again forgetting that the nails are firmly planted on her cheeks and drawing blood now, David watches the blood run down her face and leans forward to lick it off causing her heart to beat faster and her body to shake more.
She's terrified and that's exactly the reaction he wanted from her and the only reason he did it, pulling back he licks his lips. "You taste old Star... and you've not aged like fine wine."
Star can't work up the will to get mad at his taunting and even if she did there was nothing she could do, she was helpless, he tugs her head to the side reviling her neck and leans close.
"...This is going to hurt a lot." He warns her still grinning wickedly though she can't see him she can feel it as his lips are now against her neck, how she could've ever been attracted to such a monstrous smile she'd never understand.
Then just as David's fangs are about to pierce her neck a scared cry stops him.
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Lily had opened her door and only taken a few steps before she knew something was terribly wrong but she braved on and that's when she saw an unmoving body at the foot of the stairs, her mind flashed back to another still body and her own froze before realizing that wasn't the only body and there was red, a lot of red.
Blood her mind told her.
Part of her wanted to flee and hide under her covers.
The other was in shock and didn't want to move.
But there was another part still that had her walking forward down the stairs towards the body, towards the blood, and towards a familiar voice.
Someone was talking but Lily couldn't comprehend the words.
She stopped just before the bottom of the stairs and turned toward the voice away from the bodies only to see more bodies and even more blood.
And there in the middle of her were David, Dwayne, Paul, and her grandmother.
Her grandma Star's back was towards the stairs but that meant that Lily could see David's face, it was the same face as the monster from the night before.
David was a monster.
He had fangs.
Dead bodies, blood, fangs, monsters...
Seeing his mouth get closer to her grandmother's neck had her cry out in fright before she could stop herself, "Grandma!"
David froze, and the other two monsters' eyes found her, and she shrank back even as David's face changed back to normal.
"Lily..." David spoke her name calmly as Dwayne tried to approach her only to have her back up and nearly trip because she forgot about the steps.
She was scared, the dead bodies made her frighten.
Closing her eyes, she trembled, Lily really didn't want to die.
"You're not going to die." A voice says in front of her and her eyes fly open in shock and she moves back to escape but once more forgetting the stairs and this time tripping, but she doesn't fall because of Dwayne.
"Careful." Dwayne tells the scared girl who he was now holding as she shook, "I-I don't wanna die." She repeats once again not realizing that she was speaking her thoughts aloud.
Dwayne tries to calm her down again, "You're not going to, I'm not going to hurt you."
Lily doesn't say anything as he carries her over to the others and she clings to him and tries to stay as far away from David as possible.
"Lily it's okay we're your friends remember?" Paul smiles at her as the little girl looks at him unsurely before looking back to Dwayne who nods, "We are."
"They're right, we promised you'd live with us forever." Lily looks over and sees David now closer to them and clutches Dwayne in fear, David notices and once again Star complicates things he thinks somewhat bitterly.
Before David can say anymore Dwayne notices how much energy he has used up tonight tries to sit her down before he becomes intangible and drops her but the girl isn't relinquishing her hold so he looks to Paul who quickly grabs her as he loses his solidarity and she cries in fright while Paul tries to cheer her up, "It's okay I got ya' and I'm much better than old Dwayne there." He grins but she doesn't return it but still clings to him for support trying not to think that he might be a monster in disguise like David.
Paul had always known that David was not meant to comfort children no it's basically in his and the rest of their's job to scare them instead. He wondered vaguely if he was going soft... well at least he wasn't as bad as Dwayne in that department the ghost told himself.
David frowns before an idea forms, "Lily you know we're trying to come back but unfortunately, that requires blood, and we only need just a bit more..."
Paul looks away from the girl in his arms and quickly catches onto his leader's plan, the last step.
Getting blood willingly from the one who let them in, her being an ignorant and innocent child made her a much better candidate than Michael would have but right now she was afraid of them or well David at least.
"David's right just a drop would work, nothing worse than a papercut..." Paul trails off and looks to Dwayne who sighs, "What they're saying is if you give us a drop of your blood we won't have to take any from your grandmother."
Lily looks at Dwayne as if to try and gauge the truth, "...Are you monsters?" Lily finally asks after a moment of silence.
"...We need blood to survive to live forever... do you think that makes us monsters?" Dwyane asks in a sad tone and Lily does not hear the falseness in it, unlike Star who had since Lily arrived been trying to speak through her gag to no avail.
Lily doesn't know how to answer so Paul adds, "We're like carnivores like lions and tigers and they're not monsters are they?"
Lily blinks and looks at him, "No... I guess not but does that mean you'll eat me?"
David speaks then, "No, you're one of us." Lily looks back at him a little less afraid at those words, "So will I be like a tiger too?"
"More like a kitten." Paul jokes just as Star finally works the gag out of her mouth, "Don't listen to them Lily, they're liars and murders!" The young brunette's eyes fly to her grandmother, as David barely suppresses a growl.
"Shut up Star if you know what's good for you." The older woman doesn't listen, "They are nothing but soulless monsters they don't care about anything but-"
David is in front of her before she utters another word with his hand wrapped tightly around her throat causing both her and Lily to gasp. Dwayne and Paul both see the small progress they just made fading as Lily wiggles out of Paul's grasp, "Let go of her! Please, David, don't kill my grandma!"
She runs up to him and grabs his arm and he briefly tightens his grip before letting go causing the woman to gasp for air and Lily to look at David and come to the conclusion, "I-if I give you my blood you'll come back and leave my grandma, alone?"
For a minute the only sounds are Star gasping for breath before she finds her voice again, "No Lily you can't-" David quickly gags her again and tightly before answering without looking at Lily, "Sure kid when we come back we'll leave your grandma alone."
His voice sounds strange, but she decides to trust him, "Okay then you can have my blood... but just a drop."
Dwayne moves first, "Thank you, Lily give me your hand." She tries to stay brave, "Will it hurt?"
"Just a little prick on the finger it'll be over before you know it." He takes her hand in one hand and kneels in front of her and then uses his other hand to cover her eyes, "H-hey!" Then she feels it, "Ow." Lily's reflex reaction is to yank her hand back but he holds it firmly, she feels a quick lick and then it's done and she can see him again and she looks to her finger it's got a little dot of blood rising up from it but before she can think about it Paul puts her finger in his mouth for a second and then let's go with a grin, "Thanks."
Looking at her finger she can see that it's stopped bleeding, so she squeezes it to make it bleed again before holding it out to David who simply takes off his glove and uses his own finger to wipe a bit of blood off before bringing it to his mouth and tasting it.
And just like that, he fades away and Lily looks stunned before looking back and seeing that Dwayne and Paul are gone as well.
"They're gone...?" A muffled voice catches her attention and so she tries to undo the gag in her grandma's mouth but it's really tight and takes more time than Star would've liked it too, once it's down she starts speaking right away, "Hurry and untie my hands we have to leave as quickly as possible."
"Why?" Lily asks even while she's undoing the rope on the elder woman's wrists, "When they come back we'll be in danger." Lily pauses for a second, "David promised-"
"He's a liar! As soon as they come back we're dead!" She all but screams but the tone isn't what scares the little girl it's the words, "B-but he said-"
"Don't ever trust a vampire." Lily's eyes widen, "Vampire...?"
"Lily now is not the time hurry and untie me!" The girl snaps out of it and tries to untie her again but she's fumbling more due to fear but eventually, she gets it loose enough for Star to fear her hands and then she works on her feet, "How are you going to move?" Lily whispers shakily.
"I'll manage all we have to do is get to a car and there are plenty outside."
The young girl tries not to think about the reason there are so many cars and that the people who rode in them won't do so ever again, she makes sure not to focus on the unmoving bodies as she tries to help her grandmother move but it's slow going.
That's how her eyes drift to the wall from before and she notices something and pauses, "The wall... it's bleeding."
"Lily we have to keep moving." Star tells the girl, but she doesn't listen, "Grandma that wall is bleeding!"
Still half crawling she replies, "No it's not there's just blood on it."
Lily watches the wall scared, "It's not! The blood is coming from inside the wall look at-"
"Lily we don't have ti-"
Suddenly the wall explodes and debris fly causing Lily to fall into some bodies which help to soften her fall but for now, she's not aware of that.
Lily coughs at smoke no soot covers the area, "G-grandma?"
Looking towards the spot where her grandmother had been she sees her laying down unresponsive with something that looks like a brick near her head.
It was all so confusing; the wall was wood, not brick and why the soot?
"For once those idiotic boys did something right for a change."
Lily looks over to the hole in the wall as the soot finally settles and sees who spoke.
Her eyes met his.
It's the monster from the night before.