Blood Lust

Even though Dee had promised me that I would only have to spend a few days with them, I ended up staying a few weeks. Everyone got on each others nerves. The other Guards were upset they had to share space with me. I had even gotten so bold to have a shouting match with one of them. I had gotten called 'pet' too many times and I snapped. Thankfully, Dee had come to the rescue and he had the unfortunate task of explainging to me why they called me 'pet'.

After a shift, R had brought me dinner. "What are we gonna do?" Martin was always the one to start the colorful conversations.

"Why isn't he leaving?" Lee asked.

"I've asked. No one knows why." Dee answered.

The whole island had been on edge with an Elder showing up. "What did he come here for anyway?" I asked, in between mouthfuls of food.

"No one knows, but I'm gonna find out." Lee said. Over those last few weeks, I had gotten to know each of them a little better. Lee was the jokester.

Martin was the ever apparent heartbreak kid. He was also the youngest out of them at only a hundred and four. Martin would swoon over any girl that would walk past him.

Dee was just there for a good time. One would almost say he was the one in control, but as soon as R walked in the room, everyone gave him their full attention.

My relationship with R never grew into anything during those weeks either, which shocked everyone. Martin had told me that once you had been marked, it was only a matter of time before you'd confess your love for one another. R had been his usual quiet self around me, so I had nothing to worry about.

Do you want me to grab a book from the library?

R asked through our strange mind link, something I had been meaning to ask Martin about.

Something about history?

I suggested. I had gotten quite good at holding small conversations with him in my head.

Lee plopped down on the bed beside me, "Guess what!" He acted like an overexcited puppy. "I know why the Elder is here and why he wanted you so bad."

I was astonished, "Well we have to wait till everyone is here to talk about this." The sentence came out and I couldn't believe that I had said that.

"Okay, I'll assemble the gang!" Lee had let what I had said run wildly through his head with imagination. He acted like such a child at heart. He reached into his pockets for his cellphone, "Hey gather up the team and meet us. I have some news!"

We waited for everyone else to get back. Lee had acted like we were superhero's saving the world. I couldn't help but to fall for it, just a bit. A year ago, I was answering phones at work and now... I was helping a group of vampires that I had become friends with.

Almost friends...

I had to stop myself at that word. We weren't friends. What we were was my survival and my only chances of getting out of here alive.

Minutes later, a wave of Guard's had entered the bunkroom. Everyone throwing their items all over the room like a bunch of college kids. "Awe, man. That thing is still here?" One of them had geared their insults towards me.

"Let it be Kyle." Dee had threatened. He walked through the middle of the bunks and chucked his duffel bag on his top bunk. "Let's go somewhere a little quieter." He leaned in and whispered.

Dee had shown me another place I had never been in the year I had been on the Island. He opened the door to what I could only assume was a breakroom, small and quaint.

"Alright, spit it out." Groaned Martin as he shut the door behind the rest of them.

"Well, I think everyone needs to be sitting for this one." Lee offered.

"SPIT IT OUT!" Martin shouted.

Lee groaned. He was trying to act like the detective in a movie, "There's rumors about a female with the gene." Their eyes shot up in surprise.

"The gene? Are we starring in a sci-fi movie now?" I asked. Clearly I had misjudged how serious they had all gotten.

"The Gene..." Dee started off with, "Is what allows other female vampires to reproduce. Born vampires are rare, finding a female to reproduce is ever more rare."

"And, it's rare for humans to survive a bite. Like ten percent chance that you'll live. So, for you to survive a bite by an Elder and then survive it again from...him is suspicious." Lee laid everything out, except for one little detail.

"Yea, except I'm not a vampire!" I shouted.

"I've read that some humans can possess the gene." Martin chimed in.

"Okay, let's say I do have this magically ability. We faked my death, so why is he still here?" I couldn't that sentence actually came out of my mouth.

In my entire life, I had never been special. I was never that one in a million girl. Never. I was just the plain girl with boring brown hair; stuck in the background. I was never meant to be more than what I was.

"We are going to have to distract him with something else." Lee shook his head in defeat.

"You can't sacrifice others for my-" I began.

I can't allow you to die.

That soothing hum lulled in my head. "Yes you can." I spat out loud. Everyone looked at me quizzically.

"So..." Martin shifted the mood back to neutral, "Let's get a plan started.."

"...And save the day!" Lee finished his sentence comically.

"Me and Martin will take a couple of shifts down on level two and see what we can do." Dee offered.

"Hey, why do we gotta go down there for this?" Martin whined. R had shot him a menacing glare.