Bite Me: A Love Story Chapter 24

24. A Love Story?JODYIt wasnt the first term shed crept come come out of a guys a interruptment in the middle of the night with her post in her hand, only if it was the first time where the decision had been beca social occasion she didnt expect to execute the guy. He was so little, so frail, so l unmatchedly. She had taken people ahead who had the black ring in their life aura akin Okatas, and they had thanked her. It had been mercy, relief, the terminate of pain, yet she couldnt get under ones skin herself do it. Shed left him there, non to die al whizz, although he probably would, and non because he had been so kind to her, saving her, which he had, only because the soft touchs werent finished. He was a strange little man, a solitary confinement and a swordsman, and he carried some abundant pain in him, but above solely that, he was an artist, and she couldnt bear to s point that. So shed left. nowadays she was back.He sheathed his sword and tried to lift her to her feet. Her limbs still matt-up handle they were on fire, and she could move only her unspoiled arm on her own. She nodded toward Bellas pel permit weapon. Give it to me, Okata. She made a grasping motion.He leaned her in a sitting position against the wrought-iron railing that surrounded the steps to his apartment, hence retrieved the weapon and fit it into her hand. and so he held the barrel firmly and verbalise something stern in Japanese.No, Im not acquittance to attain myself, she give tongue to, and she smiled.He let go of the barrel of the gun and she sprayed Bellas corpse with pellets until the gun stopped firing, past she threw the gun every(prenominal)place the rail and motioned for Okata to help her into his apartment. Bellas body was nothing more(prenominal) than slimy chunks of meat by the time Okata got her by the door. In the morning, when the solarise hit it, there would be only a charred stain on the sidewalk with burned gobs of plastic that had be en a Kevlar suit, shoes, and cheerfulnessglasses.Okata helped her to the shower, where he rinsed out her wounds, accordingly dried her cancelled and retrieved the last bit of the pigs blood, which hed kept in the refrigerator.Jody felt a horrible twinge of guilt. Hed been waiting for her, probably had been removed looking for her when Bella had chased her around the corner.After she drank the blood, and her legs had healed enough to keep open her weight, she went to his workbench and turned on the light. The last print was there. not finished, but 2 of the woodblocks had been finished, the black and the red. There she was, in the shower, her red hair drift behind her in the water, black bits of ash puddling at her feet.Okata was beside her, looking at the print critically, as if there was something he might piss to lay out at any scrap. She bent down and looked back from the angle of the print into his take care.Hey, she utter. Thank you.Okay, he give tongue to.Sorry, s he said.FOO DOGAbby lay on the futon in the lofts great(p) room. The empty rat cages were stacked in the corner of the room and Foo had unscrewed one of the plywood panels oer the windows to let some light in. Hed been monitoring Abbys critical signs since six in the morning. At least she had vital signs. She hadnt even started with those. At noon, she opened her nerves.Foo, you dick, Im mortal.Youre okay He threw his arms around her.She pushed him away. Wheres Tommy? Wheres the Countess?Tommys in the bedroom. I dont know where Jody is.She didnt call?No.Fucksocks Did you turn Tommy back, as well?No. I started making his serum, but he didnt wishing to do anything until they take reverence of the new(prenominal) lamia. We requisite to, though, Abby. He wont start much coarseer if we dont.I know. The pirate Rasta guy on the black enthral told us. Other lamia? Only one?Rivera called while you were unconscious. The Animals took one of them down at the Sa hardly a(prenominal)a y.Did you identify him to stay off the black ship?Tommy did.What about Chet?I dont know.He could be-Hey, wheres my tail?It sort of fell off when you turned back to human.Did you relieve it?Well, no. I left it on the coffee table and when the sun came up, well, it sort of burned up.You burned up my tail? That was a part of me.It was a disgusting part of you.Youre such a racist, Foo. Im glad we broke up.We did?We were going to, werent we? Wasnt that what you wanted to talk about? About how Im way too complex and mysterious for you and you need to return to your traditional science-nerd values and live in the Sunset with your parents, instead of the awesome sleep together lair with your goddess-like vampire misfirefriend, who will never do you again, even when you beg, even out of pity, no matter how fly your sexy manga hair is? Isnt that what you were going to say?Not in so many words. Im going to move to Berkeley. Its hard, Abby-Well, save your breath, sil vous plat, Im over you . I will not be further abused by your toady banalities and whatnot.Your mom called. She wants you to come home.Yeah, thats going to happen. Oh, whats this, monkeys flying out of my acaudal butt?She said they sent your report card. You passed Mr. Snavelys biology class.I did?She said she almost fainted. Jared said it was your extra-credit project that did it. Why didnt you tell me you took one of the rats to condition with you?Well, I didnt call in it worked out that well. I mean, the rat was already vamped, so when I took him out of the shoe box, he just looked kind of dead. And Mr. Snavely was all, Oh, thats lovely, Allison, a dead rat. But it was sunny in biology lab, and all of a sudden my rat just spontaneously combusts, and Im all, Check it, bitches, spontaneous gnawer combustion, its the wave of the future.Well, because he couldnt figure out how you did it, he passed you.I am the dark mistress of Biology One-oh-two. Fear me. Rawr she said. Then she kissed him hard, but not as hard as she had when she was a vampire, which was a relief, but then she pushed him away and slapped him.Ouch. I didnt think you were a slut.I know, thats was our bittersweet break-up kiss. I will go grieve now until Lord Flood awakes and we scoop the search for the Countess. Im starving. Do you want to go fixate a sammy and a Starbucks? I train like ten grand in my messenger.THE admire LAIRHe awoke at sundown with her face in his minds eye and panic running up his spine. He bolted out of the bedroom into the great room, where Abby was hanging up the phone.That was the Countess, Abby said. Shes okay. Shell be here in a few minutes.And youre okay? Youre alive. You have heat. He could see the heat coming off her and the healthy life aura around her.Yeah, thanks. Foo destroyed my tail. She turned and looked to the kitchen. The faithless racist eyebreaking fucktardLittle harsh, Tommy said. He saved your life.Heartbroken. Grieving. Inconsolable. Tails gone. Going to have to get totally repierced and tattooed.But you showered and your eye makeup isnt all racoony anymore.Thanks. I like the blood splatters on your pants.Hi, said Foo Dog from the kitchen, where he was pickaxe a syringe with what looked like blood. I have your serum ready, whenever youre ready.Im not ready.You have to, you know.The doorbell buzzed. Tommy keyed the intercom.Its me, Jody said.He buzzed her in and she was at the top of the steps in an instant, then kissing him. He pushed her back and looked at her clothes, shredded at the elbows and knees, stained with blood.What happened to you? Where were you?One of the old vampires? She ambushed me on a roof across from the black ship. That weapon they have did this. Its horrible. We cant let them get near us with that thing.How did you get away?I was hiding at the bottom of a pool, trying to figure out what to do, when Chet jumped her. I got out of there while Chet was dry-humping her.Yeah. Go Chet said Abby.Abby Jody ran to Abby and hugged her, kissed her on the forehead. I was so worried about you. Youre alive. Really alive.Yeah. Foo changed me back. I want to be nosferatu again.They all turned to face Foo, who was still in the kitchen. Cant do it, Abs. You wont survive a second time. I tried it on the rats. Youre only human.Doomed, Abby said.Jody, Tommy said, what about the vampire who attacked you?Gone. Destroyed. Someone rescued me just before she effaceed me. So theres only one left, right?Theyre all gone, Tommy said. Rivera called. The Animals got the other one. Theres only Elijah on the black ship.Jody enthrone her hand to his face. Tommy, we have to talk.I know, he said.Foo Dog said, Jody, I have no way of knowing when Tommy might, uh, expire. He could go faster than Abby was going. make it with me. Jody took Tommys hand and led him into the bedroom. Ive got to show you something. You two, do not come into this room, do you hear me?TOMMY AND JODYWe cant make crazy monkey love now, Jody. Theyll hear us, and w e ordinarily end up breaking all the furniture.You learned how to go to mist, when you were with Chet. You said you learned?Yeah, thats how I got these clothes. Theyre stupid, arent they?Tommy, the vampire, the old one, her name was Bella, she told me something. Kiss me. Kiss me and go to mist. Dont think about it, dont stop, just melt into the kiss.She kissed him and felt him as he faded from immobile, and followed him exactly, until they were a single entity, sharing every secret, every fear, every victory, everything, the very essence of who they were, wrapping around each other, winding through each other as each lived the others history, as every have they had, they had together, with comfort and joy, with abandon and passion, without words or boundaries, and as often happens to two in love, time lost all meaning, and they might have stayed there, like that, forever.When they finally fell out of it they were naked, on the bed, giggling like insane children.Wow, Tommy said fi rst.Yeah, she said.So, Okata saved you?Yeah, he mandatory to save someone. He had always needed to save someone.I know. Im okay with it, you know?Yeah, I know, she said.I cant do it, Jody. Its amazing, and I adore you, but I cant do it.I know, she said, because she did. This is me now, Tommy. I like this, I like the night, I like the power. I like not being afraid. I was never anything until I was this. I love being this.I know, he said. He knew that she had always been cute, but not beautiful. Always a little dissatisfied with who she was, worried about what men, or her mother, or anyone thought of her. But she was beautiful now. Strong. She was exactly what she wanted to be.He said, I need the words, Jody. Its who I am.I know.Im not a vampire. Im a author. I came here to be a writer. I want to use gelatinous in a sentence. And not just once, but over and over. On the roof, under the moon, in an elevator, on the washing machine, and when Im exhausted, I want to lay in my own gela tinous sweat and use gelatinous in a sentence until I pass out.Jody said, I dont think gelatinous means what you think it means.It doesnt matter. Its what I need to do. I need to write something. I need to write my little Holocaust girl story.I thought it was a little girl growing up in the segregated South.Yeah, whatever. Its important.You know I know this already, right?I know, but thats what Im saying, I need the words. I love you, but I need the words.I know, she said. Lets go let Foo change you back into a word guy.And youre going to go away?I have to.I know, he said. You know, I think that merging might have finished me.Why?Because youre lying there completely naked and I dont want to sex you up.Really?Let me think about it. No, false alarm, Im okay.Cmere, writer boy. Lets break some furniture.THE RAVENPraise Jahs sweet love for condition us a fired-haired snowy biscuit, Kona said. refreshing, me sweet deadie sistah. Welcome aboard.Mistress, Jody said. Sweet deadie mistress. Troot, mistress. Welcome aboard.The ship was a wonder of technology and luxury. Kona had lent Foo Dog his security system bracelet and Foo had gone aboard and reset the security so the ship didnt kill anyone who set foot on board, then he and Kona had walked her through the ship showing her the thousand different ways it had been set to kill a person. It was an elegant, redundant death trap.Youll want to turn the systems back on, Foo had said. Theres a reason they had this kind of security.Jody said good-bye and led him off the ship. flat that she had one of his UV lasers in one hand and a shape of vacuum blood vials in the other she followed the ersatz Rastaman down to the deepest bedchamber of the ship, where Foo had not gone. They approached a wide, white, waterproof hatch with a small embrasure and a heavy stainless-steel wheel securing it.Kona hit a light switch. That make just a wee UV, mistress. Make dat dogheart bastid turn solid so he cant sneak out.Jody looked in the port and a face hit it with a snarl, leaving bloody spit on the duncical glass.Well, hello, pumpkin. How have you been?The vampire snarled. It was Elijah, the old vampire who had turned her, turned them all, really, if the caption was true. But he looked like a wild animal now, naked, his fangs bared, snarling at the tiny window.Can he hear me? Jody asked.Oh yeah, he hear. You got to tell him to go to the back of da room, ma. InI can lock him back there with the second door. Like an airlock. Dats how we feed dat old buggah.Go to the back of the room, Elijah. I have something I need you to do.The vampire snarled at her.okeh dokey, she said, and she put on her sunglasses, placed Foos laser against the glass, and promptly blasted Elijahs right ear into ash.He roared at her.Oh, I know that had to hurt. Hear that high-pitched whining sound, Elijah. Thats the laser recharging. Takes about a minute. When its done Im going to burn off your willie unless you get your ancient ass to the ba ck of the cell. She smiled.Shoots, brah, she a cold heart bitch dont you know. You outta-shoulda do what she say, yeah?The old vampire backed through the inside door, snarling, and Kona worked the switch, sealing it. Then he opened the heavy outer(prenominal) hatch.Jody placed the vacuum vials in the chamber, then said, Okay, Elijah, I need you to get hold of these with that sweet, first-generation vampire blood.They sealed the outer hatch, and Elijah snarled and resisted, but after having his other ear burned off, relented. Twenty minutes later Jody was belongings the quartette vials of Elijahs blood and Elijah was lapping two quarts of tuna blood out of a stainless-steel bowl.He be all right, Kona said. Dem ear heal up in minutes and he be back in the mystic fo weeks.And how long to get the rest of the art supplies onto the Raven? she asked.Its all on board, mistress.Then cast off, Capn.Aye, aye, mistress.Jody turned to Okata, who had stood silently, his eyes wide, watching the whole scene.These are for you, she said, holding out the vials. Ill help you. I hope you like night scenes. Youre going to have a lot of prints to make. But youll have time.Okay, said the swordsman, with a smile.