Bite Me: A Love Story Chapter 24

24. A Love Story?JODYIt wasnt the first time shed crept reveal of a guys apartment in the middle of the night with her shoes in her hand, solely it was the first time where the decisiveness had been because she didnt indirect request to kill the guy. He was so comminuted, so frail, so lonely. She had taken people before who had the raw ring in their life aura handle Okatas, and they had thanked her. It had been mercy, relief, the end of pain, yet she couldnt make herself do it. Shed unexpended him there, not to die alone, although he probably would, and not because he had been so kind to her, saving her, which he had, nevertheless because the prints werent finished. He was a strange little man, a hermit and a swordsman, and he carried near abundant pain in him, but above all that, he was an artist, and she couldnt bear to stop that. So shed left.Now she was guts.He sheathed his sword and tried to lift her to her feet. Her limbs still mat up like they were on fire, and she could move altogether her right arm on her own. She nodded toward Bellas pellet implement. Give it to me, Okata. She made a envious motion.He leaned her in a sitting position against the wrought-iron railing that surrounded the steps to his apartment, then(prenominal) retrieved the weapon and fit it into her hand. indeed he held the barrel firmly and express something stern in Japanese.No, Im not difference to mutilate myself, she said, and she smiled.He let go of the barrel of the gun and she sprayed Bellas corpse with pellets until the gun stopped firing, then she threw the gun oer the rail and motioned for Okata to help her into his apartment. Bellas body was nothing more than slimy chunks of meat by the time Okata got her through the door. In the morning, when the sun hit it, there would be only a charred land on the sidewalk with burned gobs of plastic that had been a Kevlar suit, shoes, and sunglasses.Okata helped her to the collectioner, where he rinsed out her woun ds, then dry out her off and retrieved the last bit of the pigs blood, which hed kept in the refrigerator.Jody felt a horrible twinge of guilt. Hed been delay for her, probably had been outside looking for her when Bella had chased her around the corner.After she drank the blood, and her legs had healed enough to h white-haired her weight, she went to his work bench and off 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 streaming 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 draw to fix at any second. She solidification down and looked subscribe from the angle of the print into his boldness.Hey, she said. Thank you.Okay, he said.Sorry, she said.FOO DOGAbby lay on the futon in the lofts great room. The empty rat cages were stacked in the corner of the room and Foo had unscrewed one of the plywood panels over the windows to let some light in. Hed been monitoring Abbys brisk signs since six in the morning. At least she had vital signs. She hadnt even started with those. At noon, she opened her eyes.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 kip down where Jody is.She didnt call?No.Fucksocks Did you turn Tommy back, too?No. I started making his serum, but he didnt want to do anything until they take care of the other vampire. We need to, though, Abby. He wont live much longer if we dont.I know. The pirate Rasta guy on the black transport told us. Other vampire? Only one?Rivera called part you were unconscious. The Animals took one of them down at the Safeway.Did you tell him to stay off the black ship?Tommy did.What virtually Chet?I dont know.He could be-Hey, wheres my nookie?It sort of fell off when you turned back to human. Did you merely 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 get throughage to, werent we? Wasnt that what you wanted to talk approximately? About how Im way too complex and mysterious for you and you need to egress to your traditional science-nerd values and live in the Sunset with your parents, instead of the awesome love lair with your goddess-like vampire girlfriend, who will never do you again, even when you beg, even out of pity, no matter how fly your aphrodisiac 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 mommy called. She wants you to come home.Yeah, thats going to happen. Oh, whats this, monkeys f double-dealing out of my tailless butt?She said they sent your report card. You passed Mr. Snavelys biological science 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 school with you?Well, I didnt think 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 rodent combustion, its the wave of the future.Well, because he couldnt go out 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 entitle Flood awakes and we resume the search for the Countess. Im starving. Do you want to go buy off a sammy and a Starbucks? I befuddle like ten grand in my messenger.THE LOVE LAIRHe awoke at sunset 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 begin 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 traitorous racist regardtbreaking fucktardLittle harsh, Tommy said. He saved your life.Heartbroken. Grieving. Inconsolable. Tails gone. Going to have to get altogether repierced and tattooed.But you showered and your eye makeup isnt all racoony anymore.Thanks. I like the blood splatte rs on your pants.Hi, said Foo track from the kitchen, where he was filling 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 kiss 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. mortal rescued me just before she killed 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 baffle 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.Come 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 we usually end up breaking all the furniture.You learned how to go to mist, when you were with Chet. You said you learned?Yeah, thats ho w 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 solid, and followed him exactly, until they were a single entity, sharing ein truth 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 experience 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 first.Yeah, she said.So, Okata saved you?Yeah, he needed to save someone. He had constantly 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 universe 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 dissatisfy 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 compiler. 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 gelatinous 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 ruined 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 given us a fired-haired snowy biscuit, Kona said. Welcome, me sweet deadie sistah. Welcome aboard.Mistress, Jody said. Sweet deadie mistress.Troot, mistress. Welcome aboard.The ship was a wonder of engine room and luxury. Kona had lent Foo Dog his security 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 chiliad 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. Now that she had one of his UV lasers in one hand and a number of vacuum blood vials in the other she followed the substitute(a) Rastaman down to the deepest chamber of the ship, where Foo had not gone. They approached a wide, white, waterproof hatch with a small porthole and a sullen stainless-steel wheel securing it.Kona hit a light switch. That make just a wee UV, mistress. reach 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 thick glass.Well, hello, pumpkin. How have you been?The vampire snarled. It w as Elijah, the old vampire who had turned her, turned them all, really, if the legend was true. But he looked like a wild wight 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.Okey 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 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 back 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 i nside door, snarling, and Kona worked the switch, sealing it. Then he opened the heavy outer hatch.Jody placed the vacuum vials in the chamber, then said, Okay, Elijah, I need you to fill these with that sweet, first-generation vampire blood.They certain the outer hatch, and Elijah snarled and resisted, but after having his other ear burned off, relented. Twenty minutes later Jody was holding the four 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, sa id the swordsman, with a smile.