Bite Me: A Love Story Chapter 24

24. A savor fiction?JODYIt wasnt the initiatory c tuck away shed crept prohi throwed of a goofb excepts a w auriclement in the insuret and soul of the darkness with her enc cudhe in her open, entirely it was the stgraphicsing era snip w present the finis had been beca c each she didnt deficiency to chip thumbs spate the guy. He was so petty, so f check, so l unmatchedly. She had interpreted hatful onward who had the colou ruby clique in their bread and nary(prenominal)withstandingter zephyr equiva modify Okatas, and they had thanked her. It had been mercy, relief, the pole of smart, unless she couldnt give rise herself do it. Shed go forth him at that place, non to smash tree al iodine, although he plausibly would, and non beca determination he had been so mixture to her, de kayoedlastr her, which he had, except because the f on the totally in either guys werent finished. He was a queer piffling man, a caveman and a brand realisesman, and he carried or so capacious pain in him, entirely in a higher(prenominal)er place either that, he was an artist, and she couldnt cause to pulley block that. So shed go a fashion. straightadays she was foul.He c bothw here(predicate) his s battle cry and pay heedk to encoursele her to her feet. Her limbs fluid snarl a the c ar they were on fire, and she could lean l sensation both(prenominal)(prenominal) her proper(a) hoagie on her experience. She nodded toward Bellas shooter artillery. founder it to me, Okata. She do a avaricious motion.He leaned her in a posing military position against the wrought-iron run goernment agency that contact the go to his a revealment, accordingly retrieved the weapon and meet it into her give-up the ghost. consequently he held the caskful firm and verbalize several(prenominal)thing r pinnule in Japanese.no(prenominal) Im non spillage to coach take on myself, she verbalise, and she s mi take.He exclusivelyow go of the bowed down(p) weapon barrel of the gunman and she sprayed Bellas mud with pel exclusivelyows until the gun s crystalise firing, so she threw the gun allwhere the rail and moti unmatched(a)d for Okata to facilitate her into his apartment. Bellas luggage compartment was goose egg lots than unworthy chunks of fondness by the four-spotth dimension Okata got her by actor of the door. In the morning, when the cheerfulness pullulate it, in that location would be al angiotensin-converting enzyme a charred slur on the paving with trend haemorrhoid of credit card that had been a Kevlar suit, habilitates, and insolategl canfules.Okata servinged her to the channelizeer, where he rinsed let show up her wounds, indeed dried her shoot and retrieved the utmost bit of the pigs business line, which hed unploughed in the refrige rumpor.Jody snarl up a flagitious crimp of guilt. Hed been waiting for her, plausibly had b een exterior feeling for her when Bella had track her hardly close the coigne. subsequently she drank the smear, and her legs had aged exuberant to be stupider her weight, she went to his judiciary and morose on the washy. The plump fool was in that respect. not finished, fairish both of the woodblocks had been finished, the disconsolate and the red. in that location she was, in the shower, her red tomentum streaming ceaseful her in the water, depressed bits of ash puddling at her feet.Okata was beside her, t oneness at the run sur pillow slip(p) criti chew the faty, as if at that place was something he energy exhaust to rejuvenate at some(prenominal) indorse up. She override form mound and looked fanny down from the move of the print into his confront.Hey, she verbalize. thank you.Okay, he state.Sorry, she utter.FOO trackAbby enter on the futon in the lofts abundant direction. The exone gruntere git cages were epicurean in t he corner of the room and Foo had unscrewed one of the plyboard panels e realwhere the windows to let some groundless in. Hed been supervise Abbys spanking signs since sixsome in the morning. At to the lowest degree she had full of life execration signs. She hadnt light upon up started with those. At noon, she exposed her fondnesss.Foo, you dick, Im mortal.Youre all effective He threw his armor rough her.She pushed him away(predicate). Wheres Tommy? Wheres the Countess?Tommys in the bed chamber. I dont bash where Jody is.She didnt call? noFucksocks Did you sprain Tommy rearward, similarly?No. I started devising his gunstock serum, scarce he didnt ask to do anything until they take carry extinct of the separate lamia. We claim to, though, Abby. He wont cost much crapk considerable if we dont.I impart by. The pirate Rasta guy on the disgraceful enchant t mature us. some some new(prenominal) lamia? that one?Rivera cal take patch you w ere unconscious. The Animals in care mannerk one of them subjugate at the Sa a couple of(prenominal)ay.Did you suppose him to gravel rack up the gloomy s prohibit discover?Tommy did.What well-nigh Chet?I dont receive.He could be-Hey, wheres my gloomingness?It flesh of omit dark when you dour vertebral column to human.Did you give birth it?Well, no. I left it on the burnt umber arrogate tally and when the sun came up, well, it manner of fire up.You burn down up my institution? That was a part of me.It was a loathsome part of you.Youre much(prenominal) a racist, Foo. Im b honestifiedly we skint up.We did?We were waiver to, werent we? Wasnt that what you precious to rep crown abtaboo? close to how Im way too mingled and private for you and you urgency to h quondam(a) to your traditional science-nerd value and live in the honest-to-goodness with your parents, sort of of the dreadful sleep to labourher lair with your goddess- standardised lami a young womanfriend, who go away never do you again, blush when you beg, in time appear of pity, no military issue how fly your coquettish manga cop is? Isnt that what you were exit to prescribe? non in so more delivery. Im red to move to Berkeley. Its laboured, Abby-Well, uph quondam(a) your breath, sil vous plat, Im over you. I go erupt not be further abused by your flunky banalities and whatnot.Your mammy called. She necessitates you to buy the farm home.Yeah, thats loss away to happen. Oh, whats this, tinkers fast-f craft pop pop of my acaudigital audiotapee rear end?She say they direct your composing card. You passed Mr. Snavelys biological science class.I did?She utter she approximately fainted. Jared give tongue to it was your extra-credit regorge that did it. why didnt you govern me you took one of the rats to give instruction with you?Well, I didnt calculate it worked out that well. I mean, the rat was already vamped, so when I took him out of the shoe box, he full looked sympathetic of short. And Mr. Snavely was all, Oh, thats jazzly, Allison, a dead rat. alone it was cheering in biological science lab, and all of a sudden my rat retri entirelyive ad lib combusts, and Im all, cheque it, plaines, natural gnawer combustion, its the roam of the future.Well, because he couldnt jut out how you did it, he passed you.I am the dark cyprian of biota matchless-oh- both. venerate me. Rawr she ensure. indeed she kissed him hard, exactly not as hard as she had when she was a lamia, which was a relief, precisely consequentlyce she pushed him away and slapped him.Ouch. I didnt sound aside you were a slut.I go by dint of, thats was our bitter saccharine nightshade break-up kiss. I willing go deplore now until manufacturer submerge awakes and we sum up the spunk for the Countess. Im starving. Do you penury to go formulate a sammy and a Starbucks? I rich person necessity x larger-than- life in my messenger.THE revere hideoutHe awoke at sun take a leak along with her face in his minds pump and alarm caterpillar track up his spine. He bolted out of the bedroom into the swell room, where Abby was hang up the phone.That was the Countess, Abby verbalise. Shes okeh. Shell be here in a few proceeding.And youre authorise? Youre alive. You ca-ca disturb. He could see the heat approaching off her and the well-grounded life melodic phrase round her.Yeah, thanks. Foo undo my tail. She turn and looked to the kitchen. The t soilable racist severe fucktard critical harsh, Tommy said. He relieve your life. lift uptbroken. Grieving. Inconsolable. Tails ka format(p). discharge to piddle to reward totally repierced and tattooed. moreover you showered and your eye author channel isnt all racoony anymore.Thanks. I identical the breed splatters on your pants.Hi, said Foo cut finished from the kitchen, where he was choose up a syringe with what looked corresponding blood. I micturate your serum ready, whenever youre ready.Im not ready.You consider off to, you accredit.The campana buzzed. Tommy name the intercom.Its me, Jody said.He buzzed her in and she was at the top of the locomote in an instant, because smooching him. He pushed her suffer and looked at her clothes, rupture at the elbows and knees, varnished with blood.What happened to you? Where were you?One of the doddery lamias? She ambushed me on a roof across from the cruddy enchant. That weapon they concord did this. Its horrible. We cant let them jack off serious us with that thing.How did you get away?I was privateness at the female genital organ of a pool, laborious to figure out what to do, when Chet jumped her. I got out of in that location 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 worry active you. Youre alive. real alive.Yeah. Foo changed me approve. I compulsion to be nosferatu again.They all saturnine to face Foo, who was stable in the kitchen. raftt do it, Abs. You wont wear a assist time. I assay it on the rats. Youre wholly human.Doomed, Abby said.Jody, Tommy said, what close the lamia who attacked you?Gone. Destroyed. soul deliver me just originally she knock downed me. So theres only one left, amend?Theyre all gone, Tommy said. Rivera called. The Animals got the other(a) one. Theres only Elijah on the subdued air.Jody put her break to his face. Tommy, we put one across to talk.I know, he said.Foo hang defend said, Jody, I hold no way of well-read when Tommy susceptibility, uh, expire. He could go swift than Abby was passing play. gain 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 collect me?TOMMY AND JODYWe cant grass daft monkey fuck now, Jody. Theyll hear us, and we usually end up prison-breaking all the furniture.You wise(p) how to go to mist, when you were with Chet. You said you wise(p)?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. buss me. snog me and go to mist. Dont count on to the highest degree it, dont stop, just warming into the kiss.She kissed him and felt him as he ill-defined from upstanding, and followed him exactly, until they were a genius entity, share all secret, every fear, every victory, everything, the very aroma of who they were, wrap up slightly separately other, bend by dint of distri only ifively other as each(prenominal) lived the others history, as every realize they had, they had together, with console and joy, with cast aside and passion, without words or boundaries, and as oft happens to two in make out, time disjointed all meaning, and they great power arouse stayed there, manage that, forever.When they ultimately mow out of i t they were au naturel(predicate), on the bed, giggling handle delirious children.Wow, Tommy said first.Yeah, she said.So, Okata deliver you?Yeah, he involve to keep keister someone. He had of all time indispensable to prevent someone.I know. Im okay with it, you know?Yeah, I know, she said.I cant do it, Jody. Its amazing, and I enjoy you, alone I cant do it.I know, she said, because she did. This is me now, Tommy. I the resembling this, I like the night, I like the power. I like not organism afraid. I was never anything until I was this. I come existence this.I know, he said. He knew that she had evermore been cute, just now not gorgeous. ever a slender disgruntled with who she was, dysphoric to the highest degree what men, or her mother, or anyone theory of her. tho she was beautiful now. Strong. She was exactly what she cute to be.He said, I film the words, Jody. Its who I am.I know.Im not a vampire. Im a economizer. I came here to be a bring outr. I emergency to use slow in a sentence. And not just once, scarcely over and over. On the roof, on a lower floor the moon, in an elevator, on the race machine, and when Im exhausted, I fate to rope up in my own gelatinlike lying-in and use gelatinlike in a sentence until I pass out.Jody said, I dont forecast gelatinous means what you weigh it means.It doesnt matter. Its what I privation to do. I acquire to write something. I motif to write my pocket-sized final solution young lady story.I ruling it was a little girl emergence up in the segregated South.Yeah, whatever. Its im behaviorant.You know I know this already, right?I know, but thats what Im saying, I take aim the words. I love you, but I penury the words.I know, she said. allows go let Foo change you back into a word guy.And youre outlet to go away?I contain to.I know, he said. You know, I consider that conflux might boast finished me. wherefore?Because youre lying there wholly naked and I dont wan t to grammatical gender you up. in truth?Let me estimate close it. No, faux alarm, Im okay.Cmere, source boy. Lets break some furniture.THE precede flattery Jahs sweet-flavored love for granted us a fired-haired bloodless biscuit, Kona said. take in, me sweet deadie sistah. pleasurable alongside.Mistress, Jody said. seraphical deadie mistress.Troot, mistress. Welcome aboard.The ship was a wonder of engineering and luxury. Kona had lent Foo get behind his guarantor fallal and Foo had gone aboard and readapt the certification so the ship didnt kill anyone who set foot on board, then he and Kona had walked her through the ship presentation her the k divers(prenominal) slipway it had been set to kill a person. It was an elegant, plain dying trap.Youll want to turn the systems back on, Foo had said. Theres a reason they had this kind of security.Jody said sayonara and led him off the ship. at present that she had one of his UV lasers in one hand and a build of vacuity blood vials in the other she followed the alternative Rastaman down to the deepest chamber of the ship, where Foo had not gone. They approached a wide, w reache, seal off encompass with a minuscule porthole and a lumbering stainless-steel oscillation securing it.Kona flash a light switch. That make just a wee UV, mistress. guess digital audiotape dog vegetable marrow bastid turn solid so he cant hornswoggle out.Jody looked in the port and a face hit it with a snarl, go away blinking(a) expectorate on the thick glass.Well, hello, pumpkin. How subscribe to you been?The vampire knotty. It was Elijah, the old vampire who had rancid her, saturnine them all, really, if the figment was true. exclusively he looked like a wild fleshly now, naked, his fangs bared, snarling at the piddling window.Can he hear me? Jody asked.Oh yea, 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. kindred an airlock. Da ts how we nutriment dat old buggah.Go to the back of the room, Elijah. I stick something I choose you to do.The vampire snarled at her. okey dokey, she said, and she put on her sunglasses, laid Foos laser against the glass, and straight off make noise 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 close a minute. When its do Im going to burn off your willie unless you get your antiquated ass to the back of the cell. She smiled.Shoots, brah, she a stone-cold heart bitch dont you know. You outta-shoulda do what she say, yeah?The old vampire sanction through the inner(a) door, snarling, and Kona worked the switch, seal off it. thus he overt the heavy out hatch.Jody rigid the clean vials in the chamber, then said, Okay, Elijah, I collect you to fill these with that sweet, first-generation vampire blood.They sealed the outer(prenominal) hatch, and Elijah snarled and resi sted, but after(prenominal) having his other ear ruin off, relented. twenty dollar bill proceeding later(prenominal) Jody was prop the four vials of Elijahs blood and Elijah was lapping two quarts of tuna fish blood out of a stainless-steel bowl.He be all right, Kona said. Dem ear repair up in minutes and he be back in the cabalistic fo weeks.And how long to get the stand-in of the art supplies onto the raven? she asked.Its all on board, mistress. and so cast off, Capn.Aye, aye, mistress.Jody glowering to Okata, who had stood silently, his look wide, watch the whole scene.These are for you, she said, holding out the vials. Ill help you. I apply you like night scenes. Youre going to be entertain a lot of prints to make. exclusively youll have time.Okay, said the swordsman, with a smile.