The Lonesome Child ; Chapter 2

Droplets sliding down the ridge of metal, slithering its way down to it's destination. Closer and closer it gets towards the edge or metal and air meet. It slings to the brim and it's grip loosening on the smooth edge of metal. Slowly loses its grip nearing its dreadful fall to the oblivion below. the droplets grip faltered, failed, it's hurtling towards the massive oblivion below, silent cries for help aren't heard. closer and closer the drop hurdles. splashes on icy flesh of a man's cheek. his closed eyes scrunched, wrinkles forming, then his eyes opened, blinking then searching his surroundings. suddenly a flash of memory appeared. maria in the pouring rain falling to her knees, vary weakened, the slowly she falls to her side, her face shows no emotion, no movement, just staring at him. she she falls and collapses to the ground. the man sitting up quickly pushing himself from the well bedded mattress, yelling out, " maria!!... maria!" looking around the strange looking room he layed in. a sharp pain surged through his whole body, making him wince in pain, making him fall back onto the bed. the door swings open, a person runs in and paints, stopping right by the man, maria's big brother, asking him, " are you ok, sir? i heard you yell..." the boy painting as the man looked over his face squinting a bit because of the pain, the man saying with slight pain, " where am i? ... where's my sister maria?" the man tries to sit up, but the boy pushes him down gently, " no, you should stay down, you're in no condition in getting up, sir. and your sister is in the other room, i'm afraid she hasn't woken up yet..." the man's eyes shot wide open, " i need to see her!... i need to see maria!..." he pushes himself up groaning. ".. i need ... to see my... sister!.." pushing himself to get up, the boy trying to keep him from getting up. " sir, you're gonna hurt yourself, your injuries are very bad, you need to lay. you'll kill yourself!" the man just keeps on going, pushing the boy out of his way, he stands up sheepishly, stars making his way to the way out, limping. " maria1.. where are you?!" the man checking every door he comes across to finding his sister. he opens up the last door in the hallway and finds maria, laying motionless, no emotion on her face, just blank as it could ever be. her brother walking close to her, " maria..." saying softly as if trying not to wake her. he gets close to her bedside, the boy comes in through the door following after him. her brother taking her hand and holds her hand and lays his other one over the top of them. staring at his sister, hoping she'll wake up any second,, but she's just lying there, motionless, no expression, no emotions, no nothing, just a body of what he known as his little sister named maria. he whispers, ".. i'm so sorry maria... i didn't mean for this to happen.. little sis... please wake up? ... wake .. up.. please wake .. up?" tears start to run down his face, laying his head down, morning for his sister, wanting her to wake up. wanting to hear her sweet voice, wanting to see her loving smile again, wanting to hear her say, " i love you, big brother. your the best." the blanket getting wet with his tears, " sis, wake up.. i need you... you're the only family i have left...please.. wake up!" he continues sobbing sorrow filled tears, wishing for the little life to perspire in maria to wake from her slumber of life and death, or to waken her from her already dead body. the boy walked in closer to him as his head lay on the bed of tears, " .. are you ok, sir?" he continuously places a hand on his shaking shoulder, " she's going to be ok, she just.." marias brother pushes his arm away, off of his shoulder, standing up, towering over the boy, " you don't know that!... what i've done to her, could have been fatal! and the looks of her like this... is fatal..., " barring his long fangs to the boy, wrinkling his nose, with an angry glow in his eyes. the boy stared at the sight of his fangs, he didn't realize that what he brung into his house was the enemy, " .. hey take it .. it easy, sir.. i don't mean any harm" the vampire closing in on the boy with a limp in his step. the boy backing away trying not to get caught by his enemy. backing him into a corner no where left to go, trapped like a rat. a person walked in through the door with a tray. it was middle aged man, in his mid 30's or 40's, his hair black and short, glasses rest on the bridge of his nose. " i'm back with..." his gaze switched to the man that trapped the boy in the corner. the man dropped the tray and ran behind maria's brother. ' get away from my son you fiend!" the man pulled out a cross and pushed it onto the back of him. the vampire arching his back and gave out an ear piercing shriek. he frantically tries to pull off the cross that stuck to the back of him. finally he took off his shirt, allowing him to remove the cross from his back. throwing it to the side, now his back has an engraved scare on his back of a cross. when he turned around facing the man with a glare of rage. his chest scared and stitches holding his recent wounds together. it wasn't any surprise to either one of them to see, they saw him before, they stitched his wounds. the man said trying to stop the pursuer, "why do you attack us? we saved your life, those stitches, we did that..." the vampires glare softened a bit, why, he thought, why would you help a vampire? the vampire looked away to the girl that still lay in the bed, unmoved. his glare returned to the man and child. maybe these humans can bring maria back.

"bring life to maria, and i may spare your lives..." the vampire spoke harshly, " .. till then, you're safe ... for now." the bot now hiding behind his father, his father nerves froze, he brought himself to talk, " my son and i was already going to nurture her back to life... like we did to you..." he said reassuring, as the boy smiled and nodded," she should be awake in a few days or less." the vampire looked back at them with very little rage now, but still thought, they better watch themselves, once gets better we are leaving... he switched his gaze to maria, then he looked away, pulling her gaze away from her and started to walk out of the room, then disappeared without a word.

the father walked over to the tray that lays on the ground, kneeling down and replacing every dish back on the tray. the boy still shaken from the event that passed not to long ago, went over to maria to check out her pulse and stats, ".... father?" the boy still looking at the girl on the bedside. " yes, my son?" "why are we taking care of vampires?"
"well because, even though they are a threat to us, they were injured and in need of help," he looked over at the boy, "and if you treat them how you want to be treated, then they may do the same." the boy looked over and forced a smile, and thought, "we are sooo toast."

the vampire that left the room is now in the room that he woke up in. he walked over to a chair and sat down in it the table next to him has all of his belongings on it, his rifle, dog tags, magazines for his rifle, down to a few photos. he picked up the photos and looked through them, one of them had maria and him in a green valley and a cottage in the background where they used to live before all this had happened, and the other, it's a picture of the family, mother, father, grandma and grandpa, him and maria. "... i will avenge you all my brethren and sisteren..." he whispered baring his fangs, "i will stop you tai zong... i swear my life on it." he slammed his fist on the table, stuttering a girl about his age, she's out side of the door and spying on him, or admiring him. the vampire stood up from his seat, while walking from the seat to his bed he thought, "maria... get well, sisteren... sorry for my damage i gave to you." ignoring the scent of human and lays down on the bed. "i'm sorry..." he spoke, a tear escaping his eye. the girl noticed the tear, but it was an odd color even for a human, " is he crying blood?" the girl questioned herself, watching him unknowing he knows her presence. he whispered a little lullaby to himself, seeming like it's calming him down. "as i gave you damage, i'll give my own sin to myself in your sack..."

"forgive me, maria." he unfolds a pocket knife and he digs the knife down into his wrist. the girl looked in shock, but she shock herself and ran in through the door. "no! stop!.. don't do that to yourself." the man's eyes shot open to look at the human that finally shown herself. she stopped over by the bedside and reaches for the weapon. he snatched it away before she could grab it, her hand grabbed his bloody wrist." what are you doing here, human?" he said half aggressively. the girl gasped when her attempt of need failed she didn't speak, just stared at the blood." i asked what are you doing here?" she didn't flinch, she just stared, her gaze becoming more lustful. "blood... musn't give in" she thought to herself, then finally she pulled away, her hand covered in blood, stuttering, " i.. i.. was trying to stop you... from hurting yourself," she looked on his wrist," i.. guess i didn't, di i?" she blushed. the man stared at her for a second before he said," leave now, human. you have no purpose in this room to fulfill.." she was stunned, but then relaxes closing the door behind her, she leans her back up against the door. she stares at her hand now cover with a red liquid. she licks the blood off of her hand. "well atleast i didn't give myself away. thought he'd sense that i wasn't human... gues the potion worked. she thought as she walked down the hallway going towards the exit.