Chapter Twenty-Nine: All in One Room:

The nurse sat Lauren down in a chair. She slipped a tube into the vampire’s mouth. She slapped her on the cheeks a couple of times.

“Come on,” she said. “Stay with me. I will get you back to good.” The vampire looked at her with dazed, half-shut eyes. The nurse waved her hand in front of her hand. Lauren gave off a low groan.

“Oh, good,” the nurse said. “Stay with me.” She walked over to the supply fridge and pulled the key out of her pocket. The lid flipped up with a pop. Several packs of blood waited inside. The nurse did a quick count.

“Hope you don’t have a certain type you like,” she said. “You are just getting blood in your mouth. So, I don’t want to hear you complain.” The nurse picked up armfuls of packets. She opened one and put it to Lauren’s mouth.

“Drink up,” she said. The blood started to go into the vampire’s mouth. But then, the nurse froze.

“Hello?” she asked. Against her better judgement, the nurse turned around. Two pale men dressed in black heavy coats stood on the other side of the room. One had a sword strapped to his back. Their eyes stayed locked on the nurse behind their shades. Their potential victim tilted her head.

“Can I help you?” she asked.

“Move!” the man without the sword said. The nurse raised her eyebrow.

“Why?” she asked.

“Don’t make me say it again,” the man said. The other man drew out his sword. The nurse put her hands on her hips.

“Please leave!” she said. “I am tending to a patient here.” One man disappeared. The nurse turned around. The man appeared with a knife to Lauren’s throat.

“Stop right there!” the nurse yelled. She reached out to grab him, but her whole body froze. The other man appeared behind her. Another blade was held to her neck.

“I told you, don’t interfere,” the man said. She noticed the glint of his fangs.

“What do you want with her?” the nurse asked.

“Don’t interfere,” her captor repeated. “Don’t make me tell you again!” The nurse’s eyes went to Lauren drinking the blood in the chair. The other vampire held his sword above his head.

“Goodbye, you abomination,” he said in a low voice. Lauren’s eyes rolled towards him.

“Hold it!” a woman’s voice yelled. The standing being turned towards the door. Eric and Linda stood in the doorway. The vampire standing over Lauren.

“More pests,” his partner said. Linda ran over to Lauren.

“Stay back!” the hunter over the female vampire shouted. He held out his hand and whipped her back.

“Linda!” her husband yelled. Linda sat up, rubbing the back of her head.

“Ow,” she mumbled.

“Are you okay?” Eric asked. His wife looked up at him.

“Yes,” she said. Then, she turned back to Lauren. “They are about to kill our baby.”

“Huh?” her husband asked. The lady scientist ran over to her test subject.

“Stay back!” the hunter yelled. He held out his hand again. That wasn’t going to stop Linda. She already made up her mind. The scientist gritted her teeth.

“You will not keep me away from my daughter!” she yelled after she was thrown to the ground to the fourth time. The hunter gave her a strange look.

“What?” he asked. Linda ran straight over to Lauren. She looked at her test subject slumped against the chair. The scientist gently shook her.

“Hello?” she asked. “Can you hear me? Hello?” Lauren head leaned to the side, leaving blood dripping to the floor. Linda looked up at the hunter, her husband, and the nurse in the room.

“What’s wrong with her?” she asked.

“She needs to be fed more blood,” the nurse said. “Otherwise she won’t survive.”

“Silence!” the hunter behind her snapped. The tip of the blade touched her skin.

“Right…” Linda said. She started picked up blood packs and opening them. The hunter behind her blinked.

“Hold on,” he said. “So… you are the one who created this abomination?”

“She’s not an abomination,” Linda said. “She is my test subject who’s like a daughter to me.” Eric sighed and rubbed his forehead.

“This again?” he muttered to himself.

“What was that?” his wife asked. Eric clenched his teeth.

“Nothing, dear!” he said. The hunter lowered his sword.

“And why would you do this?” he asked. Lina placed a second blood pack into Lauren’s mouth.

“I wanted to see what would happen,” she said.

“What?” the hunter asked. Linda turned to him with a smile on his face.

“I have loved vampires for a long time,” she said. “I have always wanted what would happen if we made one immune to sunlight.”

“That’s why my wife created the drug, Sun Disease,” Eric added.

“Exactly,” his wife said. The hunter’s sword hit the ground.

“You mean to tell me the only reason this creature existence because you wanted to see what would happen?!” he asked.

“Yes,” Linda said with a nod.

“That’s got to be the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard!” the hunter yelled. His partner still had his stoic face.

“Someone else is coming,” he said. His partner whipped around.

“What is it now?!” he asked. The hunters, nurse, Eric, and Linda looked up when they heard footsteps. Fred stood in the doorway inches away from the male scientist. The shop owner blanked.

“Uh… What’s going on here?” he asked, looking back and forth. He took a slow step backwards.