Chapter Fifteen: Incognito:

“Clearly, the situation has become a mess,” Doyle said. “Who did you piss off?” Lauren shook her head.

“I don’t know,” she said. The vampire looked down at her hands. “You don’t think it’s because of what happened to me?”

“It’s possible,” he said. Lauren shook her head.

“But… That’s not my fault!” she yelled. “I was kidnapped and turned into this!”

“That doesn’t matter to them,” Doyle said. “You are a threat to them and you must die because of it.” The female vampire gritted her teeth.

“That’s just wrong!” she shouted.

“That’s how it is,” Doyle said. “Are you going to cry about it?” The female vampire shook her head.

“No,” she said.

“No?”

“I want to kill the people who did this to me!”

Doyle smirked. “Good, good. And how are you going to do that?”

Lauren blinked at him. “Huh?”

“Do you even know who did this to you?”

“There was a man and a woman, but I can’t remember their faces. And there was a big white van.” Lauren rubbed her forehead.

“Anything else?” Doyle asked. The female vampire sat on the roof to think harder. She looked like she was having a mental crash. The man rubbed his forehead.

“You’re just about hopeless, aren’t you?” he asked.

“It’s wasn’t my fault!” Lauren shouted. “They just jumped me and took me back to some weird lab.” She looked down at her hand.

“Now, I’m hungry all the time and can walk around in sunlight,” she said. “What am I supposed to do now?” Lauren looked up to see Doyle smirking at her.

“What?” she asked.

“You say all of that like it’s a bad thing,” he said.

“Isn’t it, though?”

“Is it?”

Lauren dropped her fists by her sides. “I don’t know.” He took her by the shoulders. Her instinct told her to run when she saw him smirk. In the beginning, she just latched onto him out of hunger and survival. But now, something didn’t seem right about him.

“Lauren, honey,” he said. “You have the power to hunt both day and night.” Her eyes widened.

“I can?” she asked.

“Yes!” Doyle practically shouted in her face. “It annoys me that you haven’t tried to use your new gifts to your advantage.”

“Gifts? Advantage?” Lauren asked. “I’ve been too busy being hungry all of the damn time!”

“Yes, yes,” he said. “That’s understandable. You were just trying to get your footing together.” Lauren raised her eyebrow.

“I don’t understand you,” she said.

“Why is that?” Doyle asked.

“Why are you doing this for me?” the female vampire asked. “What do you get out of this? How can I be sure that you won’t turn on me when I turn my back?”

“It’s like I said before, I find you interesting,” he said. “Entertainment. And you don’t know.” She stared at him with a strange look on her face. Doyle patted Lauren on the back.

“We still have work to do to get you up to speed to where you need to be,” he said. “Right now, I can’t be of any use to you.”

“Why?” Lauren asked with big eyes. Doyle pointed to the sky behind them. The female vampire turned to see the dark sky slowly turning lighter.

“The sun’s about to come up,” he said lowering his hat. “Unlike you, I can’t walk around in the sunlight.”

“But what about me?” Lauren asked.

“You’ll be fine because you can walk around in the sunlight,” the male vampire said. He tilted his head when he saw her looking at her like a sad little puppy.

“What’s that look for?” he asked. Lauren felt her body trembling. Her companion sighed and threw back his head.

“Fine, I’ll help you out,” he said. Doyle touched her on the forehead. A quick light shot into her head, causing Lauren to stumble backwards. She felt dizzy, but shook it off.

“What was that for?” she asked.

“It’s list of instructions,” he said. “It’ll guide you through the day. We’ll meet back at the destination I told you about in your head.”

“But what are you going to do?” the female vampire asked.

“What else?” Doyle asked. “I’m going back to sleep. I have to. You understand.” He jumped down through the hole in the roof. Lauren stared down, sneering.

“Gee thanks,” she muttered. She sighed and shook her head before she jumping up into the sky and disappearing.