0205

Looking around the room, Mary was shocked to see a dead vampire. One
of the Zionists.

"Are you O.K.?" she asked Susan.

The little girl looked up at her and said, "Yes."

"Is she..." Mary started to ask.

"Yes. She died protecting me from him," Susan responded, nodding her
head at the dead vampire. He had on the high-ranking robes of the Zion
clan and a post through his chest. "Sabastian is with Elizabeth. You
need to sleep now. I'll take care of the bodies. We must ask Mina for
help tomorrow."

Mary was taken aback by all that Susan said, and, instead of dealing
with the commands she was just given by a little girl, asked, "Where is
Sol?"

"Gone."

"What?" Mary asked, fighting the sleep that was creeping upon her.

"Go, sleep, before it’s too late" Susan said, as the first rays of
light started to enter the room.

Mary did as the little girl said, but was more confused than before.
The last month or so was a blur and the current situation only made her
head spin faster. She lay on her bed, fully clothed, looking at the
ceiling, her mind in utter confusion, as sleep closed her eyes.

That day, Susan dragged the Zionist to the window and threw his
body outside. It landed in a shaded area so she went down and dragged
it into the sun, where nature destroyed the impurity. It was hard work
for a little girl, but, knowing what would happen if someone found a
vampire, she kept at it until the job was done.

She walked back to the front of the house and fixed the door as best as
she could, which wasn’t very well at all. She checked it from a
distance, however, and it looked passable.

After that, she went into the kitchen and removed everything from the
freezer to make room for Claudia's body. She knew the sun wouldn’t
destroy Claudia and she didn’t want her body to rot. When she had
emptied the icebox, she looked inside and cried.

"Was this part of the plan?" she asked out loud, and then went upstairs
to her friend's body. Time was already starting to take its toll, so
she moved as quickly as she could dragging Claudia down to the kitchen.
She was tired from dragging around the vampire and fixing the door, so
dealing with Claudia’s body was especially hard.

With the body finally in front of the refrigerator, Susan broke down
again. "I need help, how can you just stand there and watch? You say
you love me, us, but yet you do nothing."

She sobbed and fell to the floor. Eventually she put her head down and
just slept.

Mary came down to the kitchen after she awoke to find Susan asleep on
the floor and defrosted food scattered around the room. Instead of
waking the little girl, she went up to Susan's room to look at the
bodies and figure out what to do.

To her surprise the bodies were gone.

She noted that the window was open, so she went over and looked out to
see scorch marks on the patio that she knew were from the vampire.

She went back to the kitchen and opened the refrigerator, exposing
Claudia's corpse. She closed the door and sat next to Susan.

"My world couldn't possibly fall apart any more than it has," Mary
said, shaking the little girl awake.

[The Vampire’s Daughter: An ongoing vampire story. Copyright Reuben
Gregg Brewer, 2005, 2006. All rights reserved.]
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