0209: The Vampire's Daughter

"Why does he love you? Why not another little girl?" Mina asked Susan.

"Cause this is how it's supposed to be," the little girl answered.

"How do you know that?"

"I just do."

The two looked at each other in silence. A quiet that Sol didn't feel
he could break. It was as if the two were eyeing each other down in a
gunfight. After what seemed like an eternity, Mina looked away.

"I think it's time that you left," Mina said, standing up and walking
to the door that led into the control room. "One of my men will see
you to the door."

Susan jumped up from Mina's chair and walked through the door ahead of
Sol. Before he passed by Mina, however, she grabbed his shoulder and
whispered to him, "Be careful of the little girl." He looked into
Mina's eyes and could see that her warning was genuine.

After they left, Mina let her robe drop, exposing her naked body, and
sat down at her desk. She put her head in her hands to calm down. The
exchange with the little girl upset her in a way she couldn't explain.
She was now even more certain that Thomas and Elizabeth were the wrong
pair. That her sire was mistaken. That Susan and Sabastian were the
ones he was looking for.

After a few deep breaths, she opened her eyes. She looked down at the
blotter on her desk because it was filled with Susan's scribbling.
Only, it was the same thing written over and over again. The girl had
scribbled the name of Mina's Sire all over the blotter. But not just
in English, she had written it crudely in Chinese, Korean, Japanese...
The name sat before her in almost every Asian language.

A chill ran down her spine as she picked up the phone to call her Sire.
"I have just met with Sol and the girl I told you about."

"Sol told me that Thomas is having great difficulty taming the city."

"Sire, I believe the little girl is more important than you originally
thought. I..." She stopped talking and listened to her sire for
several minutes.

"Yes, Sire." Mina hung up the phone. "I hope you are correct," she
said out loud.

By that time, Sol was pulling up to the house. When the pair walked
inside, they found Claudia cooking.

"I'm gonna go play," Susan said to them, as she headed up the back
stairs.

"I have food ready soon," Claudia yelled after her.

Sol and Claudia made small talk while she cooked. Sol even helped,
which brought back memories of his youth. When the food was cooked,
Claudia asked Sol if he would get Susan.

He went upstairs and walked to her room. As he stepped into the
doorway, he saw the little girl playing with a man. The man looked up
at him and disappeared.

Sol rushed in and looked around the room. "Who was that?" he asked.

"Who was who?" Susan asked.

Sol grabbed the girl by her shoulders and lifted her to her feet, "Who
was that," he demanded.

"You’re hurting me," she said, just before a force threw Sol across the
room.

He looked around frantically.

"What the hell is going on?" Sol asked.

Susan looked at the area next to Sol, and then said, "His name is
Judas." She looked Sol in the eyes, where she could see his fear.

"J... Judas Iscariot?" Sol asked, unsure as to why the name of Jesus’
betrayer came so quickly to his mind.

"Yes," she said, walking toward him.

He scrambled to his feet and ran from the room. As Susan walked into
the kitchen, she could hear Sol's car pulling away."

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