He’s sinister smirk and dark eyes filled to the brim with he’s horrible twisted desires forever branded itself in my mind. I tried to slap him again but he was ready for it this time, Michael simply knocked my arm away, gripped my shoulder pulled me forward before slamming me back in to the ground, the force of the impact stole my breath and had my vision swimming with black spots. Numbness settled over me, it was all I could do to breathe, to stay awake.
The bastard flipped my skirts up, and started unbuttoning his pants. I had to stop this, I had to move to do something. Moving my fingers through over the forest floor I felt around in the dirt for anything to save myself with. I only found a small stick, no longer than a dinner fork but sharp enough to cut my fingers on. Hope bloomed in my chest, I could stop him, I would stop him.
"Don't worry Scarlet it will only hurt a little bit. And when you die, I promise that I'll make it, quick and painless." he swore coldly in my ear, his voice gleeful at the fact that he had complete power over me.
I knew what I had to do but I was not a murderer I couldn’t hurt a fly and yet here I was, weapon in hand preparing to kill my best friend’s brother, who was about to rape and kill me.
Save yourself!
The thought bounced around in mind an echo in a hollow room. A sob forced its way out my throat, I'm not a murderer. But he laughed like my fear and pain amused him. Like it was the only thing that brought him joy, brought him pleasure. It did. I could feel his arousal pressed again me as he ripped at the remaining buttons of his trousers.
Its me or him!
Michael ran his sickening hands along my thighs and I knew there was only one way to make him stop. I gripped the stick tighter feeling it cut into palm and with all the strength I had left plunged it right into his exposed neck. Hot thick blood splattered all over me, on my face, my chest, on my dress and my hands. Michael titled his head in my direction his surprise and shock filled his handsome features right before he went limp and his warm body fell on top if me. Blood pooling in the hollow spaces of my neck and collar bones, running down my dress.
Trembling and crying I pushed his lifeless corpse away from me quickly turned my head and threw up my breakfast.
I killed him! I killed someone!
Just then shouts and footsteps sounded from the direction of the Redford Mansion, they heard me and they were coming to help but it was too late.
Too shocked to move or even speak.
What had I done? My life is over, no one would believe me, he was considered a gentleman. I was ruined!
Melanie, Nora and the stable hand broke through the tree and all hell broke loose. Melanie gasped in shock or horror I don’t know, and poor Nora started screaming, the stable had seemed to be the only one calm enough to think, telling us that he’d get the master.
Oh God. What had I done!
I think he raced back to the Mansion but I could not see clearly past the blood clouding my vision yet as I turned to look at Melanie to say something, to apologize for… killing her brother. I was silenced by the brief smile that crossed her face as she stared down at Michael’s body.
Present
“Anything to say Melanie?” I asked the snivelling mess at my feet. Melanie continued to shake her head in complete denial, she seriously thought she was innocent in this. I laughed in her face causing her eyes to wide in complete shock. It was in that moment I decided she deserved to suffer like she allowed me to suffer. Leaning in close enough to brush my bloody lips against the shell of her ear.
“You know when I’m done here, maybe I’ll go and find Ian,” She shuddered horror bleeding into her features as she paled even further.
“He and I would get along swimmingly. Don’t you think, Mel?” Her only reply was a scream so loud that it shook the walls.
And he's dead!!!
The sound of her scream tore at my ear drums, so sensitive was my hearing her scream of terror brought not delightful amusement but pure torture. Reaching out I slapped my hand over her mouth so hard Melanie fell over a wimpering mess from the impact. But at least she stopped screaming. Then the air charged; became alive as ominous laughter filled the room, a clear deep seductive sound traveled through the space and caressed my skin like the a whisper of a kiss. As if to say; 'Forgot me, didn't you?' I had. I'd come upstairs to find Melanie and he'd gone off to do Lord knows what, downstairs. I just hope he didn't kill the Mayor. That self righteous bastard was...Mine! Melanie ceased her wailing at the sound of his laughter. A deer frozen in the presence of a wolf. Barely breathing she slowly tilted her head back to catch a glimpse of the creature behind her. The second she saw him, her racin
Melanie went completely still. She thought I was serious, that she could survive if she killed her own father. I have never been more disgusted with human beings than I have in the last 3 days. It seems there is not one good person among any of my so called God fearing neighbours. How could I have been so naive. So blind to the true faces of everyone I'd ever known. Was I really that oblivious to the world around me and the monsters who paraded as people in it. I had became a creature of the night come to exact revenge on the wrongs of man.But was it really my place to do so?Did it make me just like them, that I was had stained my hands with there filthy blood, that I let them pollute my blood with hatred and pain. Should I not have left judgement to God? Doubt crept in, freezing me in place staring glassy eyed at Melanie Redford the girl I tricked myself into thinking was my friend, who I knew and trusted. "I- I d-d" Her pale lips trembled fumbling o
The second Melanie swung the door open and I saw the Mayor Redford my reaction surprised even me. I burst out laughing. Loud belly twisted laughter fill the space. Evan, strange and deadly creature he was, had a marvellous sense of humour. He’d strung the Mayor up like a pig on the spit. Wiggling no stop on his stomach like a worm, hands and feet tied together and bound to each other behind his back and he yelled into the make shift gag Evan had fashioned for him. It was truly a sight I would not forget for a long while. Nor was the rage that rushed forward the moment our eyes met. In less than a second I was inside the study -the same study us girls were never I allowed to even look into- staring down at the man who sentenced me to death. "Good evening, Mayor Redford." Smiling sweetly down at him I offer my greetings. "Have you missed me?" I asked gleefully watching terror fill he's swollen red face. Evan calmly tossed Melanie into an armchair before s
Home. It smelled different and yet exactly the same. Large, compared to the other houses around this part of town. A size my mother could be proud of, brag to her ‘friends’ about and lord over the other ladies at church. I had taken the long way to get here, the walk over helped cool my head some and with the once boiling rage now a bubbling simmer, I felt I could think clearly. Decide what I am to do with these people who brought me into this world without my consent, and thought their part in my creation was reason enough to take my life away. I always knew my mother was a lost cause, I’d thought the fact that she too is a woman would be enough for her to side with me, her only child. I was wrong of course, but her betrayal had been the expected one. My father on the other hand was everything to me. My protected and my friend, the man I compared all others to and found them wanting. His was the betrayal that cut the deepest, from his wounds have I bleed the most. The rage burned
Home.Large, compared to the other houses around this part of town. A size my mother could be proud of, brag to her ‘friends’ about and lord over the other ladies at church.It smelled different and yet exactly the same. Or maybe it was me who was different, so much had changed in so little time. In all of three days I was assaulted, tried and executed, then reborn as an immortal creature of the night. A blood drinking vampire, who had taken the long way home, to kill my parents, who’d actively participated in my murder.Life sure did come full circle.The walk over helped cool my head, smother the once boiling rage to a bubbling simmer, I felt I could think clearly now.Decide, what I am to do with these people who brought me into this world without my consent, and thought their part in my creation was reason enough to take my life away. As if my very existence was merely a whim, a novelty they’d grown tired of clothing and feeding, parading around town to sell off to the highest bidd
How dare he! Coward. Fool. How dare he to do this me. Steal yet another thing from me. After everything he’d done to me, his only child. Man’s cruelty truly does know no bounds. My fathers cruelty followed me into my immortal life as it had in my human one. The man had once again found a way stab me in the back, and twist the knife in even further. In mere seconds the ground had shifted beneath my feet, all my newly acquired power and superhuman strength failed me. I found myself frozen on the floor, fists clenched and stunned to silence staring up at my father in muted horror and something akin to total frustration as he swayed gently in the air. He’d hung himself. Like he’d hung me. The most God fearing man I knew killed himself. I couldn’t even bring myself to laugh that the irony. He must have thought it was so poetic to kill his child then himself the exact same way. The man must have been sick in the head. A gaping hole seems to have opened up in my chest, no emotion p
"Oh dear Lord." Mary our housekeep grasped behind me. I'd heard her coming, summoned by my tears as she always had been. Mary was hard woman, a widow who'd lost her only child to the fever that had swept through town decades ago. Mary and I had a strange relationship, she was who I should have turned to for motherly advise or comfort considering my own mama was so lacking in that department. But Mary wore her pain in a phyiscal way, as if she cloaked herself in her grief years ago and now simply did not know how to live without carrying her shroud of pain everywhere she went. I tried to get close her, to know her and love her but she would let me and I, I was tried of trying to love mothers who would not and in Mary's case could not love me back. Turning my head towards her, I realised I was not mad at her, like I was at everyone else. She was not there, she did come to cheer for my death nor did she come to speak for my character either, though that would have done little good as it
"You can't stay here, Scarlet." Mary said finally breaking the somber silence. "Your mother..." she broke off looking for a polite way to tell me that my mother was a murderess self-serving bitch and that she would sooner commend me to the fires of hell than help me escape an unjust charge. “You have run.” She spoke softly, but with the same firm resolute tone she'd always had with me. “Run and never look back. The mayor, pitiful as he may be right now, is a cruel vicious man. He'll never let it go." "If he finds out that your still alive.” She shuddered and rapidly shook her head. It was nice to know Mary cared for me in her own way, she was a rare breed. "You need not worry about Mayor Redford." I told her, turning to watch her as she stared at my father's corpse. If I could of, I would have found a sick sort of amusement when the thought of the mayors death crossed her mind. But practical Mary did not linger on that line of thought for long. "Better safe than sorry." She shook
"You can't stay here, Scarlet." Mary said finally breaking the somber silence. "Your mother..." she broke off looking for a polite way to tell me that my mother was a murderess self-serving bitch and that she would sooner commend me to the fires of hell than help me escape an unjust charge. “You have run.” She spoke softly, but with the same firm resolute tone she'd always had with me. “Run and never look back. The mayor, pitiful as he may be right now, is a cruel vicious man. He'll never let it go." "If he finds out that your still alive.” She shuddered and rapidly shook her head. It was nice to know Mary cared for me in her own way, she was a rare breed. "You need not worry about Mayor Redford." I told her, turning to watch her as she stared at my father's corpse. If I could of, I would have found a sick sort of amusement when the thought of the mayors death crossed her mind. But practical Mary did not linger on that line of thought for long. "Better safe than sorry." She shook
"Oh dear Lord." Mary our housekeep grasped behind me. I'd heard her coming, summoned by my tears as she always had been. Mary was hard woman, a widow who'd lost her only child to the fever that had swept through town decades ago. Mary and I had a strange relationship, she was who I should have turned to for motherly advise or comfort considering my own mama was so lacking in that department. But Mary wore her pain in a phyiscal way, as if she cloaked herself in her grief years ago and now simply did not know how to live without carrying her shroud of pain everywhere she went. I tried to get close her, to know her and love her but she would let me and I, I was tried of trying to love mothers who would not and in Mary's case could not love me back. Turning my head towards her, I realised I was not mad at her, like I was at everyone else. She was not there, she did come to cheer for my death nor did she come to speak for my character either, though that would have done little good as it
How dare he! Coward. Fool. How dare he to do this me. Steal yet another thing from me. After everything he’d done to me, his only child. Man’s cruelty truly does know no bounds. My fathers cruelty followed me into my immortal life as it had in my human one. The man had once again found a way stab me in the back, and twist the knife in even further. In mere seconds the ground had shifted beneath my feet, all my newly acquired power and superhuman strength failed me. I found myself frozen on the floor, fists clenched and stunned to silence staring up at my father in muted horror and something akin to total frustration as he swayed gently in the air. He’d hung himself. Like he’d hung me. The most God fearing man I knew killed himself. I couldn’t even bring myself to laugh that the irony. He must have thought it was so poetic to kill his child then himself the exact same way. The man must have been sick in the head. A gaping hole seems to have opened up in my chest, no emotion p
Home.Large, compared to the other houses around this part of town. A size my mother could be proud of, brag to her ‘friends’ about and lord over the other ladies at church.It smelled different and yet exactly the same. Or maybe it was me who was different, so much had changed in so little time. In all of three days I was assaulted, tried and executed, then reborn as an immortal creature of the night. A blood drinking vampire, who had taken the long way home, to kill my parents, who’d actively participated in my murder.Life sure did come full circle.The walk over helped cool my head, smother the once boiling rage to a bubbling simmer, I felt I could think clearly now.Decide, what I am to do with these people who brought me into this world without my consent, and thought their part in my creation was reason enough to take my life away. As if my very existence was merely a whim, a novelty they’d grown tired of clothing and feeding, parading around town to sell off to the highest bidd
Home. It smelled different and yet exactly the same. Large, compared to the other houses around this part of town. A size my mother could be proud of, brag to her ‘friends’ about and lord over the other ladies at church. I had taken the long way to get here, the walk over helped cool my head some and with the once boiling rage now a bubbling simmer, I felt I could think clearly. Decide what I am to do with these people who brought me into this world without my consent, and thought their part in my creation was reason enough to take my life away. I always knew my mother was a lost cause, I’d thought the fact that she too is a woman would be enough for her to side with me, her only child. I was wrong of course, but her betrayal had been the expected one. My father on the other hand was everything to me. My protected and my friend, the man I compared all others to and found them wanting. His was the betrayal that cut the deepest, from his wounds have I bleed the most. The rage burned
The second Melanie swung the door open and I saw the Mayor Redford my reaction surprised even me. I burst out laughing. Loud belly twisted laughter fill the space. Evan, strange and deadly creature he was, had a marvellous sense of humour. He’d strung the Mayor up like a pig on the spit. Wiggling no stop on his stomach like a worm, hands and feet tied together and bound to each other behind his back and he yelled into the make shift gag Evan had fashioned for him. It was truly a sight I would not forget for a long while. Nor was the rage that rushed forward the moment our eyes met. In less than a second I was inside the study -the same study us girls were never I allowed to even look into- staring down at the man who sentenced me to death. "Good evening, Mayor Redford." Smiling sweetly down at him I offer my greetings. "Have you missed me?" I asked gleefully watching terror fill he's swollen red face. Evan calmly tossed Melanie into an armchair before s
Melanie went completely still. She thought I was serious, that she could survive if she killed her own father. I have never been more disgusted with human beings than I have in the last 3 days. It seems there is not one good person among any of my so called God fearing neighbours. How could I have been so naive. So blind to the true faces of everyone I'd ever known. Was I really that oblivious to the world around me and the monsters who paraded as people in it. I had became a creature of the night come to exact revenge on the wrongs of man.But was it really my place to do so?Did it make me just like them, that I was had stained my hands with there filthy blood, that I let them pollute my blood with hatred and pain. Should I not have left judgement to God? Doubt crept in, freezing me in place staring glassy eyed at Melanie Redford the girl I tricked myself into thinking was my friend, who I knew and trusted. "I- I d-d" Her pale lips trembled fumbling o
The sound of her scream tore at my ear drums, so sensitive was my hearing her scream of terror brought not delightful amusement but pure torture. Reaching out I slapped my hand over her mouth so hard Melanie fell over a wimpering mess from the impact. But at least she stopped screaming. Then the air charged; became alive as ominous laughter filled the room, a clear deep seductive sound traveled through the space and caressed my skin like the a whisper of a kiss. As if to say; 'Forgot me, didn't you?' I had. I'd come upstairs to find Melanie and he'd gone off to do Lord knows what, downstairs. I just hope he didn't kill the Mayor. That self righteous bastard was...Mine! Melanie ceased her wailing at the sound of his laughter. A deer frozen in the presence of a wolf. Barely breathing she slowly tilted her head back to catch a glimpse of the creature behind her. The second she saw him, her racin
He’s sinister smirk and dark eyes filled to the brim with he’s horrible twisted desires forever branded itself in my mind. I tried to slap him again but he was ready for it this time, Michael simply knocked my arm away, gripped my shoulder pulled me forward before slamming me back in to the ground, the force of the impact stole my breath and had my vision swimming with black spots. Numbness settled over me, it was all I could do to breathe, to stay awake. The bastard flipped my skirts up, and started unbuttoning his pants. I had to stop this, I had to move to do something. Moving my fingers through over the forest floor I felt around in the dirt for anything to save myself with. I only found a small stick, no longer than a dinner fork but sharp enough to cut my fingers on. Hope bloomed in my chest, I could stop him, I would stop him. "Don't worry Scarlet it will only hurt a little bit. And when you die, I promise that I'll make it, quick and painless." he