Angel POV.
I fell asleep on the sofa, with the TV turned on trying to listen to any news, trying to stay safe, hoping I'd stay safe until I could make up a plan and get away, I didn't have a family, I didn't have any friends to run to or ask them for help. My mother gave me up on birth, she's an addict, not drugs but it's on the adrenaline, she's out there somewhere jumping from a plane or free diving up from some hill.
My father on the other side is an alcoholic, my mother gave birth to me as an adult, she tried pregnancy and delivery and then she was done, while my father was and stayed the same alcohol lover. He named me after his favourite stripper, he took terrible care of me, it's a big miracle that I grew up enough to leave the house and take care of myself, making a future for myself.I woke up and looked at my phone there were no more warning messages anymore, maybe the government had given up, hopefully, this thing would be put under control soon and we'd get to go back to our old life soon, not that I enjoyed my old life, but it's better than just hiding.
I went to the bathroom first, I had the bad urge to pee, I always suffer from waiting until the last second before I actually go, I don't have accidents anymore, but I did years ago, and maybe when I was younger, it felt like today was going to be one of those bad days, I'm too shaken after last night running events.I managed to make it in time, and then I went toward the kitchen, I was starving, I hadn't had dinner or lunch yesterday, my boss hadn't send me to get him lunch, we were too busy and my fear stopped me from eating dinner when I got here. I made myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, it's the most common food I had growing up, and I still love it.
I finished my sandwich, washing it down with a big cup of water, I went back to the living room and checked the TV, the channel I had it on before falling asleep was off, so I turned to the next one and the one after, they all had morning shows, music, reruns of old shows, nothing mentioning the current events.I thought about calling work, but what if they told me to come over and that seems even worse option than the attackers, so I tried my luck with the TV again, but nothing, I looked at my phone, I was sure there's going to be something, maybe another warning or one that says we're not in emergency state anymore.
I looked out of my shitty apprtment window and saw nothing, just the normal cars driving by and nothing out of the normal, so maybe things are going back to normal, but what where they? Who did we get attacked by?"Breaking news," the TV sounded from behind me and I jumped, I went toward the TV to see what's going on, what's the news.
"We interrupt this show to bring you the newest news," a very calm voice says, this wasn't the same reporter I've been watching for the last couple days, he sound calm and collected, unlike the panick and fear I was watching."During the last couple days, our phones have been filled with warnings, with war declaration, with the news of the death of the current president, then our news have been filled with analysit who said that it's aliens, it's another nuclear war, that it's the end. But I'm here to provide you with the truth and nothing but the truth so stuck around, call your friend, tell everyone to come by the tv or the radio and listen carefully," the reporter says, I turned the channel, I skipped to the next one and the one after, all the channels that had morning shows, and music, and others, all of those channels are now showing the same news reporter.
Maybe it's a national report, I didn't have anyone to call or ask to pay attention along with me, it's just me, so I looked at the TV, and I waited for the reporter to explain what's going on, I'm waiting to hear the truth, or some of it at least, I'm going to hear the official story.
"Humans have been going under attack, but it's not an alien attack and it's not a nuclear war, the one that ended most of the humanity back in twenty-twenty. That war has done more than destorying most of the earth along with it's habitant, that was war has been hard and it revealed that the earth isn't just for the humans, we also live here," the reporter says with a big toothy smile, showing off a perfect set of white teeth he had very sharp fangs, scary, but cute, he had my attention, but he took a full minute of silence."Now that I gave you enough time to speculate and think about it, what do you think I'm? What do you think we are?" he asks, and I answered the first thing that came to my mind, knowing it's wrong, but I'd entertain him any day, he had my full attention, he was charming and the way he talked had me calm down.
"A vampire," I say out loud, it's just me in the house, I could talk and say the words out loud."Maybe some of you are correct, maybe none of you are correct, but here's the answer to you all, hear me correctly, I'm a vampire," he says and my mouth fell open, I had to physically pull my jaw up to close my mouth, this can't be true, he must be sick or this is just a joke, and then he waited another minute, he went quiet."I hope the chance I gave you was enough for you to close your mouths, to say and scream the words 'You're joking!' or 'What a liar' or even better yet 'I don't believe him'" the reporter says and he was right, I have said all of those and a bit more, I didn't believe him.
"Well now that we got all of that out of the way, let's be real, I'm not joking, I'm not lying, it is true, this is what I'm and that's what we are," he says but who is we? Why is he talking in the plural, how crazy could he be?"Now, now settle down children, I have told you the truth, and it's up to you if you just believe me or you want to wait until you find out it's true, it's not going to take you long before you find out that we don't lie, that we are real, and we're taking over. Humans had their chance and what did they do? They had a nuclear war, they ruined the earth, we've been spending the last eight hundred years trying to fix what was broken," he says and he's right, it's been a long time but the earth wasn't back to what it's supposed to be, or that's what the books of history say.
"What do we want?" he asks out loud, I thought about it maybe they want our blood? Our land, to kill us all? It felt like I was under his spell, I couldn't take my eyes off the screen, I was listening to every word he's saying.
"I can confidently say that most of your answers if not all of them are wrong, no we don't want to hurt you, no we don't want your blood, no we don't want to kill you all or purge the earth from you. You did that wiht your war before and look where it brought us, look what and how we ended up with, it's not the best choice, it's not the best idea isn't it?" he says and he's right the war took us nowhere."Then what's our plan?" he asks out loud giving us a minute before he talks again, it's his way to ask and answer.
"We're declaring war on all humankind, surrender humans, and wait for further orders, yours truly, William," he says before the show was cut off and the re-run came back on, I turned the channels checking them and they all went back to what they had before, I decided it's safer for me to stay home, a war with vampire? I'm sure as hell not going to be part of it.Angel POV. This morning's announcements were crazy, they are crazy, I don't believe there are vampires, but I'm not going out to check, I'm not going to go around asking, who would I talk to? Years later the nuclear war was still causing trouble all over, it got some people to go insane, they thought they were vampires, what's coming next? Werewolves and fairies? If we get to choose, I'm going to be a fairy for sure, I'll be Tinkerbell really, I'd fly around and sing forever young.I stayed inside for the day looking at the TV, keeping up with the news, there wasn't any analysis today, no one to say that the vampires are a lie or that it's the aliens all over again, but there was no one, which felt weird, but not too weird. I turned the social media, if the news wasn't going to tell me what was going on, I'm sure that social media would, it's the same as it always was, it's people all over the world telling their stories, or telling lies, depends who you're looking at and watching.T
Angel POV. I obeyed and stayed inside, I wasn't one to go out looking for troubles, I didn't want any troubles, I was good staying at home really, but I also was keeping up with the news, I was listening to William over and over again, I'm waiting for their next announcement, to see what they're up to. On the other side, there were some people who decided to riot, they were all over the streets, even the one near home if I looked up from the window I could see them out, they had guns and they wanted to take over, it's vampires, what are they fighting over?"Humans, you're acting like spoiled children, please, this is the last time we announce anything calmly, get back home, now," William ordered us, but I was home, that didn't include me, I got another bowl of cereal ready as my dinner, I wasn't in the mood to cook anything. My phone rang and I looked at it, it's another announcement that sounded more of a threat this time, they were done warning, and they had moved to threatening
Angel POV. After the bus stopped, we were welcomed into the facility, what I'm going to call it, it's a facility, that looks very similar to the companies we have and I work in, the girl who was sitting next to me pushed me to get out of the bus first, she was all ready to meet William, but he wasn't here, or at least I couldn't see him yet."Welcome everyone, good morning girls," a guy welcomed us as we got off the bus, he's right, we're all girls how didn't I pay attention to that as I got in?"Good morning, where's William?" Full Glam asks right away and she is met with a cold glare. "Please do not speak unless spoken to, William is busy he'll be here later on," the guy says shutting her up along with the rest of us, not speaking without being spoken to."Now girls, everyone's eyes on me," the same guy says getting everyone's attention while full glam was fuming off with anger. "My name is Victor, and I'm your guide for today, please stay at all times with your group, and keep y
Angel POV. I woke up, and I felt very groggy, I had no idea where I was, but I knew that the doctor had injected me with something, I'm not sure what he had inside the needle that he stabbed my thigh with, but I was awake now and I'm not very happy about it, I whined and groaned, I felt like I have been sleeping for too long, maybe a whole day or more.I opened my eyes and looked around, I wasn't in my room, I wasn't in my house or over my bed or even sofa, I'm asleep in the bus, the same bus I took this morning to get here to the facility, I looked around and saw most of the girls were awake, mostly the ones who went before me, only a couple are still asleep, but starting to wake up, who brought us here? I can't remember any of that, how did I end up here."Good morning girls," Victor says joining us in the bus, everyone is awake by now, it's been another thirty minutes since I woke up, and the rest are up as well. "How did we end up here?" Full Glam asks out loud. "You sweetie, I
Angel POV. I turned the TV off, and I decided that I didn't want to watch anymore, I didn't want to see William or hear him talk about killing us, about him being in charge and everything, I decided it was best to just ignore the TV for a while, not to hear it, but I was running low on money and supplies, and I didn't know where life was going next, maybe I should go to my old work and pray to god I haven't gotten kicked out. I decided that I should try, I should get ready and go, I still got my car, and I knew the way there, nothing wrong with trying, worse case scenario is I get told off and I go back home and start searching for another job. I got ready to get to work, I wore my fancier clothes, brushed my hair and even tried to style it, if I had to beg back for my work I wanted to be able to do it with style, once I was ready, I sprayed some perfume and left the house, I got into my car and started the long drive toward my old job.The roads were empty, and there were hardly an
Angel POV. The police guy drove after me, I led the way toward my home, I wasn't really sure if I should show him where I lived or not, but I knew that I didn't have any other place to take him to, that home was my one and only place, I didn't have anywhere else to go. I drove slowly, too worried about the police driving behind me this time, I made it home in forty minutes, I parked the car and he parked behind me as well, I got out of the car and he did the same."Is this where you live?" he says not too happy looking at the buildings around, I know it's not the best area ever, but it's the one I could afford and it's my home. "Yeah," I nod my head assuring him this is it, I'm waiting for him to leave, I look at him waiting for him to get back in his car and leave. "I'm walking you to your apartment of course," he says with a smile, and I decided to decline. "I can go there alone, thank you for following me here, I felt very safe," I say with a bit of sass, I'm home and he can't
Angel POV. "But let me explain," I begged them, they had me sitting in the backseat, they locked the doors and I couldn't get out of there, they weren't listening, and the only thing that they said to me was that I disobeyed and I deserve this, whatever this is. "Shut up," the guy in the front scolded me when I wouldn't shut up, trying to explain to them what happened to me, was there something I should have obeyed but I didn't.I was on the verge of tears, no I wasn't on the verge, tears were starting to gather in my eyes and I was about to cry, well to sob out loud, I was a good girl, I hadn't been doing anything that I shouldn't be doing, I was hiding home the whole time, the only reason I left was to get some grocery if I had enough food, I wouldn't have left, I'm good just hiding for a very long time. They didn't take me to the same facility as before, although the road was very similar to that one, this time they took me toward a building in the middle of the city, these are
Angel POV. "Like he's ancient?" I whisper to him, not daring to say the words out loud, what if he hears me, what if William kills me for offending him?"He's older than me, you can call him ancient but not to his face deal?" he says and I nod my head yes, sure I can do that, we both stayed quiet for a bit, I was too scared to move or say anything that I shouldn't have said."I like you Angel, wipe those tears away," he says and I do as I'm ordered, I wiped my tears away, he handed me a tissue and I blew my nose as well. "What does liking me mean? Are you going...to..." I say not sure how to say it, would he drink me dry? Would he kill me?"I'm not going to kill you, you'd never have to worry about being safe, not around me," he assures me. "You introduced yourself as my worst nightmare, I'm not sure I beleive that," I say feeling a blush coming on my face, I'm a sassy girl but I'm too scared of sassing too much. "I'm your worst nightmare in case you're a real rebel, but you're ju