All Chapters of Vampire Covenant Room : Chapter 81 - Chapter 90

“What’s going on?” Ashley asked. She couldn’t see what was going on in the cell next to her.“Jim’s trying to stand up,” the sheriff replied. “And he’s not doing a very good job.”Bohdan could see what was going on from his cell and watched the mutilated half vampire try to stand. The deputy grabbed the bars and pulled himself up to a standing position. He was obviously in pain from the acid burns and his face was disfigured. One eye melted shut and his jaw hanged showing off his newly forming fangs. In an attempt to speak, the new vampire said, “Help me!”The sheriff stood back as the deputy spit blood as it spoke. The sound it made wasn’t clear, as if it had been chewing on its tongue. “What do you want me to do Jim?” the sheriff asked.“Get the doctor!” Jim said. Blood and spit drooled from his mouth onto the floor. “I don’t think the doctor is going to help much Jim, you’re too far gone.”“I hurt! Stop the pain!”“I can’t, I don’t know how.”Jim stumbled back and let go of the bar

Three hours later the trial was wrapping up. The judge had to move on to his next case and needed to rule before he and the train left. The witnesses were heard, and the prosecution rested its case. By now, the sun had fallen in the west and it no longer burned Bohdan as he awaited his fate. The judge was now in the train depot going over his notes and making his call based on the evidence presented.Cara and Ashley sat on the depot steps anxiously biding their time awaiting the verdict. Cara would be lost without Bohdan and didn’t know what she’d do if he were taken away. Ashley could fend for herself, but had no ties to this place or time. “What are you going to do if they convict him?” Ashley asked.“I don’t know, I’ll see what happens first.” “Do you think the judge will find him guilty?”“Based on what was said, yes, I think he’s going to lose.”“I think you’re right, we might be stuck out here all by ourselves. I wonder if there’s a way to get back.”“I’m not going back, if I ca

A hundred miles down the track, Cara watched the landscape fly by through the train window waiting for her chance to convince the judge she was guilty of murder. Bohdan sat across from her on the other bench seat with his eyes closed. “What do you think will happen to Isaac and Ashley?” Cara asked.Bohdan replied, “Isaac will be fine, I’m not sure about the woman. The old west isn’t a very kind place.”“What do you mean?”“It’s not like the world you knew, you can’t call 911 when you need help. You’re on your own, and she is out of her element.”“She’s a security officer for a vampire hunting company, she’s not some child.”“Right now she’s alone in a world she doesn’t know. Who can she turn to? She’s basically a homeless person lost in time. Isaac is the only person she knows, and she’s only known him less than two weeks. He might turn on her the second he gets a chance.”Cara adjusted her dress and looked around the train car. She was surprised how quiet it was yet felt every bump a

The train pulled into Burr Ridge Illinois at three in the morning, two miles from the Illinois state correctional facility for the undead, otherwise known as the Vampire Zoo. Built in eighteen sixty five, it was created to house the worst of the worst vampire killers in the United States. The facility was carved out of the ground creating a pit thirty feet deep with brick paved sides that would deter any vampires from scaling out. From the longest side it was five hundred feet end to end, and three hundred feet wide with a tower in the center that rose seventy feet from the bottom of the pit. A bridge connected the tower to the edge of the pit where staff and prisoners could enter the facility. The bridge was the only way in or out and was heavily guarded.Inside the pit were three housing units surrounded by gravel and dirt with a few trees and shrubs growing wild throughout. The trees were kept trimmed low to keep the vampires from scaling the walls and were eventually cut down if t

Dorek and Valeska led Bohdan and Cara back to their building and let them inside. Neither Bohdan nor Cara knew if this was a setup to get them killed, but they knew eventually they’d be found by someone in the confined area of the pit. They had to have faith they’d survive another day.“This place is a disaster,” Cara said. “How can you live here? Don’t they fix this place up once and awhile?”“No, they don’t care about us, there have been no repairs since the building was built.” “They don’t treat animals in a zoo this badly.”“They think we should take care of the building ourselves, but they don’t give us any materials or tools.”“If this place falls apart, will the tourists still come?” Cara asked.“They come every day, look down on us, yell at us, throw things into the pit,” Dorek replied.“What kinds of things?”“Rocks mostly, they try to hit us when we’re out.” “And the guards put up with this?”“The guards bring rocks to sell to the tourists, they pick them up later and resell