There Will Be Blood by Brieanna Boyce (bookstand for reading txt) 📕

researching me anyway..."

"Aren't you worried he'll hurt you?"

I chuckled, "At this point there's not much he can do to me that hasn't already been done."

"What if he tries to kill you?"

"The queen hadn't had much luck thus far."

The she wolf interrupted my thoughts, "Don't be so cocky, it's not like you got away scott free."

I smiled, "Long time no see, I was beginning to wonder if I'd actually managed to get rid of you."

She huffed, "Hardly, though I might as well you never listen to me."

"I'll try to listen more often."

Than I caught a glimpse of Ashley staring confused, "Wow you've been alone for awhile huh?"

"Huh?"

"You were talking aloud, seriously I can't believe I'm stuck with such a.."

I laughed, "Oh Ashley, it's a werewolf thing."

"Don't tell her!"

"Talking to yourself is a werewolf thing?"

"We have a thing called an inner wolf, like a guide... I don't know exactly how it works..."

"Do all werewolves get one?"

"Hmm..."

"No," the she wolf interjected, "Alpha males and... I suppose you."

"No," I replied, "I suppose just one more way I'm a freak."

Ashley smiled, "So I don't have to sleep in a coffin?"

I sighed, "You know I don-"

"What about garlic?"

"I'm actually really fon-"

"What about a steak to the heart?"

"I'm pretty sure it doesn't-"

"Are you allowed into houses without being invited?"

"ASHLEY!"

She giggled running, " Can we be in the sun!"

"We're in the sun!" I chuckled and chased after her, watching her blonde hair wave behind her like a banner, Ashley and I needed one another, and now she'd come with me, she'd know what I knew, and maybe before I met the queen, before we both died I'd have someone... and hopefully by then Ashley would have someone too.

We flew through whole states weaving through trees our laughter filling the woods with life, sunlight occasionally pirced through the treetops than suddenly Ashley stopped. I walked over to see her staring, I looked over to see and I gaped in horror at what she was staring at.

A small child playing in a yard, he couldn't have been more than four years of age, he was so small playing he had not yet noticed our presence and continued playing with the ball.

"He smells so sweet," Ashley sighed, she than knelt down, "Sweetie," she called in a sing song voice, "Come here."

The boy looked up and hesitated he looked back at the house, than walked over and handed her the ball.

Ashley smiled and held the ball, "Thank you sweetie," she pet the side of his face, "What's your name honey?"

"Billy!"

"Well Billy didn't your mommy tell you not to talk to strangers... It could be dangerous."

My brain wasn't focusing, hadn't she just lost her child?

"Ashley."

She didn't seem to hear me and kissed the childs forehead and seemed for a moment to be inhaling his scent.

Ashley leaned forward her teeth her incisors long and bared than she leaned over, I grabbed her by the hair and yanked her back. For a moment Ashley became savage and thrashed out at me, I dodged and yanked her up by her hair.

"I want him!" She cried screaming, "Skylar I'm so hungry!"

I sighed, where other werewolves like this I looked at the boy and hissed "I suggest you leave... NOW!"

The little child ran home crying and I was made to deal with my own child.

"Will you be good?"

Ashley nodded tears rolling down her cheeks and I let go of her hair.

"Lets get you dinner."

I stopped in at a local library that was about 5 minutes from being closed for the day, I quickly found the location of the nearest blood bank.

I got there and requested blood, they asked who I was and I gave them the name I'd used before "Raven Smith," not very creative but it got the job done.

The woman behind the desk allowed me the packages of blood but gave me a look.

Ashley was so ravenous she was shaking from the effort not to consume it all right there.

Ashley and I went to leave but not before two guards approached us both big, both handsome, both undoutably vampire.

Shit.

They both approached me I dropped the blood on the floor. "You fuckers!" I headbutted one and punched the other so that he coughed up blood, "Ashley," I said poison dripping from my mouth, "Kill the woman at the front desk, take her into the bathroom... drink her dry... than bring her body back to me... No one else though."

Ashley didn't need to be told twice she left the room quickly in search of her pray, I looked up at the corner where a camera looked on I smiled and leapt up and ripped it from the ceiling, "We don't need an audience do we?"

I broke the other one's leg easily, as I kicked him I felt his knee cap snap underneath. The men begged, pleaded, and finally I smiled, "Tell The queen Skylar is coming for her, and that I'll drink her til there's nothing left."

Both men scrambled up but the one with the broken leg shuffled slowly.

"Come here.."

The vampire tried to escape, I walked over and elbowed him in the back of his head, making him slam face first into the ground, there was a blossom of red I flipped him over to see it had come from his forehead.

He groaned, "You crazy bitch, I can't wait til the queen makes dog food out of you."

I smiled, dog food, cute. The she wolf was excited at the prospect of tearing him apart, So I let her momentarily have her fun.

She sat on top of him and moved against him than kissed his neck, lapping up the blood.

He moaned softly underneath, grabbing her hips and moving her.

The she wolf smiled, "Mmmm, then she let her teeth grow and her nails on his chest became claws digging into his chest, the moans of pleasure quickly became moans of pain, but she enjoyed it, both of us did. The absolute power. She sank her teeth into his neck and tore out pieces of flesh than she became the she wolf. The horror on his face grew as she tore into him, he shrieked and thrashed.

His entrails staining our teeth, his blood covering our black fur.

Until finally the she wolf had knawed the last piece of meat of the bone."

The she wolf allowed Skylar control again, and Skylar with her clothes torn lied on the ground a smile spread across her face.

Ashley walked in, stained with blood herself her eyes grew wide, "You ate him?!

"Werewolf."

"Do you always eat vampires?"

The question caught me off guard, "Hardly ever, I typically need just blood, eating someone is more of a power thing."

I wondered how I knew this and I could almost see the she wolfs eyes roll and I chuckled.

Ashley raised her eyes, "You are weird even by vampire werewolf standards... should we clean this stuff up?"

"No."

"No?"

"Come on we have to focus now it will take us two days of running grab some blood bags, here put them in my bag."

Ashley stuffed some bloodbags in the backpack then looked at me, "anything else we should do?"

"Wash up? At least attempt to, there's nothing we can do about clothes."

Ashley sighed melodramatically.

"Two days. You'll be fine."

"What about showers?"

"I'm sure we'll find a lake or something on the way."

"A Lake?! Aren't vampires supposed to be rich?"

I've only been around for like a year and I'm a fugitive give me a break, now come on we need to hurry before more come."

Ashley and I ran as fast as our feet could carry us, in a few hours the moon hung high in the sky, and lit our way.

Ashley wasn't as fast as I was but she could still managed and we tried to keep pace, until at one moment it seemed our steps and breathing were at the same rate. Today was a long day, emotional, hectic, but I was glad to have someone, anyone who I wouldn't have to leave. The oddest part was that the she wolf seemed to enjoy it too, it was so good to be a part of something, anything again.

Running had felt so much like meditation now, everything else was stripped away until it was just muscles contracting and releasing. The sky and and streaching on until they both seemedto become one, we only stopped by a lake for a short time to take a drink. Ashley drank two of the blood bags ravenously.

I peeled away my clothing jumping in the lake scrubbing out the blood than I washed my clothes, the water around me causing little clouds of crimson to swirl around me.

Ashley dove into the lake swimming and smiling, "Mmm niccee."

"Don't get too comfortable we're just trying to get clean."

Ashley pouted, "Can't we just relax a little?"

Getting out of the lake I looked over my shoulder, "No, hurry up."

Ashley groaned loudly, I cared for Ashley and I was glad to have company but did she have to be so whiney?

"So, what's the queen like?"

"What?"

Ashley shrugged, "What is she like?"

"We didn't exactly sit down and have tea but she did torture the shit out of me try to burn me alive and oh yeah kill my boyfriend and my little brother."

"You had a boyfriend?"

Pausing for a moment I mulled it over,"Well somewhat... I mean... Tristan and I things were complicated..."

Ashley swam around, "Did you love him?"

I snapped, "What's with all the questions?! Finish up now!"

Ashley pouted, and quietly washed hersef and her clothes, "I didn't mean to pry..."

I sighed,"It'sokay... it's just I haven't talked about it to anyone yet and I don't have the time to be sad or cry, remember we're running."

Ashley nodded, weput on our clothes despite them being wet and continued running, the sun rose bursts of red and yellow stabbing through otherwise dark ble skies, until the sun rose high overhead and the skies turned a lighter blue interrupted only by whisps of white until finally the sun set again.

I chased the sky, if it was possible I'd reach the horizon, I knew it was an impossible task but it seemed my whole life was littered withimpossible tasks. Only a little while ago this reality was impossible, only a little while ago my life was slow and quiet. That's so long ago, seems like a different life alltogether.

Than there was the moon, and for awhile we had run withthe same vigor we'd had when we started. Ashley stumbled on the ground and sighed, "Can we stop for a bit please?"

I sighed I could see desert right ahead of us, I could see that we were just a few hours of sprining away but Ashley was already asleep. Her beautiful yellow hair strewn around her, her face seemed to darken,as if Ashley only acknowledged her sadness in her subconcious.