Part 11 : The underground

It's eight o'clock and it's pretty dark and cold since we're in december already. Theo was supposed to pick me up at my house but of course I didn't tell Isaac a thing. I can only imagine his reaction if he sees Theo knocking at our door in the evening for our "date" ! He would have gone out of his mind ! Anyway, the plan is that his car will be waiting outside and that I'm supposed to sneak out the window. At eight fifteen, time of the date, I see Theo's car parked in the avenue so I pack a bag with paper to take notes on, my phone to take pictures and a flashlight. I'm dressed all in black, if the police saw us, I'm sure they would arrest us for attempted robbery cause we looked like thieves planning a heist.

- You're ready ?

- Yeah, let's go.

- So, why do you want to know about vampires ? Theo asks me while calmly driving.

- I think I might be one.

Theo almost crashes the car in a tree because of his suprise.

- What ?!??

- Yeah, it's crazy, right ? But after everything you guys told me, all the creatures that are out there... I'm thinking why not ? I have all the symptoms, I did a bit of researches on the subject... Even Cora thinks it's weird ! I can hear better than werewolves, run faster than werewolves... We did some tests !

- Okay... But I might not be the most informed person on vampires here, but aren't you supposed to be bitten to be a vampire ? If they exist of course.

- I don't know ! Maybe the one who bit me erased my memory ! I learned some of them could do that.

- Let's say, they erased your memory, don't you need blood to survive ?

- I don't know, maybe I'm a weird vampire. Or maybe the blood is some kind of legend and in reality they just eat normal food ! Wich, now that I say it out loud seems pretty unlikely because that's basically the definition of a vampire : to suck blood out of its victims. I sound crazy ! You don't believe me, do you ?

- I will always believe you.

My eyes meet his and we remain like this, staring into each other's souls. When we arrive to "the undergroud", Theo turns on his flashlight and I turn on mine. This is disgusting, it smells bad and I have no idea in what liquid my feet are but I don't care. If this torture is gonna get me answers, than I'll handle it, because not knowing what is happening to me, and not being able to talk about it with almost anyone including my brother, Scott, Liam... ; is making me crazy.

Theo is leading the way and we walk on some room with big tubes in it, with dead people in it. I'm not scared, but this is freaking creepy. What's next ? We keep walking and talking and joking because we're both kinda stressed out by this place and need to relax the pressure.

- My only question was... How could a teenage boy be so valuable to the Dread Doctors ? I mean, you're an ass. Good looking, but still an ass.

- Stop fighting it. You know you're attracted by me.

- Oh please ! Will you stop with that ? We're literally opposite souls ! I hate you ! And I'll never feel another way about you. Ever ! You said it yourself, I love Liam. And even if he doesn't love me back, yet, I'll never have sex with you. Ever. Argh ! Your whole personnality disgusts me.

- I think that's exaclty why you'll have sex with me.

- What ? I...

- Shhh. Don't say a word. Because it'll be a lie. You know this is gonna happen, one day or another. This is not always true : the bad girl ends up with the good boy and the good girl ends up with the bad boy. Sometimes, they just don't mix up.

Suddenly, we turn around, alerted by some noise that seems to be coming from a really old computer.

- How can that thing still work ? asks Theo. it's been there for like centuries. One day, they told me this computer was older than me ! It's immortal or what ?

- Don't talk too fast, we don't know for sure it's working. All we know is, it's not dead. Yet.

- Okay, miss I-know-everything-about-computers-my-ass !

- I do know everything about computers. You were kinda right when you gave me that speech, two minutes ago.

He starts smiling, thinking I must be talking about the sex part.

- Not about that ! I am a bad girl, and to be where we are now, with Isaac we had to do some illegal stuff to survive. I'm not gonna say I'm proud of it, but what I can say is that anyone should know better than to mess with me or my family. Especially since I'm probably a vampire or some other mystical creature far more powerful than any of you !

- Don't talk too fast. Oh my god ! It's working ! The computer is on !

- Okay. Well, from what I'm seeing, I can tell this is crypted and that it's gonna take me a lot of time to un-crypt. Wich means, we need to take the computer so that I can work on it and keep you and Cora on the loop. We're a team now, and this is a secret so if you tell anyone, I'll slight your throat in the middle of the night, I'm sure nobody will really miss you.

- If I didn't know you, I'd say you're threatening me.

- Than perhaps you don't know me very well.

- Do I need to remind you that to threaten someone, you need to be stronger than him or to blackmail him ? You don't have anything on me and i don't care if you're a vampire or a unicorn, I'll kiss your ass whenever.

I laugh. I take the computer and make sure that breaking any links won't damage or erase anything. We leave, it's about midnight. A couple minutes later, when I'm pretending to be asleep, I get a text message from Liam. It says, and I quote :

"Nobody's answering their phones ! I need backup at the sheriff station. I think something's up."

I don't even think twice about it and I get up, put my shoes on, take my phone and my taser, and sneak out the window once again.