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  The vampire sneered at me and said, “Leave now and I’ll give you a head start before I hunt you down and kill you.”

  I pondered, “I suppose just going around killing vampires would be bad?”

  Nikki answered out loud, “Well, I wouldn’t say bad exactly, but there are good ones, so not just a willy nilly shoot first type of attitude. This guy for example is a cruel bastard who likes to murder and torture people. Most vampires just take a drink and compel their victim to forget because it’s smart and doesn’t call attention. Some few even eat cleanly for moral reasons.”

  I said to my angel with a smile, “Willy nilly? Really?”

  I turned back to the vampire and said, “There you go, my angel says I can just kill you, are you sure you won’t let me just go get my friends?”

  The vampire growled and lunged. I was waiting for it but the bastard moved faster than I expected, but a flash of light doesn’t take long at all either. While I was flying back about 40 feet the vampire collapsed like someone cut puppet strings. I would guess the dark energy is what they use to maintain and control the body. The body is still alive, but only through the dark energy, not the normal human way. So he just collapsed when my light energy ate his dark.

  I pushed myself off the ground, using some energy to heal my broken arm and other internal injuries. Then I surround myself with light energy, any vampire getting closer than 2 feet will go down, they are too fast otherwise. If he had gone for a neck snap back there instead of a push, I would be dead right now.

  “So, is the vampire dead? Or can some other vampire jump start him back up with dark energy?”

  Nikki replied, “Jump start, you need to destroy the heart or brain, or separate them by cutting out the heart or decapitation.”

  Nodding I adjust the mirrors in my head for a concentrated burst of light energy. It looked like a thin laser beam coming out of my hand as it struck his chest and burned straight through his body. It burnt his heart to a crisp and left a small hole running all the way it. Pondering what I just did made me realize I needed to be very careful with that, there were breakable things around, like humans, trees, cars, and large buildings.

  I heard Rea snicker at my last thought. Nikki was too used to my strange sense of humor and just smiled.

  “Time to go, can you tell what floor he is on?”

  Andrea answered, “The top one.”

  I said, “Let’s go, before they do something permanent to Sam.”

  I was able to sense the vampires with a little concentration by sensing the dark energy around me. I avoided all contact with it and we took the back stairwell up to the top floor. There were only 4 vampires in there, I assumed one human, but I couldn’t sense normal people at all having no light or dark energy in their bodies.

  Sam and I needed to have a talk about being more careful in the future. This was the second time in as many days I was here to save his ass. Crap, Marie is going to kick my ass, I totally forgot in all the excitement she is probably waiting for me. I asked Nikki in the silence of my mind to let her know what was going on and where we were.

  A couple of seconds later I felt the light energy connection between us spark and my ghost appeared out of nowhere. Cool trick, wonder if I would be able to do the same thing, but then again summoning her to me like a dog... I don’t imagine a woman would appreciate that at all.

  She didn’t seem happy that I was putting myself in danger again, but apparently I would get a reprieve from the lecture as silence was important for the moment. We snuck in the top floor from the stairwell door and ducked down behind some over turned desks. They were all in the next room and we could hear them talking.

  “Gabriela my dear, you are a foolish girl. Did you really think we would let you go? I found you, raised you into a higher life form and you pay me back with betrayal, with running away. You try to hide behind this useless human cow? And what am I to do with you? The human will die of course, but is that punishment enough, or will your run again?”

  I heard a young woman start to cry and I ground my jaw together in anger. Well that answered the question whether Gabriela is in on it or not question.

  “Please don’t hurt him,” Gabriela blubbered, “he was the only one I could think of that I knew outside of town, it’s my fault for running away.”

  The older voice sighed, “Yes, and he will pay for your foolishness, then you will be confined for the next 30 years, just to teach you not to run from me or the coven. I made you, your sweet ass belongs to me, and don’t you ever forget it again.”

  I have never considered myself the hero type, but certain things piss me off and make me see red. High among them is slavery, torture and rape. Not to mention killing my friends. Certain now that this Gabriela was innocent and Sam was close to death I got up and strolled into the room. It was dark so I held a ball of light energy in the palm of my hand.

  I was flanked by my beautiful angel and Sam’s angel. Though they could do nothing to help materially, they did help me by just feeling their calming presence. My sexy ghost was at my back and would warn me if anyone tried to sneak up behind me.

  Sam was tied and gagged on the floor but conscious, his eyes wide with fear. Gabriela was not tied up but was bracketed by two overly large goons, she wasn’t going anywhere. The vampire that had been speaking was over by the window.

  Gabriela was absolutely gorgeous. I let out a silent atta boy in Sam’s direction. She had light chocolate smooth skin, long dark brown hair and liquid brown eyes. I looked away and frowned when I saw she was exposed from the waste up, her shirt had been ripped and her tits were hanging out. What has this asshole been doing?

  The guy in charge at the window looked to be about 32 years old but who knows how old he really was, he turned to me and said, “Who the hell are you and how did you get in here?”

  I drawled out, “Name is Jim, and I am here for Sam and Gabriela. Who are you exactly?” My southern accent kicked in hard when I was pissed off. Right now I was sounding like a back woods hick.

  I could see Sam’s panic at seeing me there. His eyes were urging me to run.

  The asshole said, “You can call me master, so why would you believe I will not just kill you.”

  I know I shouldn’t have, but I did. Making the obvious insult I said, “So masterbater, who is your second.”

  He glared at me and answered, I am not sure why he did, “Steph is my second, why the hell did you want to know that for? It won’t help you get out alive.”

  I nodded. “Well you see, I don’t deal with rapists or torturers, so I needed to find out who to talk to after I kill you.”

  The ball of light in my hands flashed, a copy of itself shot out at the speed of light and ripped through his chest leaving a hole 4 inches wide. His heart was just gone. I saw the confused look on his face as he collapsed.

  I turned to the two goons with a friendly smile and said, “Howdy, would you get Steph in here? Maybe everyone else can go home happy tonight. At least that is my hope. Oh, and get a damn shirt on her so she can cover up will you please.”

  One of the goons headed for the stairs and called for Steph, the other grabbed a shirt from one of the rooms on the floor and threw it over to Gabriela.

  The goon that got the shirt said in a tight fearful voice, “Who the hell are you? What are you?”

  I answered, “Their friend of course, haven’t you been following along with events?”

  Chuckling I continued, “Sorry, bad habit I have making flip jokes in tense situations. As I already said my name is Jim and Sam here is my friend, what I am however is complicated.”

  I heard a female voice from the door, she sounded unsure, “I’m Steph, who wanted me, where is master?”

  I said, “Steph, your master is dead, he said you were his second, so you’re in charge now. I’d like to leave things more or less intact, if I can take my friend here and Gabriela I’ll get out of your hair. As long as you go away, and don’t bother them no more.”

/>   Steph got a funny look on her face, a mixture of disbelief and hope as she uttered, “Master is dead?”

  I looked at her searchingly as I answered while pointing over at the corpse by the window, “As a doornail ma’am.”

  To my complete bewilderment she fell to her knees and started crying, but it looked like one of those cathartic happy cries woman get from time to time.

  Now I sounded unsure, “Umm, what’s going on?” I asked the two goons by Gabriela.

  The guard fidgeting said, “Well, we are the only other males in the coven. Master was a sick bastard. He would convert females and use them for a while, then kill them when he got bored of them. Right now Steph there was his favorite, so she took care of all his needs if you know what I mean. The title of second was more of a… Joke… No one is really in charge now with him dead.”

  The other guard added, “We didn’t like him either, or the way he abused these woman. He was just too powerful to fight. We are actually brothers, he was holding our human family hostage if we didn’t do as he said.”

  I was in shock, I reached out and felt at least 20 more signatures, all sexually abused young women? I was horrified. That fucker died way to easy and fast. I was totally out of my depth, I came here to kill evil vamps and free Sam and his girl. I looked at Marie and Nikki hoping for some wisdom here. Well one thing I knew to do, I went over and untied Sam.

  I looked to the guards and said, “Get out, don’t inflict your presence on these ladies ever again or you will regret it.”

  I probably should have killed them, but they looked guilty about their cowardice in letting this shit happen. I would let them suffer with that failure and guilt for a long time. I was just too angry and afraid killing them was an overreaction to what I just learned, so I held back.

  Sam was looking like he was about to lose it, I walked over and said, “Calm down man, it’s all good. The asshole is dead. Go round up Gabriela. You did good there, despite this crazy situation here.”

  Sam said fearfully, “But, she’s a vampire!”

  I shrugged, “So? She obviously still loves you. She proved she is a good person when she tried to save you, and of course it doesn’t hurt she is smoking hot too. Plus, vampire, she can hear every word we are saying right now. Of course that assumes she still wants to stay.

  “She might have just found you to get away from heartless over there. If you don’t find out you will regret it. On the plus side I am pretty sure your angel likes her. Oh, we need to talk, some weird shit happened when I did that drug trial.”

  Feeling really awkward I walked over to Steph and said, “Umm, so you are in charge now, I am assuming you won’t bother my friends. Good luck and all.”

  As I turned to go Steph jumped up and into my arms. I made a split second decision to lower my aura and hope for the best. I was fairly sure she wouldn’t snap my neck, but if it happened I’d never see it coming probably. Better the risk than hurting an abused woman who wanted to hug me in thanks. I decided that was a rule to live my life by.

  With her voice full of emotions she said, “Thank you so much, if you ever need anything you can call me. And please, call me Stephanie, Steph was that assholes pet name for me.”

  She smiled and headed downstairs to spread the news, I felt a little better about it, but still awkward. The five of us headed out happy to get out of there with only one death taking place, which was very well deserved. Apparently Gabriela did want to stay with Sam. Sam seemed a bit more stable now that things had calmed down. I imagine Gabriela’s doting had something to do with it too.

  When we got back to the dorm I took Marie into one of the empty common rooms on the first floor needing a moment alone with her.

  I asked, “So, umm, did you decide?”

  She nodded and said in a flippantly offhand voice, “Yeah, I was going to go ahead and move on. But then after tonight I decided I better stick around to keep you out of trouble. I can’t let you out of my sight for a minute without you blundering into trouble!”

  I smiled and pulled her into a kiss. She smiled back shyly when she saw the relief and happiness that must be readily apparent on my face. I waggled my eyes suggestively and looked at the table.

  She laughed at my sally, but still locked the closed door and wiggled her ass in my direction as she walked over to the table and bent over.

  She winked and said, “Get over here and fuck me silly.”

  Raised to respect a woman’s wishes I rushed over to accommodate hers.

  Chapter 4

  It had been a quiet for a couple of weeks following our vampire adventure. Sam did okay accepting the ghost and angel thing. He was so smitten with Gabriela now that the two were hardly ever apart after nightfall. Stephanie came by to thank me again and introduced me to all her girls.

  They were all so hot, but still damaged and healing from their ordeal. Sex didn’t even enter my mind despite the hero’s reward they obviously offered. Plus I had my hands full with my wild angel and my sweet ghost.

  A threesome is great once in a while, but keeping two women satisfied on a daily basis was difficult, but entirely worth it. I was getting ready for class after lunch when there was a knock on the door. Opening up I saw it was Mia. I couldn’t help but check her out. She was so damn hot with that petite oriental body, beautiful face and generous C cups.

  The gals were harping on me getting a normal human girl. Even though I was more than happy with them, they were concerned. They said it was fun, and they loved me, but it was natural and important to actually have someone I could marry and even have children with someday. Preferably with someone they could share with of course.

  Mia smiled at me but it was strained, I imagine she got hit on a lot, note to self and all that.

  I asked, “What brings you by Mia?”

  She answered in a low murmur, “It’s about the test you took for me.”

  Since the hallway wasn’t a good place for that conversation I invited her in and offered her a beverage. She asked if I had iced tea so I grabbed a bottle out of the mini fridge and invited her to sit at the desk.

  She looked a little uncomfortable so I tried to reassure her, “Just explain why you’re here and ask, I won’t get upset and the worst I will say to you is no.”

  She blushed and said, “Well we finished the trials, and you are the only one who exhibited any indications of hallucinating people and voices. I was wondering if we could run some separate tests to see if the drug could have brought that out because of a….” She trailed off.

  I raised my brow and said halfway asking, “A pre existing condition?”

  Mia nodded so I sighed. “What do you need me to do? I do not think I want to take any other drugs, but if it would help I could submit to some questions maybe, some behavioral test? Would that help?”

  Mia said, “That would be great, we don’t need you to take any drugs. That would bias the test. We need to prove a link with no medicine.”

  I nodded and said, “That makes sense, so the pay would be?” Hey, I wanted to help her out, even spend some more time with her, but it would have been strange not to ask.

  Mia said, “50 bucks, but this would be no drugs and only a few hours in the afternoon, as opposed to last time which took a lot longer and of course drugs were involved.”

  Damn, her scent reached me and it was intoxicating, I locked my gaze on her eyes and face fighting the urge to check her out again. Why does this woman always make me feel like a pimply teenager full of hormones?

  I answered her question, “Makes sense to me, so what time should I show up, and is it in the same lab?”

  She nodded and said, “Yes, same place, I’ll see you Saturday at 2pm?”

  “Sounds good to me, I’ll see you then Mia, unless there is anything else?”

  She got up and walked toward the door. I couldn’t help myself as my eyes dropped down to her well toned legs and sexy ass. Of course I didn’t look back up in time as she turned to wave and nailed me practic
ally drooling over her backside. Wait, was that a smile I saw when she left, or just wishful thinking on my part?

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  Saturday came quickly and despite the seriousness of the appointment I was really looking forward to seeing Mia, what I didn’t know was what Marie and Nikki had planned. Seems my obsessive thinking about Mia two days ago got passed to Marie, so they were going to help somehow. At least that was my guess based on their naughty grins as I walked out the door.

  I walked in the office and seemed to be the only one there, checking the clock I saw I was five minutes early so I just grabbed a chair and waited. Mia walked in a minute late. I had to suppress the urge to drop my jaw. Her normally long flowing raven hair was put up exposing her long slender creamy mouth watering neck. She had on Jade earrings and just enough makeup to enhance her naturally beautiful facial features and skin.

  She was wearing a cut off shirt with a low v neck exposing her tight stomach and the generous cleavage of her C cup breasts. She had a short skirt on, her perfect toned and creamy skin legs on display.

  I swallowed hard. The woman was trying to kill me for sure.

  After an awkward moment of silence I got my mouth working and brilliantly said, “Hi.”

  She smiled at me knowingly, but standoffishly, it was a weird mix, half putting me off and half enjoying the attention so I decided to test the waters, “You look fantastic today.”

  She actually blushed but then cleared her throat, and her voice came out all business, “Let’s go back to the interview room.”

  Talk about mixed signals, I asked, “Is the professor coming, or just us?”

  “Just us,” she said. “Take a seat.”

  I sat down and my eyes slipped down to her cleavage again, when I looked back up to her eyes she had a forbidding look on her face. Ugh this is going to be a long day. She started to ask me questions about pictures and inkblots. About a half hour in Marie and Nikki showed up, appearing suddenly directly behind Mia.

  I totally missed what Mia said on the next question since both Marie and Nikki didn’t have a stitch of clothing on, and they started to kiss passionately behind Mia. I looked down so I could concentrate and found myself staring at Mia’s cleavage again.