LOVE AT FIRST BITE By Leigh Nuridin +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Matt was in his office. He had heaps of books out. He had one open on dreams, myths and legends. Billy entered the room. "What are doing, Matt?" Billy asked. "Reading." Matt answered. "What are you reading?" Billy questioned. "Stuff about demons. Stuff about the devil. Stuff about Black Knights." "Stuff about Buck?" Billy asked. "You haven't changed abit!" "Speaking of the devil..." Matt smiled looking behind Billy. There stood Lucas. "I want you both out of my town." Lucas snarled. "I've had it up to here with both of you!" "We don't go away that easily." Billy laughed. "Obviously." Lucas snorted back. "You've both taken what's mine, and you're not getting anymore." "Selena wasn't yours." Billy stepped towards Lucas. Lucas looked from Billy to Matt who was more interested in his book. Lucas turned around and began to walk out. "No more doctors in my town, Harvard." Matt was starring hard at his book. Billy walked out of the room leaving Matt behind who was starring at a picture. A picture of Gail and Lucas. A painting of husband and wife. Evil husband and wife. Lucas sat in his office. His door was shut. "I call apon an evil creature," Lucas closed his eyes. "One evil, and hungry." All the lights in Trinity flickered. "I call apon someone to distroy the two doctors..." A cold evil breeze floated through Trinity making the residents shiver, and making Merlyn shiver. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "We're recomended by many inocent people." a young male smiled at Lucas sitting in a seat across the desk. "Yeah." A young female smiled sitting next to him. "Amahl and I are top in the state!" "Top in the state?" Lucas asked. "We're the best vampires in the state." Amahl explained. "Arn't you the only vampires in the state?" Lucas asked. "Well ever since 1803." Brearne, the female, shrugged. "Four others came from Paris." "Yes I remember 1803." Lucas smiled. "So they're the cause of that blood scare?" "Oh, yeah." Amahl laughed. "And us too." "Well, there's to be NO blood scare in Trinity. Only the two doctors are to disapear. Understand?" "Yes, completely." Brearne winked. "Can we have a couple of people for dinner? You know as a reward." "The two doctors you'll get are your reward!" Lucas laughed. "They're pretty juicy, don't worry!" Gail sat with Loris in the boarding house kitchen sipping at her tea. "Now that Matt's back, have you noticed anything different about him?" Gail asked. "No, he's just the same old Doctor Crower." Loris replied offering Gail a biscuit. "He never gives up on finding ways to distroy evil Buck." As Gail took a biscuit she saw a flash back of the writting she saw on the door in the hospital the first day she arrived in Trinity. "SOMEONE'S AT THE DOOR...". She remembered abit about her dream. Gail asked another question. "Has he been okay with Caleb?" "They don't speak as much as they used to... but yes he's okay with him." Loris smiled. "What about you?" "Me? What do you want to know?" Gail questioned. "What it was like in your coma." "I remember alittle bit more each day. Like it's weird, and scary." Gail slowly spoke. "What do you remember?" Loris bended forward. "Stuff." Gail smiled standing up. Loris could tell that Gail was hiding something, but she wasn't sure what. "Thanks for a wonderful afternoon, Loris!" Gail smiled again taking loris's plate and her own to the sink. "We should do this more often!" As Gail began to walk out the door she ran into Amahl and Brearne. "Sorry!" Gail exclaimed. "That's okay." Amahl spoke in a clear American voice. "My name is Amahl and this is my sister Brearne." Gail looked from Amahl to Brearne. "Where may we find the caretaker?" Brearne asked. "Just through there." Gail pointed into the kitchen. As Amahl and Brearne walked into the kitchen, Gail walked out of the house. Who the hell were they? Gail thought to herself. Caleb ran out of the school and through the play ground. He ran out the gates and found Lucas's car. "How are you, son?" Lucas asked sitting in his car with the window down. "Fine thanks." Caleb answered. "Want a lift home?" Lucas asked smiling. "No." Matt's voice stunned Lucas. "I'm driving Caleb home." "So you got a drivers licence now?" Lucas asked sarcastically. "Yeah." Matt smiled. "What's it to you?" "What's it to YOU?" Lucas reasked the question. "Your life? Do you need a licence to 'get around'?" "What are you gonna do? Take it off me?" Matt asked. "Now if I was gonna take it off you, I'd take more than that." "I'll be dead before you take anything of mine." Matt snarled. "I know." Lucas smiled. "Caleb, boy, I think you're old enough to make your OWN desitions." "Let's go Caleb." Matt said ignoring Lucas. Lucas smiled and laughed alittle as Selena came out the gate. "Ms Coombs where are you going in such a hurry?" Lucas asked. "Somewhere where you're not." Selena ignored Lucas. Lucas felt left out, cold, misserable. She walked past him in a stylish manner hitting her high-heels against the ground making a SLAP noise as she walked. "MERLYN!" Lucas called. Merlyn appeared in the back seat. "Yes Lucas?" "Could you please convince the people of Trinity I'm not so bad?" Lucas asked politly. "Yes Lucas." Merlyn replied like a slave. That she was. Selena walked down the path and towards Billy's car. The car door opened as Billy stepped out with a bunch of flowers. Selena smiled and kissed Billy who handed over the flowers with a smile. "Billy honey." Selena felt warm. "You shouldn't have." Billy held his hand pointing inside his car. "But I did." Lucas watched as Selena and Billy drove off. "Your time is up doctor..." Night came fastly. Amahl and Brearne sat with Caleb, Matt and Loris at the boarding house table. "Do you have any red wine?" Brearne asked Loris. "Sorry." Loris replied. "No alcahole in this house." "I asked for my steak bloody rear." Amahl snarled at Loris. "I'm sorry, Matt cooked dinner." Loris replied. "So you're good old Harvard?" Amahl asked bitterly. "Lucas told us all about you." "So you've met the sheriff?" Matt asked. "Mmmm, nice guy." Brearne smiled. "To some." "We still need to meet Mr Peele." Amahl explained. "Lucas told us about him aswell." "What exactly did he say?" Matt asked shoving a forkfull of peas in his mouth. "Just how he's sick of you and Mr Billy." Amahl snarled. "Anyone for dessert?" Loris interupted. "Yes Ms Holt!" Caleb jumped out of his seat. "Yes..." Loris looked at Caleb. "Please." Caleb smiled. Loris walked out to the kitchen with Caleb following her. As they left Amahl's eyes grew with evilness. "Lucas is sick of you Harvard." Amahl licked his lips. "It's Matt." "He wants you dead." Brearne joined in. "But we don't want you dead Matt. Oh, no." Amahl smiled. Matt stood up but Amahl grabbed him by the arm. "Don't make this any harder than what it has to be." Matt pulled away. "I don't know what Lucas is up to, but-" "Dessert's ready!" Caleb shouted running into the dinning room. Selena was in her kitchen. She sat on her table drinking from her wine glass. Billy was working night shifts again. "Hello?" a voice could be heard from the front door. "Who's there?" Selena asked looking up. "I'm just a visiter." Amahl's head peered through her door. Selena walked to the door and swung it open. "Visitor?" "My name is Amahl." Amahl smiled walking inside Selena's house. "May I come in?" "You're already in." Selena said sarcastically. Amahl ignored what she had said and starred at her lips. "Your sweet lips, the color of a rose..." Amahl softened his voice. Selena drifted into another world, a world of dreams as Amahl slowly kissed her. She had no control at all. Selena felt warm, but cold and evil at the same time. Amahl moved his lips more to Selena's neck. He began kissing her again and Selena began to drift away... Billy wrote on his forms and looked at his watch. Five past eight, he read. He looked up. "Rita!" He called into the next room. "Yes." Rita came walking out. "My shift is over, Matt should be here any minute." Billy smiled thinking about Selena's warm lips. "I've signed out... See ya." "Bye." Rita smiled taking the forms off Billy. As Billy left Matt walked in. "Hi Rita." He smiled. "Just in time Matt." Rita handed over the forms. "Sign in!" Gail sat at her table sipping at her coffee. She had newspaper clippings out on the bed. "Work is never over." Gail spoke to herself. "God damn it! I just got out of intensive care!" Gail took off her glasses and walked over to the kitchen. She put her hand in the cookie jar and felt around. What's this? Gail asked herself. Huh? Gail took out a cookie that was covered in, could it be? Blood?! Gail dropped the cookie on the floor. "Who's been playing tricks on me this time?" Gail asked herself. "Proberly Caleb... He never gives up...". Gail saw something fly fastly past her window. "What the hell?!" Gail moved slowly towards her window taking each step carefully as though the floor was going to gobble her up. She parted the curtains slowly and placed her head against the window looking out. Suddenly a figure jumped towards her, but not off the ground, in the air! "AHHHHH!" Gail screamed falling backwards in fright. Gail reached up and grabbed her phone. She dialled 911 and turned back. Outside floating about was Amahl with red glowing eyes and giant white fangs. "Oh my god!" Gail yelled not hearing the voice on the other end of the phone call. "Hello? Hello?" "This is Gail Emory! Please get help! I'm being stalked!" "Yes we have you on the screen Ms Emory. We're leaving now." The other end of the phone call hung up. Gail put down the phone and turned around. Amahl was gone. "KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK..." the door banged. Gail knew it couldn't of been Lucas because she just rang. She slowly walked to her front door. She took one step at a time like she did when going towards the window and moved the drapes so she could see. She saw nothing. "Who's there?" Gail asked with fear and frustration. There was no answer. "WHO'S THERE?" Gail asked louder. Still there was no answer. Gail walked back. She wasn't going to answer the door. She kept walking back until she stopped. She heard breathing behind her. She spun around only to face Lucas. "You called?" He smiled. "You were quick!" Gail spoke amazed. "What's wrong Miss Emory?" Lucas asked smiling. "I don't know, I think I saw..." She stopped to think about it. "A vampire!" "Gail I think you have to go back in intensive care!" Lucas laughed. "This was you wasn't it Lucas?" Gail asked tilting her head, trying to read Lucas's eyes. "God! The whole town is shocked that some how you returned from the dead, and now you bring vampires into Trinity?!" "Gail, dear, I'd better leave you to the steriods..." Lucas shook his head. "Lucas, hun, your twisted mind never fails to amuse me." Gail snarled. Lucas laughed. "You're turning into Selena!" Billy knocked on Selena's door. "Selena..." Selena jumped out making Billy step back in fright. "Come in, my love..." "Selena, that doesn't sound like you!" Billy opened the door. "Who does it sound like my Billy?" "Not YOU!" Billy smiled. "Is this some joke?" "No joke, Billy." Billy looked into Selena's eyes which had changed colour. "You wearing red contacts?" "Blood thing..." "Why didn't you tell me? I am a doctor!" Billy shook his head. "Are you okay?" "Make love to me Billy." Selena pressed her body against his. "Now!" "What are you Selena? Some sex beast?!" "Kiss me..." Selena made Billy drift away in sleep. "Kiss me, Billy..." Selena raised her mouth to Billy's neck and bit it. Her eyes filled with satisfaction. "MATT!" Rita called. "WE GOT ANOTHER ONE!" Matt ran out of his office and into a room where a man kicked and screamed wildly trying to break free of Rita's grip. Matt stared at first but quickly sustained the man with a needle. "What's going on here?" Loris sat on Caleb's bed reading him a book. "I'll read you the rest tomorrow." "Yes Ms Holt." Caleb smiled. Loris kissed him on the head and left the room. "Goodnight Caleb." "Goodnight." Loris walked down stairs and to the dinner table. She took the four of the six glasses into the kitchen and came back for the other two. Brearne was sitting at the table. "Loris." "Ohh! You scared me!" Brearne stood up. "Why Loris? Why? Am I different?" "No!" Loris exclaimed. "You just got to the table so quickly!" Brearne took a step closer to Loris who stepped back in fear. "Let me help you." "I'm fine thanks." Loris replied. Brearne opened her mouth as her fangs grew long. "AHHHH!" Loris screamed dropping the two glasses. Merlyn woke Caleb hitting the end of the bed. "Merly!" "Shhh!" Merlyn put her finger to Caleb's lips. "Get out of the house. You're in danger! Please Caleb! Climb out the window! Now!" As Merlyn dissapeared Caleb ran to his window. He slid it open and climbed out as Loris swung open the door. "Caleb... dinner time!" Matt looked through his microscope. "Rita, quick!" Rita rushed over to Matt. "What?" "Look in here." Rita put her eye to lens. "What am I looking at?" "Blood from the three sustained victoms of this vampire like thing that's going around. As you can see, the blood is running twice as fast which is unnormal." "Which would explain why the victoms were hypo-active?" "Yeah. And there is extra blood cells squeezed in there." "Wow! I've never seen anything like it!" Rita continued to look through the lens. "Well basically it doesn't exist!" Puzzled by the discovery Rita focussed on a couple of cells. "Look at the distortion, I've never seen cells shaped like this before! Have you?" "No, but I have got a theory that a drug used in 1979 called Robonyon could stop the speed of the blood. It was used in Paris, and we've got a sample in the basement!" Matt explained. "I never knew that, Matt. And I've worked here for longer than you have." "Go now Rita, grab the drug!" "I got your message, Buck!" Amahl slammed the door behind him. "I thought I told you just to get the doctors!" Lucas snarled "So you did." "Well, I've had people, not dead, but changing into your kind all over Trinity. I'm sorry, but I'm gonna have to get someone else to do this job." "To bad Lucas. You hired us, you can't lose us. That's our moddo." "You wanna hear mine?" Lucas threatened. Amahl pulled out a knife from behind his back. "Don't move!" "Isn't that what I'm supposed to say? I'm the cop!" "Shut the hell up, Buck!" Amahl moved the knife towards Lucas's neck. "You're coming with me!" Caleb ran through the empty dark streets. He ran to Gail's house and knocked on the door continuessly. "GAIL!" Gail answered the door. "Caleb! Are you okay? What's wrong?" Caleb ran inside where Ben was sitting. "Caleb." Gail followed Caleb into the kitchen. "What's wrong Caleb." "Something's happening at the boarding house! I dunno. It's scary Ms Holt is acting so strange." Ben looked from Caleb to Gail. "I think I'd better check it out." "I'm coming to!" Gail took Caleb's hand. "Let's go." Matt look through his microscope. "The unknown cells have dissapeared and the other cells are slowing down!" "Great!" Loris smiled. "We've found the cure." Matt took the drug Robonyon in a suringe. He walked into the room with the three patients and one by one injected the drug into them. "How ling does it take?" Rita asked Matt. "It's basically instant!" Matt answered. Ben knocked on the boarding house door. "Loris?" Gail stood behind him comforting Caleb as Loris opened the door. "Hello Ben, Gail and little Caleb, come in my pretty ones." "See?" Caleb whispered to Gail who looked at Loris suspitiously. "Loris? That doesn't sound like you." Ben said walking inside. "Who, Ben Healy, does it sound like?" Loris asked moving closer to him. "Loris, is this some joke?" Gail asked pushing her back. "AHHHHH!" Loris yelled jumping on Gail. Loris pulled Gail to the floor pinning her down as she opened her mouth which had two giant fangs! "Gail!" Caleb called as ben tryed to pull Loris off, but she jumped on him! Caleb helped Gail up who grabbed a frying pan. "BANG!" Ben looked from Loris to Gail "Thanks." Loris lay on the floor, unconsious, as Ben rang Matt. "Matt?" Ben asked. "Yes. Ben?" Matt answered. "We've had a problem down here. You see Loris has had a bit of a hay-wire!" "Right Ben, I'll be down in a sec. You may have to tie her up." "What?!" "Just do it!" Matt hung up. Lucas was tied up in an old deserted house. Brearne sat guarding him. "What's the big plan?" Lucas asked trying to break free of the rope around his hands. "Plan?" Brearne asked. "Yeah, plan. Huh? Tell me? You wanna change everyone like you?" "Basically..." "Well that's a bad plan, Brearne." "Oh, realy?" "Yeah, think. If you changed everyone, who would you eat?" "Well..." this made Brearne think. "...we wont change EVERYONE." "Let me go and I'll take you and Amahl somewhere where you can run free as vampires." "Forget it Buck!" "Don't call me Buck!" Matt pulled up outside the boarding house. He grabbed a bottle marked "robonyon" and ran to the front door. Caleb opened the door. "He's here!" he shouted. Matt ran past aleb and Gail and stood apon Loris's body. "What are you going to do?" Ben asked Matt standing at the top of Loris's body. "Hold out her arm." Matt replied. Ben held out Loris's arm as Matt injected robonyon into her. Two seconds later Loris was back. "Billy! What are you doing here?" Rita asked Billy who entered the hospital. When Billy hesitated to answer Rita continued. "Good thing you're here, this place is going mad!" Billy grabbed Rita's hand. "Billy," Rita sounded flattered. "Are you proposing to me?" "Rita..." Billy replied pinning her to the wall. "Billy, this is not like you..." Rita looked into his eyes. "But I don't care!" Billy was about to kiss her but a patient yelled for help. "Billy, someone needs my help, please wait." Rita pushed past Billy who grabbed her by the shoulder. "NO!" Billy leaped on Rita who luckily had a suringe full of robonyon in her hand. She stabbed him with it. "AHHHHHHHH!" he called. "Where's Lucas when you need him?" Ben asked bitterly. "The sheriff is the cause of all this." Gail explained. "Well maybe we should have a talk to Mr Buck." Matt pushed past Ben. "Good idea." Loris, back to normal, agreed. Caleb took Gail's hand as all five walked out of the boarding house and into Matt's car. "What happened?" Billy asked Rita lying on the floor. "We've got a problem in this town, people are going crazy, and somehow you caught what Matt and I believe to be, a virus." Rita explained. "Do you have a cure?" Billy asked. "How do you think that YOU came to?" "The last thing I remember is being with Selena who was acting realy strange-" Billy paused. "Rita! I think Selena's got the virus!" Billy ran out of the hospital leaving Rita behind. "I've gotta save Selena!" "WAIT!" Rita called tossing Billy a small bottle of robonyon. "It may come in handy..." "Well he's left everything in a pause, he must of left in a hurry." Ben explained pointing to Lucas's desk. "Where would he go?" Gail questioned. "He may of been kidnapped." Ben guessed. "Lucas?" Matt asked walking out of the room. "He's right, Lucas wouldn't be the type to be kidnapped..." Gail stopped. "...or would he?" "How about we look around, you never know we may find him." Loris suggested. "I'm scared." Caleb hugged Gail tight. "We'll be fine." Gail assured him. "We'll be fine..." Lucas was still stuck at the old deserted house. "Do you have any idea who you've kidnapped?" Lucas snarled at Brearne. "What makes you different from all the other bosses we've kidnapped?" Brearne laughed. "Look, let me go. I'll let you run free. I'll forget all about this little insident." "For sure... For Sure..." "What are the chances of us finding Lucas?" Gail asked sitting in the back seat of Matt's car. "Just keep looking, Matt." Ben told Matt who was driving around. "What's that car doing at that deserted house?" Loris asked pointing to a car parked on the side of the road. "That's Lucas's car!" Caleb shouted. "Either Lucas is hiding out or it was stolen." Ben explained. "I could imagine Lucas trying to hide out in a dump like this..." Matt smiled sarcastically pulling over. Everyone got out of the car except for Caleb. "You wait here, you'll be safe." Gail gave a comforting smile. Billy slowed his car down as he saw Selena, looking drunk, walking on the side of the road. "Selena!" Billy swung open the door. "Come on Billy, lets change some victoms..." Selena smiled. "Ea, ah." Billy hesitated. "It's the real Billy here. "What?" Selena asked curiously. "Selena hold out your arm." "Not until you kiss me..." "Hold out your arm!" "Kiss me first..." Billy stuck the suringe into the bottle and jabbed it into Selena. "Ah." Selena let out a small cry as she fell tro the ground. She woke in a startle. "Huh?" Ben held out his gun as he kicked open the old door. At first all he could see was Lucas tied up, but suddenly Brearne leaped out making Ben fall to the floor. THUMP! Brearne leaped on Ben ready to bite his neck but Matt stabbed a suringe full of robonyon into her. Everyone watched hoping to see who the original person was behind the evil vampire, but instead of changing into a person Brearne melted away into nothing. "Help me out would ya?" Lucas asked tied to the staircase. All four rushed to him and untied him. "It's about time too." "Come on, Caleb's waiting in the-" Gail stopped. Everyone turned to see Caleb with a knife to his neck held by Amahl! "Drop it Amahl!" Lucas stepped forward. "You killed my girl, I'll kill your boy." Caleb began crying. "Lucas please help..." "SHUT UP KID!" Amahl yelled. "Look Mahal, or what ever, please Caleb didn't do anything." Matt tried to bargan. "Life's not fair..." Amahl smiled. "Take me." Gail stepped forward. "He's a kid, take me." "Gail, no!" Loris grabbed her shoulder. "Please," a tear ran down Gail's eye. "Caleb has his whole life ahead of him..." "Gail, don't be stupid!" Lucas muttered. "Take Loris!" Loris looked at Lucas hissing. "What would YOU care?" Gail screamed at him. "Matt you should of stabbed Lucas with that drug a long time ago!" "SHUT UP ALL OF YOU!" Amahl screamed furious. "OR THE BOY GETS IT!" "Not if I can help it!" Billy's voice came from behind knocking the knife out of Amahl's hands. "What the hell?!" Billy pulled Amahl to the ground as Matt ran over and injected robonyon into him. Amahl shrivelled away into nothing... Lucas walked past Billy and Matt. It wasn't the ending he wanted, the two doctors he wanted dead ended up saving him. "No more doctors in my town..." Matt and Billy both laughed. "No more doctors in my town..." THE END