4: Flashbacks

Qualina left that night promising to bring back the elixirs needed to transform Jolie.
 Jolie was slightly nervous, as was Jack, however he knew this was the only way they could move forward with their lives.
 If Jolie could access their information systems, she could delete their files and send Kraven off their trail by leaving false clues to their location...

 Jack took a seat at the small dining table. He hadn't slept properly for weeks, and his eyelids grew heavy.
'Jack, why don't you go to bed?' he heard Jolies voice in the distance. It sounded like she was in a corridor and her voice was bouncing towards him.
 He finally let his body take over, and he closed his eyes to embrace the darkness of sleep...

***

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
 Screams. Ear piercing screams could be heard along the east corridor of the Coven mansion. Jack immediately stood up from his desk and checked the clock on the wall.
 1am.
It was the time of night that the mansion was most busy. Were the screams serious? Or just some of the new kids messing around?
 Jack slowly opened the door of his room and looked down the corridor. The door to the left study was wide open and he could hear sobs from inside.

This was strange.
The sobs sounded so much more distorted in his dream than they had on the actual night. It was creepy.
 He stepped through the door of the left study not knowing what to expect. But what he saw was beyond anything he could of imagined anyway...

A young vampire with flame red hair lay face down on the ground. She was dead.
 Jack felt sick to his stomach. What on earth had happened here? His pulse quickened as he scanned the room.
'Leon!' Jack shouted.
 His best friend lay on the floor clutching his chest. Jack knew he wasn't going to make it. He had been stabbed in the heart, and there was no recovering from this.

Jack knelt beside his best friend. He looked into the eyes of the only man he had ever dared trust or even consider to be a friend.
 Leon let out a small smile and coughed.
 'Told you you'd outlive me Jacko,'
'Leon, what happened? Who did this?' Jack began to sob.
That night had started out like any other, now he was losing his best friend.
'K-k-'
Then Leon closed his eyes for the last time. His body went limp under Jack's touch.
'No! Leon!'
 ' Please help me!' another voice whispered from behind him.

Jack turned to see Adele on the floor. She didn't look injured, but she looked extremely scared and in terrible shock.
 'Here take my hand,'

Jack helped Adele to a sitting position.
 He was shaking so much he could barely hold her up. Who had done all of this? Why? And why had nobody else come running to the screams?

'Who did this Adele?'

'I don't know,' she replied. Her voice was barely there. Jack noticed a slash on the top of her head that was healing at a rapid pace thanks to her being a vampire.

'I wasn't facing the person when they came in, I only got a blow around the head. Everything went black, and now I've just opened my eyes to two of our Coven dead.' She began to sob in fear and shock.
 Jack pulled her close to him and kissed her head.
 'Its going to be okay Adele, I promise,'

***

Jack let out a small whimper in his sleep which caused Jolie to tap him. But he was still in such a deep sleep, nothing she did would wake him...

***

'You wanted to see me Adele?'

Jack sat on the sofa in Adele's room and looked at his surrounding. Everything in this room was so girly. Typical Adele.
 It had been a week since the murders.
Jack and Adele had left the study that night and gone to Kraven their Coven leader. He had hired extra security around the mansion and promised that the case would soon be solved.

'Yes I did,' she replied. She stepped from behind the bed wearing....well....barely anything.

'I just realised I never really said thank you for the other night. You made me feel so much better that night and I don't know what I would have done if you were not there,'

'Well... in a way I wish I wasn't there. But I'm glad I helped you,'

Adele moved towards him. What was her plan?
 Jack couldn't help but enjoy the view. He had not seen a woman like this since Claudia passed away. His lack of sleep and food also meant concentrating on something other than Adele was pretty impossible. He had no energy to look away. At least that is what he told himself.

Adele moved over to sit next to Jack on the sofa.
 She knew she was sexy and she always used it to get her own way. But this time Jack gave her the benefit of the doubt. She had suffered with him that night, and he knew they would always have an emotional bond because of that.

'Have you fed this week?' she asked. She placed an arm around him as a comforting and kind gesture.
 Jack replied with a shake of the head. Food wasn't on his mind right now.

'Why don't you have a lie down?' she suggested. 'You look like death... excuse the expression.'
 'On your bed?' he asked
'If you like,' she smiled back.
Jack stood and moved towards her bed. The sheets smelt of her perfume and the musky warmness of her body.
 Her body... mmmmm.
Adele moved next to him.
 'I've been so scared since that night last week. I haven't slept either,'
'We wouldn't make a fixed vampire if you placed both of us together,' chuckled Jack. He was glad of some company, and the fact she was wearing pink lace only made the situation even better.

He placed his hands on her waist and behind and pulled her closer.
'Stay with me tonight,' she breathed.
Jack smiled and gave her a squeeze in response.
She let out a girly squeal and giggle and pulled him towards her.

'Promise this won't get weird between us,' Jack said. He looked at her pale green eyes. Now he understood why all the male occupants of the mansion wanted to get into this room. She was gorgeous. He looked down to where the top of her nightie began.
 His desires grew and he could feel himself getting flustered.

'I promise,' she replied.

She placed her hand in the back of his hair and pulled him upwards to meet her lips.
 Oh my.

She tasted so good. Her warm breath caressed his cheek as he kissed her, each time getting more and more greedy with his mouth.
 Eventually he felt her tongue meet his. She had fed less than hours ago, he could still taste the blood in her mouth.
 That pushed him over the edge, and before he knew it he was peeling off her pink lace...
'Jack,' she breathed.
'Jack...Jack...Jack...'

***

'Jack?!'

Jack woke up in shock and sat bolt upright. Jolie's voice had invaded his dream and caused him to return to the present day.

'You were moaning in your sleep...' she said.
Jack felt embarrassed of his aroused state and headed towards the door.
  He needed some air.