Lisa  had just turned off her outside lights when she heard the doorbell.    It had been 30 minutes since the last trick or treaters had come by.  She was almost certain when she looked down the street she had not seen any more walkers.  It was only 8pm , but for her small quaint suburban neighborhood they usually did not have many children come through and by 7:30 they were usually done.   Perhaps the warmer temperature has attracted some more children to stay out longer, she thought to herself.  "Must be a few more still out there." She said softly to Bella her  Pomeranian.  Bella followed her closely as she approached the door. Her tail wagged playfully as she waited for the door to open. Bella loved when they had visitors.  She happily greeted everyone.

She looked through the window of  the door to see how many more treats she needed to gather.  A pair of black eyes looked back up to hers.  He looked to be about ten years old or so and alone.  He wore a dark beret and his face seemed a bit dirty.  When she opened the door she noticed he was dressed in knickers and a  ruffled shirt. ' Trick or treat' he said with an English accent as she opened the outer door.  Lisa smiled at him as she dropped a handful of candy in a tattered looking  cloth bag he held out to her. Just as quickly as he appeared he ran off into the darkness.

Bella gave a low growl and stepped back behind Lisa.  She had not noticed  the mysterious dark man that had been standing  off to the side and was now standing directly in front of her.  He wore a black top hat and a black crisp cape that cascaded down to his knees.  Her eyes met his and she felt a chill slowly run up her spine. He smiled at her with dark piercing eyes that  seemed to see right through her. She felt almost naked as his gaze traveled up and down.  He parted his lips slightly, displaying  perfectly straight teeth that sparkled in the moonlight.  His very strong handsome looks were  hauntingly  alluring, she could not help but study his face.  He raised his left eye brow slightly as he spoke in a soft low  seductive voice.  "Good evening Lisa my dear, how are you?  It has  been a  time a very long time.  I have been waiting for you patiently. You probably don't remember me but a last I am now free again.  I only desire a moment with you to help you remember." 

Before she even had time to respond in one quick swift move he was inside, closing and locking the door behind him.   "Who are you?" she heard her self say.She was frozen with fear and fumbled backwards awkwardly not sure how all this had happened so fast.  She could feel her heart begin to race and her throat tighten.  Her eyes stared into his.  It was if she had known him before and yet did not.  She was captivated by his presence, almost drawn to him.

  His  eyes stayed  fixed on her even as he made some motions with his hand toward her dog Bella, commanding  her  to sit silently.  Lisa's  beauty was breath taking and the site of her throat sent a sensation spiraling through him.   He shuttered slightly, and breathed in deeply savoring the vision before him.  His hypnotic eyes slowly traveled from her neck back up to her eyes.  Delicious he thought silently and succulent.  The wait  had been  long but now there she was.  As beautiful as ever.  A bit more modern than she was in the past, but her beauty was unchanged.

 Lisa was to frightened to look away or to move.  He stepped toward her and held out his hand.  This will not take long my love.  Before she even knew what was happening she was in his arms.  Gently he brushed her long blond hair away from her neck slightly tilting her head back to expose her slender long neck.  She felt helpless,  unable to move and a dark unexplained yearning towards this stranger.  She waited in his arms for what was next. Almost wanting more from him.   It was like he had her under a hypnotic spell .  She could feel his breath travel from her cheek down to  the nape of her neck.  Chills of excitement and fear tightly entwined together traveled through her.
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She felt his moist lips gently brush against the soft skin of her neck and  then a slight piercing, followed by an explosion of warmth .   Ever so slowly Lisa  felt herself falling  as she surrender to the  darkness.

Eve looked at Doc several minutes before she spoke.  Her eyes were red and tired.  She brushed back a few strands of tangled tresses cascading loosely around her pretty face.  She bit her lower lip as she whispered softly to Doc.  "Zach does not have any time left.  I have to try the serum now." Doc laid  his hand gently on her arm.  He could feel the fear she was holding back.  She reminded him so much of his own daughter.  A lovely young woman like Eve also  blessed with  brains and beauty.   Full of dreams and hope and like Eve struggling to find her way up the corporate latter. Wanting more from life as fast as possible. "Lets begin." he said. "Its his only chance."

Eve filled a syringe with the serum she had mixed together.  Her hand trembled slightly as she pushed fluid to the tip.  Zach, her colleague and friend life was now in her hands.  This was her only chance to save him.  It had to work she thought to her self. It just has to. Doc helped roll up his sleeve so Eve could get to a vein in his forearm.  He carefully wiped a spot clean on the young mans  arm. He also examined the bite again on his hand.  It had stopped bleeding now.  But a dark red ring had formed around the wound.  A ring that concerned Doc.  He also noticed his  breathing had become more shallow.  He no longer felt warm to the touch and his color was so pale, almost gone. Zach laid motionless with his eyes still shut as the needle pierced his skin. "Now we wait and pray".  Doc said as he put his large aged hand on her shoulder and gently gave it a squeeze.  Eve hung her head down and rubbed at her  eyes. ' Please God'. She  felt her self whisper.  "Please let this work." This gruesome  nightmare could begin to end  if this worked she thought to herself.  Everything was riding on Zach being saved.

Upstairs Cody and Josiah carefully laid the sheet down next to Blake.  "On the count of three we slide him onto it". Josiah said.  Blake cried out in pain as the two men adjusted his body on to the large cloth."  "'Give me your tie".  Cody yelled to Tony who stood watching.  "I need to make a tourniquet to keep his leg from moving while we transport  him."  Tony handed him his tie with out hesitation.  Cody slipped the piece of wood he had taken from the lab under Blake's leg.  "This is going to hurt like hell but, I have to try to set your bone straight before I can tie this splint on." Cody had to help splint a few dogs before on the ranch that had become  injured.  He only hoped what he knew from those experiences was enough to help Blake now.   Josiah gave  Blake his belt and told him to bite down  while they straightened his leg.   Blake bit down hard on the leather and screamed through his clenched teeth.  The  pain almost made him pass out. Quickly the two men tied the tourniquet on and then let him rest for a few seconds.  Tony stood waiting for an order.  Not knowing what else to do. The three men slowly lifted the sheet and began carrying Blake down the stairs.


Eve was the first to notice twitching in Zach's left hand.  The side they had given him the shot.  She watched silently afraid to move for another twitch.  She called to Doc.  "I think something is happening.  His hand moved - I saw it twitch a few times."  Doc squeezed her hand slightly as they waited together watching for signs.