Kathy's Revenge

Chapter 45
Faiths POV

I’m woken by footsteps on the stone steps that lead into this room from above.

I’m on my feet in less than a second, still slightly drowsy from sleep. Just kinda hoping that the sun has come up again, no need to worry about most unworldly things then. Would be nice to have that vamp sense of smell to know if the sun is up or not.

Judging from the fact that the Lestat wannabe has taken a stroll into my sleeping quarters I would say that sun is still down. “Good evening.” He says with essence of charm dripping off every word.

I drop into a defensive position without saying a word. I just want to go back to sleep don’t have time for banter right now.

“Well that’s a bit rude.” He says checking the dirt under his nails. “We only wanted a chat.”

”We?” I ask still in my position.

Another set of footsteps begins to descend the stairs behind him. “Sebastian I’ve told you before not to play with your food.” That voice. This is a world of not good.

“Scared to let me see who you are?” I ask the voice.

“I suppose it wont hurt you knowing who I am, all this mystery stuff if a bit of a chore anyway. Need to take credit for my work.”

With that she steps out of the shadows. I raise my eyebrows.

“Kathy right?” I ask slightly taken back.

“Katharine The Great.” She corrects.

“Great? A great pain in my ass maybe.” I say with a shrug of my shoulders. Okay, okay I know I should stick with my defence pose in case that vamp strikes but this is too weird.

She shoots me a look as if I should respect her or something.

“So what do you want with me anyway?” I ask.

“Join me!” It was more of a command than a question.

“To do what?” Maybe I watch too many movies, expecting her to reveal her plan to me before I escape and kick her ass.

“Revenge mainly, I will being down my enemies and do what they did to me.” She says with a scowl.

“Who did what to you?” I ask.

“You think I will reveal everything to you at this early stage?” She says with a cackle.

“Lemmie guess… Buffy?” It has to be Buffy, it is always Buffy.

“She imprisoned me for years and now it is her turn.”

I laugh a bit. “Wow what did you do to piss her off so much?”

“Enough!” The vamp shouts. “You will join us or you will die… make your decision.”

“Well I don’t much want to die, but I very much doubt that you could kill me… and I don’t much want to join your little group either, I aint much of a joiner… I tried the scouts once but I didn’t play well with the others.”

“You have been on the dark side before though haven’t you? Killing and scheming… you will be useful to us, infiltrate the enemy and destroy them from the inside.” Kathy says walking a step in my direction.

“I think I might give it a miss, not much into killing people I care about anymore… think it was just a phase, you know?”

“After all the reasons I have given you to take revenge upon this world.” She says opening her arms wide. “I will help you with your revenge and you will help me with mine.”

“You’re the one in my head?” I shouldn’t be asking. She did kinda just tell me.

She doesn’t answer me just smiles as Sebastian lunges at me.

Really should have stayed in that defensive position ‘cause he gets a lucky punch in, right in the side of my face. The force throws me back and around so I hit the cold stonewall. I can feel him coming towards me so I lift my leg and connect it with his gut. This makes him double over and gives me time to turn and get into my position.

He swings his arm around towards my head again and I duck under it stepping to the side giving me clear aim to smash him in the face. He used the force to turn him around through 180 degrees and bring his foot up level with my body.

I catch the foot inches from me and he uses me a leverage to swing his other foot around and land a hard blow to the side of my head making my world spin.

He jumps up from where he landed to his feet my vision still a little fuzzy and pulls a knife from the back of his jacket. He holds the handle so the blade juts out sideways from his wrist.

Great, weapons. Why didn’t I think of that? He takes a lunge at me and once again I side step. Unfortunately the blade clips me on my arm and blood begins to ebb from the wound.

I look down at the bleeding wound than back up to his smiling face. He comes for me again and begins to slash at my face and I manage to dodge all of the attacks and find an opening to thrust my fist into his face and feel the bones in his nose break under my knuckles.

The shock of the pain makes him drop his weapon. I take a quick look around to find that Katharine is gone. So I decide to take this little fight outside and run up the steps and out the door to the open graveyard. This is where I find Katharine.

“How?” My heavy breathing stops me from taking the sentence any further but I’m sure she understands.

She smiles at me. “Little bit of magic. Wonderful what only a little touch can do to help.”

My eyes widen as my mind flashes to that night I supposedly saved her from the vampire who is still in the crypt where she shook my hand. The most innocent of things and look where it got me.

Rage builds up inside me and begins to make every blood cell in my body boil in anger and I take a run and jump to tackle her to the floor.

As I fly through the air she disappears. I’m left hurtling through the air crashing head first into the stone wall. The last thing I remember thinking is “oh shit this is gonna hurt.”