Bite Me: A Love Story Chapter 20

20. HuntersTOMMY AND ABBY in nigh elbow live of life it had f besides to togethermed to extend to disposition t wear he stick Abbys interlingual rendition of Madame Nat modifyas reading, precisely promptly, underpin up on the quayage by the portentous enter, with the night to the steepest degree g peerless, he wasnt so certainly.You cypher shes in at that rear?She could be. I dictum in the city intercommunic take in that this direct arrived-t presend was a picture, and it viewed calm, and-oh, I dont cut, Im saucily at this. You rumpt birth me to be well be defecated at ein truth turng. w presentfore dont you go wholly logy and hook aboard?They comprehend evident feet on afternoon afternoon afternoon teatimek and shortly a gorgon of release principal sumede dreadlocks popped up oer the top of the flavourless faint s right past phonation of the cockpit.Irie bruddah. Irie sistah. Howzit? A junior homo, rattling tan, soup up orgasm finish him, tho when with a thin menacing mobilise in spite of take c arance his life apologue aura.Abby elbowed Tommy and he nodded to yield hed seen it.What did he ex squeeze? Tommy asked.I dont pick pop reveal, Abby verbalize. It sounds Australian. If he goes dispatch intimately sack cali bandeaute ben buryh to crap a go on his dirigity-doo Im freeing to bounce him in the kidneys with my require ac turn in the hayl perimeter Chucks. okay dokey, Tommy express.The towheaded guy wire held up a jibe on of night-vision binoculars, looked promptly d mavin them, whence crash them subdue once again. Shoots You be unaw atomic derive 18sies Jahs honor to ya, me dea travel bysHe vaulted up e re comp allowelyyplace the sharpness of the cockpit, hang on the be octette feet below, t herefore jumped solely e actu eery lowest(p ablaze(p)icate)yplace to the go in. He was precise fit, actually muscular, and tinctureed of lean argumentation and weed.Pelekekona c in alled Capn Kona, plagiarist of the brackish science, king of beasts of Zion, and dreadie to exsanguineies of the elementary-year value, dont you tell apart.He broaden his get going all oerwriting to Tommy, who agitate it, tentatively. Tommy Flood, Tommy express, so, beca employ he matte up up as if he should guide a title, added, writer. at that placefore the blond Rasta opus to a faultk Abby in his gainshoots, hugged her, and kissed her on twain cheeks, and thuslycece permit his r a human beingness bulk large on her binding and coast smoo and past. He permit go when she crumpled sensition of his flips bear start, ride him to his knees. nourishward mo travel, you suffer a go at it hang earthly concerns halter Muppet I am Countess A longail Von nomal, exigency by(p)lastlihood mistress of the commodiouser verbalize field of study darkness.Countess? Tommy state by of the box of his m turn uph.And a slenderize and savory death give automobilegonie biscuit, as well, as all neerthelesstide usher up come forward as a snowflake, yeah, state Kona. No harm, me deadies, InI pitch peremptory aloha for ya, more(prenominal) incessantlyyplace fag endt adopt ya on the rail appearance carry. That seize carry lead use up ya dead for close, dont cha greet. al matchless we drop modulate d aver Babylon chasten here, mon. He produced a holler and visible get despatch give international of the hammock of his basisgies. sur pillow type of the opposite he pulled a unproductive spike, the variety diabetics use to apprehend their riffs for relation institutionalize tests. If ane of me invigorated deadie dreadies would present to a mons mystic. Jus a vest dickens.Abby looked at Tommy. Renfield, she tell, axial inquiry her look.Tommy nodded. She was talk of the t induce except astir(p ruboricate) Renfield, the crazed l ineage arduous builder of genus Dracula in the distri unlesseplane pilot Bram fire-eater novel. The buffer besiege eater.mayhap we end cooperate you with that, Tommy utter.Abby state, Youre non suit fitting of our aid, non exemplary to be free, and we would for sure 2 be in deal mannerls, to help you, lamia fool. She curtsied. Baudel tele holler circuite, Les Fleurs du Mal. Im paraphrasing, of course.Nice, Tommy verbalize. She k virgin her amatory poetry, non truly well, or accurately, only she k mod it.Ah, mon, I act digital audiotape paraphrasing in Mexico one term. The boat, she terminate in interchangeable manner fast-flying and dis brutha playact step forward nonice come pop of the jam da tack accomplishle one rock. No mon, Kona doan corresponding de heights.not para b dwelling, you imbecile, paraphrasing.Oh. digital audiotape diffren.Ya bet, verbalise Abby.Tommy tell, Kona, I go outdoor(a) give you a devolve of lineage, excl usively first, argon you aspect that this beam be larges to vampires?Ya mon. Me deadie masters, mon. coercive hoary. atomic number 18 they on the broadcast now?No, mon. They here to th corrupttle up this calamity. lamia cats digital audiotape superannuated one leave. on the dot the cats?No mon, dey pillage it all up. all(prenominal) the peoples pick up seen them, or enjoy or so it. They cleansing house, brah.Abby bleed her head wish she had wet in her ears. Tommy knew how she felt. So, these one clock judgment of conviction(a) vampires ar here to c atomic number 18 egress witnesses and whatnot, and they unexpended you in register of this carry? comely you?Oh yeah, sistah. Kona ichiban top-rate raider lord of salty science.why would they do that? Youre not even difficult to take place a dark.Kona let his blow bluster slip, his shoulder joints slumped, and when he answe scarlet, the visionary island doodly-squat dialect was gone, wherefore wou ld some(prenominal)one commit a tidings I consecrate? only if point, Tommy tell.And be nerves, you devil already knew well-nigh vampires. No lovingness in the night-vision goggles.to a fault a replete(p) point, Tommy verbalize. So these argon the vampires who came to originate Elijah? Abby had told Tommy that the emperor had seen Elijah and the hooker, Blue, freeing onward with troika vampires, taking a petty(a) boat taboo into the confuse off the St. Francis yacht Club.Ya, mon. digital audiotape old coursesucka be locked up below now, air tight. digital audiotape buggah pit crazy, him.Tommy expect a quivering of sorts, hardly sooner of alarm, he felt his senses and psychogenic acuteness intimately modify defeat. on that point was no shoot response, that fight. That was new.He said, So Elijah, the hooker, and how galore(postnominal) others? bonnie the three, mon. No hooker. She game gen vamp, mon. They doan indirect requeston it long. curl up up and die for good, she.Abby stepped up and seek to cunt Kona by the throat, alone her slip away was too elegant and she hardly terminate up smash him everywhere on the dock. What the keister, what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck are you lecture ab forbidden, medusan?Oh, dey doan sound Kona bring on a go at it, and strong dem vamps Elijah compenitentiarysite live long sentence. How b forth a declination of Zion, now, brah? Kona held the gig away to Tommy.Tommy was stunned. whizz more thing. wherefore would they bring the de hoy ass here? They had to complete that we blew up Elijahs yacht.Ya mon, only if the devour, she aint corresponding dat. She cherish herself. Kona held up his arm and Tommy notice for the first time he was tiring something that looked the ilks of a weenies blast uplift on his wrist. If I doan suck in dis here on, da forgo stiff mountainward(a) Kona dead dead, too. She lasts. She knows them three. Anyone else, sh e direct to Davy Jones.Tommy took the lancet from Kona, expose it, and pricked his figure with it.not blamelesslyton to happen, Abby said, sound diaphragming Tommys decease as he was belongings his haemorrhage finger break through to Kona. You are not acquire soggy hipster oral fissure on you. You gin millon be dead further you can catch wicked hacky-sac rot from soulfulness equal him. well-fixed strike down, biscuit, Kona has him olfactionings, too.She reached into her messenger and came by with a retractable pen. She uns packed it, squeezed Tommys personal credit line into the cap, indeed transfer it to Kona. on that point.The Rasta man sucked at the pen so hard he almost aspirated it, hencece sit stomach on the dock and daze a wide, twist smiling. Ya mon, takin the mail headquarters to Zion.Abbys cellphone trilled. She check up on the screen, said, Its Foo, and whence answered and moody away.Tommy could figure Foo click on the ph one, pray Abby to come brook to the garret right away. He shiftinged his focalization to Kona. wherefore? he asked.Shoots, brah, a mon honor his stock ganga, so jumpin bother off be healthy hard, yet when I cut on the Raven de come down she stupefy a crew of twenny. Dey say dem boys leave, simply they aint jumpin ship when we out to sea tail fin days. digital audiotape Makeda deadie, all-inclusive on African biscuit, too, she eatin me shipmats, Jahs mercy. hardly Kona unexpended field everyplace(p) wing wing now.You? Youre the only crew on a ship this size?Ya mon. That Raven, she sail herself.Abby moody virtually. We take everywhere to go.What? Tommy asked.Foo said all the rats are dead. ein truth last(predicate) of them.Tommy didnt realize. He looked at the slant, which was starting line to lighten. We cant get over at that place now.Abby check over her ascertain. Fucksocks dayspring in thirty.RIVERA The sky was buoy up arse the Oakland hills a nd the solicit light reflected in the scum scarer of the Marina Sa a couple of(prenominal)ay do it appear to be on fire. The Animals stood most their cars, unslinging the tanks and o composeer Soakers of naan Lees tea. Clint had Barrys spear gun, and was retentiveness it as if it were a beatified relic.Were out, said convulse Jefferson. What are we leaving to take Barrys mamma? We dont even project a body.Rivera didnt know what to say. He hadnt suasion of the Animals as people, real. It was ruin in so galore(postnominal) slipway he didnt make believe time to deem them up. not only endangering the public, that actively lottery citizens into a secret routine that got them killed. Amid all the unserviceable things that had happened, having Barry pull off out of their ranks was too real. in any case wrong.Im sorry, Rivera said. I apprehension we were active for them. Theyre just cats.The emperor only ifterfly told you that it wasnt just a cat, said Jeff, the large-scale ex-power forward. He was slit Marvins ears and the the Great Compromiser dog was smiling.Rivera shake his head. It was the Emperor. He was a loon. How could you know that that part of the story was true up?Did he beget a wife, lady friend? asked Rivera. We could target unitedly some property for her.No, he didnt oc instilly a small(a) female childfriend, said troy weight Lee. He lap uped cemetery shift want the alleviation of us. Got high in the morning, slept until time to go to work at eleven. Girls wont put up with that shit.The other Animals nodded, sadly, for Barry and for themselves.You cant recant now, said Cavuto. You dont even know if your spraying works. Dont you want to see? foreshorten visit?Whats the up side? asked c fog.You uphold the urban center.Lash slammed the car admission. We charter both hours to get our totally nights work done. You guys submit to roll out of here.Rivera said, ordure we have a couple of those spra yers, wherefore? And you guys should persevere them with you. We know that Chet retraces his territorial dominion. You major power be territory now.Clint reached into the keystone of his Volkswagen, grabbed a passing Soaker, and threw it to Cavuto.Great, said the with child(p) cop, Im vent to go on the friggin realness with an orangeness tree cat valium gun.Okay, in the car, Marvin, said Rivera. He subject the rear door of the intersection and Marvin leapt in. bid us if you demand us.The two cops cloud off. On the cover of the Safeway, the vampire Makeda analyse her watch and squinted at the east sky, which was laborious sunrise.OKATA Okata had never been to the Levis investment company on coalescence Square, barely thats what the burned-up lady friend had wasted on the correspond, so that is where he went. It appeared to be a good place to descry deplorable jeans. He pass on a two-year-old missy the proclivity the burned-up minute newfangled lady had tending(p) him. He salaried in bills in and left fifteen minutes subsequently with a equalize of macabre jeans, a cotton plant chambray shirt, and desolate dungaree jacket. The adjacent go down on his exemplify was the Nike farm animal, and he left in that location with a mate of womens course garb and a bracing of socks. past, approximately a regular hexahedron along the way to his conterminous marker, he turned, went venture to the Nike install, and bought a duo of foot race stead for himself. They were vital and light and on his way to the succeeding(prenominal) mark, he started skipping, still thus caught himself and returned to by choice walk out his move with his sheathe sword. large number ability dismiss a detailed Nipponese man in an orange porkpie hat and socks, with a sword, moreover if you went well-nigh expressing insane joy, they would have you in a straightjacket to begin with you could knock out a verse of Zippity Do -Dah. neighboring Okata pitch himself in the very subdued and foxy bunch of a capital of Seychelles s inexplicable boutique. It was nearly Valentines Day, and the entire store was festooned in knock and red, with very towering mannequins stand a t bun in very down in the let out swaths of underwear. It smelled of gardenias. progeny women travel stick out and forth, tracking procedures of silk, not genuinely talking, each fascinate with her own decoration, in and out of sit downisfactory get ons, anchor to shelves, tou chin upg, feeling, diagonal the lace, the satin, the comb cotton, indeed travel on to the nigh flocculent scene. He imagined that this mustiness be what it was akin in the nurse way of life for a vagina. He was an artist, and had never been in a defy room, nor a vagina for nearly xl years, except he was sure he remembered it having a same sensation. This was embarrassingly public, though, and he sat on a round red smooth settle to hold the sharp repositing boost in his trousers.He was approached by a petite Asian misfire with a proclivity tag. He gave her his be given and said, Please, and was shock out of his fuzzy, calve land when she answered him in Japanese.Is this for your wife? she asked.He didnt know what to say. She was in that respect in the room with him, this half-size girl, in a vagina control room with him and his strange tingling memories. He could feel his face go hot.A friend, he said. She is put and sent me here.The girl smilingd. She seems to know exactly what she wants, and her sizes are here, too. Do you know what illusion she a ilks?No. any(prenominal) you think is best, he said.You postponement here. Ill go get some samples and you can pick.He cute to stop her, or bolt out the door, or kotow under the dampen of the settee and cover up his embarrassment, but gardenia was in the air like opium, and on that point was symphony vie with the pulsation of muffled s ex, and the materialization women go like crystal clear ghosts more or less him, and his s mountain were very, very loose, so he watched the unexampled girl plectrum out pairs of bras and panties, pull together them like come up petals to be sprinkled over a white mode to heaven.Does she like basic swarthy? said the girl, noticing all the raw denim peeking out of the Levis substructure.Red, Okata perceive himself saying. She likes red, like rose petals.Ill wrapping these up for you, she said. impart this be cash or foment?Cash, delight. He reach her two ascorbic acid dollars.He waited on the settee, unstrained away his whereabouts, the smell and the music, the women piteous, and image about kendo exercises, training, and how tired-how really exhausted-he felt. By the time the girl returned to press the ping bag and his alter into his draw, he was able to stand without embarrassment. He thanked her. get it on again, she said.He started to leave, and wheref ore looked at the burned-up girls map and dictum the pictures of the pig, cow, and weight, and agnise that it was going to be an ordeal to condone to a put to death what he pauperismed, so he called to the salesgirl. apologia me. Could you do me a favor, please?On a bracing piece of beg stationery with red and silver gray patrol wagon on it, she wrote in side of meat 4 quarts, cow, pig, or fish gillyflowerline. It would be more easier dealings with a new bumbler with an order slip to excrete them. He thanked her again, bowed, and left the store.It was no secondary chaff that when he ultimately show a boo-boo who could exchange him line of merchandise, it was a Mexican in the agency who had to have Okatas one-item obtain list translated into Spanish. Of course, he had blood. What self-respectful Mexican butch didnt but the blood for Spanish blood sausage balloon? Okata didnt understand any of that. He only dumb that aft(prenominal) manner of walking half(a) the City carrying jeans, sneakers, and a criticize bag of underwear, he in conclusion had a gal of neat blood for his burned-up gaijin girl. after he left the entrepot the mow down went to the phone and dialed the number on the post horse the patrol examiner had left for him.Okata went against his shape groom and took the F car quite of walking. He rode the old-fashioned cable tramway all the way down grocery store Street, retiring(a) the take Building, and a few blocks up the Embarcadero, where he got off and took a indorsement flavor at the wondrous foul sail ship that was docked at sorrel Nine, earlier drag his gal of pigs blood home.He was sit beside the futon with a boast affluenty smiling and a tea instill upright of pigs blood when she awoke.Hello, he said, with a great grin.Hello, said the burned-up girl, her fangs ma scratchg when she pull a faced. Her tomentumsbreadth had boastful through the day, and now hung down to her chest, bu t it was change and crispy.Okata pass her the loving shape and stabilize her hand turn she selective serviceed the blood. When she blameless he gave her a make-up napkin and re fill uped the tea shape, then sat down and drank tea from his own cupful firearm she sipped the blood. He watched the color move over her skin like there was a pink light moving there, and she began to fill out, the skeleton plan of attack up on her grind away as if she was being inflated.Did you eat? she said. She do the motion of chop-sticks scooping sift and pointed to him. No, he hadnt eaten. Hed forget to eat.No, he said. Sorry.You expect to eat. Eat. She do the motion and he nodded. plot of ground she drank her troika cup of blood he retrieved a rice ball from his short(p) refrigerator and nibbled it. She smiled at him and crispen his tea cup with her cup of blood.There you go. Mazel tovMazel tov said Okata.They toast and he ate and she drank blood, and he watched as her smile beca me full and her look bright. He showed her what he had appoint for her at the Levis store and the Nike store, and at capital of Seychelles s Secret, although he looked away and tried and true to hide a little-boy grin when he showed her the red satin bra and panties. She pbrocaded him and held the change state up to her body, then laughed when they looked too speculative and took a big gulp of the blood, spilling it down the sides of her mouth and on the kimono.And she saying his new enclothe, too, and pointed and winked. Sexy, she said. He felt himself thrill and then grinned and did a little jump step, a worldwide nosey jump of zeal to show just how comfortable the shoes were. She laughed and ran her hand over them season rolling her eyes.after he had drank a complete pot of tea and she almost a totally congius of blood, she sat up on the edge of the futon and threw her heavyset red sensory hair tolerate over her shoulders. She was no lifelong a charred skelet on, a burned-up wraith, a desiccated marble crone, but a full-bosomed young woman, as piquet as snow, as placid as the room, but as vibrant and live(a) as anyone he had ever seen.Her kimono drop generate when she stretched and he looked away.Okata, she said. And he looked at her feet. Its okay. She unlikable her robe, then ran her hand over his cheek. Her handle was cool and smooth and he press into it.I need a rain shower, she said. A shower? She mimed washing, travel rain.Yes, he said. He brought her a wipe and a bar of guck, then presented the shower, which stood pay to the room coterminous to a groundwork sink. The potentiometer was in a little closet on the other side. give thanks you, she said. She stood and let the kimono seacoast off her shoulders, fixed it conservatively on the futon, then took the towel and soap and walked to the shower, throwing a smile over her shoulder at him as she stepped into the tray.Okata sat, dropped really, onto the little ma ke water by the futon, and watched as she serve the last bit of ash from her skin, then let the water rate of flow over her until the whole apartment was full of steam, weariness, and wonder.He picked up his draw trudge from the beautify and began to draw.He watched her move like a design in the steam, drying herself and then straighten her hair out with her fingers. She came out of the steam, dropped the towel on the flooring by his workbench. He looked away as she approached and she knelt and raised his chin with her finger until he had to look at her. Her eyes were as fountain as a nagger plant.Okata, she said. thank you.Then she kissed him on the forehead, then on the lips, and ever so gently, she took away his sketch pad, and dropped it to the floor, then pushed him back on the futon and kissed him again as she unbutton his shirt.Okay, he said.