Subj: The Revenge of Nicholas Blair Part 4
Date: 7/14/00 8:54:30 AM Central Daylight Time
From: Shadowalker
Next to the bedside of Barnabas and Anne stood Lestat. His contempt was not hidden. He had once held Barnabas as an idol--revered, but grew to hate and loath him.
Lestat thought that Barnabas had turned his back on their own kind through the help of a doctor.
A smile curled upon Lestats' lips as he came closer to Anne. Yes, Diabolos would be sated this time, and Nicholas would be helped again in his quest for his Maggie.
Lestat touched Annes' stomach, delivering the "gift" to her from Diabolos. She stirred only slightly.
Lestat would yet find himself wanting of her. Her beauty would be her downfall however. Whoever Lestat loved would have to cease their mortal existence.
He traced her mouth with his caressing fingertips, then turning her head slightly, baring her large artery as his canines found his mark...
In his primitive state, far back in the deepest recesses of his mind, Barnabas felt the call of the vampire yet again.
"Why? What was happening to cause this he thought with alarm! Was something threatening him or his wife? Was it for a warning or defence?"
Fighting and try as he might, he could not awaken himself, he battled with every fiber in his being. Suddenly he knew inside, instinct told him his sweet Anne was to be a victim of the same horrid curse that he, himself was finally cured of.
But to whom was she to fall a victim to? He found himself prone, unable to move as his eyes finally opened in horror with the vision of Lestat bending to Anne's neck, ready to take in her lifes essence.