I'm Not A Savior

I laid awake in my apartment. Kenzie was off with Vic and his fellow immortal wolves. I missed her so much and I was worried about her. She wanted to be by my side tonight before we’d head out the next night to fight Carmina and her posse. Vic said that wasn’t the best plan and took her with him.

My phone started to ring, pulling me out of my thoughts. I saw the ID was blocked, but I answered anyway.

“Hello,” I answered.

“Alexander,” it was Carmina, “You should know better than to answer a blocked number.”

“What do you want,” I asked her, gritting my teeth.

“You,” she replied simply, “Meet down at harbor side in downtown Baltimore.”

“And if I don’t come,” I had a feeling she was luring me into a trap.

“Then darling Mackenzie will die without a hope for a hero,” she teased, “Be here before 1.”

She hung up and I about broke my phone. Tess was staring at me. She had to have heard the entire call.

“Don’t go,” she said simply, “I know that’s a trap.”

“She has Kenzie,” I protested, “I’m going.”

“I’ll let everyone know where you’re going,” she got her phone out and started texting everyone, “We’ll back you up. Don’t let her get to you.”

“I won’t,” I replied.
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I pulled up to the harbor and I saw Carmina waiting for me with a couple of her minions. I looked out over the harbor and I spotted a buoy with something tied to it. I put two and two together when I saw the fire red hair sticking out from under the canvas bag over the girl’s head. I knew that was Kenzie.

“Alright I’m here,” I glared at Carmina, “Let her go.”

“Not so fast,” Carmina smirked, “We’re going to play a little game and your precious Mackenzie is the prize.”

“What do you want,” I asked her, my rage was building.

“Let’s see if she has vampire blood in her system,” she teased, “You have to go out there and check. And the only way to find out is if you snap her neck. If she comes back, she’s going to start transition. If not, then she’s dead as a door nail.”

“And if I refuse,” I asked her, venom in my words.

“She’ll die from drowning,” Carmina laughed a little, “She isn’t tied up out there. She’ll lose her strength to hold on and fall off that buoy. And there’s weights on her ankles to sink her down to the bottom of the bay.”

“I’ll save her,” I told her, “And I’ll drive a stake through that thing you call a heart.”

I got into the water and swam over to Kenzie. She didn’t say anything when I got to her, figuring that they gagged her. I climbed up onto the buoy and sniffed her exposed neck, trying to find the scent of vampire blood. I caught the smell and I swallowed hard.

“It’s going to be alright,” I whispered in her ear. I then snapped her neck. I swam back to the shore and I laid her down on the sand. I waited for her to come back. But she didn’t move. She was still for almost an hour when Carmina laughed.

“You killed her,” Carmina smirked as she kept laughing.

“No,” I argued as I shook my head, “I smelled vampire blood. I know I did.”

“You’re a fool,” she taunted, “She’s been around vampires. That’s why.”

“No no no,” I grabbed at my hair as the grief set in. It drowned me and I felt my heart breaking all over again. I was suffocating from it.

“Turn it off, Alexander,” Carmina whispered in my ear.

“N-no,” I protested feebly, “I won’t become that monster again.”

“Turn it off,” she urged.

That’s when I cracked. I felt the pain fade. Everything shifted. The hurt felt less and less painful. Then I felt nothing. There was no love. No anger. No guilt. I felt nothing but indifference. I rose from the body and looked at Carmina with a blank stare.

“You can get up now,” she said to the body. I turned and saw the body rise. It removed the bag and the wig. It was another vampire, one that was working for Carmina. I was fooled, but I didn’t care.

“Alex,” I looked over to see Tess. She stopped dead in her tracks. She knew by looking me in my eyes.

“Alex,” Matt cocked his head. I shrugged and stalked off past them. I didn’t care to talk to them now. I was hungry.
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I can’t believe he turned them off. I was fuming at Carmina. There was no way we’d be able to fight her now. Alex was gone and he was the only one able to take her on. Now he doesn’t care at all. How the hell was I going to tell Kenzie her boyfriend is an emotionless monster now and he wouldn’t care enough to turn it back on?

“Tay, we have a problem,” I got on the phone with Tay as soon as we got to Alex’s apartment.

“What’s wrong,” she asked.

“Get Kenzie from the wolves,” I told her, “The plan is off.”

“What,” she was shocked, “Why?”

“Carmina got what she wanted,” I was on the verge of crying, “Alex turned it off.”

“Damn it,” Tay groaned, “I’ll get her. Do you want me to tell her?”

“Please do,” I told her, “She has to know before she comes back. We have to protect her from him. I’ll get my hands on loads of vervain. We have to get it into her system so he won’t try to feed on her.”

“How are we going to get him to turn it back on,” Tay asked.

“The same way I did it before,” I told her, “I’m going to torture him into turning it back on.”

“We need to come up with a torture plan,” Tay agreed with my plan, “We need to record Kenzie going through pain. If he endures pain and hears her going through it, maybe it could trigger his compassion to show through.”

“That could work,” I told her, “For now, we need to get a vervain stock. It’ll take time. I’ll try to keep him in the apartment.”
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“No,” I protested, “He can’t have them off. He promised that he wouldn’t.”

“Kenzie,” Tay argued back, “He thought he killed you. The grief was too much for him. Carmina tricked him.”

“I want to see him,” I told her, “Take me to him.”

“That’s not the best idea,” she protested.

“I don’t give a fuck,” I yelled at her, “Take me to his apartment!”

We got to his apartment and I ran inside. I found him on the couch, a blank stare in his eyes as he looked at me. I glared at him and he just shrugged. I charged him and slapped him across the face.

“That wasn’t very smart,” he growled while Tess and Matt held him back.

“I don’t fucking care,” I yelled at him, “How fucking dare you?! I can’t believe you let her get to you! You knew! You knew I was with Vic and his pack. Yet you let her get you to turn it off.”

“And I now don’t care,” he growled, “I don’t care about anything. Only me and my hunger. I’m starving. It was so stupid of me to change to animal blood. And you smell delicious. You really shouldn’t have come here. But since I don’t care about you anymore, I can kill you and feel nothing. I’d only be relieved that I sated my hunger.”

“You are a fucking monster,” I started to cry. I hated seeing him like this. The last time I saw him, he had nothing but love in his eyes when he looked at me. Now all I see is darkness.

“News flash,” Alex taunted, “I’m a fucking vampire. We’re monsters.”

Notes

So there will be a sequel. I'll post the link when I post the last chapter.