I was trying to find Sarah a late night snack, trying to get her health back when we came across her. It's her, Sarah thought as we stood under the streetlight. When she turned around and saw us I couldn't hide the surprise in my eyes. Sarah started to laugh but I couldn't move or say a word. Her hair was much longer now and she had grown up so much since she was five. I couldn't believe that after 10 years of looking for her that I had finally found her once I had stopped looking.
I looked around at the dead bodies and made a note to which direction the skinny demon had gone in. My sweet innocent little sister did this, she killed three demons and would have killed a fourth if I hadn't shown up. "Done this before?" I asked motioning to the two bodies even though I knew the answer. At this question Sarah stopped laughing. "Looks like the work of a pro, minus the part about letting the skinny one go."
"Well, I would have him if you hadn't scared him off. Thanks to you there is one more of your kind out there," she said with a knife by her side. So she knew I was a demon. Can she tell that Sarah is a vampire? If she can she doesn't do anything about it so I would say no. She knows what you are, just tell her who you are, Sarah said looking up at me. I shot her a look that said no way and she looked back to the hunter in front of us.
"Sorry about that, it just happened that I know where he is staying so after this I'll just make a visit to him. What's your name anyway?" I asked just to make sure if this was really my little sister who was killing demons. Sarah started to shiver and I tried to warm her up by running my hand up and down her arms. she shouldn't even be out here but she wouldn't take a no for an answer. Now that I think about it, I think she knew this would happened.
"Don't you all know who I am?" she asked surprised. Of course I do, I'm just hoping I'm wrong, I thought.
"I'm not from around here, could say we are new to this area," I answered. "This is Sarah and I'm Ad," I held out my hand. I couldn't have her know who I am until I'm sure she won't kill me or until I was sure it was really her. She looked between me and Sarah and then back at me. I wanted to know what she was thinking but it sucked that only Sarah and her kind could have powers while us demons really don't. She let out a heavy breath of air and put her knife away and took my hand.
"Carmen, but this doesn't mean I trust you." she finally said and my worse nightmare came true. All at once I was happy and sad. She survived the demon attack that took our parents but she was now a hunter of my kind. If she ever found out about the true me she won't welcome me back with welcoming arms.
"Well Carmen, I'll see you around then," I started to turn around with Sarah by me before I let my feelings show on my face but Sarah made me stop. She had pulled away and had turned to look at Carmen.
"Tell him I say hey, that things are going to get better," she said before she started to cough. I rushed over and wrapped my arms around her and waited until the coughing stopped. I apologized as I started to walk her away and could feel Carmen's eyes on us as we left. We made it to the end of the street before Sarah started to cough up blood again. Shit.
"Come on, I saw some humans earlier," I said helping her sit on a bench. Once I had her seated on a bench and she had enough strength to put a field around her so that one would see her, I headed to the high school boys. They were so drunk that the fighting down the road hadn't even scared them off. One of the guys saw me and hit the guy by him in the arm before pointing at me.
"What do you want? We weren't doing anything wrong," the guy who saw me first said slurring his words. I'm so sorry Sarah but he's blood will have to do. I didn't say anything but crossed my arms and looked at all the other guys smoking and during drugs.
"Got some drugs to sell you if you want some. I got the good stuff at a cheap price," I smiled trying to wheel at least one of the guys in. A short blond hair boy in the back stepped up as the other two boys said no and walked off. "You want some?" I asked the boy. He looked nervous but nodded his head. Poor kid, I thought as we started to head back to Sarah.
"So, how old are you anyway? Don't want to get in trouble if you are underage for this drug," i said even though I just wanted to know how old he actually was. He looked like he was maybe 16, lived too short of a life. Maybe Sarah won't need all of his blood and he could live.
"15, I came with my brother tonight. Our parents just split up and they haven't been paying us any attention, mom just stays in her room all day," he said softly. We came up to the bench I left Sarah at and when the boy looked up he saw her. He stopped and looked up at me confused. I don't need all of his blood, he'll make it out alive. Thank god, I thought when Sarah told me this.
Sarah motioned for the boy and with in seconds he was in her control. I couldn't watch this and had to walk off. I had never been dead and Carmen thinks I'm still gone forever. It killed me when I found out that Mom and Dad were gone. They weren't my real parents but they felt like them. My real parents had been dead for over 200 years by the time they became my parents.
I had been trying to come up with a way to disappear when Carmen fell through the ice. There is a saying that right before you are about to die your life flashes before your eyes. Even though I wasn't the one about to die, her life flashed before my eyes and I did all I could think of. I jumped in and saved her life. Once I had her out that was when I decided how to disappear. I didn't come back up and hearing her scream my name nearly killed me as I got closer to the bottom.
I waited a four days before I came back to the top and hid in the woods. Even though I tried to stay away from them I couldn't. I would watch as Carmen suffered from my "death" for years. By the time I finally left she was 8 and had finally recovered from my passing. Then I heard about the killing. When I found out about their death I had already met Sarah and she had been looking for family too when I found her feeding on a guy who had tried to kill a little kid. Sarah was with me when we went back to the house to see if Carmen had made it somehow.
Sadly all we found was Mom and Dad gone and Carmen missing. Carmen's room was almost completed empty and our box was gone. The box I had made for her for her 4th birthday. She kept everything I ever gave her, bought or made, in it. Her favorite stuff bear was gone, along with our family photo. Sarah had to calm me down when I started to freak out and trash the house looking for any signs that Carmen had been there in the past couple of days. I even checked our secret hiding place. I didn't even think about what I would say if I found her, I was just worried sick.
Now she is 17 and has her life on the line more than I want it to be. I have been all over the United States looking for her and thought the worse thing to ever happen to her was her being a demon but I never thought this would happen. A demon hunter? I didn't want that kind of a life for her, of course I didn't plan any of this ever happening. When I first became what I am I thought I would never have a family again. Then I met Mr. and Mrs. Reed. They fell in love with me the second I landed at their doorstep covered in cuts and blood.
A few months later Mrs. Reed found out she was going to have a little girl and they wanted me to be the little girl's brother. In the beginning I knew it was a bad idea to stay with them for so long but when Mrs. Reed first put Carmen in my arms I knew I couldn't leave. I protected her with my life every minute of everyday. Now she didn't need me and someone else had been taking care of her.
You can come back, I'm done. Are you okay?
I had been walking around the park without paying any attention and it took me at least ten minutes to get back to Sarah. The boy was gone and Sarah looked better enough to make it back to our hotel room. As we walked through our door to our room Sarah stopped me and turned me around. "Adam, are you okay?" she kissed me on the nose and looked up into my eyes with worry on her face.
"I'll be fine, I just can't believe I have finally found her. Seeing her fight those men and knowing that she's a pro at it just makes me feel uncomfortable," I confessed. Sarah grabbed my face in her hands and pulled me in for another kiss but on the lips this time.
"She will be fine, she has been fine for the past 7 years, we can go looking for her tomorrow and you can see for yourself or even better, you can tell her who you are," she said pulling back. I should have known this was coming. I need to tell her sooner or later who I was but I wasn't ready yet. Sarah could tell what I was thinking so she just pulled me with her to the bed and we climbed in under the sheets as she wrapped her arms around me and closed her eyes. It took me awhile to follow her into sleep but when I finally did all I dreamed about was Carmen.
We hadn't been asleep for long when there was banging on the front door. Sarah mumbled something and rolled over to the other side of the bed and went back to sleep. There could be a fire in the room and she would sleep right through it. The banging continued and was getting on my nerves. "Coming!" I called out pushing my hair out of my face. I opened the front door to be thrown across the room and have an arm pinning me to the wall. What the hell! I pulled my fist back and punch the person in the face and I landed on my feet.
"Who the hell are you?" I snapped as the person stepped into the light coming from the bedroom. The boy looked no older than Carmen but his smell gave him away as one of us. His short brown hair was in his face and he was tall with muscle. He had a gray t-shirt on with some band on it and had a black jacket on over that.
"Stay away from her," he said instead.
"From who? Who are you?" I asked as I heard Sarah getting up. "Stay in there Sarah!" I called back but like always she didn't listen. She walked out and wrapped her arm around my waist. "Get the hell out," I snapped, not wanting this guy any where near Sarah while she is so weak.
"Why were you talking to Carmen?" At the sound of her name Sarah's arms tighten around me before I could fly at him.
"What do you know about her?" I said with lock jaws.
"If I am correct, looks like someone is over protective of the demon hunter," he said looking mad. He saw the confusing on my face and laughed. "What do you want with her?"
"Besides her being his sister? He was just talking with her," Sarah said before looking down. I shot her a look and looked back at the boy in front of us. The look on his face made me mood change and I got worried.
"You're her brother? I never knew she had one. I thought you were trying to cause trouble and I had told her that I was just looking out for her," he said shocked.
"Are you guys dating?"
"No, she doesn't know I'm a demon and how I feel about her. Does she know that you are a demon?"
"She doesn't even know he's her brother. He died when she was younger and we had been looking for her for a long time. Ad hadn't told her yet who he really is," Sarah said using the nickname I gave myself when Carmen asked me my name.
"You aren't a demon," the boy stated instead of asking. I pushed him back and pinned him to the door as Sarah held on.
"No, she's not but she's with me so you aren't going to lay a finger on her," I poked him in the chest. "What is your name away, demon boy?"
"Jason, I go to school with Carmen." He looked down and I could tell he wasn't telling me something. Whatever it was I could tell I didn't want to hear it.
"Does she have any friends? She use to have a hard time making friends," I said after a short period of silence.
"Yeah, but I'm not the only one hiding a secret from her. One of her friends is hiding something just as bad as me," he said looking up but looking at Sarah.
"He won't hurt her, you should give him a chance," she said softly as she started to close her eyes. I picked her up and carried her back to bed. "Trust him, he could help us," she said softly into my ear as I tucked her in. I placed a kiss on her forehead and walked back out to the Jason boy. He was where we left him.
"She's sick so she can't leave the house that much, so I need your help," I said, doing what Sarah told me to do. Trust him.