Part of a Dream

Alright, time for some more of my writing. I do ask, please, that people leave comments on this work. This is an original of my own and the concept came out of a dream which I had about a year ago. After much prompting from my sister I started writing it, finding the process a lot more enjoyable than I had first expected it to be. Originally my sister and I were in the places of the main characters, only one of which of shown in the following extract.

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We rounded a corner and he slammed on the brakes. There was a car in the middle of the road.

“Stay in the car.” He said and reached across me into the glove box. He pulled out a gun and tucked it into the back of his pants. I undid my seat belt but did as he asked. He got out of the car and about thirty people walked around from the far side of the other car.

“Shit.” I said and a helicopter flew overhead. Barney looked up at it and shook his head. It disappeared into the clouds. Suddenly there was a huge crash from the door behind me and the car shook. I whirled around to see a man trying to open the door. I panicked. All I had was a pocketknife.

I scrambled out of the drivers side and ran in the opposite direction of all the people. I realised moments too late that I would have been safer in the car than out here. It only took me half a second too long to realise that most of these people were vampires. If help didn’t come Barney and I were history.

The man who'd tried to get into the car appeared in front of me when I was about two hundred meters from the car. He grabbed my shirt and lifted me up.

“Not even your friends from the Vatican can help you now.” He said. I screamed and my crucifix spilled out of my shirt. It flared to life. There was myth about crosses glowing around vampires but this was the first that I had seen it. He dropped me and scrambled back.

Somewhere to the left I heard a helicopter land. I got up and kept running, pulling out my pocketknife from my pocket. I flipped it open, ready to use it if I had to. Another man that I didn’t know stopped in front of me.  He grabbed me around the waist then threw me to the ground too fast for me to react.

He kicked the knife out of my hand then pinned me.

“You pissed them off, so now they’re giving you to me. All young and fresh” He said and Castiel threw him away from me. I got up. The man looked over at Castiel and got into a defensive crouch.

“Get to the helicopter.” Castiel ordered and I nodded. I could just see the outline of it in one of the paddocks only about fifty meters away.

I ran and clambered over the fence that stood between safety and me. Lee came sprinting into view. He saw me and relaxed a bit.

“Come on!” He screamed and helped me climb into the back of the helicopter. He strapped me in and scrambled into the front. Slowly we lifted off and flew towards the action. He turned a floodlight on and everyone froze except those who were expecting it.

Everyone who was on our side managed to break away from the fight and Lee flew the Helicopter low enough for them all to jump in. We took off before anyone was even buckled in. Zebra put a set of headphones over my ears that had a little microphone thing on them that sat by my mouth. Castiel walked into the front and talked to Lee for a moment.

Zebra strapped himself in across from me and Barney sat on my left. Everyone put the little headset like things on and Castiel sat down to my right.

“Why did you get out of the car?” He asked but I couldn’t tell if he was annoyed or happy.

“They were trying to get in. I panicked.” I said and he nodded.

“What I don’t get is why they’re after her.” Lee said over the headset.

“She’s too good at identifying what they are, and too innocent for her own good.” Castiel said and he sounded annoyed now.

“Hello! I can hear you.” I said and Castiel looked at me a bit disapprovingly. I refused to cower under his gaze. This wasn’t my fault.

“Why don’t you try cutting her a little slack boss? She’s handling this better than any of us would have before our training.” Barney said and I smiled a bit over at him. He nodded his head in recognition.

“The sooner she’s trained the better; she’s a danger to us all until then.” Zebra said quietly and I looked at him. He looked back at me a bit hostile. I looked down at the floor. I didn’t understand why he was looking at me like that.

“What did that thing say to you before I came alone?” Castiel asked and I looked at him. His face was blank, void of any emotion.

“That I pissed them off so they gave me to him.” I said and he watched me carefully.

“Is that all?” He asked, his voice and expression were back to being blank. I thought about it for a moment. It was all that was relevant, right?

“Pretty much” I said and swallowed. Castiel shook his head. I looked back at the floor.

“Why did they send so many?” Lee asked quietly.

“Cause they didn’t want her slipping through their hands again.” Zebra said coarsely.


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