| However, I had to wait until the sunset to exit from a metro. I went to my apartment, which was still empty. Now I just need to wait. 8pm. 9pm… Dad knocks at the door. “Yes, Dad, you left your keys” Déjà vu?
He was very tired; he even did not look at me, just sat down in a chair and closed his eyes. “It was difficult day; we need more financing for our training programs, and to buy new equipment… 2 days of a blah-blah-blah stuff. But I have gift for you, Sandra. A video made on one mission. With a vampires, as you wanted. “
- Dad…
- Take this DVD
- Dad…
- The file is called miss04.avi
- Dad… to look at a vampire, I just need to look in the mirror.
It takes for him almost five seconds to understand. He opens his eyes... One brief look at my pale skin and he understands, that it is not a joke. He stands up. I look at him.
- Oh no, not again – he whispers.
- Dad, I still love you.
- Yes… my poor girl…. Come here… I will help you…
Voice in my head: - Have you noticed it?
- may be a full blood transfusion…
It’s a lie. And he is looking at the phosphoric gun. He is going to kill me.
Voice: - He has just said something really important
No, Dad. I will not allow it. But I will hug you.
Voice: - He said “Again”
Dad hugs me and suddenly tries to reach the phosphoric gun. He is too slow. And I was prepared. I hit him, I don’t want to harm him, but looks like I am very strong now, and he loses consciousness for a few seconds.
When he regains consciousness, I have a gun in my hands.
- What are you waiting, monster? You won. Kill me.
- No, Dad. I am still your daughter.
- My daughter is dead. You’re just a soulless body, controlled by a demon.
- Then how could I say I love you?
- Don’t try to confuse me, monster. Just kill me.
- No, Dad.
- I am not you Dad, demon. Kill me
- So you want me to kill you? Oh, I see, there is a thing you are afraid more, then death.
All peaces of the puzzle came together in my head.
- “Again”, Daddy. Why did you say “again”? You always told me that vampires had killed my mother. But now I understand, it was a lie. Have you killed my mother with the very same gun?
- No! his eyes widened. – She... she was not your mother. I killed a monster. An undead zombie.
- Zombie? Like me? So, you think, I can not control myself? Surprise, surprise! I will never kill you. Because it is still me, your daughter Sandra.
- No, kill me, just kill me.
- I see. All your life, after you killed my mother, you tried to believe that she was just a monster. I remember you repeated this bull**** about “soulless body” so many times that may be you have even believed in it too. But still you have some doubts, right, Dad? What if she was not a zombie, but a being which was able to feel, think, and still loved you? She loved you even when you pointed this gun on her. What do you think she thought when you killed her?
- Stop it!
- And then, vampires you killed as a part of your “job”. If they were not zombies, then you are a serial killer. It is painful for me to announce it, but it is true, Dad.
- Shut up, monster …
I approach him and kiss him, and I see tears in his eyes.
“I love you, Dad. Farewell”
I turn around and go downstairs. When I am on the ground floor, I hear a loud gunshot. I don’t need to go upstairs: I know exactly what has just happened: My father is dead on the floor. Blood from a wound in his chest covers everything around the body. A wound of that size can be made only by a phosphoric gun. His eyes are wide open with an expression of despair frozen in them. His wallet is also covered with his blood, and only a picture of my mother, which he always kept in it, is still visible.
And Benoit… did he know everything from the very beginning? Yes, he is waiting me here. “Bonne nuit, childe”. My new life begins. My Dad was a real monster. We will exterminate them all, these vampire hunters.  |