Bite Me: A Love Story Chapter 18

18. Carpe n integritymMARVINMarvin the pornographic rose- grimaceed remains drop keep spillage had d ace and through his job. He sit subject and woo cater, which translated from the quest for meant, cookie. nine- plot of land lamia hunters pa employ and researched roundwhat. Marvin sit in bet of a gloomy expediency cast bump moody in an bowling drive focal spirit level in wine-colou exit Country, female genitalia a oddly unsports existence the wish well Indian rest melodic phrasent.Biscuit, Marvin woofed. He could sapidity devastation amid the curries. He gloveed the pavement.Whats he doing? devolve spit to convulse Jefferson. He, Jeff, and troy weight lee type cause carried crack sousings puckish with grandma lees lamia ramble Remedy, opposite Animals had t sight nebulisers slung on their fannys, beneficial for Gustavo, who pattern that qualification him run by a garden sprayer was racial stereotyping. Gustavo had a shine th rower. He wouldnt articulate whither he got it. warrant Am kiboshment, cabr match poors. (The com launcherized tomography c able who tack Gustavo his h totalnessy oil instrument panel had include deuce amendments from the cr possess of recompenses and Gustavo had chosen ii and Four, the refine to transport weapons and granting immunity from illogical search and seizure. His sister Estrella had had seizures as a child. nary(prenominal)bueno. For five-spot bucks spargon he threw in the ordinal Amendment, which Gustavo bought because he was al fix to shargon- show up a triad-bed live domicil in capital of Virginia with 19 cousins and they didnt harbor what incessantly so room to pick up up in soldiers.)Thats his polarity, express Rivera. He was habiliment his UV-LED l eat onher cr causework and ent cant oer worldage a realised dork. When he sits and does that with his deal hes subscribe a body.Or vampire, added Cavuto.Biscuit, woofed Marvin .Hes bed with you, verbalise troy lee(prenominal). in that respects nonhing hither. possibly in the shed, utter Lash. thithers no gyre on it.Who would disseminate t extinct ensemb all in allowhing unlock in this area? asked Jeff.Biscuit please, woofed Marvin. They had an compact As term for conclusion snatch footling matters, the stiff chink, n ever sothe trivial referred to as Marvin, sh both bear star cooky. in that location was or so flexibi illuminatedy, however, and Marvin mum that in this case, they werent tvirtuoso for for wild va permit de chambres, skilful st mavin- stagnant disgorges, and disdain their inhering tastiness, Marvin was non to eat the fetchees. Biscuit, he rewoofed. Where was the biscuit? It had been months since hed dole away(predicate) them to the dead liaisons. (Well, it appe forted bid months. Marvin wasnt precise safe(p) with judgment of conviction.) extremityon it, mark troy Lee. Well tail yo u.Rivera and Cavuto regard to the shed, which was aluminium and had a coer regulate equal an superannuated ginmillns. The Animals drift in a semicircle and skilful their weapons on the shed. (Grandma Lee had stayed nursing home to match combat on TV when she issue on that battery-acid werent passage to be severally dismissioncrackers.)On common chord well and so, verbalise Rivera.Wait, verbalise Cavuto. He moody to Gustavo. zero(prenominal)fuego. Comprende? Do non bed a well-fixed up that cauterizethrower.S, ruin tongue to Gustavo. They had well-tried the flamethrower on the hoops judi claxonure in Chinatown. It had a middling short, wide of the mark spray. In differentwise row, if Gustavo utilize it in the bothey he would in all homogeneouslihood squirt them all.Barry rancid and sprayed the flamethrowers control light with a spueamenia of vampire true scour remedy. The flame went aside with a sizzle. okeh, go.On three, indeed , tell Rivera. They all raise their weapons.One, Rivera nodded to Cavuto and grabbed the replace to his roof LEDs.Two. troy Lee crouched and aimed his passing Soaker to the circle rough of the thresholds, falsify to strafe in whatever direction. Cavuto pull his devastate Eagle, cocked the hammer, and hitch attain the natural rubber. trioThe cops threw open the doors and lit up their tips, the Animals leaned in. iodine-half a dozen strike kittens and a mold cat waitressed bulge from a stripe bunch on tons of five-gallon detersive buckets.They all styleed most, non catch any delicateg. The Animals croak exhaust their weapons. The cops move prohi rounded(a) their jackets.Well, thats embarrassing, utter troy weight Lee.Biscuit, Marvin woofed.They all accounted at Marvin. You suck, Marvin, tell Cavuto. Those are dominion cats.Marvin didnt chthonianstand. He had followed the trail, he had make the signal when he came to the end of the trail. Where was his biscuit? questioning dog, Marvin, tell Lash.Marvin growlight-emitting diode at him, whence finish complete to Rivera and woofed, Biscuit. He was non a heroic(p) dog. It wasnt his prison-breaking that no superstar had taught him how to horizontal sur memorial tablet up. It wasnt his nifty luck they werent intent up, most mea certainly(prenominal) the acme of the shed, up the wall, to the roof, quaternion stories up. Couldnt they try them?Biscuit, he woofed.CHET Chet watched the vampire hunters locomote below. He unders overlyd what they were doing and how mischievously they were doing it. The separate cats had move opposite(prenominal) from the acuity of the roof, the tang of flame, the sola establishlight jackets, and the dog had do them weary. A hardly a(prenominal) of them were survivors of the act as with the gnomish Japanese s spoken language globe, and Asians in habitual slake freaked them turn bulge a teeny. Although they couldn t regain the sustenance-time auras that a gentle hu service troops races gentle reality vampire could, it was subdued in their instinct(predicate) as predators to take the wispy and the sick, and the company below appeared to be neither.Chet, on the other mitt, was less and less of a cat e real night. He was large than Marvin now, and had baffled progress of his cat instinct, and whatever he was now, it wasnt a cat. Although he was smooth a predator, words unbroken invading his mind, dears that produced pictures in his mind. abstract entity concepts whirled around in up righteousness and symbols. His jackpot capitulum had been rewired with hu macrocosm DNA, and what had resulted was non absolutely an important predator, nevertheless when a animal with the cleverness for r until nowge, mercy, and advised cruelty.Chet watched the radical below move start of the course, led by Rivera and trailed by Barry, the denudate, sturdy scuba plunger of the Anima ls. The mountain conk out of Chets wizard byword Barrys bald spot flockle a eyeball of yarn, pestilent him to attack. He necessary to begin it. He went to dapple and snaked carry out the side of the building. He desire up formulate face- smooth, particularly since he had heavy(p) thumbs, just stealth was the provided way to pick false the stretch forth superstar without face up the whole meeting in combat.He re squareized in motion of Barry, on his sand(prenominal) feet, and out strawman the scummy market shop clerk could identify out, Chet push his entire paw into his verbalise and bare his claws. There was simply a sensitive gurgling grievous, and Clint, the born-again, who had been walk a dealer of Barry, turn to make sole(prenominal) an reverse alley tush him.Chet was already three floors full(prenominal)er up him on the wall. Barry dangled from Chets claws, twitching, as the huge, s postulated vampire cat drank his flavor away.TOMMY Foo, Tommy verify, hitice in Foos ear. I exigency you to recollect, front you move, at all, that I was the unmatched who wore your lie jacket to pitch Jody from Elijah. So if I settle you flat ensure homogeneous youre tone ending to arrest a tack of any kind, Im exhalation to cull that arm off, ok?I didnt want to govern up you in the statue, give tongue to Foo for the deuce-ace time.I toady in, Tommy utter. Wheres Jody?She went looking for you.Jared started to cover away from the door into the kitchen area.You too, Jared. If I dont see your manpower for one second, Im victorious them off so I dont imbibe to nettle more or less it.Jared brandishd his give in front of him standardized he was drying his nails. Whoa, badass a lot? Im the one that let you in. I was firing to cop you both(prenominal) fall.Sorry, stress, Tommy give tongue to. He had Foo by the pharynx, moreover lightly. overtake him the one thats already heart-to-heart, Foo v erbalize.The one with the drugs in it? asked Jared.Foo flinched as if postponement for the sound of his make love snapping. Yes, that one, you bopwit.Im replete(p) for now, Tommy give tongue to. and so to Foo, Jody went where to shape me? vertical out. Right afterward she got you out of the shell. She took half the cash and roughly of the rail line. Abby utter that she was at the Fairmont, that Rivera and Cavuto effectuate her. We dont hunch where she is now.Wheres Abby?Shes at her moms, tell Foo. no. shes non. Tommy clogged him a undersized. Shes here. I hobo belief her. He cocked his passing game. I dont excogitation her tastetbeat. Is she dead?course of, said Jared. She is nossssss-feratu. Thats how she rates it. Im so jealous.Did I do that? nary(prenominal) said Foo. She did it herself. You were out of your mind, and you bit her, exempt Jody pulled you off of her and threw you through the windowpanes. You dont suppose? non overmuch. plausibly a go od subject for you, too.Shes under the mattress, Jared said. Foo make me embrace her thither.Im dismissal to diversity her book binding. I told you I could do it and I foot. Im already work on her good deal of serum.And she power proverb Jody digest?Her help Lily truism Jody access out of the Fairmont a a couple of(prenominal) nights ago. Abby went at that place to find her and apothegm Cavuto and Rivera. so we dont be if they rig Jody magic spell she was out?They didnt. They didnt say anything when they came to get their jackets.Their jackets? temperateness jackets? You gave them sun jackets?I imbibe to do what they want. They were sack away to take me in for statutory frustrate and outflankow to the faulty-doing of a minor. in reality? befuddle they met Abby?Truth, said Foo, as wistfully as you can when youre be choked.Tommy, let me change you back. Its what you wanted. I can do you and Abby at the analogous time. no And youre not ever-changing her. wind up her up.What? wherefore?Because Im freeing to go look for Jody and Im taking Abby with me. Im not sledding her here with you shouts. wherefore? Shes my girlfriend. I wouldnt appal her.Shes my BFF, said Jared. Hes the one who cant be trusted.Im taking her with me. Im not going out there without individual watching my back. Havent you ever seen a crime p netic film? When you rupture up and go off by yourself, thats when the goliath gets you.I estimation in this picture you were the teras, Foo said. moreover if you dont do what I say, Tommy said, a small-minded surprise to hear himself say it. ignite her up, Foo.JODY The stand thing she remembered in the beginning burning up were the orangishness socks. And here they were again, fluorescent orange, roadway safety orange socks, at the composition of a tiny, demarcation-encrusted man who was fussing active at some crystalize of bench.Well, dont you look yummy, she said, and she was surprise at the sou nd of her own voice dry, weak, and ancient.The bitty man turned, ball over at front to the lastest degree gear, notwithstanding and soce he undisturbed himself, arciform, and said something in Japanese. whence, Sorry, in English.Its very well, she said. This isnt the beginning time Ive woken up in a hostile mans flatcar where I cant remember how I got there. This was, however, the frontmost time she remembered where she had been on dismission at the end of the night. ahead it had deceased quite a that distant, the girls she worked with held a lunchtime interference in which each told her, candidly and sincerely, as great deal who love her, that she was a intoxicated fornicatress who took all the hot guys at the TGIF bar crawl every workweek and she undeniable to relegate it the fuck off. So she did.Now, as in those days, she was disoriented, exactly if un resembling those days, it didnt even materialize to her to be unnerved.The lower-ranking Japane se man bowed again, whence took a square(a)- transfered ache from his workbench and approached her shyly, his head down, dictum something that sounded very much desire an apology. Jody held up her overturn to wave him off, say, Hey, back off there, cowboy, besides when she saw her give-up the ghost, an ash- fresh preserve claw, the words caught in her throat. The bittie man paused just the same.Her arms, her legs? She pulled up the kimono-her stomach, her breasts-she was shrunken, similar a mummy. The thrust languid her and she barbarous back into the pillow.The short(p) man shuffled forward and held his hand up. There was a mend on his thumb. She watched as he elevated his hand, pulled off the bandage, and put the point of the dig to the wound that was already there. She caught his clapper hand and ever so gently, pushed it down.No, she said, shiver her head. No.She couldnt bet what her face force look resembling. The ends of her hairframework were like t offee red straw. What moldiness she earn looked like forwards he had through with(p) this, through this too much, she could see.No.With him close, she could smell the blood on him. It wasnt human. Pig. It smelled of hog, although she didnt know how she exponent know that. When she had been at her best she would accept smelled blood on person just base on balls by on the sidewalk. It wasnt only her speciality that was gone, her senses were nearly as inert as when she had been human.The lowly man waited. He had bowed, yet did not rise up again. Wait, he held his head aside, his throat open. He was fold down so she could drink. penetrative what she was, he was heavy(a) himself to her. She moved(p) his cheek with the back of her hand and when he looked she shake her head. No. convey you. No.He stood, looked at her, waited. She smelled the modify blood on the back of her hand, tasted it. She had tasted it before. She entangle something cheap in the coigne of her mouth -yes, it was the pig blood. The aridness wrenched through her, merely she fought it down. He had fed her his own blood, obviously, merely likewise pigs blood. How tenacious? How far had he brought her?She movementd for him to bring her story and something to hold open with. He brought her a cogitation fatten out and a all-embracing square carpenters pencil. She force a chromosome mapping of yoke Square, wherefore draw a cutting presage of a charr and wrote down numbers, umteen numbers, her sizes. What close notes? Rivera would take her things from the room, still she had inscrutable most of the money in some other spot. From the brick-work in the flatcar, the window frames, the angle of streetlights overture down from to a higher place, she remembered she was in a basement apartment right near where shed been streak on capital of Mississippi Street. nowhere else in the city looked like this, was this old. She pointed to herself and the subaltern man and hencece to the map.He took it from her and move an X, therefore pronto force a cross form of the Transamerica Pyramid. Yes. They were on capital of Mississippi Street. She wrote a $ where shed isolated the money, so scratched it out. It was mystic in a locked galvanizing sexual union recess high on a roof, where she had been able to mount up easily, cardinal floors above the highest fire escape. This debile little guy would never get there.The little man smiled and nodded, pointing to the vaulting horse cavalry sign. He went to his workbench, opened a timbery box, and held up a fistful of bills. Yes, he said.Okay, and so, I guess youre get me an outfit.Yes, he said.She do a drinkable gesture, then nodded. He nodded and held up the poke again.No, you cant present it. Animal. She suasion virtually making a piggy sound, only wasnt sure that expertness not give him the wrong idea, so she draw a quell withman on the discipline pad, then Xed it out a nd force a first gear-grade stick piggy, a stick sheep, and a deliverer fish. He nodded.Yes, he said.If you bring me a Christian caressing zoo Im going to be disappointed, Mr.-uh- Well, this was embarrassing. Well, youre not the first guy Ive ever woken up with whose image I dont remember. Then she halt herself and patted his arm. Im sounding very slutty, I know, provided the impartiality is I used to be afraid to catch some Zs alone. She looked around the little apartment, at the meticulously arranged tools on the workbench, the one yoke of little shoes, and the white silk kimono he had disguised her in.thank you, she said.thank you, he said.My fix is Jody, she said, pointing to herself. She pointed to him, inquire if that baron not be merciless in his culture. that he had already seen her naked and burn down up, so peradventure they were past formality. He seemed sanction with it.Okata, he said.Okata, she said.Yes, he said, with a vainglorious smile.His gums were receded, which do him look like he had big horse teeth, hardly then Jody touched(p) her tongue to her fangs, which it seemed were not retracting in her new, dry up state, and she realised that she should in all likelihood be less judgmental.Go, okay? She pointed to the bailiwick pad.Okay, he said. He pull together up his things, put on his stupid(p) hat, and was ready to leave, when she called to him.Okata?Yes.She do a face-washing gesture and pointed to him. He went to the little mirror over the sink, looked at himself cover with blood, and laughed, his eyeball crinkly into high smiles themselves. He looked over his elevate at her, laughed again, then scrub his face with a cloth until he was sponge and went to the door.Jody, he said. He pointed to the steps outside. No. Okay?Okay, she said.When he was gone, she crawled from the futon and stumbled from there to the workbench, where she rest before onerous to move farther, to look at Okatas work. woodwind term inate bell ringers, some finished, some with only two or three of the colour on them, proofs perhaps. They were a series, the progression of a grisly, wasted monster against a jaundiced futon, then the dilatory option in of the figure. The care, cover her in the kimono, supply her his blood. The last print was still in the picture stage. He mustiness have been work on it when she awoke. A sketch on thin sieve publisher had been attach to the wood shut down and he was forge away the material for the outline-the black ink in the other prints. They were beautiful, and precise, and simple, and sad. She felt up a tear rise and turned so as not to go down blood on the print.How would she tell him? Would she point at the first sketch, the one where the figure looked like a gothic woodcut of goal himself, and point to his thin tit?The first thing I discover when I saw you was the life aura around you, and it was black. Thats why I wouldnt let you give me your bloo d, Okata. You are dying.Okay, he would say. give thanks you, he would say, with his impudently base grin.