Spotting the split-level house led in a few trees and back from the main road, Sylvie let Casey’s hand go and shapeged into her Bluejay form, and fpped her wings enough to lift off ao Casey’s shoulder. Rubbiiny blue feathered head on Casey’s neck, Sylvie chirped ond took off for the rooftop.
“I guess that is my signal. Good luck babe.” Casey crouched and crawled as close as she could to the front door and focused for a sed, turning herself into a small bck widow spider. She noticed that Haley’s home had a huge bay window that had a thick set of blinds to keep the sun out at certain points of the day. Right of the window taihe two floors where Casey assumed the bedrooms to be based on the smaller evenly pced eight-pane windows. Crawling to and uhe heavy steel door, she hat the house was dark and like no one was home. Skittering along the wall and up to the ceiling she turned and looked around the main room.
-I guess Haley is a little paranoid. Emergency shelters all over the room, like one of us is going to invade her mind.-
Casey thought to herself as she worked her way around the circumference of the room.
-Isn’t the aluminum supposed to be on the person's head to work?-
Casey asked herself and dropped the issue since she didn’t know the details of that amount of paranoia. Casey let herself fall to the floor and started slowly prowling for the woman of the house.
-Where are you hiding, Haley Grant? Make this easy…-
Casey wished to herself and made her way to the soft sofa and climbed up.
Cirg the gray shingled roof for evidence of cameras, Sylvie was interrupted in her scouting by Code. “All cameras on a timed loop, rec nothing. Cable data stream stopped. Wireless stopped at the sourd all devices set to airpne mode. Only remaining source Satellite…sat…satellite..” Code stopped speaking and its green circle went e, yet the blue ses pulsed quietly in Sylvie’s vision.
-Perfect.-
Sylvie thought and quickly ged into her normal form and found the uplink cable for the dish, and severed it with one swipe of her bsp; She walked to the dish and yahe arm free that allowed transmission, causing a small spark as it died. “That’s finished, Code. I am headed to the back door.”
Sylvie no sooner dropped the part of the dish, when she heard Casey screaming as though she was in severe pain and suffering. “NOOooo….Casey!” Sylvie screamed, fetting any idea of stealth and broke through the backdoor and experienced firsthand what Casey had been screaming about. Sylvie found herself standing in a living room with emergency foil bs lining all four walls. Pced strategically throughout the room were heavy ser poihat tract builders used, all aimed at a tral bottle in the middle of the room causing whatever was in it to radiate green. plementing the room, high capability ultraviolet lights that were typically used for reptiles, had been turned on and adjusted in a way that took full advantage of the reflective wall surface.
Haley Grant stood in the ter of the room and cpped with joy when Sylvie dropped to her knees on the plush tan carpet. “I think this deserves a lovely song to pliment this moment.” She spun on her heels to see Casey with little wisps of smoke ing from her body. “That’s right, use that blood to fight it…” She clicked a little remote trol and the music Haley referred to began. “I think Katrina and the Waves fits the theme well. Their song "Walking on Sunshine.”
“…And I just 't wait till the day when you knoy door,Now everytime I go for the mailbox, gotta hold myself down,'Cause I just 't wait till you write me you're ing around,I'm walking on sunshine, wooahI'm walking on sunshine, woooahI'm walking on sunshine, woooahAnd don't it feel good!Hey, alright now,And dont it feel good!Hey yeah!...”
Haley did spins and little jumps in the middle of the floor, bopping her head enough that her long brown hair bounced across her face, obsg her equally brown eyes. “Yes, indeed..my two blood-sug friends, don’t it feel good?” She stopped the musid walked over to Sylvie and started dragging her so that she was beside Casey. “I told Amos not to e, so he sent a couple of his besties. Or is that beasties?” Haley ughed and squatted down beside the two helpless vampires. “I took a bit of a risk, I didn’t know if this would work.” She pointed around the room, starting with the bs. “Those are for refle only. That way I could cover the entire living room. A simple i sear the position of sunlight gave me two of its biggest factors. Ultraviolet light and gamma radiation.” She giggled and looked at her watch. “I don’t have long enough to stand here, so I will make this a little shorter.” Haley tied her long hair into a ponytail and poio the UV lighting, “That is high-iy lights used for aquariums. Very easy to get. Then scattered in the room in every ical dire are levelihat are all aimed at the Potassium-40.” She ughed and pushed Casey over onto her bad poked the young vampire to get her to open her eyes. “It needed a heat source, you see? Oddly, Potassium is an isotope that is sold freely on the open market.” She k and pressed a kiss into Casey’s lips, “Think about it…artificial sunlight.” Haley stood up and took a deep breath, “The best part is it dropped you two like a stone.” Haley started whistling a outside the b barrier and deeper into her home.
Casey fumbled around and finally found Sylvie’s hand. “S-Sylvie…Sorry, I-I…” Tears of blood flowed down her cheeks, “...I didn’t have time to say anything…this pain…” She pulled Sylvie’s hand to her lips and kissed it. “Know that I love you, please..” Casey sighed and closed her eyes.
-Rivers, you are one day out of being human and are ying on this fliving up.-
More of Casey’s memories flooded her vision and saw the few times that Sylvie pulled her from certaih.
-She assisted in killing Brian, she caught you as you were about to fall down into the ter of the Earth, and most retly killed tires in a cemetery, after riding y miles to rescue you.-
Casey squeezed Sylvie’s hand without response. “Fuck.” Casey muttered and had the st fsh of memory, where Casey covered Sylvie with a bo stop holy water from destroying her. “Thank you! Rivers, you have a pn.” From the moment she was reborn, the sun had been Casey’s friend. Always warm and inviting, her eyes shone like twin suns and she had no darkness withio tempt her from a path of her choosing. “Blood is everything.” She summoned most of her blood a her body cool down and her limbs began w fwlessly. “Sweetheart, I covered you before, I am going to do it again.” Casey summoned all the strength and speed she could and unched herself to the first wall she could see and on her way to rip down the emergenket, destroyed one ser and two UV lights. bundling the kly b in her arms, she rushed bad tossed it over her partner and creator. “e on babe, if it reflects it should shield you like that.” Casey dashed across the room and ripped into the horrific devices to weakerap they’d walked into.
