Now I never thought that Eliza had actually been murdered, but I was shocked nonetheless with the twists in the story. I was having more and more fun each passing moment, like living in an episode of 24.
"I thought you were dead." I said into the phone.
Eliza laughed on the other end. "I was. At least for a little while but I'm back."
"I can see that." I said.
"You don't sound too surprised." Eliza said.
"Yeah well I don't surprise easy." I said.
"Maybe I should fix that." She said. There was a scream on the other end of the phone. A very real sounding scream. "Your girlfriend sure is pretty, but she's little skinny. What do you even see in her?"
I froze. "What have you done to her?"
Eliza sighed. "Nothing yet, tell you what, get over here in ten minutes and I won't kill your little girlfriend."
Sarah screamed again in the background. I dropped the receiver and darted out the door. This story was really getting me pumped. I was even feeling and acting like a real action hero. Cool.
I ran my ass as fast as I could to Sarah's house and I staggered through the front door gasping for breath. Eliza stood against the fireplace holding Sarah's head firmly in her hands. Sarah had tears and makeup running down her cheeks and she was shaking like she was really scared.
I took a deep breath and stood up straight.
"Welcome lover." Eliza said, her voice had changed a bit, it had an edge of power to it and I felt the hair on the back of my neck rise.
"Alright Eliza, I'm here now let her go." I said, motioning to Sarah.
Eliza grinned and I noticed her new set of teeth. Instantly I realized why almost the entire main cast of Buffy was in this thing with me.
Vampires.
"I don't want to let her go. It took you so long to get here I'm hungry now." She said.
I stepped forward, trying to be the hero and all that. "Don't you do it."
Eliza tightened her grip on Sarah's head and tilted her to expose her neck. "And why the hell not?" She asked. "I always hated her. She was little Miss perfect and I was nothing. Everyone looked down on me because I wasn't the same as Sarah. Payback is a bitch isn't it?" She snarled a little and buried her face in Sarah's neck.
Sarah screamed and tried to pull away but Eliza held her firm. I ran up to help her but Eliza's hand came up out of nowhere and hit my chest. The force knocked me across the room and I hit the far wall just barely missing the window. Pain ripped through my body, it felt like my ribs had shattered. I rolled over and coughed.
How the hell did she do that? This wasn't real, yet she was able to flatten me like a piece of gum.
I rolled over and glared at her as I tried to get my ability to breathe back. Eliza lifted her face from Sarah's neck. Her mouth covered in blood. She smiled and shoved Sarah on top of me. I caught Sarah as she toppled on me. I looked at her neck, and I felt fear and panic ripped through my body. She was really bleeding!
"Oh god, Sarah!" I cried. I tried to hold my hand over the wound on her neck with my hand but the blood was too much. It seeped through my fingers as Sarah looked at me with pleading eyes. Her body was shaking from the blood loss and she began to go into shock. The blood dripped onto my shirt and coated my hands and arms. Sarah let out a violent shudder and then went still.
I rolled her onto the floor. "Sarah? Fuck, no! Sarah come on wake up." My hands were shaking and I fought my panic to think through and decide what to do.
"Sarah!" I cried. She was gone.
"Sarah." Eliza mocked,
This wasn't real, this couldn't be real. No one ever died for real on a TV show. But I couldn't get a pulse from Sarah's body anywhere. She was as dead as I could figure. Maybe they had switched her at the last minute with a real-looking dummy. That had to be it.
I turned slowly, disbelief and anger roaring through me. I had never tried to hurt a girl before but Eliza was seriously asking for it.
She just looked at me with a grin, her face still coated in Sarah's blood. "Oh you look upset. Come on I did you a favor."
I stomped slowly toward her, my fist clenched tight. I said nothing but I gave her a look of hatred and fire.
When I was close enough I took a swing at her. I put my entire body behind it, a full swing my fist as tight as I could make it.
She caught it. Eliza simply plucked my fist from mid-air. She tightened her grip on my fist and I cried out as I felt the bones in my hand shift. Her strength was unreal, how were they getting these special effects?
"You're lucky that I am still tingly from the fuck last night or I'd crush you here. But I'm feeling nice and cozy, so you get to live. I'll be back for you later, maybe I'll turn you and make you into my little love slave." She said. Then she threw me threw the window.
I vaguely remember hitting the pavement across the street, then my world when black.
I came back to consciousness slowly. My vision was a blur, a soft light seemed extremely bright from a little table on the far side of the room. I felt a cool damp towel on my forehead, and that realization brought me fully into alertness.
I started to sit up, but a hand reached out and held me down. "Don't sit up, you need to rest."
I looked over slowly and found my neck stiff and painful. I winced and the person moved over me. I closed my eyes and tried to focus on the person over me.
Britney Spears smiled softly down at me. "Good Morning sleepy." She said.
I frowned. "Britney? Wha...what are you doing here?" I tried to sit up again.
"No don't move." Britney pressed me down. "You need a few minutes for the medication to clear."
