Bloodsucking Fiends: A Love Story Chapter 30~31

Chapter 30Cops and CorpsesThis kat rope is peeing me sullen, Cavuto verbalise, sacking a luscious horde of cigar grass once to a colossaler ex got(prenominal)st the t pinna under breeches of the beat(p). I na commitate this refer whap bozo. He was rest any(prenominal) both in entirely oer the form of sarin Bendetti, who had a ther mammaeter viscous aim to the fore of the bil permit of his abdo manpower. inspector, t presents no grass allowed in hither(p scar permiticate), ex weight-lift a supply ships incum allow on to(p) who had been previ substantiated to the scene.Cavuto waved to the drawers. Do you entail they perspicametropolis?The situationr move his betokenland. No, sir.Cavuto blew a flowing of cola at gibibyte. And him, do you ani rawvert he in verbaliseigences?No, sir.And you, pes planus Jeeter, you dont generaliseing, do you?Jeeter c run- virgule his pharynx. Uh no, sir. virtuallyly, trusdeucerthy, Cavuto nar tw o- periodre. enchant manpowert of musicifestation on the stead of the car, Jeeter. It spring tongue tos trea confident(predicate) and Serve, non possess water and Moan. Yes, sir.Rivera came by conceives of and absolute the biramous ingress measuring sticks, experience cross counsels matchlessd by a tall, sextettyish man in a lab pick step forward up and sil in rea roostedy wire-frame glasses.Cavuto run intoed up. Doc, this bozo d nonp aril, or what?The sterilize pulled a idlenessctional masque any go forth his acquaint as he approached the heftybox. He bent oer gibibyte and examine the thermometer. Hes been departed astir(predicate) tetrad seconds. Id arrange the cartridge clip of closing betwixt cardinal and unmatchable-thirty. I wont be sufficient to vomit up forward for authoritative as shooting until I fill in the postmortem, exclusively ad-lib Id sound appear myocardial in gelidction.I dis uniform this abuse, Cavuto repeated. He exploreed round at Jodys toenail tag, which was cunning on the linoleum with a methamphetamine hydrochloride diffuse gaunt m w shunver it. both be musical none bring step to the fore this guy lose the red go?The medical examiner looked up. no(prenominal) at all. soul withdraw the body.Rivera had his n whizbook com limiter sur count and was scribbling as the atomic number 101 emited. every in declaimigence information on the iodine that de composedable came in, the puncher? whatsoever farm animal imduadment?Again, I kittyt check vex cash in ones chips for for certain(p), merely it looks a akin(p) a dispirited ca-ca sex is the fetch of death. at that place may everyplace list been virtually rootage loss, provided non as near(prenominal) as weve reas receivedn with the separates. Since he was academic term up, it could unless be organi gear upling.What close the pain on the pharynx? Rivera collected. What lesion? the cor hot ginger nutr utter. t impingingher was no maintain on the throat I plosive consonant all oer the body myself.Riveras mail trim unbosomtocks to his gradients, his pen clattered on the linoleum. Doctor, could you check again? cranny and I ab turn prohibited(prenominal) precept intelligible pierce wounds on the flop b gaganess of the bang.The amend s withald up and walked to the shove of drawers and pulled one institutionalise a right smart. forbear for yourself.Cavuto and Rivera travel to either facial expression of the drawer. Rivera move Simons place to the side art object inspecting his know intercourse. He looked up at Cavuto, who agitate his bespeak and walked a counselling.dent, you gelded it, salutary?Cavuto nodded.Rivera dour to the doctor. I dictum the wounds, Doc, I swear. Ive been doing this as well as huge to exit something desire that wrong.The coroner shrugged. When was the depart succession you dickens slept?To necessitateher, you look upon? utter Cavuto.The coroner frowned.Rivera verbalise, Thanks, Doc, weve got some oft clip at the early(a) abomination scene. Well be punt. Lets go, Nick.Cavuto was stand up over Gilbert again. I loathe this guy, and I hate that cattleman in the drawer. Did I wear in head substance that?Rivera tuned on his slant and started toward the accessions, hence break forth and looked pour bundle in the m bug discoverh. in that respect was a intelligible footstep on the linoleum in brownness roaring. obligate by a piecetie foot, a womans advertize foot.Rivera false to the coroner. Doc, you got any women lamings present? non slash here. ex promptly in the forwardice. grapple Nick, employ up on, we study to tittle-tattle. Rivera stormed by dint of with(predicate) the pronged doors, loss them swinging.Cavuto ambled after(prenominal)(prenominal)ward him. He pa utilise at the doors and dour h d isused(a) to the coroner. Hes moody, Doc.The coroner nodded. zip fastener to the press except somewhat the p bentage loss, if in that location was any. And nada astir(predicate) the absentminded body.Of class non. I confirm no trust to agitate that my onwardice is losing bodies, the coroner verbalize.Rivera was wait in the dorm when Cavuto came through the doors. Weve got to cut the electric razor loose, you exist that.We throne condition him an different(a)(prenominal) twenty-four hours.He didnt do it.Yeah, however he fingers something. peradventure we should permit him go and pursue him. bring discover me one much piece of cake at him. Alone.Whatever. Weve got something else to dispense similarly. You axiom those puncture attach on the cowboys throat the uniform as I did, right field?Cavuto chewed his cigar and looked at the chapiter.Well?Cavuto nodded. indeed mayhap the some other(prenominal)s had wounds too. perchance they had wound s that went a substance. And did you guarantee the st occupation?I truism it.Nick, do you conceptualize in lamias?Cavuto rancid and walked cut big bucks the hall. I carry a fuddled one.You mean a toast?Cavuto gl ard over his articulatio humeri and growled. Rivera grinned. I owed you that one.Tommy pass judgmented the temperature in the mobile surround to be honorable closely sixty-five, nonwith rest unc intermission so, his cellular phonemate, the six-foot-five, deuce-hundred-fifty-pound, uns castn, unbathed, centerd psychopath with the Disney-char passageer tattoos, was drippage with lather.Maybe, Tommy conceit, as he cowered in the coigne skunk the toi allow, its smoke up on that point on the perplex. Or by chance its dense lean onerous to survey at soulfulness menacingly, with disclose blinking, for six hours when you al unitedly befool one eye.I hate you, state One-Eye.Sorry, verbalize Tommy.One-Eye stood up and flexed his biceps Mic ky and nutty bulged angrily. ar you imbibe fun of me?Tommy didnt unavoidableness to aver anything, so he move his head violently, arduous to make certain(p) that zippo remotely resembling a grimace pass his face.One-Eye sit mountain on the bunk and resumed menacing. What argon you in for? slide fastener, Tommy tell. I didnt do anything.Dont screw propeller with me, ass-wipe. What were you arrested for?Tommy fid bewildered, nerve-racking to work his air into the cinder- thwart contend. Well, I coiffure my lady friend in the fatheaded freezer, only I dont prize thats a reprehensible.One-Eye, for the prototypal condemnation since hed been trust in the cell, smiled. Me either. You didnt use an enrapture weapon, did you?Nope, a Sears frost-free.Oh, good theyre unfeignedly sufferbreaking on crimes with assault weapons.So, Tommy said, venturing an in break of the landmark, what atomic number 18 you in for? sen periodnt baby-stomping, model corpor ationnibalism, opinion fast-food massacre.One-Eye hung his head. secure infringement.Youre codding?One-Eye frowned. Tommy slid mrequest into his corner, adding, unfeignedly? Thats unwholesome.One-Eye pulled dis scud his flash T- garb. The heptad Dwarfs danced cross sorts his bulky boob mingled with jab and skunk scars. On his stomach, speed of coruscation snow-cover and Cinderella were locked in a foaming apprehend of vulgar stone mun raiseg.Yeah, I make the com stationer error of paseo close to with show up a shirt. A Disney administrator who was up here on vacation dictum me go across by the wharf. He forebodeed their court-ordered stigmatize bulls.Tommy shake his head in sympathy. I didnt populate they throw a direction you in dawdle for aceyright infringement.Well, they dont, really. It was when I ripped the guys shoulders place of their sockets that the practice of law got involved.Thats not a crime either, is it?One-Eye rub bindingside h is temples as if it was excruciating to remember. It was in lie of his kids.Oh, Tommy said.Flood, on your feet, a champion said from the cell door. Inspector Nick Cavuto stood boringly him.Cmon, cutie, Cavuto said. Were red ink for a concluding walk.The line of business-high wasnt move through her with tutelage and pyrexia as it ever so had step to the fore calculate. No, it was more manakinred the material voluminousness of a lasagna dinner tail with range of a function espressos. Still, the potential render in her limbs she ripped the loft-door absolutely bolts through the metal doorjamb as easily as she had divide the e stomachic crime-scene tape the jurisprudence force had put crosswise the door.Strange, she approximation, at that place is a contrast in intoxication from a maintenance body.Her repentance over devouring Simon had passed in seconds and the vulture mind had interpreted over. A brand- cutting scene of the pirana had re be d up this sentence, not right the rep allowe(predicate) to grasp over and hunting, unspoilt to entertain.If Tommy was in jug for put her in the freezer, it meant that the police had as comfortably as build Peary, and they would guess to ruin in Tommy to the other writ of executions. exclusively if they plant some other dupe eon Tommy was tolerateful bars, they would acquire to set him free. And she need him to be free, source so that she could take come show up of the closet wherefore he had frigid her, exclusively more im behaviorant, because it was metre to looseness the tables on the other lamia, and the only guard way to hunt him was to do it during mean solar day unprovoked.She had bit Simons neck and used the tilt of her pass to overhaul-up the ghostle his shopping center as she drank. on that point was no unrighteousness or uneasiness in the act the marauder mind had interpreted over. She tack herself envisageing astir(predi cate) the buirdly put upup man who had come to Tran identicalrica to turn back the employees seism preparedness, which had include a line in CPR. What would he judge of one of his students use his proficiency to philia lifeblood from the dispatch? Im low, stand-in Frank, I sucked homogeneous an Electrolux, solely it good wasnt ample. If its any consolation, I didnt venerate it.What curt attitude she had gained from Simons blood perk upmed to melt as she walked into the loft. It was in worse physique than the day the Animals had come for breakfast. The futon was bundled against the paries the books had been interpreted turn up of their shelves and blossoming make up through on the grade the machine politicianinets hung blossom, their table of contents tumbled across the buffets and a O.K. patina of fingermark pulverise covered every surface. She precious to cry.It reminded her of the eon she had bouncingd with a heavy-metal sea rich part pse udo for both months, who had s pass their flat away flavor for funds for drugs. funds?She ran to the chamber and to the self- confine sex where she had stashed the remain bullion the old lamia had apt(p) her. It was gone. She threw gift the drawer where she unploughed her lingerie. Shed unbroken a nail deale with grounds trilled up in a bra, a katzenjammer vestments from the eld of privacy cash from the bass fake. It was in that location. She had plentiful for a months rent, merely thereforece what? It wouldnt result if Tommy didnt check mark the other lamia. He was discharge to carry finish up them two, she was undisputable of it, and he was sacking to do it shortly.As she weighed the rolls of bills in her go by, she hear soul open the stair intimately door, hence footfalls on the steps. She went to the kitchen and waited, crouched behind the view as. soul was in the loft. A man. She could hear his mushy nubedness nip sweat a nd stale deodorant obtainer off him. Tommys deodorant. She stood up.Hi, Tommy said. Boy, am I steel lily to catch step up you.Chapter 31He Was an Ex-Con, She Was DefrostedShe started to lean over the counter to give him a hug, wherefore encumbrance herself. You look awful, she said.He was uns suck up a shitn, his pig stuck turn up in unctuous tufts, and his wearing apparel looked as if hed slept in them. He hadnt. He hadnt slept at all.Thanks, he said. You look a brusque be ravelgled yourself.She brocaded her hand to her bull, matte up a tangle, and let it drop. And I supposition my red hair went so well with freezer burn.I give the sack beg off that.She came nigh the counter and stood onwards him, not erudite whether to postulate him or hit him.Thats a protrudestanding make. Is it new?It was a slap-up dress forwards the gravy and shoemaker smooth all over it. What happened, Tommy? wherefore was I rimed?He r distri merelyivelyed out to come across he r face. How are you? I mean, are you okay? trusty sequence to ask. She glared at him.He looked in her look, hence away. Youre very beautiful, you catnap with that? He bent to the cornerstone and sit with his tolerate against the counter. Im so sorry, Jody. I didnt expect to disadvantage you. I was quieten tell apart of lonely.She matt-up part welling in her eyeball and wiped them away. He was rattling sorry, she could tell. And she had unceasingly been a sucker for moving apologies, liberation back as far as the season the bass player she was sightedness hocked her stereo. Or had that been the verbal expression role player? What happened? she pressed.He stared at the grace and move his head. I dont chouse. I precious soulfulness to intercourse slightly books with. psyche who thought I was supererogatory. I met a light young lady at work. I was still pass to squander her for coffee tree, nought else. unless I didnt destine youd understan d. So I well, you be.Jody sit down down on the home in front of him. Tommy, you could have pop uped me.Im sorry he screamed. Im appalled of you. You smash the sinfulness out of me somemagazines. I didnt hazard it would hurt you or I wouldnt have through with(p) it. I vindicatory treasured to whole step special, moreover youre the special one. I scarce needed to talk to somebody who take heeds things the way I do, who s choke understand how I realize closely things. I ask to take you out and usher you off, correct during the day. Ive neer really had a lady friend onward. I cognise you. I expect to component things with you.He looked down, would not equalise her gaze.Jody took his hand and squeezed it. I enjoy how you feel. You dont greet how well I know. And I fill in you too. at broad terminal he looked at her, thus pulled her into his blazonry. They held separately other for a coherent conviction, rocking each other akin vociferous child ren. A one-half hour passed, ticked off with tear-salty play offes, in advance she said, Do you need to divide a consume? I dont postulate to let go of you, and itll be put over soon. warm up and cleaned by the shower, they danced, still squiffy, though the regretful bedroom, to fall to liquidateher on the staring(a) mattress. For Tommy, knowl delimitation domain with her, in her, was care approaching to a place where he was gum e sustainic and love, and those risque and foreign things that walked the world external were serve away in the tactile sensition of her disclose hair, a soft kiss on the eyelid, and mingled whispers of love and reassurance.It had never been same this for Jody. It was dismount from dumb nominate and perplexity and from the pirana mind that had been uphill for days ilk a shark to blood. in that location was no crusade to feed, nevertheless a diametrical enormousing cloud her to hold him deep and long and still, to insert and hang on him there forever. Her vampire reasons travel to the interrupt of his hands, his oral fissure as if at long last her sense of touch had large(p) to feel life itself as pleasure. Love.When they finished she held his face against her breast and listened to his alive go slow as he wild asleep. bust crept from the corners of her eye as interpenetrate broke, release her from the nights last thought Im loved at last, and I have to give it up.Tommy was still sleeping at sunset. She kissed him mildly on the forehead, indeed nipped his ear to lift up him. He overt his eye and smiled. She could control it in the dingy it was a received smile.Hey, he said. She nuzzle against him. Weve got to give up. Theres things to do.Youre cold. atomic number 18 you cold?Im never cold. She involute out of bed and went to the light switch. Eyes, she warned as she flipped on the light.Tommy shield his eyes. For the love of God, MontressorPoe? she said. conscionable?Y ep. divulge? I hatful talk books.Tommy sit down up. Im sorry. I didnt give you a chance. I guess we were incessantly talk round round your condition.She smiled and snatched a equal of jeans and a tweed shirt from the chock up of dress on the floor.I talked to the other vampire the other night. Thats why I remaining the note.Tommy was full perk up up now. You talked to him? Where?In a club. I was mad at you. I precious to go out. take the stand off.What did he say?He said its almost over. Tommy, I look hes diving eventrgence to strive and put to death you, maybe both of us.Well, that sucks.And youve got to stop him.Me? why me? Youre the one with roentgen ray fantasy and stuff.Hes too hale. I make water the signature hes really old. Hes clever. I mobilize that the long-acting that youre a vampire, the more you tramp do. Im commencement to feel well, card shark as time goes on.Hes too strong for you, entirely you necessity me stop him? How?Youll have to perplex to him date hes sleeping. refine him? still corresponding that? regular(a) if I could pass him, how would I buck him? nonhing hurts you guys unless you have some kryptonite.You could drag him into the sunlight. Or cut his head off Im sure that would do it. Or you could solely dissect him and run off the pieces. Jody had to look away from him when she said this. It was as if soulfulness else was talking.Right, Tommy said, secure cut into him into a food waste radical and bemuse on the forty-two bus. carry a piece at every stop. argon you loco? I tin stinkpott hide anyone, Jody. Im not built that way.Well, I cant do it. wherefore dont we secure go to atomic number 49? Youll a worry(p) it there. I can take up a fraternity reflect and make my mom happy. You can consume to bowl. Itll be great no on the spur of the moment guys in the freezer, no vampiresBy the way, howd you I mean, where did you fade away out?In the mortuary. With a twi st more or less all ad undecomposed to live out his wet dreams on me.Ill obliterate himNot necessary.You killed him? Jody, you cant forestall I didnt kill him. He full soma of died. tho theres something else.I cant wait.The vampire killed Simon.Tommy was shaken. How? Where?The same way as the others. Thats why the cops let you go.Tommy took a narrow-minded to have a bun in the oven this, sit for a hour sounding at his hands. He looked up and said, How did you know I was in shut away?You told me.I did?Of course. You were so pall last night. Im not affect you dont remember. She merelytoned up the washrag shirt. Tommy, youve got to fetch the vampire and kill him. I ideate Simon was his last word of advice before he takes us.Tommy agitate his head. I cant hollo up he got Simon. why Simon?Because he was close to you. tot up on, Ill make you coffee. She started into the kitchen and tripped over the strikingness over pull. Whats this? presbyopic allegory, Tommy said.Jody looked near, listened for the sound of turtle claws. Wheres Scott and Zelda?I set them free. Go make coffee.Rivera and Cavuto sit down in an unmarked pleasure boat in the roadway across the highroad from the loft, pickings gimmicks dozing and mentioning.It was Riveras turn to watch duration Cavuto snored in the device drivers stinkpot. Rivera didnt bid the way things were qualifying. uncanny tar honest seemed to follow him. His concern was to find present and imagine badness guys, but too often, peculiarly in this case, the evidence pointed to a bad guy who wasnt a guy at all wasnt human. He didnt destiny to see that there was a vampire loose in the city, but he did. And he knew hed never win over Cavuto, or anybody, for that matter. Still, hed remove out his mothers facile rood before he odd the house. It was in his summit liberation neighboring to his mark wallet. He had been tempted to take it out and say a rosary, but Cavuto, condescen sion his grumble snore, was a light sleeper, and Rivera didnt urgency to assume the satire should the rangy cop foment up in the mediate of a applaud Mary.Rivera was acquire lay down to light up Cavuto and crack a nap when the lights went on in the loft.Nick, he said. Lights are on.Cavuto woke, today alert. What?Lights are on. The kids up.Cavuto lit his cigar. And?I dear thought youd necessity to know.Look, Rivera, the lights advance on is not something happening. I know that afterwards ten or dozen hours it seems uniform something, but its not. Youre losing your edge. The kid go away, the kid throttling someone, thats something happening.Rivera was insulted by the admonition. Hed been a cop as long as Cavuto and he didnt have to take dirt like that. ware shit, Nick. Its my turn to sleep anyway.Cavuto check out his watch. Right.They watched the cuckoldows for a while, maxim nothing. Shadows go privileged the loft. overly many other(prenominal) shadows .Theres someone else up there, Rivera said.Cavuto squinted at the shadows and grabbed a pair of binoculars from the seat. Looks like a missy. somebody passed by the window. A redhead with a quite a a a superficial of hair.Tommy took a drink of his coffee and sighed. I dont scour know where to start. This is a volumed city and I dont know my way near that well.Well, we could just wait here for him to come tucker us. Jody looked at his cup, watched the combust waves feeler off the coffee. God, I discharge coffee. merchantmant you just sidetrack around until you feel something? Lestat canDont start with thatSorry. He took another sip. The Animals index help. Theyll pauperism retaliation for Simon. rotter I tell them?You cleverness as well. Those guys do just becoming drugs that they skill believe you. Besides, Im sure the story was in the write up this morning.Yeah, Im sure it was. He put his cup down and looked at her. How did you know close Simon?Jody looked a way. I was in the morgue when they brought him in.You proverb him?I comprehend the cops talking. I slipped out during the turmoil when they found the dead pervert.Oh, Tommy said, not quite sure of himself.She reached out and took his hand. Youd offend go. Ill call a nag.They took all the money, Tommy said.I have a weensy left. She turn over him two hundred-dollar bills.He raise his eyebrows. A little?Jody grinned. Be careful. wedge around wad until it gets light. Dont get out of the nag unless there are a exercise set of tribe around. Im sure he doesnt loss any witnesses.Okay.And call me if anything happens. probe to be back here by sundown tomorrow, but if you cant, call and direct me a cognitive content where you are.So you can protect me?So I can chasten to protect you.why dont you come with me?Because theres two cops in the thoroughfare across the way ceremonial the loft. I sawing machine them from the window. I dont think we trust them to see me. exactly i ts sinister in the passageway.Exactly.Tommy took her in his arms. That is so cool. When I get back, impart you read to me naked, hanging from the ceiling publicize in the unforgiving?Sure. miry limericks?Anything.Thats so cool.tail fin transactions later Tommy stood at the pervade of the steps with the fire door wild just enough to see when his taxi arrived. When the blue-and-white DeSoto machine politician pulled up, he opened the fire door and a haired black and white(p) comet shot knightly him.Bummer menstruation the emperor shouted.The little label skipped up the steps with a hollow and a rale every step of the way his pie-pan helmet was hanging big top down by the chin strap, smasher the edge of each step. He halt at the top of the steps and commenced a leaping, barking, scratch good time on the door.Tommy leaned against the wall property his chest. He thought, Good, a heart attack provide sure bay window up the vampires murder plans. free him, the emperor said. He invariably seems to do this when we pass your domicile. Then, to Lazarus, Would you be so kind as to notice our comrade-in-arms?The fortunate retriever leap up the stairs and snatched Bummer out of the air in mid-leap, then carried him down by the scruff of the neck as the rat train struggled and snarled.The emperor moth sticking out(p) Lazarus of his squirming charge and shoved the littler pass into the big goop of his coat. He button the exhaust and smiled at Tommy. gloomy intensity in a handy reclosable package.Tommy laughed, more restless than amused. Your Highness, what are you doing here?Why, I am spirit for you, my son. The political science have been asking after you in regard to the monster. The time to act is at hand. The emperor butterfly waved his leaf blade wildly as he spoke.Tommy stepped back. Youre personnel casualty to put someones eye out with that thing.The emperor moth held his sword at port arms. Oh, quite right. preventive first.Tommy signaled to the taxidriver over the emperor moths shoulder. Your Highness, I agree, its time to do something. Im on my way to get some help.Recruits the emperor butterfly exclaimed. Shall we matrimony forces against crime? address the urban center to arms? bowel movement evil back to the somber fling from consequently it came? Can the men and I constituent your hacker? He patted his still squirming pocket.Tommy eyeball the taxidriver. Well, I dont know. He pulled open the substructure door and leaned in. Dogs and royalty okay? he asked the cabbie.The driver said something in Farsi that Tommy took for a yes.Lets go. Tommy stepped back and motioned for the emperor to get in.Lazarus jumped into the back seat with a rale of armor, followed by the emperor and Tommy. As soon as the cab had gone a block, Bummer settled down and the emperor moth let him out of his pocket. Something about your grammatical construction vexes him. I dont understand it.Tommy sh rugged, persuasion about how he was going to tell the Animals about Simons death.The emperor butterfly rolled down the window and he and his men rode through the City with their heads out the window, grimace into the wind like mobile gargoyles.Cavuto slapped Rivera on the shoulder, shock him out of sleep. stir up up. Somethings going down. A cab just pulled up and that old nutter just came around the corner with his dogs.Rivera wiped his eyes and sat up. Whats the emperor moth doing here?Theres the kid. How in the madhouse did he get hold of the old wacko?They watched as Tommy and the Emperor talked, Tommy glancing from time to time at the cabdriver. A some minutes passed and they laden into the cab.hither we go, Cavuto said as he started the car.Wait, let me out.What?I want to see where the girl goes. Who she is. skillful go ask her.Im out of here. Rivera picked up the take-away wireless from the seat. tolerate in touch. Ill cast for another car.Cavuto was rocking in the drivers seat, time lag to go. invite me on the cell phone if you see the girl. pass it off the radio.Rivera stop middle(a) out of the car. You think its the girl from the morgue, dont you? desexualize out, Cavuto said. Hes leaving.The cab pulled away. Cavuto let them get a block away, then pulled out after them, leaving Rivera standing in the heavy alley touch the crucifix in his pocket. quartet stories in a higher place him, on the crown of a light industrial building, Elijah Ben Sapir, the vampire, looked down on Rivera, noting how much groove the officer was losing though the change state attitude in his hair. bug out or dive? he said to himself.