Only once

Chapter 4

Zeeshan

I left the girl in that room and made my way to the room my sister was supposed to be in.

I walk in to the worst case scenario.

My sweet little sister covered completely in blood, her own blood from what I can tell.

I rushed forward and pulled her into my arms.

"Mia... Mia... Please wake up, wake up..."

I placed my hand on her neck to check for a pulse but instead I am met with ice cold skin.

Looking at her closely I noticed her lips are almost completely purple and her skin is pale it's so pale the blood covering her face seems almost pink.

She must have been dead almost an hour... Or more..

But how...

I saw her walking into this room merely moments earlier..

How is this possible.

I was still stunned when my father came barging in.

He sees my lifeless sister and the torment is evident in his eyes.

"Dad... I.. She.."

He suddenly became calm and his demeanor is back to the way he always was. Cold.

He grabbed my sister and threw her lifeless body over his shoulder.

"We need to move now.... Now zeeshan... Now..."

I haven't seen any vampire like this unless they die of natural cause which is heart failure, but this was different from the past, my sister already turned so why did she die now...

It takes me a second to realize something is wrong.

But than as soon as the words he said registered in me we started running...

Down the hall, up the stairs and into a waiting van.

We got in a sped off.

Suddenly I remembered I didn't do the most important task...

Send the evacuation link.

I dug in my pocket pulled out my phone and sent the link.

I got a single reply.

Failure to execute.

What!

"Dad... Something isn't right... The link, it's down..."

He snapped his head to me.

"What, you didn't send the link after leaving the last girls room!?"

I was so mesmerized by her beauty I completely forgot,and than finding my sister like that...

"Zeeshan!... Tell me what you did!"

"Do you have any idea what you have done... She... You... If the link fails and she is left behind... God knows what awaits her..!"

He screamed at me and that moment I knew he was hiding something from me.

He never once lost his cool, not even a few minutes ago, when he saw Mia like that...

Why now?

As we drove he was busy typing away on his laptop.

He looked at Mia who was still laying in the back seat and than at me.

"Dad... What happened to Mia... Why.. Is she..."

He looks at me again and sighed.

"She is dead... Sometimes after they turn the blood lust is to much and when the host doesn't feed the virus starts eating it host alive from the inside out... Mia turn 16 days ago so she should have fed the second day after that but... I... We... Its to late... I am sorry... "

I can't believe my ears.

Why didn't I know about this?

" Than why didn't I die... Did... "

" yes.. I fed you my blood hours after you turned, you can't remember because you blacked out from the immense hunger, when i saw that I had no choice... "

I remember my first feed, it was like days after I turned, and it was a raw bloody stake.. Anyway...

Than I thought about what he said earlier.

" That girl... Has she turned yet... Will she... "

" Zeeshan, I don't know... She might have already turned or not but I can't find out if she was extracted or not... The server is still down... But if she has..."

He kept quiet.

I felt the guilt pushing up into my chest.

I might have already been the cause of someone's death.

Why couldn't I just stay focused.

" dad... I'm sorry.. It's my fault.. I... "

" Zee... Its no one's fault... We aren't responsible for anyone's lives, we can only try this much, but we can also make mistakes... Let's wait and see maybe she is just fine... Think about all the other kids you saved... "

He was right.

We save nearly 6000 kids.

All of whom was sent to a new world and all who had a new start.

It's the first time we failed.

When we started this we had already been informed of 3000 executions.

Yes...

The FBI had already killed 3000 or more children and we were lucky enough to have been able to save the rest.

The things I saw so far have been very extraordinary...

I saw many unbelievable and unexpected things and the death of my sister is one of them.

Comweto think of it.

Something more extraordinary I saw was today..

That girl..

She was the first Vampire who has purple in her eyes.

The rest of us have either red or green or orange but never purple.

"Dad... Is purple also one of the eye colors we vamps have?"

He looks surprised.

"No... Why.."

I want to say but the look in his eyes aren't normal.

He was definitely hiding something.

"Nevermind just asking, maybe I can have purple eyes, it would be nice..."

Now his expression is pale.

"Zee, don't joke about that... I... Listen... If ever you see someone's eyes are purple, run.... No matter who it it... You run and don't look back alright!"

He said with a frightening tone.

"But dad.. What.."

Before I can continue we reached the hide out.

We head inside.

The two guards take Mia and place her inside a body bag.

They take her to the store room.

If we find a dead vamp we always try and find answers from the body before we cremate it.

And Mia unfortunately wasn't an exception.

My father had no exceptions.

He had watched his fellow comrades place their kids also into this store room for the exact same reason and he wasn't going to be any different.

We entered the safe house and went to the debriefing room.

We entered and met a few parents.

The most well-known was the Marche family.

They were the only family who was actually all vampires.

Yes.. Real god dam vamps.

But their daughter was half vampire because her mother was a human.

They had used her as a carrier for their only child since they couldn't have any because well vampires can't children with each other but they can procreate with the right human.

It hasn't been done in centuries because the babies always die in the mother womb or the mother died because the baby ate her from the inside out.

But their family had the DNA altered and walha...

The first ever natural born vampire.

I say naturally because well the rest of us are well..

Experiments.

Who have both human parents.

"Gabriel... So nice to see you... Tell me was the mission successful..."?

I heard Mr Marche ask.

My father turned pale once again.

"Yes sir.. Its just we made a small mistake and well... We might have lost one... Girl..."

I watched as his eyes turned a deep shade of black than purple.

The exact same color as that girl.

She can't be his daughter can she?

He calms down.

"What do you mean.. Lost one girl... Who?"

My father turned to me.

"Mia.. My daughter.. We lost my daughter.."

He gave me a warning look.

"So Serene is safe... Do you know where they sent her.. Anything?"

They.

They were the ones we call Omegas.

Werewolves who have been mated to vampire and witches.

They hold the keys to all the other universes and well..

We were supposed to send them the final link to extract the last girl, now known as Serena.

But the servers are down.

"No.. Sir... We are waiting for confirmation... I am sure everyone was extracted.. Don't worry.. If you will excuse me.."

He nodds at me and we head out.

When we entered the room he closed the door and looked it.

"Zeeshan, be honest with me... The last girl... Her eyes... Were they.. Perhaps..."

"PURPLE.. Her eyes were blue with shade of purple bouncing from them... Is she.. Mr Marche daughter..?"

He literally felt to the ground.

"Dad... Are you okay... Dad.."

"Zee... Tell me your lieing... If she was left behind... We are doomed son.. He will hunt us down and drain our blood until we are finally noting but lifeless corpses... Zee... He.."

My father wasn't scared of anything but Elijah Marche was the one man he was terrified of...

And I finally understood why.

Now all the pieces finally fit.

All the other times we had all the kids extracted at once but this time, number 210778 was to be extracted last...

The Marche family must have pulled some strings to make sure Serena was not sent to a different time or world.

" Father... I... We don't know for sure.. Lets calm down and see.. Okay... "

My stupid ass has signed our death certificates all because I fell in love at first sight.

Now that I know what she is I think I might have to rethink my thoughts.

She was basically a Monster.

Real vampires don't live like us.

They really don't die.

And they can only feed on human blood. And human blood alone.

Not like us who cam consume any type of blood along side normal foods.

But the more I think about her the hotter my ears feel.

Her skin as white as snow, lips redd as blood, big beautiful eyes and a soft rose scent...

I have to find her.