Inject Me Sweetly / Dusk Until Dawn

:Inject Me Sweetly: Chapter Thirty-Six

"Make it quick, Luca. We must leave before anyone else notices," Ashton called, stepping back to enjoy the fight. "I'm rooting for you!"

Unable to just stand watch them brawl, I moved forward, uncapping the holy water. Ashton glanced at me curiously, but made no move to stop my actions. With a shaky hand, I aimed for Luca, ready to douse him with the liquid. It was hard though. He and Sebastian moved so fast they were almost like a blur in my eyes. If I missed, I'd get Sebastian, and put him at an even bigger disadvantage.

In the blink of an eye Sebastian was on the ground, Luca's hand around his throat. I took this as my chance. Lashing my hand out, I whipped the holy water at Luca's back. He howled in pain as the water hit its target. In a flash he was off of Sebastian, holding me by my neck instead. Surprised, I gasped, feeling my airway being cut off.

"Bitch," he spat at me. "Who taught you about the holy water?"

"That would be Vivi, kind of," Joel responded helpfully.

Luca tightened his grasp on my throat. "Oh really?"

I grappled at his hand, attempting to pry it off me. If he kept it up, my windpipe would be crushed.

"Luca, don't kill her," Ashton finally spoke up, appearing at my side and removing Luca's hand. "We need her alive."

"Why does it matter if we kill her now?" he growled. "It wouldn't make too much of a difference if she's going to die one day anyway."

"The difference is the time and the blood we can get," Ashton responded calmly. "Don't act so rashly."

Sebastian was back on his feet again, staggering slightly. Confused, my eyes raked over his body. Why was he so shaky? From what I could see, he had no injuries anywhere... The struggle between Luca and him had only lasted less than a minute. There was no time for him to gain wounds!

"You look confused," Ashton commented.

I turned to him, ready to nod, but found he was watching Sebastian. Furrowing my eyebrows, I turned back to Sebastian too. Surprisingly, he looked baffled as well. He slowly raised a hand to his chest, staring down at it. "What did you do?" he asked, his voice sounding weak.

"It's a little useful thing I like to call poison. Just to slow you down. I don't have enough time to fight you, or just let the poison kill you off."

"Poison?" I repeated in horror. There were poisons for vampires?

As if reading my mind, Ashton nodded at me. "Yes, there are poisons for vampires. They're a bit more difficult to find than human poisons, but they're there nonetheless. This one particularly was a hassle to find. Luca did a good job though. Applied it nicely as well."

 "Looks like it doesn't work on human's though. It should have entered her bloodstream already and she seems stable," Luca grunted, scrutinizing my face. "That's too bad."

My hand shot up to the back of my neck, where I was surprised to find a small gash. It was sticky, so I assumed that it'd drawn blood. How could I not have felt it? I should've felt something like that!

"Joel, grab Emily again," Ashton ordered.

"Yes sir!" he responded, easily bringing me under his control again.

"No, let her go," Sebastian commanded, taking a few unsteady steps toward me. He groaned, squeezing his tux just above where his heart was.

I stared at him, completely terrified of the situation. How could he fight back when he was like that? Why hadn't he run when I'd told him to?

Ashton moved in front of me, frowning a tiny bit. His eyes raked over my body. I jumped when I suddenly felt his hands on my sides. He ran them up my body slowly, as if he was searching for something.