Inject Me Sweetly / Dusk Until Dawn

:Inject Me Sweetly: Chapter Five

            I let her drop the pills in my hand and I quickly looked them over to make sure they were really iron pills. When I recognized the logo printed on them I relaxed. “Thanks, um…”

            “Fiona,” the brunette told me with another flashy smile. “Fiona Rutherford.”

            “Fiona?” I echoed.

            Fiona shrugged her shoulders. “It was a common name when I was alive.”

            I made a face. She just had to remind me she was a vampire, didn’t she? Fiona handed me a bottle of water and I took it, swinging my legs off the bed I was on so I could sit up. I popped the pills into my mouth, quickly taking a long swig of water to swallow them with. When they were gone I took another drink of water to wash out the powdery taste they left on my tongue.

            “By the way, I poisoned that.”

            Immediately I spat the water out, choking. My hands shot to my throat as I waited for the burning sensation to start. Or for my limbs to go numb. Or something. Fiona started laughing, reaching over to pat me on my leg.

            “I’m joking.”

            I jerked away from her, feeling my heart leap into my throat. She pulled her hand back so fast it was there one moment and when I blinked it was gone. An expression of hurt was on her face. Guilt washed through me. She wasn’t hurting me— in fact she helped me. And yet I still flinched away from her, just because she was a vampire. But was it wrong to feel guilty about that? Ugh, too much thinking.

            “I’m sorry,” I apologized, relaxing my position. “I’ve just been terrified by vampires since I was a little kid, so I can’t handle being around you guys… Not to mention Vincent scares the crap out of me.”

            Fiona blinked in realization. “You’re afraid of vampires?”

            “Guilty as charged.”

            “That makes me feel so much better!”

            I raised an eyebrow. “It does?”

            She nodded excitedly. “I thought maybe you hated me or something. My mom was thinking the same thing earlier too.”

            “The queen?”

            “Yeah, wait until she hears about your fear. I’m sure she’ll be as relieved as me,” Fiona told me, smiling widely.

            I dropped my gaze, focusing my attention on a small crack in the floor by the far right corner. “Has she said anything about me going home?”

            “Well we had a family meeting about it last night,” Fiona responded, taking a seat on the edge of my bed.

            I forced myself to stay still, not allowing myself to move away. She wasn’t going to do anything. “What was the verdict?” I questioned, feeling nervousness spreading in the pit of my stomach.

            “Well it’s not just up to us to decide,” Fiona started slowly, placing her hands in her lap. “We may be royalty, but we’re not exactly the law. There are some things we can decide ourselves, but since this has never happened before, we have to run it by the court.”

            “A vampire court?”

            “The vampire court.”