Blood and Chocolate Page #2

And so, once in a while,

we must make an example

to show this menace

that we may be outnumbered,

but we will never be outhunted.

So on this night,

let nature grace us to return

to who we truly are

in the wild where we once lived.

Please. l swear...

There is a river within those woods.

lf you reach the other side,

you win your life.

And if not,

glory to the Ioup-garou who takes it.

Run free.

No one ever reaches the river.

Help me!

lt's who you are

and always will be.

Help! Help!

Bun, any mail for me? Letters, packages?

l'm in 204.

No mail today.

Did you even check?

No mail for nobody.

Where'd you get this?

Yes, l am being careful. Thank you.

Why don't you go sell something

for a change?

lt's not gonna taste any better

with you standing there watching me.

Hey, Wolf-Girl.

Don't ever call me that.

So give me something else to call you.

How did you find me?

Find who?

Vivian.

Look, l'm working. l can't talk.

And l really don't think

you should be back here.

So ask me to leave.

Leave.

Now ask me like you mean it.

What's it been, two, three weeks?

What are you still doing in Romania?

Trying to work.

-Don't you have a home to go back to?

-No, l don't.

But l do have a train ticket in a few days.

And l was hoping

to spend some of them with you.

Yeah, well, that wouldn't make my boyfriend

really happy.

Oh.

Would you be at a church at 2:00

in the morning if you had a boyfriend?

Why do you always run from me?

That's twice now, you've run from me.

Are my drawings that bad?

-You have to go.

-That is starting to sound like you mean it.

What do you want with me?

l wanna know who you are

and what you love and what you dream.

l want to know

what you were doing there that night.

And l should just tell you?

This coming from a guy who doesn't even

put his name on his comic books?

You read my books?

l guess the library is out

of everything else, huh?

You need to leave now.

One night. That's all l'm asking.

Otherwise, l will be here,

all day, every day, buying chocolates.

Piata Romana. Tomorrow night, 7:00.

lt's for you, Wolf-Girl.

Hi. Health inspector.

-What's that?

-Trash.

Give me that.

What, your trash? Your human trash?

Now, why would...

-Oh, well, now.

-He doesn't know.

Well, that much seems obvious.

He's drawing pictures

for a book on Ioup-garous.

l showed interest.

-Did you?

-Not like that.

No? Didn't model your tail for him?

He doesn't know, Rafe. Leave him alone.

Now, cousin, why wouldn't l?

You want to have a meat-boy, l don't care.

l don't care if you have 100.

Just don't tell any stories

that you shouldn't.

They're good for fun, you know, pretty ones.

They just never let us be ourselves.

Like that girl you killed?

lf he finds out it was you...

This will be my pack one day.

My rules, my law.

So l will do what l want, when l want.

And your pretty mouth will stay shut.

Now, run along, little Vivian.

The world must have its sweets.

Lovely!

-You did it again.

-That's the second time.

You're too good at this.

You, we need to talk.

How are you, Gabriel? Business good?

How's the b*tch-du-jour

you left my mother for?

Have you and your friends

been hunting on your own?

Never.

There are rumors. You were seen with her.

-Did Vivian say this?

-You didn't track her?

-Well, not to hunt. lt was a game.

-A game?

Rafe, you are my son.

But if it's true, l can't protect you.

-l won't.

-Vivian's a liar.

This has nothing to do with her.

Did you hunt that girl or not?

l didn't touch a hair on her pretty head.

lf man suspects we are still here,

he will exterminate us.

-We must rule this city from the shadows.

-Because we fear them.

We are millions no more.

Please, hear my warning.

Because the day

you hunt outside your pack,

you are dead to it.

l got it. l got it.

How's an American girl

end up in Romania anyhow?

l was born here

in a community of expatriates from all over.

And my parents moved to the States

when l was little,

and then l moved back.

Without your parents?

They died in the States when l was little.

l've lived with my aunt ever since.

-Do you remember them?

-Every day.

My aunt says that they

used to take me to that church all the time.

Do you always act

like you're being watched?

You're not allowed to take a walk

with a handsome starving artist?

Who only puts his initials on his books.

What's he hiding from?

Well, l could tell you,

but l would have to kill you.

So, how's your book coming?

l mean, what's the city taught you?

That the werewolf stories

have got it all wrong.

ln the Ioup-garou legend,

they're not cursed, they're blessed.

Like the moon turning them into wolves.

That's all how it was twisted later.

The Ioup-garous

can change whenever they want.

lt's mind over matter. Transcendence.

You know, they believe they will change,

and in that moment they do.

Can you imagine that?

From a man to a wolf.

-lt sounds beautiful.

-lt is.

Supposedly, you could kill them with silver

but also with fire.

Really?

And you couldn't become one.

You know, be bitten or whatever.

You're either born a Ioup-garou

or you're not.

And in the stories they say that

if you harm a Ioup-garou,

if they bleed, that they show you just

a glimpse of what they really are.

lt's all in the eyes, apparently.

Oh, no, what, this place is closed?

l can't believe it.

They have this fantastic caf on the roof.

Got the best views of the whole city.

Not the whole city.

How about l take you somewhere?

Vivian! This is private property.

Never stopped you before.

l have a great feeling about this.

One of the richest men in the city lives here.

He's an art collector.

This is so much better than the date

l had planned.

When l say run, run.

-You never said run.

-Run.

Now, this is the best view of the whole city.

They're all that's left of Bucharest castle.

Built by the Magyar princes

in the 10th century.

lt was said that the princes' bloodline

was Ioup-garou.

So when the Magyars lost the throne,

it was said that the wolves' reign was over.

How'd you know they were here?

l thought you'd like to see them.

You're full of secrets, aren't you?

Don't you want to draw them or something?

Whenever l'm with you

l get the feeling you're hiding.

My family has plans for me.

Expectations. Where l go, who l'm with.

But your future is your own, isn't it?

Let me tell you something.

My old man was an ex-Army Ranger

and an addict.

And he told me that l was gonna learn

to defend myself whether l wanted to or not.

Truth is, all l really wanted to do was draw,

but that wasn't exactly on the agenda.

So one day we had it out, you know.

l was 1 7, said l was leaving, the whole thing.

And he said he would kill me if l tried.

And l tried.

What happened?

Turns out l knew how to defend myself

better than l thought.

Which is why my name is not on my books.

lf he finds me, he'll follow through.

There's an assault warrant out on me

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