True Bloodthirst Page #4

that's been so life-altering?

Two years in a cell, Johnny.

It gave me a long time to think.

Well, did you think about what

Dad would say if he found out

that you were falling for one of them?

Huh? Do you think

that'd give him some sort

of comfort while he was

visiting Mom's grave?

'N.

I'm with Celeste.

Nothing's clear anymore.

Have you looked around

lately? There's more of them

every single day. More and

more humans will continue

to go over to their side until one

day there will be nobody left on ours.

Look, we've all had

a long couple of days...

Don't. Do I need to remind you,

they know we know where they live.

We know where they live. And

now, they know where we live.

Hey, look at me.

Too scared to go home at night.

That's what you said. Do you

really wanna go on living like that?

No.

Do you ever sleep, Detective?

After today, I'm not so sure.

It's a dark one.

You shoulda seen him

before he got the tan.

What can you tell us about it?

This thing represents a complete

regression of the vampire genome.

The question is, what triggered it?

The infected blood sample?

If this were an isolated case, sure.

But for it to spread

to so many, so quickly,

this outbreak must have had

more than one original carrier.

In fact, I'm even inclined to say

that this is no accident at all.

It's more like a large scale

demonstration of some kind...

Excuse me.

Derricks.

Derricks, Derricks, he's out of

control. You've got to stop him.

Whoa, Celeste, slow down. Start over.

Johnny and Kat are on

their way to Nikolai's.

What, Why?

Well, why do you think?

Well, why didn't you stop them?

They tied me to a chair for my own good.

All right, I'm on it.

- Derricks, there's more.

Well do I even wanna know?

I'm pretty sure half the city's

about to come under siege.

What are you talking about?

There are more of them than we

thought, Derricks. A lot more.

Hang on. You're gonna wanna

hear this, Celeste Harker.

Celeste, you're on speakerphone.

As you were saying,

there's a lot more of these?

A lot more. At least half a

dozen colonies across Sector Five,

just like the one we saw today.

No, that's impossible.

I'm seeing massive movement

beneath the city streets.

We've got hundreds of those

things descending on Rahova.

Okay Celeste, thank you. Hang tight.

Look. Every advantage vampires

have speed, strength, hearing,

even the paralytic agent in their

saliva this guy had in spades.

This guy had in spades.

So if there really are hundreds

of these things out there.

We need to order an evacuation.

I think perhaps you are

delirious from fatigue.

What did you not hear her?

I cannot order an evacuation

of Bucharest and incite a panic...

Not the entire city. Not the entire

city, no, but Rahova, Ferentari.

There are ten thousand people at least

still living there, and easily

twice that many vampires.

You have a point.

Would you excuse us, please?

If what Miss Harker says is true,

I think this represents

an opportunity for us

to rid the city of these creatures

before they spread to more

densely populated areas.

Thirty thousand vampires and vagrants.

Small price to pay, don't you think?

Harker's still out there.

He's my responsibility.

Him and his sister.

I'm gonna bring him in.

If you feel you must.

Detective, just be careful.

We don't have to do this.

Then what are we doing? Are

we not still the Vampirdzhiya?

Have you forgotten why we do this?

We were scared back then.

We both lost people close to us.

Yeah. What's changed?

I have to do this.

Even without you.

It was supposed to be a cure.

But it wasn't, was it? It was a virus,

and you went forward anyway.

Different means, same end.

To rid the world of vampires?

Do you know what I see when I

look out that window, Detective?

Fear. I see a city paralyzed by fear.

And now there are reports of vampires

in London, Budapest, Prague, Barcelona.

Make no mistake, they are

spreading. They are the virus.

They represent the end of

everything we have built.

Everything we know.

Surely you must see that.

We are going to take back our country.

But it never was your country, was it?

Vlad the Impaler was a damn vampire.

I knew it was a risk

to put you on this case.

I need to know where you stand

in regard to these monsters.

My wife is one of these monsters.

Yes, she is. I am sorry for you.

Detective, please.

If it's any consolation,

I will make sure

you are here with your

friends when it all goes down.

This isn't the Romanian

Revolution, Kovaks.

Isn't it, though?

Take down Detective Derricks. I

repeat, take down Detective Derricks.

You? Why are you helping me?

I saw you at the club last night.

You were with Nikolai and the others.

Open the door now.

If I don't make it out of here,

you've got to give Anghel a message.

The synth blood is contaminated.

Kovaks and whoever he's

working with are behind it.

They're the reason his son is dead.

Tell him yourself, just

go through a window.

Go!

They won't show you any mercy.

And I won't show them any.

They gotta be down below, sleeping.

Really, Harker? Too predictable.

Yeah, you might get us in a rush,

but not before we take most

of you with us, and your crypt.

Shame it has come to this.

It didn't have to, you know.

You would've done the same, eventually.

There's still a way out

of this, for both of you.

You gotta be kidding me, right?

It's your choice,

Harker. Join us, or die.

But either way,

I'm gonna turn your sister,

and she's gonna like it.

Try doing it from the next life.

Harker! Been out of jail now

for what, thirty-six hours?

Are you really in that

much of a hurry to die?

What? You forget what side you're on?

The only side you've been

on Johnny is your own.

Human, vampire, you want it to

be that simple, but it's not.

Now lower your weapons.

Lower your weapons.

Now shut your mouth for five damn

minutes. If you still want to die,

I'll shoot you myself.

No need to be so rude about it.

You too. Give me five minutes before

your Vanatorii Umane do anything drastic.

Why should I?

Because what I'm about to tell

your father changes everything,

and I don't want my team killing

each other in the meantime.

You know the way, Detective.

It pleases me to see you alive.

Pleases me as well. Anghel...

Nikolai told me you did

everything you could.

Even so, I'm sorry.

Did you learn anything?

You could say that.

Tell me everything you know.

Peacekeepers in place.

The complex is locked down.

Derricks nearly ruined our plans,

but in the end, he simply

accelerated our time table.

Now, we wait.

These are disturbing developments,

but not entirely surprising.

Kovaks is willing to sit back

and sacrifice hundreds of humans

just to turn public against you.

We have to expose the truth.

What we need to do is warn

people. Humans, and vampires alike.

Otherwise it won't even matter.

Once again, I am in your debt.

I'm just doin' my job.

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