Vampire in Brooklyn Page #6

Your dreams of another life?

And another world? Another you?

Everyone has those dreams.

You've a hunger never satisfied

and a need never fulfilled.

God only knows what l need.

And l know.

You need to give me this drink...

and give me your hand...

- and come dance with me.

- Oh, no.

- l'm not a good dancer.

- Come, please. Just one dance.

Come, come.

Oh, Max. This is crazy.

There's nothing wrong with being

just a little crazy.

l've never danced like this before.

And now, you'll never stop.

l haven't felt like this since...

l've never felt like this.

How would you like to feel like this

every night?

ls that a trick question?

To go to places you've never been?

- Yes.

- Drink the wine you've never tasted?

l can give it to you, Rita.

A world where no one laughs at you

for what you feel,

what you see, what you are.

All you have to do is just...

say...

say the word, say it.

- Looking for the girl?

- The girl? What girl?

You're a cop,

you're supposed to remember faces.

The night watchman down at the dock?

Right. l'm also the proud landlord

of this residential type place,

so l do know who comes

and l do know who goes.

l'm looking for a brother

named Julius. Julius Jones.

Jones, Jones...

l knew a Latoya Jones once.

Called her Mrs Butterworth cos

she had a ass flat like a pancake.

l haven't seen her around lately

but l have seen your partner,

yes l have.

You seen my partner?

Musta done some serious bumpin'

last night with that cat.

- What cat?

- Some suave motherf***er.

New tenant. He's been

tapping that top-shelf booty!

l'm talking bang-bang-bang!

When she walked out this morning,

she was bow-legged.

- So you know where she went?

- l'd say she went home to sleep.

Course, she didn't get none

last night. Bang-bang...

- Sh*t.

- Justice, where are you?

- 1 3 Fox, what's up?

- A DOA at Brooklyn City Hall.

Female, late twenties,

Captain requests you on the site.

- Hey, Connie.

- Hey.

God knows who or what

got her up there.

Let me see that thing.

Looks like a bed sheet

or something she's wrapped up in.

Sh*t!

Damn. Nikki.

lf there's one thing

a vampire has, it is patience,

especially with those

of his own kind.

But even that, in time, runs out

and then in the family of darkness,

blood will prove thicker

than water can ever be.

Rita, wake up! Rita, wake up!

Damn, girl! l musta called here

l'm thirsty. What's going on?

What are you doing here?

lt's about Nikki.

- Whatever happened between you...

- She's dead, Rita.

- What?

- But it's more than that.

The way she was hanging

was exactly the way you painted it.

- No, it was just a dream.

- No, it's real.

Everything that you believed in

and l didn't is real.

Justice, you saw her?

- Then somehow l'm not crazy.

- No.

No crazier than the rest of us.

Why me? Why is this happening to me?

l don't know...

but we'll figure this out, together.

Now, we make mistakes

and we have differences but...

that's OK,

we're only human, right?

- You know what you're doin'?

- No.

l'll make it up as l go.

l want this but...

Damn! Oh, damn!

ldiot!

Easy. Honey lamb, now ain't

a good time to f*** with the man...

- Oh, sh*t, he got you too?

- l'll handle this.

l'll be in the kitchen.

- Want a cappuccino?

- Welcome home.

Do you still take red?

After last night, you'll want

something with a little more bite.

- What have you done to me?

- Only what you asked.

- l didn't ask for this!

- No, but you wanted it.

You needed it and now

you can feel it, look at you.

You feel more alive than you've

ever been, stop fighting it.

- Death becomes you.

- lt was you, wasn't it?

All the murders,

the alley, the boat, Nikki.

lt's a gift but you have it too,

l just unwrapped it for you.

- Gift?! Of what, death?

- Of life!

- l have given you eternal life!

- This isn't happening.

lt's happening as we speak.

Can you feel it?

Come here! Listen. Listen to me!

Do you hear that? Do you hear it?

That is the sound of the night

and it's calling.

Not to me. Not to me!

Women.

Frightening, isn't it?

Yes, you are.

l meant freedom

to do anything you want,

any time, anywhere.

l know it's terrifying at first.

l passed terrified

about half an hour ago.

All your life you wondered why you

felt things that no one else felt,

why you never caught a cold,

never broke a bone.

This is just a dream, right?

Soon l'm gonna wake up and...

And l will be there.

l'm not going to be alone again.

l'd perish without you.

l gotta go back, go back to my life,

you can't stop me.

You can't.

Then go. Go back to

your little shoe-box apartment

filled with those empty dreams.

Go back to church

and don't forget the collection,

the preacher's whisky is running low.

Go back to your job!

Where they laugh and call you crazy!

Or you face the truth -

that you have

no place left to go but to me.

What do you know about truth?

You lied to me from the beginning.

- Your father sent me to you.

- What?

That's the truth. Your father.

lf l had told you that

when l first met you,

if l had told you what you were,

would you believe me

if l told you that you were

the daughter of a vampire?

- You're lying!

- You'd have loved your father.

Your mother did

before they killed him.

Who? Who killed him? Who?

Humans! Humans fear what they don't

understand and hate what they fear.

He sacrificed himself so your mother

could live. lt drove her insane.

But what if l don't want this?

What if you do?

What if you do?

Who's there?

Step into the light.

- Detective Justice.

- You were expecting me?

You or the dark one,

could have gone either way.

- Personally, l'm glad it's you.

- l need your help.

- Things have changed. Sit down.

- Rita has changed.

She's seeing things in her dreams.

- Now she's missing.

- What kind of dreams?

Nightmares. She paints them.

A girl was murdered and it was

exactly the way Rita painted it.

And then...then l saw this.

This is the last one she did.

Then it's true there was a child.

l knew Rita's mother.

l was in love with her years ago.

She studied the vampires

of my island. l was her guide.

l saw her succumb to the powers

of the dark one and Rita

is the result.

lt's like, just clean my house,

l don't care if your kid's sick...

- Please don't.

- We must. Besides, she deserves it.

We must feed, Rita, or we die.

- Well, here's my shortcut.

- Bye-bye.

This one is the last.

He needs her.

He has to move very, very quickly.

- l'll kill him if he hurts her.

- You have to.

To save her, you must kill him before

she abandons her humanity and feeds.

Much as she is human,

she is now also a predator.

What's a nice girl like you

doing in a place like this?

l have pepper spray and l'll use it!

But l want you to know

l understand the Negro people.

You've been chained by the oppression

of white capitalist society.

Yes, well...

then you'll understand this!

Your turn, Rita. Taste her.

Taste her and quench the hunger.

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