It was a bold question. But then again I was a bold man. Young man.***********************************************************************************...*******************************************"You really are 13, aren't you?" she said with a smile that got me good. I almost couldn't handle the flirtiness."I guess so." and I hit her with a smile she'd never forget.DAY 2I started to think to myself:"No turning back now, Bryan. (again, name changed) might as well just go for it. You're ready."I. We took the stairs, running up six flights, or more like flying really, we had so much energy. It seemed effortless and the climb took all of a dozen seconds, no more than that. I was flushed with excitement, but not exertion. I could have gone up a hundred flights easily without pausing for breath.The FBI offices were to the right, past the elevators and through some large glass doors, etched with the official seal. The lights were on and I could sense the other vampire clearly now. Definitely. He handed one part to the young man. "This is a down payment. If I leave and my car is alright, you get the other half." Jerry took the half bill and looked like he was going to say something clever but Hooke continued. "And if the slightest thing is wrong with my new car," he paused and caught Jerry's eyes. "I'll kill your family."Jerry didn't look like he was impressed by the threat. He'd heard them before. He just nodded slightly. He was more interested in the other half of the fifty than in. He’d taken her in when she was found on the doorstep as no more than a baby and he was all that she’d ever known, there was no love from him he claimed to have named her for the village but in private confessed many times he had named her for what she was to him, a hex, a witches curse plaguing him. She never truly understood his hatred for her but then again there were many things she didn’t understand. Why her chest protruded in such a way, why her shiny ebony hair was allowed to grow so.