Chaos at The Ruby

[Sadie's POV]

Sadie feels a sharp pain in her breast. Catherine, moving with inhuman speed, had bitten down into Sadie's bosom. Sadie pushes on Catherine, but Catherine pins Sadie's hands behind her back, and keeps drinking.

All around the strip club, Sadie hears screaming. She looks to see that one of the girls, Farrah, is pulling on the door at the entrance to the club, but it won't open. Locked she thinks. The Asian customer runs behind Farrah, yanking on her hair from behind and sinking her fangs into Farrah's shoulder. Blood spurts from her neck and down over her breasts as she shrieks. Poor Farrah. All around Sadie, she sees the customers chasing after the strippers and bartenders, tearing into their flesh.

Sadie accepts what has become obvious: they are vampires.

The pain in her breast has morphed into a dull pleasure. She moans involuntarily as Catherine drinks her blood, before catching herself. I need to get out of here she thinks, implementing the first plan that comes to mind. She closes her eyes, slumping forward onto Catherine. What do they tell you to do with predators? Play dead?

Catherine stops feeding and sighs, rolling Sadie off of her. Sadie falls to the cold floor with a thud, trying not to wince when her hip hits the concrete. After a few seconds, she opens her eyes a crack, and sees Catherine biting into the thigh of another girl, Brittany, who is sprawled on top of the bar. The older brunette vampire is drinking from Britanny's neck. The screams are getting quieter, and Sadie reasons that she needs the mayhem for cover.

She tries to silently get up, wincing from her bruised hip. She sees several of the girls with their throats ripped out, drenched in blood. Others are being fed on. A few more cower in corners or under tables, not sure where to go. Sadie sees her friend, Tani, one of the brunette vampires drinking greedily from her breast. They make brief eye contact, but Sadie looks away. Tani reaches out to her, tears streaming down her cheeks. Sadie makes a break for it, running towards Mitch's office in the back. There is door to the alley back there.

Sadie gets to the office, hoping she wasn't seen as she ducked behind tables and bars. Closing the office door, she tries the door to the alley. Locked: of course. She turns around, and only then sees Mitch slumped against the wall. Or at least his body -- Sadie doesn't know where his head went. Thinking fast, she figures her best bet is to hide in the closet and wait until sunrise. I'll be safe during the day, right? she wonders, and then remembers there are no windows anywhere at the Ruby. She goes into Mitch's closet, closing the door behind her. The screaming from the main room has died down, she only hears muffled shouts here and there.

I never collected my tip from Catherine Sadie thinks surrealy, and laughs. She immediately clasps a hand over her mouth when she hears the door to the office open.

"Here, here, little calf" a voice calls out, different from Catherine's. "I can smell your blood, calf, why don't you come out and play?"

Sadie holds her breath, eyes screwed shut tightly as if it matters. It's only a matter of time now, she thinks bitterly. The door to the closet flies off its hinges and crashes on the other of the room. Sadie looks up and sees one of the White vampires standing over her, chin covered in blood.

"Let's play" the vampire says, grinning menacingly.