The Sorority (2)

A girl jumps up and tries to run out of the large common room. In the blink of an eye, Elizabeth grabs the girl by the throat and forcefully throws her down onto one of the couches.

"Ladies, please. We'll have no more of that, will we?" Elizabeth asks. Jessica's can't quite explain it, but there is something about Elizabeth's tone that calms the room. It isn't just intimidation, it is something more. Jessica marvels at the possibilities for suggestion now open to her.

Elizabeth grabs a pale girl with freckles and a button nose from the group, dragging her to the front. "Jessica, will you share a drink with me?" Elizabeth asks.

"I'd love to" Jessica replies, flashing a fanged grin at her maker. Elizabeth steps behind the frightened girl, grasping her arms, and bites down on her neck. The girl screams, and then starts softly moaning, her mouth open. Jessica approaches the girl and bites down on the other side of her neck, the warm blood spurting into her mouth. Elizabeth and Jessica drink together, their hands caressing each other as they feed.

Elizabeth and Jessica drop the lifeless girl and embrace. "I love this...I don't understand.... But this is the best I've ever felt" Jessica says slowly as she catches her breath. Elizabeth flashes a knowing smile at Jessica, and cups her cheek.

"You have so much to learn, so much to experience, child" Elizabeth says. The two vampires kiss passionately.

After a few hours, only one of the sorority sisters is still breathing. The common room is drenched in blood, with corpses strewn about in various states of undress. The frenzied feeding of before has given way to a relaxed dessert. The vampiresses have adjurned to the dining room. The sole survivor, a svelte Indian student with a thick black ponytail and flat tummy, lies strapped to the dining room table, nude and gagged. Her body is covered in bite marks, neck to calves. The vampiresses lounge lazily on the chairs surrounding the table, idly chatting. Every few moments, one will go in for a quick bite, sucking for a few seconds and then closing the wound with their saliva.

Miko is biting into the girl's breast, while Catherine is on her wrist. Jessica lazily rubs the girls thigh, before going in for a bite.

"Jessica, we certainly celebrated your transformation with a bang!" Miko excitedly says. "Did you enjoy this hunt?"

"More than anything" Jessica states, grinning at Miko. Her blood lust fully sated now, Jessica feels differently internally. She looks through the opening into the common room and can't help but feel shame over the carnage...shame at having lost self control and surrendered to her basest urges. I am the apex predator, nature demands that I hunt Jessica tries to convince herself, but the doubts linger. She looks from face to face around the table, the faces showing only mirth. Are these girls wearing masks? Jessica wonders. Once upon a time they were like me, brought into a world of slaughter against without their consent .

Elizabeth looks at Jessica with a concerned expression, almost as if she can sense the inner struggle in the young vampiress. Without shifting her gaze from Jessica, she says "Children, it is almost dawn. Jessica must be exhausted after such a successful hunt."

The vampiresses file out of the sorority house, setting fire to the curtains behind them. "It's _disgusting _that we need to hide our nature like this" Miko says ruefully "the humans should be worshiping us!"

"Don't be stupid" Catherine replies matter-of-factly, "the shadows afford us total freedom. The cattle's ignorance of us makes them so much riper for picking."

Elizabeth chuckles at the debate. The vampiresses enter the limo and drive back to the mansion as the house burns behind them. The five lucky sorority sisters from before are there, their hands bound and tied to rings on the walls of the cabin. Jessica and the other vampires escort the captives into the mansion as the first light starts creeping over the horizon. The captives are taken to cells in the basement, wide eyed but too shocked to resist or even speak.

The vampiresses strip and shower together, far too tired for anything more than a quick scrub. Catherine and Miko go their own way, yawning and saying "good morning" as they trawl off to bed. Elizabeth and Jessica arrive at what has become Jessica bedroom. Elizabeth gives Jessica a quick peck on the cheek. "Go to sleep, child." Jessica is exhausted and falls asleep the second her head hits the pillow. She sleeps deeply but is tortured by bad dreams. All of the joie de vivre from the hunt earlier has melted away, transformed into anxiety as she replays the night's carnage in her head over and over again.