Snippet #2058451

Leli had a very bad feeling that something was going to happen, something terrible. Screams echoed through her head, inky blackness was quickly covering everything she could see, and it made her nervous. You're really gonna do this, aren't you? she thought, and sighed, rolling her stiff neck muscles. Like it or not, she had to defend what she could, though it wasn't much. And she did like her town. Sometimes.

She changed out of her uniform and slipped on a leotard under a pair of shorts, smiling gently. It had been a gift from her mother, something that would mold as she shifted, keeping her covered whenever she reverted to human form. Touching her necklace, she glanced out at the stars, and closed her eyes. "Thank you, Mom," she whispered, then tiptoed barefoot down the stairs, trying as hard as she could to be quiet. If she was seen by her father, this would be a lot more difficult.

Edging out the front door, she clicked it closed and sighed, leaving a hand pressed against it. She could go inside, hide with her dad, Vlad had said that she would live if she ran, she would live...did that mean he would spare her? No, once she left this house, she had a feeling she wouldn't return tonight, at least not in one piece. Slipping her necklace up and over her head, she looped it around and around the doorknob, hopeful that it would offer even a small amount of protection. Vlad couldn't enter without an invitation, and the amulet would keep her father inside, whether he liked it or not.

Jingling the lifted keys, she stepped into the family vehicle; a black and white Ford Crown Victoria, fitted as a police cruiser. The irony did not escape her; one of the biggest trouble makers in town had a cop for a father. Chuckling to herself, she veered the engire, flipped on the siren, and jammed into town, eyes solemn. It was beginning, and she WOULD be a part of it.