The Frozen Wishing Well

Ann and Eddie go hunting for human prey.

    Ann was a vampire. Had been for quite some time. Upon becoming a vampire she moved to a small town in Alaska. She brought with her her son Tyler and her unofficially adopted son Justin. Later she met her now immortal companion Eddie. They lived in an upstairs apartment and Tyler and Justin attended the local school. Ann and Eddie managed to always have enough money to pay rent, buy food for the two mortal boys and pay all the bills. And have plenty of left over money for fun stuff.

    It was late in the year in this part of Alaska and there was not much daylight. It was cold and snowed most of the time. When it wasn’t quite night dark but grey dark Ann and Eddie went out hunting. The two boys were old enough to stay home alone. They had plenty of electronic stuff to keep them happy once their homework was done.

    Ann and Eddie flew high over a neighboring town; hand in hand, all very romantic. The vampire’s eyes could easily spot life below in the cold, snowy night. And they could tell the difference between human and animal. They weren’t into animal blood as some vampires were, but only drank human blood. It was much more potent and more compatible to their needs, as former human beings.

    “Let’s go to the next town. I feel this town is a little too close to home this night.” Ann said to Eddie.

   “Sure honey. But let’s feed there for sure. I’m too hungry to keep flying around and looking for a good place to hunt.” Eddie answered. He had a strong Spanish accent being of Latin descent.

    “Okay.” Ann agreed.

    It didn’t take them long to reach the next town. They landed near a rather high snow bank created by the handy work of a snowplow. The snow was deep. People were huddled in their homes. Yellow lights spilled out of windows onto the white dark snow outside. A light snow was falling and here was a notable absence of a breeze.

    Ann was wearing a heavy parka with thick fur lined gloves for her hands. Eddie was equally bundled up. Vampires could easily handle cold. But the cold of Alaska was a bit extreme even for vampires.

    Eddie spotted a house close by that he liked the look of. There were two adult humans in the house. “That house. It looks perfect.” He said pointing to it.

    It was across the street from where they stood.

    Ann studied the house. There was a dog present. A husky. “A human for each of us.” She said. “I like that.”

    “We can easily take care of the dog.” Eddie said.

    They moved fluid like over the snow to the house, not sinking into the white fluffy stuff. They didn’t care if anyone saw them. They moved rapidly, too fast for any human to focus on them clearly. When they reached the house they had no problem getting in. As luck would have it, the door was unlocked.

    “Foolish humans. They think they are safe because they live in Alaska?” asked Ann. “If so, they won’t think so for long.”

    Eddie laughed, a kind of pleased malicious sound.

    Ann snorted. She grinned, a fanged grin, making herself look frightening on purpose. They entered the house through the unlocked back door. The husky rushed to them, snarling. Eddie made an ugly sound. The dog fell silent, then dropped to the floor and rolled over onto its back, totally submissive. It would have put its tail between its legs if it could have but its tail was too permanently curled for that.

    The two humans were in the front room watching the news. They never knew what hit them. Ann and Eddie rushed toward them, pulling them up into their lethal embraces and sinking their fangs into their throats. The startled humans didn’t even have time to cry out. They died in the grip of the vampires. Ann and Eddie hungrily siphoned their victim’s blood from their bodies, enjoying the sweet taste of it and the relief feeding gave them. They left them sitting on the couch, very pale looking, the wounds in their necks already healing from the healing enzyme in the vampire’s saliva, which made their deaths look natural, as if they had died in their sleep. As Ann and Eddie left the dog was still submissive.

    “Oh. Let’s not let the dog suffer.” Ann said, pausing in the kitchen.

    “What?” asked Eddie.

    “This.” Ann opened the dog food bags she found and left them on the kitchen floor with dried dog food spilling out. Then she danced into the bathroom and turned the water on in the bathtub very low.

    Eddie followed watching. “That will make the deaths here look questionable.”

    “So.” said Ann. “The dog won’t suffer. It will have food and water.”

    Eddie smiled and put his arm around Ann. “You still have a soft heart, my sweet. I sure love you.” He kissed her and they left the house and went back out into the cold, dark Alaskan night. They walked a few blocks from the house, more human like now, trudging through the snow. They came to what looked like a public garden but as they walked into it they saw it was a churchyard. Cold, white and locked in ice.

    “Oh look!” Ann exclaimed.

    A little wooden bridge led over a frozen creek. On the other side was a Wishing Well.

    “Pretty!” Ann hurried over the bridge and stood beside the Wishing Well. Eddie followed her.

    “Going to make a wish?” Eddie asked.

    Ann looked at him. “Why not?” She said.

    Eddie stuck his bare hands into his jean pocket and pulled out some change. He handed it to Ann who had removed her gloves as well as he had before partaking of their blood meal. They had quickly shoved them into the pockets of their parkas to get them out of the way. Afterwards they had not bothered to put their gloves back on.

    “Thanks.” She said and went back to looking at the well. She thought a moment. Then two. Eddie watched silently. What to wish for, she wondered. Then a wish came to her. “I thought of a wish.” She told Eddie and tossed the coins into the frozen Wishing Well. They heard them land on the frozen ice below.

    “What’d you wish for?” Eddie asked.

    Ann glanced at him and smiled. “If I tell you it won’t come true!” She said brightly.

    Eddie laughed good naturedly at her answer then took her by the hand. “And we don’t want that, do we?” He said with a delighted smile.

    “No.” Ann agreed. “We don’t want that.”

    And they took off into the cold Alaskan night air hand in hand and flew back home. On the way Ann thought of her wish, her wish for happiness, love, beauty and for peace in her life and the life of those she loved.

 

 

   

Reviews

[Coyote Poetry]

That was a strange wish for a Vampire. I like how you make her kill without thought. I wonder how much human feelings can a Vampire feel? I like the set-up of the story and the ending. Wishing wells are always a cool thing. To be able to wish for something with a drop of a coin. A excellent chapter.
Coyote

[HorrorMaster]

All chapters were amazing. I like the story so far. Very good vampire book.

[Black Cat Fever]

Now we see Ann in action as a vampire hunting. She does need blood to survive but she shows she's not totally evil or bad once again by caring about the dog and by what she wishes for at the Wishing Well. Great group of stories about Ann the Vampire.