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and threw him out the window at the end
of the hall.
    Luke turned to look at her, out of breath.
"Wow," he said. "Thanks."
    Karina nodded, she looked afraid, but she
smiled. Luke ran to her, grabbed her hand, and ran down the hall
with her, to the stairwell. They opened the door and started to run
down, but Geric was there, stalking up the stairs angrily, with
blood dripping from a gash on his head from the chair. Luke and
Karina turned to run back into the third floor hall, but the
spiky-haired vampire was back again, with a few cuts on his face
from the glass of the window, blocking the door to the third floor.
Luke put Karina in front of him and they started to run up to the
roof.
    Geric and the other vampire walked calmly
behind them.
    "Corin, keep your eye on the lovers while I
go get something, won't you? And call Zachary up from the street,"
Geric said as he slipped quietly into the third floor hall.
    Karina stumbled onto the roof, the cool air
hitting her hard. Luke protectively kept himself in front of her as
they backed away from Corin.
    "Zachary," Corin said in a normal tone of
voice without taking his eyes off of the two in front of him.
    Suddenly Zachary flew up from the street,
quietly, and landed on the roof.
    Karina looked around for anything she could
move with her mind. Lawn furniture, anything. There was nothing.
Apparently, throwing vampires off the roof would do no good. They
could just hop right back up there. She held Luke's hand as they
were slowly backed into a corner. The low wall around the edge of
the roof hit her upper thigh. Corin and Zachary stopped a few feet
from them. Corin stared at them menacingly. Zachary looked stern,
but almost bored.
    Suddenly Geric burst through the roof door
and marched toward them with something in his arms. A little blond
girl in pink pajama pants and shirt. She looked about five years
old. She looked terrified.
    "Geric," Luke said with a growl to his voice
again.
    "So troublesome," Geric said to Luke, his
voice was happy and mocking again. "I just want to do us all a
favor and save your talented mate from human mediocrity. Why so
much drama?" He stopped walking about twenty feet from them. He was
standing near the edge of the roof. Karina watched in horror,
terrified of what he might do to the girl.
    Geric held the little girl up by the back of
her pajama top. She squirmed a little bit. "You humans always seem
to like these little things so much," he said, looking at the girl
with a grimace on his face.
    "Geric, don't," Luke said.
    "I will make a deal with you, Hero," Geric
said. He suddenly swung the little girl out so she was dangling
over the edge of the roof, held only by the back of her shirt. Her
eyes grew wide and she stopped squirming.
    "Let the girl go," he nodded to Karina, "or I
let the girl go," he nodded back at the little girl in his
hand.
    Karina gasped. Luke said nothing.
    Geric nodded impatiently. "Come on now, you
know I'll do it. I can drop little girls off the roof all night,
just give her up."
    "I'll do it," Karina said, stepping out from
behind Luke. "I'll go. Just put her down."
    "Karina," Luke said. He knew he could jump
off the roof and catch the little girl if he had to, he was just
trying to formulate a plan.
    "No, it's not worth this," Karina said. She
walked forward and Corin grabbed her arm roughly.
    Geric smiled with delight. He still dangled
the little girl. "Escort the young lady from the premises, please,"
he said to Zachary and Corin. They quickly obeyed. Karina gave Luke
one last worried look before she walked through the door to the
stairwell.
    "Alone at last," Geric said as he watched
them go. "Well, except for the small one," he said, shaking the
little girl a bit. She whimpered.
    "Geric, put her down," Luke said.
    Geric smirked. "What would be the fun in
that?" His mood was quite chipper now. He glanced at the little
girl happily. He shook her a little bit to make her whimper again.
Then he laughed. He glanced back at