Chapter 71- Landrover

**Hopes pov**

My head hurts as I try to open my eyes..my eyelids are so heavy..I try to move but it’s like I’m stuck..I relax and hope sleep will take me back. The air around me is cold and quiet..the smell is unfamiliar..where am I?.My eyes are suddenly wide open..I remember..Tina, the sting in the neck..the hunters. I try to look around, but they locked me down, I can’t move. I’m in some type of examination room from what I can see and feel from my surroundings.The white walls and the sterile smell.

*Luna..are you there? Are you awake?..* I feel her stir a little but she is not conscious yet. I try to open a link to Callum, but without her its not possible.
A door to the room opens and judging by the steps, at least two people enter. I close my eyes, pretending to still be out.
“ I know you are awake Hope.” A man says. I feel the bed or bunk I’m lying on slowly rise, I get roused to a more or less vertical position, coming eye to eye with my hosts. It is a man and a woman. The man seem to be in his fifties perhaps. His hair is cut short, army style. He is not that fit so he is probably a behind the desk kind of guy.
He has kind of attractive Asian features but they are weak so maybe third generation of mixed marriages. His eyes have a grey-green tone and as a youngster he was probably a chickmagnet. He is wearing a white shirt, gray unbuttoned cardigan and a pair of dark gray trousers. Definitely a desk guy. The woman in the room is a bit younger, forty maybe..she is wearing a white lab coat over her finely knitted jumper and black trousers.
“ If you look up there, you se one of the reasons we knew you were awake.” He says and points to a camera motored in the left corner of the roof.
“The other one is a heart rate monitor under the metal arch over your chest.” The man pulls up a chair and sits down in front of me.
“ So, now that is out of the way let me introduce my self. I am Mr Landrover and this lady is Miss Mercedes. Its a pleasure to meet you Hope, we have heard a lot about you and the stories goes back hundreds of years.”
“ Look Mr...I don’t know what you think you know, I’m only twenty-two. I am a visitor with my mother in Great falls..I don’t know who you think I am but..”
“ ENOUGH!!! “ The man shifts from polite to mad in seconds.
“ Our organization is old miss Hope..almost as old as the wolf inside you..." He narrows his eyes at me before he continues.
"Do you think we would have made it if we were stupid? If we didn’t researched our targets before we take them out?” The man inhales a few times and calms down.
“What do you want from me?” I ask
“Do you read the newspapers miss Hope?”
“ I do.”
“ Good..then you have read about all the missing people right?..Say, where do you think they are?” I know he is referring to vampires, but I say nothing, better to let him do the talkning for now.

“ Long ago, my predecessors captured a woman named Naomi. They had been tracking her for a long time, but there were many people protecting her. She was heavily pregnant which suited them perfectly, they would get two for the work of capture one. Unfortunately, she managed to give birth without their knowledge and her husband disappeared with the child. But at least they got her in the end. She was weak and wounded from a complicated childbirth, so she was an easy catch." The smug smile on his face made me want to claw it of..how can anybody found that kind of pleasure in anothers misery? He kept talking
"They kept her alive for almost two months before her heart finally gave out. But at that time they had so much of her blood they didn’t even try to revive her again. That blood fueled their weapons against the vampires for years..but back then, there was not the same possibility for storage as today..freezing was not an option. The same was true of paper trail..it didn’t exist, so tracing Naomi’s child was an impossibility. Over the years, this became just a fairy tale in one of our books. After all, no one believed in the bloodline that was poisonous to vampires..” The man takes a break, the smug smile on his face was still there.
“ So, that is what this is about then, you want to drain me? You think my blood will stop them?”
“ I know your blood kills them so yes, death usually means stop.”
“ Then you know nothing I’m afraid..you will only kill the turned..you know, the once you read about in the newspapers..but the truborns..or the King himself..no, they won't die..but you will probably piss them of.” This time, it was me giving him the cocky smile.
“ Trueborns? What is a trueborn?” The man look annoyed.
“ Maybe you can read about them in those books of yours..” I snickered
He flew up on his feet and slammed the chair in to the wall, if this man was ever in the military, he was probably fired due to agitation problems.
“Start the procedure, be careful not to take too much, I want to keep her alive as long as I can.” He says to the woman, who then left the room, probably to get things she needed. He turned back to me.
“ You shouldn’t try to shift, the metal collar around your neck will probably strangle or decapitate you if you try. Howl as much as you want, the room is soundproof so no one can hear you.” A cold chuckle leaves his mouth as he leaves the room.
As soon as I am alone Luna is appearing, she is awake and she is pissed.
*“Easy girl..we are locked down pretty tight..the metal is sharp so we have to be smart about this..”* The woman named Mercedes is coming back in to the room, pushing a cart with what I assume are needles, tubes and whatever is needed to draw my blood. She picks up a remote from one of her pockets and press a button, making my bed go back to horizontal position.
“ So, you are just going to keep me like this while you drain me? What if I need to pie? Or do nr two?..Should I go right here and then you wash me?” The woman dosen’t answer..she just concentrating on getting the needles in my arms, one in each.
*“ Luna..is there anything you can do? Can you maybe slow the blood flow?”* I can feel her trying, my veins get warm and the woman start hitting my arms, trying to get them flowing again. I am going to need help fast if I want to survive this..fuck, think Hope! Luna is showing me Callum. Yes of course! Luna is back, maybe I can link him. Even with Lunas help slowing the blood flow, the blood is still leaving me and I start to feel it, but I concentrate on the link to Callum.
“ Callum…Callum can you hear me?..please say you can hear me!..”
“Hope! Yes, yes I can hear you, where are you? Are you okay?”
“ I don’t know where I am, I’m locked in a room, strapped to a bed. They are taking my blood Callum, they want it as a weapon against the vampires..They will not take it all at once, they are probably going to let me recover in between until my body cant take it anymore..I don’t know how long I got so you need to hurry.”
“I will Hope..I’ll find you..can you give me anything? The smallest clue will help.”
“Tina..she is the one who brought them, she is the one who told them about me. She must know something you can use.”
“We already have her in custody, I could smell her at the place you were taken..anything ells? Do you think Ambrogio has anything to do with this?
“ No, he has everything to loose, they will target him and his children hard, using my blood. You need to reach out to him, warn him.”
“ What? Why?”
“ Because of Tony..he is a new age vampire..maybe he can help..if he know wolves, maybe he knows hunters?..Use all the contacts you can think of..we only have one enemy in this.”
“ I’ll think of something..I promise..and Hope, promise me to hang in there..Hope?..HOPE!!!”
“ I’m here..just getting so tired..she is taking so much..cars! Landrover and Mercedes..”
“Cars? Did they drove a Landrover? A Mercedes? Please Hope..try to focus love, for me, please..”
“ No..they have..car names..the man is named Landrover and the woman..”
“ Mercedes..” Callum finished my sentence..trying to make me save my strength. I miss him so much. We just got back and now we got torn apart again..I want to keep the link up, stay with him but the darkness is closing in and before I lose the connection I hear his voice one last time.
“ Hope?…”

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