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As quickly as Rancid had found fresh air to breathe, the door to the jail opened and the sheriff stepped inside holding a shotgun head high. Without hesitation the lawman stepped up to Rancid, pointed the barrel at his face and shot his head off splashing Isaac with brains, bone and blood. Rancid’s dead body fell to the floor in a heap l ying next to the fuming deputy. “Back in the cell,” the sheriff said to Isaac, and Isaac complied.The sheriff fished out his keys and locked the cell door trapping Isaac back inside. “What a fucking mess,” the sheriff said. He set his shotgun on his desk and shook his head in disgust. “What’s that smell?” the sheriff asked.“Acid,” Bohdan replied. “Your deputy was going to use it on us.” “Bastard, I knew that fucker was no good.”“He’s dead now,” Bohdan said.“No, no he’s not,” the sheriff said. “He’s moving around.”“You might want to finish him off, he’ll turn into a vampire soon if you don’t” “I can’t legally kill him, it’s not a crime to be a vam
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“What’s going on?” Ashley asked. She couldn’t see what was going on in the cell next to her.“Jim’s trying to stand up,” the sheriff replied. “And he’s not doing a very good job.”Bohdan could see what was going on from his cell and watched the mutilated half vampire try to stand. The deputy grabbed the bars and pulled himself up to a standing position. He was obviously in pain from the acid burns and his face was disfigured. One eye melted shut and his jaw hanged showing off his newly forming fangs. In an attempt to speak, the new vampire said, “Help me!”The sheriff stood back as the deputy spit blood as it spoke. The sound it made wasn’t clear, as if it had been chewing on its tongue. “What do you want me to do Jim?” the sheriff asked.“Get the doctor!” Jim said. Blood and spit drooled from his mouth onto the floor. “I don’t think the doctor is going to help much Jim, you’re too far gone.”“I hurt! Stop the pain!”“I can’t, I don’t know how.”Jim stumbled back and let go of the bar
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Bohdan stood in the bright afternoon sun as the sheriff attached the chain to the train depot roof support. The other end of the chain was attached to an iron brace that was locked around Bohdan’s neck keeping him from running off. The judge had arrived and his train now sat on the tracks refueling and taking on more water for the steam engine. The whole trial would take place outside in the shade of the depot in three hours before the judge had to leave for his next case three hundred miles away in Garden City.The judge brought along security, a bailiff, a court reporter, a prosecutor and nothing else. Everything else for the trial had to be provided by the local jurisdiction, including a defense attorney, which Seneca didn’t have.The sheriff set up a makeshift courtroom with a raised platform and bench for the judge and two tables for the prosecution and defense. The rest of the area was patchy grass covered dirt and a group of spectators who came out for the show. With the depot
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Three hours later the trial was wrapping up. The judge had to move on to his next case and needed to rule before he and the train left. The witnesses were heard, and the prosecution rested its case. By now, the sun had fallen in the west and it no longer burned Bohdan as he awaited his fate. The judge was now in the train depot going over his notes and making his call based on the evidence presented.Cara and Ashley sat on the depot steps anxiously biding their time awaiting the verdict. Cara would be lost without Bohdan and didn’t know what she’d do if he were taken away. Ashley could fend for herself, but had no ties to this place or time. “What are you going to do if they convict him?” Ashley asked.“I don’t know, I’ll see what happens first.” “Do you think the judge will find him guilty?”“Based on what was said, yes, I think he’s going to lose.”“I think you’re right, we might be stuck out here all by ourselves. I wonder if there’s a way to get back.”“I’m not going back, if I ca
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“I don’t have time for your theatrics madam,” the judge said. “I’ve ruled on the case.” “I’m a vampire too! You have to put me in the zoo with Bohdan!”“You’re a vampire?” the judge asked. “Is this some sort of joke? Prove to me you’re a vampire and I might listen to you.”Cara turned and looked into Bohdan’s eyes. She whispered, “Turn me now.” Bohdan looked back at her with a confused look. “What?” he asked.“Turn me now so I can go with you. I can’t be without you.”Bohdan shook his head and grabbed Cara’s wrist. He brought it up to his mouth and bit into the skin taking a sip of blood. Just enough to start the process. He had nothing to lose, he was going back to prison for the rest of his unnatural life.Cara turned back to the judge and held up her hand. “Look, there’s your proof! I am a vampire!”“Maybe so, but you weren’t when and if you killed the mother. If you were human at that point, you would be subject to a different set of laws. You’d be either hanged, or sent to Leaven
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A hundred miles down the track, Cara watched the landscape fly by through the train window waiting for her chance to convince the judge she was guilty of murder. Bohdan sat across from her on the other bench seat with his eyes closed. “What do you think will happen to Isaac and Ashley?” Cara asked.Bohdan replied, “Isaac will be fine, I’m not sure about the woman. The old west isn’t a very kind place.”“What do you mean?”“It’s not like the world you knew, you can’t call 911 when you need help. You’re on your own, and she is out of her element.”“She’s a security officer for a vampire hunting company, she’s not some child.”“Right now she’s alone in a world she doesn’t know. Who can she turn to? She’s basically a homeless person lost in time. Isaac is the only person she knows, and she’s only known him less than two weeks. He might turn on her the second he gets a chance.”Cara adjusted her dress and looked around the train car. She was surprised how quiet it was yet felt every bump a
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The judge didn’t get the information he was looking for and had no way to corroborate the two stories. His decision would have to be based on his gut feelings on who was telling the truth and who was lying to him. He didn’t have much to go on, but felt he was being lied to by both parties with different motives. “I’ve made my decision, I don’t believe either one of you. I find you not guilty of murdering Sara Rockwell and will have to dispatch from the train in St. Louis when we arrive.”“No! You can’t!” Cara cried out. “You have to find me guilty!”“I’m sorry, there is no evidence supporting your claim. Not even your boyfriend here would back you up. I have no choice.”Cara had to scramble for another plan. St. Louis was a few hours away and the thought of being separated from Bohdan was overwhelming. She took a deep breath and tried to calm herself down as an idea came to her. Taking a moment to regain her composure, she slipped off the right shoulder of her dress and pulled it down
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The train pulled into Burr Ridge Illinois at three in the morning, two miles from the Illinois state correctional facility for the undead, otherwise known as the Vampire Zoo. Built in eighteen sixty five, it was created to house the worst of the worst vampire killers in the United States. The facility was carved out of the ground creating a pit thirty feet deep with brick paved sides that would deter any vampires from scaling out. From the longest side it was five hundred feet end to end, and three hundred feet wide with a tower in the center that rose seventy feet from the bottom of the pit. A bridge connected the tower to the edge of the pit where staff and prisoners could enter the facility. The bridge was the only way in or out and was heavily guarded.Inside the pit were three housing units surrounded by gravel and dirt with a few trees and shrubs growing wild throughout. The trees were kept trimmed low to keep the vampires from scaling the walls and were eventually cut down if t
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