Jude opened her eyes lazily as she watched her surroundings. Her head was pounding really hard. The place she was, was so dark even she couldn't see her own hands. "Where am I?" She asked no one in particular.

She raised from where she was sleeping and walked around using her hands as sensors. She ran her hands through the walls hoping to touch a socket. She scratched her hair roughly trying to remember what happened and what she was doing there.

"I hope this is a dream' She prayed silently. Since young, she had been having a dream about her being kidnapped by a mysterious man who kept on asking something from her. But each time she woke up, she forgot what the man asked for.

"I hope it's the dream." She prayed inwardly.

After hours of walking in there she decided to cry for help. 'HELP!' She cried loudly. She banged the walls angrily at the extend where her hands hurt. "What do you want from me, shadow-man" She asked. "I know you can here me." She yelled when she heard no response.

"Oh! God let it be am dreaming." She prayed again and again pacing back and forth. She piched herself and she yelled in pain. 'Why am i not waking up? Is it that am not dreaming and am kidnapped for real." She cried.

She wiped her tears as she forced herself to remember. The last thing she remembered was Peter knocking her door, she then slapped him and asked him to go before sleeping. She woke up after a bad dream and then...the shadow!

"Fuck you shadow-man. I knew it was you. Take me out of this hell." She shouted jumping angrily. When she got no response, she sat down and buried her face in between her legs.

"What have I ever done to deserve all this?" She thought. The shadow-man had been stalking her for eighteen years and now he has finally taken her.

"Only God knows what he will do to me." She sighed. A faint light illuminated in the dark room and she stood up immediately.

"Finally!" She said in relief waiting for the door to be opened. A minute passed and she heard no footsteps. "Was I hallucinating?" She asked herself roaming her glassy-like green eyes around the dark room. She got a glimpse on where the light came from. She hurriedly walked to that place stumbling over objects and roamed her skeder fingers all over that place.

It was a window. And the light came in between the cracks it had. She touched the window, looking for a lock. When she got nothing she leaned against it. She heard something like waves crashing against it's shores. "Thank God am still in humans world.' She exclaimed fanning herself using her hands.

She removed the fur sweater she was wearing and threw it away. She heard a cock crow from far. She banged the window yelling loudly.

"HELP! HELP!' She shouted. The door opened and the place became still. "Who are you and where are you standing?..I can't see you." She asked. She felt a presence behind her and her body trembled with fear.

"Shadow-man please don't do anything to me. I swear if you let me go and I see you stalking me again I won't shout at you?" She begged her knees bowling and she fell with a thud.

She had a click sound and all over a sudden bright lights filled the room blinding her. She took sometime before her eyes adjusted to the lights. She looked behind her and the shadow-man was there staring at her.

Silence filled the room as they both looked at each other. One on her knees shaking with fear, the other standing straight no expression written on his face.

Outside, the sound of waves were hitting the shores angrily rose, leaving Jude wish they could just break their bounds, seek her out of that room and drag her with them to it's dark and mysterious depths.

Another silence passed and the shadow man walked towards her. She moved behind slowly and she finally hit the wall. Shadow-man dragged her towards where God knows. His hands cold, freezing her own. She gasped with fear when they stopped in front of a burning furnace.

"Don't kill me please, I have a family to take care of?" She lied. "Please shadow men...don't burn me." Her begging shaking voice rose.

"Am not going to burn you." The shadow man said. His voice deep. Jude gazed at him for so long. She didn't except him to have that kind of a voice. It was more humanic than she thought. She excepted him to have a hoarse grating voice which would leave one thinking he has swallowed a frog and few stones besides.

"If you are not going to burn me why am I here?" She asked when she finally got her voice. 'And by the way, why do you stalk me, huh? You are a gene, right?" She bombared more questions to him.

"Shadow-man? You know i have been having a dream about being kidnapped, and the kidnapper used to ask something from me but each time I woke up, that particular part where he talked was always erased away from me. No matter how hard I tried to remember I couldn't. Are you perhaps the one, because you are a gene and am sure you can invade my dreams." Jude said stairing directly at his blue eyes.

His eyes froze and narrowed so that the deep blue in them seemed to turn the place they were standing into a gigantic freezing- cold bathtub.

"Am sorry, I mean't no harm." Jude apologized. "Would you tell me why am here and what you want from me?" She asked when shadow man kept staring at her instead of talking.

'Have you ever experienced any weird feeling in your life?" Shadow man asked.

"Like?" Jude asked, shocked.

"A weird feeling which humans don't have?" He asked again.

"I don't know why you mean by that, but to answer your question, yes I have?" She answered.

"What was the feeling?" Shadow man asked his gaze bored deep into hers.

"Uh! Blood....I craved for blood. And there is there is this particular guy whom whenever I saw I couldn't suppress the feeling. I always felt like jumping onto him and drain his veins off." She explained to him.

"Have you never questioned yourself about that?" He asked again.

"I did but most of the time I was afraid. Afraid to hear the answer I had for myself." She said.

"What do you think the answer is?" Shadow man asked walking away from her. He poured paraffin on the blazing fire which was ready to devour any person alive and it sparkled, burning even more.

Jude could feel herself burning wherever she was standing. "This doesn't sound good?" She warned herself.

"Am waiting for your response, Jude." Shadow man said his deep voice removing her from her trence.

"Um...that I have read so many supernatural novels until I wanted to try them out. In real life." She said, her voice low.

"Liar!" Shadow man yelled and she trembled with fear like coconut leaves in the angry storm.

"Well I was afraid...what if I truly craved for blood and I could end up killing everyone around me." She found herself opening her mouth and told shadow man her fear.

"Do you know why I have you with me here, in front of this furnace." He asked his voice killing away the bravery feeling she was trying to build inside of her.

"No." She answered.

"You said something like you kept on being kidnapped in your dreams and asked for something." He reminded her.

"Yeah..but I never remembered what the kidnapper wanted from me." She said, knitting her brows together, giving him a questioning look.

"Well, I may as well remind you, but to be frank, you never forgot what I wanted from you. You forced yourself to forget. And there is a difference between forgetting and forcing yourself to forget." He said his face few inches away from hers. His burning mint breath fanning her small round face.

"So...it was ....you?' Jude stammered.

"Does it matter?" He asked. " Now, are you ready to hear what I want or would you rather hear it from your own memories?"

"I...if it's something I can do...I will do it so long as you let me go."Jude said.

"Okay...I want your blood Jude." He dropped the bomb and Jude could feel her short legs shaking with fear.

"Why?" She questioned him.

"Why...Why?" He questioned her too.

"Why my blood?" She inquired.

"Because it is useful." He smirked.

"And if I say ...no.." She half stated half question.

"You get burned alive, in this furnace." Shadow man said with finality his fingers pointing at the blazing furnace, which was throwing it red tongues furiously.

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