The Hunter and the Vampire
Beneath the hem of my faux-leather jacket was a belt, and in that belt were a number of stakes, sheathed like bullets in a bandolier.
The process was simple: stake, wait, move on. Stake, retrieve the original stake, stash, move on. That was the third rule of hunting – keep it simple, stupid. My Paps had always ruffled my hair when he’d said, “stupid;” a mostly useless attempt at keeping my supernatural education as light as possible. My Dad would roll his eyes at Paps, but there would always be something lovesick in his gaze that had belied his respect, and his adoration, for my Paps’s desperation to keep my adolescence innocent.
As innocent as a hunter’s adolescence could be, anyway.
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