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when I heard the thud on the roof of my car as the first vamp landed.  His nails punctured through the metal like knives through rice paper.
    “Fuck.  Now I’m going to have to use an umbrella in the car when it rains.”
    I cornered hard and could hear him sliding.  His feet dangled by Killian’s window.  He got in a good kick and a circular spider web fractured the glass.
    “Do me a favor.  Reach out your window and yank him off, would you?”
    “The glass will not roll down...“ Killian said, frantically pressing the window button.
    P.O.S. car.  I cornered hard to the right.  The vampire slid the other way.  I rolled down my window to keep from having to make another call to my insurance company.
    “Take the wheel.”
    Foot heavy on the gas as Killian steered, I reached out with two hands and yanked the vamp hard.  I could feel his cold muscles struggle to climb back onto the roof.
    “Turn right!  Turn right!” I shouted at Killian.
    The momentum of the car flung the vamp and I could hear his torso hit the roof hard as his legs flew out.  I reached into the top of my boot and pulled out my silver spike.  I slammed it through the roof as Killian continued to corner the car.  I heard an inhuman scream.  The nails retracted from the roof.  I rolled up the window and pulled out the spike.  I saw the vampire fall off the car and onto the road.  Two more vampires dropped out of the sky to check in on him. 
    Unfortunately, Killian was still cornering and I got a great big eye lock with ‘em before I could wrest the wheel away.  Locking eyes with a vampire:  “Way To Get Yourself Killed Right Quick #84” in the Idiots Guide to Not Getting Dead By A Monster .  I could hear their siren call of seduction and felt a none too unpleasant sensation down in the general direction of my hoohaw.
    “Maggie, stay with me!”
    And then I felt a stinging slap across my face as well as a healthy whiff of leather and man.
    I looked at Killian, his hands still on the wheel.
    “You back?” he asked.
    “Yah.  Thanks.”
    I grabbed the wheel from him and gunned my car straight at the vamps.  I hit them like a pair of ten pins in a macabre game of Bowling for Blood.  The vamp on the ground and a second guy went under my wheels.  The third hit my hood and then went over the top of my car.  I looked into my rear view.
    Yah, it’s only on Earth that you can’t see them in a mirror.
    I glanced over at Killian.  His pupils were dilated as he hung onto the suicide handle.
    The grin crept to the corners of my mouth and spread into a wide smile.  “That was hot,” I said.
    Killian shook his head and laughed, “You, my dear Maggie, are sick.”

Chapter 10
    Earth seemed so quiet compared to the Other Side.  I slowed down as we cruised over Barham, past the movie studios in Burbank, and headed out the 134 freeway towards Pasadena.  Once you get past Glendale, civilization falls away and the freeway cuts through the rolling hills like a bird.  You feel almost like you’re flying above the glittering homes tucked into the valleys below.  This time of night, the road was empty and there was nothing but the distant sprawl of the city and the stars.
    I rolled down my one working window and smelled the dusty sage in the air.  This was home – driving through the hills at night in this crazy, messed up world of false dreams.
    Killian cleared his throat, “You did an excellent job defending us.”
    I glanced at him outta the side of my lids, realizing he was trying to pay me a compliment.
    “You didn’t do so badly yourself,” I offered with about as much grace as a kindergartener on the playground.  “Thanks for giving me a smack when that bastard caught my eyes.”
    “My pleasure,” he replied.  A silence hung between us for a moment.  “I have wanted to do that since the moment I met you.”
    I laughed, “The feeling’s mutual.”
    He held out his hand, “Partners?”
    “Yah,” I said, as I took