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&039;He&039;s got in with his er to fire the first bolt The others have crosses tattooed on their sides Hawkins has three Craven can get his, now He&039;s done one of us A step up fro He&039;s FVK now A Fearless Vampire Killer&039;

&039;So they&039;ve done this before?&039;

&039;Or say they have Two of &039;em are full of shit Probably turned up with a coal scuttle full of ash and bone and said they&039;d topped a Carpathian No doubt about Hawkins Nasty piece of work Herrick&039;s digging up e can get to stick on him Put names on the crosses&039;

&039;What&039;s the answer?&039; she asked &039;Education?&039;

&039;I&039;d educate &039;ean &039;All the way up to an exam they wouldn&039;t pass&039;

For the next few hours, Kate looked through interview roo between TV channels Bellaver took Van Helsing, who had dragged in his brief, Jasper Lakin The lawyer&039;s argument was to claiuerrilla theatre to draw attention to the va&039;s lads got out of hand Van Helsing said as little as possible and let Lakin do the talking for hiiven a free run at Craven, who et it framed He freely admitted his part in the raid and was proud to be the only one to stake a vaiven to a couple of B Division newcomers, Perryman and North, ent round the houses with hiet him to remember his own name, occupation or place of residence

Cochran was in hospital, under guard, having his face seen to His interrogation would have to wait

Hawkins, theface, would have been Griffin&039;s He&039;d had a knack of getting through to the harder nuts Bellaver had to trust Pickering, a little, whiny, bald, fanged fanatic, to take a run at the unresponsive skinhead Hawkins, bored, said nothing but kept staring at theto Dixon, DeBoys and the other Black Monks were helpful They gave articulate, concise statereed with each other They&039;d old stars in any copper&039;s book Observing a commotion, they&039;d taken steps to cool the situation until the police could respond Kate wondered how cool Cochran was just now: he was only alive because Anna&039;s venom had anaesthetic/narcotic properties (which she hoped so)

The students were polite Dixon made sure they stayed out of the incident room which was papered with pictures of Carol and Laura, alive and dead DeBoys politely asked if they could leave before dawn Bellaver had no reason to keep the action in such cases but had to thank the fast Kate knew they&039;d saved her life Nezumi had slipped away and no one mentioned her; not even Craven of the shattered knee, who didn&039;t want to adirl

&039;Besides poor Julian, the worst thing about this is the distraction,&039; said Dixon &039;An open and shut case which is going to get a lot of ink The papers will be all over it By toainst us and for theirls is free and liable to do it again We have to waste ti the vampire h,&039; she said &039;As long as he&039;s out there, killing innocent omen, then all vampires aresergeant the Circle of Light could have&039;

Could there be a tie-up between the killer and Van Helsing? Croft and he had been on the saations ended at five a the s and saw the interviewers standing, gathering their notes, and leaving Their subjects remained seated Uniformed constables caland commit a murder, and have your pick of tea and jam or marmalade on your toast

&039;Hello hello,&039; said Dixon, &039;what&039;s going on here then?&039;

It took a ister what he&039;d seen In Craven&039;s rooers She&039;d either not gone home when ordered or snuck back when everyone was busy

Kate had a track-and-zooave her an insolent smirk He quite fancied himself with the ladies

Then he noticed the WPC was a varew to four times its usual size Lamprey-teeth projected She drooled bloody spittle Her eyes were red s of panic He rattled the chain that fixed hian had shackled him after the intervieound up Was that procedure? People were going to ask Rogers tore Craven&039;s chair out froainst table That drew blood Rogers wiped a s, liver-coloured tongue

The ht the woht hear him from outside the nick

The door shook Bellaver&039;s voice sounded through it

Kate ht in her nostrils

&039;Donna, no,&039; she said

Rogers, realising she was out of time, picked Craven up and took a bite out of his neck which exposed bone, severed arteries and scraped away ush into her s sharpened

The chair under the doorknob dislodged Bellaver and Regan rushed into the rooers

Craven fell, dead Kate saw it as if in slow motion Gobbets of blood went everywhere His wrist was still fixed to the table His head flopped back, loose His neck was nearly bitten through

In sudden death, the boy&039;s eyes showed expression - pure terror Then nothing Until Rogers bit hiht all the va poured into him He just wanted to be like his mate Hawkins, hard and feared He wanted to earn his cross and be part of the gang

Finally, Donna Rogers had put the fear of vampires in him

&039;Well done, love,&039; said Bellaver, sarcastically &039;Kno difficult it&039;s going to be to clean up this uration, but everything below her eyes was painted with blood

She spat out ristle