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Incubus Dreams :: Гамильтон Лорел
Страница: 585 из 605We got some of them tonight, but notall of them, and we sure as hell missed the big guy, and if you don’t kill the main master, he just moves somewhere else and starts making new vampires. It’s like going in for cancer surgery, if you don’t get it all, then it keeps spreading.”
“I thought you were dating a vampire,” he said.
“I am,” I said.
“For someone who’s dating one of them, you have a damned dark view of them.”
“Ask me how I feel about human beings sometimes. I’ve gotten called in on too many serial killer cases, where they want it to be a monster, because they don’t want to believe that one human being could do shit like that to another human being.”
“How long you been doing this, hunting vamps, doing the bad crimes?”
“Six years, why?”
“Most violent crime units rotate their people about every two to five years. Maybe you need to see something a little less bloody for awhile.”
I didn’t know what to say to that, so I sort of side-stepped it.
“Up there, the master vampire that was hiding in the corner, none of you could see him, right?”
“Until you shot him.”
“I could feel him. I knew exactly where he was. He was controlling the others in the bedroom. If he hadn’t died, then the others would have kept attacking, even with the holy objects visible. We’d have lost more people.”
“Maybe, but what’s your point?”
“My abilities with the dead are genetic, it’s like a psychic gift.
No amount of training or practice will teach you how to see the invisible. There are less than twenty people in the entire country that have abilities even close to mine.”
“There are a hell of a lot more than twenty people in the new federal marshal’s program,” he said.
I nodded. “Yeah, and some of them are good. Some of them would have sensed his power, but I don’t know if any of the rest would have known exactly where to shoot.”
“You’re saying that you’re the only one who can do your job?”
I shrugged.
“Look, Blake, take some advice from someone who’s been doing this longer than you have. You’re not God, you can’t save everybody, and the police work in this town has been running just fine without you to baby-sit. You aren’t the only cop in this city, and you aren’t the only one who can do this job. You’ve got to let go of that idea, or you’ll go crazy. You’ll start blaming yourself for not being there twenty-four-seven.
“I thought you were dating a vampire,” he said.
“I am,” I said.
“For someone who’s dating one of them, you have a damned dark view of them.”
“Ask me how I feel about human beings sometimes. I’ve gotten called in on too many serial killer cases, where they want it to be a monster, because they don’t want to believe that one human being could do shit like that to another human being.”
“How long you been doing this, hunting vamps, doing the bad crimes?”
“Six years, why?”
“Most violent crime units rotate their people about every two to five years. Maybe you need to see something a little less bloody for awhile.”
I didn’t know what to say to that, so I sort of side-stepped it.
“Up there, the master vampire that was hiding in the corner, none of you could see him, right?”
“Until you shot him.”
“I could feel him. I knew exactly where he was. He was controlling the others in the bedroom. If he hadn’t died, then the others would have kept attacking, even with the holy objects visible. We’d have lost more people.”
“Maybe, but what’s your point?”
“My abilities with the dead are genetic, it’s like a psychic gift.
No amount of training or practice will teach you how to see the invisible. There are less than twenty people in the entire country that have abilities even close to mine.”
“There are a hell of a lot more than twenty people in the new federal marshal’s program,” he said.
I nodded. “Yeah, and some of them are good. Some of them would have sensed his power, but I don’t know if any of the rest would have known exactly where to shoot.”
“You’re saying that you’re the only one who can do your job?”
I shrugged.
“Look, Blake, take some advice from someone who’s been doing this longer than you have. You’re not God, you can’t save everybody, and the police work in this town has been running just fine without you to baby-sit. You aren’t the only cop in this city, and you aren’t the only one who can do this job. You’ve got to let go of that idea, or you’ll go crazy. You’ll start blaming yourself for not being there twenty-four-seven.