30 Days of Night: Immortal Remains by Jeff Mariotte & Steve Niles

Author:Jeff Mariotte & Steve Niles
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Horror, General, Media Tie-In, Fiction
ISBN: 9781416525424
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-07-30T23:00:00+00:00

Andy Gray watched the man who called himself Dane step through the door of the Polar Bar and disappear. Something about that guy…he couldn’t put his finger on it, but there was definitely more to him than met the eye. He fingered Paul Norris’s fang resting against his chest. He couldn’t be a vampire, no way, not here in the heart of Barrow. Anyway, he didn’t look like one—no fangs, normal human skin tones.

But it was night. Andy hadn’t been able to adjust to a normal sleeping schedule since he had come to Barrow a while back. Fortunately there were plenty of late-night places like this where a guy could get lunch at midnight or 1:00 AM.

And Dane hadn’t eaten anything, either. He’d had coffee. Andy picked up the cup, sniffed it. Just coffee. Black.

It had been a couple of years since he’d been a full-on FBI agent, but certain habits were hard to break. Andy was suspicious by nature, and his years of Bureau training had intensified that trait. He finished his lunch, glanced at the watch on his wrist. Time for another Coke before his workout, if he wanted it. He had started a fitness regime since moving to Barrow that far exceeded what little exercising he had done before, in his old life—when Paul Norris had been alive, and so had Andy’s wife Monica and their girls, Sara and Lisa.

Andy had not died and been brought back, the way vampires were. But there was an equally strict dividing line between his former life and his new one, and that line was the day he had awakened and found his family murdered while he slumbered, drunk in his own home office.

For a long time he thought the line was when Paul turned into a vampire. Paul had been his closest friend, his partner, and in many ways he loved Paul more than he’d ever loved Monica.

Eventually, though, time had showed him that he was wrong. Paul’s change had upset his life, turned it inside out, and shaken all the crap loose. But Andy had retreated into booze and work and research, hiding from his feelings, from real life. It was only when Paul killed Monica and the girls—framing Andy for their murders—that he had thrown off those things and started to remake himself into the person he had become.

When, after months on the run, Andy, along with John Ikos, finally killed Paul in the fields outside Barrow, he knew that he was complete and that he had finally found someplace to call home.

He had started rebuilding himself physically then. When he looked at pictures of himself before—thin and pudgy at the same time, soft and sallow—he barely recognized himself. That wasn’t the man who looked back at him from the mirror. The man in the mirror was strong, filled with energy and determination. He had pared away the things that didn’t matter—hair, fears, weaknesses—and worked on building those that did.

He paid for his meal and went outside to the GMC pickup he had bought here.

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