Trying to bend over the bulk of the Kevlar vest cost me the moment I needed to grab a second stake from my boot. But no worries. One would do just fine. I kicked one of them in the stomach hard enough to leave me alone for the second I needed. Then I buried my stake into the heart of the other. When he disintegrated into a shower of bloody mist, I turned on the first vamp, just now standing up straight again. Boom. Staked him too. I was so much better at handling situations I was familiar ...