D&D 3.5.

I play as Neutral Evil Dread Necromancer and, generally, am a bit of a jerk. My character enjoys animating corpses into undead, though doesn't necessarily take huge enjoyment from doing the killing himself.

Anyway, the Bard of our party fell down a huge pit trapped which left him near death. I had an item at the item that allowed me to tunnel through dirt and stone, so I went to see how he was. Finding him nearly dead, I offered to save him if would repay be. He declined, so I killed him and animated him.

As you can imagine, the rest of the party isn't very happy. They're also metagming (as they couldn't see it happen) A LOT. So, a couple of them are basically out for my blood (unreasonably, considering their characters) and I'm not sure how to survive past the next few sessions. I'm level 8.

Any ideas?