Love Dove

Just Give Me A Sign

The castle was beautiful, weeks of planning had gone into this party, and honestly it showed. The decorations alone had to have been days of work alone. Everything one would expect for a wedding celebration. The short brunette's blue eyes wandered around the castle as they headed towards the ballroom. It definitely screamed Helena and she was excited to finally get to see her best friend again. Of course there always had to be one spoilsport in the room, and for that, her father was master. She glanced at Issack as he made some comment about the lighting before they entered the room. Isabella couldn't help but roll her eyes at the complaint, like they weren't vampires that could see just fine. Her glance landed on her bodyguard Eve, who looked stunning in her orange and red dress, and was trying to keep a straight face. Sometimes it was like they shared the same mind towards him.

Of course once they entered the ballroom it was all pleasantries. As if Checkov wasn't smart enough to see it was all fake bullshit. Once Checkov had finished greeting her father and greeted her, Isabella smiled, giving as best of a courtesy. Though long, her green dress with silver and gold embroidery was not built for free movement as much as hugging curves. "Everything looks so wonderful, Checkov. I bet Helena is so excited." Izzy said cheerfully, glancing around the room hoping to see her as Issack started droning on. Trying to hide the disappointment when she didn't. Honestly most of the time when her father started talking she blocked it out. It seemed the only way to keep her own sanity in check. She caught herself trying to tuck her hair behind her ear as Checkov spoke to her again. Which probably looked ridiculous as she had it braided into a ponytail. Ever the gentleman though, he didn't call attention to her ignoring them.

"Though she shouldn't be inviting people to a party she isn't hosting." Issack said, giving her a look before she even had the chance to answer Check. He was just pissed because she had invited a wolf and that she had run away to the south for a week.

"I do apologize, sometimes my excitement gets the better of me." She said pointedly ignoring her father for Checkov. "Honesty I thought…"

"Why don't you go see if you can find Helena, Isabella." Issack cut her off, speaking to her in the tone you would a child.

Izzy couldn't help the shooting side glance she gave her father. Eyes reddening a touch before glancing back at Checkov and giving a tight smile. "Save a dance for me as usual, Checkov?" She said before giving a small curtsy and leaving the two of them, heading straight for the wine. She needed to get her hand tightly around the neck of something. Quickly downing a glass and taking another one to sip, before looking around the ballroom for Helena again. Only to find Diana watching her instead, she smiled and gave a little nod in her direction. Izzy loved Diana, she had helped her sneak into Cass's carriage. However, she knew if she got into a conversation with her it would likely be a few, albeit fun, couple of minutes before she would get done. And she was on the hunt for either one of two people at this point.

After a few more searching glances around the room. She gathered that Helena must be in the halls somewhere, and decided to look for her. It only took a few moments to find her outside of the western entrance of the ballroom. Excitement took hold of her before even having time to think about why she was out here. Or who these two men she had never met before were, that was talking to her. "Hels" She called excitedly, the click of her echoing through the hall as she rushed forward and engulfed her friend in a hug. "Oh stars! You look so beautiful! I missed you!"

After a moment she stepped away remembering she might have just interrupted something. "Oh I'm sorry, I got excited. Didn't mean to interrupt." She said frowning a bit, eyes catching Eve, who had finally caught up with a bit of a huff.

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A small quiet growl came from Nikolai as he fiddled with his tie in one of the mirrors in Cass's room. Even though he knew how to tie a tie, there were two reasons this was annoying. First he had managed to not have to actually wear a tie for 400 years, and second, who the hell thought making ties out of silk was a good idea? Either the look on his face. Or the thought of shifting so he could rip this fucking thing into a million pieces gave away his frustration, because next thing he knew the tie was tying itself. His brown eyes glanced around the room for a second before he found Oak, struggling to keep a toddler still so he could put on her little strappy shoes.

Chuckling lightly he walked over and picked the distracted toddler up. Getting a giggle from her while Oak was able to get her shoes on her. "Thanks, she's a little over excited to be playin' in Cass's room." Oak said as Niko let Palsea down and she took off quickly.

Niko laughed a little bit watching her. "No problem. You're gonna have a off of a t'me keepin' up with her ton'ght." He before Oak sighed and went after her to keep her from playing in Cass's closet. Shaking his head a bit, Niko went to check on his witches. Most of whom were excited to hang around with the witches from Cass's Coven. Or excited to get to be at one of these parties. He guessed this was still an important thing in witch culture, or maybe vampire culture. It had been a rather long time since he had been around this many vampires. Though it put him on edge a bit, he trusted Cass. Not to mention this Checkov seemed accommodating, while he of course didn't ask about bringing people from his pack, Checkov didn't have to agree to let him bring some of his witches.

"Well of course he agreed. That vampire leader has a hard on for witches. I swear, one of the girls from my Coven. She hardly got out before he grabbed her and forced her to join them. Probably wants to take ours too." The witch that gave him that warning of course didn't come with them. Not that he would have asked her. He wasn't worried too much about it though, his witches were part of the pack. If they choose to leave they were still part of it, just like Oak.

When Cass finally joined them to get ready, he smiled a bit at her response to actually seeing him in a suit. "I feel like this tie is gonna end up chokin' someone by the end of the n'ght." He complained pulling on the tie a little before chuckling as she softly slapped his hands away and fixed the mess he had made of it. After making sure that everyone of his were set up, aside from makeup and hair, which he wasn't going to touch and mess up for them. He ran his hands over his dark blue shirt before buttoning up his suit. Putting a piece of spearmint candy in his mouth to block out the wolf smell from the den of vipers he was about to enter.

Niko sighed a bit when asked if he was ready as he and Cass made their way out into the hall. "As I'm gonna be, not rea'ly as worr'ed about your boyfriend as the other two." He said softly. Though he didn't really get time to say much more before she saw someone she knew and wandered off, leaving him standing there awkwardly staring after her. Frowning a bit he decided to just follow after Mercy and the witches.

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Mitchell ran his hands over his suit one more time as he looked into the mirror. It had been years since the last time he had been to a ball like this. The last one actually being right after he had joined Checkov's coven. What a shit show it was too. Not because of Checkov but because of the way Issack had reacted when Checkov brought him in. After that he pretended to have reasons not to, then Lia came around and he actually did have one. He checked the clock quickly before heading into the hall. Atty had probably beat him outside to wait for the girls. They had plenty of time since the girls insisted on getting ready at the cabin. Still he didn't want to be too late, he would be lying if he said the idea of seeing Lia all done up didn't excite him.

Blinking a bit when he heard his name called, he looked behind him in time to see Cass catching up with him and stopped to wait for her. It was definitely a surprise to see her not in a dress already. "Hey Cass." He smiled a bit. *Your hair looks gorgeous." He added before chuckling as she complained about his suit but started to get onto him about the tie. "I'm actually allergic to silk, it makes my throat close. Checkov remembered from before and gave me two approved ties to pick from." He explained as he walked her to her room, before going outside to wait for the girls.

Mitch glanced at the doors where Atticus finally joined him, before shaking his head. "No, it will probably be a couple minutes still." A small smile played on his lips as he watched Atty's nerves show on his face. Lia had told him how she was teaching Atty how to dance this weekend, when he brought up he had been teaching Kat. It was kind of sweet honestly. "Are you excited or nervous to dance with Kat?" He asked, before the carriage finally came into sight.

Once the carriage stopped and the door opened, he stopped dead in his tracks, hand offered out. Lia in her dress, all made up, he had known she would of course look beautiful. Even he hadn't expected just how breathtaking though. "That bad, huh?" Mitchell cleared his throat a little and blinked, he was staring, he couldn't help it. "You look…..absolutely beautiful." He answered softly before shaking his head and helping her by the hand she had already taken. As they walked towards the entrance he still couldn't help but stare a bit out the counter of eye. Catching the necklace that he had given her a few weeks ago around her neck.

When Checkov stopped them and told them about the unexpected guests. Mitch couldn't help but frown a bit, a little bit of worry coming through. One didn't simply show up unexpectedly to one of Checkov's parties without a death wish, so at least he had been informed. He glanced at Lia and her reaction soothed him just a little bit as he offered his arm once more.

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Kat couldn't help but be excited as Lia helped her with her hair for the ball. Though she had been to one before, this was different. She had her own dress, her hair was going to be pretty instead of just fiddled with at the last minute. She had someone to dance with…that thought brought a kind of warmth to her heart that she wasn't ready to look at though. She had asked Mitchell to dance though so she wouldn't be embarrassing to dance with.

Lia's question brought her back to the present, she hadn't even realized that she had even flinched when she got poked a little. "No, it feels fine. It just poked me a little." She asked before smiling as she looked at her hair. "Thank you, it's so pretty." She said looking at Lia in the mirror before nodding when asked if she wanted some tea. Kat looked at her dress as Lia made their tea, it was so pretty. Long, strapless, and flowy, starting a dark blue and ombreing down into a tealish green and then dark green at the bottom. The seamstresses had seemed a little unsure while they were working on it. However, she had been so proud when she brought it to Kat, and it had to be her favorite dress from now on. Lia had chuckled when Kat said she would find more reasons to wear it, but it hadn't been a joke.

The tea was a nice little nerve smoother as she sipped it. It wasn't that she was nervous, but she did feel a little jittery. There was so much they had to do and there were going to be so many people. Vampires. Lia had put down spells to keep her safe, but still anytime she got too close to Checkov's vampires there were problems. Shaking her head a bit, Kat decided she would rather focus on getting ready, and went to get her makeup and earrings for the night. Leaving the lipstick for last so she didn't ruin it on the tea cup. Then came time for dresses, and she was so thankful for Lia's help. Most of her dresses didn't require zipping or tying like this. "I think I'm in love with it." She giggled twirling just a little as Lia said the colors fit her.

"Wow….you look so beautiful Lia." Kat said after helping her with her dress. If Kat looked pretty then Lia looked like a goddess in hers. She definitely caught the smile that flashed on Lia's face before she hurried her to get everything. Kat didn't even argue with the jacket after the cold she had gotten over, and put her heels on with Lia before leaving the cottage. Though getting into the carriage was not an easy feat and was happy to get in first, someone could catch her if she fell.

"Ready, but a little nervous I'll step on Atty's foot." She said with a little laugh as the carriage started moving. It was only a ten minute drive to the castle, but their dresses and heels would have been ruined if they had taken the walk. Wow! You look great!" Kat couldn't help but blush and she smiled as Atty helped her out of the carriage. "Thanks, you look so handsome." Kat smiled when Checkov greeted them, but honestly his unexpected guests didn't really worry her any. After all, she knew how protective Checkov was over her and Lia. Taking Atty's arm she nodded, and headed into the ballroom with him.

The room was beautiful and she couldn't help that getty feeling again as she looked around the room. It definitely wasn't full but there were people still coming in through both doors. Most of the people already inside were grouped up or talking. A group of witches hung out near the other doors talking. Diana was talking to some woman and a child, while Cass was talking to some man she didn't know so she guessed he was with her coven. "I didn't even know this room could look so pretty." Kat said more to herself with a smile before looking at Atty. "Let's see if we can find some drinks."

Save Me|Save Yourself|Save Us All

Samantha's eyes widened a bit and she whispered back to Julian. "Are you fucking kidding me." This was why though she loved the fact DeAndro avoided her, it was fucking frustrating. She was surprised that Tony was even bothering to come back, he had barely been alive when he was rushed out. Randa was really lucky that Julian had some pull in the school and there had been proof of Tony playing in her head. Even then, Randa not being kicked out had caused Aren a lot of trouble and eyes on him.

She gave Aren a soft smile when he came and got his lunch. "You're welcome, I know you're busy today." He looked so stressed and she really felt bad that she couldn't help with his admissions. "How many more do you have left today?" She asked before him and Julian started talking about the meeting during the sixth period. Not that there was much time to talk before his phone rang and she and Julian left his office.

She shook her head abit. "It really does seem extreme this year. I mean it's good the school is getting more traction this year but still." She sighed a bit, poor Aren having to deal with it all himself. Samantha checked her watch at his question. "Probably be better if we go to your office, there isn't much time left." She answered before they headed to his office.

"Do you think if it keeps going at this rate Aren will hire more teachers?" She asked with a bit of concern in her voice. It wasn't often they hired new teachers in, and even less often they stayed. Which ended up being more paperwork all for nothing. Reginald had been the last out of a handful that had stayed this round.

She sighed softly as they got to his office and pulled one of the chairs up where she could eat. Before tying her hair up and leaning back in the chair for a moment, eyes closed. This was one of the first times she had got a moment to relax all day. Sure she only taught three classes a day, but they were massive classes, and when she wasn't in classes she was still dealing with the races of students she sat over. "So how has your day been so far?" She asked, sitting up to eat her lunch finally. "I heard one of the Shifters went off. How bad was it? I know Reginald took over that group's council."

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Iris nodded a bit as Miles started talking about what classes he was in. She kind of wanted to ask him how long it had been since he had come to earth. But decided against it, she would try to wait until she knew him better so she didn't seem so nosy. "It is, but Kane is a really good professor. She's one of the reasons I came to this school." She said with a soft smile, before he continued on talking about his classes. She could understand him wanting to get out of the language class, it was one of the hardest ones in the school for her. As much as she hated to do it, she knew she would have to find a tutor for it once the library put the list up.

He asked about her classes after she had looked at his schedule and she smiled a bit. "Well…" She said before pulling the bag she had been carrying to her lap. "I have History and Lit with you." She said digging through her bag full of books and notebooks, before pulling out her schedule for him to see. "And I had to switch my CES and PE class around sadly because Kanes other TA needed to be with her sister." She sighed softly. "And I actually failed the language class last year so I have to get a tutor or I'm going to be moved down a class." She frowned a little bit.

"But the history of witchcraft is going to be fun, we have to find someone to enchant like they used to in trial times so I'm excited for that." She said smiling again before looking at him and chuckling softly. "Sorry I tend to rumble a bit when left unchecked." She said before eating on her food to stop herself from talking.

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Tiffany couldn't help but be surprised when Billie said she was fluent in fae. "Really? That's impressive, it's rare that others know how to speak fae." She said before nodding at Billie saying some things didn't translate well. It really was true, there were words in faelic that there was translation in English. She nodded at Billie's notion that she felt better explaining about the vampire feud. She felt a little bad for Billie, she had to carry this weight on her shoulders from people she didn't even know in the first place.

She tilted her head a little bit at Billie's laugh, not really sure what was funny. "Oh…." She said as Billie explained what "fighting dirty" meant, before chuckling a bit. "Okay, I was worried about the earth fae we have." She explained her line of thinking before shaking her head a bit. "UnSeelie always fight with honor, so that won't be a problem. Though if they start to fight dirty we will try to help out."

Tiff laughed a bit when Billie wasn't upset about her knowing about her and Logan. "Well, there is that whole shifter thing taking up the gossip right now. Probably will be by the end of the day." She said before nodding as she named off a couple vampires that she put up for attacking.

Tiff made a slight face when Billie brought up Darren. She had had her own run with Darren last year after her really bad break up. "Yeah…I dealt with Darren my first year. He avoids me at all costs." She said with a small smile. She had heard stories about Garret, they weren't the best stories either. But Billie would know him better for sure.

She smiled at the invitation to join her party, it was a sweet invite. "Sure that sounds like fun. Um…I've been informed that parties are different from ours." She said before laughing a little bit. "Like the fact you don't dance around naked. That was an interesting revolution. Is there anything you would like me to bring?"

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Erin couldn't help but chuckle a bit when Ez said her sister loved the gift she sent her. "Aww I'm glad she loved it."

Erin laughed at what Randa said shaking her head a bit. "Aye, migh' do dat next time. Be inte'estin' ta see ye pop out of dere. Feel like he would shat himself." Then the subject turned to the fights and Billie getting on to Randa for not waiting for her, she laughed at the words "pansy in the wind" because Billie was always hilarious and saying shit like that when she was drunk.

When Ez went over to deal with the vampires Erin couldn't help but smile a bit watching it. Partly before one of her besties was a badass and partly because well….Ez could definitely be hot doing it. Her actions only caught the attention of a few people, but Jackie was one of them. And the fact she didn't have the balls to even look at Ez cracked her up some.

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Brooke laughs at what he said about looking up. "Up here is where I first met Kajun actually." She said watching climb up the other tree. She smiled at him when he got up closer to her. "Oh no you're fine" she sighs softly "I just really like to eat lunch up here. It's so much more peaceful than in the lunchroom." Brooke looked down towards the ground kicking her legs when he asked how she was feeling. "I'm okay, I was able to shift my shoulder back. And Cole was able to heal it after. Though it probably wasn't the best idea to climb the tree."

She smiled at him after a moment. "Thank you for helping me. I really appreciate it, Devin has been bugging me since last year. I know it probably wasn't all about me but still." She said before blushing a little bit. "Um, maybe I can treat you to dinner to pay you back?" She stuttered out rubbing the back of her neck, she wasn't the most experienced with asking people out, and he was very attractive. It was worth a shot though.

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Cain chuckled. "I meant because of the accent, not the giant language."

It was nice to be able to get out of the drama of the cafeteria and back to his office without being really bothered. He nodded a bit when Azura said she was getting a refresher on some classes. "Actually if you're up for it, I could use a TA for me classes and teacher classes. I was having Julian help with my teacher classes but he has a lot on his shoulders this year." He asked, taking the ability to ask when her offer for help came.

He laughed, shaking his head a bit. "I mean I can't argue, we all kind of hated how she taught." Before shaking his head again, she was right about mermaids though, they were bitches beyond doubt. "Well, to be fair, the few people old enough to teach that class. Has the time, he has been trying to sweet talk Hades into it. But she is far too busy."

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Knox laughed at Kingsley's notion that he was fine with being the classroom cat, because he got to annoy people and get pets when he wanted. "You make being a cat sound really good actually."

Knox couldn't help the look of surprise when Reg said that King was even talking about maybe finding someone to bond with again. "Wow…I never thought he would actually go back to that." He said, actually he was really proud of him for getting to that level of comfort again. "That's really awesome, I'm really proud of him. That's huge." Knox nodded when Reg said it was a task but never boring teaching. "As long as you're enjoying it, it's worth it though."

"Shit, it sounds bloody. Makes me glad I'm not either of those races." He made a little bit of a face. Ten students being kicked out wasn't the most extreme but still more than you would expect from a little feud. "I suppose I should probably figure out who the shifter alpha and dragon leader is here. I've already been warned about the witches here." He said before Kingsley got back, and what was said about the vampire and shifter leader made him sigh a bit. "Maybe I should have waited another year to join here." He mumbled to himself.

It wasn't too long before the lunch period was over and Knox could hear the halls start to fill and moved to the end of the room. Taking the table closer to the door. He felt a few eyes on him as the room filled, probably because he was clearly new. When someone chose to sit by him, it took him by surprise and he smiled at the person. "Hello."

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Tiffany laughed a little bit as they left Billie's room and walked through the halls. "No, it's not really like that. We just tell people that, to weird them out. The whole plant sex thing is almost strictly a Nymph thing." She shook her head enjoying the less intense conversation. Once they started actually talking, she found she rather liked Billie.

As they walked past the cafeteria Billie headed to see if she could catch Randa and Tiffany told her she would catch up with them in a moment. Using the moment to head towards Long's office, seeing the guy he was talking to blend back into the crowd. "Professor Long." She called, stopping from going back to his office. "Sorry, I just wanted to ask a question. I heard that you put out equipment for people to work out in the gym after classes. I was wondering if you had a…." She frowned a little trying to remember the word before sighing. "Air hoop?"

She had just finished talking to Long when Billie and Randa walked through, and when they looked at her, she took that as an invitation to join them. "I hope you're okay." She said to Randa as she fell intro step with them.

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It took Erin a little longer than she expected to get to her class. Though most of the walk while Ez and Maggie was Maggie trying to talk her into switching her History so she could have it with her and Randa. She was seriously considering it. Now she would have to wait until after class to talk to this teacher because she wasn't going to do that in front of the whole class though. Especially since she didn't even know this teacher.

Her eyes glanced over towards the professor, and couldn't help but check him out a little bit. He was definitely hotter than she expected a ln history professor. Shaking her head a little bit and took the seat next to Billie. "Dam' if his arase is as good lookin' as his face I'm gonn' be failin' dis class." She whispered as she sat.

Just Give Me A Sign

Kat took the extra coat and thanked him before putting it on, it didn't really offer the extra warmth that she was craving though. At least it stopped her shivering for the moment. Frowning to herself, she knew for a fact now that she must be running a fever. Surely it would break soon though, her small fevers rarely kept up. Though those were usually caused by magic. Maybe that spell she did to calm Atty last night took more out of her than she realized. He offered her one of the muffins that Lia sent with them and Kat shook her head. "No thank you, I really don't have much of an appetite today." She said before asking him a few questions.

Kat listened to Atty as he answered her question, and she couldn't help but feel a little jealous. She had to agree about Issac though, that asshole would clearly rather her kind be killed just to prove a point. "You know, there is sometimes that wish I would have gone South like I planned instead of coming to see why Check was looking for me." She said with a soft sigh. "I hate that I only got a few towns over on my run away." She shook her head slightly before listening to him once again and smiling softly. "I kind of want to see it now, is it all nice and comfy?"

She didn't have time to answer Atty's questions before one of the helpers brought them over some apple cider. Smiling a bit she took the cider enjoying the warmth. "Thank you." She was a little surprised with how good it was and she watched the girl walk away, before smiling at Atty. "Do you think Check would let us go in the castle garden? I know he usually lets us when Lia needs something she doesn't need. Maybe you can tell me your hunter story?"

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Mitch nodded a little when Lia gave him a tip on the type of stuff that Kat liked. He would make sure to see if they had anything, when he got supplies for the girls. Not to mention he had some things he had to take care of the castle. He hated to admit it but last night had taken a lot of his energy, and maybe he could find someone to feed off of in exchange for some blood. He mentioned something about thinking that Kat might be sick too. What she muttered took him by surprise though, even if he didn't act it. His book making it easier to hide. He knew Atty had said the two of them were acting really close, but he didn't expect it….but oddly enough her admitting it out loud was the most surprising. He didn't know what had been happening here when the two of them were gone from the cabin.

The knock on the door took him out of his mind, but Lia was up and at the door before he even had time to put the book down and get up. Still he stood in the doorway to the kitchen watching the interaction between Lia and the young vampire. He chuckled a bit after Lia shut the door. "You're getting so good at talking to people." He joked before going back to the kitchen and his book.

Lia went back to her baking and running around the kitchen. Glancing at her as she sat down for only a little bit before she was back up. He knew that Lia was like this when she had her nightmares but he wished she didn't wear herself out like this. "Yes please." He said before thanking her for it. "Maybe after your pie is gone, we should go see Cass before she takes off. I figure it will be a little bit before At and Kat get back anyway." He suggested, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get Lia out of the cabin for a little while. Maybe the fresh air would calm her nerves, at this point she was starting to even wear him out a little bit.

Once her pie was done Mitch gathered up some muffins to send with Cass on her trip home while got the pie out and set it out to cool. He waited by the door for her to get ready before they headed out to the castle. Sighing a bit, Mitch looked at the gloomy sky, exhaustion hitting him a little. The sun not even out enough to give him a little boost of energy. "If the weather continues like this, you might not even have to wait late for that seamstress to come by." He spoke with a head shake, one of the worst things about the North was how cold it got and how long it lasted. The castle was actually pretty lively when they got there, between the perfect weather for vampires, and the fact people were already starting measurements for the dance. On top of the normal everyday life, but Cass's carriage was still there at least, so they hadn't missed her at least.

Post a random fact about yourself.

Thanks to watching Lilo and Stitch, I learned how to touch the tip of my nose with my tongue. I often send a random picture of it to my cousin because it freaks her out.

Looking For Some New Stories (+18 All Gender Pairings Welcome)

Bumpy bump; added Blood Driven

Looking For Some New Stories (+18 All Gender Pairings Welcome)

Bump. Looking for one or two more.

Bloodlines (A tale by Love Dove & Saiyan)

Wynne sighed softly as she read through the file for the fourth time. For such a big folder she expected there to be more useful information. Sure there were victim pictures. Victims that somehow made it out alive reports and graphic details of their friends murder. But nothing was the same, the attacker's appearance was described differently every time. Which made absolutely no sense. Hell in the one it was a woman saying she ran from her son eating her abusive husband. Not that Wynne could even question the witnesses because they already had their mind wiped. Sitting back in her chair she placed her hands on her head trying to clear her head for a minute before deciding she would definitely need help with this. Glancing at her watch she gathered the folder in her bag and headed towards the elevator.

"Hey Wynne, hold up a second." Someone called from behind her and she saw Susan catching up with her. "Just wanted to give you your bag back." She said, Wynne smiled a bit, taking it and giving a simple "Thanks" before continuing to the elevator. As she turned to push the buttons she noticed that Susan had followed her into the elevator. After the doors closed there was a moment of silence before she side glanced at Susan who was staring at her. "What's up Susan?"

"I just wanted to check in on you. I heard you might have to deal with the Assassins watching what you're doing." Susan noticed the deep frown on Wynne's face though she wasn't looking at her. "And after everything that happened with your dear father…."

"I'm fine Susan." Wynne said not looking at the short older woman, her voice coming out a little bit rougher despite her words. "Besides they aren't watching me, they're watching my assignment." She added, thankfully Susan seemed to get the point that this wasn't a conversation she didn't want to have because there was another bit of silence before she spoke again.

"Well, what we were looking for wasn't in the bag sadly." Susan said after a moment while watching Wynne as the doors opened.

Wynne sighed, she was already tired before coming back to office and Susan had managed to throw her mood even more to shit. "I mean I tried Susan, you won't even tell me what I'm looking for." She said with Susan following her towards the parking garage.

"I just wanted to make sure that you didn't forget to give us anything you gathered." That caused Wynne to stop in her tracks.

"Honestly Susan? I gave you everything I found to gather for you." Wynne said sincerely, because it wasn't a lie she had given them everything that she had gathered for them. This seemed to pass Susan's little human lie detector test. Because she apologized and soon Wynne was left alone to walk to her car. Once she got driving Wynne took a few extra turns just to make sure that Susan didn't follow her. This wasn't something she had to worry about on a normal day but there was sometimes like this that good information was bought and right now the ring she had taken from the cave was burning a metaphorical hole in her pocket.

Once she was sure she was simply being paranoid she made her way to Onyx Tea and Wonder Shop. The small building was on the edge of town, flowers and vines adorning the windows to give the whole place the look that it had somehow been retaken by nature. If I wasn't for the open neon sign you would think it long abandoned. Though at the moment the light was off and the figure standing in the doorway was in the middle of flipping the closed sign as Wynne approached. The tall woman on the other side of the door frowned at Wynne, her different colored eyes looking the agent over. From the first glance she looked like nothing more than a harmless hippie. Long wavy hair then reached to her waist with a few strands tied around a light blue string, her clothing looking straight out of the seventies. After a moment an identical woman with green string tied around her braided wavy hair peeked out the window and smiled giving Wynne a little wave before speaking to the other one who rolled her eyes and opened the door. "Wynne! Come in, come in. We have been waiting." The one with the green string said in greek gesturing for Wynne to come in and Wynne smiled entering the shop.

Wynne smiled at her as she entered the shop, the rich earthy smell of loose leaf tea filling her senses. "Thank you M." She said before the last of the beings commonly known as The Triplets came into the room and held her hand out to Wynne, digging in her pocket she placed the ring in the woman's hand and watched them all three gather around the ring and chatter in a language she didn't even know before the one with the blue took the ring and left the shop.

"Aww Wynne, it's so nice to know you are as capable as we saw." The last woman called K spoke, as she gave Wynne a big friendly hug. "Come come child, let's get tea and speak of Aurora, yes." She spoke before heading into the backroom leaving Wynne behind to follow.

Bloodlines (A tale by Love Dove & Saiyan)

Wynne let out an exhausted sigh as she parked her car in the parking garage. Part of her was surprised she didn't just sleep in this parking garage. As soon as she got done with one assignment, she was called in for a new one. She used a few wet wipes to wipe what blood she had gotten on her and fixed her hair and clothes before heading into the office building. She gave Sam a slight wave once inside, but he was on the phone at the moment and simply gave a wave back as she entered the elevator and entered the passcode.

The large office space was always so busy, hundreds of people talking once. Someone was always walking around trying to get attention, today it was David and his shotgun. Wynne makes a mental note to avoid that area if possible, she and David hadn't really got along during her linguistics period. Now she avoided him like the plague as an actual agent.

Her eyes snapped towards Sergeant Daniels' door hearing it slam, before seeing who came out and rolling her eyes. Another person on her personal avoid list. Someone waving at her caught her attention out of the corner of her eye and she smiled a little heading over to Susan. "Hey, Susan." She greeted before handing her the bag full of stuff she had gathered from the cave. Only frowning a bit as it was almost snatched from her hand. "Hopefully it has what you guys needed, no one really told me what you were looking for."

"Oh I'm sure you did, it's one of those you would know if you saw it type of deals." Susan said, giving a little wave with her hand as she started laying the bag out and the people on her team came over to look at it too.

Wynne frowned at the dismissal of her point, because it was in fact not something she would know when she found. Or else she would have actually found it. After standing there awkwardly for a moment she sighed and started towards Daniels' office. "I'm going to want that bag back." She said loudly as she walked away. At least once she got to the office he wasn't yelling at anyone. It seemed like everything she was sent to the office to get an assistant that man was yelling at someone, or the phone, she wouldn't be surprised if he screamed at himself in the mirror when he was alone. She gave a knock at the door before opening it a bit. "You wanted to see me sir?"

"Took you long enough, sit." Daniels said not even looking away from his window and Wynne frowned a bit at the unwarranted anger and sat down. "Susan tells me you took care of the hograven for us."

Wynne smiled and nodded "Yes sir."

"Don't get cocky…Smith." He scolded "any other agent would have taken less than a week to get that job done."

Wynne sat there quietly frowning at him. Not really sure, rather to be more insulted that he was undermining the fact it had only taken her a week to get information, track the cave down, wait until the witches to leave the creature alone, climb in. Which she had gotten stuck the first time. Kill the thing and get whatever Susan needed to fuck around with. Or the fact he couldn't even get her name right, which she thought he kept doing on purpose. A large file was pushed towards her and she took it looking through the pages as he talked.

"I expect better on this assignment, it might even prove you're worthy of the agent title."

"Fuck, what even is this sir?" Wynne said as she looked over the picture of the victim.

"They're saying it's a Lycan, a particularly nasty one at that." Daniels said before shaking his head and taking a long drag from his cigarette. "Everyone is watching us right now. The Assassins, Vatican, Templar, Shogun, the Vatican are getting themselves involved."

Wynne frowned a little at the mention of the Assassins as she flipped through the file once more, skipping the victims picture this time. "I put Archer on this mission too." She looked up at him as he said that and opened her mouth to argue that she didn't want to work with that arrogant asshole, but he cut her off before she could. "He is going to fuck this up, undoubtedly and I need you there to fix it." She nodded understanding why this high of an assignment was given to her now, so she would probably be the one this fell on if something went wrong instead of the golden boy.

As soon as Wynne left the office she finally felt that she could breathe normally again and went back to her desk and started thumbing through the file. Able to escape into routine reading and background research.

Bloodlines (A tale by Love Dove & Saiyan)

The musky smell that filled the cave, now mixed itself with blood and whatever types of herbs had been burning. Bloody fathers covered the floor as dim light filtered it's way through the cracks and holes above. Giving just enough light for the short brunette to search for what Lightening Co wanted her to look for after this kill. Though it might have been a little bit easier if they had actually told Wynne what she was looking for. Maybe then she wouldn't be standing in a cave with her shirt ripped up and bleeding while she looked for anything suspicious before the witches came back. It hadn't been as easy of a kill as usual, but it had been a fun hunt for sure, plus she still had her heart intact, so that was a big plus. She would sigh to herself if this cave didn't stink so badly she would likely taste it for a year afterwards.

Gathering up a few more things that maybe they were looking for, as she thought they were interesting at least, Wynne put them in the bag she carried with her. The screen of her phone lit up and she squinted her grey eyes looking at the new brightness lighting the dim area around her before answering it with a hushed tone. "Wynne….oh hi Susan." She spoke as she gathered some bloody fathers from her kill as proof of completion. "Um…it's probably going to take a few to get back in town." She threw the bag out of the hole she had crawled through to get into the cave. It was probably a good thing Susan wasn't there in person as she rolled her eyes so hard it could've hurt.

"Mhmm….right……right. Okay Susan I'll be there as soon as possible…..mhmm…mhmm okay bye." She quickly hung up before Susan had a chance to go on more. How was she supposed to get out of this cave if the woman wouldn't shut the fuck up. Putting the phone back in her bag, she looked over the place one more time, only finding a ring among the feathers that she stuck in her pocket before tipping the stand burning herbs on top of the feathers to send the creature she killed up in flames.

Climbing out of the hole into the fresh air again she took a deep breath before she made her way back to her car and changed her shirt before heading back into town. What they had for her had better be important if she didn't even have time to change clothes or get herself checked out.

Bloodlines (A tale by Love Dove & Saiyan)

Wynne Scottson

29|Human|Lighting Co. Agent

Specialists
Infiltration
Hand to hand combat
Stealth
Hand weapons
Linguistics

Wynne has been working for Lighting Co for almost ten years now, and is technically considered a legacy in the company as both parents worked for the company at some point. Wynne has worked her way up from the linguistics department to becoming a field agent through the years. As takes great pride and enjoyment out of being an assassin.