Disclaimer: I don't any anything related to Kim Harrison series. She owns most of the characters.
Summary: Ki, a creature, is looking to move up in the food chain. The way that she will take is though Rachel Morgan.
Thanks to imagination.
Chapter 1:
"Friends make your reason clouded and love always brings sorrow." These are the words I repeated back to my instructor, and I believed them with all of my heart, brains, and guts.
At the House these are the words you must live by. If you are hoping to succeed in to rise to the status of a reputable demon.
I am the fastest un-enhanced creature I know. With a light-almost-blond hair and with the same color eyes I look human. I have often been mistaken as one, which makes me the perfect spy/assassin. Which is what the House has trained me for. My first mission starts tomorrow. I'm ready for it.
My finger tapped with annoyance. Instructor was still standing there looking at me with regret reflected in his goat-like eyes. I waited, he would tell me soon enough, hopefully. If he didn't his stomach would be hurting in a moment. I just wish he knew it. "You can't go tomorrow. Or ever. You may go now."
I turned and left, what else was there to do? They couldn't stop me anyhow. I already know what he wanted to do anyways, fulfill Master's needs. Which is exactly what I'll do. They probably didn't even mean to boot me off the mission, they probably only wanted to test my loyalty to him. I'll prove I'm the most devoted, talented 'it' there ever was and ever will be. No matter the amount of time it will consume, I will be the best.
So first I have to investigate Master's new interest. Rachel Morgan.
I transport back to my quarters to grab all that I needed. My knife, and paw ( my lucky cat foot). I left quickly. I could take down an individual average demon easy peasy. But when there was more than one, things got pretty hairy. Not the good kind of hairy, if there even was one.
I have always like ley-line traveling, it was a unexpected treasure. I first I had thought I would get disgusted, with all the not being able to see your own body, and other stuff like that. But the rush, the feeling of rushing though, and no one, nobody, can stop you. This feeling of freedom is something prize. I have never felt anything like it.
This travel was no different. I had just started to savor the feeling, it didn't last long. But I enjoyed each millisecond immensely.
I found myself on a grave stone. Or at least, what I thought to be one. I looked up to evaluate my surroundings. In front of me there was a church, not to big, just the right size. I would have looked for more detail if I hadn't heard a buzz sound get louder, louder.
I quickly applied my home made human smell- yes I used just the right amount of human this time- and quickly conjured up some crocodile tears, as well as a hysterical act. It worked like a charm. I was the best after all.
I jumped like I had just been electrocuted, then huddled into the fertile position, rocking myself. I concentrated on my constant "please don't hurt me" was just loud enough for the pixie to hear. The buzzing sound quickly faded. Only to come back with footsteps. One pair.
"What happened! How did she get here! You better not-", said a feminine voice before it was cut off rather abruptly.
"I swear I didn't do it! She just appeared here." , Replied a rather offended voice, if I do say so my self.
Warm hands touched my arms, I flinched dramatically. Once the touch returned I started to scream my fake pleas of "please don't hurt me!" over and over again. I flinched once again when a separate hand covered my mouth, for real this time. I hadn't sensed her coming. At all. That never, ever happens.
"Shut up, we're not here to hurt you. Calm down." said a voice struggling to keep the frustration out of if, and failing miserably.
I'm not sure if that would have actually worked on an actual hysterical person, but it worked on the fake kind. I shut my mouth and didn't have to act surprised as I turned around to view the person who had surprised me so.
She was of Asian descent, living vampire, her eyes were of the almond shape, brown. With black hair to match. Dyed at the tips. She was, and nothing but, beautiful. Master might like her to.
She was looking me in the eyes, at first when she saw my eyes she quickly hid her surprise. Probably from experience. Oh crap, crap on a pez dipenser, I must have forgotten to change my eye color. I always remembered to change the shape, but never color. Damn it. If she was as smart as she was beautiful, I was in deep, bottom to the ocean, to the core of the Earth deep in trouble. No human had my color of eyes naturally.
There was another woman standing behind her. Pretty, but not beautiful. She did have lovely red hair, with the contrast of green eyes. But when I looked into those eyes I could tell her beauty didn't consist of her looks only, but of a caring heart that hid beneath. Not the blood pumping heart, the ones humans made up.
If I wasn't mistaken, I could have sworn I saw a pixie dart from off her shoulder.
As if she could tell my mind had focused elsewhere the vampire gently cupped her hand under my chin and pulled my face to look at hers.
"Who are you?" She asked me. Shit, mistake number two. I haven't thought of a name. I had to think fast, I didn't matter if she knew I was lying, any person in hysterics wouldn't tell a stranger their name, so it wouldn't matter if I lied. I said the first name that entered my mind.
"I-Id, ma'am" I stammered, still in fake scared mode.
I saw the woman's eyebrow arch at my evident lie. She evaluated me for a while longer, then looked to her red headed friend. Her red headed friend looked to be evaluating me to, but with a different sense. Her hair blew softly as if it were in a light pleasant sea breeze. She was looking at my aura. Since she was looking at my aura, I decided it was only far that I look at hers. But I would do it in a more discreet way.
Her aura was black. Black with smut. Lots of it. When I had stared long enough I saw it wasn't completely black, it had a minuscule of a gold color to it. I'm not sure what she saw in my aura, but I now it wasn't good.
Her spine stiffened and she looked at me in fear. "What are you?"
As soon as the words of fear left her mouth, maybe even a little before, the black haired woman jumped back like I was the fuse to a nuke and she was a lighter.
Now how would a person in hysterics respond to that. The answer came to me in a few seconds of heavy debate. All of my innocuousness at chance, I toke seized the only reasonable explanation.
"W-what? I'm a h-human, why would I be anything else. It's not like someone can change your s-species on whim, can they? No, no one could. Absolutely couldn't. No one has that kind of power. Right? Yea, no kind have that kind of p-power. Yeah… I'm human, no doubt what so ever. Zappa, zip, nil, zero, absolutely no chance I'm anything but human!" Am I not a good actor? With that show they won't be able to tell it was a lie. I even put a subtle amount of stored vampire pheromones into the air, just for good measure. They won't be able to tell the difference, even Master wasn't always able to tell the difference most of the time.
The pair of ladies looked at each other in what looked to be a telepathic battle. The black haired lady won, it seems.
"Why are you here?" she asked this question with nothing but serious tone with a underlying threat.
"I apologize for my intrusion, but I have not come here of sake. If I had to point to the accountable party Totem… maybe Zeke, no Totem, would have sent me here." I decided to test the vampire at the last moment when I muttered, "That bastard, probably sittin' all high and mighty in Detroit." If she was strong, she would hear me. Evidently that was a lie. But I like to lie, with all my heart, guts, and brain.
They seemed to accept what I had told them. But now they looked back at me. They were evaluating me again.
"Who's Totem? A boyfriend?" The red-head asked.
"My malicious brother, I caught him." I replied, and yes I did try to make it as cryptic as possible.
They looked like they were about to ask another question, but then I heard that noise, that hum. Humming, humming, it was all I could hear. I screamed and clamped my ears, but it was to late. I had fainted but one moment later.