Zacarias and Caity Chapter 1 The Miad, a carpathian series fanfic

Chapter 1 the Maid

I don't own any of the of the De La Cruz or their lifemates or thier relatives. However I do own Caity.

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Paul and Ginny raced through the second floor hallway of the De La Cruz "ranch house", both laughing with care-free joy. Paul sped up just a little to get ahead of Ginny, who in turn increased her own speed, to catch up to Paul. "Give me my papers, Paul. It took me forever to type up my essay," Ginny giggled breathless as she tried to take the papers from Paul's tightly crushed fist. Paul pulled his arm closer to his chest in order to get the papers out of Ginny's reach. Both skidded down a corner and knocked over a person who was carrying white sheets in a large basket. Paul ran into the person, who could not be seen due to the sheets being stacked higher then the person, first. Ginny came right after him, and knocked the sheet holder down. Ginny looked back over her shoulder to yell out an apology and continued to chase her brother. Nether of the two children stopped to make sure the person was alright or offer their help. They just continue to run out of sight, and turn another corner.

The, spotless and freshly cleaned sheets scattered everywhere, even on the first floor white tiles. One sheet fell landed on top of the fallen person, covering it completely. Muttering an oath, the person pulled the sheet of and looked around to only frown at the now dirty sheets.

The person was in fact a young girl, who was quite small for her age. She had brown hair and matching brown eyes. Her face was beautifully spotless of any flaws. Only thing that was on her paled skin faced were rounded glasses. Her small hands went reached around her to stuff the sheets back into the basket. Then she got up, dusted off her black and white uniform, and carried the basket down the stairs to collect the other sheets.

Her name was Caity Whitethorn, and she had been working as a maid for the De La Cruz for only two weeks. The only people she had really met were Paul, Ginny, and Colby De La Cruz. Even so, she only really saw the other workers and the children. Everyone else, or so she has been told, came out at night. Caity only worked in the day, so she never got to meet the five De La Cruz brothers. But that was just fine with her. As long as she had a job, she was fine with not meeting anyone, besides the eldest brother had been out of town for nearly two months. Rumor has it though, that he will be coming back this evening.

Caity gathered all the sheets and went trudging back to the wash room. 'It took me hours to do these sheets. This was my last load and now I have to redo them. Oh well, my shift ends soon, so the other maids can take care of them if I do not finish.' Caity set to work on the sheets, again. She was just so tried that she wanted to go straight to bed and sleep until the following day. Unlike most of the workers here, Caity has her own place. A small apartment in the down town city. As dangerous as it was there, the rent was cheap and she had a place to call her own. Which was what she really wanted anyway?

She had just finished her last sheet, when a girl with short blonde hair stepped through the door of the wash room. She had the same uniform as Caity, except this girl had made the skirt a lot shorter and her blouse much tighter. Her apron was tied so tightly that if she were to be in the proper light, anyone could see the flowery designs of her bra. Most of the maids dressed just like the blonde, because they wanted the attention of the unmarried De La Cruz, which happened to be the eldest. Caity found their dressing to be repulsive and just down right whoresh. So Caity just wore her uniform the proper way and length, so she wouldn't look like the other maids. The blonde looked at her long red nails and said, "Your shift is over. Go home and I will take care of the sheets." Caity, gratefully left the room and went out of the house, heading for home.

Zacarias De La Cruz had no sooner walked through the door when the blonde maid came up to take his jacket and greet him with what she hopped was a sexy smile. Zacarias ignored her and went in search for his brother Rafael and his lifemate Colby. Normally, Zacarias trusted the word of his brothers, but with so many Carpathian males turning vampire, it was hard to trust any human that could be under the sway of one of the loath some undead. Zacarias had located his brother and lifemate in the library, helping the children with their homework. "Brother, welcome back. I hope your trip was a safe one." Rafael approached Zacarias and grabbed his forearms in the age old greeting of warriors, Zacarias returned the gesture and reassured him that his trip was safe.

"What of this maid that I have heard about? Is she trusted to have around the children during the day when we are not able to be there should there be any danger?" He always got straight to the point. It was natural for new workers to meet the De La Cruz brothers and to work the night shifts until they knew that the person could be trusted to work the day shift. Why hadn't any of his four brothers spoken to the girl and keep an eye on her?

Colby stood behind her lifemate and spoke softly, "Paul and Ginny really seemed happy and safe with the girl and I really felt no threat, so I was the one who insisted that she work the day shifts first for Paul and Ginny's sake." Rafael turned his eyes to look over his shoulder at Colby and smiled, happy that she would defend him form whatever anger his eldest brother might throw at him.

Zacarias sighed, not really feeling the weight of stress he should be feeling due to his brothers' lack of security. "Where is the girl sleeping?"

Rafael spoke this time, "She does not live with us, she had assured us that she has a place of her own and is comfortable living there."

"Where does she live then? I would like to meet her and see for myself that she is trustworthy to be unattended since you and the others are so wrapped around your lifemates' fingers and do not remember how to adequately see to your protection." Rafael lowered his eyes to the floor as Zacarias scolded him, with no emotion what so ever. Colby reached out and took his large hand in her smaller one. Just as she was about to voice her opinion, Rafael sent her a look to be silent.

"She lives at 3124 Watson Drive, downtown of the city." Zacarias nodded and left, taking a car to Caity's place to see if she really was no threat.

I swear this was like three pages long on Word. Sorry it seems so slow and short, I just really wanted to get the story started.