Title:
Heaven Is Overrated
Author: Findabhiar Aery
Disclaimer:
All the characters you recognize, LJS's, all others, mine. All
rights reserved, blah blah blah.
Also note, that the title and chapters use verses from "Drops of Jupiter" by Train. I don't own, and I'm not making profits.
Summary: Another story from my recent giant influx of
ideas... About a
Daybreak spy, Skyler Redfern.
Prologue
"Ah, Deliah..." Raoul moaned as he sank inside her welcoming flesh.
She braced her arms against
his chest and threw her head back as he arched
up into her. Long
deep red hair brushed his thighs as it flowed down her
back.
"Sorry. I didn't
know it was this late." Skyler rushed in to Thierry's
office
and threw herself onto the couch beside Ash, who was openly laughing
at her.
"Bullshit." He mumbled as she arranged
her short skirt to her satisfaction
against long legs.
"Shhh..." She admonished him quietly before
turning a bright, innocent
smile in Thierry's direction.
He sighed and continued on with the meeting.
"We still have
no info on the fourth. Please, someone, anyone, do you have
anything?" He asked without much hope.
"Okay then. Skyler, report."
She shot up and primly clasped
her hand behind her against her lower back.
"Sir, yes Sir."
"Just get on with it." Thierry rubbed his temples
as the others gathered
collectively coughed to hide laughter at
the witch's antics.
"Raoul is fine. Not great, I mean,
he's okay, but a little too rough for me,
but he does this thing
with his teeth against my-"
"Skyler!"
"Okay,
okay, Thierry. Don't get your panties in a tangle or anything."
She
sighed and went on more seriously. "Raoul McNaught
basically has told me
everything I asked of him. And I managed to
swipe a report on the last Night
World council meeting from his
papers. Everything will be included in my
formal report which you
will have on your desk at the end of the day
Thierry, so don't
worry."
Ash took in her satisfied smile with amusement.
"Okay, so-"
"Did you ever think that
it's possibly wrong to use sex to get what you
want, Skyler?"
Thea cut in, perturbed, interrupting Thierry's comment.
"Nope."
She sat back down to lounge with a mocking smile for Thea. "Guys
do
it all the time..."
"Correction, guys only
want sex, so it's different." Morgead announced with
a wide
grin and a wiggle of his eyebrows for Jez's benefit. She laughed.
Skyler laughed with the others at that before saying, "So,
Thea, you'd
rather I torture and kill him rather than sleep with
him."
"At least he wouldn't think that you're
something you're not, and that you
feel something more for him
than you do." Poppy interjected quietly.
"So? How
is that different from any of our other spies? You use whatever you
have to get the job done. Hell, I enjoy it, he enjoys it, as have
all the
others. Is this an honourable thing to do? Who knows?
Does the end justify
the means? I believe it does." Skyler
paused for impact, narrowing her
ever-changing Redfern eyes. "And
I do not appreciate the whole judge and
jury act from people who
are not spies, and mainly sit around Thierry's
house whining
about the fourth."
"Very smoother, Skyler."
Thierry pronounced dryly later, alone in his office
with the
rebellious witch.
She inspected her nailpolish with studied
fascination, ignoring him
completely.
"You cleared
the house once again. And that parting, "Blow me.", you
gave
was something else." He frowned at the top of her
ruby-coloured head.
"If this happens agains, you will be
removed from spy status." He sighed as
she again gave no
outward reaction to his words.
"As for Raoul, it is a
good start, but I wish you to find out all you can
about Ransom
Blooded-"
"No way." She lifted her head at
that, her currently sea green eyes flashing
with fear, "He's
a monster! Hell, even the Night World is afraid of him."
"He's
also one of the highest members seated on the Night World council,
and
one of the best assassins in history." Thierry grinned
slightly, "I thought
you loved a challenge."
"A challenge, yes, suicide, no."
"Tomorrow night, Kerr
Douccette is throwing a ball, a masque. You will be
escorted by a
Daybreaker, and you will finangle an introduction to Ransom,
if
possible."
"What of Raoul?" Skyler asked,
hopeful he would allow he to stay with the
tamer mission.
"No.
You are going to concentrate on your new mission." He announced,
dashing her hopes, "Rashel and Quinn's team has been sent to
keep him out of
your way."
"Okay..."
"You're to keep your own name for this. Redfern does
well in high circles,
even though you're a witch. And you will
keep your shields up at all times.
Blooded is an incredible
psychic, and you will not be a happy camper if he
finds out what
your true reason is for being there."
