This story takes place after onefee27's Changes and Beginnings. I suggest reading her fabulous stories here: .net/u/1898600/onefee27. All characters belong to Charlaine Harris and Kelly aka onefee27. I'm just taking them out to play for a bit.

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Fastening the cape, I took one last look in the mirror. Perfect. Probably no more than a handful of geeks would recognize who I was, but I didn't mind that one bit. Girls would appreciate my costume none the less. I was wearing my dark green fitted suit with a white cotton shirt and slim black tie. It accentuated my body perfectly and made my ass look good. My hair was pulled back and I had whitened the brown hair on my temples. That actually made me appear a bit older. I wonder if that will increase my chances with the ladies. Not that I am complaining so far.

The largest difference to my normal appearance was however the wicked mustache I was sporting. I hadn't shaved in a week prior to today and had now only shaved my chin and neck. One of my favorite swords was fastened around my hips, an antique katana dad had given me when I was fourteen. I remember how surprised I was when he called me in his study at home in Minden. That usually meant I was in trouble. However when I entered the bat-cave as mom always called it due to dad's very unique decorating style, I found him sitting in the leather armchair by the fireplace with a huge smile on his face. He sat me down, told me how proud he was of me, and presented me with the most beautiful sword I had ever seen. It was for winning my first sword fight against him earlier that evening. He had said "A true master deserves a weapon that matches him. May it serve you well." I guess most 14 year olds don't get an ancient Japanese katana sword as a present from their dad, but Eric certainly wasn't your normal dad. For one he was a vampire, and for second he was a Viking warrior and had been teaching me how to use a sword almost every evening for the past 3 and a half years. I had felt like the luckiest kid in the world that night. My best friend Josh didn't believe it when I showed it to him the next day.

Well tonight it would go perfect with my costume and live up to the promise I had to make dad earlier. He had called shortly after dusk to inform me of a new threat to our lives. He was the main target, but since we were his family, that made mom and me possible targets as well. Tomorrow night he was coming over to our house in the garden district with my new body guard. I hated the idea and told him I could very much take care of myself, but he had insisted. Well I was ready for the meeting tomorrow and I wasn't planning on giving in easy. I would run a hard bargain.

That also made tonight my last night without a shadow constantly watching me. It was a pain to pick up girls with a bodyguard at your side, make that near impossible. I had scored a couple times, a few years back at the end of my first year at Tulane when my last shadow followed me 4 long weeks. Luckily had had to study for my end of the year exams anyway, so it wasn't all that useless having to stay home most of the time. And the daytime guy, a were named Luke was pretty funny and a business major. So that had worked out fine. And I had straight As to prove it too. Maybe he would be available again. The finals were around the corner after all. Luke was definitely on the table in my match with dad tomorrow.

However the nighttime guy, Antonio had been quite the contrary. He was a scary looking mid aged vampire with a bad ass attitude. The shit talking drill sergeant type. We had hated each other from the start. He owned fealty to dad, but that didn't make him happy about watching his mere human son. And I didn't even have to be able to read his mind to find that out either. I am definitely not settling for him, no matter what. Dad had better have someone better available.

Just then Josh looked around the corner and said "Ready my evil side kick?"

"Citing batman's final words before the most devious and powerful Ras' al Ghul slays him with his ancient sword?" I smiled right back at him with an evil glint in my eyes and hinted at the sword.

"You've got to be kidding me, dude, you're not taking the real deal with you to the campus Halloween party are you?" What if someone steals it?"

I answered with a look that told him who the fuck do you think is going to steal a sword wrapped around the body of a guy who holds a black belt in just about every martial art there is and has the body to match too. Besides being the state fencing champion. I didn't have to say anything. That's the cool thing about having a best friend from childhood on.

"And dad sort of made me promise to have a weapon on me till my bodyguard arrives tomorrow night." I let my head drop. I didn't want to see his face, let alone hear his thoughts.

"Aw fuck, not again. What kind of shit is happening now. Oh forget what I said, I don't want to know. Just make sure it's someone who fits in. That last guy was really creepy."

"I'll be sure to state our case during my meeting with my dad tomorrow. I don't want Antonio in our pad no more than you do." We even went so far as to recede our invitation to him after he had finished his job. Lucky for us the whole thing was over in time for the end of year party.

And what a party that had turned out to be. I had met two incredibly hot chicks. Josh had already gone off with some girl, so that left the two to me. They were roommates and friends and all I had to do was pick their thoughts a bit. I flirted with both of them and ended up fucking both as well. But not before they had pleasured themselves on my bed while I was watching. I had made a couple of their dreams come true that night and they had definitely fulfilled one of mine.

"Let's hit the party, dad."

"Over my dead body, batman." I answered with my best Arabic English accent.

"I'm trying Ras' al, I'm trying. Come one, bat girl awaits me."