Title: Walk Across the Sun
Author: Findabhiar Aery
Email: findabhiar@hotmail.com
Spoilers: NW
Rating: 15
Disclaimer: Everything you recognize, LJS's, everything else, mine. All rights reserved.
Warnings: Nothing much, swearing, some sexual content later on, the normal.

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Prologue

"Seeing you two actually together is quite shocking." Hunter Redfern murmured as he took in the Quints.

"We try." Lexi said, smiling confidently. Winter stared at him warily out of cornflower-blue eyes before slowly lowering thick black lashes.

"I have heard about you two. Exemplary Night World citizens, I must say." He sat back in his seat and smiled charmingly at the twins.

"Why, thank you-"

"Cut the bullshit." Winter interrupted her sister softly. Lexi turned to her with an amused look on her face. "Why did you send for us?"

He sat forward in his chair and stared at the small girl. She stared back, making him slightly uneasy at the intensity in that gaze. "I have a job for you."

"Ah." Lexi leaned back in her own chair and glanced at her sister swifty. Don't say anything just yet, let him explain, Winter's voice sounded softly in her mind. Lexi nodded and turned back to Hunter.

"Circle Daybreak is increasingly becoming a thorn in my side," Hunter stood to pace the length of the room as he spoke.

"So?" Winter asked drily.

"So, I want you to infiltrate. Become members, report back to me on your findings. I have no evidence as such to suggest that they are plotting against the council and our cause, so I cannot take official action. I hope with your findings, I may get the information I need."

"We're assasins, Mr. Redfern, not spies." Lexi said in amusement.

"You will be paid well for your actions. I believe that you two are the best for this job, however." Hunter sat to watch them carefully. Winter was odviously the brain of the two, and he would need her on his side.

Lexi glanced to her sister again, to find her face blank as she thought over the proposition. She then looked to Lexi with raised eyebrows. Nodding together, Winter answered, "We accept your job."

"Very good."

They walked out of the house together and were walking before speaking out loud.

"Fuck, I hate these goddamned dresses." Lexi complained as she tugged at the long heavy fabric they were required to wear while in the Night World town.

"It's just for a bit longer." Winter comforted, thinking furiously about all the preparations that would need to be made before their departure.

"I know. That Hunter though, man, creepy. I don't like him at all."

"Whatever. A job's a job." Winter trudged through the muddy street in silence as she listened to Lexi ramble.

"I wish we could just leave the Night World for good, and never look back."