Jade could hear the far off sound of an alarm ringing. He wished someone would turn it off it was getting annoying now.

He woke up with a start, hit his alarm clock, stretched and padded sleepily into his en suite bathroom to have a shower and a hair wash. "Getting up at 6 in the morning on a Saturday" grumbled Jade to himself "Bloody money".

An hour later Jade was locking his front door and going over to his car for work. The frost was thick on the ground, some flowers being frozen completely, spider webs looked like they were made out of hundreds of shining diamonds. It would be snow soon, which was always good. Jade loved to watch the children playing in the snow, how they always seemed not to have a care in the world, with nothing but time and a lot of laughter to fill the frost-bitten air with. His car only slightly warmer, Jade revved her up, turned the heating on and played whatever CD was in there. Reversing out of his drive, Davey Havok's metal scream filled the car, and for some strange reason, it made Jade feel so much better.

He pulled into 'his' space in the car park, under the mighty oak tree, which was now almost bare of leaves, providing shade from the heat of the sun in the summer so Nightshade wouldn't heat up too much.

"Heat" muttered Jade as he stepped outside the warmth of his car into the freezing cold of morning " now there's a thought".

"They always said all that overtime would drive you insane Jade Puget, I guess they were right. Just be careful talking to yourself in public" grinned Adam a workmate of Jades.

"Shut up Adam, I have no choice alright?" retorted Jade wandering over. The two men walked together into the well-furbished office building, into warmth. 'God Bless the guy who invented radiators' thought Jade 'God bless'.

"You know you've got a new client today?" said Adam putting some coins into the coffee machine and hitting it so it would work.

"What? Who?" asked Jade taken by surprise, he hadn't been expecting a new one so soon.

"Erm, hold on lemme look", Adam pulled some files out of his bag "Yep, Mr. Collins has set you up with a guy named, Davey Havok".

"Davey Havok, your sure?" asked Jade. It wasn't true, how could it be?

"Sure as the sky is grey, His parents died recently and he's got all this stuff to sort out. He's in some band or another apparently."

"Crypt O' The Night" muttered Jade, his mind racing.

"Never heard of them but then, everyone's gotta be unheard of at some point haven't they?" replied Adam, getting his coffee and making for the stairs.

"I'll see you later, we can have lunch or something. You still vegetarian?" asked Adam.

Jade could do nothing but nod, why was this numb, spellbound feeling there? What did it mean?

Adam disappeared from sight and left Jade standing there staring into the distance a million and one thoughts pounding through his mind.

A work mate who was in accounting named Freya walked past and tapped Jade lightly on the shoulder.

"Huh?" Jade jolted back to Earth feeling completely spun out.

"You are still with us slightly then? Are you ok, you look a bit distant" asked Freya looking concerned. She'd always had a soft spot for Jade, but in a brotherly way, she had always had a strong feeling Jade didn't like girls. Whenever all the lads were pouring over Zoo or Nuts, or staring out the window wolf whistling at girls walking past, Jade always sat in a corner or made his excuses and left.

"Yeah, erm, yeah I'm fine, thanks," replied Jade.

"Come on, cheer up! You've got your new client today, I've had a look it already, and he's nice. And he spoke to me for a while as well, most don't usually do that, they just want to get it over and done with. I warn you though, his case looks incredibly complicated, it's riddled with debts." She smiled at Jade who smiled back to keep her happy.

"That's good then, I'll see you later". And she hurried away.

Jade gathered himself up and made for the stairs, wandering up to the 3rd floor to his office. "Why am I so worried?" thought Jade "I've never been nervous about a client before, why this time? What makes him so special"? By the time Jade got to his office door, he had convinced himself that this was just another client, nothing more, nothing less.

But that small nervous sensation was still there.

Jade took a deep breath and opened the door, expecting to see Davey Havok looking ugly without the photo enhancement they put on the album cover, but . . . he didn't, he was gorgeous.

Davey heard the door opening and took his glance away from the wall to face Jade. Both men stopped and looked entranced for a moment before snapping out of it, shaking hands and sitting down to begin 'business'.

Jade looked down at the papers in front of him and read them, Freya was right, there were loads of debts, to various people and companies. This was going to make the inheritance severely complicated.

[…]

"Mr. Havok, I" started Jade but Davey put up his hand.

"Please, call me Davey" he asked, his voice was amazing, unique even, it gave Jade the

Shivers.

"Erm, Davey, OK. So do you have any other family this would be left to or a partner at all?" enquired Jade, despite himself, he found himself wishing Davey didn't have a partner.

"No, I don't have either, Mr.?"

"Puget, Jade Puget."

"Jade, may I call you Jade?" Jade nodded "Jade I'm honestly not fussed about the inheritance, but I don't want the debts left behind, I brought my Dad's work history along as some of the companies he worked for are saying he owes them money. I just can't believe that to be true, my Dad was a good man".

"May I see it?" asked Jade holding his hand out. Davey rooted around inside his bag and pulled out the thick wad of papers.

"Ok, I'm jut gonna quickly read through these is that ok?" he asked Davey looking at him. Davey nodded, and Jade dragged himself away from his eyes, he felt as though he was being sucked in.

[X]…Baby set me free, from this misery, I can take it no more, since you ran away, nothings been the same, don't know what I'm living for…[X]

Davey sung quietly to himself, his breathtaking voice filling the entire room.

[X]… Here I am, so alone, and there's nothing in this world I can do, until your back here baby, miss you want you, need you so, until your back here baby yeah, there's a feeling inside, I want you to know, you are the one and I can't let you go…[X]

"Your voice is incredible," whispered Jade, more to himself than to Davey.

To his surprise, Davey looked amazed "Thanks, I'm in a band called…"

"Crypt O' The Night" finished Jade looking up at Davey's face.

"You know us?" asked Davy sounding surprised.

"Yeah, I have your album 'Everything Is Nothing'. It's really good. Your really good".

The minute Jade said it he could feel his face getting hot and looked down at his papers.

"Thanks" said Davey, and when Jade stole a glance, he saw that he was blushing too.

"Do you sing?" asked Davey.

"No, I play guitar though. And I write songs a lot".

"Oh, cool. So is this all you do? Being a solicitor. I'll be honest, I'd hate it. I really would it's so… 9-5."

Jade laughed "9-5? I wish. It's 7-11 for me. And I hate it anyway but it pays well I guess. Well I'll take these papers home with me if that's ok, so I can work on them a bit more. It's 10am already. You have somewhere to be don't you?" asked Jade

"Band practice, you can take them home, that's fine with me. What do I do if I find out anything until I next see you?" asked Davey.

Jade got one of the company's cards and scrawled his home number on the back.

"Here take it. This counts if you ever need to talk to me as well ok?" he handed it to Davey who stood up to take it.

"Thanks"

"It's ok. I'll see you Monday then?" said Jade.

"Yeah you will, that's if you can handle me for more than one day," grinned Davey.

"I look forward to it" smiled Jade holding out his hand. Davey shook it, and left, leaving Jade feeling strange. He couldn't describe it. What the hell just happened?