H.A.W.C

Serenity of the Moon/Serena of the Moon

Chapter One

Rated: R

Season: Alternate Reality

Disclaimer: sigh you know what belongs to you know who.

The next chapter! Hope you guys like this and thanks to everyone that reviewed! LOL! You guys don't know how funny it was to watch my friends' reactions! Read the first sentence and you'll know what I mean!

One more note: Ceri means something in Welsh. I'll tell you guys what it means later on.

Wait, this is the last note. I don't know about cars so I don't know if the name the cars someone gave me are spelled right or in "style".

"You bastard!" All he did was give me one of his annoying smiles.

"Now, now. Is that any way for my beautiful Ceri to talk?" he asked sarcastically. Yeah I know, I know. I shouldn't be talking like this but he's just to damn annoying! You're probably wondering g what all the yelling is about. Nothing really just that Mr. Delano is at it with me again!

Just because the guy is to die for, with his silky black hair and dark blue eyes, he thinks he can have anyone he wants? I don't think so! He's been after me for a while now. Before I quit my slaying actually. He's expecting me to give in. Well he's going to be waiting an awful long time before that happens.

I took a deep breath to try and calm myself. "Now…we're been through this dozens of times. You're lucky I haven't stabbed the little thing inside of you, you call a heart." I know I said I was going to stay calm but there is only so much one can take with him.

He just smiled and said, "Ceri that just proves you want me around." About as much as a tooth ache. As if reading me mind, which he probably was, he faked hurt and said, "Ouch. You hurt me Ceri." He put a hand where his heart should be and looked down t me. "If I didn't have a heart, how can I feel the things I feel toward you?" he asked stepping forward.

"You don't need a heart to feel lust," I pointed out, stepping back. Of course I'm not afraid of him but you never know what his kind will do. No. I don't mean his kind as in vampires. One of my best friends is a vampire. By his kind I mean men that are womanizers. Men that think they can have anyone just by looking at them.

He smirked and asked, "Do you really think that?" Using his index finger, he ran a trail up and down his neck. It felt kind of good. Damn him! "If that was true I would have had you under my sheets long ago." I slapped his hand away and glared at him. He let out a chuckle and looked me up and down. "One day you'll be mine."

"Right," I said sarcastically. "Well, I'd love to talk to you some more but I have more important things to do…like sleep." It was past midnight when Luna finally let us go. I was just getting in my silver Ferrari when Darien popped up saying something about wanting to talk to me about something "important".

Of course I refused but he wasn't going to have any of that. He picked me up in his arms and took me who knows where. We were moving too fast to tell where he took me. At least he locked and closed my car door. So here we are and I still haven't heard on important word come out of his 'delicious' lips. What? I glared at him and knew he was putting words in my mind.

Sure, he can't hypnotize me but for some reason he can read my mind (I don't think it's possible for any vampire to mind read.) and put images in my head. I doubt anybody else can do that too. Mina told me it was impossible for a vampire to do that. When she asked me why I was asking I just told her I was just curious. After all, nobody knows about Darien except Lita and Nate but that's a different story for later. I asked Luna about it, Vampires mind reading I mean, and she told me the same thing but she was a little hesitant at it. Anyway he hasn't said anything important. As soon as my feet were on the ground he started flirting with me. "Light as a feather," he had said. And so here I was tired and just wanting to sleep. That does it I'm leaving.

I turned to leave but as I took a step I realized I didn't know where I was. I heard a chuckle right by my ear and I knew he was messing with me. He wrapped his arms around my waist so that all of my back touched him. "Lost little one?" he asked, tickling me with his breath. I balled my hands into fists and tried to ignore a little voice telling me to beat the shit out of him. Breathe Serena. Maybe these yoga lessons were actually working. As annoying as he is I need him- 'I need you too.' -to get me home, I added, ignoring him.

"I can do more then take you home." Urgh!

"Can't you stay out of my mind for one second?"

"Of course I can but where's the fun in that?" Of course. I should have seen that one coming. Ok I only have two choices:

1. I can get some ghost friends to come and wonder around until I find my apartment building but that'll take a while. I'm sure we're miles away from any place I know. I let out a sigh. Or choice two:

2. I can try my best not to kill Darien and get him to take me home. I'm already half asleep and I don't want to spend hours trying to get home when I can get there in minutes. I was brought back to reality by strong arms, pulling me closer. "You think too much." I rolled my eyes, which were heavy and wanted to close. I pictured my soft bed waiting for me at home. Then I saw Darien cuddling up against me with his arms a round my waist. It turned into a picture of a shirtless Darien and me, with some sleep wear I don't even own, tucked under the covers.

I blinked away the pictures and glared at Darien from the corner of my eye. It was all of his work. I let out a sigh and said, "You already know my decision. Just take me home and get your fucking hands away from me!" I added the last part with an elbow to his side, which was stupid because it didn't do anything. He ignored everything I said and started nibbling my ear. The bastard wasn't even listening! I'm betting 'just take me home and get your fucking hands away from me' somehow got translated to 'take me to bed and put your hands on any flesh you can find' and he didn't hesitate to add his mouth to the mix!

I struggled against him but it was no use. He was say stronger than me. He sensed my struggle and decided to play mind games with me. Pictures that I certainly never wanted to see started popping in my mind. He trailed hot kisses down my chin. Damn him! Why did he have to be blessed with such a hot body, which may I add I'm still pulled up tight against?

'You can't deny the fact that you want me.' I felt his thought slither in my mind. Like hell I 'do' not! 'So you're telling me you don't shiver with my touch?' No. To prove me wrong, he ran his finger up and down my arm. In an attempt to stop the shiver, my muscles tightened. 'That isn't the right place where you should tighten.' Why that pervert! 'You want me, Ceri. You want me to feel the heat you're feeling now. You want to fun your hand through my hair. You want to kiss me until I'm the one that feels dizzy. You want me to scream how much I want you…I want you, Ceri. I want to kiss every inch of your body. I want you to wrap your legs around me as we-'

"Stop," I tried to scream but it came out a whisper. By then he had left a warm, wet trail from my chin down to my color-bone. Get a grip Serena!

"No use denying it, Ceri. You want me as much as I want you and believe me I want you bad." Somehow (don't bother asking.) I managed to break free. Maybe he let his guard down trying to seduce me. I glared at him and ignored my fast beating heart and flushed face.

"I don't have time for this. If you're not going to take me home at least tell me where we are."

He stayed quiet for who knows how long before smiling at me and saying, "Come." He held out his hand for me and surprisingly I took it without a second thought. He drew me into his arms and said, "Hang on tight." I knew he was teasing but I held on tight anyway. You never know when the blasted vampire will try to be funny and "accidentally" drop me. "Never, Ceri," he whispered when we took off.

"Why do you call me that?" I asked out of the blue. He's always called me that since he first saw me. His actual words were, "My little Ceri. I'd never thought I'd see you here." I first saw him a few years ago at some club while I was chasing after someone. I never bothered asking what it meant before but I knew it wasn't any of the languages I knew.

"Call you what, Ceri?" he asked playing dumb.

I rolled my eyes. "That! Ceri."

"Because it's what you are." I knew he wasn't going to tell me so I dropped it. I stayed quiet the entire way. I had a feeling he was going very slow on purpose. I soon found my eyes closed and my head resting on his chest. "Wake up, Ceri," he whispered after a while. I opened my eyes and found myself in front of my apartment. I immediately jumped away from him and headed to the door. "Eager to get into bed?" he chuckled. I ignored him and opened the front door. "No invitation?" he asked pretending to be hurt.

"Nope," I answered simply. As I passed the front desk a lady called after me.

"Miss. Delciel someone named Luna called and said it was important. She said she would call around this time."

"Thanks," I said as I entered the elevator. I pushed the button up to the pent house. H.A.W.C., of course, is paying for all of this. Instead of having a big house for all the ambassadors Luna thought it would be better, for humans and creatures, knowing ambassadors could be found nearby. I'm not complaining. Being an ambassador has a lot of work in it so we deserve something. We need to learn who knows how many things. Languages for example.

To make things a little "fair" for the world the ambassadors were chosen from all over the world. Everyone is from or has been to different parts of the world. I, of course, was born and raised in New York. Raye was born in Tokyo but raised in New York for the past ten years. Lita was born in Mexico but moved here when she was like four. I'm not sure where Mina was born but she told us she lived in Europe. Amy was born somewhere in the U.S. but she moved to Germany when she was young and just moved here a couple of years ago when she was chosen.

Nate lived "hidden" in Canada. He wasn't really hidden but he preferred the forest for when he turned at night. Most werewolves can control their powers so it's nothing to worry about. Like I said before, Nate owns and co-owns lots of businesses around the world so he lives here in one of his many hotels, in a suite of course. Jed was born in the U.S. and traveled all over the world thanks to his rich grandparents. That's how he knows so many people and how people know him. His grandparents own a business and they have parties all the time in which Jed is forced to go. I think Jed and Nate co-own a couple of things.

The languages I'm good at are Spanish, and Japanese. I'm trying to learn other languages but I'm best at those two. Amy knows Japanese, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, and who knows what others. Mina knows the "love" languages which are languages that come from Latin. Nate also knows lots of them because of all his business. He thinks it's a waste of money to hire a translator when he can simply learn the language himself. Jed was forced to learn languages by his grandparents and Luna is with them on making him learn more. Raye is pretty good at Italian and Japanese, it being her native tongue, and is learning others pretty quick Lita is gaining on Mina with the "love" languages. Of course, they're all better at learning languages. This makes me ask again, "Why was I chosen?"

As I opened the door with my card key the phone rang. I picked up the phone and sat on the couch. "Hello," I said sleepily. I swear my eye lids got heavier in the past second.

"Serena? Where have you been? Why is your car still here?"

"Damn," I muttered.

"Excuse me?"

"Uh, nothing. Someone picked me up and I couldn't say no so we were out for a bit. So what's so important that you had to call-" I looked down at my wrist watch, "-Two in the morning?" Two in the morning? I'm going to kill Darien for this! I could be in my soft bed dreaming by now.

"I should be the one asking. What are you doing just getting home?"

"Luna, I don't think me telling you about my personal life is part of my contract. Recently you've been overprotective of me and my life."

"I have not!"

"Yeah you have." I didn't feel like arguing so instead I asked, "What's so important?"

"Oh! Uh, yes. Due to something-" Something? Since when did she just say something? "-Our meeting will change from six to eight."

"Six to eight. Got it."

"See you then."

"Bye." I hung up and placed the phone back on the receiver. I entered my room and not even bothering to close the door or pull the blankets off I let myself fall into my king sized bed.

I opened my eyes and came face to face with my alarm clock. Eleven in the morning. There's still plenty of time. I closed my eyes only to be open again minutes later by voices.

"Wow, is she lazy." I let out a sigh.

"Jed, if you're going to talk about me at least make sure I don't hear."

"Well good afternoon to you too." I sat up and saw Jed, Lita, and Mina standing by the door.

"How did you get here?"

"Easy," Mina said. "Once they saw who we were, they gave us each a key."

"Damn. I thought I told them not to do that anymore," I said referring to the time Raye came here with a "special" wake up call.

"Yeah, but I convinced them," Mina said with a sparkle in her eye. I let out a groan and let myself fall back into my bed.

"What happened to the whole you-can't-come-in-without-an-invitation?"

"There are loop holes. Lita invited me to come and help her get you out of bed."

"Why?" I complained. "Can't you let a girl just sleep in?"

"I think past eleven thirty is more then enough sleep in," Jed said with a chuckle. "Anyways, we have places to go."

"What for?"

"Remember our new member?"

"Oh yeah." Last nights meeting included some talk about our new vampire ambassador. Supposedly he's a really powerful guy. Owns lots of stuff, knows lots of people and Luna said he just has power. A combination of Nate and Jed, if you ask me. And we don't even know his name! Last night we agreed o go to dinner and a club after and today we're going to buy him a "welcome to our little family" present.

"Come on Sere! I promise we'll go shopping for ourselves after we finish." Boy, does Mina know how to get my attention. I sat up again and said, "Fine. Just get out of my room I need to change." They filed out and I closed the door behind them. I quickly changed to one of my few skirts that were knee high and a sleeveless shirt. I pulled my waist length hair, that's usually left down, up into a ponytail. I quickly put on my usual black eye liner and mascara with a bit of clear lip gloss.

From twelve to three we went present hunting. What do you get a guy whose name you don't even know? We went to countless stores and finally decided on a gold wrist watch. We had a small message inscribed on the back.

"To the newest member of our family (we didn't know his name so that's as good as it could get.); we hope you feel at home with us." Then all our initials were on the bottom. Kind of lame, I know but it was all we could do at the moment.

Like Mina promised we went shopping for ourselves. Of course Jed bailed on us. "It's just not something a guy would get caught dead doing." Of course I pointed out that he just helped us shop for a guy he didn't even know. "That's different," he had said. "You girls need a man with you to make sure you don't get something girly like." We all rolled our eyes at that and just let him go. He would just slow us down anyway.

"Isn't that a bit too raveling?" I asked Mina as she held up a blouse.

She shrugged and said, "You never know. This guy might be a total babe. It never hurts to show a little."

"True," I agreed. "But I don't think flashing the whole room is considered a little and what happened to Malachite?"

"A girl can get tired of waiting. Besides this is part of my plan. I made a deal with the guys. If they tell Malachite how hot they thought I looked then I promised I would hypnotize Raye and Lita for a night out."

"I thought you couldn't do that to people who can control a creature."

"Everyone knows you can't but I convinced them that I could do it if they didn't expect it. I'm just going to tell Raye and Lita that the guys told me to tell them to meet them at certain places."

"But they'll find it suspicious if Jed and Nate ask them to do stupid things. Or worse. What if they…you know."

"Have sex? Gosh Sere, how old are you? I wouldn't be worried about it. I'm sure Lita and Raye can take care of them if they try anything funny."

"Hmm…I still don't get why you don't just hypnotize Malachite."

"Cause then he'll turn into a mindless zombie. What's the fun in that?"

I smiled a little and said, "Ask Raye. She has fun with Jed."

She chuckled and said, "I'll have to remember to ask."

"What do you think?" Lita asked coming toward us from the dressing rooms. She was wearing a black skirt that went down to her knees. Her blouse was a black tube top. "I'm sure Nate will have fun with it," Mina said with a wink. Lita blushed and glared at Mina at the same time. Lita and Nate have been going out for over a year and I think I might just hear weeding bells. Who knows? Maybe this date that Mina is setting up will give them a push toward an engagement ring.

"Take that as a complement and buy it," I encouraged. She let out a sigh but I caught her smile.

"Here, Sere. Try something sexy. You never know how this new guy might look," Mina said, tossing me a black mini skirt.

"I'm guessing black is the theme?"

"But of course," she said, tossing me a matching blouse. I took them to the dressing room to change and on my way I grabbed a chain belt. I looked at my reflection and I liked what I saw. The blouse was an off the shoulder with a lose bow tied on my shoulder to make it look like it was holding the whole thing. I put on the belt and let it hung lose on my hips.

"Ta dah!" I said as I stepped out.

"Ooooh, I like," Mina said with a sparkle in her eye.

"Me too," I agreed. I looked at the bag in her hand and asked, "Finished already?"

"Of course darling," she said in her French accent. "Now let's go shoe shopping!" she said, returning back to English.

"Let me pay first. Where's Lita?"

"She already paid and is waiting for us by the door." I paid for my clothes and met Lita and Mina at the door.

I don't know how many pairs of shoes I tried before I found the right once. They were black and they crisscrossed around my foot and wrapped around my ankle twice. The heel was a good two and a half inches high and toothpick thin. I have to admit I was never a girly-girl. You would rarely find any skirts or dresses in my closet except for a few I had to buy for formal parties but walking in heels is one thing I do know.

When I finally arrived home it was two hours to eight. As much as I wanted to rest I knew Luna would want us all early. Last night Luna told us to meet at some Italian restaurant. I took a quick shower and had to use my hair dryer. I don't really like using but when you're in a rush what are you going to do?

I decided to add waves to my straight hair and leave it down. Satisfied with my hair, I took off my robe and got dressed. I hurried to my bathroom to put on my make up. Eye liner, mascara, some blush, and lip gloss. I decided on silver earrings that swung with every step and a silver necklace that rested a little below my color bone.

As I grabbed my ca keys I realized something. My car was still at H.A.W.C. head quarters. Damn! Now I'll never make it! Then it hit me. Nate! He has to pass my place to get there! I grabbed my cell phone and headed out. I dialed his number as I rode the elevator down.

"Hey, Sere," he answered. I stepped out of the elevator and headed for the main doors.

"Nate can you do me a huge favor?" I asked, hoping he hasn't passed yet.

"Need a ride?"

"How'd you know?"

"You mean besides the fact that I can see you standing at the main door?" I looked up and sure enough there he was. I hung up leaned down to clip it on my shoe strap. "What happened to your car?" he asked when he was closer. He unlocked the door for me and I got in.

"I left it at H.A.W.C." and before he could ask why I said, "Someone took me home."

"It wouldn't happen to be hat vamp you told me about would it?" Nate and Lita were the only once that knew about Darien. They didn't know his name but once when I got drunk, I get drunk easily, Nate and Lita took me home and the next day they told me I told them about my "vampire stalker," as Lita likes to put it. Before I could answer he said, "Just tell me the name of the guy and I'll take care of him." At that moment I could have sworn I was his fang from the side of his mouth. I know what you're thinking. "Get 'em boy!" but no I can take care of myself.

So instead I said, "Don't worry. You are talking to a slayer," I pointed out.

"Ex-slayer," he corrected. "Or have you been doing some after work activities…again?"

I let out a sigh. "That was only once." When I first joined H.A.W.C., I broke the rule about slaying…once...ok more than once but I only got caught once and that's what maters. It's not my fault that bitch, Beryl, thought I was stealing "her man". She wasn't even faithful. I've seen her with various men all the time. So how was I supposed to know who "her man" was? Anyway, every once in a while she would send on of "her man" after me. Sadly, some of them were humans which meant I couldn't kill them because they might have been hypnotized.

Mina and Amy were the first once I could trust. They found out about me "activities" and said they wouldn't tell anyone as long as I quit. Mina managed to UN-hypnotize the humans. Everybody else only found out when they found my at the back of HQ trying to kill Beryl. Of course they pulled me off of her before I could stab her. So, she got away and is somewhere in the city. I thought for sure I would get kicked out for sure but amazingly I didn't.

…For revenge she killed the former vampire ambassador. What pissed me off the most was that she got away. She killed an ambassador for goodness sakes! That should be a death penalty! I asked Luna why and she said that they didn't have any proof. No one saw her do it but I KNOW she did it.

"…Either way, tell me if he lays one finger on you." I wasn't listening so I just nodded my head.

We arrived twenty minutes later. Thankfully our mystery ambassador hadn't arrived. It looked like we were the last to arrive and Mina had gotten everyone the black memo. We took our seats and waited for Luna and Artemis to arrive with Mr. Mystery. All of a sudden I got very interested in Mr. Mystery. Who was he and why wouldn't Luna tell me-uh I mean us. Why won't she tell us who he is? What are the chances of him being a sexy, intelligent man that actually uses his brain? Wonder why he was chosen. We already have Nate and Jed.

Luna said he was powerful. Maybe that's why but we're already powerful. H.A.W.C. is anyway. Is he a no one like me? No, I doubt that. I don't know why but I have this feeling…I'm not even sure if I'm describing it right but I feel that we are going to be VERY close.

Luna walked in then. Behind her were Artemis and Mr. Mystery. I fought the urge to stand up to get a better look. Who's the idiot that ordered a dim lit dinner? When the light finally hit the stranger my eyes widened. "What the hell are you doing here!"

It's kind of obvious who it is huh? sigh that was a long chapter. The other once are probably going to be shorter. There aren't as many things to explain. So what do you think of the first chapter? Was it what you expected or better or worst?

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-Serenity (ASMR) a.k.a Serena (fanfic)