Kim got up from her bed where she had spent the last 8 hours pretending to be asleep. It was 6:30 in the morning and she looked out window to see that it was yet another overcast day. Her roommate was still asleep in her bed. She went into the washroom to have a shower and get ready for work. I love overcast days; it means that I can go to work. What do I have to get done today? Call Carlisle and see how things are going up there. Get a hold of Jane or Aro to ask about my next assignment. And spend the entire day around humans at work. Oh and go hunting tonight. After her shower was done she went into the living room and turned on the television. Before walking into the kitchen, she made herself some breakfast but she was not going to eat it. She usually just threw it out; it was only for show because he roommate did not know the truth about her life. The television was on very low as to not wake her roommate. As she listened she heard that there had been another set of murders that had happened and they were being displayed in the same manner as before. She pocked her head out from around the kitchen window. Her roommate would be getting a call in the next few minutes. Her boss would want her at the scene. She was a reporter, and a really good one at that. Kim had spent the greater part of her life finding the idea roommate to live with and she found that reporters make the best. They find out about things and usually they will talk in their sleep so she could find out everything that they had seen on the job. It just so happened that she came across one of the most respected ones when she found her.

She entered her room and shook her very gently. Trying not to touch her cold hands to her skin. "Angie, you have to get up. Your boss is going to call in a few minutes. There has been another shooting they think. He is going to want you down at that scene."

Angie pushed against Kim. "Not this morning, Kimmie I don't want to get out of bed, when he calls tell him that I am sick."

"I can't lie for you, you know how bad I am at doing that. So come on get your sorry butt out of that bed and into that shower. I'll tell him you will be there in 20 I'll drive you on my way into work myself." Kim went into the kitchen to dispose of her breakfast. And just as expected Angie's cell phone went off. Kim picked it up. "Hi Sir. Angie will be there in 20 minutes. She is just in the shower. I am driving her there. So have the stuff ready and please have someone there to pick her up."

"We will and Kim thanks for doing this for me." came the voice from the other end of the receiver.

When Angie was out of the shower, Kim had made breakfast for her. "I don't understand this. You get in later than I do, how can you have so much energy in the morning to do all of this?"

"It is a talent." She smiled at her roommate as she put two perfectly cooked sunny side up eggs on her plate. "Besides I get a hoot out of you in the mornings. I guess I am a morning person for the most part actually I prefer nights but in order to have nights you have to have days. Now come on we have to get going. Take that with you. You are going to eat on the way."

They got into the car and Angie was almost done the breakfast. "Oh I forgot to ask did you get breakfast this morning. I should have been more thoughtful. You are always doing this for me one of these days I am going to have to cook you breakfast." She smiled at her roommate.

"Angie, I am good. So don't worry about me. You have a full day of work ahead of you. I already saw reporters standing on the steps. It looks like that killer is up to it again."

"Not again" Angie hung her head and smiled as she got out of the car and walked over to the person in charge.

Kim drove off. There was nothing at the scene that was going to interest her. All I have to do now is get a hold of Aro and let him know that this has hit the media and it will only be a matter of time before the higher ups get involved. And that would not be a good situation. She got into the store just after her boss got. In there and as usual there was a stack of CDs that needed to be put away and then she noticed a box of DVDs on the floor under her desk. She guessed that those had to be put away just the same. She was quite able to keep up with the work when she was in the store everyday like it had been this week. Which was a nice thing for her, yet on other weeks when it was sunny everyday she was not in at all. She took those days as sick days and her boss never got mad at her about it. She had made sure of that. She sat down at her desk and made a phone call to Italy on her cell phone. Gianna picked up the phone on the other end and answered the phone in the usual manner.

"Gianna, its Kim I need to talk to Aro, Marcus or Caius now. There is something going on in the city and I need to see if they want me to get into the middle of it and run some kind of interference for them to be able to take care of the problem." She listened to the other end of the phone.

Aro was in the chamber dealing with a law breaker at the time when Kim had called in and Gianna did not want to disturb that. The last time she had decided to disturb one of those sessions she had been told that it would be the last thing that she ever did as a human or as anything living on this planet including a vampire and she did not want to face that doom. However it was Kim that was asking her to do this and it was Kim that would save her in the end if she needs it to be done but maybe she should tell her that Aro is in a session right now with a law breaker that might help. "Kim, everyone is in the chamber dealing with something at the moment is there anything that I could do for you until they come out?"

"Gianna" Kim put her head on her hands for a second and removed the phone from her ear. She did not want to be hitting brick walls right now when it came to dealing with this. "You need to get your butt into that room and tell him I have a serious situation here and I need to talk to him. I don't care what he has told you in the past about you coming into this situation as before. I need to speak to him now, we both know what you will become to him. He will get bored of you and other things will come of that later."

"Kim, I am scared of Jane getting a hold of me. It was both Caius and Aro who said that if I chose to disobey them while doing this that they would have her kill me with fire. I can't do that, I can't open that door." She was crying at her desk when Alec came by to see what was going on he was on his way to the chamber to talk to Aro himself, when he noticed the phone in her hand.

"Gianna who is on the phone?" he asked when he stopped to see her for a few seconds.

"Oh, it is Kim and she wants to talk to Aro, Marcus or Caius about something but you know what they said about me disturbing them right now." she handed him the phone as he stood there glaring at her.

"Kim, it is Alec. What is going on down there? I was supposed to call you yesterday to give you your next assignment but I sort of forgot to do that." He smiled. She would know that he did not forget he just liked to sit down and talk to her for a few hours.

"Listen I can't talk for long but I need to discuss something with you guys. If you could tell the three leaders to look at the news station in the DC region it would be extremely helpful and if they want me to do anything about it I would be happy to. My roommate is covering the story so I can get all the inside information for you guys right now if need be." She smiled and remembered their last really long conversation about 2 months ago.

"I will do that and let you know what they want you to do. I guess you don't want your next assignment right now then?"

"You guessed right as ever. But I have to get back to work. So I'll talk to you soon." Kim hung up her phone and then began to get to work on the much needed stocking job that she had ahead of her for the day.


A/N: here is the next chapter. I know it is really soon but I figured get it up and so you can now the start of both stories.