Disclaimer: I do not own this Trilogy
A/N: a lot of u guys are wondering why Kitty or Bart don't recognize Nathaniel. Three reasons (1) His scar which was mentioned in the first chapter covers most of his face which is being covered mostly by his eye patch which most of his left face. (2) His hair is significantly longer also covering some parts of his face. (3) In three years his face has changed and he's a lot taller and talks differently so even though he resembles his old self a lot all these personality changes makes him seem different.
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Landon/Nathaniel
London at night was scary. All those dark alleys and flickering lamp posts. The way the building cast shadows so that the phone booths at their corners seemed to hide somebody. The way the moonlight eerily slid through the cracks as if to tell you there'll always be ways in. The way the 24-hour stores had never had people in it at this hour, but it was always open and sometimes walking in brought more fear than comfort. Like the way that black cats always chose this time of the night to appear. With their glowing yellow eyes staring their way into your soul. The way the silence magnified the sound so that even the tiptoes of a cat could sound like those of a man. The way that light made shadows seem more lively than usual. That was London at night.
Despite the lamp posts and the shadows, Landon loved this time the most. He loved the way how beautiful the moon looked and maybe if it was cloudless night he could admire the stars. He loved the silence the way that every little sound was stripped bare for him hear. He also loved the air. The air tasted cleaner and fresher at night.
Normally he would be at the roof of the orphanage staring into the night. Sometimes Elise and Sean would share it with him. These days Sean wouldn't be able to share it with them. By day he worked as waiter down at Viva la Italiano. Now though he worked night shifts at some store that worked 24-hours a day. Elise worked as a librarian and museum tour guide in the day. Renee was a reporter for London times. Owen was a taxi driver by day and a bouncer at some club by night. Chelsea was the club's bartender. Only the guys worked both night and day. The girls were the ones that watched the kids.
Now he had to work 24/7. He found a decent job as a garbage man during night shifts. He had too collect garbage along a certain route, sort the trash disposal and change the cans before morning. No one wanted this job because it meant traveling around London by night with trash. The manager decided to triple the salary of whoever took the job since no one had taken it for ten years.
When he reached the junk site he parked his bike behind the office building. Thats when he sensed something wrong. The boss man left the door closed. The boss had told him to always leave it open because the day shift workers didn't have keys. There it was closed and uninviting. Something was wrong.
Silently he took out a silver knife concealed in his shoe and some glass vials of crushed rosemary, rowan and edelweiss. Chelsea had a grown several plants that annoyed demons. Each member of CLOSER was skilled in fighting demons. They all had Resilence and could see demons for what they really were. At first they were supposed to be become as the Resistance before them. Fighting against the government with magical items but while they were silently recruiting they had found several children who had lost their families. So the CLOSER Resistance Movement became the CLOSER to You orphanage.
There was no other way in the building so he kicked the door down and immediately threw the three vials inside.
He had hit five imps as the herbs scattered. The herbs blinded them while he slashed at them killing them quickly. But he was shocked when he saw humans armed with pistols that followed.
"Landon West you are hereby under arrest for being suspected of mass murder." the first cop said "Come quietly in for questioning."
Landon was about to activate his boots when he noticed something creep behind him. He turned but was whacked on the side of his head with a heavy metal object from behind. He blacked out the last thing he heard was a woman's voice screaming "That was not necessary Bartimaeus!"
Bartimaeus
"What did you want me to do? Let him activate the boots so he can disappear then reappear then kill everyone then disappear?" I asked Kitty
"Well no. But you could have knocked him out with something less dangerous. We still need to question him" Kitty said
"Don't worry he's gonna live. Not like I hit him that hard."
"Are you sure you didn't do that because you were mad he beat you?"
Drat she got me "of course not!"
"Really Bartimaeus? Are you really sure?"
"Yes now quit bothering me and lets take him to the interrogating place!"
Sighing Kitty signaled the boys in blue to take Mr. West to the center where we could question him and stuff. Strangely he was still wearing his pirate eyepatch and that mummy bandage around his arm. Perhaps he really needed those. Anyway this was one really scary dude. He killed five burly imps in a split second. Even for a great Djinn like me killing five of those guys before they realized they were dead is still pretty darn hard plus he noticed my sneak attack (even if he was unable to block it) This kid reminded me a lot of my old buddy Mercenary what-his-face.
When we got to the station he came to and started attacking the other Djinn. He was restrained and bandaged. You would not believe the how much stuff he had hidden in various places(1)
One thing about this kid was his way of fighting and thinking was familiar. I knew what it was but I didn't want to think about it.
Kitty
"I want to do it" Kitty said determined
"Are you sure he's extremely dangerous and we don't know if he has any more tricks" Rebecca said "I'm worried Kitty"
"Don't worry I got this" Then she gestured to Bartimaeus and they entered the room.
Landon West was sitting down on the metal chair his feet propped on the table and he was leaning back. He was smoking a cigarette that the first set of interrogators offered him. They had tried to ask him but all he did was comment on the excellent quality of the cigarette.
"You know something" He said to Kitty "I watch a lot of TV and I never really thought they used the whole good cop bad cop routine. Those nice guys earlier were the good cops so you must be bad cop?"
"Damn right I am." Kitty growled
"A woman as a bad cop. Wow here I was think you guys weren't original. But you are scary I'm starting to miss the good cops. One of them told me this great police interrogation joke it goes like--"
"You must know why you're here." Kitty said cutting him off. This playful personality of his as the reason the first two got distracted.
"Yeah the good cops explained it earlier. So I'm gonna say this again. I didn't do it"
Kitty snorted "All evidence points to you. The dumpster was checked by your boss and several other workers before you left. The only explanation is the bodies were transferred while you were delivering it."
"Well let me tell you something! I read the list of missing people that those nice guys earlier gave me, some of those people were my friends. Why would I kill my friends just to mess with the Prime Wanker?!"
Kitty had no answer to that. But then maybe he knew something more "Fine then. Did you notice something suspicious while you were delivering it?"
Landon thought for a moment then said "There was this guy that had this strange vibe coming off of him. Like a demon's. I think it was on the fifth through seventh plane."
"You can see the planes?"
"Who can't these days? Anyway he was the last guy who checked the dumpster and I think I saw him chanting something over it. At first I thought it was nothing but now I'm not so sure."
"I see sorry for the misunderstanding you may go"
"Can I get my stuff back? Those boots mean a lot to me."
"Of course"
"All right see ya later" He said putting his boots back on "Next time you wanna browse just say"
"How did you know?" Kitty gasped
"You think that lame disguise fooled me for a second? Well think again." He laughed picking up his weapons. He left the building by activating his boots and disappearing.
"Well what do you think?" Kitty asked Bartimaeus
"I have a few guesses none of them good news" the Djinn grumbled
"Well what are they?"
"I won't tell you the first one 'til I'm sure, I don't want to disappoint you. Well the second one is that he's a descendant of magician hunting assassins that worked in Asia mostly. The third is that he's some kind of hybrid that managed to control himself and decided to live a decent life."
"So which do you think is the most likely?"
"The third of course"
"Do you think we should monitor him?"
"Yeah definitely. I'll get a chance to test my first theory and maybe I can get a rematch! But next time I'll fuse with you to even the odds a bit!" Then Bartimaeus started using the evil laugh he had practicing on for a long time.
"oh brother" Kitty sighed
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A/N: Hey guys sorry I was busy with other important stuff sorry 4 taking so long.
Anyway who can guess what Bart's first theory is...... All of you! Its sooooooooo obvious I might as well right it here!