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Just who are you anyway.

Chapter 9 – Neatly wrapped up?

No one's pov

Tori stayed true to her word and kept Jade in bed until they had both orgasmed twice. Once Jade finally satisfied Tori enough, to earn her release, she was allowed out of bed. Then Jade hopped in the shower and by 4 pm she was in her, still smelly, office making phone calls. Tori on the other hand made a quick trip to the grocery story, to get food for tonight's dinner. A dinner where hopefully they may get some answers as to what happened.

Beck and Claire were the first to show up. Though rested, cleaned up and in new clothes, Claire still looked like someone beat the crap out of her. Several bruises remained on her face from the fight with the demon the night before.

"How are you feeling?" Tori asked as she let Beck and Claire in.

Claire laughed, "It only hurts when I move." Then Claire smiled and cupped Beck's cheek. "But my beautiful mate, has done a wonderful job playing nursemaid to his werewolf girlfriend."

Tori laughed and looked to Beck. "Been pampering your girl, haven't you."

"She deserves it."

Tori smiled. "Jade's out on the patio at the grill. Help yourself to anything at the bar. We cleaned up all the broken glass but about 2/3's of it is still intact.

Tori then led Beck and Claire out to the party room, where they fixed themselves drinks and headed out to the patio. Several chairs were set out and some music was playing from some hidden speakers. There was a large grill set up to one side and Jade was busy standing in front of it flipping steaks.

Claire and Beck walked up to Jade, where each one gave her a hug. "How are you doing Babe?" Beck said in a friendly tone.

"I'm fine, its Tori who is a bit worse for wear." Jade said, as she flipped a t bone steak.

"She grounded you didn't she?" Claire said.

"Amongst other things." Jade said in a tone of voice that indicated that pushing it, would not be a good idea.

A few minutes later, both Sara and Julia arrived and for the moment, the mood was festive with talk of the previous night's incident avoided. Before that conversation got stale, the food was ready and soon everyone was sitting around a large glass patio table.

Juila was the first to speak. "There was an emergency meeting of the wizard's council this morning, which I attended. They were greatly disturbed by what happened. The first thing they did was to make me a liaison between the wizard and werewolf communities. In ages past, there was an ambassador to the werewolf king or queen. But with their, seeming demise, the post had been vacant for centuries. My first official duty Jade is to express the most sincere apologies of the wizard council. This action by person or person's unknown was done without their knowledge. Had they known, they would have put a stop to it. Our two communities over the years have viewed each other with great mistrust and they do not wish things between the werewolf and wizard communities to get any worse. I am to let you know they are investigating the matter. They have also said, that at some future date they would like to meet you in person in hopes of improving relations."

Jade listened carefully and nodded her head. "Apology accepted. I appreciate any efforts they undertake to get to the bottom of this matter. My congratulations to you as well."

"Thank you."

Jade took a bite of her steak and cleared her throat. "First I need to thank both Sara and Clair for their efforts in my rescue last night."

Claire at this point slid the Fenrir necklace that Tori had borrowed her the previous night across to Jade. "First I need to return this. Thanks for letting me borrow it.

Jade looked at it for a moment and slid it back. "It's yours now."

Claire looked puzzled. "This necklace can only be worn by members of the house of Fenrir. You, Tori and your children. I'm not one."

Jade smirked. "I've done some reading in the old records and it seems I can grant titles that would grant you honorary status as a Fenrir. As of this day, I grant to you, Claire O'Neil the title of Duchess of Ireland and Great Britain. It's an honorary title, but does give you Fenrir status. Anyone fucks with you, fucks with me. I'm also giving you and Beck the apartment in London we own. We never use it. My thanks to you in my rescue. "

Claire looked at the necklace as her mouth fell open. "Thank you." Beck looked just as stunned.

Then Jade turned to Sara. "Sara, if it weren't for you and your spell that revealed the imposter, I'd still be imprisoned and Tori probably dead. So in recognition of that" Jade then slid two cards across the table to Sara. "The first card is for a salesman at the local Porsche Dealership. You talk to him and pick out any car on the lot. It's on me. The second card is my accountant. Call him and you give him any details as far as student loans and tuition. You're college education is on me."

Sara's eyes nearly bugged out of her head. "Thank you." She finally stammered out.

Then Jade pushed a check across the table to Julia. "A check for 200,000. Consider it my thanks. That and I owe you a favor."

Julia nodded her head and smiled. "Thank you ever so much."

Tori was beaming inside, at Jade's growing diplomatic skill.

After eating several bites of her steak in rapid fashion, Jade spoke up. "Well, on to the task at hand. I checked with my people in the police. The building in question was sold 1 month ago from an old guy, to a corporation named Oak Hill Consulting. Police wanted to question the former owner but he was killed in an apparent burglary of his home, a week after he sold it. He was killed and his office ransacked."

"That's awfully convenient." Said Beck, as stuffed a piece of salad in his mouth.

"Why yes it is." Jade said in sarcastic tone of voice. "Oddly enough, the car that Blondie was driving, had been sold by a man who put an ad on Craigslist last month. His wife said he was paid in cash by someone, she didn't meet. Again police wanted to question the former owner of the car, but he dropped dead of a mysterious heart attack, one week after selling the car."

Tori spoke up. "What about that corporation?"

"It's a dummy corporation. The address listed as its headquarters, is an empty lot in Hackensack, New Jersey. It seems to only exist on paper and the only thing they've been able to trace is a post office box in the Bahama's. The now destroyed building, was its only real asset. It's a total dead-end."

"Why nuke the whole building?" Asked Claire.

Julia raised her hand at this point. "I'll take that. There were lots of very valuable and extremely rare magical ingredients in that basement. Had we more time, we may have been able to learn something from them. The person behind this didn't want to be traced, so they wired the building, in case they were discovered. The blast would wipe out all evidence."

"Nearly wiped us out too." Tori said pointedly.

Julia continued. "The blonde woman, who was obviously a wizardess, tried to escape. Once Sara disabled her car, she probably knew she wasn't going to get way. She had no less than 3 werewolves and 1 wizardess on her tail." Julia paused. "I've been thinking about it. I think once she realized the game was up, she lead you directly to that propane tank farm."

"Why?" Asked Beck. "And why that spell with her getting super hot."

"Beck, that served a couple of purposes. First the heat would set off a chain reaction of explosions that she hoped would kill her pursuers. She did that, probably out of pure spite. Second, she needed to incinerate herself."

"Why is that?" Asked Jade.

"Well The burning, sometimes will leave a skeleton and even charred flesh. Even that could be identified. According to the news, the fire wasn't put out to late this morning That wreckage will smolder for a week and you could search through that mess until next Christmas and not find so much as a fingernail. To protect her employer, whom we'll call Mr. X for argument sakes, she needed to totally destroy herself. No traces, no body, no clues."

"She did say something as we ran off. " Claire noted. "Something like, All for you my love."

Julia nodded. "Sara told me. Her devotion to Mr. X was so deep; she willingly destroyed herself utterly to protect him."

"Or her?" Beck added. After getting a chorus of looks, he shrugged. "Hey it's possible. Let's not limit ourselves by old fashioned thinking."

"He's right." Noted Jade, with a subtle nod to Tori.

Tori spoke up this time. "So where does that leave us?"

Jade who had finished her steak, reached to the big platter and put a 2nd one on her plate and started to cut into it.

There was a brief moment as everyone noticed Jade was now working on her second steak. This was even bigger than the first.

Tori answered quickly. "Being a pregnant werewolf female with twins, her appetite has dramatically increased. When I was pregnant with Fiona, I would finish off a whole frozen pizza and still be hungry. Jade's got two very hungry wolf pups her belly."

Jade merely shrugged and stuffed another piece of steak in her mouth.

Julia nodded. But back to what we were discussing. That mess downtown, leaves us with a whole lot of rubble and pretty much nothing else. Mrs. X seems to have a bang up job of leaving no tracks. Basically we've got nothing." There was a noticeable amount of frustration in her voice.

"Jade, what's going to be the official story?" Asked Sara.

"That an unknown group of terrorists who were operating out of the nightclub, planted bombs by the propane tanks, but accidentally blew themselves up. That will be the official police story."

Tori spoke up at this point. "But none of this explains, why or how they took her in the first place."

Julia nodded. "I can explain how. In the workroom Sara found something called Keza dust. It's an extremely and I mean extremely rare magical dust. It was created by a wizard Keza who lived in the days of ancient Egypt. He made up a dust that would rend unconscious literally anything, from a human to a demon lord. All you needed to do was blow it in their face. Before he died, he realized how it could be terribly misused, so he destroyed the formula and never taught his apprentice how to make it. No one has ever been able to duplicate it. Some vials of the dust survived his death and have been used through the years. There are only 2 known vials of the dust that even exist. But both wizards who owned them, confirmed today that their vials are untouched. That is what hit you. Someone had a vial of that dust. It was literally the only thing around that could knock you out in an instant. I'd bet that was Mr. X's, only vial of the stuff.

Julia waited for a moment then spoke again. "But to the why. I think I can answer that. I think they were going to perform some ritual of ancient magic on Jade. But some of the old rituals could take days or even weeks to perform. They would need her for potentially weeks. If they simply grabbed her, they'd know that every werewolf on the planet would be looking for her. But Mr. X knew that they wouldn't look for her, if they didn't know she was missing. Hence the imposter. The only person who would have eventually seen through the imposter was Tori and it was going to kill her last night. As to what specific ritual, it's impossible to tell without having a full list of the ingredients in that basement. "

"Julia." Beck asked. "Do you think they will try this again?"

Julia shook her head. "I seriously doubt it. I'll be they have more than one of some of those magical ingredients. So whatever they were going to do, is out of the question. But that brings me to my next bit of business."

Julia looked to Jade and Tori. "The wizard council would like to make this up to you. They have offered to send a wizard who is an expert on protection spells. They will at no charge place a protective spell on the bedrooms in the house. It will serve two functions. It will keep out some weaker creatures from other planes and it will prevent any illusion spell from working. Even if it did work, the person would probably turn purple. So they can't slip an imposter in anymore."

"The Bedrooms?" Tori asked with a raised eyebrow.

"The spell will last longer and be more effective if it is limited to a small portion of the house. The wider the area a spell has to cover, the weaker it will be. The bedrooms are the most logical choice. Just let me know when you have some time and I'll arrange it. We can hope that Mr. X has learned their lesson and won't mess with you again. But I can't guarantee that. So some precautions are needed.

"Thank you." Jade said with a nod. "You know, I had no idea this world of werewolves, wizards and demons even existed growing up. No idea. They've done a hell of a job hiding it from mortal eyes." Jade chuckled. "Just don't tell me that Santa Claus is real."

For a brief moment Sara and Julia gave each other a strange look. "Do you not want him to be real?" Sara asked very cautiously.

Jade groaned and dropped her head to her chest. "I get the feeling that I shouldn't answer that question. In fact I should just probably just shut up before, any more surprises show up."

"A wise choice." Said Julia.

For the rest of dinner conversation drifted away from the subject of the previous evening. Julia and Sara told a bit about themselves and a lively conversation was had. Looking over at Jade, she appeared to be calmly thinking about what had happened. But Tori could sense she was anything but calm.

A little later, after Tori has seen Beck and Claire, the last to leave, out, she heard a noise.

It was a loud roar of frustration, followed by a crash and it came from the party room. Rushing back in she saw a very angry looking Jade who had just smashed a chair into the bar.

"God dam it. He takes me, tries to kill my mate, hurt my babies and he get's away with it.. We've got nothing. Not a god dam clue. FUCK! NOTHING!" Tori guessed that Jade had been holding her anger in as she didn't want to show her frustration openly. Jade then smashed her fists down onto the marble bar, cracking it.

Tori ran over to Jade from behind as she was about to kick another chair into the wall. Putting her hands on Jade's shoulders, she tried to calm her upset mate down.

"Calm down baby. Calm down…shhhhh:" Tori said in a soothing voice. Jade stood there, quietly raging for another moment. But after a second, Tori could feel the tension in Jade's shoulders start to dissipate.

Jade turned around, made a grunt and let Tori pull her into an embrace. "Calm down Jade. Calm down. All this anger is not good for the babies."

Tori rocked Jade for a moment and could feel the Goth relax even more. Eventually Jade lay her head on Tori's shoulder. "What would I do without you. I love you." Jade whispered.

"You would be just as lost as I would be without you. I love you Jade. But your wrong."

Jade lifted her head up. "Wrong about what?"

Tori gave Jade a quick peck on the lips and looked her straight in the eyes. "Nothing. Us having nothing. We have each other, our lovely daughter Fiona, Two more lovely daughters on the way. We have friends, family, we have everything Jade. Mr. X, whoever they are. He's the one with nothing. For all his or her efforts, money and materials, Mr. X came up with a big fat goose egg. Not to mention that we will find him. I don't know how or when. But we will. I'm as sure of that, just as I am sure I love you."

Jade smiled and leaned her head against Tori's. "Come baby, let's make love." A now calm Jade cooed, as she took Tori's hand.

Confident in their victory, the pair walked hand in hand up to their bedroom to make love. They had been tested and come out on top. They didn't know what the future held, but as long as they faced it together, they were unbeatable.

I am going to end the story here. I know it rots that they didn't find and destroy the bad guy. But, I assure you, Mr. X has only won a temporary reprieve. Both Jade and Tori know they will find out who's responsible and deal with them accordingly.

I decided to end the story here, as I wanted to be able to focus on my Twist of Fate Story and yet another unreleased story I am currently working on. Besides, in the early James Bond movie's he faced the criminal organization known as Spectre, a few times before he even met it's head, Blofeld. I've thought that too often in fiction, things get wrapped up in a nice neat bow. It's fun to leave the audience with questions.

But don't fret, I will pick up the story again, soon. I just need time to work out the details of the plot.

The adventures of Wolf Tori and Wolf Jade continue in my story "Double trouble" –It is a parallel world story with Multiple Jades and Multiple Tori's and though they are not the main characters. Wolf Tori and Wolf Jade show up later and play a pretty decent part in the end.

There will be a small epilogue to this story.