Chapter 10
For the second time, Seto found himself facing down an overly exuberant, lanky blond girl with a lack of filter between her brain and the world.
"I found him!" she crowed. "He wasn't home at the time, but I asked just about everyone I could in that apartment building and his description matches this perfectly!"
She stood in front of him as though ready to be awarded a golden medal of honor before the world; all bright brown eyes, broad triumphant smirk, and mussy gold locks curling at the base of her throat. The red setting sun from the nearest window painted her in amber and summer.
Seto found himself momentarily speechless. His mind had seized.
When he didn't react quick enough for her, the girl whipped her head down to shoulder level, as though that would be enough to talk down to him.
"Oy, I said I found your vamp. Can we go kill him and rescue my friend already?"
He managed to shake himself out of…whatever that was. "You're staying here."
"No I ain't! I'm coming this time. You think I'm going to trust your ass with my adorable little Yugi? Nu uh, hands down no way."
She wasn't being direct. But her voice, that brazen, naked voice of hers, told him she couldn't handle a night alone in his mansion anymore. She had to go, had to do something, and would keep going until she collapsed.
For some reason, perhaps it was the lighting once more, her stubbornness and vicious will he had come to hate so much suddenly seemed like devotion and passionate loyalty.
"These are monsters we're talking about," he heard himself saying. "They have super human strength and speed and a thirst for your blood. You won't be able to fight back."
And, just like with her voice, her face showed everything. Fear. Disgust at herself. Fierce determination.
"You don't let me come, I'll…I'll…"
He closed his eyes and smiled. "What will you do?" He found himself eager to hear.
"I'll fry all the eggs in your house and slip them into your sheets!"
And she didn't disappoint. He threw back his head and laughed, and the sound of it startled him back into reality. He hadn't laughed in…when had he last laughed?
What was going on with him? This wasn't the time for that. What was this feeling?
Collecting himself, he turned from her, cursing the stupid setting sunlight and her stupid energy.
"If you want to kill yourself, be my guest. Best make yourself useful though and learn how to shoot a gun."
Look at him. Employing his second child in the art of vampire killing. He might as well call himself Kaiba the Vampire Slayer. He even had a rather rad pair of leather pants somewhere in the abyss of his closet. It had been a joke buy from his brother a Halloween back or so. Would shish kabob work for stakes?
"Woot! Let's go kill some people!"
He flinched and nearly turned back around. But feeling another laugh crawl up his chest, he purposely kept moving until he was far, far away from her.
Josephine. That had been her name. Josephine Wheeler.
...Freak.
Author's Note: Thank you for all the reviews! They were wonderous! In thanks I'll be updating as many chapters as I can until Halloween. After that, it will be back to the same ol' one update a week deal. Wait, wasn't that what I was already doing? Crap, then, what can I do as thanks? Anyone got any ideas?