Drago awakened the next morning to the sound of Jamie muttering
in her sleep. He opened his eyes, momentarily freezing when he saw
her head on his lap. He remembered, though it seemed forever ago
now, back in the Netherworld when Shendu had been reading portal
spells to him and Jamie, and she'd fallen asleep against his shoulder,
but sort of slid into his lap when he'd jumped from the contact. He
noted he no longer felt the aversion to her touch as he had back
then. And Drago was a demon who valued his personal space.
He looked at her sleeping face. She looked peaceful and relaxed.
He glanced around and slowly lifted his hand, running his claws
through her hair, still curly from the make over Viper had given her.
It was soft and silkly, if bedraggled from sleep. Jamie let out a
quiet grunt, turning onto her back, putting an abrupt end to his
playing. Drago gave a half-hearted 'hmph'.
"Spoil sport."
Jamie's eyes fluttered open, "Uhn...huh? D'you say something?"
she asked sleepily. Drago cleared his throat, "Yeah, I said get
off me, your drooling on my pants."
Jamie realized where her head was and blushed, quickly sitting
up "Sorry!"
"Whatever. You want some coffee?"
"Sure. I'll make some. I have to make breakfast anyway," she
said standing and heading for the kitchen. Drago stretched,
heading for the bathroom, "Bacon and eggs would be nice."
"Noted.
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Shendu exited his bedroom wearing his dark blue bathrobe,
The scent of brewing coffee greeting his nose. He headed for
the kitchen, where Jamie was making breakfast. "Good morning,"
he said pleasantly.
Jamie frowned. "Hmph!"
She pointedly ignored him and continued cooking.
Shendu raised an eyebrow at her blatant rudeness, "Have I upset
you somehow?"
Jamie cracked an egg into the pan, "No, of course not, whatever
gave you that impression?" she said with heavy sarcasm. "I'm
not upset in the slightest that you had sex with Scratcher."
Shendu, who hadpoured himself some coffee and had been taking
a drink, choked in mid-swallow, coughing.
"W-what?"
Jamie turned, glaring, "Yeah, that's right, I know what you did.
I woke up last night to use the bathroom and Drago told me he
over heard you and Scratcher."
Shendu sputtered for a response. Jamie turned back to the stove
"You better not have gotten her pregnant, the LAST thing we
need running around here is a bunch of dragon kittens. And if you
DID get her pregnant, you'd have to get married, and that would
make Scratcher Drago's step-mom, which would make me his
grandma or something, and I'm WAY too young to be a grandma!"
Scratcher, who had entered behind Shendu without Jamie's notice
wrapped her arms around Jamie's middle.
"You reading into this FAR too much..."
Jamie jumped at her voice and shrugged her off, pouting, "No I'm
not...you're a CAT. He's a Demon. It's wierd."
"Well, you can relax. We of course used contaceptives. And besides,
it was just mating. Pointless, but pleasurable mating. It was a
mutual means of relaxation and stress relief that I initiated" the
ex-feline exerted. "Besides Jamie, technically, I'm a human, so
there's nothing wierd about it."
Jamie just continued to pout as she cooked, feeling snubbed and
foolish.
She was begining to realize that as long as she hung out with
demons, that stuff like this was going to happen. Fighting it only
makes things worse.
Jamiemade a personal decision right then to stop letting things
the demons did bother her. Otherwise she was probably going to
get a stomach ulcer or something...
Daniel strode don the dock towards the cannery, "This is the place.
Ashe, come."
Ashe trudged after him, not at all happy. They both wore their
demon slayering uniform which consisted of a black leather body
suit, their hooded cloaks around their shoulders with their charms
and weapons attached to various chains and belts.
"I'm coming...but remember, you leave Jamie out of this."
"Yeah, yeah, I know," Daniel said impatiently, "Get ready to fight."
Ashe shook his head as He and Daniel got into their positions on
either side of the front entrance.
"I can't believe I'm going to do this, Jamie's gonna KILL me!"
"Shut up and focus on the job!" Daniel said reaching over and giving
Ashe's ear a twist. Ashe smacked Daniels hand away, "Alright,
alright! just stop doing that!"
Daniel got back into position. "Ready?"
Ashe gave a reluctant nod."
"OKay...One...Two...Three!"