The Visions Chapter 54

"The first thing we do is buy the house from your vision. I have already put in a full price, untraceable cash offer contingent on immediate closing so I expect to hear back soon that the home is ours. Godric will do the work himself to ensure it is completely safe and to avoid people we do not trust going to and from the house".

"And your day man can be completely trusted?" Kara asked.

"He will be glamoured to forget the transaction immediately and he is already protected and warded" Eric responded. "To be absolutely safe it would be helpful if you could scan the future for any signs of betrayal from him".

Eric whipped open the laptop from the safe and quickly pulled up his personnel files.

"If you want I can look at all the pictures" Kara offered.

"We do not have time for that now but I will take you up on that offer in the near future my beauty".

He flipped to his day man's photo and watched as Kara studied it carefully before evoking her vision. Eric noted the new found ease in which his new child could control her gift and he was startled when she quickly returned to the present. "He's absolutely fine Eric. 100% loyal and totally devoted and I didn't see anyone trying to get to him to get to you".

"I am glad for the confirmation. Now we must go to Fangtasia and rid ourselves of the bugs there. I am assuming we can use the same process?"

"Yep, it was pretty easy" Kara replied confidently. "Are we going to have Godric teleport us into the club as we did getting into the condo?" Did you see in cameras in the club?"

"No, we will have Godric teleport us to one of my off site garages and we will drive in".

"But Eric, it's bugged and there is a camera in your office" Kara explained with concern.

"Yes, and we know it is of the queens doing but she does not know that we know that. I want to claim that we found one bug and then did a thorough sweep, disposed of them and then report it back to her".

"Why would we do that?" Kara asked puzzled.

"She will know we are back in town but not staying at the condo since the bugs there are silent. It will buy us time in setting up the new household as well as helping to determine who is planting the bugs and working against us".

"How will we do that?"

"We will be monitoring all my other residences carefully and seeing if there is any activity" Eric replied coolly.

"What if the other houses are already bugged?" Kara asked.

"I do not believe Nora would have had enough time to do that and picked the most likely place we would return to".

"Do you want me to check?"

Eric smiled and nodded. He was unused to having such a weapon at his disposable. And knowing the future could truly be a weapon.

Eric opened another file with his real estate holdings and pulled up his homes in the state. Kara quickly scanned each site and confirmed what Eric already suspected that the other homes were clean.

"Why didn't we just go to one of those homes?" Kara asked.

"The other homes are too difficult to defend and we knew we could dispose of the bugs my child".

"I really need to start thinking more like a vampire" Kara sighed.

"You will learn my beauty" Eric said as he hugged her once more. "For now, let Godric, Pam and I do the strategizing. Your gift has already been an invaluable help".

"Make us a quick sketch of the bugs at the club and also the location of the cameras" Eric requested.

"The cameras are easy, there is one at all the entrances and I'll start drawing what I can but I'm not much of an artist" Kara responded.

"I will leave you to this task and inform Godric and Pam of the plan" Eric said as he departed.

Eric quickly found Godric and Pam engrossed their own preparations. Godric was handwriting a list of supplies he would need for the modifications to the house and using a telephone book to locate suppliers in different areas. Pam was writing through a list of what she would need to accomplish at the reopening of the bar the next night.

Eric informed them of the plan and they agreed to the charade of sweeping the club.

Kara joined them with a crude sketch that they all studied and committed to memory before Godric teleported them to Eric's Cadillac SUV.

Their plan went off without a hitch. They drove to the empty Fangtasia lot, entered through the employee entrance knowing full well they were being watched. Eric let the foursome in some meaningless small talk about the beauty of the coronation but now needing to get back to work after their small vacation to let Godric re-acclimate.

Pam made a show of "discovering" the first bug and then they loudly made a show of sweeping the club thoroughly. Kara needed to point out a few bugs they missed and then Godric commented about being sure there were no hidden cameras and how the most obvious locations would be by the doors.

Satisfied that the club was now swept clean, Eric picked up his tapped office phone and dialed Nora's secure line.

"What is it now Eric?" his sister demanded with a huff.

"I am calling to inform you that my club was put under surveillance in my absence your grace".

Eric heard the subtle intake of his sister's breath and held back the chuckle that threatened to erupt.

"What do you mean?" the new queen asked.

"We found bugs and cameras all over the club. I can only assumed this is tied into the attack at the palace and wanted you to be aware" Eric said with the utmost sincerity.

"Thank you for alerting me" was the only response Eric received before the queen cut the call off.

Knowing that his office computer was hacked, Eric sent a bogus email to confirm a purchase of a false house. He decided to leave this computer intact to be able to continue to lay misinformation at his sister's feet.

She was a fool if she thought she could out wit himself and Godric.