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It was good to see the stars again, if anyone had told Lynx that a fascination with stars showed a romantic nature she would have looked at them askance and then put a high price on their heads. Stars were beautiful and cold like diamonds fixed forever in a sea of black velvet. She had seen her sister in a dress like that once and thought she had looked terrible. But out here in the night it was stark and precise just the way she liked things. There glimmering fitfully on the far horizon were Casper and Pollux in their constellation 'the twins' her own personal symbol etched in smoke grey on all her 'work' clothes. She was a lone twin though, her brother may as well be dead, she was more of a danger to him than their powers could ever be and despite his secrets; or what he thought were secrets, her past was a threat to whatever happiness he had found and she wouldn't break that fragile peace.
Lynx smiled to herself, it was an odd smile one that only two people had ever seen. It gentled stark planes of a face that could be beautiful if she was willing to put on a few ounces of fat to cover those harsh cheekbones. It lightened her eyes to true gold instead of amber darkness and gently moved full lips into a bow shaped curve; it was not altogether her normal sarcastic smile and not altogether happy but it charmed in a an odd way. "Imagine" she murmured to a car she knew to be free from bugs and electronics "Me concerned for someone else, they'd throw me out of the heartless bitch club for sure if they knew"
It was four hours later when she stopped, for all the factors that told her that as a Vampire she had no fear of sunlight it was all a myth she still preferred the hours of darkness, perhaps it was the fact that except for special occasions she worked the night shift. She took the thermos from under her seat and swigged the liquid contained within, umm still blood heat, delivered by the mailman this morning. Then she walked out into the desert simply enjoying the night, as far as she could tell she had no work out here and .......... She sighed, she was no longer alone.
"Come out you rank amateurs, it'll give you a sporting chance" Although I won't she thought pulling out a set of light bombs she had had the local Midnight witch make for her as three people moved out from behind her car and a nearby cactus that had a stunning resemblance to Mickey mouse. "Who sent you?" she managed to put a semi realistic quaver to her tone but she could feel the normal ice cold armour creeping over her earlier contentment and she welcomed it. "The council says say hello to Hunter; Night Blade" a voice rang out of the darkness just before Lynx shut her eyes and threw the enchanted globes.
A lightning flash crossed her lids and she heard three shrieks as she opened her eyes seeing what looked like two wolves and a vampire rubbing their eyes and she rolled her own golden orbs and crossed over to them. She put a silver stake through one of the wolves and slashed the other with the tip of her Night knife across the jugular and then turned to the vampire who by his recovery time was made no more than twenty years ago. She looked into a pair of silver eyes and sighed. "So, who on the council sent you?" he snarled fangs indenting his lower lip attempting to look fierce "Why ssssshould I tell you" Lynx gave a sarcastic grin "You sound like a fourteen year old with braces" he hissed again and she sighed theatrically "You should tell me because I haven't got a time limit on this job and I could take a week out right now just to play with you before you die"
He paled but his eyes remained firmly on her face "Your bluffing, you're a damned Daybreaker and you wouldn't have the guts" Lynx lifted one perfectly arched brow in a motion that had taken weeks of practice "Guts? I'll have yours and sell them to the local shifter butcher if you ever mention me in the same sentence as daybreaker again. I might anyway if you don't tell me what I want to know" she caressed the silver and onyx hilt of the blade from which she and all her predecessors had taken their names "You think I got this for being a tree hugging pacifist?" he spoke without thinking "I think you got it cos your grandfather led the council" Lynx's eyes flickered to a wild silver light, but in the dark she doubted he'd see it even when she moved like a willow the wisp to his side "I'll say this once" she hissed "and I'll say it for the pure purpose of you being more or less alive to repeat it to your precious council" She rested a long ebony stake in the hollow of his throat watching the perspiration roll down mahogany flesh like a river "My grandfather cast a long shadow in blood and pain, and I walked there. Now he's dead" she leant in and placed her lips against his ear like a lover "But the shadow remains" Then she shifted the stake to the corner of his eye and licking a path up his ear popped the eyeball with the tip. That was when the screaming started, it didn't end until the sun became a slash of violent red on the horizon and only then because Lynx had gagged him so that she could change and make a phone call. She doubted he'd run, he couldn't. Before midnight she had broken his spine just below the waist, but only because he had kicked her, it had spoilt her fun.
"Raine Galena" She named the council member who he had finally admitted to working for and listened to the answer "This is Lynx Redfern" she listened with a slight smile to the sudden hushed silence "No you don't have to leave the planet or suicide, your safe if you do me a favour" she listened to the woman's babbling thanks and cut them off "Come to the desert ambush site and pick up your protégé, he has something to tell you" she considered for a moment "Then I think it would be best to kill him" she listened for a moment more "No its not necessary" she paused "But it would be a kindness" then she put down the phone and walked back to him "Stay alive" he looked at her with eyes that in the daylight were brown and terrified but held a spark of defiance, Lynx smiled and at that moment she was the true reflection of her blade dark and brooding but filled with an unearthly power "Or I'll come for you beyond the grave, believe I can do it?" he nodded with his eyes and she smiled, like her mouth had been pulled up at the corners with wires "Good" then she turned and left him alone on the sand revving her car away into the blistering desert morning while he prayed to all the gods he had ever believed in that he wouldn't die yet, he had to give her message and warn them all what a monster Hunter Redfern had created; the whole Night World should band together to destroy her.
What he hadn't seen were the dark shadows momentarily shown in Lynx's eyes before she had thrust them away with a sheer effort of willpower, after the twisted pleasure torture gave the part of her that was Hunter Redfern's creation had drained away. Monster, yes perhaps, Lynx thought as she caught his thought as she drove away. And know like Frankenstein's beast I drive towards my confrontation in the snowy wastes. Her smile was ironic the woman from beneath the stars was gone as if she had never existed as she flipped on the radio perhaps to drown the screams that never completely left her.
'..Life is a lesson,
you learn it when your through.
And I know why you wanna hate me
Cos hate is all the world has even seen lately..'
And that she thought as she tapped the wheel with long fingers eyes on the road, is the truest sentiment I've ever heard.
It was good to see the stars again, if anyone had told Lynx that a fascination with stars showed a romantic nature she would have looked at them askance and then put a high price on their heads. Stars were beautiful and cold like diamonds fixed forever in a sea of black velvet. She had seen her sister in a dress like that once and thought she had looked terrible. But out here in the night it was stark and precise just the way she liked things. There glimmering fitfully on the far horizon were Casper and Pollux in their constellation 'the twins' her own personal symbol etched in smoke grey on all her 'work' clothes. She was a lone twin though, her brother may as well be dead, she was more of a danger to him than their powers could ever be and despite his secrets; or what he thought were secrets, her past was a threat to whatever happiness he had found and she wouldn't break that fragile peace.
Lynx smiled to herself, it was an odd smile one that only two people had ever seen. It gentled stark planes of a face that could be beautiful if she was willing to put on a few ounces of fat to cover those harsh cheekbones. It lightened her eyes to true gold instead of amber darkness and gently moved full lips into a bow shaped curve; it was not altogether her normal sarcastic smile and not altogether happy but it charmed in a an odd way. "Imagine" she murmured to a car she knew to be free from bugs and electronics "Me concerned for someone else, they'd throw me out of the heartless bitch club for sure if they knew"
It was four hours later when she stopped, for all the factors that told her that as a Vampire she had no fear of sunlight it was all a myth she still preferred the hours of darkness, perhaps it was the fact that except for special occasions she worked the night shift. She took the thermos from under her seat and swigged the liquid contained within, umm still blood heat, delivered by the mailman this morning. Then she walked out into the desert simply enjoying the night, as far as she could tell she had no work out here and .......... She sighed, she was no longer alone.
"Come out you rank amateurs, it'll give you a sporting chance" Although I won't she thought pulling out a set of light bombs she had had the local Midnight witch make for her as three people moved out from behind her car and a nearby cactus that had a stunning resemblance to Mickey mouse. "Who sent you?" she managed to put a semi realistic quaver to her tone but she could feel the normal ice cold armour creeping over her earlier contentment and she welcomed it. "The council says say hello to Hunter; Night Blade" a voice rang out of the darkness just before Lynx shut her eyes and threw the enchanted globes.
A lightning flash crossed her lids and she heard three shrieks as she opened her eyes seeing what looked like two wolves and a vampire rubbing their eyes and she rolled her own golden orbs and crossed over to them. She put a silver stake through one of the wolves and slashed the other with the tip of her Night knife across the jugular and then turned to the vampire who by his recovery time was made no more than twenty years ago. She looked into a pair of silver eyes and sighed. "So, who on the council sent you?" he snarled fangs indenting his lower lip attempting to look fierce "Why ssssshould I tell you" Lynx gave a sarcastic grin "You sound like a fourteen year old with braces" he hissed again and she sighed theatrically "You should tell me because I haven't got a time limit on this job and I could take a week out right now just to play with you before you die"
He paled but his eyes remained firmly on her face "Your bluffing, you're a damned Daybreaker and you wouldn't have the guts" Lynx lifted one perfectly arched brow in a motion that had taken weeks of practice "Guts? I'll have yours and sell them to the local shifter butcher if you ever mention me in the same sentence as daybreaker again. I might anyway if you don't tell me what I want to know" she caressed the silver and onyx hilt of the blade from which she and all her predecessors had taken their names "You think I got this for being a tree hugging pacifist?" he spoke without thinking "I think you got it cos your grandfather led the council" Lynx's eyes flickered to a wild silver light, but in the dark she doubted he'd see it even when she moved like a willow the wisp to his side "I'll say this once" she hissed "and I'll say it for the pure purpose of you being more or less alive to repeat it to your precious council" She rested a long ebony stake in the hollow of his throat watching the perspiration roll down mahogany flesh like a river "My grandfather cast a long shadow in blood and pain, and I walked there. Now he's dead" she leant in and placed her lips against his ear like a lover "But the shadow remains" Then she shifted the stake to the corner of his eye and licking a path up his ear popped the eyeball with the tip. That was when the screaming started, it didn't end until the sun became a slash of violent red on the horizon and only then because Lynx had gagged him so that she could change and make a phone call. She doubted he'd run, he couldn't. Before midnight she had broken his spine just below the waist, but only because he had kicked her, it had spoilt her fun.
"Raine Galena" She named the council member who he had finally admitted to working for and listened to the answer "This is Lynx Redfern" she listened with a slight smile to the sudden hushed silence "No you don't have to leave the planet or suicide, your safe if you do me a favour" she listened to the woman's babbling thanks and cut them off "Come to the desert ambush site and pick up your protégé, he has something to tell you" she considered for a moment "Then I think it would be best to kill him" she listened for a moment more "No its not necessary" she paused "But it would be a kindness" then she put down the phone and walked back to him "Stay alive" he looked at her with eyes that in the daylight were brown and terrified but held a spark of defiance, Lynx smiled and at that moment she was the true reflection of her blade dark and brooding but filled with an unearthly power "Or I'll come for you beyond the grave, believe I can do it?" he nodded with his eyes and she smiled, like her mouth had been pulled up at the corners with wires "Good" then she turned and left him alone on the sand revving her car away into the blistering desert morning while he prayed to all the gods he had ever believed in that he wouldn't die yet, he had to give her message and warn them all what a monster Hunter Redfern had created; the whole Night World should band together to destroy her.
What he hadn't seen were the dark shadows momentarily shown in Lynx's eyes before she had thrust them away with a sheer effort of willpower, after the twisted pleasure torture gave the part of her that was Hunter Redfern's creation had drained away. Monster, yes perhaps, Lynx thought as she caught his thought as she drove away. And know like Frankenstein's beast I drive towards my confrontation in the snowy wastes. Her smile was ironic the woman from beneath the stars was gone as if she had never existed as she flipped on the radio perhaps to drown the screams that never completely left her.
'..Life is a lesson,
you learn it when your through.
And I know why you wanna hate me
Cos hate is all the world has even seen lately..'
And that she thought as she tapped the wheel with long fingers eyes on the road, is the truest sentiment I've ever heard.