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Chapter 1
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I finished up my work at Mina's house making sure that Mina and Malcom's bodies would make it to the mourge and that Tysen was put in my car. Darien followed me around like a worried shadow. I didn't bitch, yea for me. I turned almost bumping into him for the second time and sighed softly. Then I waved Amy and Burke over.
"I'm going home, I need sleep. Tell the captian that I'll be in by five." I said turning to walk out of my dead cousins' house.
"Sere, no one expects youto work on this case now." Amy said softly.
I spun around and leveled a hard look on my partner, "My cousin was killed by a psycho that doesn't like witches. Unless the captian herself tells me to go home I am working this case until its through, do any of you have a problem with that?" I looked to Burke and Darien.
Darien and Amy looked like they would object to my plans, and Burke just looked like he normaly did. Ininterested in the least with what was going on around him but I know that he didn't want me within spitting distance of this case. My look stopped their retorts and I turned leaving the house and walking into the bright morning sun. As a pissing contest, I won. But strangely I didn't feel any victory just a deep sense of loss. Darien began to follow me and I sent him a backwards glance that stopped him in his tracks.
"Darien I don't need you following me around like a puppy I need to be alone right now." I said softly then continued toward my car I could see Tysen's tear stained face watching me from the passenger seat.
I saw Darien standing on the steps of Mina's house until I turned down the long curved drive, Tysen sat silently next to me as if he knew I didn't want to talk at the moment. I loved my little cousin greatly but I didn't want to deal with my emotions at the moment. And my body was still trembling from the power surge that I had gotten in the house, I stared sightlessly at the road and wished it all to be a bad dream but my work as a police detective knew that this was real and unless I wanted other families to go what I was going through right now I would have to find the murderer responsible for the deaths of the witches.
I finally reached the bottom of Mt. Point where Mina had lived and pulled on to the busy expressway, my inner thoughts rolling around in my head like loose marbles as my car picked up speed to match the ones passing by. I thought about the date I had with Artimis later and shook my head, I'd have to call him and tell him that I would have to resceduel he wouldn't like it but I didn't plan to date anything until I got to the bottom of this case. I spared a glance at Tysen and saw that he had fallen asleep clutching Malcoms' baseball glove her tiny legs curled under his body.
I jumped as my cellphone rang grumbling about just wanting to be left alone even as I punches the accept buttom and put it to my ear.
"Serena Cain speaking..." I said frowning at the early morning traffic.
"Serena its Raziel, we have a lead on the murders can you come by the mourge?" the voice said
Raziel or Raze was a Private Detective and Dariens assistant, talk about everyone having double lives eh? Even though Raze was totally one hundred percent home grown human. I looked at the clock on my dash and shook my head realized that Raze couldn't see it and said,
"Raze I have a five year old in the car with me I haven't slept in almost two days and I was just told that my cousin was killed. I'm not coming but give Amy and Burke a call," I said calmly though I wanted to scream at everyone. I gave Raze Amy's cell phone number as I pulled into my parking lot.
What I had thought was beautiful only three hours ago seemed garnish and ugly, the sun reflected too brightly from the trunks of the hundred year old trees across the street. The songs of birds seemed to have the same effect as a jackhammer going off near my ear, I unhooked my seatbelt and walked around the side of the car, one of the uniforms had come back to my apartment and gotten my old clunker after Amy and I had arrived on the scene other wise I would of had to catch a ride from someone to get home and I didn't want to deal with human contact at the moment.
I opened Tysens' door and lifted the sleeping child into my arms, bumping the door closed with my hip and digging out my key for the main door I walked up the three flights of stairs to my loft apartment. As I walked I again took a moment to admire the paintings on the wall going up the first flight of stone steps was a recreation of Starry Night, I couldn't remember who'd painted it at the moment. The building may of looked run down from the outside and it wasn't the newest place in the city but inside it was spotless and the people that lived here were nice enough.
I hit the second flight of stairs after walking down the second floor hall passed doors painted a soft blue, I passed number fifty-seven and wondered if Jacob was home then shook my head. The walls of the second stairwell had Marilyn Monroe painted in different poses at the very top was her classic one where as was bending over and her skirt was flaring around her. Never liked the woman much though it was said that she was a witch which would explain how she became so famous with so little talent.
I walked down the third story hall on this floor the doors were painted lavander, most of the people in my building were college students and attended the art academy. I walked passed the last room on the floor and winced at the sounds of heavy metal music coming from behind the closed door, it seemed that Seth Kou was home and his brother too. Seth always flirted with me and since that was the LAST thing I needed at the moment I hurried through the open doorway that led to the last flight of stairs and to my apartment.
Walking up the stairs I admired the paintings, who ever had painted this stairwell had loved poetry because it illistrated many of the well known poems and even some of the not so well known ones. at the bottom of the stairs they had started with Illistrating the Edgar Allen Poe, poem The Raven, then as you walked up the stairs you saw many many others illistrations and at the top of the stairs over the door of my apartment was a painting of a pitch black coach with silver trimming and four nightmares pulling it. Even without a quote I knew what the poem was, it was Emily Dickens, Wait not for death's carrige or something like that. The part I could remeber went something like;
'Because I could not stop for Death,
/He kindly stopped for me....'
I knew there was much more to the poem but couldn't think of it at the time so I unlocked the bolts on my door and pushed it open. My enterance was strange it was a narrow hallway of about fifteen feet the ceiling was low just inside the door then slanted toward the end of the hall until is soared twenty feet above then the hall ended and the ceiling soared even higher. I walked down the hall and moved through the japanese curtian I had hanging from the end of the hall. the roof of the main room soar to a point of fourty feet in height.
To the left the furniture was white oak and black leather, I had a couch a loveseat and two lounge chairs set in a half square infront of my coffee table and entertainment center. I removed my shoes and left them on the woven mat, the floor lifted one step and I walked up and across the room to the oak spiral staircase that led to the loft Paintings of wildlife and witches and other nic-nacks that I had collected hung from the walls and potted ferns and flowers and other plants were hung or set in numerious places throughout the apartment. The loft jutted out from the right side of the apartment over my kitchen. It had a sturdy oak railing along the outside of it, against the wall were six doors I walked to the end of the platform and opened the last door. Inside was a four poster oak bed resting on a oriental carpet black marble and wood dressers sat along one wall and a old cedar chest against another.
I laid Tysen in the bed and pulled the covers over his sleeping form before flicking on the nightlight and walking out of the room, moving back down the spiral staircase I walked under the loft platform and into the kitchen which had been designed in black marble that had green shoots running through it. The coffee maker was forest green and the jars that were labeled; Sugar,Flour,Cookies,salt and such were green with black writing. I walked over to the coffee pot and started a pot of vanilla hazelnut then sat at the bar island and looked pensively out the picture window that took up on wall on the other side of the apartment.
Suddenly tears began to fall from my eyes and I didn't understand it so I ignored them and pour myself a cup of coffee in a mug that said 'Leave me the hell alone.... this means FUCK OFF!' Darien had bought it for me for christmas. I had got him season tickets to the Radier games. I shook my head and moved to the large overstuffed white leather couch and laid down craddling my coffee cup between my palms as I thought about the passed twenty-four hours. I had lost two cousins and gained a son, not my best night but I vowed to make sure that Tysen wanted for nothing if I could help it.
I don't know when but my eyes drifted closed and I slept in a restful slumber, my dreams reflecting on memories from when Mina and I had been kids. Then Mina's wedding and the birth of Tysen I had been at both events, in my dreams I saw Mina as she jokingly teased me about not being able to choose between Artimis or Darien. I jolted awake and almost fell off the couch when an insistant knocking sounded at my door. I went to get up when I noticed Tysen sleeping curled on the floor between the coffee table and the couch he had set my coffee mug on the table because I knew that I hadn't.
I stepped over my sleeping cousin and walked on silent feet down the enterance hall and opened my door to see Burke and Amy standing on the other side. I glanced at my watch and was suprised to find that it was after six, and pulled the door open and left them in not really in the mood for company, but they were my bestfriends after all weren't they?
Burke had to duck to enter and he walked quietly down the hall I knew that he was heading for the fresh coffee, Amy moved in beside me and for a moment we stood staring at eachother hard, not knowing what to say. Then we turned and walked back into the main room and to the kitchen where Burke had poured us all fresh mugs of coffee. I slid into one of the wicker stools and sighed softly sipping at the scalding brew waiting for one of them to start talking, my eyes were drawn to the small window that framed Burke's head in light and blinked when I saw the Syren from earlier...
She still had shoulder length black hair and blue eyes, she lifted her arms to me and said or thought to me,
[ Fear not the changes that have happened but be prepared to make choices that will forever alter your destiny.]
She floated there her arms held out to me then vanished slowly into the light, I let out a startled scream and fell backward from the stool dumping hot coffee all over me. I heard Amy rush for the door and realized that Amy might be able to sense Syrens and closed my eyes as pain rushed over me, it was Mina's magic trying to warn me about something. I fought against it and screamed in pain it was as if the magic of my cousin had razor sharp silver talons and it was trying to work its way in to me.
Through a haze I saw Burke kneeling next to me his hand on my shoulder, I saw him lips moving but couldn't hear what he was saying. The magic slashed at me and I screamed it felt as if Mina's magic was killing me. Finally as before it settled into my magic and flashes
whizzed through my head; I was drawn into the vision so far that I could no longer see Burke.
' I was standing in a club watching a red haired woman sip idlely on her drink when a man shrouded in shadows moved toward her and grabbed her from behind, his hand closed over her neck and he began strangling her the other people in the club didn't seem to notice the man attacking the woman and it was then that I noticed the spell of forbodding that surrounded the woman.'
Suddenly I was back in my apartment and could see again I could also hear but the voices of Burke and Amy seemed too loud and I groaned in pain. It took me a moment to realize that Tysen had woken up and was crying somewhere near by, I sat up slowly brushing off Burke's helping hands and held my head. I knew that, that had not been a very human thing to happen, and though I wasn't technically human I didn't want to be a monster either. Fire coursed through my side and I put my hand there blinking when it came away with blood. Burke's concerned eyes stared down at my but I ignored him and stood shaking my head to clear it.
"What was that all about Sere?"Burke asked softly
I looked at him and shook my head, " I'm not sure but the murderer's about to attack again. It seems I have gained my cousins power for clairvoyance."
Amy I noticed had a gash over her left eye that bi-cected her eye brow, I blinked and pointed to it. " What happened?"
Amy shrugged, " The Syren attacked me when I tried to follow her to her plain of exsistance."
I shook my head and knelt infront of Tysen, " We're going to find who killed your parents okay Ty?" I asked smiling sadly into the boys lavender eyes.
The child nodded, and I stood lifting him into my arms and grabbed my coat as I walked out the door Burke and Amy following close by. I would get to the bottom of this... I knew I would. But I had a new question...
How do you find a serial killer that specialized in witches?
Answer....
Live bait.....yep that's me a walking buffet table.
But first I would drop Tysen off at Darien's place then on to the main course.
Chapter 1
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I finished up my work at Mina's house making sure that Mina and Malcom's bodies would make it to the mourge and that Tysen was put in my car. Darien followed me around like a worried shadow. I didn't bitch, yea for me. I turned almost bumping into him for the second time and sighed softly. Then I waved Amy and Burke over.
"I'm going home, I need sleep. Tell the captian that I'll be in by five." I said turning to walk out of my dead cousins' house.
"Sere, no one expects youto work on this case now." Amy said softly.
I spun around and leveled a hard look on my partner, "My cousin was killed by a psycho that doesn't like witches. Unless the captian herself tells me to go home I am working this case until its through, do any of you have a problem with that?" I looked to Burke and Darien.
Darien and Amy looked like they would object to my plans, and Burke just looked like he normaly did. Ininterested in the least with what was going on around him but I know that he didn't want me within spitting distance of this case. My look stopped their retorts and I turned leaving the house and walking into the bright morning sun. As a pissing contest, I won. But strangely I didn't feel any victory just a deep sense of loss. Darien began to follow me and I sent him a backwards glance that stopped him in his tracks.
"Darien I don't need you following me around like a puppy I need to be alone right now." I said softly then continued toward my car I could see Tysen's tear stained face watching me from the passenger seat.
I saw Darien standing on the steps of Mina's house until I turned down the long curved drive, Tysen sat silently next to me as if he knew I didn't want to talk at the moment. I loved my little cousin greatly but I didn't want to deal with my emotions at the moment. And my body was still trembling from the power surge that I had gotten in the house, I stared sightlessly at the road and wished it all to be a bad dream but my work as a police detective knew that this was real and unless I wanted other families to go what I was going through right now I would have to find the murderer responsible for the deaths of the witches.
I finally reached the bottom of Mt. Point where Mina had lived and pulled on to the busy expressway, my inner thoughts rolling around in my head like loose marbles as my car picked up speed to match the ones passing by. I thought about the date I had with Artimis later and shook my head, I'd have to call him and tell him that I would have to resceduel he wouldn't like it but I didn't plan to date anything until I got to the bottom of this case. I spared a glance at Tysen and saw that he had fallen asleep clutching Malcoms' baseball glove her tiny legs curled under his body.
I jumped as my cellphone rang grumbling about just wanting to be left alone even as I punches the accept buttom and put it to my ear.
"Serena Cain speaking..." I said frowning at the early morning traffic.
"Serena its Raziel, we have a lead on the murders can you come by the mourge?" the voice said
Raziel or Raze was a Private Detective and Dariens assistant, talk about everyone having double lives eh? Even though Raze was totally one hundred percent home grown human. I looked at the clock on my dash and shook my head realized that Raze couldn't see it and said,
"Raze I have a five year old in the car with me I haven't slept in almost two days and I was just told that my cousin was killed. I'm not coming but give Amy and Burke a call," I said calmly though I wanted to scream at everyone. I gave Raze Amy's cell phone number as I pulled into my parking lot.
What I had thought was beautiful only three hours ago seemed garnish and ugly, the sun reflected too brightly from the trunks of the hundred year old trees across the street. The songs of birds seemed to have the same effect as a jackhammer going off near my ear, I unhooked my seatbelt and walked around the side of the car, one of the uniforms had come back to my apartment and gotten my old clunker after Amy and I had arrived on the scene other wise I would of had to catch a ride from someone to get home and I didn't want to deal with human contact at the moment.
I opened Tysens' door and lifted the sleeping child into my arms, bumping the door closed with my hip and digging out my key for the main door I walked up the three flights of stairs to my loft apartment. As I walked I again took a moment to admire the paintings on the wall going up the first flight of stone steps was a recreation of Starry Night, I couldn't remember who'd painted it at the moment. The building may of looked run down from the outside and it wasn't the newest place in the city but inside it was spotless and the people that lived here were nice enough.
I hit the second flight of stairs after walking down the second floor hall passed doors painted a soft blue, I passed number fifty-seven and wondered if Jacob was home then shook my head. The walls of the second stairwell had Marilyn Monroe painted in different poses at the very top was her classic one where as was bending over and her skirt was flaring around her. Never liked the woman much though it was said that she was a witch which would explain how she became so famous with so little talent.
I walked down the third story hall on this floor the doors were painted lavander, most of the people in my building were college students and attended the art academy. I walked passed the last room on the floor and winced at the sounds of heavy metal music coming from behind the closed door, it seemed that Seth Kou was home and his brother too. Seth always flirted with me and since that was the LAST thing I needed at the moment I hurried through the open doorway that led to the last flight of stairs and to my apartment.
Walking up the stairs I admired the paintings, who ever had painted this stairwell had loved poetry because it illistrated many of the well known poems and even some of the not so well known ones. at the bottom of the stairs they had started with Illistrating the Edgar Allen Poe, poem The Raven, then as you walked up the stairs you saw many many others illistrations and at the top of the stairs over the door of my apartment was a painting of a pitch black coach with silver trimming and four nightmares pulling it. Even without a quote I knew what the poem was, it was Emily Dickens, Wait not for death's carrige or something like that. The part I could remeber went something like;
'Because I could not stop for Death,
/He kindly stopped for me....'
I knew there was much more to the poem but couldn't think of it at the time so I unlocked the bolts on my door and pushed it open. My enterance was strange it was a narrow hallway of about fifteen feet the ceiling was low just inside the door then slanted toward the end of the hall until is soared twenty feet above then the hall ended and the ceiling soared even higher. I walked down the hall and moved through the japanese curtian I had hanging from the end of the hall. the roof of the main room soar to a point of fourty feet in height.
To the left the furniture was white oak and black leather, I had a couch a loveseat and two lounge chairs set in a half square infront of my coffee table and entertainment center. I removed my shoes and left them on the woven mat, the floor lifted one step and I walked up and across the room to the oak spiral staircase that led to the loft Paintings of wildlife and witches and other nic-nacks that I had collected hung from the walls and potted ferns and flowers and other plants were hung or set in numerious places throughout the apartment. The loft jutted out from the right side of the apartment over my kitchen. It had a sturdy oak railing along the outside of it, against the wall were six doors I walked to the end of the platform and opened the last door. Inside was a four poster oak bed resting on a oriental carpet black marble and wood dressers sat along one wall and a old cedar chest against another.
I laid Tysen in the bed and pulled the covers over his sleeping form before flicking on the nightlight and walking out of the room, moving back down the spiral staircase I walked under the loft platform and into the kitchen which had been designed in black marble that had green shoots running through it. The coffee maker was forest green and the jars that were labeled; Sugar,Flour,Cookies,salt and such were green with black writing. I walked over to the coffee pot and started a pot of vanilla hazelnut then sat at the bar island and looked pensively out the picture window that took up on wall on the other side of the apartment.
Suddenly tears began to fall from my eyes and I didn't understand it so I ignored them and pour myself a cup of coffee in a mug that said 'Leave me the hell alone.... this means FUCK OFF!' Darien had bought it for me for christmas. I had got him season tickets to the Radier games. I shook my head and moved to the large overstuffed white leather couch and laid down craddling my coffee cup between my palms as I thought about the passed twenty-four hours. I had lost two cousins and gained a son, not my best night but I vowed to make sure that Tysen wanted for nothing if I could help it.
I don't know when but my eyes drifted closed and I slept in a restful slumber, my dreams reflecting on memories from when Mina and I had been kids. Then Mina's wedding and the birth of Tysen I had been at both events, in my dreams I saw Mina as she jokingly teased me about not being able to choose between Artimis or Darien. I jolted awake and almost fell off the couch when an insistant knocking sounded at my door. I went to get up when I noticed Tysen sleeping curled on the floor between the coffee table and the couch he had set my coffee mug on the table because I knew that I hadn't.
I stepped over my sleeping cousin and walked on silent feet down the enterance hall and opened my door to see Burke and Amy standing on the other side. I glanced at my watch and was suprised to find that it was after six, and pulled the door open and left them in not really in the mood for company, but they were my bestfriends after all weren't they?
Burke had to duck to enter and he walked quietly down the hall I knew that he was heading for the fresh coffee, Amy moved in beside me and for a moment we stood staring at eachother hard, not knowing what to say. Then we turned and walked back into the main room and to the kitchen where Burke had poured us all fresh mugs of coffee. I slid into one of the wicker stools and sighed softly sipping at the scalding brew waiting for one of them to start talking, my eyes were drawn to the small window that framed Burke's head in light and blinked when I saw the Syren from earlier...
She still had shoulder length black hair and blue eyes, she lifted her arms to me and said or thought to me,
[ Fear not the changes that have happened but be prepared to make choices that will forever alter your destiny.]
She floated there her arms held out to me then vanished slowly into the light, I let out a startled scream and fell backward from the stool dumping hot coffee all over me. I heard Amy rush for the door and realized that Amy might be able to sense Syrens and closed my eyes as pain rushed over me, it was Mina's magic trying to warn me about something. I fought against it and screamed in pain it was as if the magic of my cousin had razor sharp silver talons and it was trying to work its way in to me.
Through a haze I saw Burke kneeling next to me his hand on my shoulder, I saw him lips moving but couldn't hear what he was saying. The magic slashed at me and I screamed it felt as if Mina's magic was killing me. Finally as before it settled into my magic and flashes
whizzed through my head; I was drawn into the vision so far that I could no longer see Burke.
' I was standing in a club watching a red haired woman sip idlely on her drink when a man shrouded in shadows moved toward her and grabbed her from behind, his hand closed over her neck and he began strangling her the other people in the club didn't seem to notice the man attacking the woman and it was then that I noticed the spell of forbodding that surrounded the woman.'
Suddenly I was back in my apartment and could see again I could also hear but the voices of Burke and Amy seemed too loud and I groaned in pain. It took me a moment to realize that Tysen had woken up and was crying somewhere near by, I sat up slowly brushing off Burke's helping hands and held my head. I knew that, that had not been a very human thing to happen, and though I wasn't technically human I didn't want to be a monster either. Fire coursed through my side and I put my hand there blinking when it came away with blood. Burke's concerned eyes stared down at my but I ignored him and stood shaking my head to clear it.
"What was that all about Sere?"Burke asked softly
I looked at him and shook my head, " I'm not sure but the murderer's about to attack again. It seems I have gained my cousins power for clairvoyance."
Amy I noticed had a gash over her left eye that bi-cected her eye brow, I blinked and pointed to it. " What happened?"
Amy shrugged, " The Syren attacked me when I tried to follow her to her plain of exsistance."
I shook my head and knelt infront of Tysen, " We're going to find who killed your parents okay Ty?" I asked smiling sadly into the boys lavender eyes.
The child nodded, and I stood lifting him into my arms and grabbed my coat as I walked out the door Burke and Amy following close by. I would get to the bottom of this... I knew I would. But I had a new question...
How do you find a serial killer that specialized in witches?
Answer....
Live bait.....yep that's me a walking buffet table.
But first I would drop Tysen off at Darien's place then on to the main course.