Part 6
Ashael just couldn't believe it. She was who she was. So how come Evangeline couldn't accept her for that? Just because they had always dressed alike, like...as much as Ashael hated to use the old cliché...two peas in a pod, didn't mean they had to *act* alike.
When they'd been growing up they'd always had the same interests, same friends. Yet as she'd grown older Ashael wanted her own life. Her own personality. Hunter Redfern had heard about them when they were fifteen and had decided to try them as assassins.
Unfortunately for Ashael, one job had completely shattered her trust in the male gender. Which had made her work as an assassin even more enjoyable. She had decided then she wasn't who everyone thought she was.
Evangeline had been most upset walking in on her sister and her first girlfriend. They'd always been so close. Ashael couldn't believe something as petty as her sexual choices could put a wall between them.
She looked at the picture of Dusk Harman. Hunter had said that she was to intercept the girl...It had been a while...She refused to be ashamed of her choices, but the way her sister had looked at her...
No! Stop thinking like that! Fine. Dusk Harman was arriving at the airport tomorrow on the 10'oclock flight from Chicago to Vegas. What a shame. She'd have to miss French, Maths and English.
Now the brother...he might be more of a challenge. How could she find him? Maybe if she could seduce the sister to the Night World side...
She'd never had to work with anyone but Evangeline before. Evangeline had a habit of taking over and making the situation hers. If Hunter had wanted her in on this, he would have said so in the first place. She'd just have to think of a way to do this herself.
* * *
"You're sure it was Ashael and Evangeline Redfern?" Thierry asked with a frown. He scanned the reports from the death outside the Daybreak club.
Alice nodded. "People who were there say they were hanging around all evening. Two girls with Danny say they saw him to talk to them. Then they left together."
Thierry shook his head sadly. In the past three years Ashael and Evangeline Redfern had become something of an issue. They seemed to have a knack for killing people unnecessarily and disappearing off into the night, seemingly impossible to catch and be punished for what they had done.
"I suppose I should point out - "
"That David Harman is already on the warpath," Thierry cut her off. "Yes, I already know that."
Lake Meade High had already had its share of Night People and problems with the Night World, the witches in particular. Last year there had been the incident with Thea and Blaise Harman, who had now graduated.
Well, Blaise had been held back a year after being forced by the Inner Circle to spend several months of rehab in a sort of witch prison known as the Convent. She now had to finish her senior year. Thea was attending U.C. Davies, a vetenarian school with her human soulmate Eric. They worked for Circle Daybreak during the holidays.
Still, Redferns and Harmans together and against each other...Oh, this was going to be a problem.
"David has an older brother and an older sister that the Night World didn't get, the sister will be arriving in town somewhere tomorrow. Intelligence sys that Ashael Redfern is already on her case," Thierry said with a frown, scanning another open file on his desk. "I assume no matter who I put on this case you and David are going to have your agenda to hunt the Redfern twins?" He looked at Alice meaningfully.
Alice scowled and nodded. She glanced down and started to shake, seeing the blood on her hands. She wasn't in Thierry's office anymore. She was on her way home, slightly tipsy. She had been out with her friends to celebrate her eighteenth birthday and moving in with her boyfriend. They were going to get married after graduation from high school. Alice's parents had insisted on that. They'd pay for the most romantic weeding she could dream of - if only she would finish high school. She and Sam had to go to college too, but Alice was more than happy to agree.
Only that night she had turned 18, everything had changed. She was coming home, walking through the door of her new apartment. Her footsteps had slowed as she'd heard two voices. Girls' voices.
"What should we do with him?"
"Leave him. Doing something with the useless bastard will just take time, and tire us out."
"Point taken. Let's go."
Alice had ducked into the closet as two identical figures had passed. It couldn't be...If *they* were here...When the coast was clear she had darted out of the closet and into the lounge...
Red filled her vision. Blood. So much of it...and Sam...Sam was...Someone was screaming, and at some point Alice had vaguely realised it was her.
"Alice? Alice, are you okay?"
Alice blinked, realising Thierry was talking to her. "What? Oh yeah, I'm fine." There was no blood on her hands. It was only her memories. Memory could be a terrifying thing...
"I'm going to put two of *my* best assassins on the case, ironically, they're twins as well." Thierry smiled faintly. "Isis and Raven Blackthorn."
"Redferns vs. Harmans vs. Blackthorns?" Alice asked incredulously. "Should I call the WWF?"
"World Wild Life thing?" Thierry asked with a frown. "What do they have to do with anything?"
Alice's eyes rolled. "I was referring to the World Wrestling Federation. It's not worth explaining the joke," she said as she stood up to leave.
"Alice?" Thierry called.
Alice stopped, but didn't turn.
"Be careful."
Alice didn't answer.
* * *
Ashael just couldn't believe it. She was who she was. So how come Evangeline couldn't accept her for that? Just because they had always dressed alike, like...as much as Ashael hated to use the old cliché...two peas in a pod, didn't mean they had to *act* alike.
When they'd been growing up they'd always had the same interests, same friends. Yet as she'd grown older Ashael wanted her own life. Her own personality. Hunter Redfern had heard about them when they were fifteen and had decided to try them as assassins.
Unfortunately for Ashael, one job had completely shattered her trust in the male gender. Which had made her work as an assassin even more enjoyable. She had decided then she wasn't who everyone thought she was.
Evangeline had been most upset walking in on her sister and her first girlfriend. They'd always been so close. Ashael couldn't believe something as petty as her sexual choices could put a wall between them.
She looked at the picture of Dusk Harman. Hunter had said that she was to intercept the girl...It had been a while...She refused to be ashamed of her choices, but the way her sister had looked at her...
No! Stop thinking like that! Fine. Dusk Harman was arriving at the airport tomorrow on the 10'oclock flight from Chicago to Vegas. What a shame. She'd have to miss French, Maths and English.
Now the brother...he might be more of a challenge. How could she find him? Maybe if she could seduce the sister to the Night World side...
She'd never had to work with anyone but Evangeline before. Evangeline had a habit of taking over and making the situation hers. If Hunter had wanted her in on this, he would have said so in the first place. She'd just have to think of a way to do this herself.
* * *
"You're sure it was Ashael and Evangeline Redfern?" Thierry asked with a frown. He scanned the reports from the death outside the Daybreak club.
Alice nodded. "People who were there say they were hanging around all evening. Two girls with Danny say they saw him to talk to them. Then they left together."
Thierry shook his head sadly. In the past three years Ashael and Evangeline Redfern had become something of an issue. They seemed to have a knack for killing people unnecessarily and disappearing off into the night, seemingly impossible to catch and be punished for what they had done.
"I suppose I should point out - "
"That David Harman is already on the warpath," Thierry cut her off. "Yes, I already know that."
Lake Meade High had already had its share of Night People and problems with the Night World, the witches in particular. Last year there had been the incident with Thea and Blaise Harman, who had now graduated.
Well, Blaise had been held back a year after being forced by the Inner Circle to spend several months of rehab in a sort of witch prison known as the Convent. She now had to finish her senior year. Thea was attending U.C. Davies, a vetenarian school with her human soulmate Eric. They worked for Circle Daybreak during the holidays.
Still, Redferns and Harmans together and against each other...Oh, this was going to be a problem.
"David has an older brother and an older sister that the Night World didn't get, the sister will be arriving in town somewhere tomorrow. Intelligence sys that Ashael Redfern is already on her case," Thierry said with a frown, scanning another open file on his desk. "I assume no matter who I put on this case you and David are going to have your agenda to hunt the Redfern twins?" He looked at Alice meaningfully.
Alice scowled and nodded. She glanced down and started to shake, seeing the blood on her hands. She wasn't in Thierry's office anymore. She was on her way home, slightly tipsy. She had been out with her friends to celebrate her eighteenth birthday and moving in with her boyfriend. They were going to get married after graduation from high school. Alice's parents had insisted on that. They'd pay for the most romantic weeding she could dream of - if only she would finish high school. She and Sam had to go to college too, but Alice was more than happy to agree.
Only that night she had turned 18, everything had changed. She was coming home, walking through the door of her new apartment. Her footsteps had slowed as she'd heard two voices. Girls' voices.
"What should we do with him?"
"Leave him. Doing something with the useless bastard will just take time, and tire us out."
"Point taken. Let's go."
Alice had ducked into the closet as two identical figures had passed. It couldn't be...If *they* were here...When the coast was clear she had darted out of the closet and into the lounge...
Red filled her vision. Blood. So much of it...and Sam...Sam was...Someone was screaming, and at some point Alice had vaguely realised it was her.
"Alice? Alice, are you okay?"
Alice blinked, realising Thierry was talking to her. "What? Oh yeah, I'm fine." There was no blood on her hands. It was only her memories. Memory could be a terrifying thing...
"I'm going to put two of *my* best assassins on the case, ironically, they're twins as well." Thierry smiled faintly. "Isis and Raven Blackthorn."
"Redferns vs. Harmans vs. Blackthorns?" Alice asked incredulously. "Should I call the WWF?"
"World Wild Life thing?" Thierry asked with a frown. "What do they have to do with anything?"
Alice's eyes rolled. "I was referring to the World Wrestling Federation. It's not worth explaining the joke," she said as she stood up to leave.
"Alice?" Thierry called.
Alice stopped, but didn't turn.
"Be careful."
Alice didn't answer.
* * *