Part 7
As I was meeting the Circle Daybreak girls, back at the castle, Raina was in desperate need of some sort of plan to deal with me...
Raina was still fuming over the whole Erin incident. How she had managed to escape was still unknown to her. The bitch should have been secure, but she must have convinced one of the witches to help her.
The witch, according to Evan, was dead. He blamed it all on the witch. Whoever you blamed it on, the problem was clear enough - Erin had escaped and needed to be recaptured.
She didn't want to give Seth the pleasure of torturing her. She shuddered. The last time he had done this, brought a human, changed her, angry and jealous, Raina had killed the human. Seth had been furious and punished her.
"Find her," she told Evan now. He was sat on a couch in her quarters, sulking liked a stubborn child after being yelled at. "Find her and kill her."
"If we let her die, Seth's gonna torture you," he said icily. Then smiled as he stood up. "All right."
Raina's eyes rolled. She didn't *want* to share Seth. She'd just get a powerful witch to brainwash him into forgetting Erin, there were spells that could do that - the witch thing Cup of Lethe, that made you forget things. How to get her hands on it would be something of a challenge.
"Don't look so pleased," she sneered at Evan. "You have to bring me back the body. Then I will tell Seth she was killed by vampire hunters."
Evan looked at her for a few moments. He didn't seem particularly pleased with the plan, or his job. Maybe she could find a way to pin the blame on him, somehow, then he was the one who would get tortured instead of her.
That made her smile. "Just get on with it."
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Even himself thought the whole thing was a waste of time. The girl was probably long gone by now. He didn't understand why Seth kept doing this, he already had Raina swooning all over him, why did he need two of them?
Raina only got jealous, and the girl usually wound up dead at some point. He should have gone to the States and worked for the Council there, they could have found him some decent tasks, worthy of his time, instead of petty jealousy things like this.
If I were an escaped vampire with no real clue about the Night World what would I do? He thought as he headed down the stairs to the ground floor of the castle.
What would he do...take every advantage of the beauty and power provided by the change, use that to manipulate his way around and become rich and famous. If he could do it again, that's what he'd do.
Instead he'd wound up an assassin for Raina. At first it had been fun, he had been proud to be in her service, now she irritated him.
"...someone from Circle Daybreak is supposed to be picking Erin up, if she's lucky enough to have escaped the castle. They'll find her."
He paused, rounding a corner, hearing the voice of one of the kitchen staff. Circle Daybreak...typical, he thought with a roll of his eyes.
"Well I heard from Donna that they've just found her and taking her to the mansion in Vegas. She should be okay there."
Thank you Donna, Evan thought. It seemed, he thought as he went to find a phone, that everything was falling into place a little too easily. Sure, it would get the job done fast, but...he couldn't help wondering if there was some sort of catch he wasn't getting.
* * *
As I was meeting the Circle Daybreak girls, back at the castle, Raina was in desperate need of some sort of plan to deal with me...
Raina was still fuming over the whole Erin incident. How she had managed to escape was still unknown to her. The bitch should have been secure, but she must have convinced one of the witches to help her.
The witch, according to Evan, was dead. He blamed it all on the witch. Whoever you blamed it on, the problem was clear enough - Erin had escaped and needed to be recaptured.
She didn't want to give Seth the pleasure of torturing her. She shuddered. The last time he had done this, brought a human, changed her, angry and jealous, Raina had killed the human. Seth had been furious and punished her.
"Find her," she told Evan now. He was sat on a couch in her quarters, sulking liked a stubborn child after being yelled at. "Find her and kill her."
"If we let her die, Seth's gonna torture you," he said icily. Then smiled as he stood up. "All right."
Raina's eyes rolled. She didn't *want* to share Seth. She'd just get a powerful witch to brainwash him into forgetting Erin, there were spells that could do that - the witch thing Cup of Lethe, that made you forget things. How to get her hands on it would be something of a challenge.
"Don't look so pleased," she sneered at Evan. "You have to bring me back the body. Then I will tell Seth she was killed by vampire hunters."
Evan looked at her for a few moments. He didn't seem particularly pleased with the plan, or his job. Maybe she could find a way to pin the blame on him, somehow, then he was the one who would get tortured instead of her.
That made her smile. "Just get on with it."
* * *
Even himself thought the whole thing was a waste of time. The girl was probably long gone by now. He didn't understand why Seth kept doing this, he already had Raina swooning all over him, why did he need two of them?
Raina only got jealous, and the girl usually wound up dead at some point. He should have gone to the States and worked for the Council there, they could have found him some decent tasks, worthy of his time, instead of petty jealousy things like this.
If I were an escaped vampire with no real clue about the Night World what would I do? He thought as he headed down the stairs to the ground floor of the castle.
What would he do...take every advantage of the beauty and power provided by the change, use that to manipulate his way around and become rich and famous. If he could do it again, that's what he'd do.
Instead he'd wound up an assassin for Raina. At first it had been fun, he had been proud to be in her service, now she irritated him.
"...someone from Circle Daybreak is supposed to be picking Erin up, if she's lucky enough to have escaped the castle. They'll find her."
He paused, rounding a corner, hearing the voice of one of the kitchen staff. Circle Daybreak...typical, he thought with a roll of his eyes.
"Well I heard from Donna that they've just found her and taking her to the mansion in Vegas. She should be okay there."
Thank you Donna, Evan thought. It seemed, he thought as he went to find a phone, that everything was falling into place a little too easily. Sure, it would get the job done fast, but...he couldn't help wondering if there was some sort of catch he wasn't getting.
* * *