Part 8
I was extremely surprised when I got back to America and found that the Daybreak headquarters was actually in Las Vegas. It was the last place in the world I'd ever expected would host the last line of defence against a bunch of evil vampires.
I was more than a little nervous as I sat in the boss's office, I mean, how else were you going to react in meeting with a vampire who had been around since human beings lived in caves?
"What can I do for you?" His smile was warm and friendly, his brown eyes were large and kind of puppy like, not something I'd expect from a cave-man vampire. I almost considered asking him if he'd ever met the Flintstones.
"Well, it's kind of a funny story really," I began. "I was a normal ordinary person until this guy came to my town, he was really hot and seemed nice and when he asked me out, I said sure, who wouldn't. Then it turned out his name was Seth Redfern and he was a vampire, he made me one and dragged me all the way to his gloomy castle in Scotland, and he failed to mention he had this bitch of a girlfriend Raina, who sent some minion of hers to kill me, only I escaped and ran in to two of your people who said you guys would be able to help me."
Wow, that was a long sentence, I let out a breath and waited for him to tell me sure, I would be fine here. The big Boss's girlfriend had come in. It was extremely weird, she was probably not much older than me, then again, Thierry, looked about twenty. (I still thought it was weird seeing them together)
"Well maybe you'd be better in one of our small town safe houses, since you came from a small town," the girlfriend suggested. "It's probably not a good idea to go back to your home town as a vampire."
~Duh~ I thought, resisting the urge to roll my eyes. There was nothing I wanted more than to go home back to my normal life, but that was never going to happen, so I had to make do with what I was, even if it did involve blood. Eew. I wasn't sure I would ever get used to that.
Now I had to play the new person and adapt to a new life style with people I'd never heard of. Later I was to learn that apparently, this wasn't that much of a new story after all, it seemed to happen a lot, in its own context, people getting stuck with something to do with the Night World and having to be a new kid in a new town to start again, and it usually all went wrong and then worked out after all.
"Yes, that's a good idea," Thierry said. "Poppy and Thea can go with you, you'll like them."
They were the girls who had conveniently shown up when I'd crashed my stolen car. I always wondered if that was a mere coincidence or not. But, whatever. Anyway, you'll never guess what happened when I got to my new safe house...
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I was extremely surprised when I got back to America and found that the Daybreak headquarters was actually in Las Vegas. It was the last place in the world I'd ever expected would host the last line of defence against a bunch of evil vampires.
I was more than a little nervous as I sat in the boss's office, I mean, how else were you going to react in meeting with a vampire who had been around since human beings lived in caves?
"What can I do for you?" His smile was warm and friendly, his brown eyes were large and kind of puppy like, not something I'd expect from a cave-man vampire. I almost considered asking him if he'd ever met the Flintstones.
"Well, it's kind of a funny story really," I began. "I was a normal ordinary person until this guy came to my town, he was really hot and seemed nice and when he asked me out, I said sure, who wouldn't. Then it turned out his name was Seth Redfern and he was a vampire, he made me one and dragged me all the way to his gloomy castle in Scotland, and he failed to mention he had this bitch of a girlfriend Raina, who sent some minion of hers to kill me, only I escaped and ran in to two of your people who said you guys would be able to help me."
Wow, that was a long sentence, I let out a breath and waited for him to tell me sure, I would be fine here. The big Boss's girlfriend had come in. It was extremely weird, she was probably not much older than me, then again, Thierry, looked about twenty. (I still thought it was weird seeing them together)
"Well maybe you'd be better in one of our small town safe houses, since you came from a small town," the girlfriend suggested. "It's probably not a good idea to go back to your home town as a vampire."
~Duh~ I thought, resisting the urge to roll my eyes. There was nothing I wanted more than to go home back to my normal life, but that was never going to happen, so I had to make do with what I was, even if it did involve blood. Eew. I wasn't sure I would ever get used to that.
Now I had to play the new person and adapt to a new life style with people I'd never heard of. Later I was to learn that apparently, this wasn't that much of a new story after all, it seemed to happen a lot, in its own context, people getting stuck with something to do with the Night World and having to be a new kid in a new town to start again, and it usually all went wrong and then worked out after all.
"Yes, that's a good idea," Thierry said. "Poppy and Thea can go with you, you'll like them."
They were the girls who had conveniently shown up when I'd crashed my stolen car. I always wondered if that was a mere coincidence or not. But, whatever. Anyway, you'll never guess what happened when I got to my new safe house...
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