Aggressive
By liltrick89
Spoilers: Darkest Hour & Haunted
Disclaimer: The Mediator series, characters, and everything else about it belong to Jenny Carroll… er um Meg Cabot, whoever.
Summary: "I'm not evil. I'm just aggressive." Enter Paul Slater's mind.
Paul Slater. The name seems innocent doesn't it? I'm not. Trust me, I'm far from innocent.
Not that I'm evil or anything, I'm hardly that. I'm aggressive. That's all. Though, of course, the majority of the human population doesn't see that. Certainly not Susannah Simon.
Honestly, the way she looks at me sometimes, her eyes are full of lust. Not that I can blame her, I pack a rather nice physique, if I say so myself. That doesn't bother me though, nor does it bother me when her eyes fill up with fear. I rather like people being afraid of me. A healthy fear is completely reasonable. After all I'm not evil, I'm… how did I put it? Oh yes, aggressive. What does bother me is the way she's so whipped. That's right, Suze is whipped by no one other than… a ghost. Actually multiple. But mostly one.
His name is Jesse.
"Oh Jesse, you're so cute. I love how whenever I kiss you it looks like I'm kissing air. I love the fact you can't take me out on dates like a normal person. I love the fact that you're dead." Isn't that positively revolting? He's dead for god's sake. She's seen his dead body, well skeleton. The flesh had long ago been decayed and eaten. How long can you be attractive to somebody after you've seen his or her dead body?
How long can you be in love with a guy who's fiancée tried to kill you?
Not that I told Maria to attempt to kill Susannah. Quite the contrary, I had no idea. Well, at least until after she came over and requested my… services.
I'm a shifter. Did I tell you that?
That basically means I can move, shift, from this world to the spiritual one. I can help ghosts, or as I prefer, they can help me. Power? I got plenty of it.
Suze is also a shifter. She just doesn't like admitting it to the general public. She prefers the term "mediator". She likes to 'help' the ghosts get to their spiritual destination.
Whipped I tell you.
Anyway, I decided this was one case I might actually like to assist a ghost. Mainly because what she wanted was in my best interests as well.
She wanted Jesse out of the way.
Maria also gave me some rather, interesting advice. "It's easier to catch a fly with honey than it is with vinegar." I must say, it worked well enough for me, even now that Maria has been exorcised and that Jesse prat got away.
Now, I got Suze tied down by a promise to visit me. To learn more about shifting. I know I can trust her word too, she's too much of a do-gooder to break it, even if her darling Jesse doesn't approve, and trust me, he won't.
Not that I'm going to do anything at our meetings. The first meeting we had, well I learned what limit's she's setting. To be true to dear old Jesse of course. But I knew she liked it, she couldn't deny that. It was evident by the way she kissed me back. Then all of a sudden the dead guy had to pop into her head again. I will have her, I'm simply going to have to play my cards right.
She'll see. Paul Slater always gets what he wants.
After all, I'm aggressive.
