Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing, or any of its characters, so don't sue me!

Pairings: Read and see.

Plot: Vampire council, vampires, vampire hunters…and a few mixed loyalties.

Chapter Four - Something unforeseen

Darkness presses in. A presence lingers, harder to sense then it should be, but it's there all the same. Music pulses in sensitive ears, then I've gone beyond.

A stone casts ripples in a pool of water.

A common truth everyone and everything knows, whether consciously or subconsciously. I more than anyone am aware of that truth. The air is displaced every time someone or something moves, no matter how minute the movement, the ripples it causes grow and grow.

They say a butterfly in Australia can cause a hurricane in America. Well, I could, if I so chose, feel the ripples caused by both of those events, just standing right where I am now, or anywhere else for that matter.

Everything; sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste; is caused by ripples. Different kinds of ripples, but ripples all the same.

To those that are not me, I seem powerful beyond belief. And, in a way, I guess I am. I don't consciously think of myself as powerful, and sometimes that can lead to mistakes on my part.

I feel all the ripples in the world, if I let myself. I see them all, I hear them all, and sometimes, I can change them all.

The dancers part with a simple thought from me, not even noticing that they are being carried away by ripples they are too closed off to feel.

I move through the club, tracking the movement of the one who is following me as I go.

Outside, in another dirty alley, which seems to be the theme for all my nights, I notice with relief that the trashcans are dirty in this one. At least something had returned to normal.

Heero's scent reaches me just before he tries to tackle me. I step aside, wincing in sympathy as he crashes into the trashcan I had just been contemplating.

He rises gracefully for a human, not bothering to brush himself off like others of his kind would.

I wait patiently for an explanation, aware of a slight tingling in the corner of my senses. Something nagging at me, like a pesky thought you looked for but couldn't find, or maybe just a fly buzzing round your head, seeking to be knocked silly.

"You sensed me coming."

A statement, not a question. Ahh, this game I am most familiar with, but I will play by the human's rules, for now.

"You were trying to sneak up on me then?" My voice comes off as flippant. Happy go lucky, even. His eyes narrow, and I'm sure, if I bothered, I'd hear him asking himself if I am really such a fool.

"I thought I'd check for myself how your skills are. You are good at knowing when you are being followed, obviously, which means we don't need to worry about that."

He pauses, and I watch with curiosity as his eyes flick over the alley with a practised eye. It would be so simple to cloud his mind, or just skim through it, like when you read a book and go for the interesting bits. Yet, something holds me back. This human is interesting in himself, kind of like my partner Wufei. I don't feel the need to go deeper to amuse myself. Something which is getting more and more common for me.

"What are you doing here anyway? Don't you need to get some sleep?"

I blink, mentally berating myself for letting him catch me off guard. The slight rumble in the back of my mind has grown louder, and readily identifiable now.

"I don't have a day job like everyone else, so I do one last sweep before I call it a night. What do you do when you are off duty Heero? Anything interesting?"

I drop my voice slightly. To human ears they wouldn't be able to tell the difference, most vampires wouldn't either, but to Heero my voice now had a distinct growl to it. A heady sound, I had been told, and almost enough to mesmerise on its own.

He blinked slightly at me, not looking befuddled unlike the other people I had tried it on before, but looking slightly more unsure. "Peter? Why do you want to know about what I do outside of slaying?"

I leapt on him before he could move, or say anything more.

Gripping him gently by the arms, I roughly lower my mouth to his neck and bite down gently.

Saliva tried to form, and I held it back with brute force. As with my teeth. Or my incisors anyway.

He tried to pull away and I nipped him gently in reprimand.

Finally lifting my head up, I dropped him to the ground, using the slight shock he felt to hold him down. To him he would feel stunned, and the mind control was light enough to be undetectable.

"Well, well, well, look what we have here. A fellow brother."

I turned slowly at the clapping that followed the comment, holding back the stinging remark that wanted to flow free.

"Who are you?" My voice can do a mean impression of a growl as well, and I made full use of that now.

"Me? Why I'm the leader of this district, I'm surprised you don't know that. Then again, it does explain what you're doing killing on my patch, without my permission. Although, now that you just killed a hunter for us, I think I'll let you off."

Heero's eyes narrowed at the 'killed' part, and I knew I'd have to shorten this meeting as much as possible, before his shock completely wore off.

"I'm new, I didn't know this was your area. I'll just get going then."

"Wait."

I stopped mid-turn at his voice, and sent a dose of fear his way, knowing it would satisfy him.

"The elders have returned. They are kindly handing out safety passes to vampires, but they forgot to give one to me and my friends. Luckily enough I have other friends who feel more generous. Since you are obviously a fellow do gooder like myself, I'll let you have a pass, for free. Just make sure you continue doing your 'good deeds', alright?"

Great, the elders had returned at my request, but the stupid idiots had decided to use passes to distinguish the good from the bad, and now they had a leak in their own sect who was giving the passes out willy nilly to bad vampires.

Looks like I'll have to get involved more than I'd hoped. Oh well, more fun for me.

Sorry it took so long. Well? R+R please?