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Chapter 4.

Lakh sat, frozen in shock, completely unable to move. That someone could.so much as THINK about naming him something so RIDICULOUSLY stupid absolutely mortified him. The absolute shame such a stigma would bring was unimaginable to him. By the time he managed to clear the red haze of anger from his vision he realised Ally had already gone to bed. Growling in repressed frustration, he prowled the room, searching for someway or something to take his anger out on.

It was bad enough for him to become this lowly animal for so long, having to be subservient to anyone. But there was no way, no way in this lifetime or any other for that matter that he was going to let ANYONE address him as FLUFFY! Suddenly he tripped up and skidded across the shiny floor on his now far more padded feet. Almost about scream in frustration he turned around to see what had gotten in his way.

Suddenly everything became clear.

Resting innocently, and alone, was one solitary shoe. Looking beyond that he saw a veritable pile of women's shoes stacked in the corner of the room; a smaller, more subdued pile of shoes next to it, obviously her fathers. Picking up the shoe he dragged it over to sit in front of the large pile of shoes. In a much better mood, he spent the best part of the next hour happily shredding each shoe, spending an especially long time gnawing on the last one to help clean his teeth. Well, he had to clean them one way or another, and even Ally might suspect something if he started using her toothbrush.

On a brief glance around the room his eyes eventually came to rest on the clock on the far wall. After a couple minutes the nagging feeling at the back of his mind came to the surface. Crap, he'd forgotten all about the daybreak meeting he was supposed to attend. Twice weekly updates on his progress etcetera, etcetera. Shifting quickly into his human form he quickly and quietly made his way out the door and ran down the road. Finally he made his way to the back alley where he'd parked his car and revving up the engine made his way rather reluctantly into the HQ.

Taking out his swipe card he quickly gained entrance and made his way through the now much quieter halls to the interview room he was supposed to have occupied a full two hours ago. Pushing the door open, he was not even surprised to find Falcon patiently sitting behind her desk, waiting for him. Wincing slightly he sank down into the seat.

'Sorry for the delay, car troubles, you know how it is.'

Giving him an amused look she took another sip of her hot chocolate. 'Oh, don't worry Lakh, I've not been waiting long, I knew you'd be late, you always are for some reason or another. Car trouble? Interesting, same car we had refurbished for you last month?'

Shifting in his seat he didn't quite meet her eyes, she was the one woman who could put him on edge, and she was very good at it. 'Right, yes, that would be the one, anyway, moving swiftly on, what was it you'd like to talk about?'

Deciding she probably didn't WANT to know the real reason he was late Falcon settled back in her chair, knowing him this could take a while. 'You've been on the mission almost two days now Lakh, I want you to give me a preliminary report, you're plans for the very near future and anything else you think is relevant for me to know.'

Reaching over to grab her mug, Lakh took a long, thoughtful swig of the soothing chocolate. Chocolate tastes soo good, soo sweet, he would consume it whenever and however he could. Lifting the cup for another drink he scowled at it when no more came out. Placing it back on the table, he sat quietly thinking for a while.

'She has a boyfriend who's a vampire, saw a picture in her room; arrogant, big-headed, god-complex by the looks of things. I'll investigate that when school starts. Her favourite colour is blue, oh, and she wears cheap leather shoes that do not taste great.'

Falcon looked at him curiously, trying to figure out why he was telling her all this stupid rubbish and when he would give her a proper report. Then it struck her, this was the real report. Suddenly she laughed in amusement. This boyfriend had certain similar qualities to Lakh here. In fact, she wasn't quite sure why he had such a negative reaction to him. If it wasn't for the species it sounded to her as if it could be his long lost twin. She tried not to think about what his last comment could mean. She'd already had nightmares about this month's damages bill and Lakh's already large contribution to it.

'So, tell me Lakh, what do you have set up to try to find out if she's the wild power?'

'Damn, I KNEW I'd forgotten something!' Banging his fist on the table in irritation the mug crashed onto the floor, breaking into several small pieces.

Falcon took a deep breath and tried to remind herself that explaining that she had strangled their most important undercover operative because he was an idiot and had broken her mug would not go down well with the board.

'Lakh,' she growled, taking short shallow breaths. 'That was the whole IDEA of the mission. What the hell have you been doing all this time! And that was my favourite mug for the goddess's sake!' Knowing she was not calm enough to deal with him right now she turned around and snapped at him.

'Go away. Don't come back till you have something to tell me that's actually worth listening to.'

Climbing uneasily to his feet Lakh made his way out of the door, carefully closing it behind him. Well, that went well, he thought. Walking slowly down the dimly lit corridors with flickering light he tried to think of what he really would do on this mission. He would have to try and find some way to put Ally in a situation that would make her use her power where there would be no Night World people around to notice. Not the easiest thing to do. He'd have to find some way to go with her to school as well. She'd be far too vulnerable there if he wasn't around to keep an eye out. Oh well, he'd come up with something, eventually he always did.

Making his way to his car he was startled out of his reverie by a loud peal of laughter coming from the other side of the street. Absently looking over in disinterest his hand paused mid way to the door. Exiting what looked like a Black Iris, the famous chain of Night World clubs was the boy in Ally's photo, looking very comfortable with another girl. Growling under his breath he saw him sink his fangs into the girl's neck, take a leisurely drink and then blank her mind before walking on with her again as if nothing had happened.

Damn that boy, if he had been messing around with Ally like that he would find out; and he would make him pay. Even if she tried to give him cardboard food and give him a bad name she did not deserve to be used, she was a good person. Slamming the car door behind him he manically drove back to the place he'd left his car last time and ran back to the house. Changing back into the dog form he settled himself down on a sofa, yawned and fell asleep, just as dawns first light began entering the room.

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Getting up the next morning Ally blindly climbed out of bed and stumbled down the stairs. Never the most co-ordinated she was even less so in the morning. Brushing her hand along the wall to keep her balance in her still half unconscious state she ambled along the hallway to the kitchen when she suddenly pitched forward landing painfully on her front, jarring just about every bone in her body.

'Ow, what have I done to deserve this?' she mumbled pitifully, painfully rolling onto her front she was almost buried under a mound of shoes that fell on top of her. Pushing shoes away left, right, and centre eventually she fought her way out and took a deep breath before looking in confusion at the chaos around her.

What she saw around her was almost too much for her at this time in the morning. What she lay in was a sea of shredded shoes, all her own, all meticulously carved into pieces. Looking around her in horror her eyes finally came to rest on Fluffy, lying on the sofa, looking for all the world as if he was dead with exhaustion. Oh, she'd just bet he was, he'd been a busy boy tonight. It must have taken a while to do that to thirteen pairs of shoes. Walking over to him she roughly shook him. Blearily his eyes opened and after a couple of seconds focused on her.

'Why, why did you do this? What could have possessed you to destroy ALL those shoes for apparently no reason? Why Fluffy?' Under her hands she felt Fluffy tense and growl softly at the mention of his name. Suddenly it all became clear to her.

'Oh, so that's it is it then?' she demanded loudly, not even bothering to keep her voice down even though it was 6 in the morning. 'You don't like you name, well congratulations, YOU'VE WON!' Eyes blazing in anger she stormed out of the room muttering quietly, 'I'll think of a new name for you, you evil dog, I'll do that, but I'll make you pay, no one messes with my shoes, and I mean no one!'

Lakh looked around, blinking a few times, everything confusing him after only two hours sleep. Trying valiantly to keep his eyes open, after a few minutes he failed miserably and fell asleep again, his head flopping back down onto the cushion.

Right, as you can see Lakh is getting a new name. I've had a few people come up with suggestions and what I'd like all of you to do is vote for which one you think it should be. Vote once, vote twice, you can even vote three times if you really want to, I don't mind, all votes will be counted, the one with the most votes wins and will be used, I promise. Okay, the names to choose from are as follows:

Grey

Rakesh (meaning ruler of the moon)

Dragon

Lucifer