Thank you so much for your reviews! Those mean a lot, because without reviews, I don't go on writing. I own nothing you recognise, except weird plot and such and a character or two. Don't own the lyrics either… And the Viktor and Amelia calling each other darling thing, is not a hint that they are lovers, but just something my wicked mind came up with. Hey, they're calling everybody else dear, so… Just wanted to make that clear to you all. On with the chapter, which, just like the previous one, is quite insane, as one of my reviewer's put it.

Erika's Dream

Chapter II

Erika couldn't believe her eyes. Inside the crypt, was a large blue plastic table, which didn't use to be there. All three vampire Elders were sitting around it, surrounded by boxes, files, and heaps of papers and pencils. At one corner, Lady Amelia and Lord Marcus seemed to be playing chess, while Lord Viktor was busy with the papers. He looked up when Erika entered and kneeled at the door, and smiled brightly towards her.

"Hello, dear" he said. "Are you here with the stapler?"

"Yes, my lord" she said, rising, and respectfully putting the stapler on the table.

"Thank you, dear, I really needed that" Lord Viktor said, immediately starting to use it.

"Vicky, darling, you've been doing that for almost an hour now" Lady Amelia said.

"I know, but our archives really needed reorganising" Lord Viktor answered.

"I can certainly see that, but darling, do you really have to do it yourself?" Lady Amelia said.

"Well, I don't have to, but if there's something I've learnt from immortality, darling, is that if I want anything done the proper way, I have to do it myself"

"If you say so, Vicky, darling. And you, dear, can you take that to Selene?" Lady Amelia turned towards Erika, and pointed at a wooden box on the floor.

"Yes, my lady" Erika said, picking up the box. Judging by its weight, it was empty, or at least very close to.

"Thank you dear, that's very kind of you" Lady Amelia said, returning her gaze to the game in front of her. Erika turned away and walked out of the crypt.

"And thanks again for the stapler" Lord Viktor said as she walked through the door.

Erika was just about to knock on the door to Selene's quarters, when she heard music coming from in there, and a female voice singing.

So go on, go on, come on, leave me breathless

Tempt me, tease me, until I can't deny

This loving feeling

Make me long for your kiss

Go on, go on

Yeah...

Erika knocked, not sure what to believe. This wasn't really the kind of music she would have imagined Selene listening to, if she could imagine Selene listening to music at all.

"Come in" Selene's voice was heard from the other side of the door. Erika opened, and in there were Selene, and a young woman Erika had never seen before. She was small, with long brown messy hair falling down to her waist, and her clothes were very worn-out and dusty. But what was really surprising was that both this girl and Selene were drinking Sprite and listening to the Corrs.

"Hi Erika" Selene said. "This is Pandi" she added, pointing at her friend, who was casually sitting on Selene's modern-looking desk, and when she heard her name, waved at Erika. Said blond vampire put down the wooden box on the floor next to Selene's chair.

"Lady Amelia asked me to give this to you" she explained.

"Hmmm, I don't remember today being my birthday" Selene said. "What day is it?"

"Wednesday" Pandi said after a moment of thought. "Or Thursday, can't really remember" Selene dropped to her knees and tried to open the box. After about fifteen seconds, she exclaimed:

"This is hopeless! Does anybody got a claw-wrench?"

"Nah, I've got a can-opener, if that helps?"

"I wouldn't think so" Selene replied. "Why do you have a can-opener with you?"

"I stole it from Lucian last week" Pandi shrugged.

"Why did you do that?" Erika couldn't help asking.

"Imagine his face next time he wants to open a can, and can't find his opener" Pandi said with a wicked grin.

"Forgive me for asking, but who often do you lycans eat canned food?" Selene wondered curiously.

"Oh, we eat that every now and then" Pandi said vaguely.

"Really? Why?" Selene asked.

"Because then you know it's not Lucian that cooked it" Pandi said.

"He's a bad cook?"

"The worst. Pray you'll never taste his stew of human flesh" Pandi seemed to shiver at the mere thought.

"I thought you lycans liked human flesh" Selene sounded very surprised. Erika gave disgusted sound at the thought of eating anything human.

"We do, but certainly not in stew! Human flesh doesn't go well with either gravy or potatoes. In stew we prefer chicken"

"I see" Selene said, continuing in her attempt to open the box. After a while, Pandi grew impatient, and jumped down on the floor to help her out. The only difference was that Pandi now had long claws, which were very useful, since she easily could open the box. It was not empty, after all.

"What the hell?" Pandi said, picking up a pink fleece blanket.

"Oh, I told Amelia that this place often is very cold during daytime, so I suppose she tried to help me…" Selene said, slightly embarrassed. Pandi snickered.

"I'd never thought that vampires used pink…" She was interrupted by Lucian, who flung the door open with a BLAM!

"Pandi!" he yelled. "Have you stolen my lighter again!"

"Haven't you ever heard about knocking?" Selene said, before Pandi got the chance to answer. But Erika judged by her guilty face that she indeed was the thief.

"Have you!" Lucian yelled, completely ignoring Selene, and staring angrily at Pandi, who just grinned a little. She began searching the pockets of her knee-long leather jacket, and after a while, she found the lighter and threw it at Lucian.

"Now, is there anything else that might have found it's way into your pockets?" Lucian asked, still glaring. Pandi didn't seem to be at all bothered by the fierce lycan's looks, she just grinned even wider.

"Are you missing something?" she asked innocently.

"You tell me" Lucian answered, not even the slightest smile on his features.

"And spoil all the fun? Never! Aldrig i livet!"

"Pandi!" Lucian said warningly.

"What? It's not as if you need all that stuff you're caring around. Take the lighter for example, you gave up smoking centuries ago, and you still keep it in one of your left pockets"

"There are other things than cigarettes that can be lit by a lighter" Lucian pointed out, "And you know that very well, you little pyromaniac"

"Matches are easier. Can you give one example of something that should be lit by a lighter?"

"Kraven's office" Lucian shrugged.

"Would be just as well burnt down if we use matches" Pandi said stubbornly.

"Are you really going to burn his office down?" Erika asked, shocked.

"None of your business" Pandi said.

"You may go now, Erika" Selene said. Erika obediently stepped out of Selene's quarters, and decided to warn Lord Kraven, in case they would actually try to burn his office down. But on her way there, she bumped in to the raven-haired woman from Lord Kraven's closet, Sonja.

"Oh, hello" Sonja said, smiling. "Have you seen Lucian anywhere around?"

"Yes, my lady, he's in Selene's quarters"

"Yelling at Pandi for stealing his lighter, I expect" Sonja smiled even wider.

"Something like that, yes" Erika said, unable to not smile back.

"I'd better go and stop him from strangling her. Could you do me a favor, then?"

"Of course, my lady"

"Can you take this to Kahn, I think it's urgent, but stopping Lucian from strangling one of his pack mates if more so, I think"

"Certainly, my lady" Erika said, taking the dark green glass bottle Sonja gave her. Then she was headed for the dojo, where Kahn almost always could be found.

"I feel like Alice in Wonderland" Erika muttered to herself, "Being sent everywhere with strange things"

To be continued… Sometime…

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