There was a purposeful, then a light knock at the door. Bahman opened the door slowly unsure of who it could be, then Alexa stumbled in giggling, "Are you drunk?"

"Nooo, clubbing is so much fun! Maybe a little, did a package turn up at all? I waz expecting something. Something useful y importante!"

"Yes here you go. There is kinda a rule about staying here, no alcohol." He handed her the package and tried to lay down an unexpected ground rule. She sniffed attempted to stand up straight and nod, then opened the package straight away she must have sharpened claws to get though the levels of packaging that held the phone. It was small, exactly like an original IPhone, next something along the lines of airpods, tumbling out there was also a wad of cold hard cash. "Renting still on the table? I was given some real ingredients." She sauntered in towards the kitchen, placing ingredients all over the counters. Then she brought out the knives, yes he checked knives plural, she managed to chop with both hands, she was sending vegetables flying, towards pans she had set out. Most were hitting their marks too. "Here you go." The most complicated girl in the world served up a mountain of vegetable. "It's teriyaki tofu au gingembre et faites revenir les haricots verts et les échalotes croustillantes. Also my friend has mentioned I should watch one of these 'vampire' movies with you. To help point out the discrepancies between fiction and fact." She dug in, slowly he joined her, whatever he was eating was delicious. It looked odd but tasted good. The pile of cash she had handed him didn't matter much but, "I guess that would be good."

He had spoken far too soon, every four words the lethal teenager had shouted were "Wrong." "Oh unlikely!" "Seriously!" And "How is she not dead?" And when he looked back at her he could swear she was also looking to the side, away from him. She was crazy so here goes nothing. "What about I come watch you do your thing next time?" He asked as confidently as he could manage, all her smile and laughter at the film dropped. "I can't let you do that, you might get hurt." She replied deeply serious. "I'd like to make you afraid of them, but not if I put you in danger."

"I can handle myself."

"Against the supernaturally strong and fast."

"Yes, I bought this crossbow and gun and neck guard."

"Crossbows are too slow, it won't go for your neck if you're pointing that monstrosity. It'll pull from here." She reached over and put her hand to Bahman's chest, right above his heart. "They are merciless, I know you've been told they sparkle, they fall in love or have obsessive bromances, but if you've chosen to stalk the world for eternity, taking others lives to prolong your own, taking pleasure out of the violence and death, would you have room to love? Live casually with your food supply. Have you ever been to a farm, seen inside an abattoir?"

"Do you suck the fun out of everything?"

"Apparently."

"Great." He sighed and unpaused the movie.

Alexa left the next night smoothly down the side of the building, stepping onto the courtyard, slipping in her ear buds. "How are you doing? I'm fine, what have you found?"

"A nest, in what looks like bar, I've sent the coordinates to your watch. But honey, maybe take public transport this time it's fairly far." Alexa rolled her eyes at Sarah, as her self appointed 'guardian' ended the call. "I'd like to try it." Sarah chimed, excitedly, ignoring her. "The'll be nothing to do for an hour."

"You think you can do it faster as a wolf then transform!"

"Fine!" She dropped down to street level, dumped her hands in her pockets and trudged down the street to the station.

Alexa watched on as Sarah reacted to the underground train system as any sane person should, "That's it? Do we have to?" She even jumped out of her non-caporal skin when the train shrieked into the station. The poor thing had brought herself together remembering she was already dead, then had tried to make the rest of the journey less boring for her. But that was a tall order. The underground stank of people and all their uncleaned exploits. People should be forced to bathe when they have to be squished together in these thin long tin cans.

Sarah flew off the escalator and out of the exit, they were out! Alex laughed at her happy dancing in mid air. "It feels so good not to have people in your personal space." Alex noted.

"I second that, the world makes more sense when you can't see three people standing inside you."

"And that kid that was eating monster munch."

"All the people that were eating. All food consumption should be fined."

"Sarah can you follow from high above?"

"Sure why?"

"The vampire's will be able to see you. And we need the element of surprise this evening."

"Kay lets get a going." She floated far above the hunter, looking down at the street like a child ready to run amok on a dolls house.

Alexa had reached the destination, her phone automatically called and connected to her annoying cousin. "There are currently 10. I'd say walk in the front door. Just don't be yourself."

Alexa groaned, even when she didn't miss her farther because he was gone, and she was worried about him. Diana made her miss the banter they had, she couldn't wait until he took over in the chair again. She assessed herself, she may have been clubbing the night before on a whim, but a bar was another matter, could she pass in this outfit? Black lycra based body armour and trainers, unlikely. She surveyed the queue of hopeful admittance, nothing good. But there was a woman in an alley behind the bar, and by the smell of her she had bigger things to worry about than getting in. The Alexa dipped into the alley, "Hello there my name is Alexa, how are you doing there?"

"Go away." The unwell woman cawed, but ignoring her the teenager bent to catch her, and instinctively held her hair back as a slew of vomit flew out of her mouth onto the pavement. "Thank you." the stranger sobbed, then dry retching. "Is there anyone I can call?" Alexa asked, politely actively trying not to screw her face up at the beautiful aroma of vomit.

"No."

"What about a home?"

"I can't go back there."

"Give me a moment, Diana are you getting this?"

"That you've been sidetracked absolutely."

"I can help you if you help me. I need a change of clothes. Are you alright to swap."

"Is that a bad decision? I think I made a bad decision." She slurred as she kicked off her high bright red stiletto shoes at the teenager. "Shoes swaps yes. Not walking anywhere."

"I've got an uber on route." Diana chipped in.

"Hold off on that. I think an ambulance would be more apt. What bad decisions?" Alexa traced the woman's arms, then sniffed the vomit on the pavement. "Said yes to all the drinks! Can you?" Alexa caught the woman and her hair again, she was shivering, shaking, "You're pretty you know, but you need some slap." The woman patted at Alexa's face almost affectionately.

"What did you take? If you can keep throwing up." Alexa braved sniffing at the vomit further, there was a faint familiar smell.

"Nothing." The woman pouted, went to shake her head for good measure but decided against it.

"You're not acting like it." Alexa brought up the woman to stand with her under her shoulder.

"Nooo, nothing ever."

"Ambulance is around the corner. You better get back to work."

"Diana, her vomit has blood in it, vampire blood, and something else."

The woman threw her makeup bag out to Alexa, as she mime slurred thank you. Ambulance doors shut on her, leaving the hunter alone in the street once more.

The club did let her in when she put on a little lipstick and placed her smaller bum bag inside the emptied makeup bag. The club was a vampire's paradise, blood red and black surfaces, plush soundproofing on every wall and dim white, almost clinical white lights. All the patrons were dressed in red, black, or a combination of the two but, there was a distinct lack of pale people, every single person had an artificial glow about them. If she looked closely, it seemed no one was completely natural. "There were only 10?"

"Yes according to the heat signature's"

Alexa walked to the bar, not one person had even asked for ID, there it was, she took note of a sign 'free bloody mary shooter with every drink before midnight.' She could smell it from her perch, a pre-mixed vat of vampire blood bloody mary and something else. "Rum and coke." She stated flatly, as much in the tone of a seasoned alcoholic as she could muster, she paid and was served her drink and the shooter. She went to take them away, but "We need the glasses, can you do it now please." The mixologist was polite but had a glazed eyed look about him, apathetic about everything. He must be under something's control but if she complied he'd be safe, for now. She sipped the coke mix, tentatively, he tapped the smaller glass containing the tomato, tabasco, vodka, blood, and I guess a taste would help her identify it. She held her breath and took it all in one, instantly turning up off the seat with her other drink in hand. It tasted grim, not like straight vodka or bad tomato soup but, the substance too gloopy, old and a hint of. She had to release it, the place was full of bodies bumping into her, crowding her, she needed to breath but with the vile liquid sloshing on her tongue she dare not swallow. Oh well two birds with one stone, she chose the biggest most angry looking bloke and spewed the contents of her mouth. Then to add fuel to the fire she glared at him, hoping he would accept the challenge, and ignore that she was female if he was that chivalrously inclined. "Watch your elbows."

"My elbows? You little!" He glowered, fist heading straight for her face, easily ducking she swirled about her rum and coke, spilling a little under his feet. He hit another man behind and slipped on the rum and fell over her back. The other man has a split lip, and looked on with his group of men and women for retribution, at the man picking himself up. Alexa made a smooth escape, dancing through the crowd with her drink, she needed a tactical place to watch reactions for blood. Because she did smell vampire, but so many patrons had had the 'bloody' shooter she couldn't discern them via smell alone. There were a few circling closer slowly, and more joined, keeping their distance but drawing closer as if they had no choice. If Alexa hadn't noticed the appearance of each they would have disappeared into the crowd forming around the fight. One, two, there, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. "Diana are they all in the vicinity, all ten?"

"Yes and they're practically in a circle. Good job." Alexa slipped out her gun and shot at three of them, straight in the hearts, and dove into the screaming crowd. Weaving between the scared, and petrified, as she took her skinny stake's into her hands, dispatching another two unsuspecting vampires looking for the gunman. Another was crouched by his fallen brethren, feeling the wound, digging out the hard wooden bullet, she stabbed him though before he could rise, make a movement against her. "Alexa there's one behind you!" Bahman shouted and suddenly he was there, behind her facing the beast with his silly vampire slaying 'gun.' How had he followed her? She'd been so careful! "How did you? Run, save yourself now." She cried at him. He shot the vampire directly in the chest, "Yeahh. Eat wood bloodsucker." He celebrated, but it was premature his 'gun' had jammed, he rattled and battled with the mechanism. Alexa saw another coming towards them, ignoring her, heading straight for the brave boy, she swiped her legs to force him to trip, no more friends would die on her watch. But he wasn't there, she was on the floor with a vampire equally as confused falling onto her, instinctively she positioned a stake where the vampire's heart would be as it landed. She flipped up, through the post-vampire ash, where had he gone? She was not sane, that was actually a given now, if she was seeing things to that extent, had she been killing humans for the last few minutes? Could she tell up from down? "Diana, vampires?"

"Three left honey."

"Any humans?" She sniffed at the air, but there were too many sent s all muddled together. "None."

"What the!?" She shouted in frustration. They were coming towards her, it was just the four of them in the entire club.

Sarah floated down to help, if she was still human she would have left by now. "Alex, vampires now! Find Bahman later!" She ordered at her confused friend. And oddly enough Alex obeyed her, as if a soldier, taking them out with what Sarah imagined was military precision. She joined Alex in the centre of the ash covered dance floor of the empty club, "You saw him too?" her freaked out friend asked. "Yeah. One second he was here and then the next. Poof. Is he already dead too?"

Alexa admitted to her self she was confused. "Serious question, have I lost it since D disappeared? Because nothing makes sense anymore?" It took all of her brain power to speak and cross over to the bar and collect a sample of the 'bloody mary.' "Well I can prove I'm dead, try calling my mum."

"I might do that." Alexa let that comment glass over her, she never wanted to speak to Sarah's family again.

"But first we find, Bahman?"

"But first we find Bahman. And get this to Diana." She held the small rinsed out tonic water bottle containing the worst cocktail she would ever allow herself to drink. "Here's a thought, Sarah can you fly over there, and check whilst I do this?"

"I can try! I think I can get further and further from you everyday."

"Is that a good thing or a bad thing?"

"Good for me, enjoy the tube." She flew off though the roof at speed, hopefully in the right direction. Sirens were encroaching, the werewolf escaped the building and, reluctantly headed towards the closest underground station.