Kendra was outside the basement door and stood there quietly contemplating how she should enter, present herself, how hard to interrogate the orc Derrick, and more importantly, should she feed off him as her initiation into the Fae world? The last part about feeding was the only thing off the table, but is was still an option never the less.
Derrick squealed like a pig at that moment. Eric was apparently still trying to extract more information from him but from what Eric told her when they met briefly outside, he already spilled most of the beans willingly, albeit with a little 'convincing'. This already went pretty far up but Eric need a little more time though to find out if there was more. From the sounds the gurgling pain she heard, it was probably a no.
According to Eric, these Orcs are not only in a tight knit gang, they also took money under the table to do hits on the side. Derrick and his now dead buddies skirted the law and intruded into human regions for fun, but also had business too.
They were fucking human traffickers QUITE literally. They trafficked humans into the Fae world to be 'pets'. Kendra had NO patients for them especially after the death of her best friend, Julia at the hands of a Troll.
Kiko was right beside her and noted that she looked a little weaker than a couple minutes ago. The spell was fading. She loved Kendra's pensive but stern look. There she just kept gawking at her until Kendra snapped out of it their eyes meeting. That simple glaze was like a jolt of electricity, and she wanted to look away but she chose to keep her cool like nothing was amiss. However, she SWORE Kennie saw right through her and caught her staring at her lustfully with love eyes.
Kendra knew the show had to go on and wondered why Kiko was too damn quiet. Maybe it was the part about her going away and dying as Eric's wife. Maybe NOT was Kendra's next stray thought. Kiko's gaze was warm and caring but there was something off about it and she didn't know what. Instead she just whispered to Kiko, "Keep you promise to me Kiki about killing me if I try to harm anyone I care about."
"You have my word Kennie," Kiko nodded with a slight bow.
Kendra shoved opened the rickety door and there the blood covered Orc dead panned over to see who came in. He was still trying to process this probably wondering how real this was.
She strode over to calmly Eric and pecked him on the cheek like nothing was amiss. She felt like nipping him for a taste, but she resisted. The urge to feed was getting really strong and from that Lauren told her it would hurt but at least now she'd pass first before that happened.
Kiko was right behind her ready for action noting that Kendra's jaw quivered during the kiss. She was resisting the urge to feed.
Derrick blinked several times clearing his own sweat and blood then muttered with a slur, "I killed you."
Kendra just turned to him and smirked, "I guess you didn't. No matter, you'll be dead before me."
The Orc just got more vocal and grunted still stymied, "I KILLED YOU. You can't be…. Be "
Kendra locked her death stare down onto the restrained Orc and just mentioned to her husband, "Thanks Hero for softening this prick for me. Stand back and let me have a little quality time with this prick?"
Eric jeered Derrick and said turning away, "See? I told you I was easy on you."
Kendra briefly glanced at Kiko leaning against the wall relaxed and just murmured to both, "Sit back and relax, ok?
The orc and lots to say and still slurred since some of his teeth were already missing compliments of Eric. "Get away from me you wretch! I KILLED you! I KILLED YOU!"
Eric took a place next to the assassin and stood by her side. Eric knew that look Kendra had as she grabbed his finger stumps and squeezed hard.
KILL.
He only saw that expression when she was on raids when their team was under fire. If she gave you that look, you were fucking dead. One way or another she'd find a way to get you. Even he feared that look. One time she shot dead someone who surrendered moments earlier. The only witness was him and one other person on his team but Eric covered it up. But it was that look that haunted him since it was also that cold determined steely gaze of some assassins he ran into.
Speaking of assassins, Kiko oddly DIDN'T have the look. She looked calm but she seemed a little worried. He didn't know why he was picking that up. She looked like she was just hanging out with friends.
Derrick kept squealing with Kendra painfully validating everything that Eric had relayed to ensure he was telling the truth but also prodded further.
Kiko just smiled tightly at Eric briefly. She was still digesting that heart to heart they had moments before he started to torture the Orc. He let her know how special Kendra was to him and he knew who she was, an assassin, in no uncertain terms. She saw the distain in his expression, as much as he wanted to cover it up, like she was the lowest of the low. Why he did that was pretty apparent but inferred never the less. She was running after his wife's heart too. At this point it seemed like Dyson was his preference over her. At least Kendra would be Eric's in the very end. Love transcended death she heard and she had to give it to Kendra, she was loyal to Eric to a fault. She had a chance to 'live' as a ghoul, but she ultimately turned it down.
There they were both of there were enemies but had to act like she was his best friend, like she was on his team, but she was far from it. Mysteriously she could see in Eric's eyes that he was struggling with Kendra's choice to die willingly, but that look he gave Kiko was unmistakable. He was STILL probably trying to figure out not really where he stood with her, but if Kiko was even a good idea to have around.
Kiko kept an eye on things and so did Eric for over twenty minutes. Kendra was BRUTAL. Eric may have better torture techniques but Kendra took it a step further, assassin style. She was not only torturing him, she was cauterizing his open wounds with red hot rusted machete that was heated by blow torch. He nearing the point he was praying for death yelling out nonsense until he threated in no uncertain terms that he'd call a hit on Eric and his entire team which included Kendra's too. If that wasn't bad enough, he listed off all of Eric's brothers and sisters and Kendra's parents too.
"OH SHIT," Kiko muttered under her breath knowing full well that the pain was coming. That was NOT a smart move for the Orc. It was one thing to threaten Kendra and maybe even her husband Eric but it was totally different to threaten family with no connection to this.
Eric shoved off the wall and balled up his fists to teach this Orc a lesson, but didn't have enough time to deliver it when Kendra jeered, "How will you be able to tell anyone if you can't SPEAK!" In a flash Kendra lunged into Derrick and sank her teeth into the Orc's Adam's apple and in a flash blood and torn flesh splattered all over the room with large a torn hole in his trachea.
Kendra just wiped her mouth and wanted MORE. This fucking low life Orc not only crossed the line, he tasted GOOD.
Kiko just stayed calm like nothing was wrong but Eric started to look on in horror with the Orc doing forceful gurgles writhed in excruciating pain. A few minutes later with Kendra torturing her victim more, she did a high pitch squeak which almost sounded like a hiccup but it was anything but. THAT was the sound that ghouls made when they are just about to dive into a feast.
WAIT, if Kendra feasted, then she'd break her promise to leave at Eric's wife. Should she stop her form feeding was the question. She took a leap of faith and stood next to Eric and told Kendra who began to lick Derrick's broken fingers.
"KENNIE, No! If you eat any more of him, you will… stay.."
Derrick's eyes bugged out in primal fear trying fruitlessly to break free. That sound and what Kiko just mentioned. Kendra was now somehow a GHOUL.
Kendra snapped her gaze at them hissed back upset, "Back off! This fucker is going to FEEL my pain!"
Eric knew that look too and it was best to back off.
Kendra took his finger slid it into her mouth and bit down slowly making doubly sure Derrick felt the pain of his already broken finger being slowly severed from his hand.
Tamsin walked in right as the show started asking Lauren who was standing by outside to wait. She knew Bo would wake up any moment now, and stowed all her gear in a nearby overgrown bush. That way after Bo begged her and promised no retribution Tamsin could 'save her' modesty. She LOVED a modest succubus since it was so like Bo to try to be normal. Also for some odd reason she loved to toy with the all-powerful unaligned succubus.
Derrick could say nothing since his vocal cords were already ripped out but he jerked haplessly as Kendra worked one finger at time.
Kendra didn't know what was going on but loved the taste and wanted MORE, but how to do it was the question.
SLOWLY with as much pain a possible, working on the next finger spitting out the bones of the former one. No one fucked with her family which included her team.
Kendra was on to the next hand when all of a sudden she did another high pitch squeak and then filled with contempt and anger but also driven by her nature tackled the Orc aggressively to the ground in a flash who was still tied into the chair, ripping its legs off the ground which Kiko had bolted to the floor earlier.
The Orc tried to scream for it life, he knew he was dead and he felt pain in his right bicep with Kendra sinking her teeth into it and then with a violent back and forth motion ripped it open. Blood and flesh were splatter everywhere.
Eric never saw this before and WAS now scared of Kendra. He backed up a step but Kiko stepped forward and hooked his arm to prevent him from doing so.
Kiko knew she needed to stop Eric from fearing Kendra, his wife. If he did so, Kendra might find him as her next meal. She leaned in toward his ear and sternly said, "It's OK to be scared but FEAR is a choice. DO NOT FEAR your wife or else she may TURN ON YOU. UNDERSTAND? I have promised to KILL Kendra if she turns on you or anyone she cares about."
Eric nodded and did his best, but queried hesitantly jerking his arm back but asked as Kendra ripped Derrick arm clear off, "How do you know she hasn't lost herself already?" The Orc was unfortunately still conscious. His best bet was to go into shock and die.
"She is in there. TRUST that she is," Kiko set her gaze on Kendra rampage, the floor quickly filling with a pool of blood.
"Is this some ploy to get me killed Kiko?" Eric questioned her loyalty while Kendra ripped open on artery in his other arm and out of the socket it went.
Kiko knew what he meant and turned to him even though Kendra ripped open the Orc's shirt and dove in. "My HONOR and WORD is everything to me."
"Yea right," Eric finally cut to the chase knowing Kiko's record. "You waxed operatives and agents that got too close to you." Kendra was now tearing away at Derrick's liver. It was when Derrick just went into shock and death was going to follow. 'Lucky' him. Kendra could have made him say conscious for longer.
Kiko quipped, "The operatives were DIRTY to some degree and you know it and as for the ones sent to bring me in, their mistake. I had to right to defend myself."
"Uh huh," Eric dead panned to Kiko with a look that was a combination of disbelief and disapproval.
Kiko just cut to the chase not wanting this line of conversation to go any further, "SHE IS YOURS until you go to sleep tonight. DON'T make this any harder for Kennie than it already is. She is GOING to be in the Fae world now and I RESPECT your relationship with her."
Eric never heard anyone all his wife 'Kennie' before. It seemed that it was a pet name which meant that Kiko and Kendra were close already. WTF.
Tamsin heard Bo over the link but also heard this exchange or lovers spat over the loud sound of Kendra ripping the now dead Orc's rib cage open. "Cool it guys. Hey Eric, Kendra is NOT a succubus. She will most likely distance from both D-man and Kiko."
Eric just grumbled, "But Kendra has no idea Kiko here wants to ….. "
"Just say it, 'Jump her bones' or better yet 'fuck her'." Tamsin crinkled her nose and then pinched it closed when Kendra devoured the remaining part of liver but the heart was next.
Kiko was always direct and addressed this impasse head on and quipped, "FINE. I'll tell her my romantic interest in her first chance I get."
That was the end of the conversation which Kiko in true form ended it quickly like she did her enemies. But Kiko now had deal with HOW she was she going to tell Kendra this news. Kendra in no way knew she had feelings for her. It was better to get it over with now as oppose to having her discover later. Kiko essentially was about to out herself.