Tarot Tells All

CHAPTER 7

Kay appeared in the living room, or as Mark would call it, his sitting room. The church house was dark, only the light of a quarter moon was peering in the halls as she tip toed up the stairs. She thought that Mark would be awake, the man never sleeps or at least not often.

She opened the bed room door and say that he was infact passed out on the bed with Cerebus sleeping on top of him. Reaper was asleep himself, still sitting on his perch at the head board. Kayla laid her bags down by the desk in the far corner and placed her coat on the edge of the bed, she tipped toed around the bed to see if Mark was really asleep.

From the look of his closed eyes and calm expression, he was fast asleep. She looked at him puzzled for a moment, he would have heard her come home if he wasn't in his kind of sleep. Reapers don't sleep, she remembered, even though Kane could fall asleep almost anytime, but Mark was different. She had only seen him sleep once before, and that was after he had used a lot of power.

Kayla grinned, she wasn't tired and she could spend some time in the library until she felt tired. Then she could just crawl back up here and into her Reaper's warm arms, or cold, it depended on the moment.

Kay tip toed back out the door, but this time Cerebus hopped off her place on the Deadman and trotted out the door with Kay. She smiled at her new kitty, the cat mewed with a silent meow at her.

Kayla placed her finger on her lips at she starred at the cat, hopeful the little undead kitty would get the idea. The cat followed the witch to the main floor and across the large sitting room, just past the door that lead to the basement where the other half of the Brothers of Destruction slept. Kay could hear the loud snoring of the giant that stayed in the bellows of the Church walls, he left the door open tonight.

Down the hall was the giant double doors of the library, Kay loved this room so much, it reminded her of an old Library back in Italy when she did her training there. The room was large to house millions of books, Kay looked in wonder as she opened one of the wooden doors and looked around. The cat just walked in as if she owned the place and found a nice soft spot on a cochin of a chair.

"Light…" Kay whispered, each unlit candle in the room began to glow with a bright flame as light came into the room.

Kayla walked around the tall rows of books that were neatly placed on the shelves and all alphabetically placed. She giggle a bit, Mark would deny that he craved organisation. At least it had made things a little easier to look for books. Kay looked at the second last row on the far side, it felt like forever when she finally found the books she needed. The witch pulled out three large leather bound books, they were heavy as she narrowly missed dropping them before setting up at the long table in the middle of the room.

She sat down at the table and grabbed one of the old tombs, she began on the front page and slowly made her way into the book, reading to absorb all the info she could on these kinds.

Kayla herself didn't know much about vampires, except just the necessary who to kill them info. She remembered that there were some classes back in her days as a student where a Slayer was teaching for a few months. Kay was never interested in Vampires, so she never went to any of the classes. Now she regretted it, she could use that info right now to find out why there were two vampires hanging around the WWE. She didn't think they were here for a vacation.

She kept on reading through, there was so much to the undead than she thought. They gathered in tribes called Covenants, similar to her Covent. More information gathered in her mind as she became absorbed in her work. Kayla loved the research just as much as the hunt. Matron Shallow said once that Kayla's spirit animal should have been a beagle or a blood hound, just because Kayla never let go of a scent once she's got it.

But Ravens were very curios animals of many things, and they liked to know more. Reaper himself, her familiar, had a habit of putting his beak where it didn't belong just because his curiosity got the better of him. Once he wanted to know what was behind the big freezer door and flew in as someone was coming out. If Kayla hadn't heard his cried mentally, he would have ended up a frozen bird pop.

Kayla became more intrigued as she read on about the change, how vampires were turned into the dark and grisly visage of evil undead. But it burned in her mind why these two were here instead of hiding, wouldn't it be better for them to hide in their underworld of darkness instead of living on the surface of mankind and getting the attention of a wandering Slayer? A Slayer was very hard for a Vampire to kill, why risk it?

"Vampires, Kay? Don't you think that's a little below you?"

It took Kayla everything she had not to scream at the top of her lungs for the fourth time today, it was a good thing she had no health problems or she may be dead by now with massive heart failure. She spun around and starred at Kane's laughing face, he had gotten the better of her again, how long was this going to go for?

"For fuck's sakes, Kane! Stop scaring the shit out of me!" Kay kept her voice low but wanted to get something through the monster's simple but deranged mind.

"But I never get tired of that look on your face!" Kane laughed, he looked down at the books, "Why vampires?"

"None of your fucken business." Kayla closed the book before Kane could read anymore, if he knew how to read, "Is there something you want? Like my bones roasting over an open fire?"

"Hey…I like that idea…" He began to smile maliciously, "But I think your flesh is too bony for me, Taker likes his on the skinny side, I like meat on mine."

"You're sick…" Kay felt a little nauseated by his presence and words, but she would put up with the Reaper for her love's sake, and only that.

"Thanks, coming from you I'll take that as a compliment. So, why are you down here all alone instead of upstairs fucking my brother's brains out?"

"You know, you have a talent for turning something so beautiful to something crude and ugly. How do you do that?" She leaned against the table in frustration.

"It's a gift." Kane grinned, "But seriously, why are you down here?"

"Like I said before, it's none of your business."

"Fine…" Kane began walking away like it not longer mattered to him, "…keep your secret, I just won't tell you what Taker's been up to tonight…"

Now he had her undivided attention, "What? What do you mean what he was up to?"

"Oh…nothing..." Kane turned around just before leaving and grinned, "I saw him playing with a pussy just before he passed out, thought you should know."

Kayla starred at him in utter confusement, "What? What the fuck are you talking about he was playing with a pussy? What kind of game are you playing now?"

"No game, just thought you should know…" Kane closed the door behind himself as Kay starred in puzzlement.

"I fucken hate him…" Kay said to herself as Cerebus jumped on the table looking for Kay's free hand to be petted with.

Kay began to rub the cat around her head, "Playing with pussy my ass, Cerebus…Mark would not touch another woman if his dead life depended on it."

The cat just mewed, Kayla stopped for a moment at looked at the cat. She was thinking the wrong way about this, Kane liked his games. Mark was playing with Cerebus…but why? Why did he use the full force of his power on the cat? That's what tired him out, he did use his powers, but why on the cat?

Kayla picked up Cerebus and held her in her arms as the cat purred, was Mark trying to get ride of the cat? Make it go into the after life? He didn't like the cat, she had heard him threaten to throw the kitty in a Holy bath just a few days ago.

She picked up the books and placed them back on their selves, he would tell her in time. Right now she had to tell him that she was taking the job again at WWE, but she couldn't tell him the real reason why. Truth be told, his presence would scare the shit out of the vampires, blowing her cover before they would retreat back below.

She didn't want to risk anything right now, and she had Dave as back up, even though he was just a human. No, Kay would be ok, but it was still a good feeling that she could call on her Reaper to get her ass out of danger before anything too bad could happen.

To be continued.