Whew. Stayed up till past 3 am writing this. Hope you enjoy.

Watching

Cat fell back into the book shelf and hit her head on a book she had neglected to push back in. She cringed at the sharp pain, but did not take her eyes off the person in the room.

"Who are you?" Cat demanded. She could see it was a vampire. The pale skin, perfect features and of course red eyes let her be sure of that, but how had it gotten in here without anyone knowing?

The girl looked up coyly from the newspaper she had been looking at. Her eyes looked tired and the eyelids seemed to droop half way down giving them a narrowed and almost sinister look. Her hair was long and pitch black and she had bangs that were cut in a very straight line and fell just over her eyebrows. She was wearing a white suit with a white tie, overcoat, and scarf. Next to her sat a fluffy pill box hat, also white.

"Oh hello. I did not see you there. Were you having a nap on the floor?" her voice was high like a child's and it seemed to tinkle like bells.

"Who are you?" Cat asked again, but this time she managed to keep some of the fear out of her voice, replacing it with curiosity.

"Oh I am no one. In a crowd of people I would be no one. So here as well I am no one. I blend in and no one notices the things I do or say," she giggled ferociously, "It would seem that I am just like you!"

Cat stared at her with confusion. She did not know what to say to this girl who seemed to have appeared out of no where and who was insulting her. "How would you know anything about me?" she inched her way along the book shelf towards the doors.

"Oh, I know lots of things," the girl stood up and set her paper on the table. Cat looked at it and saw that it was yellowed with age. She tried to see the date, but it was too far away.

"Yeah? What sort of things?" Cat thought maybe she could trick the girl by keeping her talking while she slowing snuck towards the door.

"Well I know all about you and what you do in this library all day. You're looking for something am I right?" she looked at Cat and waited for her to nod. Cat did and she continued, "You're looking for something that is really none of your business. So far you've only found a bit. I saw the book you were looking at that was about vampire souls. There aren't many books on that topic. You probably won't find any more." She stood up on her toes and walked gracefully on them towards the door matching Cat's pace.

"Well what could you tell me about them?" Cat stopped walking. She knew that even if she got to the door she was no match for a vampire and she had left her guns in her room anyway.

"There isn't much to tell about them. You've read the opinions. I do not have an opinion about it myself. I could care less," she twirled around with her hands stretched out and then stopped short and let them fall to her sides. She stared intently at Cat and cocked her head to the side.

"Do you think you have a soul? You must be interested in that at least," Cat sat down Indian style where she was.

"I am not interested in that in the slightest," the girl mimicked Cat and sat down about ten feet away from her.

"Well what are you interested in then?" maybe if she kept her talking long enough someone would come.

"I am interested in you. You were not only looking for information on vampire souls and creation. You were looking for something much more important than that. Why were you looking for it? Why is that important to you?" the girl leaned forward with eagerness.

"I was just interested in what made a vampire a vampire, that's all," Cat shrugged.

"No! Not vampire souls you twat. The other thing you were looking for. Why were you searching so hard for it? Why do you want to find it?" the girl leaned forward so far that she tipped over and was now resting on her hands.

"I don't know what you mean? What was it that you think I was looking for?" Cat had only specifically been looking for books on souls and creation. She had not really been searching hard for what this girl was talking about. The girl must be able to read her mind to know this. She could not have seen Cat pull any books about it because Cat did not know what books about it to pull.

"You do know what I mean. Your thoughts are so jumbled and unorganized," the girl sat up in a squat and rubbed her temples.

"I really don't know. I was only looking for books on souls and other interesting creatures I've never heard of," Cat did not want to anger the girl, but she did not want to tell her what she was thinking about either.

"Indirectly you were looking for it! I want to know why! Can't you answer me girl!" the girl was back on her hands and knees and was now crawling towards Cat in desperation or insanity. Cat could not tell which.

"I'm telling you I don't know what you mean!" Cat stuck her legs out in front of her in case she should need to use them to keep the girl away.

The book! His books! The books of VanHelsing! The key to everything! The book that tells all that he knew! All that is still known! You're looking for his journals and I want to know why!" the girl had closed the gap between them quickly and was now gripping onto Cat's shirt.

"I don't know! I don't know okay! I don't even know where I would look for those or what I would do with them once I found them! Why are you asking me! What did you come here for! Who the hell are you!" Cat fell over side ways onto the floor trying to get away and the girl grabbed her around her shoulders.

"You must not pursue your desires. The job is meant for some one else. You were not meant to come here when you did. Things have been disrupted. Stop looking for the books. If you continue they may become suspicious and then you will have ruined everything," the girl kept a hold of her shoulders but softened her grip.

"I don't understand. Who are you? Who sent you here?" Cat tried to inch away, but the girl stood up and pulled her along.

"No one has sent me. I am here of my own will. There is another that is meant for the task you have been pursuing. Stop your search and wait. Your patience will be rewarded," the girl finally let go of her, "I must go now."

"Is this some kind of trick?" Cat looked around the room as if she would suddenly see people hiding and laughing at her.

"It is no trick Katherine," the girl leaned forward and hugged her like someone hugs a person they do not know. A cold and emotionless hug only meant to benefit the receiver and not the giver. She let go without looking at Cat and went back to the couch to pick up her hat. She walked to the back of the library and stood in front of the wall for a moment. She glanced back quickly at Cat, "I will see you again if you should decide to disobey my orders." He eyes flashed dangerously and she phased through the wall and was gone.

Cat stood where she was for what seemed like eternity. She tried desperately to process everything that had just happened, but it seemed so much like a dream. She reached back and touched her head where it had bumped against the book shelf. She winced as she felt a lump there. It had really happened. What did the girl want and who was she? Cat understood what she was talking about, but why did she know so much about it and what did she mean there was another? Another who or another what? Why was she so worried about it? There were too many questions for tonight. She considered going back to the party to find Lucian and Pip and tell them about her ordeal. It might even be a good idea to ask Seras about it. Maybe she knew the vampire girl. She decided not to though. She did not want to ruin the party for anyone. Lucian would be disappointed enough that she had snuck away.

She took a deep breath and then walked over to the table where the girl had left her newspaper. Cat picked it up and looked at the headline. It was all in German, but the front page picture was of Nazis marching along the streets. The date on the paper said 1944.

"I wonder what she was looking at this for," Cat folded the paper up as much as she could and stuffed it in the back of her pants and under her shirt.

She left the library and headed back to her bedroom. Even though she had taken a nap for a good hour she felt exhausted. She paused when she passed by the elevator that would take her up to the old dusty tea room. She shook her head wearily and kept on dragging herself to her room. Enough weird things had happened for one day. The last thing she needed was to go up to that room and find some other stranger. A werewolf perhaps or maybe a boggart hiding in a cabinet.

She did not bother with pajamas or even to brush her teeth. She was so sick of everything that had gone on that day she simply shut out the lights and felt her way over to the bed. She pulled off all her clothes and hopped in with just her T-shirt and knickers. She laid for a while in the dark wondering when Integra and Alex would be home. Oddly, she found that she missed them both.

The girl had waited for everyone to be gone out of the house. "She must be watching all the time," Cat thought just before she drifted off to sleep.

And indeed she was right.

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