Andros

When I woke, Aubrey was not in bed. I tried to go back to sleep before he showed back up again, but then I heard him talking to Jager.

"Did he fight back much?" Aubrey asked. Jager must have fought his food last night. It wouldn't be the first time.

"Nope. He probably gets beat like that on a regular basis." Jager replied. Odd. He wasn't speaking in past tense.

"Good. That means he'll obey." Aubrey mummbled. I jumped out of bed and stormed into the front room where he and Jager were.

"What did you do?" I yelled. Aubrey rolled his eyes.

"I can't beat you up, but then again, you aren't the problem. Or at least I hope you aren't going to be a problem for me. I would hate to have to kill you." Aubrey said with that irritating half smirk.

"You threaten me?" I spat. I was furious. He had obviously forgotten who had won the last fight.

"Stay away from him. It's not good for you. Why do you think our kinds literally never mix?" He asked.

"Stay in your place Aubrey." I responded my voice cool and low.

Now he looked worried. His eyes narrowed and he lowered his fangs. We argued all the time, but a lot of the time it was small things that would pass and we usually forgot about almost immediately after we got it out of our systems.

"If you two are going to have a death fight, do it when we go back to New Mayhem." Silver said as he entered the room.

"I have to go meet the feeders. Silver come with me. You two," I pointed at Jager and Aubrey. "Make yourselves useful and scarce and start digging. The sooner we find this thing the sooner I can go back to my own bed at home."

The beds here were horrible full sized spring mattresses. I am spoiled I admit, but after years of down filled king size luxury matresses and silk sheets I was very uncomfortable.

If they do anything else to mess this up, I'm killing them both. I said to Silver with my mind.

"I know. I suggest we get a move on."

Werm

I woke to a pounding on my coffin.

I had one Hell of a headache, so I wasn't planning on getting up any time soon.

"Werm, if you don't get your ass out of that coffin, I'm going to nail it shut." Jack.

I moaned and lifted the lid. "What time is it?" I asked.

"Nevermind that. Your little lady friend is here to talk." He answered. Grumbling I got up and into the shower.

"What the hell happened to you last night?" Jack asked. He sounded more exasperated than concerned.

"Aubrey decided I was too close to Andros and had Jager beat the shit out of me." I admitted. Jager would say something, if not Aubrey.

"Girl's bad news." Jack murmured, but didn't say anything else. I pretended not to hear him.

I hurried and got dressed in just some pants and a t-shirt, not bothering to spike my hair back up. I would do that before I opened the club.

I walked with Jack up the stairs into the main club. Andros was there sitting on the bar in a long black dress.

"Took you long enough." She said, then shelooked up at my (demolished) face.

"I'm sorry about the boys. You can be sure that I've spoken to both of them and from here on out they wil be on their best behavior." She spoke as if she was in a business meeting.

"Make damn sure of it. Now what is it that you wanted to discuss?" Jack asked, all business. I sat quietly at the bar. Every couple of seconds she would look my way, flinch, then look away.

"The reason we've come here to Savanah is we're looking for something that coud be a potential danger to us."

"If it's dangerous, why are you looking for it? Wouldn't it be better to just leave it alone?" Jack asked.

"We just don't want it in the hands of any hunters. If we grab hold of it we can make sure no one else gets it." Came a voice from the door. There, leaning on the door sill, was Silver.

I saw Andros swear under her breath and shake her head.

"Go away Silver. I sent you with the other boys for a reason." She looked really mad, like a real vampire (I know it sounds stupid, but that should tell you just how much I would hate to piss her off on the wrong day).

"When I was your age, women didn't have such tongues on them." He said with a smirk. Then, with no real warning, Andros backed off and smiled.

"Either way, what we are looking for is in the marshes. It shouldn't take too long for us to find it and be on our way." Andros continued.

"Whatever. Just no tapping the vein here as we've said. The last thing I need is reports of vampires digging up the marshes, so be discreet. And it wouldn't hurt if you all checked in with us here every once in a while." Jack answered dismissively.

"Of course." Andros said. Then she and Silver vanished. Just like that.

"I'll see you later. I'm gonna catch some more Zs." I told Jack before he could say anything.

Jack said nothing as slunk downstairs and opened my coffin. Then I saw the note. Something told me my sleeping time was officially over.