Jane could only watch as the now revealed Golem associate walked slowly around the fountain. Her eyes landed on Renee and Jane felt sick; the 16-year-old girl lay there in blood soaked waters choking, still flailing around helplessly. Jane knew Renee would survive to make the transformation; Alec's venom would make sure of that.
Jane could clearly imagine the pain Renee was going through…she had to get her away from here, some place where she could transform without interference. But where could Jane possibly take her?
Alec had said to Jane, 'collect enough to pay your debt' which confused Jane. What debt? And for that matter, what was she supposed to collect?
The Golem associate was standing right behind Jane. When she realized this she said, "Will you please pull this damned cross out of my back?"
"I'm sorry what was that? I'm a Golem mercenary…I don't tend to unfix someone, after I've fixed them." The mercenary said.
"You're a mercenary? Why are you really here?" Jane said suspiciously, "I can tell by your body movement, and accent, that you are American. Why are you on the other side of the world, in a foreign country?"
"You ask too many questions." The mercenary said. Jane couldn't turn around to see him, because the cross blade was still stuck in her back, and the top of the cross was holding her in place.
Frustrated, and feeling more than a little annoyed, Jane reached back and grabbed the handle of the cross blade. With one swift movement Jane had not one, but both cross blades, one in each hand and she was facing the Golem mercenary. This was achieved through her instantaneous movement that she had perfected over the years; Jane liked to think of it as her second 'gift'.
"I'll ask you again, freak, just this once. If you don't answer, I. Will. Kill. You." Jane said her tone infinitely dangerous, the Golem mercenary's eyes widened in alarm, "Why are you really here?"
"I was given a biological scent, to follow it and find the person it was attached to." The mercenary said fear now colored his eyes. They were a much darker beige than they were before, "I was sent to find a girl, 16 years old. There were more instructions on what she looked like, but I think I haven't found her. I don't think that girl in the fountain is her, it doesn't fell right…somehow."
"Why did you accept this job? Huh? Did it seem like a sick joke to you, finding a innocent teenager, and killing her?" Jane said with extra venom in her voice. Apparently the Golems' had a resistance to vampire fear, the supernatural feeling any living thing got that warned them when a vampire was near.
"I'm a mercenary alright? I don't question the jobs I get, I just do them." He sighed heavily, "If I don't ask any questions I get paid more…it's my job, I've got to do all I can to do it right."
"What's you're name? Family and kids, got any?" Jane asked, now just realizing she had the Golem mercenary under her complete control. The dominion felt exhilarating, she could control him, and she wasn't using her gift…at all.
"My code name…"
"No! I want your actual name. Give it to me, now!"
"Okay, okay." He sighed for the last time and said, "My name is Zero…happy?"
Jane moved in closer and cut the man's arm with a cross blade. "No I'm not. Answer my second question. Family and kids, got any?" Jane repeated.
"Yes, I mean no I don't. At least not any more."
"Explain yourself." Jane commanded in a voice that couldn't be refused.
"They left me, my wife, my son, my two daughters, and my fucking dog. He left me, my dog!" Zero said his face clearly scrunching up from the pain of his wound now seeping blood down his arm, it ran down the back of his hand and on to the cobblestone.
"Why did your wife leave you?" Jane asked.
"She didn't believe in me…simple as that." Zero answered.
"Why did your son leave you?"
"He hated me. He disliked that my job was to sometimes rob, and kill people."
"Why did your dog leave you?"
"I don't think her trusted me at all. I was never around for him, I was always away due to my job."
"What about your two daughters, who were they?"
"They were twins, weird twins…"
Jane sighed and brought the cross blades up in warning. "Tell me," she said, "about your daughters."
"I don't know why…but they were both REALLY into incest. Other kids played, they 'experimented'." Zero said taking as small breath, and then he launched into his explanation, "One of them, her real name was Geneva, but she called herself Ginger. The other one…well to be honest me and my wife…. When they were born was when my wife and me started a little bit of a falling out. It eventually grew into extreme dislike, but in the beginning it was just something as simple as, disagreeing with each other. We didn't know what to name the other girl…so we let Ginger name her."
Jane smiled mischievously, "I'm assuming it's kind of embarrassing, am I right?"
"No it's worse than that. I can't count how many times I've heard them fucking in their 'room', they didn't even try to hide it. They didn't care that we knew, what they were doing constantly. Oh sure they stopped to go to school, eat, piss, shit, and take a shower; all the other times they were…going at it. I still believe they took shower together. After the first…40 times I pulled them into the front lawn, with the neighbors watching and asked them if they were doing porn. And you know what they said to me?"
"No I don't know, I wasn't there, tell me. What did they say?" Jane asked in response to Zero's explanation.
"No, we just enjoy it." Zero said.
Jane started laughing hysterically, she knew the second daughter, Geneva's twin.
"Why are you laughing?" Zero asked confused, "How's that funny, they're doing incest!"
"Incest is fucking funny, but no that's now why I'm laughing." Jane composed herself and said, right before she burst into hysterics again, "The other girl's name is Fuck Buddy."
