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"I haven't been out in the sun in almost 600 years, so of course I'm burnt. How could I not be? I should have thought about this. It's is going to hurt isn't it?" Kate scrunched up her face.
"Yup, even with the goop that we have it's going to start to hurt before the sun goes down and likely keep you awake all night long, and make things worse when we go see this other house tomorrow. "Should I also mention that the skin is going to peel off and expose new skin which will also hurt a little?"
She glared at her for that comment. "Yeah, I didn't think so," Irene murmured.
Half an hour later she was sitting wearing only a hotel robe while her clothes had been picked up by the hotel for cleaning. "The sun will be down in about an hour, it's already starting to rise at home isn't it?" Irene asked.
"Should be."
"Meaning we can't tell them what we found or learned. …Oh wait." Irene jumped up and grabbed her phone. "Smile Kate." Irene pointed her phone at Kate who stuck out her tongue when Irene took the photo. She sent it to Sirene's phone along with a text saying "Kate is toast." Irene was grinning and Kate knew this wasn't going to be good.
"I know it's backwards but you should try and get some sleep tonight. I left the goop in the bathroom for when you need it tonight."
Kate took off the robe and took the opposite side of the bed that Irene did and turned out the lights. The drapes weren't closed so she got up to close them to block out what light there was and went back to bed.
Irene blinked her eyes and saw the alarm clock. 2:11 am. She twisted her head and saw that the bathroom light was on. Irene sighed. It was going to take days for Kate to feel better.
Irene found Kate's clean clothes in the hallway outside their room and handed them off. "You sure you want to come?" Irene asked as she watched a naked Kate applying the sunscreen. She hated what she looked like in the mirror. It was her first sunburn, what did she know?
"We just won't stay outside that long this time."
They found their real estate agent downstairs waiting for them. "Have you had time to see the city?" she asked them.
"Unfortunately no, if this is your last listing, maybe we'll make some time," Kate replied, knowing that it was very different today than it was almost 600 years ago.
"That would be good. You should at least see something for a city you plan on moving to," she said and remained silent the rest of the ride.
"Well, this is it." She parked on the side of the road on the opposite side of the building.
"WOW!"
"It's huge Kate, like really huge."
"This was a terminal building for the old trolley that used to be here. This was the end of the line and the trolleys would go around the far end and go back down that way." She pointed back down the road that brought them here.
"It is an all wood structure. When the trolley line was removed, this building was converted into an apartment complex before it was closed. There are still 38 one and two bedroom apartments. Each has a kitchen and bathroom."
"It still has the main room, commercial sized kitchen, library and laundry room. It is in desperate need of repair. A new roof most certainly. The floors will also need some serious work. You most likely don't need 38 apartments so they will need to be demolished. Probably the kitchen as well though all of the equipment is long since gone. It does not have air conditioning. Heating is done by an old boiler that you will need to replace. Also most of the windows are broken and need to be replaced. I'm not sure how much of the building is insulated if at all," she added.
"I still love all the old woodwork. They don't do this kind of work anymore. Still let's take a look." It also got Kate out of the sun.
It had two floors and a full size basement that a part of looked like one of those old horror movies with old boilers and machinery meant for the trolley system that was long since gone. Really big pipes hung from the ceiling and they were forced to climb over other things with dust and cobwebs everywhere.
"OOOooooohhhhh." Kate wiggled her fingers at Irene which earned her a slap to her arm. Kate only laughed.
"What are we going to do with this place Kate? We could put those three from yesterday in here and have room to do it again. I'm not even sure this wiring is up to code let alone anything else."
Kate had to admit that while she loved the look of it outside it was going to take a team of contractors months or longer to make this place habitable and comfortable for them to live in.
"What do you think?" their real estate agent asked them back at the car.
"I love the look of it, but I have to admit it's bigger than we would ever need and it would take every contractor in town to fix it. Plus one or two landscape teams." Kate knew that giant bush or tree or whatever on the end of the building had to go. "We have 4 other people that we will be talking with soon and we'll let you know."
"I look forward to your call and working with you. Don't forget to try and see a little of the city, we like it," she told them.
They found themselves walking towards the ambulance site again since Kate needed breakfast. Everything looked quiet so she jumped inside the ambulance and found it had four blood bags again. She took two of them, jumped to Irene then jumped them to their hotel room.
Kate was polishing off her second bag when Irene asked her, "What did you think of the first one?"
"Only three floors but I don't know how we're going to close those windows with those arches at the top. It had a garage to put our cars into and had extra storage, air conditioning, and exercise room with a sauna." Kate sighed.
"And the second one with all the white tile everywhere?"
"Hated it. We would need to gut every room in the building to get rid of all that tile and it was the smallest of the three from yesterday. I think we can take that one off the list."
"And the one that was all concrete?"
"It was unfinished meaning we could make changes and get it to look like we want it to. We still need to close up all of those windows and it was the biggest of the three. 1405 square meters is what, somewhere over 15,000 square feet? My old house with 12 bedrooms was 6 floors plus a basement and it was only 12,000 square feet. And I know you love having Harley Davidson right behind us. With parking being the way it is, it's actually is a good choice." Kate noticed that Irene was holding her own hands, grinning, and practically bouncing in her chair.
"I suppose if we had only sent you like we had planned, I think I know which one we would end up with." Kate was starting to chuckle to herself since Irene really was bouncing now.
"We need to find out how long we would have to wait for it to be finished and then we have to get it furnished," Kate reminded her not that it slowed Irene down any.
"And I still don't feel that good and it's not the skin burn, which does hurt by the way."
"I think I know how to fix that." Irene got up and looked up the number for room service. "Yes, I would like to order two New York Strip steaks, one medium and one medium rare along with one baked potato with everything on the side and green beans with cooked onion and butter on the side. Also one local beer and one glass of whole milk. …Yes, that's right. Thank you." Irene hung up the phone.
"So you do think I'm a stinking Lycan?"
"Nope, but I do know you felt better after you ate it and you did say it was delicious. Plus it gives me a chance to cook for more than just me."
"Please call and have my clothes picked up to be cleaned. I'm going to go strip and slather on some more goop, it hurts." She got up slowly since her clothes rubbed up against some of her burnt areas.
"The sun should be down soon back home." Irene called after her.
"Send them the pictures you took of your favorite place so they can see them before we call them."
She stepped into the bathroom naked. She sighed as she gooped herself up again. She was missing the others, especially Castle.
"Your steak is here," Irene called. Kate put her robe on and went into the dining room. She could smell it even before she got there. She bent down and inhaled deeply. "Yum." She picked up the fork and knife and did her best to cut it into little pieces before eating it piece by piece. She used her fingers to scrape up every last amount of juice on her plate and licked them clean.
"Still think I'm not a stinking Lycan?" she asked because she had enjoyed that a lot.
"Nope, doesn't prove a thing," Irene countered as she slowly worked on her meal. Then Kate's phone rang.
"We love the pictures that you sent. My question is how long until it is finished?" Sirene asked.
"We haven't asked that question yet. We haven't even told the real estate agent that we are interested in it. We only told her we needed to talk to you guys first."
"We have all agreed that we like it, so call her and tell her we'll take it and work out how to pay for it and how long it will take to finish it, Kitty."
"It looks promising mom. We can do what we want with it."
She saw Irene using her phone and could hear her talking with the agent. Kate put her phone on speaker. "Irene is on the phone with her right now," she informed them. Irene muted her phone. "She wants to know what we are willing to offer."
Kate could hear talking on the other end, just not what they were saying. "We have the money and we are suggesting you offer an even $4 million euros and then ask her if she knows an interior designer we can work with," Sirene told her. Irene spoke to their agent again.
Irene muted the phone once more. "She didn't believe me but will pass our offer along to the owner. She also says they could be done in 4 months if we make our changes and pick our finishes this week. Though she is thinking it will be closer to 5 months. It sounds like she is speaking with the owner while talking to me."
"How are you doing Kitty? That picture of you doesn't look good."
"Sunburns hurt, I can tell you that much. Castle, have you been outside in the sun yet?" Kate wanted to know if he could do what she was doing.
"Not yet Mistress, but now that you mention it, we can arrange a safe test when the sun comes up again."
"I'm finding that I can't stay outside too long and I still need blood but I also love steak. I finished one just a short time ago."
"Lord Hunt took some of Castle's blood to have it analyzed. He doesn't know what you have done to yourself either."
Kate raised her eyebrows, thinking that having his help was a good thing. Just that if he didn't know either, then what she had done without knowing it was likely not good.
"If we're going to stay to pick finishes we are both going to need more clothes. I'm having what I came here in cleaned each day and Irene doesn't have much. Plus I'm going to need a lot of blood. We've been making do by getting a couple each day from an ambulance but they are going to catch on soon."
"I'll find you something mom and send it to your phone."
"Thanks sweetie."
"Irene is in love with the place because there is a Harley Davidson dealership right behind us. She's thinking we can all get Harleys to get around on." Kate couldn't help but see Irene smile as she continued to talk to their agent.
Kate could almost hear Castle drooling which had her moaning at what was to come.
Irene finished her call with the agent. "She says we have an appointment with the owner and his contractor tomorrow morning at 10 AM at her office. She wants us to have any floor plan changes ready by then and go over them with the contractor. We can start looking at finish choices the next day and yes, she knows an interior designer we can work with. She's going to call her and see if she can show up at the same meeting tomorrow."
"We don't have a floor plan to look at here, Kitty."
"We do, just how do we get it to you?"
"Also, I don't have a fax machine."
"We don't need one. Mom and Irene just need to scan the floor plan they have and email it to Sirene who can bring it up on her laptop. We just don't have a way to draw changes and send them back."
"You'll have to explain it to us over the phone. I'll have Irene go downstairs and ask the front desk how to do this. Does Irene know your email address?" Kate asked and scrambled to write it down when Sirene told her what it was.
"We'll get that sent so you guys can get started on it. I need that blood location sweetie."
"On it mom."
"And a location where we can buy our own laptop would be good. I can use it to make a bank transfer to make the purchase with."
"Got it mom." Alexis calls out.
"We have things to do so I'm going to go. Call me when you have that information sweetie. Castle, don't do anything stupid. I love you."
"I love you too Mistress."
"Take care of Kitty my love, she's in uncharted territory right now."
"I'm not sure how I'm going to stop a vampire elder but I'll do what I can. …I love you Sirene."
"Take care my love." And Sirene ended the call.
"Find the floor plan she gave us and go downstairs to the front desk. They should know of a way or even have a way to send it. Ask them where we can go clothes shopping tomorrow, since it looks like we are going to be staying here a little longer. Oh, and extend our reservation out to at least a week. You have the credit card I think."
"Don't go anywhere Kate, you've seen enough sun for now."
"I don't have any clothes. I may be free about being naked in private but I'm not walking around outside naked. Besides enough of me is burnt already," Kate answered, and watched Irene leave.
"She really is special Sirene, please don't screw this one up," Kate told thin air.
Irene found the people at the front desk very helpful especially after she extended their stay in the same room to a week. Her room card allowed her access to the business class room that had computers, fax machine and a scanner. So in only a couple of minutes the floor plan Irene had was on its way to Sirene's computer. The front desk also knew just where to go shopping for clothes.
Irene was armed with a map that had a shopping location circled. She stepped into their room and didn't see Kate so she started searching for her only to hear the shower running. Thinking that that was a good idea. She would wait until after Kate was done and wished it was Sirene in the shower instead so that she wouldn't have to wait.
Then Irene heard something over the sound of the shower that had her listening closer, too curious to stop. When Irene figured out what it was she slapped a hand over her mouth to remain quiet. Kate was touching herself.
She listened for a little while before it got to her. She took her shoes off, pulled her pants and panties down, and jumped onto the bed. She started placing her fingers where they would do the most good.
Irene could still hear Kate while she had a vision of Sirene in the shower in her mind as she stroked her lips and gave her clitoris a quick flick.
Kate's voice kept changing as Irene's fingers followed suit, increasing their speed to match the sound of Kate/Sirene.
When Kate screamed out her orgasm, Irene bit down on her lip to keep quiet and climaxed all over her fingers. She kept stroking her lips as she calmed down. GOD but it was just what she needed, however it still left her missing Sirene's arms, her kisses, her hands. But it would do for now.
Irene was sitting on the bed dressed in a robe and nothing else when Kate came out of the bathroom wearing the other robe. "Sorry I took so long; it's all yours now." Kate watched Irene slide off the bed and couldn't help but notice Irene didn't shave herself as the robe went up her legs. It was a fleeting view but it was now burned into Kate's memory.
"Note to self, we need feminine products too on our shopping trip."
While standing in the shower feeling the water hit her body, Irene found herself missing Sirene all over again and was soon holding one of her breasts in one hand while the other worked on her clitoris.
Kate was sitting on the bed with the floor plan and a pen but decided not to mark it up since it was the only copy they had. They needed more copies so that the two of them could start playing with it.
It was now that Kate could hear Irene over the sounds of the shower. "OH GOD, OH GOD." Followed closely by a muffled scream. "We really need to get you back to Sirene and I need to get back to Castle. I don't know if we'll both survive a week without them."
Kate's clothes would be ready in another hour and Irene took part of that time to go back down to the business class office, made some copies of their floor plan, and brought them back up.
They sat down at the dining room table and went over possible changes. When housekeeping knocked on their door to deliver Kate's clothes, they already had 5 different plans scribbled out.
Kate got dressed while Irene played with another one of the copies. She came up behind Irene and placed her hands on her shoulders and looked over her shoulder at what they had done. "Have you reached any conclusions?" She wanted to hear her thoughts, it was going to be her home too.
"I'm thinking this one is the best. The kitchen is tiny compared to the one you had before, but I don't need that much and with this wall of refrigerators, I get the other wall with the sink, range, dishwasher and the island to do my prep work on. That frees up a much bigger living room. We cut down on the size of the dining room to turn it into a space for a movie theater that way we can have two main TVs."
"We turn the secondary living room on this floor into the exercise room. Take a piece of that room to add a long skinny room filled with refrigerators all connected to an emergency generator that goes up against the outside wall."
"We're going to need a designer to do the roof deck, maybe have a hot tub, a fire pit and lots of seating. I was thinking of adding a clandestine zip line over to another patio. You had a basement for an emergency escape last time so maybe an emergency zip line for an escape this time." Irene shared her thoughts. It ended up being sort of a combination of both of their thoughts.
"I like it. I'm beginning to see what Sirene sees in you. You two really are good for each other." Kate kissed the top of her head like she did with Alexis.
"You're not mad?" Irene asks softly.
"About you and Sirene? Of course not. Sirene ended us years ago. I still hate her for what she did but I also still love her. I'm glad she's happy again and if you are the one that makes her happy then I can love you for making her happy."
Kate leaned down till her lips were next to Irene's ear. "Now let's go shopping. I'm tired of wearing the same clothes day after day and you have barely more than I do. Now grab your map and let's get going." Kate tapped her shoulders with both hands and turned for the door.
They ended up taking a taxi to get to their new home and started walking down the street back towards their hotel.
The main shopping areas are located in Pest's City Center. One of them isVáci Street(Váci utca), perhaps the most famous shopping street in Budapest. Designated as a pedestrian precinct, it runs fromVörösmarty Squareto Vámház körút (Central Market Hall) featuring a large number of fashionable shops, restaurants and cafés. Neighboring streets like Fashion Street on Deák Ferenc utca, which links Vörösmarty tér with Deák tér, also offer a great shopping experience. Shops like Hugo Boss, Max Mara, Tommy Hilfiger, Lacoste and Mexx are some of the stores located here.