Let's just say that the night went okay because I slept, I did feel the injection that Damon kindly gave me but I wasn't quite sure about the Master's own sleep. Bran was supposed to come back in a week and bring Samuel with him so we could start preparing for the gig. The week went all right because Damon had to go away once again. So no teasing- Samuel and Bran arrived and Samuel gave me a thorough health check with tests first. Then he and Adam took me to one of the rooms upstairs and explained the gig. We would go to see one wizard, Constantine, to see if he was good or bad. We would go under the cover of a false identity. I would be a botany student and Adam would be some big boss, we would go together. It's a ball we'd go to and I'd get intensive training in botany at night. So I'd be put in a dark soundproofed room anesthetized with designated drugs and I'd have headphones in my ears with information coming into my subconscious. It's said to work well, especially with pretenders and supernaturals. A week of this and then a couple of days to see if it worked and a party would be waiting. Adam would get me a dress and shoes. Fine interesting.
We would then get to work. As usual, Adam would put me to sleep downstairs usually by 6 pm and I wouldn't wake up until the afternoon. I didn't notice anything strange about my condition but three days later Samuel casually asked his father about a plant and I went and explained the whole history of the plant. So it worked. After a week it was clear that I now knew quite a bit about botany and that actually didn't bother me at all because I've always liked plants and flowers. But I had been taught other things that I hadn't been prepared for. Adam took me to one of the rooms when the party was two days away. There was a table in the room and a gun on the table. Adam sat me down at the table and said " Disassemble that gun, clean it, and reassemble it." And I did. I didn't understand what I was doing at first but slowly the knowledge of disassembling and reassembling the gun came to the surface in the same way as Botany. I knew many, dozens of different guns and how to disassemble and reassemble and service them. Once I had that done I asked the most obvious question " Why, what am I doing with this skill?" Adam smiled and said " That's a skill you can't afford to be without, believe me. I'll teach you how to shoot when this job is over. You won't be such a sitting duck and think if one day you get to shoot a Krycheck to death." I nodded and left to think about it. A couple of days went well and to my surprise I missed Damon. Even though he hadn't been around that much after all, I just felt like something was missing. According to Bran and Samuel, it was the fact that we were each other's biological halves and had an innate need to be close.
It was a party day, my dress was a fuchsia color with a wide tulle skirt, a ball gown. Damon still hadn't come back and had left his phone at home again. Fine. Adam styled my hair and called a beautician into the house to do my makeup. We were ready. I looked at myself in the mirror and couldn't believe it. My hair was red and expertly arranged on top of my head in a fine curly bun. I'd had a little feeding at night so the dress fit like a dream, it didn't hang down on me. The shoes were high heels and I had actually been learning to walk in them for a week. The clever make-up actually made me look almost beautiful. I say almost because I don't consider myself beautiful even with make-up on. Something about my expression is always so fearful and a bit unpredictable and not terribly refined. We took Adam's car and drove there. This was a big mansion and this was going to be some oil company's party. Nobody would probably even recognize Adam because these were all more or less human beings. Just the two of us were walking around the party and dancing. Constantine was definitely a standout though. Blonde hair, a cheap suit, a British accent and always drinking. I also felt his power, as did Adam and Adam had to control himself not to put on his headlights, i.e. let his eyes show what he really was.
Constantine came over to chat with Adam and I went off a little further to walk around and discuss botany. Half an hour later Adam was already laughing with Constantine and motioned for me to come closer. The wizard suddenly looked at me very carefully and I realized that the whole slacker appearance was a very clever disguise. No one takes a slacker like that as a Constantine seriously right off the bat. I went closer to Adam and he said "Mimi this is Constantine, she is good, believe me. " I shook the wizard's hand, but this time I didn't try to break his hand, it was reserved for Damon. I nodded politely and stood while Adam and Constantine were still talking about something. Constantine said to me " Did you know, young lady that you are resistant to magic then? And very much so. Interesting. It would have been better if you weren't quite so immune but, fine I'll see what I can do. I'll contact Dresden and see what the two of us can work out together. 'Constantine sailed away, playing almost drunk and groping several women at the same time. Adam shook his head and said, " Wizards, and those are the ones we should be working with." Adam was very particular about how women were treated and respected, I could clearly see that Constantine's groping had hit Adam right on the nose and he felt like doing something about it.
I decided to create a diversion and went in front of Adam and glued myself to him and grabbed his head and kissed him. Adam stiffened, but only for a moment, and returned the kiss with a passion I hadn't expected. The kiss lasted for ages. When we broke away we both almost gasped. The rest of the party went well. We danced and drank some wine and kissed one more time before Adam decided we were leaving the party. On the way we didn't say anything and when we drove up I saw that Damon's car was neatly parked. Fine no problem. No one ever told me not to kiss if I wanted to. It's a nice thing to do. We went inside and Damon looked at me like a piece of meat. And he smelled like a wet dog again. I knew we all had our own smell and it could change depending on what mood we were in. As an example, I already knew that if a vampire has a strong bloodlust, meaning he wants to drink you fair and square, there will always be the smell of burning ashes. Whoever the vampire is. Nick and Elias have shown me that a couple of times. So that smell comes when Damon's cranky or nervous so it must have something to do with emotion. I actually didn't even know if my strawberry scent would change if my rage was on display. Maybe I should ask sometime but not now. I went upstairs to change out of my dress and nightgown so I could get to dinner. Damon followed and said. "Let Adam put you to sleep downstairs, I'll be on the phone all night so I won't come up to sleep." That's weird I thought but fine let it go then. I changed out of my dress and into a nightgown and went for my evening meal. Damon didn't even feed me, he was already eating and on his phone. The kind I didn't have a number for. But I wasn't even going to ask. When I went to bed I heard Damon yelling to Adam about our kissing, I also heard the front door slam shut and Damon leave the yard with his tires squealing. Adam didn't come in for another hour and I didn't even ask any questions. Adam held me and shot me up almost immediately, I felt him get out of bed before I was even really asleep, but the medicine worked and I was able to sleep even though I wasn't dreaming.
Damon didn't come back for a week and Adam was like a teacher when I was practicing shooting. It was perfectly proper and Samuel had got Damon's velvet in capsule form so I didn't need an anaesthetizer as I took a couple of capsules and went to read and fell asleep without a problem.I just knew that when Damon came back I would continue with the capsules. I don't need him either if two kisses are going to make him so mad.