Mimi had been asleep for another three weeks after they had returned from the Vatican. The anaesthetic had refused to wear off and Damon had waited for three weeks for Mimi to wake up. Now she was awake and Damon vowed that now they would do something wonderful, something perfect together and have those wonderful memories again. He had seen Mimi's dream world and seen how she and Adam had gotten engaged. Damon knew it would be possible in this world too, if he didn't watch his back. Hauptmann was a viable rival and Mimi already had very deep feelings for Adam. Damon already knew what he was going to do. He was going to make Mimi realize another one of her dreams and he was going to study to be a cat show judge too. And he'll take Adam along for the ride and then Mimi will have to see how real he is, just for Mimi.
I was at breakfast when Damon came up to me and said " Now baby, now let's go after you eat and get us cat judge rights, you too Hauptmann. I won't listen to any objections." Adam grunted, " Yeah when I can't, alpha crises and Bran can't get them all done." Damon was silent for a moment and said " Well at least I tried. But fine. You go be Bran's little lap poodle while my wife and I get out of here." I finished my meal and we left. We picked up our licenses in New Jersey and took Damon to our mansion, I showed him the doorjambs and he was very impressed, he was old enough that he actually knew what they meant. He asked me for more gold and did quite a few more fancy engravings on our doors. They were protected, so the gold couldn't be pulled out. It was great when our front door had a beautiful decorative letter S made of real gold. Damon was good with his hands. I had been baking at the time and had 10 filling cakes to fill so thought I would just pull a very simple topping on them before. Now I didn't decorate in any fancy way. I'd had some practice in the bakery and when we'd been in Europe I'd been to cake decorating school for two weeks so I knew some of the techniques, but as they were so slow and laborious and these didn't need to be so fancy.
Damon came into the kitchen and saw the cakes. He walked over to the table and grabbed an icing bag and got to work. Oh, this one can surprise me. He made a piquer with which he made the most wonderful decorations and buttercream, again decorating each cake, as a professional, and he probably was at some point, I had been working hard on my chocolate work and I put out the bonbons. Passionfruit and strawberry champagne was the flavor. There were a couple of cotton candy and Damon managed to lure out the Mimosa but again, no Mirella. Mirella was shy for some reason when Damon tried to get her to come out. We got our judging rights in three weeks and then we were again put into different shows but always in the same state. We bought our own cars again. I had a peach-colored Aston Martin, a sporty one, and Damon I think had a Mercedes Benz SUV. I didn't pay that much attention. We were on a cat show tour for six months together, so again maybe a total of seven or a little over but we judged cats all over America for six months.
Once again we fucked furiously every night, all night, and by God, if we had a day off at the same time we couldn't get out of bed. Oh how nice it was when we were all sweaty in the morning and Damon said " Baby, I'm going to go make some coffee so we can have breakfast and maybe go to the store today." I was waiting for Damon to get out of bed and I took or let the sheet accidentally fall off while I was stretching and supposedly didn't notice that Damon hadn't gone anywhere. Let's just say we didn't go to the store when Damon came back to bed and kissed me passionately. He turned me on all fours and pressed down on my upper torso and began demanding submission and surrender at the same time sinking into my ass slowly, hard, thick. So that the tightening and burning was almost too much. Even when I was a little bitch. Yes, I always submitted and surrendered. There was no doubt about it. Then he pushed right up my ass and started fucking the little bitch the way he wanted to and the little bitch had nothing to say about it. The little bitch just takes it all in and enjoys it. Oh yes, yes this little bitch was pretty much in a wild heat almost. Damon said I was impossible when I seduced him back to bed, but what can I do to myself? I'm just a naughty little bitch.
We had such a great time again for six months, snuggled up on the couch in Chicago watching Gone with the Wind, Damon said he's always been crazy about the leading lady, Vivien Leight. But then he let his hands do the work again, oh Gone with the Wind never felt so long when I had other things on my mind. We did chocolate work together, and of course, Damon had to shine. He made everything so perfect and said to me very smugly "Eternity baby, that's a long time to study, you'll get the hang of it one day. You've got forever to study." Damon was very uptight at first about the fact that in the dream world, Adam had proposed. I didn't say much about it because if Adam proposed, yes it would be my answer. Then we were going to Texas and when we got there Bran was there to meet us. He had a use for Damon again and I had three different PR gigs booked, two weeks each and all over America. They were top bakeries and one chocolate place. Fuck, Bran always had a knack for tempting. So Damon had to go to Europe with Bran to meet new elders and I went to tour America. Adam was also touring with Charles in the problem packs and there was always a bit of culling to be done.
The gigs went well. Again, I learned new things and most importantly, I did. As I said, this is the kind of job where you get better by doing. Sure it's an advantage to have a deft hand like a surgeon but experience. That's why I worked such long days when I could and did everything all the time. Even chocolate works because you just have to be persistent and do it enthusiastically and hard. After six weeks I looked at a bit of the flea work and it looked like I needed to go out on the road a bit. I went after Sark's establishments and I always put a team together. We carefully went through every item. I considered all the options and got the best safety equipment and even then. After every gig, I had to go to Lake Lanier to carve up more names on the slab. Either it was a problem that for some reason the timing didn't go right and then a guard got a shot off when he was in the wrong place, or more commonly. I didn't know about all the guards and some facilities had panels on the walls that the thermal camera couldn't get through. I was planning another job. Now there would be ten of us again and me this was a Sark facility and there were over 400 victims here so this would be a fucking good rescue. We would go, me, Ruby, Sapphire, Mike, Monroe, Mark, Nicky, Rex, Matthew, Andy, and Penn. Now since there would be so many to rescue Mark, Mike, and Monroe would be the destroyers Penn would be our driver Ruby, Sapphire and I would be the rescuers and the rest would be the movers. This facility would go down. I had planned everything with my team down to the last drawing and we were ready to go on the job when Damon called and said he could come along.
But now I had the problem of whether I could trust him. But it would be a pretty quick gig and if I don't tell you too much in advance then maybe then. I told Damon where we were going. He said " Baby, I know you have a trust problem, I understand that and I'll do what you say. I'll be in the car." I said " Yeah you don't have to be in your car, I'll tell you where I'm going. You have to do what I tell you if it's not too much." Damon grunted at your response. Oh, I think those grunts are so damn sexy sometimes. and I wonder if I'm getting heat or if I'm just over-excited. I don't know. We were driving and I could smell the passionfruit next to me. Damon was all tuned up and he had put on his protective gear too. I said " You can't use vampire speed until you're sure there are no tripwires anywhere. Mark, Mike, and Monroe will make sure and then we'll get in. " Damon nodded.
We waited at the edge of the woods while the exterminators secured us access to the facility. We went inside and Damon walked beside me until we got to the sixth floor where the victims were. I went to the first bed and it took me a moment to realize what was wrong. The victim was dead. Everyone in this room was. They were still warm and I could smell the poison. Then I saw it. In each victim's drip tray, in the infusion pump, was now an empty little bag. I asked over the microphone. "Flea here, is there anyone to save.?" Sapphire and Ruby said "No, everyone has been killed, just as we were about to come in. These won't be dead long." Oh fuck. Oh fuck fuck. I completely restrained myself and took out my camera and filmed each victim. Sapphire and Ruby were filming theirs. The exterminators did destroy everything they could find, but the facility had been evacuated and all the information and many of the drugs had been taken with them. The victims had been killed.
We were on our way out when the first shot was fired and Mark fell. Oh fuck, there's someone on the roof. I sprinted at vampire speed to a better spot and started shooting at the roof as best I could, there were three shooters and I gave cover fire as stealthily as I could, I watched as Damon dragged my team members into the woods to safety. I got two of the three shooters killed eventually I ran to the edge of the woods myself. I said, "What's the situation?" Damon was crouched next to Ruby and said to me through my head " Sorry baby, I couldn't save everyone. Ruby, she'll be fine, she got my blood, and so did Mike and Monroe. The others. Seriously, Mimi, I don't know how you can do these gigs if it's this fucked up." I was silent and went to see for myself the fallen members of my group. Well at least these would get a funeral and these all had someone or someone left to mourn. I knew that Ruby would be inconsolable when Sapphire didn't make it. They were a couple. Closer together than I'd ever seen anyone be. And now it would be another job for Lake Lanier. But that's the price you pay when you start to get good enough to do something. We were all willing to pay that price but I never had to and couldn't pay it. I was always what was left. We packed the bodies in the car and drove to the base. Penn took the bodies to the morgue and I again started updating the database of who died and when. I set up the financial settlements and made the necessary phone calls. Damon sat on the couch without saying a word, just watching me work. I could still smell the passionfruit. I said to Damon. "I'll be back in a couple of days, I have to run an errand. I'll let you know when I'm back." Damon got up and came over to me and said " It has to do with those you lost, doesn't it? Please, baby, let me be a part of this. Let me experience what you've been through for probably years now, who else would you tell? Please. " I thought for a moment and said " Fine, I'll meet you here in the morning at 6 o'clock. Drive ahead so be prepared." Damon nodded and got in his car and drove to the house. I stayed at the base all night I informed the others and thought and thought. Then I came to the conclusion that those snipers on the roof had set off the poison on the victims. The escape tunnel that we found, well there had been some kind of train, a fast train, that Sark and the others had used to get away.
I ordered flowers for everyone who died and I would take them on the way, and the baskets included gift cards. I always wanted to take them personally if at all possible. Now there was. It was six o'clock and there was no sign of Damon. I waited until 6:30, but still not. At seven o'clock I called. His phone was answered by someone called Tiffany and I could hear in the background another girl saying " Push it, Damon, up to the hilt take it and fuck the fuck out of me like you've been fucking all night. " I heard Damon groan and listened to probably a minute or two of sex sounds as Damon seemed to ask " Who's there sweetheart bunny?" Tiffany giggled and said "Some woman, didn't say her name. Hang on, I'll ask." Tiffany came back on the phone and asked " Who are you? What do you want with my Damon? I don't share but if you ask nicely..." I was quiet for a moment and said "Tell Damon that his wife Mimi just called and said she was going on that trip that Damon was supposed to go on yesterday, so alone. Mimi-WIFE. You got it, sweetheart?" Then I hung up and gathered my supplies and went for a drive.
My trip took a week. I went to update the stone slab again, bought another piece, and put that one away too. I went to each of the relatives for more coffee and a chat and took the flowers. Then I went back to Murdock and told him what happened. He said " Fuck those new armor-piercing bullets. There's no armor that's going to help and those guys on the roof had a ghx-156. That's a new method of protection, against drones, even satellites. This has been a blow to you. Straight to the face fuckery. They could have killed you as soon as you went in, but part of the job was to find all the dead. " I agreed. I didn't go back to the house, Damon was doing whatever he was doing, and Adam was still watching the packs. He'd been doing that for a while.
I kept up the killings while Mimosa gave me a big list of things to sniper. I was in Kansas and I was at our base when Damon walked up. I'd been doing gigs for three weeks and the list seemed endless. But then I remembered all the dead ones and I kept going. Damon came up to me and said "I'm not going to explain because it's not going to help anything. Nothing. But please, baby, come by the house sometime. Let's do something together. Let's bake, and rest on the couch. Let's just be. " I sighed and looked at my husband. I said " Did you know what I was going to do? I went to write on a secret stone slab the name and date of death of each of the deceased. I've written the name of everyone who has died at fleas. Not much more than that. I also went to the relatives of all the dead people to deliver a floral tribute, and a gift card, and to talk and have coffee. Now I have to get busy. Now I really don't want to just be. Now is the time for revenge. For everyone. That's not how you act. I know that. Maybe it's because you're older, or more of a vampire than I am. But this is how I do things now. So I'm not coming to the house now. I'm gonna go do some work. Now leave me alone." Damon looked at me, his expression flickering with regret because he had no idea what I was actually going to do. Of course, it was quickly hidden under his usual vampire façade. His, so what, shell.
Damon sighed and said " You've already had your revenge. Just stop already and come and spend some time with me. Let's go somewhere, even together. Don't be so fucking stubborn. I don't appreciate it and if you don't start correcting your attitude I might get upset. And then there's no point blaming me if you end up in medbay." Oh, fuck me. This one even bothered to come and threaten me. Fine. I'll show you. I sighed and stood up. Mirella had taught me a few new things and I thought I'd try them out in practice. I went and wrapped my arms around Damon and looked him in the eye. I could still smell the wet dog. Really. Fine, I pressed right into him and grabbed his hair, and pulled his head to kiss him. He didn't resist but the kiss was cold. So this one had already decided to do something to me. Me first. I used my new grip and crushed Damon's neck in one swift movement. I laid him down on the couch and got some anesthetic from the medicine cabinet that works very well on Damon and gave him a big dose. Then I called the magnum to come and I explained or actually showed the camera the recording. Magnum promised to deliver Damon far away to calm him down a bit.