Night-Keepers

Chapter One

Looking towards the Hot Stuff Diner, the first things to catch your eye would the twenty-something year old caramel skinned girl that stood outside, that looked beautiful and normal but she was alot more than that.
Kayla scanned the area, her body tensed, as she went into the diner she was waiting for Thomas, her informant. She nursed her cup of coffee feeling the warmth seep into her palm, watching the steam float away thinking deeply when she heard the voice
"Waiting for someone" Kayla turned and saw Thomas smiling his huge dopey smile and his brown curly hair as he moved his 6ft 4inches self over to Kayla's table.
"Hey" he smiled at her, Kayla always knew that Thomas had a crush on her.
"What's new?" Kayla asked
"The Dhapmir's have signed some sort of truce with the Orion" Thomas whispered bringing his head closer to Kayla, whilst still looking round to ensure that no one was looking.
"They are moving and they are moving fast" Thomas said
"What is the plan?" Kayla said running her finger through her black hair.
"I dunno yet but the Orion Inner Circle has plans to..." Kayla felt the shift momentarily, it was like just a shift in the temperature. However, minute, Kayla knew in that moment she had been decieved. And she lunged at Thomas slamming him down to the floor as a kindjai swiped through the air and pinned on the wall.
"What the..." Thomas heaved
"Well, look like the famous Kayla West hasn't lost all her skills as the rumours state" a man said as he materialized, at the same time about a dozen other men appeared each brandishing a kindjai or katana or a sword.
"I must have lost enough for you to successfull use the Night against me" Kayla said standing up, her body tensing up as she went into full battle mode, her sharp eyes scanning each person accessing their finer points and their weak points without letting her attention drift from the man.
"Kayla, Kayla" the man smirked "You have obviously left those prodigious skills to go to waste, I wonder why, maybe it was the baby"
"Even after being out of the ring for twenty something years I can still take you" Kayla sneered
"If you didn't get the memo" the man sneered "I am currently world best"
"Then the place must have gone to the dogs, Alan" Kayla said laughing, she felt the shift, Alan's anger must have let his hold on the 'reality' of the Night waver. And in that moment, she struck pushing thr dumbfounded and scared Thomas down with a swift kick while simultaneously letting out a telekinetic push to Alan, and as one the kindjai welding men lunged towards her she twirled gracefully hitting him causing him to slam into the wall, she moved without stopping grabbed the raised hand of one of the men, and wrenched his katana throwing it into the neck of one of the men and she broke the neck of the man in her grip. Damn! Did she enjoy the thrill that came from fighting. Placing herself back in the battle stance, Alan looked her though he had recovered easily from her attack she had been faster and deadlier than he had expected.
"Bravo" Alan mock clapped "I guess you kept more than your youthful looks, maybe the streets had taught you a few tricks"
"Maybe" Kayla said, and tried to focus on the energy of the Night around them, and despite Alan's grip on it, she managed to hold enough of the Night to turn invisible and she lunged at Alan but he merely reached out and held her neck
"Ah ah ah" Alan said clicking his tongues as he lifted her above the ground "You aren't as skilled as you think, I..." Before he completed the sentence, a chair slammed into him and he dropped Kayla, Thomas whom had thrown the chair, tried to punch one of the men but a swift kick had him on the ground, Kayla swirled and back flipped and touched Thomas and use the full force of her power to shatter the illusion of the diner that Alan had created, and everything disintegrated like a virtual reality. In the darkness, she navigated them through the darkness and they materialized in a dark alley way.
"What was that?" Thomas asked breathless he was obviously unused to travelling through the Night.
"Alan used the Night to make us believe we where in the diner, and I didn't sense it" Kayla fumed
"You Night-Keepers and your complicated Night, am not sure I understand the Night" Thomas said
"It's a concept too complicated for mortals to understand, no matter how informed they are" Kayla said to Thomas.
"I need to get to my son, if the Orion is ready to make their move he needs to be ready" Kayla said, and lightning flashed and she melted into to the darkness leaving Thomas there once more.
Peter gasped for air as he lunged his body out of bed, taking deep breaths to calm himself and not wake up the man that slept beside him. Tommy? He couldn't remember his name, It really didn't matter, it was just another one night stand. As always. Peter walked to the open air balcony of his bachelor pad, and starred at the city lights while trying to make sense of the Vision, he knew his mother had sent that vision on purpose but why. After all these years, without word or psychic vision from her why now. Peter didn't want to think too much, rather he crept back to the bed and was cuddled by the man, he knew not to let him emotional guard down or seem vulnerable but he loved being cuddled, he tried to shake off the fact that come morning he would play nice and make an untruthful promise to call him, then go out for coffee before going to work. That was his routine, that was his life.
And it played out exactly like that, and he ended up sipping his favourite cup of coffee. Double mocha latte.
"Hey, Claire" Peter said to his best friend and best witch as he walked into his floor of the Department of Investigation of Inexplicable Events
"Hey there, Tiger" she smiled removing a wisp of strawberry blonde hair from her face, as she looked up from the computer in her front. "So how was last night?" She asked wagging her eyebrows suggestively.
"Same old" Peter winked at her.
"Are you going to call this time?" Claire asked though she could guess the answer already.
"Nope" Peter said popping the P
"Peter" Claire's tone took on the big sister tone she always got when Peter did things like this.
"You need an actual relationship or at least a single fuck-body, you need someone constant"
"I got you" Peter deflected
"You know what I mean" Claire said rolling her eyes.
"Nothing is constant except the craving, Claire, no matter what I do it's either I leave them or they leave me" Peter said softly
"Just try" Claire said softly and smiled "For me"
"Fine, you are lucky Tommy is cute as fuck, otherwise I would still say no" Peter smiled at Claire.
"Agent West" a man's brisk voice called and Peter went to answer the call to duty, and Claire watched as he walked away.
Peter was without a doubt one of the finest men she had met in her two hundred years on earth, with caramel skin and soft brown eyes and a soft smile that could make the devil's heart melt. Claire must admit she had been attracted to him when she had started her job here two years ago, but Peter was very clear and open about his sexuality from the word go, but right now they were as thick as theives and the only time they weren't at each other's was when Peter had a 'guest' or Claire had hers. But still, being the were one of the few supernaturals in The DIIE, they kept close at work(Although most people didn't know about them being supernaturals). Claire being a witch and Peter being a Night-Keeper.
"I gotta go" Peter said as he got in taking his brown jacket,
"Why?" Claire asked "What happened?"
"A body was found in Piece Corner, a lot of blood very messy" Peter said and showed her the picture on his iPhone 9, Claire was glad that her two hundred years on earth had made her seen a lot of carnage because a human or inexperienced witch would have thrown up at the picture of the woman whose throat was ripped open down to her chest
"Vampire" Claire whispered
"I know" Peter whispered back " I want to know why do it so openly, except to send a message or for a show, if so they gotta pay and then tell me why, which even comes first isn't my problem"
"Maybe they were Inexperienced" Claire thought aloud though her voice lacked conviction,
"No this person wanted to do that damage..."Peter said
"Agent West!!!" The man called again
"Find out info, and text me" Peter said and kissed her cheek as he walked away.
Somehow, the real thing was even more messier than the picture, Peter looked at it carefully, he was a trained forensic officer but he didn't need those skills to know what Happened.
"It appears her throat had been ravaged by a beast with extremely powerful cainines" Peter said
"What kind?" The officer asked
"Not a kind known to man, am afraid" Peter said, at least mortal man he thought.
Humans had slowly become aware of the existence of otherworldly beings due to some flamboyant killings and some indiscriminate use of magic by some beings and though the Night-Keepers do their best, to keep the secret of the Night, it wouldn't stay hidden forever, and slowly humans had made peace with the fact that they weren't alone.
"So what do you think?" The officer asked
"There are a billion and one scenarios going through my head each unlikely" Peter said "But this was deliberate murder"
"No shit, Sherlock" the other officer said sarcastically "I thought you were some genius and here you are telling me what we already..."
"Chill will you" the other officer said
"Give us a second" and he dragged his partner aside. Peter scanner the place carefully when he saw a man from the onlookers looking at him intensely, his dark hair flying in the wind. Italian, Peter thought, buff, sexy Italian.
Come aside, a mental voice said and Peter jerked up and the man smiled and walked away. And Peter followed him to an alley way.
"Hi" an actual voice said with an Italian tilt to it?, and Peter turned and slammed him into the wall.
"Who are you?" Peter asked
"Now that's one tight grip" the man said with a lazy smirk, Peter smiled sarcastically and tightened the grip more
"That tight enough for you baby?" He asked sensuously but with a sacarstic feel to it.
"Hey, am on your side" he managed to spit out.

I see Peter as Jussie Smollet, just so you know. Next chapter anytime soon so long my muse is still here, till then read, vote and comment. Xoxoxoxo. FYI, Kayla looks 23 in the Chapter one though she is Peter's biological mother, you know immortality and crap.