Ninovan (Hypernaturals 10)

Sooner or Later

Morgan and I got back to the car first, but Jessica and Angel and her new binder were not far behind.

Vera greeted our return to the tow barge with a mixture of admiration and complete disbelief.

"First time around with these ladies you two sold to them that Morgan is a Saint and you are her pet Vampire." She said. She looked at me. It is a statement and also a question in the form of 'I don't believe this'.

Morgan started the supertanker, and we headed out. She answered. "Yes. We did."

"Did you wing it like Angel and Jessica just did?"

"Pretty much." Morgan said.

Vera sighed. "I try really hard to not be intimidated by super-powerful Vampires and lady Astrals that turn all the Siren heads and such, but then all four of you show you can convince people you are people OTHER than who you are like that? I mean, I bought it, and I was just listening. Worse?! You were both winging it! I live with the fucking Second City improv group, only those ladies don't even know it's a joke!"

Jessica smiled. "It's easy with practice. I have been telling people I am someone I am not for a very long time. I love me some Angel, so adding in that layer was nothing."

"Kind of upside down. Vampires affect me more than I affect them." Angel said, distractedly. Still looking at the book. "Sex so good I pass out. Wake up with my Chakra or whatever it is clear. It's weird."

Vera looked past Angel at me. "You were NEVER like this when you were human."

"Like what? I'm the same as I ever was." I said.

"Like hell. You were never the self-confident, walk up to a lady and threaten to fuck her to death type and have her believe it. You don't see it, but I do. You are different. You are... Deeper."

"So are you, Vera." I said back.

"How?" Vera challenged.

"You have helped us over and over on Vampire / Siren things. You are Liaison behind the scenes. You help other people. You used to be all about yourself. We would go to a nude beach back then, you would worry about people looking at you. Not even because you cared about being naked in front of them, but you were not getting anything out of it. They got a free look. You got nothing in return. You go NOW, I bet you would not care a bit, because the people you want looking at you are already with you, you are not looking to get anything from random other people and fuck everyone else. If you want random sex, you go get it. You scratch the itch and move on. You care. You contribute. You team up with us. You work the phones with your sisters. On and on like that." I pointed out.

"Well... I can't walk up and sell the line of BS you all just did. Fucking intimidating is what that is." Vera demurred.

"You wrote more BS Internet porn than Angel or Morgan when we were setting up the HPA that first time. You sold that. Big time. They never knew which side you were on. Hell, you damn near Vamped your way out of the captivity situation too. Don't even give me that shit." I quickly pivoted to Morgan, "And YOU, Morgan. Do not make that face. That was NOT your fault!"

"It was." Morgan said.

"Goddamn it." I cussed at her. "Just STOP that!"

"Vera was doing more to free us from captivity than I was." Morgan said.

"Because you could have gotten away at any time, but YOU were protecting THEM." I said. "I wanted you to do that. I put myself into that whole damn situation because of that. You had to protect them. That was YOUR mission, whether or not you knew it. I could not live with you guys being harmed. You were watching and waiting and making sure."

I pivoted back to Vera. "... And YOU were amazing. Your stories helped sell the entire story. We got them. It all turned out... OK."

"Other than you getting tortured and raped. Sure. Also, what I wrote was easy. It was only my fantasies, except I wrote them down rather than having them live on in my head. I have a lot of them."

"I liked a few of those." Angel said.

"Oh?"

"Oh yes. I'd love to have sex with you on a car hood or a roller coaster." Angel said. She is still semi-distracted by the book, so I am not sure if her admitting that is intentional or not.

Vera looked taken aback by that idea.

"You harnessed your fantasies and made them work for the story we were selling. That's all we do when we are having a play. Where we really got out of character is when Morgan and I were selling the idea that we would ever give our daughters over to Pierre to be sexually abused. That took some acting. It helped the second time that I knew the pictures were of Helen and Morgan, digitally de-aged. The secret knowledge that it was not children they were salivating over but powerful women that could kill them super dead which made it work. They did kill them super dead."

Vera shook her head, taken away from the idea of Angel wants to have sex with her on a car hood. "Those two back there are part of the sisters that set that whole damn thing in motion. Unreal."

Vera looked out her window for a moment, her expression pensive. "I guess that is a little like the HPA thing. A horrible middle with a good end result. People that needed to die were taken care of. But see, Adrain? That was you. Human you would never do that. It is so goddamn sexy! If back then you were this mix of gentle dude and killer of evil people, I would have skipped the fact that you didn't do the things I wanted you to like take me and screw me raw whenever you felt like it, and married you so fast. I would have been happy knowing dangerous you is in there someplace. Maybe someday you would just ambush my ass and pound the living shit out of me."

"He screwed me that way." Morgan said.

"Me too." Jessica said.

"Yeah, and you both wanted me to." I said, defensively.

"I wanted you to." Vera pointed out. "You didn't."

"Fair enough. I have learned how to be better at that." I agreed.

"You never did that with your new girlfriend." Angel said.

"Nope. She never wanted me to." I told her.

"Good point. I think I will though. Someday. Just to try it." Angel said.

"OK. Well. Hopefully, I will know that."

"Oh. You will." Angel promised.

Vera looked at Angel with an evaluating gaze. "Speaking of someone who has changed."

Angel looked up from the book at her lady love. "Oh. I have. I see things so much more clearly now. I know so much better who and what I want, and how I am going to get her. It starts with the fact that I am going to need to take what I want too. The first time, anyway. And I will. No more hinting around, I will take what I want. She will be mine."

"Jesus." Vera said. Despite the fact that Angel did not name her in that, she knew who the 'she' is that Angel is going to take. Vera's wide eyes registered her reaction to the fact that her body will sooner or later be under new ownership. "You promised..." she said.

"I have not forgotten. We will." Angel looked at me but spoke to Vera. "Sooner or later. I am only changing the order."