North American Vampire Council & Past Calling (Hypernaturals 12 & 13)

Rinse. Now.

It turned out that all the things I planned for today, which is mostly to talk to Vera about the Siren world, got done. We just did it at the Hollow, where I kept dousing her in spray to keep her from burning and which kept taking us behind the rock. I never had sex on a nude beach before and now I did it all afternoon and I got in my Siren conversation between bouts of love.

Love. Not sex. Sex is how we 'talked' about it. Sex was Vera supporting me and my hurt. It is not that she did not want sex, it is that she wanted her need to feed my mind and body in that way a woman wanting you does.

I don't know this Vera, but she is awesome.

Since we were parked in the same parking lot, next to each other, we left the Hollow at the same time. Vera and I, therefore, pulled up to the house at the same time. Seeing Angel's car parked already, Vera said "My wife awaits, and I am tuned up for love. Ignore her screams of passion, please. It will be an innocent fanging. God, I love being a Vampire." Vera went quickly up the stairs to their apartment to drag Angel away from whatever she is doing to make love instead. I am sure Angel will not be averse. Angel being Angel will take one look at Vera and start stripping.

After a day of making love, Vera is hungry.

I parked in my designated spot and checked my car for Taco crumbs from this morning. Nothing: I did a good job. I sauntered up to the house. Heard Angel's happy voice upstairs.

Yep. It's on.

I went inside via the kitchen door. Jessica is at the kitchen table, typing away on a computer.

"Hello, Jessica." I may have leaned on her name a bit. Still a bit pissed.

She inhaled as I went by on the way to the shower. "The Hollow? Vera was there?" She asked.

She followed me.

"Yes. I canceled on Vera, but she figured out where I was and what mood I was in. Turns out, out of all the unexpected things, that she knows me and cares. I needed to think about how to deal with how my life just turned into a smoldering pile of Council shit."

"Yes. You made very clear how you felt about your title this morning." Jessica said in a chiding way.

I am not going to take that for a second. Not even from her. I stopped and turned. "Jessica: My name is Adrian. I can wear a name tag if you like. As your husband, you have a wide array of other appellations to apply. Anything from 'Shithead' to 'lover-bunny'. You can use that tone of voice on me all you like and you can act like I am being childish as much as you want, but I will fucking ignore your lovely ass if you call me Councilman or Councilperson. That is how that is going to be, my love. Sorry. I cannot see me, air quotes, 'growing up' over that anytime soon. Not until I can figure out how to extract my stupid ass from the living hell Helen just put me in."

"So Morgan said." Jessica said, still not in the approving range of tones.

"If I had a brain, I would have said 'No' and let Helen go under the political machinations bus she drove over me. But no. Even in Hyper-time, I could not find a path out." I muttered.

I turned to go to the shower, stifling more remarks.

Jessica followed and stripped when I did. She inhaled again when I was naked. She scented my naked body, on the assumption Vera and I had rubbed them together with vigor.

We did. Not a secret. Never good to try to keep them in a Vampire house. Especially not the one Helen kept.

"In an unexpected turn of events, Vera figured out I was going to the Hollow when I canceled our Siren meeting. She showed up, and we had the Siren meeting there instead. So I got to think about my shitty new job and be productive in the Siren world and be at the Hollow. All in all, damn productive day."