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

It's All New

Sam is next up to be on the receiving end of calling on Morgan and her family for help. Sam had no idea what depth of resources he was calling on when he told Ken to come here. The last either of them knew, Morgan was 'merely' the best Homicide cop they ever saw, met, or heard of. She still is the best, but now she is married to the Crew secretary, and semi-engaged to the head of Crew.

Vampires may not have kept records down the years, but that is not the same thing as not being plugged into every government resource there is. FBI, CIA, NSA, Secret Service, and on and on, If it's something the US government knows about, we can get to it too. Advantage of lots of long-lived women plugged in all over the place.

To stay hidden, Crew has upped the amount of connections all across the world. Since Denise assumed leadership, she has increased that penetration. Since I assumed Crew Secretary, I have supported her, and we have put into place a better cross-training program as part of Boot Camp, to bring along new Crew and let older Crew move around more. The results are amazing and in a very short period of time. Denise started a lot of these things, but now they are on steroids. Victoria looks at my budget, our outcomes, feels safer from humans because we are, and says 'Carry on'. That is not even surprising: Victoria had the vision to see that Crew needed Council level representation like this.

It just should have been Denise: not me.

Helen smirks. She does not say 'I told you so', but she is thinking it. She is not wrong, exactly, but she overestimates my part in it. I am merely an enabler. A sounding board. Denise, Anne, and Luciana are who are making it happen.

I still like nothing about being on Council other than knowing its better than not being on Council.

With our control of Sirens via the Siren Assembly, and all the resources they have plugged into Law Enforcement, we can see, and even better, hide, all the things we need to.

The Sirens did not enjoy giving us that global access, but they had no choice, and we have not abused it. We have allowed them to go on doing things as they always have, more or less. They still have open mike night. We just forced them to only sing to female Sirens now. It's making their songs better: female Sirens are harder to seduce.

It makes Siren Halls easier to stay hidden from humans too. NO pissed off human women angry they got pregnant at open mike night. The song does not last forever any more than Vampire Pheromones do.

We used nothing like the resources available at hand to find Cherlynn. That was good old-fashioned detective work with some tech at the end to connect the dots. This is a much older trail. Two daughters gone from Sam's life since they were tiny.

"Why did Sam let them go like that?" I asked Morgan as she prepared to dive into the problem.

"Guilt over failed marriage. It is really hard to be a Cop and have a solid marriage. It is worse when you make bad spousal choices: When you select sexual compatibility over other things. I picked you not only because I am sexually compatible with you. I picked you because you and I lock together like hand in glove mentally and we have sexual chemistry."

"You think?" I teased.

"I do in fact think. That was something I was missing with Ken. I could not tell you why. The sex was good. It was not you and I. Not Jessica and I. Not Denise and I. Not Helen and I. Each of those is different, but ultimately satisfying in the odd place where the mind and body connect. I'm VampHet so you most of all. You and I work because our minds and bodies align perfectly and in the exact way that I need, want, and in some ways, live for. What I wanted my entire human existence. Sam only had bodies with his first two wives. Nothing mental. All chemical attraction. Textbook fucking. That never lasts. When his two wives left, so angry and hate filled, Sam took it on as his fault. It was his fault: He chose poorly. It also was not his fault because he was not brought up to know better."