Category: Serials

  • The Setting Sun

    We laid in my bed. He was holding me against his chest. It could have been more. Could have turned into more but I was still on the edge of a freak out. It don’t take much to push me over the edge. Lack of sleep. Changed up routine. A date. The feeling I should…

  • Small Talk

    We talked. Rather I talked and he asked a bazillion questions. Sometimes he’d ask about something I hadn’t even said out loud. Which was weird, but oddly familiar. It was a vague deja vu moment. He’d come at three and we talked while we ate and around five Alex was leaning against the couch stroking…

  • Linner? Lupper? Hell Food

    “Another question. What’s with all these doors?” We walked farther down the hallway before he added. “You live in a fucking closet?” He asked dumbfounded. “You’ll see.” The rune on my door started to light up when I got near mostly because I willed it so, so Alex could see it. I touched the door…

  • Elevator

    In the elevator I pushed myself up against the back wall, we’d be going up a while and there was always a lot of stop. Alex stood next to me. I wanted to stare at him to keep my mind off other elevator but I didn’t I clamped my eyes shut to keep from seeing…

  • Atlas

    My father knocked me on my ass three more times before we called it. I had enough time to grab a shower and start preparing for my late lunch early dinner. That was also probably part of my problem – I was starving. And my biggest problem was deciding between impressing Alex with a five…

  • Panic Attack

    I made it back to my apartment just in time for my anxiety to hit full swing. And as I opened the door Ophelia sat in front of the door with a fucking dead mouse at her feet. “Mother fucker!” I said and shut my door on the cat and walked away. I walked around…

  • Grocery Shopping

    I was a walking zombie after feeding Armande. It wasn’t that he took too much, he barely had anything, but I was exhausted. Dead on my feet didn’t even cover it. I barely made it through my nightly yoga routine before I passed out on the bed sans covers and everything. I had only prolonged…

  • Vampire Rumors

    The remainder of the day I spent in the archives gathering all the fucking paper files on all the cases I wanted to see. Annabel Dowager had delivered a list of case numbers to Dae’lin and I had to retrieve them manually from the Archives. This would be so much easier if it was all…

  • New Job

    Dae’lin’s office was across the hall from the main conference room also known as the fish bowl. There was another more private conference room but that was reserved for council meetings and high profile meetings. Us peons didn’t get to use it. I only glanced to see what was going on inside. There was a…

  • My Brother

    I got called to Dae’lin’s office. It was a normal call. But she said no rush. So I took my time walking to her office. It was down a few floors and I took the stairs anytime it wasn’t a rush. It was a short walk but I made it last an hour. But really…

  • Vampires, Werewolves and Venatori, oh my!

    I busied myself with work on my laptop. Dae’lin had me doing research on several other cases. She never told anyone who was doing the research or how some of the intel was found. And she never told them when I had interfered. But I had connections no other Venatori had. My father of course…

  • The Ritual

    I sat on the sofa where I’d been when I had called Alex. Now, I sat trying to catch my breath. What the hell had just happened. Did I have a date? The first in over 4 years. Fuck only the third I’d actually been on? Really. My heart was beating so fast I thought…

  • The Card

    I patted the front pocket of my hoodie and pulled out the card he’d stuff in it. I flipped it over and there was a number with a date and time printed on the back, ‘6/19 3PM’. The front was some game place out in Long Island City – a thirty min train ride. I…

  • What’s Your Name?

    Blue eyes didn’t turn around as he shouted his response. “Didn’t I hear it was your birthday? I should be the one buying you a drink.” The music got louder as we both headed to the bar. There were no stools on this side of the bar, standing room only and we both pressed into…

  • Decision: Flit or Aspect?

    Aspect and Flit were across the street from each other and I usually had an easy decision based on what I had in mind for the night. My plans were shot to hell so now I had to decide, did I go to Flit to dance or did I go to Aspect because it was…

  • Meeting Up with Friends

    It was an annual tradition since I was 16. Me, Sage and Mia would all go dance the night away the Friday before my birthday. We’d chosen the hottest club back in the day and it really hadn’t changed much in those 9 years. I missed two birthdays with them and I tried not to…

  • A Day In the Life…

    My heart was pounding through my heaving chest as my eyes popped up at precisely 3:58AM as it did every morning. Ophelia lay on my chest and opened a single yellow cat eye to peer at me before she gave a disgruntled meow as I sat up. “I don’t know why you insist on laying…

  • Therapy

    School is about to start for Laker and Rider. And Nick and Henry. They hit it off, and were still together two months in. Nick still hadn’t told Henry what he was. I’m not sure I could manage to hide it from my boyfriend for long. Stamina was one thing, but the strength, something else.…

  • Comfortably Numb

    Ant took me to the Night Life building. All the way to the second to the top floor. He opened one of the apartments up that wasn’t locked and it wasn’t really an apartment it was a gym of sorts. There were no weights, more a dojo maybe. In the middle of the mat was…

  • Vampire Den

    The pull of the power outside had me walking down the street away from the party. Alone and in the dark. I felt like I was finally free – I didn’t have to put on airs that I was some happy-go-lucky guy with an open heart. I could be the empty shell I felt like.…

  • Going Out

    When everyone else was leaving i caught up with Nick. “Hey. You still want to go out and hook up with guys.” Nick grinned, “Wing men?” I shrugged. “Maybe. I met a guy on the plane flying out to Colorado. I told him when I was home again I’d call him see if he wanted…