Slay

[Ashleyx360]

After shaking hands Duncan was suddenly in his car. "How many times is this going to happen to me?" He mumbles to himself. He sees his squad exiting the woods as well. "What good are you lot?" They all come and hop into the jeep.

" Sir what happened? " one of them asked. " Oh don't bother asking, it's too confusing to explain." Duncan replied as he started up the car and headed back to his base camp. He would need a nice cold drink.

 

[MzSeductress]

Annalise went to the emergency cellar to soothe her coven telling them to pack everything and head to the emergency home effective immediately. She would stay here with a few of their security and soldiers to protect their home and keep hunters and rouges away.

She heard as their cars pulled off and was glad they came to some sortnof truce although she didn't fully trust it.

 

[Ashleyx360]

Duncan and his crew returned to their base camp. His men seemed weird, must of been their minds that have been affected by whatever Annalise kept doing. Duncan went inside and got himself a beer and took a seat. He wasn't quite sure what to do next. Would he go back tomorrow or would Annalise 'call' him or transport him? He didn't know. He looked around and saw that their storage container of weapons was gone. "Where the hell did that go?" He thought.

 

[MzSeductress]

Annalise watched as her family went to their safe place and she prepped her security and soldiers for any attack human or rouge. They built gates and walls as well so breaching was not an option anymore and upped the protection of their home so when they returned they had nothing to worry about.

She would summon Duncan in a few days after this was all done with and then they could start their search.

 

[Ashleyx360]

Duncan awoke suddenly and was covered in sweat.He had another nightmare, remembering a past event. He decided he would wait until Annalise contacted him instead of just going over there. Duncan got dressed and drove into the local town. He needed to find a bar even though it was early he needed a drink. To forget about these nightmares that he continues to suffer from often.

 

[MzSeductress]

Annalise had been in town getting a fresh blood supply pick up from some weres who worked it the hospital. She had briefly dated thenpacks alpha until he found thekr mate and they remained good friend. Most of her coven had bloodmates and children but she had yet to find hers.

She stocked the van to max capacity providing food transport to the safe house.She had finished packing when she thought she smelled Duncan in town as well and then saw him enter a bar.

She decided to follow him then waited till he got intoma corner booth in the back before transportimg across from him scaring him a bit and smirked " find anything yet?" She asked

 

[Ashleyx360]

Duncan sat in a booth with a beer and started to sip on it mindlessly not paying attention to anything. His body jolted when he saw Annalise appear out of nowhere. "No I uh have not found anything yet, you?" Duncan asks as he takes another sip of his beer and looks up at Annalise.

Duncan first noticed that the vampire infront of him was extremely attractive. He hadn't realized this in their prior meetings. Though maybe thats because they were angry and both in the mood to kill each other.

 

[MzSeductress]

Annalise shook her head and said " Only that they attempted to steal hot bagged blood straight from a blood drive. But the weres managed to scare them off." She saidnin his head. She knew his mind could handle her communication that way and it would keep their information confidential.

She ordered a drink as well sitting across from him and admiring his features. The man was handsome when he was not making her mad and she noticed he seemed to have something on his mind when she had appeared.

 

[Ashleyx360]

"I do prefer talking you know, it still feels kinda weird when you go inside my head. So do you drink here regularly or is it just because I'm here?" Duncan asks her in a witty tone

 

[MzSeductress]

Annalise laughed leaning back and rolling her eyes " Dont flatter yourself Duncan I come here when I can I actually had a vamps coming of age her two months ago. " she smirked" You dont like me in your head huh? Makes me wonder what's in there. Im speaking to you that way just in case there are rouge wolves here I cant sense any but they are sneaky and can cloak their scent with simple magic and i feel that they are working together with they vamps if we speak mentally neither can hear us"

 

[Ashleyx360]

"Yeah but I... I don't like it. It feels weird and strange when you mentally communicate. So your saying that there are rogue vampires and rogue werewolves working together? Damn that will make it a bit harder"

 

[MzSeductress]

Annalise smirked saying aloud "Fine Duncan we can speak aloud for now but important things we communicate mentally. Changed vampires cannot hear our conversation only original and pure blood vampires posess this ability." She sipped her martini and pryed one more time gasping at what she saw. She didn't want to give herself away. His wife had been killed by her kind and rouges as she suspected by the way of the kill. Now she understood why he wanted to kill . She stayed quiet for a second and noticed bags beneath his eyes. "Have you been sleeping?"

 

[Ashleyx360]

Duncan was staring at the wall when she asked him that question. 10 seconds later he answered. "Uh... No, not really. Why do you ask?" That was an odd question to ask him out of the blue he thought. He returned his focus to her instead of the wall

 

[MzSeductress]

" You seem...distracted....a bit unfocused Duncan...I understand that this is not normal for you... Maybe I should go .." she said sensing he might want to be alone " I have to finish what I was doing anyhow" she said drinking down most of her drink.

 

[Ashleyx360]

"Yeah.. sorry" he finished off his beer. " could I help you with what ever your doing? Would give me something to do instead of being here and doing nothing"

 

[MzSeductress]

Annalise looked up at him deciding that would be a terrible idea. She just wanted to transport their supply safely and finiahe the changes to the Manor. " Umm its nothing major I cant handled. Thank you anyway"she smiled

 

[Ashleyx360]

Duncan looked down and just mumbled "okay.." He then put his hand up signalling for another drink. Duncan would go through these phases of... depression you could call it. Thats why he liked to be on missions, it would keep his mind on something else and not ponder about his dead wife. But on his off time mostly he could not escape the images of his wife. Knowing that she is forever gone.

 

[MzSeductress]

Annalise sighed hating seeing someone down. She decided against leaving and told two security to do the transport for her. She looked at him and said " You know what ill stay... it looks like you could use a friend and im a good listener Duncan"she said looking at him.

 

[Ashleyx360]

Duncan watched as Annalise contemplated her decision. She then remained to stay. He was comforted abit by this notion. " Thank you, I appreciate it." Duncan gives her a half smile as his next beer arrives and he cracks it open.

 

[MzSeductress]

Annalise nodded giving him a small smile and ordering another drink. One tingnabout being a vamp was they had high alcohol tolerance. She could drink any guy under a table before sne got drunk and it was a slightly buzzed feeling.She looked at Duncan and said " Do you want to talk?"

 

[Ashleyx360]

"Talk about what?" Duncan asks wondering what she was thinking about talking about?

 

[MzSeductress]

"Whatever is troubling you Duncan. I can tell your battling demons and from experience I know how frustrating that can be. I know we weren't on the best of terms at first and im still somewhat peeved from what you did yesterday but I am bigger than my emotions and im willing to listen if you would like to share that is"

 

[Ashleyx360]

For a moment Duncan is tempted to tell Annalise about his wife. He never has discussed fully to someone what happened to her. He didn't think he could handle telling someone without breaking down emotionally. " I. .I. No, but thank you for offering to listen. Is there anything you want to talk about?" Duncan asks trying to deflect

 

[MzSeductress]

Annalise nodded knowing he didn't want to speak about it. She could sense his hurt and she reached over holding his hand giving it a light squeeze and a small smile. Annanlise had tons of things to talk about and she saw he was trying to avoid the question. " Depends on what you want to hear?" She said giving a small smile.

 

[Ashleyx360]

Duncan smiled when Annalise touched his hand and held it, it was rather comforting and cheered him up a bit. " Well an elegant vampire like yourself must have many tales, tell me a bit about yourself" He asked