Anita arrives back at Guilty Pleasures a little before midnight to find JC hanging around outside being all slimy, he comments that she smells of other peoples blood and because she's a bit of a retard pokes at him by saying it wasn't anyone he knew. He responds with a voice full of dark, quiet rage asking if she had been killing vampires before asking if he knew's that her nickname is the 'executioner' which has to be the clunkiest, dumbest nickname I've come across in awhile.
Not only do we find out that Anita does in fact know that she's got a horrid nickname but that she has 14 kills under her belt, I would make a comment about how that doesn't really seem like a lot but we have no idea how long she's been doing this job for, all I know she only started a fortnight ago and has killed a vamp a day.
JC makes a remark about how she's a hypocrite since she calls them murderers, before Anita can blind us with her amazing wit Buzz appears on set, returning from his oddly allocated break (12 is usually peak hour for clubs) when JC asks if he had a good break Buzz replies with a 'yes master,' giving JC the opportunity to tell him not to call him master. Which I instantly call bullshit on when Buzz stammers over agreeing, since it's been implied that JC has been in control of this club for awhile, and he generally doesn't like his vamps kissing his arse Buzz should be use to it by now, so I think he's grandstanding for Anita's behalf making him look all noble and shit.
After some poor banter between JC, Buzz and Anita. We finally get back into the club, Anita makes another snarky remark about how the holy item check girl was waiting for me at the door. I gave her my cross. She gave me a check stub. It wasn't a fair trade.
Holy full stops batman! Also you have a knife on your forearm, sure it's pretty shit unless they get nice and close, but it's not like you're exactly walking in there defenseless.
Catherine is on the stage, it's pretty clear that someone has put a physic look on her, Anita freaks out while Monica sits and smirks in a self-satisfied way.
A vamp appears out of thin air behind Catherine, the vamp is apparently too beautiful to be true and goads Anita into calling her friends name. While knowing that she wouldn't get a responds Anita plays along and calls to her friend, acknowledging that while she was breathing no lights were on upstairs and wondering how long she would remain breathing for.
She does realize where she is right? I can understand her not trusting vamps but they are in a very public setting, with an audience in a place I'm sure the place would be more then happy to tear apart if given a decent enough reason like an consultant claiming her friend was murdered in that location.
We learn that putting someone into a deep trance makes them completely under the vamps power even after they are released, which one would think would be illegal and vamps wouldn't be doing in front of an audience. Catherine is released, feels fuzzy headed and naturally worried about what happened while she was out of it, Monica pats her hand and assures her that she 'did great' which wouldn't assure me at all.
Monica stares at Anita in a creepy manner and claims that 'the show isn't over yet,' which understandably freaks Anita out.
Aubrey, the vamp who put in the psychic arm-lock on Catherine, asks Anita for her name them asks her to come on stage.
Anita makes sure to tell us that his voice isn't anywhere as good as JC's and that Monica is watching with 'enormous and eager eyes'
Aubrey is old, so old in fact that it makes Anita's bones hurt and seems to be able to force himself past all her natural defenses that being an animator gives her.
She snaps out of it by slicing her palms open with her nails, a vampire waiter warns her not to fight it because it makes him angry. She calls out that she'll come to the stage if he doesn't force her causing Monica to gasp in shock.
As she gets to the first step the leads up to the stage, we learn that Aubrey can stand so still that if she wasn't aware that he was there she wouldn't have even seen him.
He then starts yapping away in her head, telling her to come onto the stage, when she tries to back off she panics as she realizes that she can't. Starting to go into full on panic mood she struggles to breath, he tells her not to fight him. She hears someone screaming and realizes that it's her, she finally manages to say no. Shocking the hell out of the vamp with her awesomeness.
Aubrey, not one who takes no seriously basically shrugs and says that he'll come to her instead, Anita shows us her tough-as-nails side by begging him not to, she can't move since he has a hold on her mind like 'velvet steel' and she struggles to resist the urge to run to him.
Getting as close as he can without touching Aubrey wonders at Anita being able to resist him, noting that she reeks of fear before running his fingers over her face and hissing at the audience causing them to squeal. Seriously, why is no one worried about Anita's performance before? The whole screaming in pain and begging the vamp to stay away is a pretty good indication that shit isn't all well.
Anita, realizing that she's about to become a vampire chewtoy for the audiences amusement, pushes away from Aubrey, landing on her hands and knees she starts to scramble away before being picked back up.
She strikes back with her elbow, hitting him hard enough for him to gasp right before he tightens his arms in a crushing force.
Throwing her down onto her back he crouches over her, eyes wide and fangs glistening. One of the waiters moves to intercept but Aubrey hisses at him, spittle running down his chin, in full vampire mode now. He rushes her (even though before he was crouched over her) and Anita remembers her knife and pushes it against his heart hard enough to bleed him. Aubrey snaps at her like a dog at the end of his chain while Anita screams in terror, noting that fear has washed away the power he had over her.
Blood began to drip over my hand and onto my blouse. His blood. If I had to read then so do you, I'm a sharing person like that.
JC finally bothers to show up to put an end to this bullshit, calmly asking Aubrey to let her go. Aubrey naturally doesn't want to lose his would be snack and snarls, snapping and basically carrying on like an animal. Anita tells JC to either get him off her or she'll kill him, so JC starts talking to him in French, causing Aubrey to bite down on JC's wrist? Ok...
Anita wonders if she could stab Aubrey before he could rip her throat out, since he seems preoccupied chowing down on another vamp and your knife is already resting against him I think it'll be safe to assume that yes, yes you could skewer him like a kebab before he had a chance to react.
Aubrey comes back to himself, not sure why vamp blood isn't exactly known for it's life source, Anita once again tells him to get the fuck off her so he smiles in a creepy manner and gets off her human slow, JC motions him back until he's against the curtains. The audience is sitting there with pale faces, just watching the stage. No one seems to have run out and called for help, they all appear to have just... Watched and hope nothing to bad happens. If vamps have been around for ever humans should be more use to this sort of shit happening and acting accordingly, and if vamps have just appeared out of thin air in the past few years, well you'd expect the humans to freak the fuck out and call in reinforcements before calling for a massive cull of vampires. Face it, humans don't react well with shit that can easily control and or kill us.
So JC asks Anita to put her knife away, after promising that she will leave the premises safely she puts it away on the third attempt. JC takes her hand to lead her off the stage and Anita is amazed to find that the lace on his shirt isn't soft at all.
I always assumed lace was always rough? Am I mistaken?
Taking Aubrey's hand with his spare hand, he once again assures Anita that nothing will hurt her when she makes to pull away. Leading both of them towards the front of the stage he asks the audience if they liked the little melodrama they've just witnessed, making it out that it was all a show.
The audience naturally isn't fooled so JC shows off both Anita's and his cross shaped burns making them believe that they are both vampires and to not go running off to the police.
The chapter ends on the happy note of JC telling Anita that they need to talk since the life of Catherine depends on her actions. And that they both killed the things that gave them their scars.
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