Guilty Pleasures: Chapter 15

Dawn slid across the sky like a curtain of light. The morning star glittered like a diamond chip against the easy flow of light.
You're welcome.

After that promising start to the chapter, Anita begins bitching about the fact that this is the second sunrise she's seen in two days. I see an sunrise every day I have an open so I have zero sympathy for her right now.
She's naturally feeling grumpy, but instead of just leaving it at that, she continues on that the trick to being this grumpy is to decide whom to be grumpy at, and what to do about it.
Yeah that doesn't make any sense to me either.

She bitches about the fact that she's hurt from the hospitality the vamps showed her, getting to her apartment she turns into a creepiod thinking that its so quiet and wondering that if she pressed her ear up against someones door if she could hear them breathing.
She gets to her door, pulling out her keys she pauses, realizing that the door isn't completely closed. She freezes, wondering who's inside and if they heard her keys jiggling, she's goes into emergency mode while hoping that she won't actually be needing it.
She draws her gun while leaning against the wall while debating what to do, since its so close to dawn she figures that it won't be vampires. But she can't think of who would want to break into her apartment before thinking that she should be getting use to not knowing what was going on (Sounds like a good way to die in her profession) but that it only makes her grumpy and a little scared.

She mulls over the several choices she has, she could call the police but decides that the only thing different they could do to her is walk in and die instead of her, (I just.. WHY DOES LKH THINK COPS ARE NOTHING BUT CANNON FODDER?!) The second choice she apparently has is to stand outside until whoever is inside gets curious/bored and walks out, I just, I was going to write something snarky and funny here but I either just start ranting or rambling about how stupid this plan is.
Her third choice is to go in guns blazing, her adrenaline is dying under the weight of so many decision, and even though she's decided that waiting them out is the best option (facepalm) she's tired and wants this over with.
She crouches down on one knee, shoves the door open and shoves her gun in, somehow managing to train it onto the intruders chest, instead of shooting now asking questions later. She pauses long enough to realize that he has his arms held up and is smiling at her.
It turns out that his name is Edward, Anita insults him stating that he knew she was out there. Edward channels his inner Vetinari, with steepling his fingers he replies that he heard the jingle of her keys.
He's about average height with blond hair, his nickname is death, again another boring nickname, these vamps need to get out a bit more I think.

Anyways, Edward gives her shit about being at a bachlorette party (Really? What's with this ongoing joke?) Anita moves them off that topic by telling him that when house they burnt down a few years back (Eddie here was the person she saw using a flamethrower on vamps) they missed a vamp, a statement that Ed denies with confidence.
Anita goes on to say that it's true and he nearly killed her tonight, a fact that is a lie and she thinks as much. Which somehow relates to the fact that if the vamps don't want the police to know, they won't want death to know... Ok, that makes sense. BUT THEN WHY DID YOU TELL HIM?!?!

Eddie asks her for more info, a request she turns down, claiming that there isn't anything more to tell him. Ed calls her out on the lie, Anita then asks how long he's been in town, making the logical leap that this guy might be behind all the vamp killings that have been happening.
Apparently he hasn't been in town for that long, and that he'd heard a rumor that she was going to be meeting the master of the city tonight.
A fact that makes Anita's jaw drop, when she demands to know how he knew this, he just shrugs. Pointing out that he has his sources. They come to a Mexican standoff when neither of them will tell the other what they've been up to tonight.
It turns out that Eddie here is actually after the daytime lair of the master of the city, Anita plays dumb saying that she has no idea what he's talking about. Before pointing out that she want to go to bed, so if there is nothing else she can help him with, can he kindly fuck off?
He gets to his feet, heavily implying that if she has the info that he needs it won't end well for her... So... She asks for a favor? Asking if he has a sawed off shotgun.
He says he can get one, she replies that she'll pay for it, it rebuts it saying that it'll be a gift. She shoots him down stating that she can't tell him where Nicky naps the day away.
Ed states that if she needs help, he'll be more then willing to help out since he enjoys killing vamps. He'll ask around but if he can't get the info he needs he'll come back and ask her again in a more forceful fashion. He'll also drop the shotgun off tomorrow.
If I was him I'd be wondering if she wasn't planning to use that shotgun on me, but then again I'm a highly suspicious bastard. It's saved my life in games numerous times, and spoiled many a decent movie because I knew who the bad guy would be.

Then we meet Sigmund, her stuffed penguin that is her security blanket. He also helps add dimension to her otherwise 2D character and really her only redeeming point right about now.
She goes to bed thinking that if we won't tell anyone about her penguin collection she won't tell.