Yeah, I've already knocked back a few tonight and can't sleep thanks to the dog I'm currently watching for the night snoring louder then a drunken sailor. So forgive any more then usual glaring spelling, grammar, etc etc mistakes.
This chapter starts off with a dream, what sort of dream you may ask me? Well a plot point dream! She's standing in Nicky's throne room, only its deserted so she does what anyone would do in this situation right? Call out for JC of course!
There's a coffin, she opens the lid and oh the horror! It's full of still warm blood! A pale hand rises out of the blood before collapsing against the side. JC's face then rises out of the murk, even though she can hear his heart in her head she starts freaking out that he's dead, then shits herself when he reaches up and grabs her, after a long description that is suppose to add to the tension and horror of this scene, he claims that he had no choice before biting down on her arm.
Anita then jerks awake as her doorbell rings, someone is persistent as it sounds like they are leaning against the bell. Anita considers hugging whoever it is since they woke her up, before slipping on jeans as she wears an oversized T-shirt to bed.
She makes a mention of putting Sigmund her penguin back with the rest of them, heading towards the door she realizes that she's not the most popular person running around at the moment and whoever is at the door might in fact agree with my opinion that we should shoot her now and save us all a lot of trouble, grabbing her gun she mentions that she feels stiff and sore, kneeling behind the chair Eddie was sitting in she calls out to whoever it is at the door.
Well it turns out that Anita has another friend, a Ronnie who she was meant to be going jogging with. Anita has a 'duurrr' moment as she realizes it Saturday and that how ordinary life is, even if you have blood thirsty vamps chasing you.
We then get a random as all hell rant that her step-mum Judith just doesn't have her priorities correct, since when Anita was in traction once and Judith was bemoaning the fact that she isn't married yet.... Uh, What? This book was published in '93. I didn't realize people were so behind the times back then, but ok... Lets just... Go with that shall we?
So we get a thing about Judith not being a liberated women because she wants her step-daughter happily married at 24, hell, my mum was worried when I was 20 that I wouldn't find anyone to marry. I'm now officially 26 and she's convinced I'm going to die alone so I think it's more of what was expected of people in that generation then being liberated or not.
We also learn that her 16yr old stepbrother Josh thinks she's cool (no, we never meet the guy)
Veronica Sims (You know she's a strong independent women because she goes by the more 'manly' nickname Ronnie. Don't go calling me sexist here because it's kinda pointless to begin with and because it's also a recurring theme in this series. Just pointing out the facts here kids) Ronnie is a PI, a pretty crap one since Anita goes on to say that they both take turns visiting each other in hospital.
Anita opens the door, gun still in hand. Ronnie takes a quick look at her before remarking that she looks like shit.
She then asks, Anita goes on to elaborate that it's not a demand, if she can get the goss on what's happening, Anita remarks that she's sorry she won't be able to work out today, Ronnie brushes it off, telling Anita to do some fucking first-aid while she makes coffee.
Now see that's a sort of friend I would be happy to have, oh, you're seriously hung over? Let me quietly make you breakfast, don't worry about the fact you look and are treating me like shit right now. You're clearly not in a good headspace right now.
Anita then asks Ronnie to pop some bagels (What exactly are those?) with cheese into the microwave, Ronnie looks at her strangely before noting that in the three years that she's known her, Anita has never eaten anything before 10.
Anita gets snarky, stating that if it's such a bother not to worry about it. She then apologies which Ronnie accepts, telling her to go doctor herself before she gets an infection.
Yadda yadda, she's doctoring herself before noting that usually the thought of food before 10am makes her sick (does she have an eating disorder? My diet is pretty shot I work shift work so I can go for up to 9 hours without food. From the sounds of it Anita has the same sort of lifestyle which means in theory when she has the chance to eat she should jump all over that shit. More so since she doesn't have to microwave her own breakfast)
Anyways, she's starving which she puts down to stress... Really? Ok, clearly we handle stress very differently then. She eats and drinks coffee before pausing long enough to explain to Ronnie what happened in that last 3 or so chapters.
Well not exactly, she brushes over a lot of the details. Ronnie seems to be able to tell that she hasn't been told the entire story which makes Anita one hell of a bad liar.
Anita asks Ronnie to ask around hate groups (Why are these things not treated like the KKK? Again, bringing up my story I have cults that excel on anti-monster, but most of them are smart enough to not be so... Obvious about it, and those that are, are heavily armed and make sure VCOA (vampire controllers of Australia) hunters are kept well away. Having a PI ask about them would be a good way to make yourself appear on a missing poster in your local police station. In this Anita's world they appear to be like a book club you can sign up too)
We also learn that Animators are on the bigots hit list, so basically anyone not completely human are classed as evil to these groups, again... How are they not strictly regulated? Even if this was before 9/11 I doubt the FBI etc would be so relaxed about what is practically a terrorist group.
Anita points out that she's weary bringing Ronnie into this after what happened to Catherine. A worry Ronnie shuts down claiming that she basically shouldn't bow down to blackmail and doing as much will get her killed....... Ok?
Ronnie goes on to say that Anita has done all she could for Catherine (Well she didn't, but since Anita told her the edited version I can forgive her for this) she should concentrate on keeping herself alive since she's ass-deep in alligators (another theme you should get comfortable with since it's something you're going to be seeing alot)
Anita admits that she's scared, prompting Ronnie to point out that makes her more sane then she originally thought, before kissing her ass which basically boils down to her calling Anita a good friend.
Anita clinks mugs with her warning her that being her friend probably isn't the healthiest thing in the world, a point Ronnie heartily agrees with, leaving Anita feeling all emo.
This chapter was 2 pages long and could have simply been done in a page long conversation, but since it's so short means I get another shot at going to sleep quicker I'm not going to bitch about it too much.
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