Post by Jewel on Sept 10, 2016 1:50:12 GMT -5
A week later, Slater was sitting at the Lupien dining room table, his eyes keeping perfect focus on James.
To say that he wasn't too surprised of James's request was a bit of an understatement. His face barely showed any emotion as the man explained that there was a different entity that lived within him. A possession ... he's seen those before. Protected innocents from people that were being hunted down by people that were in the same boat as James. Shoot, even helped out with witness protection program once or twice. Not once has he lost a client.
And why would he? He was a big bad alligator with one thing only that kept him going in life. There was hardly anyone in the shifter world that was bigger - stronger - than him. And as he grew older, he was quick. Clever. Shade wouldn't know what hit him when they met again. For that matter, neither would DJ when they meet for the first time. Despite not being able to actually physically harm him Slater will make him think twice about hurting Anna.
He remembered her. Well, at first he didn't, because the Anna he remembered was a little six year old, with a mouth and sticky hands and a loud singing voice. Though after James brought it up Slater did recognize some features that the current Anna and the little girl shared. How she came across a werewolf to get herself turned he'd didn't know, and would need to find out later.
Life was interesting.
"Now, I hate these things," he said in a thick Southern accent, showing just where he came from. "But it's a necessity, because a lot of people I can't take their word no more. That, and some legal bullsh*t. so if this predicament ever becomes a case I can simply whip this out and show the judge how much you owe me and how much you didn't pay." Then he hesitated, before leaving the contract within the little brief case he brought with him. "Then again, this is a special case. The judge wouldn't quite believe me if I said I was protecting your wife from a separate entity that lived in your body." Then he leaned back, tapping a few fingers on the table before he smiled ruefully. "It's all right. I have other means for you to pay if you don't have enough money."
Anna tensed, he saw. She sensed the underlying warning beneath his tone.
To say that he wasn't too surprised of James's request was a bit of an understatement. His face barely showed any emotion as the man explained that there was a different entity that lived within him. A possession ... he's seen those before. Protected innocents from people that were being hunted down by people that were in the same boat as James. Shoot, even helped out with witness protection program once or twice. Not once has he lost a client.
And why would he? He was a big bad alligator with one thing only that kept him going in life. There was hardly anyone in the shifter world that was bigger - stronger - than him. And as he grew older, he was quick. Clever. Shade wouldn't know what hit him when they met again. For that matter, neither would DJ when they meet for the first time. Despite not being able to actually physically harm him Slater will make him think twice about hurting Anna.
He remembered her. Well, at first he didn't, because the Anna he remembered was a little six year old, with a mouth and sticky hands and a loud singing voice. Though after James brought it up Slater did recognize some features that the current Anna and the little girl shared. How she came across a werewolf to get herself turned he'd didn't know, and would need to find out later.
Life was interesting.
"Now, I hate these things," he said in a thick Southern accent, showing just where he came from. "But it's a necessity, because a lot of people I can't take their word no more. That, and some legal bullsh*t. so if this predicament ever becomes a case I can simply whip this out and show the judge how much you owe me and how much you didn't pay." Then he hesitated, before leaving the contract within the little brief case he brought with him. "Then again, this is a special case. The judge wouldn't quite believe me if I said I was protecting your wife from a separate entity that lived in your body." Then he leaned back, tapping a few fingers on the table before he smiled ruefully. "It's all right. I have other means for you to pay if you don't have enough money."
Anna tensed, he saw. She sensed the underlying warning beneath his tone.