She was nervous.
Why she was nervous was a riddle, since she had nothing to fear anymore. Everything was going to be perfect now.
She was inside a church. Not the one where the ceremony had been held. No, that would be too risky. No, it had to be one where no one would find them. Funny, that Jax wanted to meet her here considering her race.
Their race. Julia had still not gotten use to thinking about herself as part of Jax's people yet.
"Darling!"
Julia turned around. At the gate stood the woman she had adored for 15 years.
"Jax!" Juia ran to her, threw herself in her lover's strong arms. "Finally! What took you so long?"
"Darling, I had to talk with Mr Dolob, you know how uptight he is. Him and all his rules." They kissed. "Frankly, I thought with the kind of boss he has, rules and protocols would mean nothing."
"Oh, Jax." Julia laughed as her lover kissed on the neck. "Oh, Jax, all those years, all the waiting-"
"Oh, come now, we had fun, didn't we?" Jax now licked the side of the neck she had kissed. "We weren't exactly nuns."
"Yes, but I bet it will be even better now. Now that we are the same. It will be so much better now, won't it?"
"Well, why don't we try it?" Jax barred her teeth in a smile as she began to grope her breast. "No time like the present, right?"
"What?!" Julia laughed in a combination of joy and onfusion. "Here?! NOW!?"
"Yes, HERE!" Jax pointed at the alter where a Jesus made out of wood looked down at them. "To show him how little he matters here!"
"For Pete’s sake, are you two FOR REAL!"
"WHO SAID THAT!?" Jax pushed Julia away, looking left and right. "Who said that?!"
"Seriously!" It came from the choir loft. "What is this, a porn film? All that's missing is some unsettling music and some ducks. Don't you two realize that this place is used by old women who try their hardest not to fall asleep, as well as kids who hopes no one notices that they play video games?"
Jax and Julia saw the man in the glowing costume looking down at them. He giggled as an idiot and his mask looked as silly as well.
"Jax, what are we going to do?" Julia looked worried. "He is the superhero guy, right? Are we in trouble?"
"Nothing to worry about, darling. In fact..." Jax looked directly at Cat and said with a voice soft as silk; "You are about to leave us alone, aren't you?"
"Hypnotism?" Cat busted out in laughter. "I'm not THAT stupid, lady!" He pointed at the two cat-eyes on his mask. "The mask is not just for hiding my good looks, see?"
At first, Jax didn't say anything, then, she laughed, and her mouth became wider and all her teeth crew longer and sharper. "Julia, how would you like a hunting lesson?"
Julia's face changed as well, and she leaped like a frog, aiming herself at Cat. Jax transformed into a half-woman half-eagle creature and followed. Cat managed to evade Julia as her hand turned into something claw-like, then punched her right on the nose. It broke and started to bleed. Not that it meant much, as it regenerated in mere seconds. But it did give him time to throw a gas grenade. A huge cloud of pink smoke appeared.
"Pull back, its garlic!" Jax yelled. "Pull back, I will deal with him!" By the beat of her wings, she made the cloud vanish, then she dived like a missile. Cat leaped and Jax crashed into the wooden floor of the balcony, splinters flying everywhere. She then transformed into a gorilla and began to chase Cat who ran toward the stairs. Cat threw another gas grenade, but the vampire only laughed.
"Fool!" She galloped on all four. Her fur was on fire. "I'm not that easily killed! I'm a 30 year old vampire, much more resistant than the week or month old ones you have faced before!"
"But it still hurts, right?" Car broke a piece of the railing near the stairs and held it like a club, then threw the last grenade he had. The vampire gorilla screamed in an, but continued to charge against him. But she began to get slower. The pain went to her head. He slapped the creature in the head, then did it again. As Jax stood up on all four, he finally got the opportunity he needed and stepped the bloodthirsty monster right in the chest with the wood piece. And she turned to ashes.
"NOOOO!" Julia screamed in terror as she watched her lover perish. "You bastard! I loved her, I-"
"No, you didn't. And neither did she."
Julia's hand became claws once more and she threw herself at Cat. Her mouth now had the appearance of an overgrown piranha. But even though she was stronger than Cat, she lacked his combat experience and she was not used to handling her powers that she had only had for a few nights now. And he was simply to agile for her. He slashed at her left and right with a pocketknife made out of silver which slowed her regenerative ability untill she eventully was tired out and he forced her up a wall.
"If she had loved you..." Cat said before he was about to end her none-existing life. "... Then she would have asked you to leave. She would have fought me alone to begin with, saving you."
And then he stabbed her in the chest with the wood.
Cat made a sigh of reliefe as he looked at the two dustpiles on the floor. And he felt no remorse. They hadn't been alive. They became soulless corpses the moment they had been bitten.
Love? As if!
Julia Macintyre had met Jacqueline when she had been an occultist teenager. She had fallen in love with this dark and mysterious woman who was everything she was obsessed with. Jacqueline, or Jax, had told her that she would make the girl her wife, but that she would wait turning her until their physical age was the same. Julia did everything the monster of her dreams told her to, such as marrying a man she didn't love, lying about being worried about her parents disapproving of her sexuality. For what purpose?
For him to be miserable.
In contrast to what many believed, vampires didn't need blood to function. They just enjoyed the taste. What they needed was unhappyness. They leach on human misery to survive. Their sadness and depression is what fuels them.
Together, Jax and Julia had laughed at poor Matthew who did everything for a woman who didn't love him, including moving to Twilight, far away from his sick father. Matt did not say one mean thing to his wife, always doing as he was told. He was simply too nice and had little to no spine. He was the perfect husband while Julia left the house whenever she had the chance in order to fool around with Jax, waiting for her to turn 35 so her vampire lover would turn her.
There had been many theories about vampires and why they sometimes turned people instead of feasting on them. One of them was that a vampire had been a terrible human being while still alive and that was why they were "blessed" by these unholy creatures.
If half of what Cat's furry friend had told him about Julia and Jax was true, then he was ready to buy that theory.
Later...
The small apartment had no furniture. A couple of books was staged around the floor. On the middle of the living room that was the largest of the apartment's three rooms sat a man and... a creature and ate pizza with meat and potatoes.
"Well, you were right." Cat rubbed his unmasked face. Even though he was used to the mask, his face still felt a bit weird for a couple of minutes after he had taken it off. "Macintyre was the Julia you were looking for."
"Naturally. What did you expect?"
"Don't be so smug about it." Cat said, as he took the last slice of pizza. His host growled in annoyance. "Ah, don't be like that. There's more coming."
And there was. Not even a minute later someone knocked on the door. The owner of the apartment stood up from the floor. He left a thin layer of brown hair on the spot he had just sat on. He went to the door, opened it, and a young man stood there with five boxes of pizza. The delivery boy looked a bit too glad for someone who stood face to face with a werewolf.
"Here you go, sir." The young man said as he handed over the pizzas. "Anything else you need?
"Thank you, lad. That will do. Keep the change." Wolf paid with a 500 dollar bill. The young man looked at note as if it was an angel he had in his hand.
"If there's anything at all you ever need, please call, sir. You know, pizza, dry-cleaning, pot..."
"I said; that will do." Then Wolf closed the door.
"You're bribing the pizza guy?" Cat asked.
"Let's just say that the little extra I pay for my food insures that he won't... share the location of my current home with others."
"And maybe he won't tell anyone that you use big words to sound smarter than you are." Cat giggled. Wolf gave him a grumpy stare as he ate two slices of pizza as if they had been a sandwich.
"I like you, human. I do. But don't be too chipper. It might annoy me. And who should then help you locating vampires?"
"Yeah, I still don't get that." Cat cleaned his rarely seen face with a napkin. "How come I'm the one doing the hunting and fighting? When you said; Let's form an alliance, I expected that we would kick sucker-butt together."
"I made a mistake by just entering Twilight City and start hunting them. I thought I could end the vampires by simply wrecking the whole place, but their number was far greater than I had expected. We have to be sneakier than them. And we moonchildren are anything but stealthy. But I will fight as well once we have located the boy-king known as Pan. And once I get my claws and fangs on that blasted eternal child, it will end the vampire family of Twilight City."
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Matthew held the urn with what was left of his wife.
It was her last wish that her ashes was to be scattered at the Caribbean Sea.
Right now, Matt were inside the men's room in a Taco Bell. Julia had always DESPISED those sorts of places. As Matt emptied the urine in the john, he assured himself that her ashes would most likely find its way to Caribbean.
And then, he flushed. And he cried. His tears was a combination of sadness and relief.
He was free.
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