London Fog [tag all]

[A.J. Venter]

Stepping into their booths at the teleport station, many of these
long-lived beings could remember a time not long ago when
mass-public-transit was not quite this simple. When travelling from
New York to London took nearly a full day and a lot of burned carbon,
rather than the time it takes to send a few gigabytes of data over a
fibre-optic line at the speed of light (about 30 minutes).
Just before he winked out of existence in New York, Bailey read a bit
of graffiti that some enterprising vandal must have written in a real
hurry:
"I teleported home one night, with Bill and Sid and Meg. Bill stole
Maggies heart away, and I got Sidney's leg" - Douglas Adams.

"That's comforting" he grumbled... and then the booth was empty.
Consciously they were not aware of any time passing before their
bodies were reconstructed in the booth at the London station they had
chosen. Another nice thing about it, since the same inner-city network
connected internationally you could go straight to your selected
end-point. Bailey had let the ones who knew London best choose their
stop, he knew it wasn't a central terminus, but one chosen for having
been built in an old London tube station.

There was a very good reason for that. London is a good 5 hours ahead
of New York, which they'd left at around 1am. It was now almost 7am...
it would be dawn soon. For the safety of their vampire compatriots, it
was better if they teleported to somewhere underground.

As they grouped up again Bailey asked: "So anybody got the number of a
vampire friendly hotel with a cab service ? Somewhere these
night-crawling suckas can spend the day ?"

[Caryn Alexander]

"Wait," said Joslin. "We need a plan of action before we do anything."

The others nodded in agreement.

"We really cannot afford to lose any time whatsoever. I suggest we break up into two groups. Lycans in one, so we can hit the streets immediately, while the Vamps secure themselves either at a hotel, or an ally if we have one here. We can reconvene at dusk. We all have our phones and are contactable. Once the Vamps have established and secured a base for us to operate out of, they can let us all know, so that should we need to rest before reconvening, we know we have a safe place at which to do so."

[A.J. Venter]

Bailey looked sternly at Joslin.
"Only one problem with your plan hunny... we only got one full blooded
vamp in the group here.... and I aint letting no fool go off on their
own." he looked around the group, "But I do think it would be good to
split up -we got two people to see. One of whom will be in the
darkness and one in the light, and the earlier we move the better
chance we got of getting to them before they are surrounded by people.
So how about Callum and Joslin go with Pandora - and go see Williams,
I'll go with Callum and Lyal and go see Smith... what ya'll think ?"

[Nita]

Pandora turned around looking about her. She pulled her trench tighter about her, as though it would offer protection against the threat of the rising sun. She smiled teasingly at Bailey, "You suggest we halve Callum? I think I'll have his upper half then"

[A.J. Venter]

Bailey laughed. "Sorry, didn't mean to put him in both groups. There
being 5 of us means we can't split evenly, so either I go with
Lyal and we see Smith... or we all stick together. Shall we take a
vote ? I'm all for hot girls but actually setting Pandora on fire may
be pushing it..."

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"Semper in excretum set alta variant" - My father
A.J. Venter - http://www.silentcoder.co.za

[Nita]

Pandora nodded. "I think let me have Joslin. And then you boys go see Smith." She smiled at Joslin. "What do you say? Shall we have some girly time so long?"

[Caryn Alexander]

Joslin smiled rather suggestively. "Girly time? I never say no to that." She winked.

"well, off you go guys. We will head off to Williams and get the base established and start investigating there. We will contact you if anything relevant comes up."

[Nita]

Pandora didn't bother to analyse Joslin's wink, though it hovered in the back of her mind. They had to establish a base soon. She looked at the hybrid questioningly... "You like hotels? Don't they have guest houses here? Or d'you think the boys prefer the suite life?"

[Chris Price]

Lyall stepped into his booth to be teleported, it had been a long time since he'd been on that part of the planet, and teleporters gave him the creeps. He looked around, hoping desperately that all his data got to the other side, hoping there was no powercut in the next half hour or so.

He felt himself beginning to disappear from the bottom up. A sensation he felt was probably something like have hundreds of flesh eating spiders thrown at your feed whilst you were covered in tasty blood.

The spider-sensation grew rapidly up his body, his breath increasing as the fear began to choke him. "Not long now" he told himself, "keep it together".

After a short time he lunged out of the machine at the other end, gasping for air and quickly dusting himself down, turning to make sure none of the others had seen him.

At least he appeared to be in one piece.

[Caryn Alexander]

"I think the best thing would be to check what Williams's place is like. If his property is adequate, we wont need to look for a vampire friendly hotel. All the top-guns tend to have large properties, so I'm not too worried."

She drew her phone out of her pocket and dialed "information" . It wasn't long til she had ordered a light safe cab for herself and Pandora to ride in.

[Nita]

Pandora gave Joslin a puzzled look. "I don't know if I like the idea of bunking with Williams. I mean, sure it would be nice to keep that close an eye on him. But perhaps we should at least meet with the guy first." She pondered as she got into the cab, and once seated she drew out her phone. After a bit of searching she turned to Joslin. "Okay, what do you think about the West Minister View Apartments? We hire one and we all bunk there until we've met with our man. Oh and something else I found, the Chamber of Commerce is having a Defense & Security Reception tomorrow night. It's apparently a networking event at the Savile Club in Mayfair, 6pm  - 8pm. Getting Williams's attention there shouldn't be too hard." She turned her gaze expectantly to Joslin. "Plan or no plan?"

[Caryn Alexander]

"Definitely a plan." Joslin smiled. "I hope they have a decent room service, as i'm not up for public consumption right now. How about you? Do you need anything before you need to crash?"

Joslin was looking rather intently at Pandora, wondering which question she would answer first.

[Nita]

If it was at all possible for Pandora to blush, she'd have flushed under Joslin's intent gaze. She licked her lips, feeling oddly uncomfortable. "Well, I could do with some blood now, I'm peckish... If room service would serve that, it'd be heavenly!"

[Caryn Alexander]

Joslin nodded, "Me too. Usually I dont mind people watching me feed, but right now I'm just not in a crowd mood."

She relaxed further back into the soft seat of the cab.

[Nita]

When the cab pulled to the curb in Albert Embankment Pandora pulled her trench tightly around her and rushed out to the safety of the administrative office of the West Minster apartments. She booked two adjacent two-bedroom apartments. Then she grinned at Joslin... "So honey, which size bed do you prefer? Double or queen? I think since we did the work we can snoop the boys a lil."

[Caryn Alexander]

"Queen, naturally! More space to roll around in!" Joslin winked again at Pandora, then turned to the receptionist behind the counter.

"What room service do you offer here?"

"We are a 5-star vampire friendly hotel, so we have a complete menu available, and yes ma'am, that does include live donors should you wish."

"Make mine an AB negative please, but only send them up in 30 minutes. I want some time to clean up first." She winked at Pandora again as she said this. "So what's your poison Pandora?"
 

[Nita]

Pandora grinned. "I have a taste for O." Then she frowned slightly and arched an eyebrow. "Half an hour? You must be a real girly girl. Heck, I wonder if I could wait that long."
Pandora shrugged and headed to their apartment. "Maybe a wash would be nice."

[Caryn Alexander]

"You can't tell me that you wouldn't enjoy a good soak," Joslin said, grinning cheekily. "Come on, let's go see whether these rooms are worth the prices we're paying for them."

She headed up the short flight of stairs ahead of Pandora and summoned the lift. She managed to look utterly provocative while simply leaning against the wall, one arm curled up and cupping the back of her shiny wild hair.

"So, you're needing some O, are u?"

[Nita]

Pandora gave the hybrid a rather confused look and unwillingly dragged her fingers through her own hair. "Darn, lady...." was all she could manage as she followed Joslin.

[Caryn Alexander]

Joslin's intense gaze barely left Pandora the entire time they were in the lift. They reached their floor, and Joslin insisted that Pandora walk ahead of her, and watched the way her hips swayed as she walked. She followed Pandora into her room, although she went over to the door that joined their two rooms, and left it purposefully wide open as she went through it and into her own one.

"Let me know if the food arrives while I'm still in the shower." she called back over her shoulder, casually stripping all the while, and making sure Pandora got a good view as she entered her own bathroom. The sound of the water pounding down in the shower followed shortly after.

[Nita]

Pandora nearly choked as Joslin started undressing. She had to admire the woman's confidence. A little hesitantly she walked to the adjoining door and called "Are you sure you don't want me to close this for you?"

[Caryn Alexander]

Just as the sound of the shower faded away, there came some precise knocking on the door. "Room service, one AB negative donor and one type O."

Joslin came out the bathroom, a towel loosely wrapped around her, her skin still glowing from the hot water, her hair dripping beads of water down her neck and back and onto the floor. She silently opened the door, ushering the two donors inside.

"I ordered the AB." she stated. Obligingly, the young man that was her donor moved towards her, tilting his neck for better access as she enfolded him in her arms and began to feed, pressing him tightly to her warm, moist body.

The smaller of the donors, a young blonde woman, looked expectantly at pandora.

[Nita]

Pandora shrugged. She was in no mood to toy with her food and she simply
walked up behind the pale blonde, pushed her head to the side and sunk
her fangs into her neck, thoroughly enjoying the live pulse carrying the
blood to her mouth. As she pulled back she looked at Joslin, grinning.
"Much better than those bloodbags."

[Caryn Alexander]

Joslin lifted her head briefly to say "always" before going back to her feeding. She drank as much as she could get away with without permanently causing damage to the young man that was servicing her.

Now that they were both refreshed, they could get on with business.

"Would you like me to run you a bath Pandora?" she asked, one corner of her mouth lifting in a cheeky flirtatious grin. "I see you have not yet refreshed yourself completely, and I am sure after such a fine meal a good soaking would do you wonders in really revitalising your senses."

Joslin's towel was starting to droop a little.

[Nita]

Pandora shrugged. She considered Joslin's offer to be merely a friendly one and glad that they were getting along she nodded.

"I'll go get fresh clothes" she said as she wiped her mouth.

[Caryn Alexander]

Joslin ran her a warm deep bubble bath. As Pandora climbed into the tub, joslin took off her towel, and then began to wash Pandora's hair for her.

[Nita]

Pandora leaned back and closed her eyes. She enjoyed the feel of Joslin's fingertips working her scalp.

[Caryn Alexander]

It took her awhile to realise that Joslin had actual slid into the bath behind her, so expertly did her fingers work over Pandora's scalp and down her neck.

[Nita]

Pandora jerked a little as she realised where Joslin were. Then she reassured herself that they were both girls and relaxed again.