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As Zodiac pointed out the people down the bar and she rolled her eyes. “Alright, if you will excuse me a moment.” She went down the bar and looked at this one male who was super insistent on getting her attention calling her honey and sweetheart. This would not do. It wasn’t often she used her gifts at work but she crept into the man's mind, having him lean in close as she held his eyes commanding his will to her.

“Listen here and listen close, it is neither cute or funny to be so degrading to women. So for every woman you knowingly degraded, you are going to go home and give yourself a swirly in your own bathroom. We will have no more of this… No drinks for you and security will be escorting you right out the door.” He nodded taking this all in with a ‘yes’um’ for a response.

After pouring a few more basic drinks like beer on tap and a bloodwine, she walked back over to Zodiac with an extra sway to her hips, “How about you try our newest drink and let me know what you think?” She said leaning over the bar close to Zodiac. “It’s a combination of sweet and tart, in the americas they call it something like a jolly rancher.” She served up the drink, with the blood combination, to Zodiac and had one for herself. Another bartender came up behind the bar putting an apron around her waist too, seeing as she was just coming on duty but a few minutes late.

For the moment, she soaked in what Zodiac was wearing giving an approving nod. She did like the show of skin from the other woman. Even more she liked to taste that skin, but that was neither here nor there at this time. She took in every line and curve before meeting back with Zodiacs violet eyes. “I see you have dressed up for a night of fun, what kind of fun were you thinking?” She purred in a sexy kitten kind of way, the words like liquid gold from her lips.

She neglected to mention she’d not yet wrote back. Now… she wouldn’t need to but it was a great way for the two to work out their issues. A kind of clever way, something not aggressive and yet non combative. It seems to have brought the two closer. Now Crissy may sleep but she would try to always wake up for Zodiac, because Zodiac was the first one on her mind after her eyes opened.

She relaxed and watched Crissy handle her customers. She recognized the ‘look’ Crissy was giving one ‘Manly’ male. How many times had she used a similar glance at people to encourage them elsewhere. It was easier than getting physically violent and a lot less attention was called in the process. The ability certainly had its uses. She recalled a bar brawl she found herself in the middle of one evening on the more seedy side of town a couple years back. She stayed in her chair until a pair of multi hundred pound mountains of muscle with one ounce of brains between then both came into range. She stood up, looked each of them in the eye in turn and simply said..

”Protect me.”

And then sat back down as her 2 newest ‘slaves’ beat the hell out of anyone that got near her table while she sat and finished her drink. She wondered what would happen if Crissy and herself tried that trick on each other and laughed in silence. Find them both 3 days later still staring at each other.

“You!”

”No, you!”

“No, you!” and so on.

Crissy’s return snapped her back to reality. The atmosphere was good here tonight if she could drift off and not be watching everything like a hawk. ”That sounds interesting, I think I will.” she replied when the drink was described to her. She remembered Jolly Ranchers. She remembered a lot of food things most vamps forgot either due to necessity or to fit in their ‘I was never human to begin with’ ******** mindset. ”I’d still kill for a good pizza and the right beer again.” she sighed to herself as Crissy sat the drink in front of her.

”No roofies in this, right?” she smirked before taking a taste. She was surprised. So often everything she consumed tasted of blood, but this had flavor. She took a longer pull from the glass, then lit a fresh cigarette when she noticed Crissy staring at her. Now that delicate bubble of calm around her was suddenly cracked as her eyes moved. Inspecting herself. Discreetly checking her cleavage, her skirt. One hand tugging on the high part of her gloves to remove imagined wrinkles.

“I see you have dressed up for a night of fun, what kind of fun were you thinking?”

”Wha?” She blinked in confusion. She hadn’t really considered such a thing. Her attire was different she would admit, and normally she would not be out and about dressed like this at all. While now reserving her normal ‘gypsy’ attire strictly for business and using hoodies and jeans for moving about the town unnoticed she decided to try something different. She had honestly expected Crissy to be laughing at the sight of her so radically different than the norm.

”I don’t know. Figured I’d just…” She took a gulp of her drink as she tried to think. Now she felt like every set of eyes in the club were centered on her and it was a feeling she hated. Her original survival skills dictated she be very visible to all around. More of a case of ‘Look at me when I WANT you to look at me’ and then ignore me while I do vampire stuff. The very last thing she wanted now was attention not on her terms.

”Figured you might be amused seeing me like this.” She sighed nervously as she fought the urge to bolt from the place. She should go home, change her clothes, or just lock the door and hide. Crissy could come visit if she wanted to later. Or not. Panic was boiling inside of her now.

It wasn’t hard to see the switch flip in her head. Confident and daring to anxiety ridden and nervous. She reached over the counter and gingerly touched her hand.

“You look more than amazing. You are sexy in this, in your normal clothes and in more so in nothing at all” She winked to Zo hoping to squash that feeling before it became too much and she darted from the building. Another bartender, making two, came around the bar and tied a apron around her waist. Confident there was enough people covering, Crissy untied her own apron throwing it into the to be washed bucket. With a spin on her heels she made her way around the bar to Zodiac. No one need be the wiser she mentally called the second girl, a young vampire who needed a job, into work tonight to be the second bartender so she could cut out early. Or stay and enjoy the night as a customer. Who knew!!

Sauntering up to Zodiac, beside her with a drink in hand, She whispered into the woman's mind, “Any plans for this evening?” There was a certain air about her this evening, one filled with adventure that seemed she wanted to explore different things. “I do love this look on you.” Crissy took off her jacket and let her hair out of the bun with a shake. It was weird how she fit all that hair into as tight a bun but she it came out, it hit her waistline. Most people didn’t expect that much hair to be wound like that. “I am yours for the night, found some coverage.” She nodded to the new girl serving drinks around without ignoring people like Crissy had been.

When Zodiac reached out and touched her hair, she got as giddy as a teenager. She stared into the woman’s violet eyes, they were gorgeous as ever. The way she was carrying herself, that touch of confidence she seemed to gain back, made her even more beautiful. When she spoke of Ginny, Cristiana grabbed a glass behind Zodiac leaning over her to take it. Her body momentarily brushed Zodiac’s arm. “I didn’t notice that, but she is in the office by the fireplace.”

As she talked about the notes going back and forth, Cristiana nodded sipping slowly. She fluttered her lashed over the glass at the woman sitting there before her. She offered Zodiac a hand. “Maybe this would be better spoken of where we didn’t have to yell over or try to decipher what you are saying over the mass of voices in here. We can find table in the vip section, I can make it quiet in there.”

Part of her was terrified of what would happen between them. This was almost crucial to them, if things would go on from there. She relaxed and smiled, perking up with the last thing Zodiac said, because it was true, without her this un-life wasn’t worth living. She was the ray of moonlight in the dark and stormy night.

“Instead of the vip we can go somewhere else?” She wiggled her brows at the woman, “You know my Beta apartment is right across the street and there is a balcony.” The offer was thrown out there, and there was also the animals in the house. It had been forever since she had been to that apartment. But here or there, anywhere was better as long as Zodiac was there with her.

A cheeky grin splayed across her lips, even as the woman kissed her lips she kissed back thinking of these said nefarious things. Her lips kissed back but instead of pulling back she brushed past the cheek to whisper into her ear, “As much as I love nefarious and salacious things with you,” She gave a soft moan in remembrance, “There is much we need to discuss about us, as you said. And I very much agree.”

After pulling back, her tongue mindlessly ran across her lips to moisten them before she swallowed a bit of her own drink. With a motion of her chin, she nodded toward the V.I.P. room, hoping Zodiac would like the improvements to the room that were made. It really wasn’t much of anything but a sliding down door to block out the rest of the club. Even as they spoke, or made googly eyes to each other, one of the security men were in the room clearing it out for them. The two would find comfort, quiet and a place to talk things out. Mainly she wanted to apologise to Zodiac, it was wrong of her to keep disappearing over every little thing. She got a hangnail, fall asleep. Zodiac was right, it was time to stop that crap.

She really did want things to work out between them because Zodiac for so long had a huge chunk of her heart. She had tried so hard to deny it, to hide it and to stuff it down into the bowels of her guts but perhaps that is why her marriage hadn’t worked. She was always with the wrong one. It could possibly be true. But she knew without Zo, she was nothing here in the town. She began to weave in and out of the crowd carrying her drink and a spare bottle the bartender left on the counter for her to take. There was always more booze in the room.

There was specially made booze for vampires that they did not throw up. Every bar seemed to make theirs differently. Some bars got humans drunk then withdrew the blood, a good method but the flavor didn’t hold the impact and didn’t get the patrons drunk as well. Other bars mixed the booze into the blood after it was out of the body, she found that just watered down the blood. Now Crissy, she took a few hours a week and performed a ritual that infused the alcohol to the blood so packed the flavor in and did not water it down. That is what made hers stand apart from the rest and brought even the lowest back into the club.

So with the bottle in hand she waited by the door, for Zodiac to slip in past her. In the other hand she took the remote from the bouncer who passed by her as he finished clearing out the room. The remote would drop the security door down from the ceiling and block off the exit. A button on the wall inside a panel would open it or the remote which was only given to certain employees for the club. Not even all of the employee list was privy to the remote only because the ones she trusted with it, would know when to drop it down in an emergency and when not to open the door. In this case, once that door closed, they knew they damn well better not lift it unless the place was burning down to the ground.. And even then it was still a chance Crissy would get mad at them. Her temper could at times be worse than a fire.

The remote did drop down a door it was mostly to conduct business in private, there was no dominatrix toys popping from other areas of the room. In a way she hoped it would not have been too much a disappointment to Zodiac. But when she seen Zodiac sitting there, even as the door dropped down her eyes followed the legs upward practically salivating over her. However she sat down in the chair nearest her. “For starters I thought we could talk about what needing airing out.” Then … who knew what would happen..

“I know what we are going to talk about is going to be difficult for us both.” She reached out and took Zodiac’s hand. “But I firmly believe you are worth it and that is not something that is said lightly. What is the thing with the apples at the top of the tree? And being worth it?” God Cristiana was making a fool of herself. She was being a babbling idiot to Zodiac, one of the many ways she showed she was nervous.

Fidgeting around, she wasn’t being disingenuous here. Her anxiety was maxed out about how this could go. She was never nervous about losing but she had already lost so much … this matter more. There was a moment of silence, a comfortable silence because it was Zodiac and everything was just comfortable between them.

After those letters she had tried hard to look at this from Zodiac’s perspective. It wasn’t too hard to do, everyone fell asleep, everyone left. It was a mirror of her own life except Cristiana actually knew the one relationship had come to an end. There had always been one person she never could say no to or resist. If the woman asked her to jump, she did it. Because she cared, but was that going to be enough for Zodiac, enough for them? She didn’t know what else to do to save them and that is where the anxiety came from.

The problem from her end was she thought Zodiac was too good for her. Cristiana had done nefarious things from being a mistress to someone married, she had cheated on a former lover with the man she married, and that hadn’t been the first time she did that. With Zo it was all different, she was different. People didn’t turn her head like they did in the past. Her vision was tunneled. It wasn’t some storybook romance and that was quite alright, there was no expectation of that. A little kink, a spank and tank here and there but she wanted more.

This was important to her, Zodiac was important to her. She could tell the woman a million ways but this here was far more important than a fling somewhere. How did she portray that? Was it what Zo wanted too? This was difficult and awkward. And so worth it if Zodiac. She smiled looking at her wondering what she wanted to talk about and giving her the chance to lay it out there. After all this was what she wanted….. Go after what you want, right? Right.