Dealing with Devils

Chapter 9
Jamie’s POV.

Ok so I made it to collage in one piece. Which is understandable as this slayer lived in totally the other direction. I even made it through all of lessons without being shot but some silver bullet from nowhere.

But right now I have a little problem. My current girlfriend is asking me to go up to Smokers Mountain for a fag. This gives me two problems. One Leigh smokes. And it’s five minutes between lessons so even if she doesn’t have a free period she’s going to be up there. Two even if she’s not it’s a lot easier to see up the hill than down it. This is usually a good thing because you can usually check if there is someone up there you know. But right now I don’t want to be found.

But this girl is persistent. We have a finished for the day and the sun is out and she’s convinced that going up onto that hill is the best way to spend the next hour. “Come on you know how much you need your nicotine.” She’s right I’m craving really badly that’s what a lesson in business law will do to you. “So just come on.”

She’s actually trying to drag me and as I walk very slowly round the corner of the building and look up and there is Leigh. In all her ‘she might kill me’ glory. I really don’t want to go up there. “You know I don’t really need one right now.” I say once again digging my heels in. This time literally but she’s still trying to drag me.

Her mouth almost hit’s the floor. I smoke a lot what can I say? “What’s wrong with you today.”

”Nothing I’m just not in the mood.” Maybe if she thinks I’m in a bad mood she might drop it. We’ve been going out for like a week and she’s never seen me in a proper bad mood so she’s not going to know what to expect. “I think I might go to the library.”

I think she might faint. She knows how much I hate that place it’s just far to silent. It creeps me out. It’s not like I really need to go there anyway. I don’t mean to brag but I’m on a law course so I more or less just do law and it’s always come really easy to me. She shakes off her shock and tries again. “Can’t you just come up for one? It’s not like we can talk properly in lesson.”

If I say no she’s going to know something’s up but if I do then I am very likely to be killed. I look up the hill one more time. The slayer that is turning into a very big problem for me is looking around. As if she knows that I’m close but just can’t see me. I read on the web site that they can sense things. Can she sense me?

I allow myself to be dragged to the smoking shelter and up the little pathway, which is meant for disabled uses. This is a pretty steep hill if someone in a wheel chair tried to get up this ramp I know they would roll back down.

I stop halfway up the ramp and pull out my cigarettes. This pretty much means that I’m smoking here you can go up if you like. Jo however stops with me and lights her own up.

I look over and realise that the jade-eyed slayer has noticed me. Shit I’m shaking. I’ve only noticed because it’s getting difficult for me to get the butt into my mouth.

Jo has noticed this and is looking at me strangely. “I’m just cold.” I answer. This is one of the biggest lies I’ve ever fed. I almost never get cold. Hello thick layer of fur under my skin here.

She seems to accept this answer and ignores my shaking.

Leigh’s here what fun. “Hey.” She directs mostly towards me.

I nod in reply. I don’t trust my voice.

However my girlfriend chooses this moment to get chatty. “Hey I haven’t seen you in a few days have you not been in?”

Leigh takes her gazes from me to look at her. Thank god she’s not looking this way any more. “Yeah just different breaks I guess.” She looks back over at me and the shakes are back. This is getting silly. “Can I talk to you?”

”You are aren’t you?” Ok so my voice isn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.

She smiles at this. “I mean privately.”

No way, not a chance. If she is going to kill me I need witnesses. I look over at my girlfriend it looks likes asking permission but I’m not. In my mind I’m begging her to get all jealous. “Yeah sure go ahead.” What!? She’s fine with me going off and having a private chat with someone I hardy know. Usually this would be great for me. Little bit of freedom. But right now I need her to kick up a fuss. Some girlfriend she is.

What excuse do I have now? So I nod and we disappear round the back of the actual smoking shelter which is kind of like a bus stop just so we don’t get all wet when it rains. It rains a lot here.

I throw away my burnt out cigarette and light another one trying to calm my nerves. It’s not helping.

“How are you feeling today?” She asks as if we’re not here to talk about anything out of the ordinary.

“Tired.” I really am I feel like I could just sleep for a week.

“Understandable.” She’s smiling at me. Why is she doing that? “Shall we get down to business?” I nod at this not trusting my voice again. I wrap the arm, which isn’t holding my cancer stick around my chest. I know I’ being defensive but I’m scared ok. I can feel the wolf inside me wanting to fight against this threat. I can feel it bubbling up threatening to come out. I will not change here so I push it down. “How long?”

Is it worth playing dumb? I don’t think it is. We both know what she’s talking about. So I shrug my shoulders. It’s not like a keep count or anything. “Couple of years maybe.”

“Years?” She looks taken aback by this statement. “How did it happen?”

What? Why is she asking me these things? “Walk in the park.” I neglect to mention that I was a little drunk at the time.

She nods and seems to accept this answer. “Have you told anyway?”

What kind of question is that? “No no-one knows.” How do you start that conversation?

“What about…” She trails off and points toward Jo who has found Eddie to talk to.

“Hell no.” I answer. It’s not something you really want to spread around. Like I’m going to go up to someone and just say. ‘Hey I’m a werewolf does it make you hot?’ Fuck no.

“It doesn’t like me…” She says trailing off.

“What?” I say totally not following what the hell she is talking about.

“The wolf, it doesn’t like me… I can feel it coming off you in waves and I’m guessing it isn’t just the wolf.”

“What if I was some sort of slayer hunter… what would you think of me?” I retort.

“Listen, can we go somewhere, I want to try something… to get you to trust me but here isn’t the best place.”

I laugh at her, okay not the best thing to do to someone who might just kill me but I’m gaining in confidence that she wouldn’t try anything here.

“Okay, fine… sit down.” She says as she does so herself, should I trust her? I don’t know but like I said she isn’t going to kill me here so I sit. “Okay now face me and I want you to look into my eyes and to relax, just keep looking and don’t be alarmed if you think you see something.”

I raise my eyebrows. “Are you gonna hypnotise me?”

She scoffs at this. “No, it’s hard to explain and if I tell you what it is then it might not work so just do as you are told for once and look into my eyes and try to relax.”

I sigh and shut my eyes for a second before opening them again and looking into the jade pools before me. I stare for a while, I am not sure how long but it feels like a while and nothing is happening.