~~Eric~~
"Were you trying to make me jealous the whole night?" he said.
Jessy laughed as she closed his door behind them. Back in his apartment, she reached down, threw off her high heels, literally, and jumped onto the couch. Kat sat upon the couch's back, and meowed in greeting. Jessy meowed back.
"I am a walking, talking embodiment of hotness, Eric. Last thing I'd ever feel the need to do, is make you jealous. I am God's gift to you, to make up for your shitty life from before."
As much as Kat was dumb beyond all reason, she got along better with Jessy than Eric expected; especially if Jessy's cat from her time as a human no longer liked her after her change, like she said. Maybe after her embrace, Jessy became more cat-like than human, and her pet saw her as a rival? Introducing adult cats and getting them to live together was often a painful, slow process.
With Kat, Eric could get a pet badger, and she'd still try and make friends.
"Can't disagree." He walked up to her, and gestured to the ridiculous-but-sexy top she still wore. "But, just because you don't have to, doesn't mean you wouldn't, if you found it fun."
"True, true." She gestured for him to sit. Once he did, she turned around and lay on her back, her head on his lap. Groaning, she tilted her head from side to side, stretching. Did vampires need to stretch? They often breathed, and they didn't need to do that. Probably just old habits, because, at the moment, he could tell she wasn't alive. Pale skin, thinned, and no heartbeat or natural scents. It'd been a bit of a shocker, being around her when she wasn't Blushing Life, and after his new senses had awakened. His animal instincts told him she was a corpse, but corpses didn't walk and talk and fuck.
"Samantha seems nice," he said.
"Yeah, really nice. And speaking of." She pulled out her phone, and texted someone. A second later, she got a text back, and she smirked at the phone. "She took a small kiss of Isaac. Apparently it was a little surprising for her, and she ended it quickly. Now Chris is trying to convince her to Kiss him too, and now that she's all hot and bothered from the first Kiss, he's pushing for a little touching."
"Aw come on. The woman's been through hell. He shouldn'tβ"
"Samantha's an adult, dumbass. She can take care of herself. And besides, my boys know to not push it too far." She shrugged, and scrolled on the phone. Holding it up with it pointed down at her, head still on his lap, he couldn't see what she was scrolling through, but whatever it was, was making her smile. "Want to see some more pictures?"
"More pictures? Ofβ" She turned the phone around and showed him. Clara again, with a weird expression; likely drunk, and maybe high. She was standing in a shower, and two of Jessy's ghouls were eating her out, one from behind, one from the front. Must have been a picture from earlier, since most of those guys were just at Bloodlust.
Jesus, how much pot would it take for an Uratha to get high? What used to get him drunk, didn't, and he'd probably have to drink ten times what he used to to get wasted. An expensive vice to keep.
"God damn Clara is beautiful. I'm happy she's enjoying my boys, with Jack out of the picture. I hope Samantha enjoys them too."
"You know she's going to kill you, if you keep letting your ghouls take pictures of her. Andβ" Eric stared at the picture of the naked werewolf. Clara was average height for a woman, maybe a couple inches taller, and she had a lean muscularity similar to Jessy; no wonder the Gangrel found her attractive. Smaller breasts, long black box-braids, and dark tan skin, she was the definition of 'sporty', and Eric licked his lips at the sight of her, mouth open in obvious bliss.
"Hey! I'm right here," Jessy said, and she thumped her head against his leg.
"What, I can't make you jealous?"
"No. I can dish it out, but I am far too sensitive to take being teased like that." Nodding, she put the phone away, and smiled up at him. "I am a sensitive snowflake."
"Uh huh." Laughing, he set a hand on her head, and started working his fingers through her hair. Instant murrs of joy from the vampire. "So what now?"
"Well I don't know about you, but I plan on getting laid before sunrise."
He rolled his eyes. "I mean, with the hunters, and the covenants now that Julias is gone."
She winced, and lowered her gaze to look at nothing. It wasn't the nicest thing to talk about, but they hadn't really, and it was about time they did.
"Jack's dealt them a huge wound, killing three, maybe four more of them, and capturing their enforcer. Gives us the leeway β we hope β to get more aggressive. Everyone has kill orders if they see a hunter. Sweeps continue, more of them, more often." Groaning, she sat up, thought better of it, and lay back down. "God I'm tired. This week has been brutal."
"Heh, yeah." The two of them had been doing their patrols together, and then he had to either work, or sleep then work. He wasn't sure what she did for work, secret Invictus stuff probably, and she had to do that when she wasn't patrolling. Right Hand of the Invictus and whatnot.
"Hey," she said, looking up at him, eyes pensive. "Make sure you don't... you know..."
"Mm?"
"You're getting dragged into this hunter beef, and... and after what happened to Jack, I can't stop thinking about Beatrice and shit. I hate it. Fuck I hate it."
Oh, right. She was worried he'd die. Not worried about herself, but worried about him.