Mistake

Mistake

Zane's POV

I picked up Adrianna's Honors' robe and handed it to her. She smiled.

"Thanks. So...? Do I just go back now? Haha, will they notice?" She asked.

"Only if you make a big deal out of it. I know we weren't supposed to before we 

get married and everything, but, after all, its only two weeks away!" 

"I know. It's fine, really."

"Okay, good. Do you want to go? I mean, you don't have to, but I have to get to 

the Pool, then go back to Drin and interview the latest victims."

"Right, work. Yes, I have to go back, they expect me to decide if another Out of 

Age should live or die."

"Alright. I'll see you in a little while, girl." I kissed her and grabbed my jacket 

(keeping up appearances in Drin) and walked out.

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I walked down the street, the sun hitting my face. It felt nice, but not as nice as it 

did when I was human. Sometimes I wish I could go back, to my human years, where 

everything was so much simpler. I had a wife then, you know. She didn't stand a chance. I 

got mad...and I...well, you can guess. It didn't feel right, but the monster took over. And 

after words, I was on my knees next to her bloody body, holding her intestines in my 

hands. I felt sick and I ran. From her body, from what I had done, from everyone. It was 

ten years alone, until I saved Adrianna.

I walked through the doors of the Hotell av Finare Saker (Hotel of Finer Things), 

and found a young female clerk with green glasses on. She asked me in Swedish if I was 

here to check in.

"No, I am here to speak with Ms. Thompson, and also Ms. Jeden." I replied in 

Swedish, showing her my Honor's pass, kind of like a police ID. 

"Of course. Jim! Show Zane to the girls' room, please." I followed Jim to suite 

13B, and found the girls.

Jim left me to my business.

"Hello, girls, I'm Zane, from Honor's, like Swedish FBI." I showed my ID. They 

nodded. "Which one of you can tell me what happened in the bathroom of suite 14F just 

about three hours ago?"

Ms. Thompson hugged onto Ms. Jeden tighter and began to cry.

    

"I can." Ms. Jeden said.

    

"Your name?"

    

"Ava." I wrote it in my notebook.

    

"Now, tell me what went on."

    

"Alright, well, we were fighting and-and then-"

    

"About, if I may ask?"

    

"My dad drinks, and he asked me if I wanted to play Twister and didn't even know 

who I was. Jayna here tried to comfort me, but was doing a bad job."

    

"Okay, you may proceed."

    

"So, then all the sudden, something crashed through the window and glass went 

everywhere...Jayna had jumped and moved like six feet from me. And this dude, who was 

like perfect looking, was kneeling next to Jayna NAKED! I freaked out and started hitting 

him over the head with a plunger."

    

"Did he say anything? This is important. Word for word would be best."

    

"Hmmm, he said I was intriguing...."

    

"Did he say that exactly?"

    

"Yes...no, he didn't. He said, 'Intriguing, you are, my dear'. He laughed, then said, 

'It's seldom I meet a woman who can resist me'. I told him to get away from Jayna. I 

picked up her shirt that he had taken off and threw it at her to put on. She did. I lit the 

plunger on fire..." Jayna began to cry and shake violently. 

    "Jayna, if I may, would you like to step into the hall and wait until the interview is 

finished?" I asked. She nodded and Ava walked her out.

    

"Okay, Mr...?" She began.

    

"Oh, my name is Zane."

   

"Zane, he jumped away from the fire and hit the wall. I told him to leave before I 

torched his body.  He jumped out the window and flew away. With massive black wings. 

They were shiny, too."

    

"Is there anything else you can tell me about how he looked? Besides perfect, 

naked, and black wings?"

    

"Yes. He had a black and red tattoo around his waist. Looked to me like barbed 

wire."

    

"Okay, thank you, Ava. That's all my questions for now. Would you like to meet 

again so we could find out a little more about your guys' attacker?"

    

"Yes, please. Anything to get him off the streets."

 

And I did something I didn't expect. It wasn't me, must have been the scent of her 

blood radiating from her skin. Pulled me toward it like a magnet. I jumped forward and 

kissed her. She tensed up, then relaxed and started kissing back. She pushed back 

randomly and I realized what I had done. She put three fingers to where her lip was now 

bleeding. I could taste her sweet blood in my mouth, and I almost turned full vampire in 

front of her. I ran out of there like lightning, screaming a warbled "Thanks" as I went.