Angels and Demons

[looker]

Looker: "No. No. No. Too blonde. Too sassy. Definitely not a party girl and probably a virgin, Hector. What is with this group?" The red head clicked her heels against the marble pavement with pure annoyance in every step. Ten gorgeous models stood in front of her and the designer for her new in-store line. "Forgive me, senorita Briggs. They are all I could find on such short notice." The man name Hector practically groveled on the runway. The models held back their tears hoping for a second chance. One brave girl stepped forward, "Can we take five?" The room became silent as Emily turned away. "Hector?" "Si, Jefe?" "None of these girls leave till they're trained. No one goes over 800 calories per meal. And I don't want any of them out of heels till their feet swell." She walked out without so much as a glance. "Can I take a five minute break?" Her voice was clearly mocking that of the model's. How dare they act so carelessly in front of her. Although maybe Emily was just having one of those bloody days where she couldn't control herself. Looker wanted to feed. She wanted to be let loose and show the others how powerful she was. But, Emily knew better. That vamp needed to be chained during working hours. After dark, Looker could wreak havoc all she wanted. Maybe it was time for an early dinner.

[Elaine]

Halo: Halo was bored beyond belief! She didn’t have a lot of friends and Tatsu was… she was a friend and also like her mom-big sister, the main problem though was that she was busy today.

And soshe had decided to fly, that was always fun, at least for a while but she had an objective, find her other friend and ally, Looker, and… well, see if she was not so busy, plus she had been having an idea to kind of prank her, although knowing Halo it was the most harmless thing ever!

It took her some time of flying around but she found her! And she was alone! This was the perfect opportunity. She landed a little out of sight. Then she flicked her blonde hair to the side so that her neck was clearly visible, that is what vampires like, right? She thought to herself, yummy necks to bite!

Then she switched to her blue aura, the distortion aura, also called the decoy trick! She left her decoy, her perfect illusion out in the open looking away from Looker. Her head tilted a bit to a side, exposing her neck further. A distracted and open target? That was surely to attract her attention, plus Looker would probably recognize Halo even without looking at her face, the aura kind of gave it away after all, and the superheroine outfit too.

The real Halo however was invisible! Not too far from the illusion decoy, a trick of light really but a very real one at the same time! She was also ready to give the hopefully unsuspecting Looker a big “boo!” scare, well if everything went according to plan. One of the problems was that Halo’s sweet and appealing perfume was kind of in the air and maybe Looker could figure out that it oddly didn’t come from the illusion Halo! And obviously there was no pulse either, even if the neck llooked super yummy.

[looker]

Emily was practically sprinting to the bar until she felt an odd presence. There was some lady out in the open just showing off her neck. How fucked up was that? "Who is that?" As Emily approached the woman she noticed her hair and the scent of a certain perfume. "Oh ha ha. Very funny, Halo." It had to be Halo. There wasn't any other person in their right mind that would go out at night in Gotham...besides the other bats. "Come on out! So not cool! I'm starving! If you had seen the virgins I've been working with today you'd be hungry too." Looker made Emily sprint to the figure and eye it curiously. Of course the vamp in her wasn't going to fall for that! She knew just how humans were about the things that went bump in the night. They would have screamed or ran away by now. No one wanted to be friends with a mosquito. "Can we go out? Seriously, I need like a shot of tequila. And by a shot, I mean I need my entire blood stream to be past the legal limit." Halo she could at least depend on for some form of entertainment. Emily was hoping that she wasn't patrolling. Real work was the last thing she wanted to be doing on a Tuesday night. Come to think of it, what the hell did Halo do in her free time? Since when did people want to visit the walking blood bank in their spare time?

[Elaine]

Halo covered her mouth with her hands, struggling really hard to not start giggling as she heard Looker. Of course she knew it was her!

She tried to approach on her tiptoes towards her friend, which wasn't super easy because Halo's outfit include high heeled boot. Then she dropped her blue aura, you know, the one that allowed her to play with decoy illusions and invisibility at the same time!

With a funny “Boo!” she tried to wrap her arms around her in a friendly hug while also getting into a gigglefit. She would then grin playfully and move back a little “I had to try! It was too tempting, but! Did I hear going out? That sounds awesome! let’s do it! And then you can rant all that you want about your horrible horrible day” she giggled softly before making her aura, and in consequence her super heroine outfit go away, replaced automagically by casual clothes, jeans, boots, a top, pretty comfy.

“Where do you want to go? You know me, I almost never go out so I don’t know any places, well... except a cinema, but I don't think they serve tequila there, unless you bring it with you” she shrugged with a cute smile at her.

[looker]

"You ever been to that rooftop bar in Gotham?" Looker hadn't even flinched. She was dead from the inside and out. Days like these made her incredibly stoic. "I think that jackass Bruce Wayne owns it. We should tear it up tonight." The red head winked. At least Halo would be a fresh face. She was a dependable friend. Looker needed to ruin that. The bloodthirsty demon in Halo was just waiting to wreck the entire town. "Nice boots by the way. Totally perfect for taking numbers. You're going to be the belle of the ball." Emily grabbed her friend's hand and began to drag her across town. "We're taking a long walk. Unless you prefer a cab, but this is usually how I pick up my meals--I mean men. Right." She felt disgusting for mentioning that. Sweet Emily was the one who found Looker to be the more atrocious part of her personality. Before all of this happened, Emily would have never mingled with the opposite sex. Now she couldn't keep her hands off of the ones that breathed.

[Elaine]

“umm… no I don’t think that I have ever been there, I don’t hang out much” she replied after some hesitation, she still smiled a bit when she called someone called Bruce a jackass “I have no idea who that is but if he is then it sounds good to me! I hope the place is fun” she said, winking back at her in a friendly manner.

“I know right?!!” she said, about her boots being nice, with wide eyes for a moment. “And they’re surprisingly comfy too, it took me a while to find them, like four or five shops but they are great” she said while she lifted her right boot to playfully grab the high heel with two fingers. “buuut, I think we both will be the belles of the party, after all they don’t call you Looker for nothing right?” she said with a slight grin, kind of sharing the compliment.

“No, I like to walk, it’s fiiine” she said with a dismissive hand. “Sooo like, I was wondering, now that you mentioned that, how does that work?” She asked, but then realizing that it was a little abrupt she started to elaborate, plus it also worked to distract her from her more er, uncontrolled side of hers “Like, I mean I went to the doctor a few years ago and they did a blood test to me, aaand it didn’t hurt much, but it was kind of unsettling, and I think I almost fainted when I saw the blood coming out, so! Anyway! When you like bite, is it super painful? Do they even see you coming? I mean I’m not gonna judge you or anything you know me, as long as you don’t leave them dry, whatever works right?”

[looker]

Emily suddenly regretted saying anything about herself. "I'll tell you one thing. There's no difference between food and friend when it comes to those fuckers on the other side, if you know what I mean. But, I will never bite without permission." Her red hair started to bounce and they walked. She wasn't walking as confidently as she usually did. Her stride was something more fueled by that rage she never tried to hold back. "I don't know how it feels. I barely remember how it felt when I was bitten. I just woke up feeling defiled, but I guess it's different when someone does it to you unwillingly. You feel like you've just been beaten not only physically...your soul just feels...filthy." There were more rules about vampirism than Looker knew at first. After working underground with the ghouls and gremlins she barely was able to touch the surface of the biological "pathogen". "You know, I don't kill people, right? If I drain someone fully they only turn if they're a virgin. Everything else turns into the legion of the undead. Not exactly a zombie...more like a ghoul." Emily shivered thinking of the soulless bodies left behind by vamps twice her dying age. Something like that went against the laws of nature. Hell, any of the metas, magic, or aliens went against nature.

[Elaine]

"wow that sounds really nasty, I mean I know that it was terrible for you but still ew..." she shook her head and funnily trembled a bit in disgust as she walked with her friend. She got quiet for a while, she often did when she was thinking for herself and only half paying attention to the other person, but she got the general idea, pathogen, draining, virgin, ghoul, bad. She giggled though and shook her head "Well you better not drain me because I'm pretty sure it's too late to be anywhere near virgin status" she laughed, finding it pretty funny, it wasn't really her, more like Violet's life before she went to hell. She kept walking with her high heels tick tocking noisily on the streets.

"So I was just thinking Emily, do you think I have a soul?" she asked her, geez, big tough question right away, with no preparation whatsoever! But Gabrielle was like that, if she was curious about something she was like a little girl to her mom, or well, figuratively to her sister in this case, she asked questions.

[looker]

"Yeah...ha." Emily's laugh sounded unsure, but could probably shrugged off within the next second. She could already hear the pounding beat of the DJ about a quarter of a mile away. Trashy music could distract even a vampire's mind. "Why wouldn't you have a soul? I mean...you're more human than I am. And you're definitely not a creation of Hell." Emily felt embarrassed. Souls were something very personal to humans. It determined their religion, their aspirations, and even their mates. Being without a soul for so long gave Emily no background of expertise. "I think souls are something you can take back even if you don't have one. I'd suggest heading to Greece and checking out that well of Hades." That was supposed to be sarcasm. Hercules was one of her favorite Disney movies, but she was doubtful in the authenticity of the myth. "As long as you can enjoy life who says that you need a soul?"