Akora smoothed out her mini-skirt and glanced around the train station again. She had just gotten off the train, and was headed to the city side of New York. A few men passed her a few glances, but she swept past everyone, in a hurry to get out of the stifling station...

She made her way through the crowd onto the busy street outside. She looked up and down both sides, not finding a taxi. How is it that a busy street outside of a train station doesn't have a taxi? She sighed and crossed the street expertly, walking along the alleys and backroads, passing by restaurants and little shops along the way.

As a vampire, she didn't need food, only the blood of a mortal night by night... Perhaps tonight would promise such a meal...

*Katrina Swiftly walks past the mortals, in the busy street. She slips down an alley, and walks in the silence of her footsteps. Her black hair flying behind her, along with her cloak. She walked out onto another street, and began to walk down it. Her pants cling to her body, her shirt pressed tightly against her chest. A few guys turned thier heads, and whistled, but she payed no attention to them. She was looking for a meal..but not a thug.*

Walking along the back streets Paige wanted to escape the world she knew if her father found her in such a place he would hate it and forbid it but she didnt care, she smiled as the night seemed to get darker her long dark red hair looking odd aginst her black jacket and pants but she didnt care she never seemed to care much about anything that was why she walked the back streets no people around to bother her.

Akora saw the two women from a distance. A mortal, and a vampire. She studied them both carefully and then willed herself in front of the vampire. "Is this your territory?"

Not hearing what the woman had said because she was unaware that there were people in the distance she began humming a popular tune but then changed her mind and hummed a haunting tune that her familie had always hummed, she draged her hand along the walls as she walked feeling the texture of the bricks this place was like a maze all the back streets.

coming out of a building," actualyl this is my territory. and i dont care if you walk back here." lighting a cigg. "its hard work running this god damn stip club. noone wants to pay, then i have to make them pay, such hard work." he chuckled.

Ara walked down the street..maybe i took a wrong turn?... She walked with her eyes closed, not that she could see with her eyes open in the first place. She found her way around mostly by counting her steps and listening. She turned a corner and heard voices-who were they? maybe they could help her find the palce she was looking for..

"So, this is your territory?" Akora nodded and lit a cigarette of her own. "I'm Akora. A vampire then...? If this is your territory..."

Akora turned as she heard the familiar tune. She saw a girl in the distance. Paige. She knew her well, although they had never met. Akora knew Paige's father- a killer of vampires.

"A lost mortal," Akora commented, seeing the blind woman lost and alone...

"Am i bothering you?" Ara called out, "I'm sorry if i'm intruding, but perhaps you could give me directions? I think I took a wrong turn somewhere..."

"where are you tring to go. ive lived here for years,"

"I'm sorry," Akora told the blind woman. "I just arrived here. I don't know anything about this place... Do you really think you should be traveling alone?" Akora was a little worried. What was a blind woman doing alone in a city like this? She wasn't cold-hearted enough to feed on the handicapped, so she simply studied her face, and nodded at the owner of the strip club, hoping he wouldn't be that cruel... as to feed off of a blind woman.

"Do you know if there is a convenience store around here?"

"Convenience store?" Akora asked. "As I've said, I'm not from around here, I'm sorry. I'm Akora. It's nice to meet you..."

Ara turned towards the voice, "I suppose it's nice to meet you as well."

"Ara..." Akora shut her mouth. She had gotten the name from the blind woman's mind... she hadn't meant for it to slip out.

"I'm sorry I can't help you..." Akora looked around for a respectable looking place...

Ara's face snapped from open to suspicious, "H-how do you know my name?" She starts to back away instinctively, "Well, if you don't know where i can find a store, i'll go find someone else to ask.." Ara was shaking- she never really told anyone her name-most people never asked.

throwing his cigg. down and walking up to the lady," miss i can tell you where a store is. if you jsut walk down this street and take a left there is one there."

"Th-thank you." Ara walks as quickly as possible, following that nice man's directions.

"What do you think?" Akora asked the man. "You're not going to follow her..." She studied him carefully. "What's your name?"

" hell no im not going to follow her. that is insinsitive, just cause i am a vampire doesnt mean i dont have emotions too. my name... you have to find out why dont you come in my club."

Ara walked into the store and asked if there were any sunglasses. She picked one and paid for it by touch, also buying a pack of mints. She turned and walked back the way she had come, because she didn't know any other way to get back. She paused at the place where she had been frightened, frowning. Something didn't...feel right about this place... She shrugged and continued walking.

Paige stopped humming as she walked into the shop and bought a drink she started humming as soon as she got out of the shop and cursed at herself for it, she ducked behind a wall and out of the way of someone her father knew not wanting to be draged back home agan and given the lecture about the streets not being safe she remebered when he had told her about the vampires that roamed the streets she had laughed in his face and refused to learn how to fight with them she found it funny how her father belived in things like that he was suposed to be an adult, she smiled as the man walked past and didnt see her she began walking again not knowing where she was heading.

ooc-i dont mind if someone kills my charactor or anything like that

ooc~ crawling darkness- my character fought your father. she is a vampire, and your father tries to kill those of her kind... how about you come in the nightclub and i'll have my character start up a conversation with you?

"Well, alright," Akora looked around, noticing the wandering humans. She followed the owner of the nightclub. "You don't trust easily, do you?" She laughed and entered the dim confusion she was so used to.

She found a club what looked like a strip club "perfect" she purred her father would die if one of his buddys saw her in here maybe she sould ask for a job just to push her father over the edge but she decided against it she already had a lot of money and she hated it when people paid attention to her. She walked in looking around smileing hopeing that she knew someone in here but she had never seen any of them before "damn" she said walking to the bar and ordering a drink and admireing the bar ladys outfit it turned out the saying: less is more actualy made sense here.

"Paige," Akora let the name linger on her lips as she approached the beautiful girl. She ran a finger through Paige's hair, grinning and extending her fangs. "Your father hunts my kind. How dare you be so insolent as to enter here." She realized that Paige had no idea where she was. Akora instantly pulled back her fangs. "You should learn your place," Akora hummed tranquilly.

"What the hell?" Paige stepped back with a puzzeled look that soon turned to rage "I should learn my Place?...who the hell do you think you are?...if you have some problem with my father then go bother him about it" she smirked "an if you do tell him his hell child of a daughter is in a place like this" she downed her drink in one and laughed at the woman and turned to leave.

"Learn your place," Akora gritted her teeth and seethed. "I am not your messenger girl." Akora extended her fangs again and willed herself in front of Paige she pressed her against the wall and glared at her, narrowing her black eyes. "How dare you... Your insolence is not acceptable. Your father should've raised you better. You dislike him? So does my entire world... the ones he hasn't killed."

She smirked not careing that this woman was pressing her aginst the wall with some force "nice fangs hun, your dentist is realy talented" she placed a finger on the womans lips and then put her hand over her mouth "opps am i suposed to be scared?" she said in a cute voice and then her voice changed to a sickening haunting tone "i dont dislike him i Hate him, for all i care he cant rot in hell"

Akora smiled in Paige's face. She transported them both through the astral plane and in a quiet room behind the bar. She floated gracefully above the ground. "So you hate him, eh? What'd he do to you?"

Paiges jaw droped "wha?" she mumbled and looked around she was shocked but didnt fear any of this she heard the woman speak "i dont see why i should tell you" her voice sounded powerful but purred still even though she was shocked.

"It's difficult for your mortal mind to grasp the concept," Akora laughed bitterly. "I am a vampire... the vampires your father hunts. I hate your father, I loathe him. You speak of hating him. Do you hate him enough to kill him? What's your reason behind it? Why do you hate him, little girl?"

"vampires?" She thought for a second and mumbled "i guess he isnt as insane as i thought he was or im going insane...no im not" then her mind snaped back to what the woman had said "are you crazy? why would i kill him and risk getting caught, if i got caught i wouldnt inherit his money. pluss i doubt he`d leave his money to me" she laughed this woman obvously couldnt understand Paiges world "and as for hateing him, well every kid hates there father its like a rule" she lied

"Do you realize I can read your thoughts like an open book?" Akora laughed, a biting sound. "You think like a human," she scoffed. "How typical. I was hoping for someone original..." She slammed Paige against the wall, and pulled both her arms out of socket. "Now tell me... why do you hate your father?"

Paige shouted out in pain and fell to the floor "of course i think like a human i am one" she delt with pain as she usualy would by shouting her mouth of "and for someone who can read my thoughts sooo well, how come you dont know why i hate him?" her mind jumbled with pain for a second but then returned to its normal hateful state she breathed in quickly more threw anger than pain "i hate him because he sent me from home to home and boarding school to borading school from as soon as i was born, like a dirty lil secret but he never did this with mmy sister his perfect lil innocent sweet daughter" she spoke with such hate and bitterness which sounded impossable "and he never once came visit, not until i was 18 then poof up he comes brings me to this crapy town forces me to live with him and on top of that i never got to see my mothers face because that ....that basterd kept me from her and didnt even tell the school i was at" she wanted to hit a wall but she couldnt she had never told anyone that before mainly because she never cared enough to tell people "im sure you big strong vampire cant possably understand that after all i am a typical human and im sure that happened to everyone" she said sarcasticaly.

"Don't you understand?!" Akora shouted. "Do you know why I hate him so? He betrayed me! We fell in love and..." Akora closed her eyes. "I'm sorry." She whispered. "Here," She helped Paige up and waved a hand over her, healing the wounds. "I'm sorry." She gazed down at Paige. "He kept me from... from my daughter..." She studied her... daughter carefully.

Paige was about to call the woman for being in love she thought it was such a weak emotion but then her eyes went wide for a second and stepped back "if your thinking what im thinking thats impossable my mother died when i was like 7 years old and.. if you and my father were together" she shivered "then you must be thinking of my sister meg"

"Yes," she replied. "I did die when you were but seven. And I became... this..." Akora shook her head sadly. "A hunter and a vampire- the forbidden union."

She smiled acwardly trying to get her thoughts straight she opened her mouth to speak but no words came out she just stood there shakeing her head she realised she had been holding her breath she coughed and cursed at her self she was loseing her mind something she rarely ever did "think about it my way, my mind is of science ive never been a religous person and never beleaved in faery storys.... so you can understand how difficult this is for me when i find out vampires are real and can heal cause thats like what whitelighters are supose to do...sorry to much tv programs frazeling my brain" she cursed at her self again frazeling wasnt even a real word god i need a drink she thought.

"Come on then," Akora murmured. "Let's go and get you a drink."

"how did you?....oh it doesnt matter"

"Come with me," Akora took her daughter, Paige, by the hand and led her into the dismal confusion of the night club. She sat at the bar and got Paige a water. She swept her black hair up away from her eyes and studied the girl carefully. "Do you still live with him?"

Paige looked around and looked suspicously at the woman "yeh i do, i have to" she smiled bitterly "its not like other peoples rules when your 18 you can leave home....well my father isnt like that hes....controling" she spoke with such bitterness which would make any human shiver.

"First off," Akora smiled bitterly. "You sound like the half-vampire daughter I was kept from for so long..." She smiled and ordered herself a shot of vodka. "Secondly, you don't have to live with that poor excuse for a father any longer. You may live with me, if you wish."

"half vampire" she laughed drinking the water she was not used to drinking water "and if it was that easy i would have moved out a hell of a long time ago...the man has friends everywere hes like a spy" she snickered and then looked around disapointed that her father would probebly not know she had been here she sighed "but thanks for the offer" she was being poilte for once which was a very rare thing.

"Oh please," Akora rolled her eyes. "Do you realize I have gained far more power than your "father" has ever seen?" She downed her shot and lit a cigarette. "Paige, it's still your choice. Whatever." She took a drag and looked around the club, studying the moving bodies, wondering where the vampire had gone. "It's ironic," Akora murmurs to no one. "First time I come back here I happen to chance a meeting with my daughter for the first time in years." She takes another drag and lets the smoke linger above her empty glass. She nods to the bartender, ordering a drink, not caring what's in it. Very little can kill a vampire. "What have you been doing with your life?"

She still wasnt convinced this woman was her mother "me oh well...ive been gaining a reputation as a mean, nasty, vendictive bitch and ive been studying psychology, i have a job at a psychiatric hospital but i havnt got a full degree in it yet because im only 20"

"I'm sure you'll be lovely," Akora grimaced at her own kind words and looked at her cigarette. She was gripping it too hard. She blew the smoke in the bartender's face and laughed delicately. He slammed her drink down and she gulped it down. "Hmmm," she thought carefully. "Why did you decide you wanted to become a psychiatrist?"

"thought it might help me figure my father out" she smirked "but serously it was because i find the human mind such a interesting thing and ive always been a watcher of people trying to figure out why there so emotionaly challanged" she had always thought people were so weak she was too "so what do you do? i mean do you even have a job or cant you get one? like you see in these programs about vampires were they dont go out in the day...ok fictonal programs but is there any truth to them?"

Akora laughed inconsolably. "I can walk in the day, sure. I just prefer the night," she didn't even whisper about the sunlight weakening her powers. That slipped away from her like water from a hand. "I was a bounty hunter for some vampires back... back where I used to live. Now I'm just flapping in the breeze," Akora smiled bitterly and let the cigarette smoke escape her lips again. She let her black eyes study her daughter carefully. She stroked Paige's cheek, still seeing her as a little baby being taken away. Akora screaming... Paige crying... She pushed away the memory. "Silly mortal myths."

She shrugged "those mortal myth`s are quiet entertaining" she remembered when she was 4 too young to go to boarding school she was staying with an aunt who used to read books about vampires, she saw a flash of the womans face "ive seen your face before" she tryed hard to think then it came to her it was when she broke into her fathers study he had a picture of this woman on the back was the date 1981 and the name Akora.