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Call Of The Wild: Invitation
Chapter 7

Fusedtwilight: I hope you are all enjoying this better than before. I have been doing some editing and now that i am a more experianced wrighter i was surprised at my own mistakes. It was also great to go back and take out things and put things in that really help the story.

A few minutes later there was a knock on my door "Come in." I said and in walked Drake.
He came and sat next to me on the chair Anita had sat in "How you feeling?" he asked.
"Believe it or not fine" and I showed him the mark.
He touched it with a single pale finger and I shivered, his hands were cold.
He pulled his hand back thinking he over stepped his bounds "Sorry."
"It's ok just a little cold." I said fixing my hospital gown. "So thanks for helping me." I said.
"No problem, we may have a problem though."
"What?"
"Well many of the shifters last night were pretty pissed about you controlling them so easily. Me and mine had to actually protect your body from some of them who wanted to tear you to shreds."
I shivered at that knowledge. To think if Drake hadn’t been there I would probably be dead.
"And to my knowledge, they have gone to their respective leaders. I talked to miss Blake and she informed me that many of the leaders have gone to Jean-Claude, they thought he had something to do with it. He denied it but he was interested in your ability seeing as how you overpowered one of his master vampires with it, apparently the leaders want to meet you to see if you’re a threat or not." he said.
"Meet me? What do you mean they want to meet me; I’m a waiter at a bar. Why would the Alpha’s of St. Louise want to meet me?"
"Dave you controlled a few dozen shifters and overpowered the call of a master vampire, and you’re just human, that’s bound to get some attention." He said.
"So what’s going to happen?"
"Well me, Magnus, and our company will be there to give witness, the Dog leaders will be there with your friend Kim to thank you for protecting her. The others want to scope out how strong you are, see if you’re a threat."
"And if I am?"
"Then Jean-Claude will offer you sanctuary, and the other can't harm you without risking his wrath, he was really impressed, I think he may even offer you a job at his circus."
Great come see the amazing jungle boy as he tames the monsters of legend.
"Ok when is this little shindig?"
"Tonight." Drake said.
"Okay how about I refuse to go, I owe them no explanation. Kim is my friend and she was there because of me. I wasn’t going to let her get hurt because of me. The only thing I had against those zealots was my power so I used it."
"Take Jean-Claude’s offer David or you’ll regret it." Drake said his eye’s turning icy.
"What?"
"Do you think Jean-Claude is doing this out of the goodness of his heart? He is the master of the city pup, and you beat one of his master vampires at a game of metaphysics."
"You mean that Asian chic?" I asked.
"Yes Meng-Die was one of those we had to protect your fragile and vulnerable body from last night. She still holds a grudge."
"Shit." I moaned. Great I had a master vampire out for my blood just what I needed.
"Yes." Drake said smiling "Now her master Jean-Claude has heard from her and Asher his second in command about a boy who called a group of Shifters, and who beat one of his kiss at a metaphysical game. He is the master of the city who has been working on building his relations with the others for many years now. Then along comes you and now you have all the other leaders so wound up about what you have done the only reason they haven’t come after you now is because him and the Necromancer have promised to look into it. You are something that could prove useful, Jean-Claude sees this. He wants to see for himself how useful you are before the other’s do. Make no mistake he sees you as a resource he will offer you protection and you will take it Dave because to refuse will allow the Alpha’s to fall on you, and to persuade him to use more….unpleasant means to acquire your services. Don’t be a fool, he is a very powerful man you will have no better protection then from him."
"Damn it!" I said rubbing my face. I wanted to avoid this kind of situation.
"I am to escort you to the masters lair for tonight, I will help vouch for you." He said.
I stared at my hands "Drake I can't go."
"Why not? You have to."
"They might get interested in me what if they try and kidnap me or something? What if they....try and learn about my family."
"What you mean the fact you ran away changed your name, all to avoid the guilt over the lives you helped take, in the name of the Black Forest clan?"
I stared at him in horror "How did you?"
He chuckled "I confess last night with my beast running wild and your sweet blood flowing I took a sip."
"You drank my blood?!" I asked indigently rubbing my shoulder, the image of Drake licking the wound was to clear in my head for comfort.
"Just a sample, my people have a unique ability, we get the memories of those whose blood we drank, yours was very...invigorating." He said rubbing his lips with his fingers remembering the taste obviously.
"Please…" I begged "Please don't tell anyone, you have my memories you know why I ran why I still run, I had to." I said pulling my knees up to my chin.
He put a comforting hand on my shoulder "I swear I will speak of nothing I have learned...Don't worry tonight I will declare you under my protection, anyone who desires to harm you will find the wrath of the St. Louise vampire's on them".
"Why would you do that?"
"Because I like you, and after seeing your memories I understand the desire for peace."
"You cried when I was hurt." I said remembering his tear filled eyes.
"I felt bad for not protecting you." He said looking away
"Why?" I started to say but the door opened.
It was Anita. She looked at us "You told him right?" Drake nodded
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you earlier but I needed to get rid of the detectives." She said and came to stand beside me. I felt my power begin to uncoil. "Easy." She muttered.
"You to huh?" I asked she nodded.
"What is it?" Drake asked looking between us.
Before she could stop me I answered "Something about our powers attracts each other." I said.
"Really?" he said and looked at Anita "I bet Jean-Claude would find that interesting."
She gave him an unfriendly look "Yes he does."
"Careful Dave the necromancer has quite the habit for adding men to her collection, rumor has it she likes them young." Drake said cruelly his lips forming a sneer at Anita.
Anita just glared at him, but that one glare made my insides go cold.
"Um Anita?" I asked "Where are we going for this little meeting?"
"The circus of the damned, it is the hiding spot for the vampires. And you’re soon to be new home."
"Say what?!"
"One of the crusaders ran, he escaped, and by now he would have told his friends all about you, and there known for there ruthlessness, until this situation with the Alpha's and the crusaders is taken care of you will be temporarily relocated to the circus until a better place becomes available."
"But what about the other Detectives?"
"They know about you being placed under protective custody, it has already been approved. I am to look after you." She said.
“Lucky you." Drake said to me.
"But my apartment?"
"I'm afraid your land lady didn't accept you hospitalization as a good enough excuse and has had you evicted."
"OH THAT BITCH!" I shouted.
She smirked "Yes but don't worry your friend Ron and Jeremy moved most of your belongings into the circus already."
"They have?"
"Yes Jeremy seems particularly upset with you and is ready to have words with you when next he sees you."
I groaned "Great."
"The boy will need better protection; tonight I will announce him under the Werebats protection." Drake said.
Anita gave him a hard look "And why would you do that Drake?"
"The goodness of my heart." He smirked.
"Riiight, okay get dressed and let’s go." She said.
She and Drake left to give me some privacy. I couldn’t believe it. First I worked with shifter’s now I’m living with Vamps, I’d laugh if I wasn't scared shitless.
We drove to the circus of the damned. We parked in the lot and walked over to the back entrance to a metal door. She knocked on it three times and it opened to reveal a blond man of eighteen. My power recognized him as wolf.
"Hey Anita." He greeted.
"Hello Clay." She said nodding toward him and we walked down a long stair case.
I couldn't believe it here I was with thee Anita Blake, and a Werebat prince, walking in a vampire safe haven, getting ready to meet with a bunch of pissed off Alpha leaders. Peg was right I do have a knack for trouble. We walked down the hallways, passing a few people who greeted Anita. Some were human others were shifters. A mix of hyena, wolf, and rat.
"Jean-Claude is up he is waiting for us." Anita said.
We walked into a room covered in drapes, above the fireplace there was a painting of three people. Two men and a woman in the middle. It looked really old, I recognized the one man as Asher from last night. Only there were no scars on his face, he was so beautiful back then why would anyone want to ruin it? We took a seat and waited for Jean-Claude. While we waited I decided to chit.
"So is Kim ok?" I asked Drake. He was sitting right next to me. Anita was in front of us on another chair. She watched us closely or at least Drake. I had a feeling that she didn't like him much. I wonder why? (Note the sarcasm in my voice)
"She's fine, a bit scared but she'll make it" He said. "She was rather upset with herself when she heard you were hurt."
"Hey that’s what friends do they look out for each other." I shrugged.
"Yes well your chivalry has earned you the favor of the dog leaders."
"Why?"
"Turns out your friend Kim is the on again off again mate to the dog leaders son."
"Really? I mean I knew she had a kinda sorta boyfriend but I never knew it was the
leader of the dogs." By kind sorta I mean on again, off again.
"Well he's not the leader he's the son of the leader." He said. So Andy was the son of the leader of the Weredogs? I wonder how the Crusaders found out they were together?
We heard voices talking, then the curtains opened and Asher and Jean-Claude master of St. Louise stepped through. He had midnight blue eyes, almost black, perfect as the midnight sky; stands close to 6 ft, roughly 5'11"; long softly curling black hair; pale skin of alabaster with a lean bare chest that had a burn scar of a cross. Anita stood up and gave him a kiss. Then Asher.
Jean-Claude walked over to Drake and me "Bonjour I am Jean-Claude master of St. Louise, this is Asher my temoin." he said shaking my hand.
I looked over at Asher and smiled at Asher "Yes we met last night at the club, sorry for the inconvenience." I said shaking his cold hand.
He smiled back "Ah but of course, the circumstances were less then pleasant." He said.
"Oui, now shall we sit and talk of tonight?" Jean-Claude said.
We all sat down and talked about how it all started. "So how did this all begin?" Anita asked.
I glanced at Drake I didn't want to get him in trouble "Well two nights ago I was working at the zoo, the club and I sensed Drake, he mistook me for a bat and we started talking and he invited me to hang out." I said I edited out the part of our little confrontation.
Drake leaned closer to me "They know what really happened, Magnus told them remember?"
Crap. Really do wish he had told me that before I made an ass of myself.
"If this is going to work you need to be honest." Anita said looking upset. I didn't blame her, here I was causing trouble for her and her friends and they were trying to help me and I was lying.
"I'm sorry." I apologized "I didn't want to get Drake in trouble after he saved me last night." I said.
"Don't worry he gets himself in enough trouble, but from now on no more lying okay?" Anita said.
"Sure" I lied again. If I told them who I really was the shit would hit the fan.
"Ok so everything from the top."
I spent the next twenty minutes telling them about what happened. Everything from when I first met Drake to when he invited me to hang out with him. I tried to tell them the truth but at the same time tried to tell the story in a way that wouldn’t get Drake in trouble.
Drake may had seemed flippant about it but I had a feeling he really wanted to update his peoples way of thinking, this coming out of the cave thing was the first step and I didn’t want to ruin that by accident.
"Well Drake once again you have proven your inability to behave your self Oui?" Asher said glaring at Drake.
Drake just shrugged his slim shoulders "I made a mistake; I tried to make up for it".
"We'll discus your recent behavior later right now we must worry about tonight, now mon chat, ma petit has told me about your interesting mixer at the hospital" Jean-Claude said.
"I have no idea what that was, I’ve met animators before and that never happened." I said.
"Yes well ma petite is no ordinary animator" he said grinning "She is a necromancer, though I don't see how that could effect your power, hers is that of death, and yours is very much alive, then again do to her...unique genetic make up, it could be that is what calls your power."
"You mean the whole five strands of furry flavor in her helix?"
He looked surprised that I knew "Oui yes, you have a unique talent, even amongst vampires to call all animals only one can clam such a gift."
"Padma." Anita said spitting out the word like it brought a foul taste to her mouth.
"Oui."
"Whose Padma?" I asked.
"He is the master of all beasts, and a member of the vampire council, he is a very evil and vile man, no he lost the right to be called a man long ago." Asher said. I had a feeling Padma was not welcome here.
"So what do we do for tonight?" Drake asked.
"Well first we will have to get you properly dressed for tonight, second we must not allow ma petite and our young caller to physically touch, if the others since a merging of powers between them they may suspect foul play, or believe we are taking him in." Jean-Claude said.
"But you are taking him in?" Drake asked.
"Only until the situation with the alphas and crusaders is solved, we aren’t hiring him for anything else." Anita said.
I sighed "Angry alphas on one side, religious zealots on the other whoopee." I said sarcastically.
Anita smiled "I'll have Micah come obviously to show leopard support, Zane and Cherry were there so we can use them for witness's, Janet and Andy are obviously going to throw in there support, and Drake here said he would declare Dave under Chiropteran protection." Anita said.
"How oddly kind." Asher said looking at Drake suspiciously.
"I owe a debt; it is partially my fault these events have happened." Drake said scowling at Asher.
"I know Rafael will be there, Rebecca the Ursa to the Werebears, Nilisha the kashyapa of the Werecobras, Christine will obviously be there to represent the unaffiliated, Ixion on behalf of Narcissus, Richard obviously, Haven, and apparently Donovan is really interested as well so he will be there."
"Swans? Really, I’ve always wanted to meet one." I said.
Everyone gave me a funny look "It's a thing I have that my dad called an unhealthy attraction to shifters." I said blushing.
Okay I definitely have an unhealthy attraction to Lycanthropes. I can’t help it if they’re cool.
"Richard will be easy to sway seeing how he knows you." Anita said.
"He's the Ulfric right?" they all stared at me, oops just made a revelation, I wasn’t supposed to know he was the wolf king. "It's a thing I can do, I just know he’s top dog." I whispered.
"Can you always tell if someone’s a shifter?" Anita asked curiously.
"Yes any time any where. I can even sense master vampires more easily then non-masters, as long as they have an animal to call."
"Young David is full of surprises no." Jean-Claude said smiling and I felt a shiver. It was known that Jean-Claude’s powers revolved around sex. But that smirk held no hint of sex, it was just natural.
"I have heard of psychics who are empathic to animals and can communicate with them, but your power seems to be on a scale I never heard of." Anita said.
"Yeah it was one of the reasons why I stayed in the metaphysical closet didn't want to let them to know that I knew there secrets, they might get nervous and well you know go all CSI on me." I said.
"Smart Dave real smart, there are indeed those who would kill to keep they’re secrets." Anita said.
"Ixion won't be a problem; he has already informed me that Narcissus will remain neutral until Ixion reports back what happens tonight." Asher said.
Narcissus? Ewww. Narcissus was the Oba of the hyenas. Usually the hyenas are ruled by girls, but Narcissus is a hermaphrodite, so he's an exception to the rule. But it wasn't his sex that bothered me (Although that was pretty freaky) it was his way of sex. Narcissus ran a BDSM club. From what I’ve heard there’s more cutting, whipping, beating, and other hurtful things then actual sex with Narcissus, he was one hundred percent sexual sadist, and complete mental case. I so did not want to be on his shit list.
"Haven may be difficult, to find out a human could control his pride, I know he'll make it some kind of pissing contest." Anita said.
"Oui, Rafael, and Donovan may be easier to persuade, but the rest are going to cause problems, there still recovering from Chimera, so they may be a bit of a challenge."
"How long do we have to prepare?" Drake asked.
"Two hours, could you escort Mansur David to his room?" Jean-Claude asked Drake then he turned to me "I will be there shortly to talk to you and ma petit alone, I will have the proper cloth's for tonight sent to you." he said and bowed out with Asher.
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I found myself in the bathroom of my new room. I was in the tub; well swimming pool was more like it. Jean-Claude sure knows how to live...for a dead guy. While I soaked in the bubble filled tub I checked my shoulder the wound was practically healed except for a slight bruise. I sighed. Peg had a theory that since my power fed of shifter energy I could tap in to the powers of a shifter. We had never tested the theory I had run away before that had happened. But now the proof was right here before me. How it was possible for me to heal this quick by just sucking in shifter energy I had no idea, besides it was a silver bullet shouldn’t that have interfered with the healing process? Maybe because I was a human the silver thing didn’t work on me? None of it made sense, I had been exposed to shifters before and I never got any stronger or healed faster.
There was a knock at the door.
"Come in" I said. Now I know what you’re thinking why was I letting someone come in the room when I was naked? One there were enough bubbles to hide any male parts. Two I was raised by wolfs, shifters by nature are very open about nudity, you get the oddball here and there that prefers clothes, but they were touchy feely by nature. I had seen my fair share of tits and ass, and I had gone skinny dipping with friends before, no shame here.
The door opened and in stepped Drake. He walked in carrying a bundle of clothes for tonight he didn't stop at my nakedness, that’s shifters for you.
He placed them on the counter and turned to me "Jean-Claude is waiting to speak with you, Anita is with him." He put his hand in his pocket and pulled out my cross choker. "I figured you might loose it so I took it before the medics’ arrived." he said placing it on the counter by the clothes.
"Thanks." I said. That is my favorite, it made me look cool, at least that’s what Kim said.
He turned to leave "Drake."
"Yes?"
"Thanks for your support."
"My pleasure." he said without turning around and he shut the door.
What possessed me to say that? I mean sure I was grateful but I didn’t have to kiss his ass. I was confused about Drake, he really was an emo. One minute he was moody, anti-social, rude, and an upright prick. The next he was polite, funny, dark, and mysterious. I didn’t know what to do about him. He was dangerous I didn’t need my power to tell me that. And no matter what excuse he came up with I knew there was another reason why he was attracted to me. I don’t know whether I should be more concerned if it’s to my power or something else.
I got out and wiped myself dry. I then proceeded to check my cloths that Drake left for me to wear. And did a double take. He wanted me to wear that!

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