Two Months Later
"Hey Bartender can I get a double scotch on the rocks? And your phone number?" Some loser calls to me over the music.
"To the former aye. To the latter when hell freezes over and the Pope admits he is gay. Then I'll think about it." I said handing him the drink I made while I was talking. I didn't so much as spare him a glance. I saw someone coming toward one of my girls. It was the same grabby git from a month ago. But this time he picked a different girl. I watched him do the same thing as he did last time he grabbed her and tried to force her to kiss him. I had, had enough.
"HEY!!!" I yelled and everyone stopped and looked. "You know the rules." I said I looked at the door men. "Get him the fuck out of my bar! I don't want to see his ares in here again! You all know the rules. No one grabs the girls." I yelled and Nicky, a vampire and highly famine gay man, doorman who helped me out after my mother died practically carried the grabby basted out of my bar. Nicky really did through the little prick out the door. The girl came up to the bar.
"Thanks Big Momma. I need that." Rube aka Sara said.
"No problem Chicklet. You know I look after my girls." I said as I glanced her way but Richard cough my eye. "Rube, sweetie you know I hate to be rude to you or any of the girls but..."
"Yeah I see Richard too and it's okay Big Momma." Rube said and gave me a hug and walked away. I looked back to Richard at the door. He motioned to the group of men standing by him. I looked at them. They didn't really blend in well at all. I patted my right shoulder. They were all wearing T-shirts. So judging by that and Richard had indicated they were asking about me. Richard was standing on what Looked to be the leaders right side. He grabbed the other man's sleeve and ripped it up. That's when I saw the brand.
The leader pulled his arm back quickly. And boy did he look pissed at Richard. In fact he looked about ready to through down when the man standing behind him grabbed his arm and nodded his head in my direction. The same direction Richard was looking. I looked at Richard and nodded. At that Richard walked them to the bar.
"Hey Big Momma. These nomads were asking questions about the kiddies." Richard said and I could tell from his tone he was not a happy little vampire. You see Richard and Nicky were a gay couple and both had helped me and now worked for me. But I still loved them both.
"I'm sure they were Richey. Now donnay get your panties in a twist because we both know Nicky would have your nuts if he cough you flirting with another man." I said to Richard in my best Mother softening the blow tone.
"Like he doesn't already have my nuts." Richard said mockingly. I laughed and turned to the leader.
"So how can I help you lads out?" I said. I looked at the leader but it was the other man that answered me. The same man that had kept the one I was staring at from throwing a punch at Richey. There was something about this guy that I was looking at that seemed so familiar to me. But I could not place him.
"We are looking for a girl that can help us out of a jam of sorts." The man said. I never looked at him though. I was studying they man in front of me right now. But I was listening to everything around me as I always had too. If I didn't then I would be dead by now.
"My girls aren't hookers. You want that you get the Fuck out of my bar." I said not having to fake the barely vailed rage I was feeling. I couldn't explain it but I was really bothered by the thought of the man I was staring at looking for any other woman. But that didn't make any scents what so ever. I had never met this man before in my life. If I had I would have remembered. But no I knew with every fiber of my being that I had never laid eyes on this man in real life before. Though he did look surprisingly like the man that I had been dreaming about for months but that was insane. Right?
"We are not looking for hookers as we already told your pain in the ass Vampire door man here." The leader said. Shite they knew Richard was a vampire. Which likely meant they probably knew about Nicky too.
"If it weren't so public I would take care of the fiend myself." He continued that was it. You didn't threaten my girls, or Richard, or Nicky.
"You would die before you could so much as move in a manner that I saw as threating." I said. My voice dripping with not just rage but authority. But I felt it. The storm in my eyes.
"You'll have to excuse my brother he is having one of those to much testosterone and no out let kind of days. Now can we just take it down a notch or two please?" The other man said. "What do you say Big Momma?" He continued. I looked at him now. The storm never lessening.
"You are no' one of my lasses, nor are you one of my doormen. There of you will no' call me Big Momma till I give you leave to do so." I ordered. He would obey. He had no choice. I was the Daughter of a God. I could see him try to speak. But no words would come. I simply smiled. "Tepper. Take our new acquaintances to a VIP table." I said. It be time for last call in a few minutes. I would close early for this.
"Of cores Big Momma." Tepper aka Meliney said.
"Thanks Chicklet." I said. " ALRIGHT YOU LOT LAST CALL Y'ALL HAVE 10 MINUTES. THE CABS ARE WAITING." I yelled to the crowed at large. They all stated out. The girls all looked happy to get off early. Richey and Nicky looked worried. I got everyone out the door. Save my new acquaintances. Whom were not happy.
"What in the name of the Gods have you done to my brother you witch?" The leader asked. I laughed as I pulled back my hair. Reveling the barned on my neck that reveled I was my father's daughter. Not that the leader noticed. "What the Fuck do you find so amusing!?" He yelled at me. I looked at him. I could feel it in me. The thing that made even these men cower. But not their leader.
"What I find amusing Atlantean, is that you think calling me a witch is an insult. When I have been called far worse by others. What I find funny Atlantean is that you do not move when every one else feels the power within me." I said looking at him. He looked almost afraid. But it was another man that spoke next. He was a priest I could tell. He respected the power I wielded but did not fear it. He looked at my neck.
"It is you!" The priest said. He looked like he was about to bow. When the leader stopped him.
"What are you talking about Cortus? And how do you know about us?" He went off. I rolled my eyes when would this man use his damned eyes and see what was right in front of his nose?
"Yes Priest it is me. Cortus is it? He must have only told you what and where to look for it." I said ignoring the leader. No way this was the man I had been seeing in my dreams. He was to stupid and not seeing me.
"Yes My Lady. He did tell only me. I tried to tell the fools you see before you not to anger you My Lady. But as you have and can still see only one listened to me. Forgive me My Lady." He said. "Addison is a hot headed idiot at times. And his brother Aidan is not much better though he runs to flirtations." Cortus said.
"Yes I can see. And there is nothing to forgive. I would not hold you accountable for the actions that are theirs. I am not him." I said. I looked at each of the men in turn. I turned my head so that my brand would show clearly. "How about a drink?" I asked. I walked back to the bar.
"You have not answered me woman! What in the name of Poseidon have you done to my brother?" Addison, the leader of this small group said. The venom in his voice was almost tangible. Though it didn't effect me.
"My father would not approve of your blaspheme.." I said looking at him. I was now behind the bar. Addison looked as though he had been hit by a Mac truck doing 100 down a back road.
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