The morgue was such a depressing place for normal humans. Jane didn't look at home in it either. Didn't matter if her tiger paced around the dead bodies appraising them like meals. Jane as a person didn't look right in the cool titled and abnormally sterile morgue. Then again unless she was in a country bar or in her house, she didn't fit anywhere else.
Between leather clad fingers she held the mold that Sphinx had made from the bite mark on the wo- victim's neck.This was going to help cut down on the vampires that call this place home. If the killer was local, they would have done a cleaner job of disposing of the body. Still, Jane wanted to rule out the ones she knew in this city. That meant ruling out Marcus', Tino's and Azrael's vampires. The only three masters that would protect lower vampires.
Her hand landed on sphinx's shoulder patting him lightly on the back. "Thanks." The sound of her boots hitting the tiled floor echoed as Jane left. She was going back to MI, and filing out a report letting ash know how far she was on the case. Which meant she would have to tell Frost about her plans as well. It was hard working with anyone else but Ash, but she figured that's why Ash did this in the first place. He wanted them to work together as a team and not have set pairings. Bastard. Jane hated when she understood his logic and when he could read her so easily.
A shrug of her shoulders as she walked into the building. "Hun Ah'm home!" She called out to no one but the receptionist. Who just gave Jane one of those looks that said 'I'm not your hun!' while handing Jane her call list. A short walk to her desk and computer.
She read over the messages. Nothing important. So they were tossed. Looking through her cell she pulled out the number for Bliss. A few rings, and she got Chad. Bless the boy.
"Chad darlin' will ya give ol' Golden eyes ah message fo' me? Could ya tell 'im Ah need ta see 'im. Ah'ma workin' onah case Ah need his assistance with."
There was a few mhm's and yah's before Jane asked Chad to give the same message to Azrael, course she called him Bucky and Chad took a minute to remember that was Azrael's nickname from her. Then she hung up. She should have asked him the night she had gone there with Frost. But after Frost left and that heated discussion with Bucky afterwards that lead to other things. Her mind clouded by her affection for the vampire made her forget to ask. Course who would? The moment would totally be broken between kissing and petting to ask 'remember the case I'm on, mind if I check your vampires out? You know standard procedure.' Jane didn't see that happening. Nor had she wanted anything to interfere with her time with Bucky.
The last call on her list was Tino. It had been... months since she punched him in the bar and had that nasty fight. Her fingers moved down her contacts to find his name. Normally women would erase an Ex's number after a break up. Was Bucky right when he had said that she still had someone on her mind? People believed she was fickle. Bouncing from person to person so easily. Aztec gold eyes stared at the screen with Tino's number on it. She frowned. She had told Tino that she had loved him, hadn't she? It had to be the lust talking. Cause that's what Tino was. Marcus, even if he was from the same line wasn't like that. Marcus was love. In his every action he was love. Love that turned into lust. Because you love him so much you lust after him. Its a need and a craving to have him love you back.
A mental shake of her head. No, Tino wasn't love. Tino was lust and in his own way a very powerful emotion. Cause lust could burn you from the inside if your not careful. Then what was Bucky to her? Not true love, and he wasn't lust, even if she did want him. He was as his name implied: Death. Death was and could be more powerful than lust and love. Because it could strip you of both and still in it own right leave you craving it. He was far more dangerous than love or lust. He was the end of all endings.
Jane shivered thinking of the white haired blue eyed vampire. Her tiger rubbed its stripped body along her insides letting Jane know that her counterpart was seeking the cold brush of Azrael's power too. She had a job to do right now. sucking it up she hit the green button to connect her cell phone to the phone in Tino's house. She knew before he answered it would be Sam.
"Sam, Ah need ta talk ta Tino. Its business. Could ya tell 'im ta call me, when he ain't busy? Yeah numba still the same."
There was no good-bye, but she let Sam know the call was over with an okay, thanks before hanging up. Now, she would fill out a report on what she was up to, and this would kill two birds with one stone. Not only ash but Frost would know how far she's gotten on this goose chase.
Jane turned the mold of teeth around in her gloved covered fingers. It was almost three in the morning The bottle of wild turkey sat on the desk of her office in MI. A glass next to the bottle filled with the dark caramel colored liquor. The night felt like a complete bust. Lashes hovered over her golden eyes as she remembered the hours before she had headed to the office.
The loud beats of music making her ears nearly hurt. She had called ahead to the club. The owner was going to meet her at the front entrance of Paparazzi. Jane had found the place following her nose. Anything that smelled of death she had tracked down. Finally the mixture of blood and death and she stumbled on the vampire bar. A stoke of luck really. The owner was really nice. Wynter had been his name. Most of the vampires that went there had their steady supply of blood. They never needed to kill anyone to get what they needed. There was also that Japanese synthetic blood in bottles. Enough coffin baits in the bar to satisfy all the different tastes of the vamps that frequented the bar.
A few vamps had laughed at Jane as she took the measurements of their teeth. They couldn't believe she came there alone to keep the peace. Jane knew if she took Frost all hell would break loose. She also knew Frost had her own methods of finding out who did this. all the ground work kept Jane's mind off everything else. It had been a few hours at the bar, nothing came up no matches what so ever. It left Jane completely frustrated.
Tossing the mold on her desk. Her hand went for the glass of whiskey. Swallowing it down the way most people would drink water. Empty glass flipped own on a napkin. The bottle recapped and placed in the bottom drawer of her desk. she knew Ash had company over a few nights ago. The bottle had been moved from where she kept it. Not that Jane really cared who drank from her stash. Just as long as they left her some or replaced the bottle afterwards. If they did that, she didn't much care.
Pushing from her desk, long legs extended as she rose. Better get home.