Chapter 1 - One night of Passion
The third time Alice's phone rang she realised she would have to answer.
"Please just block his number, he calls you lol everyday at this point, it's tragic." Alice bit her lip, seeing it notify her of the missed call.
"It could be something serious though. What if something happened to his mum? She's constantly in and out of hospital at this point." Christina just rolled her eyes as she put away the last of her lunch.
"The biggest trouble he's had since you split was twisting his ankle at his little EDL larp group. He's toxic and obsessed, do yourself a favor."
"It's not EDL, it's.."
"It's just hating supes, right, because that's so much better." Alice goes to respond but is quickly interrupted again. "Look you broke up with him for a reason, he's a psycho yeah? Seriously, he was always such a freak with me and Sebastian. I put up with him because he was your first love but now... Drop him." Suitably scolded, Alice dropped the phone back to the table, huffing out an overly dramatic sigh as she folded her arms on the table.
"Why can't I just find a nice, normal man, who worships the ground I walk on. Is that so much to ask Chris?" Her question was responded to with a blank stare.
"You know you'd need to leave the house to meet someone, and no, coming to the theater to perform or practice is not enough." Alice's head just collapsed into her arms as she let out another dramatic grunt.
"I'm going to die alone, there's no saving me."
"There's no saving who?" The new voice interrupted them as heavy footsteps could be heard walking into the room. Alice poked her head up looking through the blonde hair falling on her face and noticed Julia, one of the new light techs who was very tall, very butch and very supernatural, the werewolf's strength and agility helped a lot in her role, apparently. Christina answered for the pair.
"Alice, she's stuck on her bigoted ex and never goes anywhere. So she's destined to die alone."
"I'm not hung up on him, we're over and I'm happy with that." Christina made eye contact with Julia and just rolled her eyes. "I saw that, I'm not, he just won't leave me alone." Julia sat down in Christina's old seat who was waiting to leave.
"How bigoted are we talking? What's his poison?" Christina again decided to be the one to answer for her.
"Supes, he's in the Supernatural defense league. We're talking full on biblical cretin." Julia just whistled pulling out her dinner, which seemed to consist of meat, meat and more meat. Opening the tray her eyes fell on Alice with a suspicious glint.
"SDF's serious shit, you knew about that when you were with him?" Alice's eyes went wide, realising what Christina had dropped her in.
"No, he was normal when we were together, never mentioned supernaturals, just ignored them. He joined like a year ago. We split two years back."
"And you still talk to him?" Christina was leaning against the counter with a sickly sweet smile on her face.
"He calls me, he was really depressed when we split, and, well sorta threatened some stuff. So I answer so he doesn't, ya know..." Alice's words trail off realising Julia didn't seem as mollified as Alice hoped.
"You realise that's not your problem though right? Like if you've been split that long and he's hurting people, he's not your responsibility anymore? At least not to look after anyway." Christina just nodded behind Julia.
"Exactly what I've been saying, he's beyond toxic, and does not deserve your help." Approaching the table, Christina took the seat between the two, seemingly forgetting about her prior urgency to leave. "I get that it's been hard finding someone since, and I can't imagine what dating is like for you, but he is not someone you should keep around. Please don't call him back, I'll check on his mum's facebook to make sure she's fine, okay?" Alice leaned back in her chair, and picked up her phone, cycling through it she quickly swiped to his contact blocking the number and dropped the phone to the table showing the proof to her friend.
"Fine he's gone, can we please drop it now?" Christina smiled, switching the phone off, sliding it back to the blonde.
"Of course, no calling him later though, I will be checking. Now onto brighter topics, Julia, where are you going for your birthday drinks?"
The ginger woman looked up from her meal, her mouth full, leaving the pair to wait as she quickly swallowed it down.
"You know it's my birthday?"
"Course I do, HR has to have its perks."
"Isn't that against data protection or something?" Christina scrunched her face up looking at Julia like she had grown a second head.
"No? I'm using it for good so obviously it's fine. Besides, not changing the subject, where are we going?" Chrstina paused for a second before continuing when she didn't get an immediate answer. "Look, you're part of the team now, and I already have to drag this one kicking and screaming anywhere, don't make me treat you the same." The werewolf just held her hands up in mock surrender.
"Point taken, me and a few of my friends from the pack are going out to that new club in Hackney, Goetia." Alice was not surprised to see she hadn't heard of it but Christina's eyes lit up.
"Oh my god, is that the new demon bar? I was reading an article on it the other week and it sounds insane, apparently it's really exclusive though, how are you getting in?" It was Julias turn to roll her eyes now.
"It's exclusive for humans, supes are fine, don't have to worry about us committing any hate crimes." As she finished her comment her eyes darted to Alice and back to Christina, almost too quick to notice, almost. The sting of accusation however lingered. Christina deflated at the comment, unaware of Julia's insinuation.
"Oh, do you think we'd get in if we waited in line? Like how long would we need to stay, do you think?" Julia, having finished her meal, packing the box away.
"If you wait in line, you're not getting in unless you're camped at the door now." Christina seemed even sadder, Alice was about to jump in with her usual suggestion for the pair when Julia continued. "However if you're coming in with me, you'll both be fine. It is just you two though? This isn't like 'company' drinks?" For the first time Alice saw what might be dread on Julia's face, a fellow introvert. Chrstina was quick to shake her head though.
"No, no just us. You can get us both in?" Julia just nodded causing Christina to let out an uncontrolled giggle. "This is the best day of my life, thank you so much Jules, I owe you. We can meet you there, what time?" Alice's stomach lurched at question, she knew there would be no peace unless she went now, Christina would not let it go, but to go to a demon bar? She wasn't prejudiced like her ex but demons? Surely it's fine to at least draw the line at them. Maybe the undead, Sebastian, had been a very good example of why you should avoid them. Julia responded, confirming her fate however.
"Happy birthday to you Chris, glad you like your gift." Rolling her eyes Julia continued. "As for time, meet us outside at ten? It's open late so we can go for a few drinks, if it's rubbish head to one of the pack pubs or something, get hammered, that sounds good for you?" Christina just leant down, placing a kiss on Julias freckled cheek.
"God if I was gay I'd marry you, that sounds perfect. I'll try to remember it's your birthday when we're there." Looking down at her watch Christina's eyes bulged and uttering her goodbyes she jogged out of the room, leaving the pair in silence. Alice was mulling over what to say when Julia abruptly said.
"Are you going to be okay going out?" The question shocked her, Alice responding quickly.
"Oh yeah I'll be fine, I'm used to her dragging me out and just having to pretend I'm not a massive introvert." Julias face kept the same wary look she had earlier.
"I mean at a supe bar, are you chill?" Blinking Alice finally realised exactly how the previous conversation had made her sound.
