Night Shift (Danticus)

[rachel]

Rachel looked up to see Dante coming straight for her. Oh great, now what does he want? She took her purse, grateful that he had found it and brought it back to her, but he wasn't off the hook of talking crazy to her. She looked away from him, he was doing just fine before he paused in mid sentence. Line of work for what? It's more like a scar. She wasn't ready to tell him how she had received the marks. "Are you threatening me?" First he seemed like a gentlemen, but now he seemed more like a jerk. She didn't realize that he was just caring for her. "Talk about what? You sound crazy to me." She looked away, maybe she should just tell him what had happened. "One night, a few months back I was working at the bar and on my way home one of the customers bit me." She paused for a long moment before speaking up again.

"I got sick, didn't show up for work in a while." She wasn't all that sure how long she had been sick because she just couldn't remember. It was a blur to her, but since she got back to work it felt like forever when it had happened to her. She listened to him speak and she just couldn't take anymore. He sounded crazy to her and she couldn't stand crazy. It was bad enough that a male had bit her and took blood, she didn't need this in her mind also. She looked down at his hand for a long second but didn't reach out to touch his. She needed to think about what was just going on. She was having a hard time being around him. Finally she touched his hand with her own, gave a small smile and spoke up finally. "I think.... I should go." She turned slowly, expecting her hand to slid out of his.

[Dante Stark]

Danticus felt her hand in his as she told him her story.. He knew it was going to be a tough time to relate to her what he was about to say.. When she finally said she was going to leave he spoke; "Rachel..." Dante sighed softly.

"I'm a Hunter.. the reason those marks bothered me is because i think you may have been bitten by a vampire.. and i know this may sound extremely strange to you.. but Vampires and Werewolf's do exist ..

Just not the fruity version of them that Twilight portrays the real Vampires and Lycans are monsters that have been dealt with for centuries I'm only one of the fare few hunters in this city.. But it's true what I'm saying i work in hunting down these monsters and stopping them from hurting people.." Dante sighed as he looked at her, she probably thought he was a fool or a crazy person...

"Please you have to believe me... I feel like we've bonded in some way and i really don't want my job or the fact you think I'm crazy to change that.. because well I'm not crazy" He looked at her with a hint of sadness in his eye.. He'd never been one to show his own emotions as most of the time he was a dick.. But he wanted her to believe him as it kind of meant a little part of her trusted him enough.. and he clearly trusted her as he just broke one of the hunting codes of telling a normal person but he didn't care at the moment.

He let his hand linger with hers as her touch made him smile softly.. Perhaps she wanted to think him crazy, but he wanted to make sure she wasn't a vampire and that he could make sure she was safe.. Even if it meant that his secrets had to be divulged so that she'd never look at him as just Dante the gentleman.. more like Dante the vampire hunter.

[rachel]

Rachel stopped and looked back at him. Something about him was different, he was just so sweet. She looked away from him, crazy talk that was all it was. I think he had way to much to drink. She took that note down in her head to remember the next time she seen him in the bar. "That is a movie." She agreed with him slightly, but refused to believe this nonsense about vampires and lycans. So there are others as crazy as you? More thoughts popped into her head. She just couldn't believe him, this was to hard for her to accept. Finally she spoke up and answered him back. "Dante. I think.." She looked away for a second then back at him. "I think you had one to many drinks." Yup she just called him a drunk. It's the only way... there is no such thing as monsters. That was just some crazy guy that bit me.

She liked him, she really did, but if he wanted to believe in monsters he would have to do it without her. She looked into his eyes, something about them... made her want to believe him. "Alright alright." She said finally, "Say they are real... how do you expect to kill them?" She asked before adding, "You and other humans... go after these things?" If he thought that she was believing him right away he would be sadly mistaken. She wanted some proof, but at the same time didn't want proof. She didn't thinks he would be able to live with a mad man. Oh heck. She didn't take her hand away from his, she knew what she wanted. A man that wasn't mad, if he was a mad man, she'd just die. So far he seemed crazy, but she was starting to believe him. Finally she raised her hand up again as if she was going to slap him and pulled him close instead.

Her lips met his for a minute before pulling away. "If you are lying I'm going to kick your ass."

[Dante Stark]

Danticus felt her embrace and it warmed him.. She'd trusted him so far now all he had to do was prove to her the undead really did stalk the night.. As she pulled back she made a witty remark and he chuckled.. "Hey, your ass is much nicer I'd rather you let me kick that.." Danticus remarked as he lead her off down the street to one of the old storage yards that wasn't too far away.

Dante opened the garage and looked at the car he'd left here wrapped under the blanket.. He gestured her inside and closed the garage door behind them turning on the light to reveal a work bench with his tools and various sticky notes scattered around a map with pictures of werewolf's stuck to some parts of the map as where he'd been hunting.

"Over here we've got the map of places I'd cleared out... and in the storage locker I've got a couple of weapons and a change of clothing... In the draws I've got various fake identification badges so i can clean up any Lycan or Vampire crime scenes without alerting the authorities to the existence of them. " Dante paused letting her observe the little hunting garage he'd set up..

"Think of this as my Batcave... I mean if you believe me by the end of tonight i could always use a Robin..." Dante chuckled as he ripped off the blanket covering his fancy car.. "This here is my baby... She's almost as cute as you are.. but it's a shame she can't kiss the way you do.." Dante shot her a wink as he took his jacket on the coat rack.

Dante grabbed the box under his work bench and placed it on the table, it was a box filled with old junk and a journal where he'd written down about potential threats and locations of the various vampires.... He looked around the garage and smiled sure it seemed like he was crazy now.. but she'd grow to love him and his craziness.

[rachel]

Rachel grinned at him and followed him to the storage yard. She stayed outside to look at everything that was in view in front of her. She walked in slowly and looked at the garage door close with them in it. "Trying to get me in a closed room now huh?" She bit her lower lip, flirting with him. She looked down at the bench to see what looked like a mess. It was clear that he seemed to believe in monsters, all the weapons and the map in front of her. She stared at it closely as he spoke about it. Either he is crazy or I'm in luck with a hero. She hoped that he wasn't crazy, the thought of not being with a sane man bugged her. "Fake identification cards huh? How do I know that Dante isn't just a cover name?" She asked flirting with him. The thought of him wanting a partner made her blush. She would never be able to kill, not on purpose anyway.

Now the car was a beauty. "That is a good thing, if she could I'd have to kill her." Killing a car? Not as hard as one could think, but it was just a joke. "Where do you think your going?" She asked finally as he grabbed his jacket and grabbed a box under the bench. She looked at the box on the table, just a lot of stuff in there. Yes he is crazy. She sighed and looked away from him for a second. "Hey Dante." She teased standing next to him. "I got your number and one of your storage units. So far I've given nothing in return." Oh how she was asking for it. He was still a crazy fella, but she didn't care right this second. Other things came into her mind, hunting wasn't one of them. She had to get his attention off of the hunting somehow, so far she was winging it. "So your a hunter...." She paused for a second, "What else are you?" She grinned, flirting.

[Dante Stark]

Danticus enjoyed her flirting it had almost made him blush... Almost not to say he wasn't the type to let his feelings get in the way of situations like this..

"Honey, if i could have chosen a better name than Danticus I'd have done it by now... I like it though has a certain ring to it i mean..... Also the offer stands if you want to be my Robin " Dante smirked as he pottered around the garage making himself seem like an excitable child on Christmas.. She was starting to believe him hopefully he started to seem less crazier to her which was the main idea of his showing her his hunting cave..

Dante moved in closer and put his lips to her ear..
"Well, if you want something else... i can show you how i earned my nickname Casanova if you'd really want to know... the cars unlocked " He nuzzled into her neck and then broke off shooting her a sexy wink. Dante kept his arms around her keeping her close.. the moment had moved so fast and he had so many witty comments to make and he smiled softly..

"I mean we can take you out for a test drive... then we can start the car and go out for a drive.. " Dante chuckled placing one hand on his prized possession and the other on one of the other thing he cherished was his prized car.. The night was still young and the hunter still had to show her the deeper depths of what was undead and what was living..

And currently there was a lot of living going on in the storage unit.. Danticus broke off from Rachel and stepped back to the work bench and placed the box under it keeping everything neat and tidy.. He still liked to keep his workplace clean.

[rachel]

Rachel bit her lower lip and grinned listening to him. "When did I give you permission to call me honey." If she could, she'd wear the pants as long as possible. To taunt him of course, men always wear the pants, had control over everything. "We'll don't you start now, I'll think of you as Danticus, so that I can call you Dante. Is that your birth name? What is your birth name?" If he had another name she wanted to know what it was even if he didn't wish for her to call him it. She'd call him anything he wanted even some other names he may or may not approve of, but he started it by calling her honey. "Don't get used to calling me honey you might forget my name." She winked at him and added, "Now we wouldn't want that now would we?" She put her hand to her eyes with two fingers and pointed to him. "I got my eyes on you.

Being his Robin? Maybe she could be more then that. "I'd say batgirl, but I'm a woman and I don't want to steal your name." She winked biting her lower lip. "How about cat women?" She put her hands up, perfect names that were kept up. Not long and real, with white polish on the tips of her nails. If she was going to be his partner in this, why not be one that has the option of being good or bad? Of course she would never turn on him, but the thought sounded like fun. "Meow." She put her right hand up as if about ready to claw him and then laughed. Watching him made her smile, seemed like a dream come true. Even if a relationship didn't work out between them, she believed they could be really close friends. She did hope that if a relationship didn't work out right away that maybe just maybe one would form up later, but it takes two for that.

She wanted to believe he wasn't messing with her head with all of this nonsense. If a vampire had bitten her and not just some crazy human then it would explain things. The only problem was there would really be monsters out there and not only her was in danger. With him going out a lot to hunt these things he puts himself in danger. Her going with him put her in danger, her being alone put her in danger. If she wanted a chance to be safe, it would be with Dante. She didn't want to drag him down though, with him worried about her, they could use her against him if she ever became in trouble. "Oh really." She answered back not moving from her spot, hoping to hear another whisper from him or something more. He was a good kisser, she had to give him that. For some reason it wasn't good enough, she just wanted more with him.

"I'd love to know where you got the name Casanova." The car is unlocked. "Who said I wanted it in the car?" One eye brow was raised. Maybe she was just being impatient. She shivered slightly when her neck was touched. If he wanted to move, he'd have to take her with him because she wasn't about ready to let go of him. Her arms had moved around his waist after he had put his around her. She put her weight against the table, if he wanted to drag that was fine by her, but she wasn't moving without a fight. It would be much of a fight though, since he was stronger then her. "You want to go out for a test drive?" She asked and stuck her tongue out at him. "Going out for a ride sounds like fun." She placed a playful frown on her face. "You dare remove one hand from me?" She giggled before moving her arms from his waist to his neck, she had been hugging him.

Her hands rested on his shoulders. "Shameful. I thought I was your only woman." Her eyes looked over at the car, expecting him to return her hand back on him before she grabbed it. It was just a car and she wanted him all to herself anyway. She let go of him, watching him closely when he moved away to put the box back under the bench.

[Dante Stark]

Danticus held her close, something about her touch warmed him. Sure he'd have dated her but he needed time to assess the situation between then and had she been a vampire he'd want not to complicate things between the two of them... She'd knocked his hand off from the car and he smiled.. "Now, Now baby you're not getting jealous of my car are you.. I mean you are way more gorgeous than that thing so you need not try to keep me all to yourself." Dante smirked.

"Alright, before my parents abandoned me in an orphanage in England i was christened Danticus Anthony Stark.. and when i turned eighteen i removed the Anthony from my name as Danticus Stark sounded cooler than my full name...

How about you Rachel got a secret identity i don't know about... Maybe you're already cat woman... or batgirl... who's not to say i don't live a Bruce Wayne life-style... I mean I've got the wealth... and a nice apartment yet we find ourselves in my gritty garage... Not to say that i sometimes don't prefer the grittier side of life..

It's far more entertaining than playing by the rules.. let's just say i like to play hard and enjoy life to the fullest.. You can't have Bark without Stark.." Dante chuckled making a pun out of his name.. His hands around Rachel's waist looking into those eyes of hers he almost felt like melting..

There was quite a lot of moments between them that the both of them had seemed to enjoy one thing on his mind the taste of her lips when he had kissed her back in the bar, she was something sweet and he had quite the sweet tooth.

"I'll call you Selina Kyle... if you call me Bruce Wayne.." Dante purred as he moved in closer his nose touching hers as he interlocked her eyes with hers.. nobody could judge his next move but that was all part of the game the two of them flirting with each other and making sexual remarks..

She was on his work bench and he so close to her.. It was a fair game and he made various flirting remarks to her. Suddenly his lips locked in with hers and he moved his hand up to hold onto her cheeks as he let the kiss get more romantic than their first.

[rachel]

Rachel had a huge smile on her face, "So what if I am? I think I have a right to keep you to myself if I want." She listened carefully as he spoke about his history, it was a sad one. More sad then her own, her own was sad enough. "I like it." She agreed with him, not bringing up her own past. He asked, she'd answer. "No just Rachel Sanders. Well I take that back." She looked down at the ground. "My parents called me Rae. When I was younger they called me their son." She was sure that he could guess the rest. "They treated me like a boy, my mom cut my hair short, gave me boy clothes." Her eyes stared at the ground the own time. "I had a friend, she thought I was a male. When she found out I was a girl, she told her parents and mine moved and locked me in my room. I found out later that I had a little brother that was born."

She took in a deep breath before continuing her story. "I was kicked out when I was eighteen." She skipped to the very end, not sharing what she had done for the last three years. "Here I am now. A waitress at the bar." Alone, of course. Bothered, of course. Could she do anything about it? Yes, but she chose not to by staying by herself and not committing to anybody. She was done talking, maybe being called cat woman would be best. She was alone too, well she had cats around her all the time, but most of the time she had nobody. She laughed lightly, "Trust me, if I was already a cat woman or batgirl, you'd be one of the first to know." She grinned at him, "That doesn't mean that you don't live a Bruce Wayne life-style. I thought if you told secrets you'd have to kill me." She was flirting with him again, it was awesome and fun.

"So you have been a bad boy huh?" She looked up into his eyes. Oh how she wanted him. Problem, she had never wanted anybody like this before. She had done stuff, but not that one special thing. "How about I call you prince charming and you call me princess." Again her tongue came out to taunt him. Having him so close, they breathing so close to one another. It was already starting to be hot, but she didn't care. If it wasn't mentioned already, Rachel was sitting on the bench next to him. His lips were against hers, hers against his. More would soon come, but there was no rush. Enjoying the kiss, she made sure to do it back. It wouldn't be fair to make him do all the work. Her tongue moved around his, teasing him.

[Dante Stark]

They had been kissing and but before she had kissed him she was telling him about her past and Dante listened to her story still keeping his arms wrapped around her caught up in the moment between the two of them, it was a sweet yet touching moment between the pair after she had finished talking.. She'd kissed him once more and broke off from the kiss to looking directly into those sweet eyes of hers; "You're not alone... Not anymore" Dante had taken the mood from light hearted playfulness to a serious moment, he wanted to divert it back to the silliness that they had been sharing together. In truth he did like holding her and he'd wanted her too he was just waiting for the right moment to make his actions speak louder than his words ever could.

His mind was thinking about his own childhood and how he'd been left alone... It shouldn't have bothered him as Rachel had been treated as a boy for her life and he knew his own trauma wasn't much compared to that but still it felt like he'd been stabbed by a knife in the gut-- Dante snapped back into the situation and realised he hadn't spoken for a few minutes after telling her she wasn't alone. He'd probably ruined the moment so he was thinking of something witty in return to say to her.. and he moved in closer and then the words flowed; "Princess, you'd make one sexy crazy cat-lady with all those cats roaming around.. it'd probably smell but i think I'd still kiss you if you had loads of cats.. " Dante made the joke laughing slightly at his own words.. God it was hot in here.

Dante clasped her hands with hers his face still in close proximity to hers, she was teasing him and he found it funny that he could tease her just as well he stuck out the tip of his tongue and poked her lips with it in a joking manner.. And then it had turned back into a kiss... They had been lingering in the moment and Dante kind of didn't want to move or waste the time he'd spent with Rachel his mind was just conflicting him.. and he didn't want to move in fear of setting of a wrong emotion between the pair.... Was it getting hotter in here...

Dante thought as he shook out his thoughts.. it's all about the moment and the timing he needed to keep clear headed and just be himself.. They had been kissing for some time and he'd realised through all of that she wasn't going to leave him.. so he was able to shrug all of those doubts of his way and he moved his hands up to her cheek and he slowly rubbed it as they had been kissing.. It was like a firework in his mouth she certainly did come with a bang.. and he was enjoying every single second her tongue was with his.