Cleaning off

I undo the tangle weaves i set into the door before I left this morning and walk into the apartment, this is a bad end of town but this floor is the nesting grounds of the Moon’s Children’s infiltrators and assassins so the rooms are nice and never get robbed or vandalized.
The room is dark but in a comforting warm way rather then the scary unknown dark. I breathe in deep a soothing sour but sweet smell gently laces the room.
“You unpicked and re-set the weave?” I don’t mind i sould have left the door unlocked if I’d known she was coming.
“Yeah, i couldn’t sleep so i came in here because it smells like you.” I walk up to the bed Georgia sits propped on her elbows under the blankets, I bend down and kiss he tenderly.
“i missed you, I wasn’t expecting you back until tomorrow.” she smiles and sits up straight, she runs a hand up my jaw, my six in the morning shadow sounds like sand paper on her hand. Hey Sea blue eyes smile up at me, i smile back and run a hand through her thick dark hair, messing it up, she pretends it annoys her.
“I missed you too.Go have a shower Cal, then come back here I haven’t seen you in two weeks and I’m dying to wake up smelling like you.” She kisses me and pushes me to the small bathroom, I can’t blame her I wouldn’t want to sleep with someone that smelled like sweat and death either.
The harsh fluorescent light of the bathroom comes on, I blink my night vision out of my eyes and take off the three quarter trench coat two gashes in the back that hit the adamantine backing instead of going through and one puncture mark mar the back of it, I hate buying new coats, it can take days to get another one that can stop bullets. I stretch the arm that was beneath the puncture mark, blood rings the hole and pink new skin lies underneath, I stretch it out and throw the tee shirt in the bin, I draw one Tanto and wipe the congealing blood from it, the other is stuck in its sheath so i fill the sink and let it soak in the sheath, the water slowly turns pink. I clean under my fingernails and dislodge a bit of bone that had been stuck in a molar, i check my teeth for skin, dont see any, but brush them anyway, vampires taste bad. the other knife finally comes out of it’s sheath and is already clean from the soak.
I peel the kevlar lined jeans off and put it aside to sew up the holes later. I get in the shower and rinse off the night. I walk back into the bedroom in a pair of tracksuit pants, cuddle up next to Georgia and go straight to sleep.

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anarchy, clan, fantasy, grunge, noir and urban