Hunter POV.
My plan worked, my baby girl, had Dylan busy and instead of being mean or angry at me, he was very happy about having his favourite nephew along with him, he’s going to spoil her rotten but she just came back from the doctor, she got her chance to be spoiled for the night.
“Hello,” I say answering my phone, I couldn’t really work, my mind was coming and going to my baby girl, I was worried about her, what if Dylan accidentally makes her cry, would they call me, do they need me, thinking it’s them, I answered the phone after the first ring.
“Black, we got a problem,” another detective says through the phone.
“And what’s that?” I ask him with a sigh, I knew that something was coming my way, this day wouldn’t be passing that smoothly, even while hiding behind my baby girl.
“William ain’t too happy,” he says and I chuckled.
“And when was William that happy?” I answer him, we both knew that he’s never too happy, he always has something up his ass and he takes it off on us.
“Well never, but it’s the school,” he says and I groan, I loved the idea of the school, but I was over all the problems it’s causing and why do I have to deal with it? It’s the D&L company’s problem, they should only call us when they are ready.
“What is it this time?” I ask him with a sigh, if it’s any more paperwork, I’m going to scream.
“We need to be screening all the potential teachers, doms, students, everything,” he says and that wasn’t the worst job ever and it’s sure as hell our job.
“That’s not the worst news ever,” I answer him, we had to do a lot of worse jobs around here.
“Then you’d be happy to know you were hand-picked to do the interviews,” he says and my eyes went wild.
“Who picked me?” I ask him, if it’s Logan, I’m spanking his ass for dumbing that big of a job over my head while we’re busy babysitting the five little girls back at home.
“William, he says and I quote ‘He has the tendency to punch people, maybe he can punch the ones that aren’t worth it,'” he says with a burst of laughter, he was enjoying this way too much.
“Did William say so? Or did you think this yourself?” I ask him just to be sure.
“I swear on my mother’s grave,” he says with the same laughter in his voice.
“Benjamen, you hate your mother, you had a party the day she died,” I say remembering that day way too well, he brought cake and alcohol, that was the only day that I saw him happy, the day his abusive mother died.
“I can still swear on her grave,” he says and I sigh.
“So I’m stuck with the shitty job, do I get some rookie to help?” I asked him, although I had to do the major of the interview, but there’s a million paperwork to do after.
“Sure, you’ll love it, whenever you’re ready to move,” Benjamen says.
“Move where Ben? Just tell me the whole news,” I say with a sigh, I couldn’t take him only giving me the information a tiny bit at a time.
“Okay, so here’s the full news, you need to move to the old headquarters, you’ll be staying there for three days no communication with the outside is allowed, they’d take good care of you there, you’ll be doing the interviews and the whole isolation is to help you not be affected by outside opinions,” he explains to me.
“Three days? How many interviews am I even doing?” I ask him feeling shocked.
“Well, a lot, turns out it’s not just the blue that won the fight with William and wants to find their human, but the amount of vampires left compared to humans is a bit bigger, and we need to make sure that all the vampires allowed in are mature enough and ready to have humans without hurting them,” Benjamen explains.
“Shouldn’t this be the D&L job?” I ask him.
“We’re the ones who run backgrounds, and you’re the lucky bitch,” he says with another chuckle.
“I can’t move now, I have my baby with me,” I remind Benjamen that I didn’t come in alone today.
“The order came from upstairs,” Benjamen says.
“I can’t leave right now Benjamen, I need to drive her back at least,” I say not even thinking of Logan now, he’s going to kill me, he’s going to have my head on a stick for leaving him alone with the girls and Angel.
“How about you go up to Dylan and play the innocent card, until he allows you to take her home first,” Benjamen suggests.
“I’m not that innocent Ben, and she’s in Dylan’s office right now being spoiled to death,” I answer Benjamen.
“I didn’t mean that you’re the innocent one, I meant to show off her cute face and get things your way,” he said and I sighed, for a person who isn’t code blue that was something that he would understand.
“I’ll see what I can do,” I say deciding to call Logan first, he’s going to kill me, I knew he would.
“Is she okay? Did anything happen?” Logan asks me worriedly.
“Hello to you too love, I missed you, work isn’t that bad, no one bothered me for being late,” I say with a fake smile on my face.
“Hello Hunter, is Angel okay?” he asks again.
“She’s with her uncle Dylan, they’re planning the next big take over the world,” I assure him.
“That’s my baby,” Logan says.
“Do you know about the school you want to start?” I say reminding him about the big project that he’s working on.
“Yes, what’s wrong with that?” Logan asks me.
“Well nothing wrong, but my department is running backgrounds on everyone who’s allowed in,” I start the chat with.
“That’s very good,” Logan says happily, it’s very good.
“Yeah, but here’s the thing,” I say waiting for him to lose it on me.
“What’s the thing?” Logan asked me and I could hear the suspicion in his tone.
“I’m the one who’s going to lead the interviews,” I say, which meant a lot of work for me.
“This means you’ll be busy, I’ll ask the company to send a night babysitter to help us through,” he says, the guy who could find an answer for almost everything.
“Well, it gets worse,” I say waiting for him to calm down a bit.
“Worse? How worse does it get Hunter?” he asks me with a sigh.
“Well, I’m sorry love, but I’m gonna be very busy for the next three days,” I say, trying to tell him that I’m not coming home.
“How busy detective Black?” he asks and I knew I was screwed, so better just take off the bandaid in one go.
“I won’t be coming home,” I say and as expected he lost it, he swore at me in three different languages, I stayed quiet, waiting for him to finish up, it took him a little while to be done swearing at me and finally he was back on the phone.
“Where are you going to be?” he asks me still sounding very angry.
“The main headquarter, the old one before the takeover,” I explain to him where I’d be.
“Fucking hell that’s too far away, when are you going?” he ask me and he’s gonna lose it again.
“Logan, are you sitting down?” I ask him.
“I am, when are you leaving Hunter?” he asks me.
“The decision came from William, we can’t say no, we can’t ruin the job you worked so hard for,” I say trying to get him to relax a bit.
“When are you leaving Hunter?” he groans yet again.
“Tonight,” I say finally confessing the truth.
“Fucking hell,” Logan swear yet again.
“I know, I know, it’s hell for me too,” I say knowing he’s not going to enjoy the next part even more.
“What am I going to tell our child?” he asks me, meaning Angel.
“Tell her that I’m off to work, I’ll be ack soon,” I say and he sighs not very happy.
“Hey, Logan,” I say needing one last favour from him.
“Yeah?” he answers me.
“I need you to come and get Angel for me, she’s with Dylan right now, he can drive her home, but I think it’s best if you’re around as well,” I say not sure how she’d react if left alone for a long amount of time.
“I’ll come over,” Logan says and I smiled, I knew I could count on him.
“I love you baby,” I say ready to end the call.
“Love you too, bye,” Logan says and we both end the call.
I had to check on my baby and tell Dylan I’m leaving before I get going, I walked toward his office knocking on the door and waiting to be allowed in.
“Come in if you dare,” it was Angel’s voice who answered me, she’s cute but Dyaln’s effect is showing already on her.
“I do dare little bear,” I say walking in.
“Hai daddy,” she says looking at me with a big smile on her face.
“Did you hear your brother’s news?” I ask Dylan my boss.
“Yeah, I’ll drive her home, or maybe keep her for myself,” Dylan warns me.
“Logan is coming over, you should drive them both,” I say telling him he can’t steal our baby Angel.
“I will, maybe I’d steal Logan too,” Dylan says with an evil smile on his face.
“You do that,” I say walking toward him to give my Angel a hug before leaving, I kissed the top of her head.
“I’m gonna leave now baby, I have a lot of work to do, and you’ll have to stay with uncle Dylan, Papa is on his way, promise everything would be just fine,” I assure her who just shrugs, she’s too happy to be around Dylan to even notice that I’m leaving now.