'Yo boss, it's time to get up. We have 1 hour before we need to meet the agent' I hear Cain shout as he bangs on the door.
'You don't have to shout, we have great hearing you know' I say back frustrated
I hear him laugh as he walks away, I swear he does it to piss me off. Well he's gonna be on night duty first when we get the house. And he can keep a watch over his new sister in law.
Best check my phone I say to myself reaching over to grab is from the nightstand, I have already got loads of message's and e-mails. Looks like we have a busy day already, first thing is check the group chat for them hunting down our unwanted guest.
"Hey boss, we followed the trail to the outskirts of the city at an abandoned building. We're keeping a distance dotted around waiting for any movement" - Fin
"Okay just keep me posted"
"Hey boss, we had a look at the building seems in decent condition. Definitely big enough for all of us with room to spare" - Marco
"That's good, it should be an easy decision once we see inside"
I check my e-mail before I send an email over to elder Draven, I need to talk to him. If the girl next door is his long lost daughter then we need to find out why is was hidden by her mother. We need to know what life she has had, as there is something about her. You can tell she's got her walls up all the time, she was very shaken up by the intruder as well.
There's so many questions running through my head, does she have powers? Have the strigoi been trying to find her? Do they even know she exists? If it's her.
Dear Phillip, I hope that you all arrived safely, we are looking into what you have found so far with a strigoi in the area. For now we want you to watch them and see how many there is. Please keep us updated with anything, also if you find a place to set up we will send more troops with Draven when he come's for a visit.
If there is anything else you need just send the list to Isabella and we will arrange everything and have it sent to you.
Sincerely, The council
Dear Council, We arrived safely we currently have there locations and will be monitoring them over the next few day's and will report back once we know more. If you hear anything please let us know so we can plan for possible cleanse.
We should have a decision by the end of day if not sooner, once we know we will be in contact to arrange delivery of all belonging's and equipment.
Sincerely, Phillip
Now i'm all caught up, I find Draven's number and send him a message, "can we talk when you arrive?" I text to him. He's one of the only members that uses technology which I am grateful for.
"Yes, I assume it's of importance?" He quickly responds
"Yes, will be best in person" I say. We leave it at that for now, as he knows I only contact him if it's serious.
I get myself up and ready for the day then head out to the living room to see Cain and Jax waiting.
'Ready boys?' I ask knowing they are
'Yes boss' Cain say's
I look over at Jax and I can tell something is up with him, he seem pissed off this morning. He look's up and I know it's something to do with his little mate, this is definitely going to be a fun few day's.
They say once you meet your mate it's hard being away from them, until he claims her. Let's just get him through the next few hours and go from there, our instincts are strong and we protect what is our's we can't help it.
'Let's get this over with and get everything into place' I say to them both giving Jax a reassuring look.
We start pilling out and heading to the door to head over and meet the agent, the sooner we take a look and fill in the paperwork the sooner we can get settled. We get to the car and I notice that the cook is giving Jax hard look, I'm guessing something happened between them at some point.
'Don't ask' Cain say's to me, as Jax storm's to the car.
'I'll talk to him later about it' I say back
'Good luck with that, he's in a foul mood' Cain respond's as we reach the car.
'Nothing I can't handle' I say back as we get inside.
Luckily we leave straight away and head to the hill where the manor house is, I hope we won't be waiting on the agent. The sooner everything is sorted the better, I'll see if any of the lads can see if they are there yet.
" Hey has anyone spotted the agent yet?" I ask in the group chat
"Hey boss, yeah he's here now, just arrived and is waiting" Fin say's
I'm guessing the lads have started to rotate around, which is good. I do love our group they treat each other like family and take acre of each other. I know some of them are missing their family's right now.
It takes us about 15 minutes to arrive as there's only one entrance that's usable do to the grounds being very over grown. With what we know so far is there's about 400 acres in total, the house come's with a farm and there's even land for sale nearby which I want to ask about while we are here today. As we need space for building a few house's for the family's coming over.
Well some of the fields will stay and be used as they once where as it'll help the community financially, plus even though we are vampires we still eat and drink human food. It doesn't do much for us and the taste is very dull but we still eat and drink like everyone else. We try stick to animal's for blood and we normally hunt bad humans like child abusers, drug addicts as we get a high from their blood due to what they take. We have even gone for women beaters they are my favourite if i'm honest.
So the city that's about 15 miles away will be our hunting ground, so we will need a sound proof place to keep our prey and a way to dispose of the body's after. I look up and see the gate's that leads us to the drive way, looking around I can see we will need to update the walls and gate's around the property and add CCTV. I grab my not pad that I left in here yesterday and start writing what we need to do, one thing for sure is gardening equipment. I wonder if anyone in town would like to earn some money to do the garden's.
'Do you think any of the young one's in town will be willing to do the gardens if we supply the stuff?' I ask the guys
'I don't see why not, earn them self's some money' Cain say's
'I can make some posters ready' Jax reply's
'Sounds good, get started on that so we can get it done sooner the better' I reply back to them
I carry on with taking a look around as we go up the driveway, will be putting a hut at each entrance as well as a few cabins with toilets and kitchens in between. We will need hut's in the tree as well, big enough for three people. As we get closer to the manor house I can see the grounds need alot of work but there's plenty of space to do what we need to.
I see a car parked up I guess that's the agent, we park next to them looking at the drive way it will need redoing.
'We have arrived sir' The driver say's
'Thank we wont be long' I say to him as we get out
'Hi i'm jerry, nice to meet you' the agent say's taking our hands for a shake
'Hi, yes it good to finally see the place' I say back
'Let's go inside and take a look shall we?' Jerry say's
We all go inside and it definitely needs re decorating and new floor's, it's got a horrible musky smell. It even has a rotting flesh smell but not like strigoi it's like a rotting animal. That needs to go whatever is causing that smell, I look at Cain and he goes looking for the cause of that smell.
We walk around as Jerry shows us the whole house and i've already got a large list of everything that needs doing and it's alot. Cain come's back and I see he's got tissue up his nose, I guess he has found what was causing the smell.
'Did you know there is slaughtered animals in the cellar, as well as animals dead from starvation with feces?' Cain ask Jerry
'No I didn't, I will get that cleaned up right away' Jerry say's in a panic
'Don't bother, we will sort it' Cain reply's in a frustrated tone.
'We will take it but I will be making a lower offer seeing as the house is in poor condition and that dead animals were left to rot. Never mind the human blood sprayed on the master bedroom' I say to Jerry
'I prom'
'Don't bother denying it, it's human blood, so clearly this house is empty for a reason now are you going to tell me what that reason is?' I ask while cutting him off
'Yes, the previous owners where an elderly couple, they was killed by their grandson. I'm guessing the animals where something to do with it. We think he was crazy and weird, he was into animal sacrificing' Jerry replies
'Well seeing as the house has a bad history and the fact of there is alot of cleaning required then I will make an offer for the house based on what I believe is acceptable and also your company is managing the fields nearby correct?' I say to Jerry
'Yes that is correct' Jerry replies
'Well then, for the house i'm offering 1.2 mill instead of the 4 mill and i will buy the extra land for 3 mill. I understand that you will need to ring the office i suggest you do that now' I say in a firm tone
'yes i will ring them now' Jerry replies clearly scared,
He's young about 22 years old, I know he is shitting himself. He wasn't prepared for us to find things around the property. We listen to the call between Jerry and i'm going to assume his boss.
" Hi it's jerry, could you put Tom on for me?" - Jerry
"Yes one sec, Tom Jerry is on the phone. Here you go" - Sarah
"Hey jerry what's up?" - Tom
"Hey boss i'm at the manor house on the hill with the Lord Phillip. He's made an offer it's lower then the listing price" - Jerry
"How much lower? " - Tom
"It's half the asking price" -Jerry
"That's not acceptable either he pays the asking price or it's no deal" - Tom
"He knows that its human blood in the master room and they found the aniaml's" - Jerry
"Shit how?" - Tom
"I don't know but he knows he's also made an offer on the extra land next to this" - Jerry
"How much?" - Tom
"4 mill so it'll be 5.2 mill in total" - Jerry
"Tell him it's his get the paperwork sorted and the payment sorted" - Tom
"okay sir will do" - Jerry
The call end's
' It's a deal, how did you want to pay?' Jerry ask's feeling relieved
'It will be card, do you have a card machine?' I ask
'Yes let me just get it out the car. I'll leave you the paperwork to stat filling out' Jerry say's as he opens his folder and leave a stack of paperwork on a table
We watch him leave and each take a few pages and begin to fill them out, it's easier with three people plus with vampire speed reading and writing take's no time. We get the the last page's as he walk back in.
'Let me just set this up then we can pay' Jerry say's as he connects the machine to his phone.
We finish the paperwork as he hands me the machine to pay,
'That was quick, your already done. I will say that is the fastest i have ever seen the forms filled out' Jerry say as we hand it back to him
'We don't mess around, we like things done quickly' Cain reply's
'So do I, I just need to go over everything before we are done but you can start making plans for repair's' Jerry say's as he scans the forms
Jax goes to the car to get his laptop and printer, Cain starts ringing the gas and electric company's as I finish up with Jerry.
'Everything is in order, i'll head back to the office and get the deed in your name it will be ready in about an 2 hours so your welcome to come by then to collect' Jerry say's as he gathers his things and hands me the keys.
We say goodbye and get started on sorting everything, luckily there is a back up generator with some fuel in so we have some power until we have the meters looked at and get everything updated.
'I'm off to clear out the cellar and burn the animal body's' Cain say's
'Have fun with that' Jax replies with a smile, as he's sorting out the poster
'Shut up or i'll make you do it' Cain says
'Make me' Jax taunts
'Stop it the pair of you' I say to both of them
It's like dealing with children, I just want to smash both their head's together. But too much work is needed to be done, I start going around looking at the furniture to see what can be saved and what need's to go. I take everything that need's to go outside and everything that need's to be saved to the main room downstairs.
I notice Cain has found an old fire pit, he looks over and points to the furniture I nod in response. I see he found a mask to help cover the smell, just a whiff is enough to make me gag. Nothing worse then the smell of severely decayed animals mixed in with shit and piss, even for our kind.
After about an hour of clearing out rubbish and sorting everything inside and outside around the house outside, we take a break as we all made list's of what needs doing. We've put everything in order starting with what needs doing in the next few day's then what need's doing in the next few weeks and then finally what can be done last.
We all sit down and start making orders and getting the bins sorted along with a skip, as it'll be a few day's before we have power up and running so for now it's making sure we have enough petrol for the generator.
'The posters are done so we can hand them out when we go back through the little town' Jaz say's
'I did see a coffee shop when we went through earlier' Cain reply's
'Perfect we can pop in have a drink and maybe a snack' I say, even though we don't need human food and drinks we do enjoy coffee and alcohol
'Shall we head out? Not much more to do now' Jax ask's sounding abit impatient.
'May as well, we can stop by some shops get any bits and see what's around and find way's to help them survive' I say back
We head back to the car and head straight into town so we can hand out posters, i've send an email to Isabella for everything that is needed and the council to say we have taken the property so they can arrange transport from items and plans for contractors that will be doing the work we need.
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