pith (pith) wrote in pithia, @ 2007-09-24 16:12:00 |
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LKH-AB: Predator
Title: Predator
Fandom: LKH: AB
Spoilers: Up to Cerulean Sins
Disclaimers: Characters and world belong to LKH; the story is mine. Don't repost or "borrow" or anything.
Becca wondered how long it could last. It wasn't exactly as if they were inconspicuous, and from her dealings with Asher and Jean-Claude, she knew how important the ability to adapt had been for vampire before they'd been legalized. Different flavour of predator, but the same rule still applied: don't get noticed. Now the vampires could flaunt their powers—they were tourist attractions, history and danger and lust rolled into one—but assassins weren't so fortunate. There was no such cachet to contract killing, and the neighbours would eventually wonder how the Forresters made so much money with their erratic schedules. Becca was half-tempted to tell people they ran a porn website.
That was the downside of predation, the reason why most hunters were solitary by nature: security. Too many killers in too small a place was a recipe for unwanted attention. Perhaps the three of them could be like a wolf pack instead—although she didn't like where she'd be placed in the hierarchy by default. Then again, it was sometimes smarter to be the second fiddle instead of the soloist, easier to work from the shadows than the spotlight.