Friday April 17th 2009
Who: Wolf and Jason (I know. Another one?) When: Early evening Where: Dreamland What: Jason goes searching for the vampire and they strike a deal. Of a sort.
Jason made sure that Cassie was being watched by Charlie, promising her that he was going to talk to Candi. He would. Eventually. For now, he was headed to his room to sleep. The intention this time wasn't to hide from Wolf, but to find the bastard. Locking his door, Jason kept the dreamcatchers in place since they kept the vampire from actually doing harm. Laying down, it wasn't long before he fell asleep.
Jason was angry, furious, that Wolf would even touch Cassie. It was the right button to push to get his attention, but the wrong one for cooperation. Not that he'd give that away so quickly. Football in hand, he started wandering around his dream, waiting for Wolf to show like always.
Wolf didn't tend to show up on cue but he was intrigued that Jason was asleep; the boy had been avoiding sleep and he had a nap not that long ago, so for him to be asleep was a little strange. However Wolf had an idea that Cassie had told Jason exactly what he did...well maybe not exactly but enough.
Wolf wandered into the dream, finding Jason easily and then smiled at him. "I have a feeling that you are looking for me pretty one." He said as he stopped walking and crossed his arms over his chest.
"For once, your feelings were right one target," Jason agreed, tucking the pigskin under his arm. "Tell me again what it is you want from me." The dhampir wasn't just intending to hand everything over, but he wanted it all out there so he knew just how much trouble he was going to be in later.
Wolf smiled at him and nodded. "I thought so." He said and then looked a bit surprised by Jason's statement. Not that he really was, he pushed his biggest bargaining chip. "Are we negotiating now?" He said with a smirk. It really was what they were doing, he was going to tell Jason everything he wanted and Jason would tell him what he would do.
"I want you as my den's guard, my daywalker. You will conduct my business during the day, you will protect me and all I hold dear. I want you in my bed, no point hiding that but I can tell from your earlier reactions that won't happen. But your good looks, like your mother's will help me to gather new children."
"What sort of business?" Jason started tossing the ball into the air, completely casual. He knew he held more than a few of the cards in this game. "You may as well lay it all out on the table."
"I need someone to take care of our business affairs, the legal ones, the not so legal are usually at night, and during the day its not like my family can go out during the day to take care of things." He walked towards Jason and then chewed on his lip. "I need you to help me find and create new children to replace the ones that have gone." Wolf stopped right in front of Jason and smiled. "You will have control of the caves during the day, keep the humans and other shifters in line." He said softly as he reached out to touch Jason's face but stopped just inches away.
Jason stepped back and shook his head. "I'm not going to be your bloodhound or your poster boy. No." He turned and started tossing the ball in the air and catching it, walking away from Wolf. "I'm not finding or making anyone."
"Now Jason, it's important to me that you help me find children...it not you then I will have to bring your mother home. She was always my best tool for that...of course I used to have a very good bargaining chip in you...guess I still do." He said as he walked behind Jason.
"No. I'm not finding anyone for you," Jason was adamant on that point. He wasn't going to do it. Simple as that. "Feel free to pull her in. I won't care." That was only partially a lie. Jason had started to care for Candi quite a bit. She was doing a lot for him.
"Fine, then your mother will lose her freedom and have to become my bloodhound again. She hated it as much as you would but i already have the threat of hurting you over her head." Wolf shrugged and then the scenery changed and they were in the caves. "But you will handle all errands and business I need you for, you will be our daytime guard and run our home. And you will play nice with me when we have guests."
Jason snorted, shifting his football for a tennis ball and tossing it against the cave walls. "Once again, you're being rather vague with everything you think I'm going to do. You might want to remember that you're the one that needs me." Jason leveled a golden stare at Wolf. "I for damned sure don't need you."
Wolf snarled at Jason and shoved him into a chair and forced him to look at a bed suddenly in the middle of the room. On it was Cassie and her bleeding arm, begging the dream version of Fox not to rape her as he pushed her legs apart. "No you don't need me, but I won't go away Jason...I will keep hurting everyone you love, that you care for until I get what I want. As an extreme show of kindness and as a favour to your mother when I visited her last night, I promised not to force you to have sex of any kind with me, I have agreed not to make you my bloodhound but I want the rest, no more negotiations." His voice was cold and flat, he had had enough.
Jason dropped back into the chair and slowly raised himself to his feet. He knew exactly the scene going on in the middle of the room, where it was coming from. "Cassie told me," he said calmly, brushing off imaginary lint from his shirt. In reality, he wanted to crush Wolf's windpipe. "If you'll notice, I haven't said no to the deal. I just want complete clarification what sort of business you expect me to conduct." He raised his gaze back to the vampire, ignoring the scene in the middle of the room.
Wolf knew Jason was ignoring it but, he was very aware that it was effecting Jason and that's what he wanted. So he made it disappear and then frowned at him. "I own different real estates, a few stores, I have some renters you need to check in on and you will have to check in with my investors as well." Wolf wasn't giving Jason the less legal investments to handle, he figured he would have issues with that.
Jason wagged his head. That was reasonable. He knew how to handle all of those, dealing with the rent, bills and general accounting that went along with it. "What about my classes?" He wasn't the type that liked to leave halfway through, especially when he hadn't reached his goal. And yes, he was well aware that he was neogotiating with a terrorist.
Wolf shrugged slightly and sat down on a chair that just appeared and looked at Jason for a moment. "Are they really important to you? Take year off...i will be paying you a salary for all this." He said as he crossed his legs and leaned back in the chair, his eyes never leaving Jason's face.
Jason snorted. "Bullshit. That I believe is a bald-faced lie." He didn't even bother to hide his derision. Picking the tennis ball back up again, he started once more throwing it at the wall.
Wolf looked at him and shook his head. "No, i do pay people when they work for me, ask your mother. She has some very expensive baubles for being a meager professor." He watched as Jason played with the ball and then smiled. "So does t his mean you're going to come live with me?"
"This means nothing one way or the other. I'm just gathering information,"Jason said, with no confirmation as to his decision. Even right now, he wasn't sure what he wanted to do, other than have Wolf's head as his new basketball.
Wolf sighed and stood up. "You're wasting my time Jason, I'm getting tired of waiting for you. You need to give me a yes or no." Wolf was getting bored and that was no a very good thing for anyone.
"Then why are you waiting?" Jason looked up, mildly confused. "You've got all these other little vampires around to do your bidding. Why waste your time on one who fights you?"
"One, you're stronger than they are, two you are a day walker and three, I like a backbone, it makes life more interesting." He sighed and then tugged on a necklace he was wearing. "two more days Jason, then I want an answer."
Fox frowned at the necklace, wondering what it was, if it was important somehow. "Stronger is debatable since I'm only half of either one." He couldn't argue either the daywalker or the backbone, since he'd shown both quite well by this point.
Wolf smiled at him and shrugged. "I don't think it is debatable, I know you are." In his own weird way Wolf was proud of Jason, he thought of him like his son, more so than the others because he effected Jason from birth, he grew up with Wolf's blood in his veins.
Jason rolled his eyes. "Yeah. So. If I decide to come and find you. Where would I go?" It wasn't a yes, it wasn't a no. It was a gathering of information.
"I have a child waiting for you outside the school grounds. You cross those borders by yourself after telling me yes they will come to you and take you to me." He said with a shrug.
Jason blinked. "Yeah. Because that's not creepy." Rising to his feet, he started tossing the ball again. "An address, or I don't show at all."
Wolf gave him a look and then shook his head "I won't give you my exact address but I will give you an address to meet me at if you say yes." wolf wasn't a total moron he wasn't telling jason where the caves were.
Jason nodded, agreeing to that much at least. "Fine. An address."
Wolf nodded. "when you wake it will be in your head." He said softly as he glanced behind him, something happening in the real world.
"Something bothering you, Puppy?" Jason smirked, seeing the annoyance and concern on Wolf's face. It probably wasn't wise to prod a wolf, but he just couldn't help himself.
Wolf just looked at him and smiled. "No everything is fine pretty boy, don't you worry about me. Just a few sibling issues around here."
"I'm an only child," Jason informed Wolf. "You'd do well to remember that." The dhampir may be considering taking over the business holdings, but he wouldn't see the den as home or the vampires as siblings no matter what Wolf said.
"Oh I know you're an only child trust me." He shook his head and then frowned slightly. "Well you've got more time pretty, there is something I must deal with now. But I expect an answer tomorrow." Wolf said as he turned to look at Jason.
"You said three days," Jason argued, rising to his feet and walking away. Of course, Wolf was very bad at keeping track of time anyways. Jason wouldn't be surprised if he didn't get back to him until next week.
It was true, Wolf was extremely terrible with time and he was aware of it but he really didn't care, it kept people on edge when it came to him. "Did I? Well the next time I show up then."
"Uh-huh. Whatever. I plan to actually sleep now, so go away." Tossing the ball in the air, he changed the scenery from the den to a basketball court. This was his dream after all.