Ghost in the Machine – True Blood

Demise stood in the shower and closed her eyes to envision an outfit she'd worn countless times. After a minute she turned the water off and opened the shower door. There was a mirror right across from the shower and Demise was pleased to see it worked. She had on her black leather pants and a pair of hiking boots. She stepped out of the shower and took in the blue top that softened the look, because the bottom half was her battle uniform, but the top was simple and normal, a long sleeve silk looking royal blue button up that went well with their eyes.

"Oh my god, you turned water into clothes." Christine sounded shocked and Demise just smiled at her reflection, and therefore at Christine.

Demise also had a bunch of new rings on her fingers, that would be easy to turn into the wolverine knives or brass knuckles if needed, but were just a pretty little bit of bling now. She had to hide extra mass on the body like that for emergencies. When she'd learned she could to this it had been such a relief. She had some powers still and she could use them to stay safe and keep Christine safe.

Rather than use the powers for makeup, Demise found what she needed in Christine's bag and put more dramatic eye makeup on as well as a darker shade of lipstick than Christine tended to wear. The lipstick looked new even though it sat on the bottom of the bag, so it was likely tried once and dismissed even before Demise joined with Christine. She did her hair more wild, a little more volume to it than Christine had it. She was trying to be herself and also make sure to be different enough Pam would remember she was on a date with someone new this time. It was a little strange, but then shapeshifting and the effect of minor changes were something she understood and it wasn't long before she stood in front of the mirror as someone who was NOT Christine.

"That's amazing." The voice in her head told her and Demise smirked as she considered calling Christine 'Voice'. "You look like someone else, even in my body. And how did you make those clothes out of water."

"My whole body had been made of water, after that asteroid it was what I used to reform." Demise reminded Christine softly and headed out toward the living room to wait. "I'm just glad I can still use it some. These clothes are much sturdier than they look. I spent three months just perfecting a fabric that would keep knives off you and while I couldn't test bullets, I tried to make the weave small and strong enough to stop one. Still, I heard a bullet over a bullet proof vest will still hurt like hell and bruise badly."

"You did all that for me?" Christine sounded pretty touched and Demise felt a little awkward with the tone of gratitude and awe.

"I had to do something with my time." Demise told her softly, but she turned her focus to the laptop on the coffee table while they waited.

The knock on the door had Demise glancing out to see the minivan was there. She'd been a little bit too caught up in looking up the V issue online. Sookie had more information than the reporters did, that was not unexpected. The vampires were keeping the fact that people were abusing their blood quiet while they investigated.

When Demise opened the door Pam's eyes widened a little. She watched as Pam's eyes wandered over her. "Not a sweety I see." Pam muttered, but then she smiled and looked into Demise's eyes. "Well, tiger, what's the plan for tonight?" It was amusing that Pam's first reaction was to give Demise her own pet name.

"You didn't plan something?" Demise's eyebrow rose at that.

"I wasn't really sure what you'd want to do." Pam let out a huff of air. "Christine likes pretty restaurants and talking, but I have no idea about you."

"I like long walks on the beach and picnics in the woods." Demise smirked as she said that and got Pam to roll her eyes.

"We don't really have a beach in Shreveport, tiger, but I'll see what I can do." Pam glanced around. "You ready?"

"Sure." Demise grabbed the wallet out of the purse and shoved it in a pocket. Pam stepped back onto the porch as they shut the door and stepped out onto the porch.

"Wallet in the pocket type of girl?" Pam teased. "You're the butch in Christine's femme aren't you?"

"Watch it, I'm the butch in you if you play your cards right." Demise joked and started toward the minivan. Purses were harder for shapeshifters to deal with and Mystique had taught Demise to go with wallets instead, it was practical, not butch, but why explain all that. Pam chuckled and followed her.

"We could get you a sandwich or such from a deli and we'll head out to a lake. It's a little bit of a drive, but you could have your picnic on the lakeshore and we could get to know each other." Pam offered her idea as they started to pull out of the driveway.

"Sounds good to me." Demise smiled and considered the advantages of that much water nearby. She had been wanting to see if she could do more with more, as she'd only had the shower before.

"So do you take all your dates into the woods? It sounds just a tad creepy tiger." Pam smirked.

"Look who's talking, vampire, dark lake, much creepier." Demise was liking this game. She grinned as she waited for Pam's reply.

"Honey, if I wanted to take your blood I'd have it." Pam's slow drawl was a bit sexy. "I'll have it in fact, but you'll give it to me."

"I'm made of water and death." Demise's smile faded as she addressed this issue. "I was before I merged with Christine, and she didn't become drenched. I don't know where that water went, or what exactly happened, but I think something of my body had to have merged with her."

"Water and Death?" Pam gave Demise an odd look Demise had seen before.

"I guess you could say I'm a different kind of vampire. When people die, the bonds that hold the soul to the body break and are cast off into the universe. I absorb the cast off energy of them. I use that energy to travel to other realities, and I used it to recreate my body out of water when my original body was destroyed. It very well may be that my 'water' is full of that energy and I don't know what it would do to a vampire that drank it. I don't want to hurt you."

"I appreciate the warning, but if it proves to be safe would you be willing to let me drink of you tiger?" Pam spoke softly, quietly, and Demise had enough experience to know this was important. It would be to a vampire, could they even take a lover they couldn't bite?

"I trust you, and if it wouldn't hurt you I know you wouldn't hurt us." Demise caught Pam's eyes as she said that and could see she'd given the right answer. "But will it feel good if you can't glamour us?" Demise smiled just a little when she saw Pam's wicked grin.

"Tiger, I am sure I can rock your world without that little advantage. I don't glamour my lovers, I find it a bit distasteful." Pam told her and Demise's respect for the vampire increased.

"Christine is hoping for sexual monogamy at some point, but she understands blood is different." Demise told her and could hear Christine grumbling about her moving too fast, and that she might scare the vampire off with talk about monogamy before they'd even had sex. "Christine, I'm sorry if you think this talk is too soon, but you have to talk about what you expect in a relationship early if you hope to get it." Demise spoke softly and watched Pam's eyebrow raise.

"So she can talk to you as well?" Pam asked.

"Yes, I didn't expect that, but it seems fair." Demise sighed softly. "She's riding backseat and she's been incredibly sweet about not talking too much."

They pulled off the road and into a parking lot. It would seem like it was in response to the conversation, but the building in front of them was a deli, so this could have been their destination. "Okay, you believe in honesty early." Pam put the minivan in park and turned to her. "Normally I have difficulty with monogamy, because my tastes are a bit varied. I like the innocent young things that blush when I talk and I like the confident tigers in my bed, but I get bored with just one or the other long before things get serious." Demise ignored Christine's concern as she started to grin, seeing where Pam was going even if Christine didn't. "I would be lying if I said I'd ever been honestly monogamous in my life, but things are different with you. I'm willing to give it a go and see if this works out, and I'm a bit more optimistic that I can do it than I have been in over a hundred years." Pam gave her a wicked grin. "I expect it would take a very long time to get bored with the two of you."

"Longer than you'd expect. I'm more than a tiger in bed." Demise teased quietly. "I don't think you've ever been with anyone like me before."

"No, I certainly haven't." Pam smirked and turned her eyes back to the road. "What about you? Any romances before you met Christine?"

Demise laughed. "You make it sound like we're a couple." She shook her head at that, she shared a life with Christine, but not that way. "My love life was secondary to work and I worked all the time." Her smile faded. "Before I was a spy, when I was really young, I was with a woman for a while, but at this point I can't even remember why I ever went out with her, let alone stayed with her for years. That didn't last, obviously."

"How old are you?" Pam asked and gave her a searching glance again.

"That's always a bit confusing, because of the reality jumping, I tend to jump back in time. I've been around a little over forty years, Christine is thirty-eight."

"I know, I have a perfect memory. I did check her id at the bar." Pam chuckled. "I really have lost my ability to judge human ages, though, because I would have estimated her at twenty-five."

"Well, she takes that as a compliment." Demise told her, as Christine told her that much. Christine was staying mostly quiet, but that did require a reply. "I don't age anymore, my own body was stuck at thirty, and I don't know if that will affect her. There are so many things I don't know about how we merged. It wasn't supposed to happen."

"She said you were 'her' from another world." Pam spoke slowly as they sat in the running minivan, in a parking space.

Demise sighed and decided to talk more about the 'her from another world' angle than her powers just yet. "Christine's life is so different from what mine was, even before the spying, that we have less in common than two of the 'same person' should. I think perhaps our grade school years were the same, but after that she branched off from me somewhere before high school." Demise looked at Pam. "And this world is definitely different than my home world."

"You realize this sounds more than a little insane?"

"Yeah, I'm aware." Demise leaned her back on the door, facing Pam more. "If we become serious, really serious, I'll tell you stories that make that seem like the sane part." She turned to give Pam a small pained smile. "But I don't give away my insanity on the first date, my body I just might, but not my insanity."

Pam smirked. "And how is that going to work?"

"We'll tag team you." Demise said with a straight face and could hear Christine's loud embarrassed protest to saying it out loud.

Pam's laugh was full and rich, and it was lucky they were parked at the time. "Oh tiger, you and sweety will be a treat, a real treat." The vampire turned the vehicle off and opened her door, signaling it was time to get out. "Get something for a little picnic." Pam told her as they were walking away from the minivan.

It took maybe five minutes to get their things and leave. Demise had a sandwich and a true blood in the bag. Pam pulled onto the freeway, some direction in mind. "I believe the cashier thought the true blood was for you." Pam smirked.

The cashier had given her an odd look that made Demise believe that the girl had guessed wrong as to which of them was the vampire. It probably had more to do with Pam wearing pastel colors than anything Demise did. "I guess leather pants are kinda vampire now, used to be just kinda badass."

"There are plenty of lakes throughout Louisiana." Pam told her maybe twenty minutes after they left the deli. "I hope this one will do." The van pulled off to the side of the road, and into the woods just a little before it stopped.

Demise could see a few houses around the lake, and the lights added a little something to the atmosphere. Pam walked up to a dock and was moving something around until a few lights came on, showing a small boat and some of the lights traveled up a path towards a house. "You've never seen this place." Pam told her firmly, with a small smile. "Erik doesn't need to know I'm compromising this safe house."

"Alright, I was never here. I've played that game before." Demise teased and started to trail after Pam when the vampire took her hand and walked her out onto the dock. There was a bench at the end of the dock, beside the boat.

"Here is your sandwich." Pam handed the bag over.

Demise chuckled. "This isn't so much a picnic as eating outside." She turned to lean her back on the railing and folded her legs as she faced Pam, who was just starting to sit herself. The buzz in the air had Demise adding a thin layer of skin over her face as well, to keep from having bugs try to bite her. "So any chance you'll tell me if you like dancing, or music, or walks in the moonlight?" Demise asked while staring at an amused looking vampire.

"All my walks are in the moonlight tiger." Pam seemed to relax as she shifted to face Demise by sitting somewhat sideways. "I'm a woman of simple tastes. I like sex on my dates, lots of sex."

Demise couldn't help but laugh. "Oh, I think I can deliver then."

"Are you really going to go all the way with her on your first date?" Christine sounded a little tense and Demise's smile faded. She would have loved to have gone all the way, but did she have the right to do that? To be with Pam first?

"Aw, who poked the tiger? You're wickedness is gone." Pam drawled.

"Christine has technically been on more dates with you, and well, if you want to play with innocence, her riding backseat with us for the first time will ruin that for you." Demise gave off a large sigh. "I'm a bit disappointed."

"Kiss her." Christine told her and Demise smiled just a little at the direction. "Do whatever you want." Softer. "Does it still feel good from in here?"

"It's a little like bondage, a bit like surrender." Demise whispered and tapped her temple to show Pam who she was talking to. "It feels great to ride backseat when things get passionate."

"Show me." Christine sounded just a hint shy, and Demise stare into Pam's eyes as she considered giving both women here with her a taste of something.