Maisie’s Revenge

The Cover Up

After finishing her coffee, Maisie went to her room and decided to go though one of her class work that is due the next day. She just wanted to make sure that everything was in order before she submitted it. She went through her phone and put her music on connecting it to the speaker before she went to work on her class work.

She was done in 20 minutes. To pass the time she opted to check her social media account and posted a picture she took on a timer earlier doing her yoga. She kept browsing and was watching some random videos when someone knocked on her door.

“I’m decent.” She shouted. Mac opened the door and poked his head in. He looks freshly showered and dressed. They must have came home without her noticing because her loud music.

“Hey, do you wanna go early so we can grab breakfast before class?” Mac asked.

“Love to.” She happily answered. “Let me freshen up, I’ll be ready in ten minutes.”

Mac just did a thumbs up before his head disappeared and closed the door.

Maisie shut down her laptop and shoved it in her backpack and turned her music off. She went to her bathroom to do her business and brush her teeth, applied toner, moisturiser and sunscreen then a tinted lip gloss. She doesn’t really like applying makeup.She gave herself a once over in the full length mirror before getting out of the bathroom. She grabbed her coat and backpack before leaving her room. She found Alex by the front door putting her trainers on, Mac seems to be already outside and can be heard talking to someone. Probably on the phone.

“Hey Alex, how’s training this morning?” She asked Alex casually.

“Great, I really think I’m getting close to beating Dexter’s ass.” Alex answered with a grin.

Maisie laughed. “I hate to burst your happy bubble but that man is a full blooded over six foot werewolf with Beta blood.” She exclaimed while she grabbed her knee high boots to put on. “How in the world do you plan on beating his ass down in a hand to hand combat?”

“Way to burst a girls dream.”Alex said with a frown.

Maisie shrugged. “And that’s maybe the problem. You probably should stop dreaming about the man, girl? He’s mated.” She said while giving Alex exaggerated judgemental look.

“Can you blame me though? He was the first man I was attracted to. And he is even hotter now that his mate has given him a makeover, he looks so delicious wearing a suit and even more so when he is half naked and dripping in sweat at training.” Alex said dreamily.

“You are lucky that Uncle Dexter is mated to a human otherwise you would have been dead months ago.” Maisie said sniggering.

“I agree, if I was mated to that man and someone like me is lurking around, the b***h better be sleeping with her eyes open because I’m coming for her.” Alex said making Maisie laugh even louder while shaking her head.

They both know that even though Alex was attracted to Dexter, she will never do anything to jeopardise Dexter’s relationship to Mandy. Its just a harmless attraction and nothing more. Dexter is indeed a beautiful man, in a sexy mature way.

“Are you two lusting over Dexter again? Alex, you really got to stop tainting Maisie’s innocence.” Mac said butting in in their conversation while he struggles to squeeze his phone into the back pocket of his skinny jeans as he stood by the door.

“Ew! Not me dude.” Maisie exclaimed. “And lusting is a bit much, Alex just think that the man is beautiful, nothing wrong with that. And stop with the innocence remarks, would you? I might only be 16 but I’m not gullible.”

Alex nodded in agreement while they all walked out the door Maisie closed the front door behind her before she followed the two to the lift.

As the lift went down, Alex’s phone beeped. She took it out her coat pocket to check.

“Tommy is waiting.” Alex said informing them.

“My man. On time as always.” Mac exclaimed happily.

Maisie chuckled. “ We’re only ever late because of you anyway.” She said.

“You can not rush a 10 step morning skin care routine, you should know that.” Mac grumbled crossing his arms defiantly.

Maisie sighed while Alex rolled her eyes.

She does sometimes regret introducing Mac to the Korean skin care routine. Now, Mac spends half an hour or more with his routine in the morning. McKenzie only used to watch Maisie do her routine and was fascinated by the whole process. When he asked if he could try some of it, she innocently said yes and encouraged him. A month later she ended up having to share all her skin care to him and that’s when she started regretting it. She ended up buying him a whole bunch of Korean skin care for Christmas so he would leave her stocks alone. She bought all she could think of ranging from different face wash, balm, cleanser, toners, serums, cream, eye cream, face mask, eye mask and sunscreen which they probably don’t need because werewolves have healing abilities and it probably include sun damage but Maisie love the glow and dewy look that it adds to her skin. She even got him a guasha set which to her surprise he actually use regularly. He has been a stickler to his routine and can be over the top about it but she must admit, it is actually making a lot of difference to his skin. Even Alex has noticed but would never admit it to Mac.

“I kept telling you that you don’t have to do 10, you can stick to 7 or even just the basic.” Maisie explained even though she had explained it to him before.

“Nah, Nah, uh! I don’t want to betray my face by doing that basic s**t that you’re talking about.” Mac said with a cringe. “The word “basic”, Mac said doing an air quote, “is making gorgeous face uncomfortable and if I was not looking forward to breakfast I would go back home and comfort my face with a hydrating face mask.” He said indignantly as he walked out of the lift that has just came to a stop.

Maisie looked at Alex with a ‘what have I done’ expression and Alex just glared back at Maisie with ‘this is all your fault’ expression. They both stepped out of the lift and followed Mac out of the building to a waiting car parked right outside. This time it’s a black Land Rover and not his usual taxi but no one asked about the car as they are already used to him switch cars one and a while.

Alex sat at the front while Mac and Maisie sat at the back.

“Good morning ladies and Mac.” Tommy greeted them and they greeted him back as they sat and got comfortable in the car.

“Unfortunately, the whole Wimbledon station has been close and few others from early this morning so I’m going to have to drop you off to Uni. I don’t really want you to take the replacement buses to get to school. Driving you there will add at least half an hour to your travel time but if you take the replacement public transport it will

probably take you 2 hours.” Tommy informed them matter of factly. He knows his way around the city and the surrounding borough so he knows what he’s talking about.

“Damn, luckily we decided to leave early then and at least I don’t have class until 10:30. What happened?” Mac asked curiously. Even Alex and Maisie are interested because they had delays and a few times Tommy has to drop them off to an alternative station before but he never actually had to drop them off the school.

“How about the ladies? What time do your start class?” Tommy asked instead of answering Mac as he drove away from the DarkMoon building and into the road.

“I only have one class at 1 o’clock.” Alex answered with a deep frown on her face while he looked at Tommy next to her.

“Mine starts at 10:30.” Maisie muttered.

“So what made you decide to leave at 8:30 then?” Tommy asked again. They are now coming to the compounds main entrance. He started to slow down.

“ Breakfast.” The three of them said in unison making Tommy chuckle while me murmured about werewolves appetite. Tommy parked the car in front of the security outpost. The trio’s curiosity is more heightened as they looked at each other. Tommy’s focus was not on them though as he watched one of the security named Miko come out of the outpost and walked to Tommy’s side.

Miko bend down and gave everyone inside the car and fist bumped with Tommy.

“So, what’s the news?” Tommy asked Miko. “Is it really a jumper? Never seen stations close this long for a jumper though?”

“Nah, Vampire attack. Three victims. Another cover up. The human authority is classifying it as group suicide, cult thing apparently.”

“These Vampire elders is really deep in the government that they can spin this twisted stories just to protect their kind even if they are committing crimes.” Tommy said with disgust. “And the sad truth is, normal humans who don’t have knowledge about the supernaturals will just believe what they’re told on the news.”

Miko sighed. “Unfortunately, they’ve been doing this for a long time and has been getting away with it.” Miko said before he gave them a little wave and walked back inside the outpost.

The gate opened and Tommy continued his drive.

“What the f**k?” Maisie exclaimed in disbelief making Tommy grunt. Tommy still not used to hearing Maisie swear. This time he chose not to comment about it.

“This is part of the city’s dark side.” Tommy sighed.

“You mean to tell us that the Vampire elders has been covering deaths like this for a long time?” Alex asked.

“From what I heard, the Vampire elders have patrols everywhere combing the city every night. If the patrol finds a dead human with a bite mark in the neck, they take that person to the tracks and let a train run over it. Best way to get rid of the evidence I suppose without having someone disappear. It also shortens the investigation and a suicide will barely raise suspicion than a missing person.” Tommy explained.

“That is so messed up.”Mac said quietly.

“All those innocent humans being killed without getting justice. It’s so wrong.” Maisie sadly said.

Tommy glanced at her meaningfully through the rear view mirror before he said. “It’s not only the crimes against defenceless humans that they’ve been getting away with. They’ve covered up crimes against other supernaturals too. That’s how powerful this people are.”

The three of them know exactly what Tommy was implying and they all went quietly. They just looked out of the window as they travel though the high street watching all the people scrambling everywhere as they tried to get ahead of their day. Most of them are piling up into the bus stops and most of them are probably going to be late to wherever they are headed to because of the incident at the station. As soon as they got closer to the station all there sight was fixated to the station. There was police cars parked by the streets and both entrances has been cordoned off. You can really tell what’s going on from the outside at all.

They stayed quietly for awhile so Tommy just put the music on the car.

“Would you mind if I join you for breakfast?” Tommy asked. “All this bad news made me all peckish.”

“Not at all. The more the merrier.” Maisie answered and Alex and Mac agreed.

All of a sudden there was a buzzing sound. Mac and Maisie took their phones out to check.

“I guess we have more time for breakfast this morning then.” Mac said.

“Class cancelled?” Tommy asked.

“Yup.” Mac and Maisie both answered.Tommy just nodded.