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Ossie hung his head "I’io And Sue Really"

"Maybe we could keep fro across the darkened ceer "All the Keepers will be at the asseht?"

"Just about everyone will be at the asseency services or other jobs where their absences would be noted, but I’er said

"I’et there early In fact, I was onofYou all need to clean up and get there on ti really nice for Sue" He turned his attention to her "You okay?"

She nodded, linking arms with the two men "Thank you We’re fine," she assured hi it back to his car in ti to break in

They earing ski masks

In New Orleans

"Hey!" he shouted

One of the men looked at hiht the for a killer as going to take more victims if he wasn’t stopped Soon

"I’m sure of it Billy is the killer," Caitlin said She, Shauna and Fiona were in their co the events of the day

"I just don’t believe that," Fiona said She was pacing, she realized Ar back and forth in front of the fireplace like the depressed polar bear in the Central Park Zoo that had needed therapy, because all it did i and realized both her sisters were staring at her, waiting for her to speak

"Are you even listening? I said if Jagger won’t put him down, you’ll have to," Caitlin said

"We don’t have any proof that it was Billy," Fiona said "Look, for one thing, we’re all concentrating on the secondabout the first Billy has no connection to Tina Lawrence, as last seen at a strip club The police have a sketch of a le person has conize hihtly resembles him"

"Could there have been two separate killers?" Shauna wondered aloud

"I don’t think so Too many similarities," Fiona said, and took a deep breath "Here’s where we are right now Tina Lawrence, last seen at the strip club A ain We’ve actually questioned Abigail, but she doesn’t re beer So in her drink--frat boys have been known to do that--but we don’t actually know, since there was obviously no autopsy No one froh a lot of people got the impression he was there They all knew he had plans in the Quarter--which he did He was at thewith the three of us"

Caitlin had been curled up on the sofa Now she stood, walked up to Fiona and placed a hand gently on her shoulder "Look, I know I’ve been a bitch It’s just that I can’t forget that vampires caused all our problems--caused Moood sister and a good Keeper And I don’t want to upset you, but I do need to point out two things First, both victims were drained of blood, va A hu, but both victims woke at dark Only a va as a va one thing Shapeshifters can take onas another supernatural, they don’t have the strength of the real thing," Caitlin said

"That’s true," Fiona agreed "But," she asked quietly, "how th would a shapeshifter have needed to attack tomen? Tina Lawrence had a violent streak, true, but she was still only hu as a vampire or olf, but he would still be "

"You just don’t want to accept that it was a vampire," Caitlin told her "You just don’t want to accept the possibility that it ht have been a shapeshifter," Fiona countered

They stared at each other Then they both started to sht--it was most likely a vampire," Fiona said

"And, I admit, there’s a possibility it was a shape-shifter," Caitlin said

"What a relief," Shauna said "Noe can go to theand present a united front"

"We have to," Fiona said "We have to make the entire paranormal community understand co--and ill keep the peace"

Shauna ju, Fiona let herself be dragged into her youngest sister’s exuberant e a step back "One for all, and all for one Now, let’s get over to that "

Despite the tier arrived at David’s early A little while later, fro in and realized everyone seeether with the other io had made up, but even so, they split up when they entered, Ossie to sit with the olves and Georgio with the vampires Even the Keepers separated on arrival and sat with the races they were charged to protect