Anastasia

The Council

A big shout out to Jessica Elizabeth Oakes for Damon's job idea, I was stuck with what job would suit him, and Jessica gave me a great idea.

Saturday came and we woke early, got breakfast and Damon went to work, he worked in a brewery making bourbon and I must say the job suited him pretty well. After breakfast I watched some TV it was good they got mortal channels on here so I was able to watch doctor who, my favourite show.

It was 1:30pm, time to got ready, Damon wasn't back yet, but he had assured he would be home before me, his hours depended on when he was needed, this had been the third time he had gone to work since I'd known him.

At 1:55 I blinked to the building that held Thomas's office, the council house, I blinked right in front of the unitaur statue, Thomas was already there, waiting for me, he smiled at me as soon as he saw me,

"I'm glad you could make it" he seemed giddy "follow me" he suggested as he turned away from me and started walking, I was worried, wondering why he was excited, Damon and I had joked about this, remember the movies where the bully invites her victim to a party, then makes a fool out of her? Well that's how I felt, but non the less I followed him cautiously, whilst he took two steps I took one, I must of looked silly to onlookers, but I concluded that looking a little silly was better than walking into a trap that would cause a thousand water balloons to fall on my head.

We came to a wooden door, Thomas opened the door to reveal a rectangle table with five chairs, we entered the room, Thomas kept the door open and once I had walked into the gloomy looking room, he signalled at one of the chairs, letting me know that's where I sat, I nodded in acknowledgement and went slowly to sit down, taking precautions, once I was satisfied I felt silly, I mean really silly, I had made it and no water had fallen on my head, I was starting to believe nothing of the sort would happen, but it was early, maybe the other members had planned to do something.

A man blinked into the chair opposite mine, then another man blinked occupying the chair on my left, then another blinked in next to the man sitting opposite me, no pranks, Thomas stood at the head of the table towards my left

"Welcome brothers to our weekly meetings, oh sorry, brothers and sister" he corrected looking at me the man with the brown hair, opposite me scoffed, I didn't know why, but Thomas ignored him and carried on "now I believe introductions are in order, this is Anastasia, the newest addition to the council" the brown haired man scoffed again, I squinted at him as if to say 'what's your problem?' The man just folded his arms, Thomas cleared his throat and once again began to speak "Anastasia, this is Gareth" he pointed to the man next to me, "this is Brandon" he pointed to the man sitting opposite me, and sitting next to him was William, the men all greeted me except Brandon. I realised then that my fellow flyer was sat next to me.

"Its so nice to meet you, I'm Gareth, wait you already know that, how silly of me" the man had hold of my hand and he was shaking it vigorously as he spoke, I was looking to the others for help in making him let go,

"That's enough Gareth, let the girl go" Thomas came to the rescue, go figure. I smiled in thankyou and he nodded in acknowledgement

"Why is she even here? She doesn't belong here, you said it yourself, women have no place on the council, she needs to go" Brandon spoke, raising his voice, I slammed the table

"She is right here, she can hear you, and she isn't going anywhere, got it?" I said, getting a little angry, he huffed but said nothing

"Excellent, now that that's out of the way, let's get on with this meeting, William, let's start with you, anything to report?" Thomas asked

"Well just a small complaint, some parents are complaining that the playground isn't safe and that we should get rid of the werewolves." William explained, to which Thomas huffed