Business

AN: I'm back! I would like to thank serpentlady, slytherinwithwings, RangerIggy, and Deamondeathstone for helping me get over my writers block. So, thank them for the new chapter. On with the show!

Disclaimer: I don't own any characters or fictional places found within this story.



Detroit, Michigan 1993
October 30th 3:20 PM
Devil's Night

As Saint stood{in his standard suit that was a minature copy of his father's} behind T-Bird at the annual Devil's Night meeting, the twelve year old reflected on the last two years since his first participation in Devil's Night.

His mother had been overjoyed at the present Saint brought her. The eyes of a father and husband which had seen everything he held dear massacred are very beautiful according to his mother. In fact she had been so proud of him she went to great lengths to find him something unique for his birthday...the Ring Of Deidre.

It was said that the ring was made of the dust of one hundred master vampires, bound and transmuted into silver by the sorcerer Darelik. It was supposedly the opposite of the Gem of Amara. One gives vampires the ability to walk in the sun and be truly immortal, the other gives a human the abilities of a master vampire with none of the weaknesses....if you could awaken it. The problem is no one knows how to awaken it, except it has to do with the blood of a disciple of vengeance.

But the blood of people seeking revenge has been spilled on it for centuries. Hell, someone had even slit a Kalderdash Romany's throat over the damn thing, yet still nothing. Xander personally believed that was just a big hoax by Darelik to see if people would fall for it. Either way it looked cool, it was just a little too big for Xander's fingers just yet, so he wore it on a necklace around his neck.

"Well, lets get down to business shall we?" Top Dollar said, gaining the attention of everyone in the room. "Besides the usual targets we have one extra. A realtor's agent isn't going along with our clearing of the apartment building on Williams Street. Hell she has even written a petition against it."

"I'll handle that one." T-Bird said, gaining a nod from Top Dollar.

"Alright, but make sure you just scare her up a little. We don't need someone looking at the fine print." Top Dollar told him. T-Bird nodded in reply.

"Well that's all the new business. You all know what to do so have fun. Saint, stay behind." Top Dollar ended the meeting.

After everyone had left, Xander walked over to his mother. Myca was already laying down on top of the table and was currently playing with Saint's hair, which was below his shoulders now and currently in a low ponytail. His dad was looking at him with an unidentifiable emotion.

"I've decided that it's time for you to learn how I run things. You've got spirit and imagination. That's good, but if I don't teach how, then you won't learn how." Lavelle told his son and heir. "Like most businesses, you need a lawyer to get you out of any trouble you may get yourself into. So I've called my attorney over to introduced herself to you."

After a few moments Grange escorted a beautiful woman in her late twenties. She had brown hair with blond highlights. She walked with a self assured stride that showed her confidence in herself and her abilities. Her eyes were cold and spoke of ambition, cruelty, and cunning, yet also held a spark of fear that she could not hide when her eyes landed on Top Dollar.

"Lilah. Good to see you are still punctual." Top Dollar greeted the woman as she walked over.

"Mr. Donovan." Greeted Lilah Morgan as she looked curiously at Saint.

"Lilah, this is my son St. Alexander Lavelle Donovan, though he prefers people to call him either Saint or Xander. Saint, this is Lilah Morgan, she is my lawyer from Wolfram and Hart." Introduced Top Dollar.

"It's a pleasure Mr. Saint." Greeted Lilah as she looked at him with a measuring stare.

"Same here Ms. Morgan." Saint said as he met here stare with his own. As Lilah looked him in the eyes she couldn't help but shiver, not finding any mercy or semblance of compassion there. Something wasn't right with this child.

"It's Mrs., actually." Lilah corrected him, not a bit of nervousness she felt showing through.

"Really? My apologies, then." Saint told her as he looked at her with a strange glint in his eyes. Lilah broke the staring contest and saw Myca staring at her hungrily with a strange little smile on her face. Lilah looked away and returned her attention back to Top Dollar.

"I called you over here to introduce you to my son and also to let you know that you and Saint will be working closely for a while as he will be accompanying me on most business, so that he can learn about what I do." Top Dollar told Lilah with the same strange little smile as his sister.

"Sir, you do know that I am transferring over to the Los Angeles branch in a few months, don't you?" Asked Lilah with some confusion.

"You don't need to worry about that, Lilah. I am going to start expanding into Los Angeles, within the month." Top Dollar informed her.

"Well, what business are you hoping to expand into?" Asked Lilah as she pulled out a notebook and pen.

As Lavelle and Lilah hammered out the details, Xander touched the ring on his necklace, it was warming up.


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Detroit, Michigan 1993
October 30th 10:55 PM
Devil's Night


"I'm sorry, Boss. Her boyfriend showed up and we were forced to ice them both." T-Bird apologized nervously.

"That's not a problem." Top Dollar told T-Bird, he waited until T-Bird let out a sigh of relief then spoke again.

"What IS a problem is that she is still alive, and is in Intensive Care at St. Mary's." Top Dollar said dangerously.

"I'll take care of it, Boss Man!" T-Bird said quickly hoping to redeem himself, or at least save his own ass.

"Too late. I've already sent Grange over, he'll take care of it. It will look as if her body just gave up. But the question remains. What do I do with you?" Wondered Top Dollar. He thought for a long moment, then he stood up and walked over to his sword case and pulled out an Ivanhoe.

"By all means I should kill you." He said as he inspected the sword. "But Saint is fond of you."

Top Dollar walked over to T-Bird and put the tip of the sword to T-Bird's throat as T-bird fought not to swallow.

"I'll give you another chance. Just this once. And you better pray that this doesn't come back to bite me in the ass, because if it does or you screw up again...I'll have you drawn and quartered. Now get out." Top Dollar growled. T-Bird flew like his names' sake out of the room.


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Hong Kong, China 1994
June 30th 7:30 PM
Saint's Birthday



"Where are we going?" Saint asked his father as they drove through Hong Kong in their Limousine.

"You'll see." Lavelle told his son, as Myca sat on his lap.

"I still don't see why you won't let me do it. It should be done by someone who he cares for." Myca pouted at her brother.

"When they say 'care', I don't think they're talking about his mother." Lavelle said wryly.

"Why not? I'm your sister, how is that any different from our first?" Asked Myca pointedly.

"Because we were in the same age group." Top Dollar told her with annoyance.

"I was twelve and you were sixteen." Myca deadpanned.

"Well..you see...Look we're here!" Top Dollar said glad for the distraction. They all climbed out of the limo and walked up to the door.

Saint looked up at the sign on the building, 'Kurenai's Massage Parlor'. He shrugged at the sign and walked on in with his parents.

"Donovan party of three." Top Dollar announced to the blond receptionist who looked like she walked right out of a hentai manga.

"Hello I'm Temari and welcome to Kurenai's Massage Parlor, the best and most expensive Massage Parlor in the world. Oh, you brought your lover and son with you." The receptionist greeted in perfect English.

"Is that a problem?" Asked Top Dollar.

"No just unusual. Is this his first time?" Temari asked.

"Yep." Said Top Dollar as he smiled at his son, who was confused.

"You see, Madame Kurenai and Madame Anko insist on helping 'relax' attractive first timers. From what I can see it shouldn't be a problem with your son. Here are your catalog's." Temari told them sweetly before calling said Madame's.

"Alight, Myca and I will take the Tsunade Special, the Yugao Pleaser, the Shizune check up, and the Ino and Hinata Whiplash Combo." Top Dollar told her.

"You do realize that the Ino and Hinata Combo is BDSM? With Ino submissive and Hinata dominant?" Temari asked.

"Yeah we understand. And since we will be here for a few days, could you ask the Madames to teach my son about the art of pleasing women?" Asked Myca.

"Don't worry ma'am, we will!" Shouted a mischievous voice from behind them. They turned and saw the Madames. {AN:If you have seen Naruto then you know what they look like. If not then google them because I am not going to describe them}

"KAWII!!!" Shouted the questionably sane Anko as she and Kurenai grabbed Saint and dragged him upstairs. Xander could only look confusedly at his Father who only smiled and waved back cheerfully.


END OF CHAPTER

AN: I will write some more later tonight, but I'm tired of writing right now so I will stop here. Review.