Five days later, she runs into Yelena, again. In her defense, she thinks Yelena is stalking her intentionally! One of Kate’s werewolf friends, Franny, told Kate that a friend of her told her that his cousin bragged about him and his friend went to a very cool bar, it was full of“Werewolves, witches, fairies and vampires!”. Werewolves, witches, fairies, and vampires, all of them have their own separate and exclusive societies, and fairies hate vampires, vampires despise werewolves, witches and vampires are enemies, werewolves reject everybody else besides wolves. Kate has no idea how supernatural creatures could stay in one place and not fight, so naturally, Kate is going to investigate.
It turns out to be a werewolf bar. It’s a Saturday night, the party starts early, and Kate blends in with an unfamiliar pack of wolves when she spots a vampire.
To her surprise, that vampire with purple streaks on her hair goes straight to the stage. She stylishly asks for attention and delivers a heartwarming speech.
Kate is in the back of the crowd, raising her eyebrow so hard as she listens to the vampire. Werewolves… working with vampires???
What happens next horrifies Kate even more.
The vampire bites her own wrist, letting the blood drips into the rows of cups held by the werewolves downstage, and then distributes cups of blood to all werewolves.
Werewolves drink vampire blood and start howling. Then, they start shifting.
Kate feels the wild energy pulsing in the air. Her own eyes go wild too. She has never felt such an uncontrollable desire to shift.
She was yanked out of the bar by a pair of hands on her waist next.
The force is so strong that she’s dragged out of the bar and taken away by it.
They do not stop until she could no longer feel the inescapable desire to shift, that’s when she smells the familiar scent. The next thing she knows, she’s held down against a brick wall by Yelena (what’s wrong with Yelena and her need to pin Kate down on a rough object’s surface anyway??).
“I told you to stay out of this, Kate Bishop,” Yelena says grumpily. “I see you’re in my way, again.”
Kate’s eyes are still wild.
“I-you-” Kate yells in frustration. “That’s a werewolf bar!!! I have every right to be there! But you, WHY ARE YOU THERE!”
She fights against Yelena fiercely, and that’s for the first time she feels Yelena’s pheromones. It’s… very clamming? She can’t help but relax, clamming her breath with them. Those gold eyes slowly return to their original blue.
“What the HELL just happened???”
“If I hadn’t dragged you out, you would have died there,” she says, frowning as she looks into Kate’s eyes, which have just returned to their normal color, and gently put Kate down. “there’s a bunch of V-crazed werewolves out there. They’ll tear you to pieces if they find out you don’t belong in the pack.”
“I’m Hawkeye! I can defend myself – what the fuck is V?”
“Hawkeye?” Yelena relaxes into an amused smile. “You’re a werewolf, not a were-bird.”
“It’s just a name…” Kate whines. “You haven’t answered my question! What the FUCK is going on in that bar and what’s V?”
Yelena’s face is set in a grim expression. “You don’t know much about the supernatural drug culture, do you, Kate Bishop?”
Kate shakes her head.
“V means vampire blood. Mortals- including werewolves – get stronger but crazier, when they drink vampire blood, and it’s addicted. Basically it is like a supernatural stimulant. That vampire in the bar, Valentina, is supplying those werewolves.”
Kate makes a disgusted face. “That’s disgusting. So those werewolves work for her just for her blood?”
“Correct.”
“Is there any particular reason why you are both interested in a death-controlling coven and a pack of doped werewolves?”
The mysterious vampire just stares at the werewolf. After a few seconds, the vampire lets go of Kate completely. “No, Kate, stay away from them. You’ll get yourself killed.”
Without an explanation, she turns her back on Kate and leaves.
Kate gapes at Yelena’s back. How could she keep messing with Kate’s missions without a word of explanation?
“Hey! You owe me an explanation!” Kate runs after her, grabbing the vampire by the shoulder.
As if anticipating her stubbornness, Yelena easily shakes Kate off. Kate refuses to quit, and the next thing she knows, Yelena grabs her wrist and she is on the ground.
Kate stands up, facing Yelena then slaps her.
The Vampire was more surprised than hurt. She looks SO offended. “What is this?”
Kate stares blankly at Yelena. She’s just trying to get Yelena’s attention! She doesn’t know what to do next! “I don’t know,” She responded weakly, panicking.
Yelena rolls her eyes. She stomps around the werewolf and continues her way.
“Hey, get back here-” Kate shifts into her wolf form, chasing after the vampire and tackling her to the ground.
Yelena huffs, kicking the giant wolf out of her way. but Kate keeps engaging. For a moment, Yelena literally mobs the floor with the wolf’s face until Kate rolls over to get away from her and dashes the vampire to the ground.
“What are we doin’,” she gasps, “I mean, it’s a full-moon night, let’s have a drink, huh? Can’t a couple of girls take a little break from fighting to catch up?”
Under the werewolf, Yelena raises a perfect eyebrow. She is amused by the expectant look on the werewolf’s face. Kate seemed genuinely happy to buy her a drink and genuinely thinks she would say yes.
“You’re a werewolf and I’m a vampire, so, no, we’re not two girls who can have a drink and a girl talk.”
Kate looks like Yelena kicked her dog (or kicked her because Kate is basically an oversized puppy). She’s so disappointed that Yelena almost feels sorry for her.
“Kate,” Yelena looks at her pointedly, “You are still very naked, and you are on me.”
“Oh, sorry,” Kate says unapologetically, standing up, and offering a hand.
Yelena accepts. She studies the werewolf carefully, who is still very naked and chest-heaving from the fight.
“You know what,” says Yelena, still openly checking Kate, “maybe I’ll have a drink with you.”
“You do?” Kate doesn’t miss those glances, but her eyes literally lit up for her agreement.
“Okay. Yeah, sure, after you stay away from the coven and those wolves.”
Kate’s face immediately falls. “No! No, come on, that’s not what -”
But the vampire has vanished without a trace.
Kate stares into the thin air, again, trying to understand her cryptic behavior. She doesn’t remember to look for her clothes until she hears a distant horn.
Before falling to sleep that night, Kate thinks a lot. She keeps meeting Yelena, right? But vampires generally don’t stick around in one place for too long (for obvious reasons). But given a vampire’s eternal life, “not too long” can also mean (for them) a long time. However, this is not enough to explain why Yelena repeatedly meddles in mortal affairs. Vampires are usually very exclusive, and narcissistic, an altruistic vampire, it’s a little bit odd (though Kate thinks what happened at the werewolf bar may have broken the racial balance in vampire society, but it still could’ve been an isolated incident). But why does every time, Yelena has to mess with Kate’s plans, every time (although Yelena claims that it’s Kate in her way, not the way around. Hello she’s just a neighbor-friendly werewolf)? And those“Dates”? Of all the bars in town, Yelena HAS to go on a “Date” every time at the bar where Kate works? Every time when Kate’s there (the bar owner said she never showed up when Kate isn’t working)? All that innuendo flirting? Kate just cannot understand this mysterious vampire, and she’s both frustrated and fascinated by her.
Kate rolls over and lets out a frustrated scream into the pillow. Why can’t she talk to me??? Why’d she have to be so complicated???
Notes:
There’s a POI ref if anyone notices-
The next chapter would be Yelena’s POV!!!
R. H. Felidae Athena 