Kat Greenwood's World: Washington, D.C Night time

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Kathrine wasn't exactly a weak woman. But she had her highs and lows in life. Her rights and wrongs. The good and bad, it was never just one thing for her. Her life was complicated at best and pur chaos at worst. She was an oddity amung her co-workers and dispite her earlier attempts to get out of the supernatural she had found herself back in it.

She hadn't meant to get pulled back in. But the offer had just been to let her work at research. Nothing too active. Just talking with people because she had a real feel for it. It was nice actually. She had been back in the saddle fully for a week. On a case where some kids had gone missing. They had her looking over the pictures. But now she was off. They hadn't wanted to burn her out on the first day.

She was humming a tune under her breath and didn't notice a man coming up from behind her until she was grabbed and tossed into a wall. She had her gun out and blinked.

Who was that?

"You...smug little witch! Think you could put me away from good...Oh yes. I remember you. Dirty little thing. All grown up now," the man taunts.

Kat frowns at him. "Just freeze. Look. I don't know what you're talking about." The situation might just turn ugly. She frowned at the man trying to place where she had seen him before.

She was ready to fire if nessisary but didn't see the other man until he got at the very edge of her vision. Her eyes darted to get a look at him when a gun shot rang out.

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And something came from the shadows behind her. There was a glimpse of something large and dark, which the bullet hit with a sound of a pebble hitting stretched canvas.

Then it was gone, so quickly that it nearly seemed a figment of the imagination, and it was just the two men and Kat.

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Kat just trains her gun back on the man. She could see the shock on his face against the dim street lights.

"Hands where I can see them," Kat barks.

"...You can see them," the man with the gun indicates and Kat mentally curses.

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In the shadows midnight eyes narrow, but the watcher makes no other move.

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This looked like it was about to turn into a shoot out, until there was a flash of lights. Looked like a cop car was rolling by. So they had their guns hidden, even Kat. It was a reaction just to not go through any crap. It was late. But the moment the car was past she struck punching the guy imdeatly infront of her in the jaw.

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He grunted and stepped back, but then lashed out with a blow of his own toward her stomach.

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He is, but he's drawn back into the shadows again, the only sign of his presence that dry rustle that sounds once more.

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She can barely see him so she dismisses him as a shadow. Time to continue walking. She had to catch the Metro to where she had her car parked.


Then it was back home. Unless something got in the way.

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A gunshot rings out, and suddenly a dark form steps between her and the unseen assailant, massive bat wings half-spread. There's the sound of the bullet hitting something, then a strange hiss and flash and a distant yelp.

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Kat just gives a startled yell as she turns. Wings? This was too unreal. Of course she had seen stranger things. She had her gun out recognizing one of the men.

"Dawson! Freeze!" No time to tool around.

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He started violently, the gun falling from his hands and clattering to the pavement.

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The winged one turned to look at her, long ears perked as the streetlight picked out flares of blue in the black face. Then it seemed to disapear into the darkness near the corner of the building.

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She was shaking by the time the team had shown up. She hadn't said a word to the...whatever that was. But she knew it wasn't the enemy. Just knew because it hadn't attacked her.

But right now she felt like a scared little girl.

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He watched unseen, his ears going back as he heard and saw that shaking. The people who had come took the man who'd attacked the woman into a vehicle and then left, leaving her alone. He wondered at that, thinking that if she was frightened it would have made more sense for her to go with the others.

He hesitated, but then spoke. "I'm sorry for frightening you."

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She glances at him slowly. The look on her face was pretty uncirtin. "I don't think you scared me that much. Dawson did that job well and good."

She cants her head. "You..don't look that scary. Not really. More like a...fuzzy gargoyle."

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"German?" His ears pointed toward her curiously as he wrapped his wings around himself like a high-shouldered cloak. "A himmletaur... a door between vorlds."

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"Oh!" She gives a slight smile. "...That would be a portal..They..Are pretty rare."

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"Not vere I come from." He bowed his head, then shook it slightly. "Und they only go vone vay."

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"..Ah. I've heard that most portals go..Both ways." She frows slightly. This was confusing.

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He was silent for several moments, trying to pair what he was hearing with what he knew. But of all the things he'd seen in his life only one had made strange sounds. "Like a computor?"

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"Well, sort of. A fire truck is...Mobile."

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"Ah," he said, managing to look totally and utterly lost and forlorn despite his face not changing expression.

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"Look, it'll be ok." She thought he looked like an over sized lost puppy.

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"Kat? Like the animal?" He cocked his head, then looked around as a car alarm went off, accompanied by raucous laughter.

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"No. Short for Kathrine." She gives him an ammused look.

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"Katrin." He turned back to her, ears perked as though saying 'now what?'