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Elizabeth Bennet wasn’t a typical 23rd century girl. She didn’t spend her hours shopping the Net, attending e-parties, or dosing on the latest emo-patch. The closest she came to using any type of technology was when she filmed her video diaries… and when she hunted. Elizabeth was finishing up her last year of academy and would be graduating with a certification in demon hunting. Most of her days consisted of studying hunting techniques, researching demon weaknesses, and practicing combat.
She had started her video diaries as part of her final project for school. The videos documented her research and successful missions. And they were also a way to relieve the burden of being a hunter. She was able to express herself, and talk through the things that bothered her. While the world had become more accepting of the vampires and the ghosts and the werewolves, Elizabeth kept her guard up. Because one bad apple among the human race was hardly a threat, but if it was a vampire? There was so much more danger. She still wasn’t fully trusting.
Elizabeth was in the middle of one of her video blogs when her younger sister, Lydia, burst through the bedroom door. “Lizz! LIZZ! Oh-em-gee, so, you know that huge ass apartment on the upper deck that’s been empty for, like, i-dee-kay, three years? Well, it SOLD and you will NOT believe who moved in!”
“Lydia, I’m trying to do a video, I don’t care-”
“THAT TOTALLY HOT DOCTOR BING LEE!”
“Who?”
“Doctor Bing Lee!” Lydia rolled her eyes. “Don’t you remember? He totes saved my ass when I was at that party and that loser Bryant tried to sneak an emo-drowse pill into my drink.”
Elizabeth had no recollection of this event, so she just nodded. “Oh, yeah.”
“Anyway, Moms is totally all psyched about it because, guess WHAT?!”
“What?” Elizabeth began taking her camera down.
“HE’S SINGLE!”
“Yeah, so?”
Lydia gaped at her sister. “Hello! Hot young rich doctor who is single and A-VAIL-A-BLE!”
“I don’t really care, okay, Lydia? I need to get some research done. Can you go tell your friends or something?” Elizabeth starting packing her cam into its bag. Lydia watched her for a second. She’s never interested in what I have to say, she thought, I’m just the loser little sister. Whatever.
“Fine,” she said and left.
Once Lydia was gone, Elizabeth phoned Charlotte, her best friend and hunting counterpart. Charlotte was also finishing up academy, but was studying demon psychiatry. She left the active hunting to Lizz. “Hey, Lizz. What’s up?”
“I just finished another video. I’m sending it to you now, can you upload it for me?”
“Yeah, no problem.” Lizz could see Charlotte typing away on her comp. “Did you hear about the upper deck?”
“No.”
“Some doctor moved in. I wonder if he’s a human or demon doc?”
“Oh, wait. Actually, Lydia just told me about that. Doctor Bing-something? Apparently super rich? My guess would be demon doc. They make more money.”
Charlotte thought for a moment. “Yeah, you’re probably right. Wow. This could be great.”
Elizabeth stopped and looked up at the screen. “Not you, too, Char! Lydia was just in here screaming about how single and hot he is-”
Charlotte started laughing. “Lizz, you know me better than that. No. I meant he could provide some insight to my research.”
“Right, right. God, sorry. I’ve been on a brain overload today.”
“You should really take a break,” Charlotte looked up from her comp. “Want to go to Carter’s tonight? You, out of anyone, deserve it.”
Elizabeth thought for a second. The offer sounded really tempting, but she had so much research to do…
“Maybe for an hour?”
Charlotte smiled. “Sounds perfect. I’ll meet you in the parking deck at 8?”
“Yep.”
“See you then!”
Elizabeth closed down the phone app.