Twilight. 

            She walked into the club, moving behind the bar and helping herself to a warm glass of plasma.  Katey came and nodded a hello; Jo nodded back.  They were silent while Jo drank, Katey kept tossing sideway glances in her direction.

            “Hey boss?”  Katey asked and Jo cocked an eyebrow, something in Katey’s voice caught her attention.  She was never one to be wary.

            “Yeah?”  Jo said on the ready, what might have happened now?  Had more insanity been abound while she’d been away?

            “I thought you should know…  Amy was in here…  today.”  Jo felt her blood going cold and she sighed.  She closed her eyes to the images of her love in her mind, emerald eyes…  She pushed the thoughts out of her mind and said.

            “Thanks K.  I should go…”  Jo muttered and headed up into her office, she just needed a few moments of solitude.  She slapped her hand on the scanner and entered her office.  The door slid open silently and she walked in, kicking off the sneakers and letting the jean jacket drop to the floor.  She threw herself on the couch and fell fast asleep.

            Two hours later, the phone was ringing loudly.  Jo mustered up all the strength she had left to move her body from the leather couch.

            “ ‘ello.”  Jo muttered into the phone as she lowered her body into her chair, forcing her eyes wide open.  She rubbed them, knowing they were blue and not amber at the moment.  Making her feel that much more human as the weariness clung to her.

            “Hello stranger.”  Came the flirty young voice of Natalie ‘Nat’ Summers.

            “Nat…”  Jo said softly, instantly seeing the young woman at on their first meeting in a blazing inferno in the attic of the Kindred house.  She cleared her throat.  “What’s up?”  Jo asked in as lofty a voice as she could muster.

            “Besides the sky?”  Nat asked and Jo groaned at the old joke and Nat giggled, “We need to talk.”  Nat said in her Kindred tone of voice, and Jo leaned back in the chair, kicking her feet up and putting one hand behind her head.  She put the phone on speaker and said in her French laden voice.