Tony walked down the street with one hand in his jacket pocket as he flicked through his contacts on his phone with the other. He pressed dial and lifted it to his ear as he listened to the dial tone and waited, numerous rings sounding before there was a click and a woman’s voice on the other side answered “Hello?” “Jules... its Antony” Silence. “Listen I’m back in town and I need your help, can you meet me at Julian’s place?” More silence. “Jules?” “That’s it? Eight years and you just call and ask me to meet you?” came an exasperated response. “Shall we say twenty minutes?” he replied smoothly. The woman sighed before agreeing “Fine, twenty minutes” before she hung up. Antony hated dragging Jules into what he was doing, but he needed to know which players were still in the game – and she owed him one. Jules had been turned by a rather nasty lamia who had proceeded to torment her and make her life hell. Tony had killed him some nine years ago the last time he’d been looking for someone to lead him to Redfern, not that he’d had any success – it was always the same story. She was a sweet girl who’d been trust into a world of monsters and violence overnight and he’d felt that she’d been robbed of a life, it was least he could do to help her adjust to her new life – show her there was another way than being a monster herself. Right now he needed to know two things, first being who was running things, second was find out exactly who this Cat was and just how serious of a threat she was. Little did he know he’d be finding out much sooner than he expected. *** Antony walked into Julian’s exactly twenty minutes later, though he stopped in the doorway and took the scene in. Things had definitely changed since he’d last been here, the once fairly sophisticated bar had turned into what looked to be a slightly seedy club with pounding techno music and an array of flashing lights with a mixture of vampires and human clientele – though the latter seemed to be unaware that they were on the menu as they partied obliviously. He frowned as he made his way into the crowds, eyes scanning as he looked for Jules. The place was filled and he quickly realised this wouldn’t be the place to have a real conversation. He’d do one round of the place and if he didn’t see her he’d wait outside, there was no way he was going to spend more than a moment longer than he needed in this place. It’d really gone downhill like everything else in this town. As he moved through the crowd he eyed up a group of rather unimpressed looking men stood in one corner beside a security door, obviously the entrance the VIP area. They glared at him as he moved past and he waited to see if he’d be recognised, but he assumed not as none of them responded. With a last few glances around he moved and made his way towards the exit, Jules wasn’t here yet it seemed. As he walked he noticed the eye of a young blonde man following him, something not quite right about his expression Tony took a few moments longer and noticed his partner. It seemed that tonight may be more interesting than he originally thought as he flicked his eyes back to the door and continued walking.