A Fairy Short April Fools’ Fic
(pun intended!)
By Emily M. Hanson

Permission to archive is granted to the FTP site and anyone else who
wants to archive this. Standard disclaimers apply.  This is yet
another sequel in my City of Chaos series. If you haven't read it, or
it's been awhile, all you need to know for this one is that there are
dragons in my series (hopefully you won't get too confused!)  The
Scent of Darkness is my first FK fic in which the dragons appear.

This story has not been beta read.

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Natalie Lambert was reading a file.  Taking a sip from her mug and
immediately tasting bitterness, she looked down to see that her cup
of hot chocolate had turned into lemon juice.  A small black cat
looked up at her from the floor and meowed.

“Who did this?” She wondered aloud.  “Surely it couldn’t have been
you…could it?”  Nat remembered the fairy dragon that had taken the
form of a cat, and wondered if this was the same creature. Then
Natalie remembered what day it was.  “Is this your idea of an April
Fool’s joke?”

The cat meowed again and ran out the door before she could say or do
anything else.  Looking into her cup again, Natalie noticed that her
drink was, once again, hot chocolate.  “Very funny,” she muttered.

* * * * *

Nick glanced down as the black cat jumped onto his desk.  “Xiao
Xing?  What are you doing here?”

She meowed.

“What is it?  Can’t you just tell me?”

The cat rolled her eyes.  *Follow me,* she said telepathically. 
*Natalie needs your help.*

“Of course!”  Nick grabbed his jacket.  Hopefully, his fiancé wasn’t
in danger, but if she was, he would deal with it.

* * * * *

The vampire followed Xiao Xing to the morgue and burst into the lab.
“Nat? Are you all right?”

She looked up.  “Nick?  I’m fine.”

The vampire looked down at the cat.  “You said she needed my help.”

A bottle of expensive red wine appeared on the desk.  *I believe she
needs help finishing that off,* said the feline.

Nick and Nat exchanged glances, than both of them burst out
laughing.  “I do believe I’ve been had,” the vampire said.

*April Fools,* Xiao Xing said.

The End!

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