Blessed by Night

337  Check-Up

Nightfall is now an officially recognized government organization- meaning that it's members also have a host of facilities at their disposal.

Instead of going to a local hospital, Mal and the girls decided to go to the med ward- since they figured it would put less strain on hospital workers who were no doubt already overloaded with blessed from all over the city.

The group arrived at the facility, but somehow it seemed like the need for them to be there had already disappeared.

The color had returned to their faces, there were no more lingering headaches or dizziness, and even their fatigue was gone.

Which meant that they were of much more sound mind to appreciate certain changes within the group…

"It's really been forever since I wore one of these… Are you sure that it's really okay, Luna?"

Sei climbed down out of a black Escalade and readjusted her clothing.

"I insist." Luna smiled as she got out. "You look incredible."

"Seconded..." Bianca wiped her nosebleed.

""THIRDED!"" Malachi and Anna yelled with unveiled lust.

Sei blushed. "O-Okay, I get it-"

"Not yet, but you sure can, sweetheart." Nadine licked her lips.

"Amen to that…" Joanne pulled on a pair of sunglasses so that no one could tell where she was staring.

"Guys, please! The baby and Celeste are still here!"

"Gaba."

"Well it's not good that you've heard worse, munchkin." Sei rubbed the bridge of her nose in exasperation.

In the family's defense, it was hard to blame them for their infatuation.

Sei wore a dark kimono that hung low to reveal more cleavage than she had ever shown in her entire life.

 Since none of her clothes quite fit anymore, this meant she had to borrow some from Luna and this was the delightful result.

Sei had been acting as if she were flustered, but the truth was… she was actually reveling in the attention. She just didn't know how to handle it.

As a woman in her 40s, Sei kind of felt that her best days were behind her physically.

Not to say that she was insecure, because the people in her relationship did quite a good job of making her feel desirable.

But this was the first time ever that she had felt this lusted over. This craved.

She felt like some kind of supermodel.

She didn't want to admit it, but she was just as excited to go home as any of them.

The group parked their car in a very high tech underground garage.

Several other vehicles were already here. Meaning that they likely weren't the first of the new age beings to wake up today.

They filed into the elevator where Anna scanned her retina to send them ascending to the fifth floor. The medbay resembled a short corridor with twenty beds on each of the opposing sides. A row of large glass windows stained the left side, while a laboratory and simulator sat on the right. As soon as they stepped onto the floor, things were... rowdy. "Look, look! I can make these little gremlins appear when I concentrate real hard!"

"Don't concentrate too hard again. You farted last time."

"Gods, I miss when we were working with just women..."

"Can none of you overgrown children sit down for longer than a minute while we wait for this lab work to finish?"

Cami wiggled out of Sei's grasped and teleported to the middle of the room.

"Bau!"

The energy went from rowdy and chaotic to complete order in seconds.

"It's the big boss!"

"Attention!"

Everyone gave Cami the crispest salutes possible and she gave her own clumsy one back.

"What a grand welcome."

Camille's parents were actually noticed last, and of course the crowd looked much less happy to see them.

"You know we have to roll out the red carpet for our most important government official, boss." Nina smiled. "Where would we be without her cuteness to give us something to fight for?"

Malachi felt like he could literally see his daughter's head swelling as she puffed out her chest with pride.

"Good to know I'll have someone to blame for when she inevitably gets too full of herself when she's older." He chuckled.

Cami looked at her father and pouted.

The lab doors hissed open and a fair-skinned man with a dark brown comb over emerged from the chilly room.

His white coat was impeccably clean, yet as wrinkled as his shirt underneath.

He could always be seen chewing on the cap of a pen- perhaps out of nervousness or more likely some sort of nervous twitch.

He spoke with an English accent that even the apocalypse hadn't been able to take away from him.

His deep green eyes looked up from the lab papers in his hand and they settled on the new but familiar faces in his facility.

"Ah, it's the Third. I was wondering when you were going to pop up around here looking for someone to stitch you up."

Malachi glanced around the room behind his sunglasses. "Seems you've got quite a few new hands for it, Doctor Wells."

Malachi's focus was on the dozens of white cloaked individuals whom he was highly unfamiliar with.

"Hired hands for help dealing with this new phenomena that seem to be taking place in all of you. At least until you bring me that new nurse you promised me." Dr. Wells shrugged.

"Oh, right. Well, look no further." Malachi placed his hand on the lower back of Celeste.

"This is..?"

"J-Just a friend of the family." Celeste said quickly. "It's very nice to meet you, Doctor."

Dr. Wells, and just about everyone else in the new world, was well aware of Malachi's attraction to women twice his age.

If he had've said that Celeste was the woman who he was currently pursuing, no one here would have even batted an eye. "I see... Nice to meet you then, Family Friend." The Doctor shook her hand. "I wasn't exactly prepared for a welcome wagon today, but if you'll wait in my office then I'll be with you shortly."

"Gladly." Celeste smiled innocently; masking her inner displeasure known as she discreetly pressed the back of her heel into Malachi's foot.

He smiled and sent her a telepathic message as they broke contact. 'Need help getting settled in, then  you know where to find me.'

Celeste discreetly flipped him off as she walked away; grateful beyond belief that he couldn't see the growing red in her cheeks.

She tried her best to walk away quickly, and ignore the not one, but seven different gazes she could feel firmly affixed to her bottom.

"I'm assuming you're here to get yourself looked over, Third? Or maybe you're finally going to tell us all why every blessed from here to kingdom come has gone down with a nasty case of the flu." The doctor asked.

Everyone stared at the young man curiously like they were also curious about what happened to them.

After all, Nadine had already had promised Arias' people to give an answer when the time was right. It was the only way to prevent a complete and total societal panic.

Now, it was time to give his people a suitable answer.

"Well, the thing is…"

The hairs on the back of Malachi's neck stood up and a giant tear appeared in the middle of the room.

An immense pressure poured out from the gash, and a creature from the darkest depths of hell came walking out of it.

But there was a familiar face seated on top of the great beast.

Wearing a modest, but no doubt extravagant tiara, Serana flipped off the room full of panic stricken humans.

"My dear subjects, your princess has retur-"

"Easy everybody, it's just Serana." Someone said.

"Oh come on, I can't have shit around here! Earth fucking sucks!" The pink haired girl yelled.

I promise Celeste finna give in soon y’all just be patient.