Kate was unwrapping a piece of “Juicy Fruit” gum when the door opened.  Without raising her head she looked up from under her eyebrows.  The man who opened the door looked familiar but it had been a few years since she last saw her uncle.  She popped the gum in her mouth and dropped the wrapper; it fell to the ground where a gust of wind blew it into the yard.<br/><br/>“Kate?”  The man asked.  “Kate, is that you?  You sure have changed.”  His voice sounded edgy.<br/><br/>She stopped chewing.<em>“Are you serious?’ </em>she thought to herself.<em>“This dude is my uncle?” </em><br/><br/>Actually she concluded he hadn’t changed all the much since she last spent time with him.  Still kept his blonde hair short and he still dressed… she looked him up and down…well he still dressed…the same.  And those eyes.  Those emerald green eyes.  The one trait that ran through the entire family were those electric eyes.  Her birth father had them.  Her mother had them and she had them.  And this guy with the white shirt and short blond hair and black freshly pressed slacks and the athletic build had them too.  Yeah, this was her uncle Billy all right.<br/><br/>She started chewing again.<br/><br/>“Yeah, I’m Kate…”  Her sense of chaos kicked in.  It was instinctive for her to give people a hard time.  It was part of the mystic of her persona “Dark Angel.”  A creature of the night who could pour sexual anguish over you like warm water and then snap it away with a cold vengeance.  Her instinctive senses of chaos got her suspended three times.  It was a point of pride.<br/><br/>“Who the FUCK are you?”  She smiled wickedly and almost laughed aloud but she bit her tongue.<br/><br/>The look on his face was priceless.  Before he could speak, she held up her hand, palm out and looked down at her luggage.<br/><br/>“I’m kidding.”  She said laughing.  “Could you help me with these?”  Dark Angel never said “please” unless, of course, she was wearing her dog collar.  But that was something her uncle, like her mother, would never find out.<br/><br/>She bent down and grabbed one of the overstuffed leather bags.  Standing up straight she tossed her head and her long black hair settled back over her bare shoulders.  She raised her eyebrows and gave him one of her patented pretty girl smiles.<br/><br/>“Well?”  She said cracking her gum.  “You gonna invite me in?”<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>