Undead and Unappreciated by MaryJanice Davidson

like a big blond puppy,” Marc said. “It was pretty hilarious.”
    â€œYou hush,” I said, but I couldn’t help smiling. It felt good after recent events.

Chapter 16
    â€œW ell, I do have some good news!” I shouted. “I know how we can track down my sister!”
    â€œWhy are we having a meeting in the hallway?” Sinclair asked, looking up from his notes for practically the first time all night.
    â€œSo Jessica stays in the loop, duh,” I replied. “Anyway, I thought we could track my long-lost sister down and ask her not to take over the world! Okay? I mean, something good came out of the fuckup du jour, right?!?”
    Marc rubbed his ear. “How do you want to start?”
    â€œWell, I know she was born right here in the Cities, on June 6, 1986!”
    â€œSix six eighty-six?” Tina asked. “That’s interesting.”
    â€œIt’s lame, is what it is! What, we’re in The Omen now?!? But anyway, we can narrow it down to all the baby girls born to the Ant on six six eighty-six, and how many of them can there be? One, I’m guessing!”
    â€œI don’t think you have to scream ,” Marc said. “Her door isn’t that thick.”
    â€œDo you think you can get the records? You said at the Ant’s that you’d try!” This meeting was making me tired. And why wouldn’t Sinclair look at me? I figured he was still pissed about the other night. Not a word about how he didn’t even notice I was evil, natch. I started to get freshly annoyed and tried to squash it. I was in no position to play the victim. “Marc?!?”
    â€œShit, I heard you.” He rubbed his ear. “Yeah, I don’t think that’ll be too hard.”
    â€œWhat about confidentiality issues?” Tina asked.
    â€œWhat’s that you say?” I shrieked. “You want to know how we get around confidentiality stuff?”
    They both looked annoyed, and then Marc answered her. “Well, let’s put it this way. Normally I don’t like to go snooping around in charts that are none of my business. But to find Satan’s daughter and save the world, I’ll make an exception. And Tina, if you or Eric come with me, I’m sure we can get past the clerks.”
    â€œAll right,” Tina said.
    â€œDo you want me to come, too?” I screamed.
    â€œIt’s not necessary,” Tina said, leaning away. “We’ll tend to this errand for you, Majesty. Besides…” She eyed the closed, locked door to Jessica’s bedroom. “You have other things to worry about.”
    â€œRight! Well, here’s what happened! In case you were wondering!”
    â€œ I’m wondering how long this meeting will last,” Sinclair muttered.
    â€œThe devil got really bored down there in Hell and decided to come to Earth for a while! And she possessed the Ant when she was knocked up! And then she went back to Hell!”
    â€œYou know all this?” he asked, looking up again.
    â€œYes! The Book told me! I mean, it didn’t tell me, I sort of read about it and then just knew the rest!”
    â€œSo your stepmother actually was the devil for, what, almost a year?”
    â€œYes!”
    â€œThat’s amazing,” Tina said, wide-eyed.
    â€œNot so amazing! What’s amazing is that she was possessed by Satan for almost a year and nobody noticed anything unusual!”
    What was that? I thought I’d heard a muffled laugh from the other side of the door. I listened hard, but I couldn’t hear anything else. Nuts.
    â€œI have to admit, that’s a new one on me,” Marc said. “But you don’t seem surprised.”
    â€œI grew up with the woman. So the devil thought she was the perfect vessel…I guess you called it, Marc.” My voice was getting tired, so I was talking normally for the moment. “She lost nearly a year of her life, and when she came back to