A rant no one really wants to read

This is one of those rants in which I will be talking about something that no one knows about but me and is only here because I'm being narcissistic. It's one of those 'I'm ranting about a story idea' which means that no one else will really want to hear about it.

A long time ago, I wrote two stories. One was about two vampires wandering into a diner. Eventually they end up killing the staff. It was a project done for fiction class. We were given the first page of the Killers (Hemingway) and told to write the rest of it. The other was about two detectives looking for a supernatural killer. The two detectives themselves are rather off-beat. They're heavily noir-based, from London and are rather supernatural themselves. I loved these four characters a lot. I always wanted them based in their own books somewhere. I recently made up two new characters. One is a kidnapper and the other a demon who was the kidnappee. All six of these characters live in the same world. Slightly fifties based, lots of smoking and cursing and suits. I figured they could all star in the same book. Maybe even give them their own one day or at least a few short stories.

Frankie and Al were the first I created. They are vampires. They both wear suits. Frankie doesn't really smoke and nor does he really curse. He would, but he has Al do it for him. Frankie is older than Al, I'm not sure by how much, and he constantly feels sorry for all the people Al talks to. Al smokes and curses like hell. That's all there is to him. He's also rather self-centred.

Spade is the head detective. He has a power over fire, and no one really knows how much, and tends to smoke because he likes the niftiness of never having to buy a lighter. Spade is not his real name. His real name is unknown and not detective-enough, as he puts it. Bartibus Max is his partner. He's older than Spade. He's also shorter and stockier. He has power over water. He spends his nights in brothels and is constantly out of cash (and has to steal it from Spade's pockets). Most people would argue that he could beat down Spade in a fight (of supernatural powers) but as Spade would like to say 'In this world, there are no cheap tricks of elemental superiority; water may extinguish flame, but heat evaporates water'.

Raymond Smelt had the unlucky chance to kidnap the wrong demon. His life was constantly a battle of bad luck and failure. In a way, he would have rather picked the right demon and died rather than pick the wrong demon, especially this one. He might have had a better chance in Hell. Belle, for all her sweet and innocent looks, was harbouring a dangerous secret, one that was wanted in five planes of existence. The problem was, she was just too adorable. She wasn't particularly mean and nasty, either. She was just dangerous to be around. She liked Ray, even if he spilled greasy food on his pants and tripped while running from a fight. He bought her sweets, after all. No one had ever done that. They mostly attempted to capture, maim and kill her for her powers.

This story, which has no name, will revolve around all three groups. Ray, being the man who kidnapped Belle, is an obvious choice. Spade and Max are trying to find Belle and bring Ray into jail for minor atrocities and bringing a dangerous being into the first plane on Earth. Frankie and Al? Well, they're just there. Their purpose is unknown and probably a little bit of a secret. I just think they shouldn't be left out of the fun, even if they're just cameos.