I flashed my WAP image to test for you....not sure.
Obviously something you are doing is different tan what I did...
Here is my output for status:
* create_ap.service - Create AP Service
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/create_ap.service; enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2014-12-27 20:15:11 CET; 16min ago
Main PID: 820 (create_ap)
CGroup: /system.slice/create_ap.service
|- 820 /bin/bash /usr/bin/create_ap -n -g 10.0.0.1 wlan0 SqueezeAP squeezeme
|-1203 dnsmasq -C /tmp/create_ap.wlan0.conf.FGHvrcHp/dnsmasq.conf -x /tmp/create_ap.wlan0.conf.FGHvrcHp/dnsmasq.pid
`-1204 hostapd /tmp/create_ap.wlan0.conf.FGHvrcHp/hostapd.conf