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"Mhm," Was Riko's only response to Mercy's bit of cheekiness, she stepped into the room completely again, leaning against the wall near the door and crossing her arms, watching Mercy play around with Elle on the bed, Riko smiled faintly at the pair, glad that Elle seemed to be overcoming her morning gloom.

Riko looked up from the smiling child to Mercy who she now noticed was looking at her, Riko's smile faded slowly, when Mercy began talking. "I didn't sleep." Riko said with a shrug "Vampire remember?" Riko added. She looked out the door where down the stairs when Mercy mentioned Delorna, Riko just shrugged again. "Prior obligations." Riko said, looking back at Mercy. "Nothing much more than that really."

(bring them the head of THE vampire! Or, make em think she has Riko wrapped around her finger. That way they will be all like. "Oh s**t, she has a vampire lap servant? Maybe she can be useful afterall.")

"Don't apologize, its fine." Riko said moving to a chair at a desk in the corner of the room, sitting down she turned to Mercy, crossing one leg over the other, she looked around at the random knickknacks on the desk, pulling open the drawers and shifting through it nosily as Mercy talked to Elle, she didn't find anything of interest which was slightly disappointing, but it was a halfassed search anyway. Riko turned back to Mercy when the conversation became directed towards her. She smirked shaking her head, honestly she felt she was a great role model. "We'll get you in shape as she gets older, don't worry, I won't allow you to rub off on her negatively."

"If I wanted drugs, I'd contact my connect." Riko responded to Mercy, but still she went back to her search now a little curious now as to what drugs that Mercy would be keeping in their home, her search didn't end with her finding any drugs though, however she did find a stack of pictures. Riko pulled them out, not exactly masking her movements as she went through them, looking over them slowly in turn, she recognized quite easily the b***h who had broken in to their house and tried to kidnap Elle with her group of flunkies. Riko made a face at her picture, the dumb grin on her face, she tossed the picture to the side, and continued looking. She settled on a picture of Mercy and a woman that Riko didn't recognize, and paused on it while Mercy began speaking about the full moon.

Riko looked up at the wolf, pursing her lips, she didn't like the idea of putting Elle inside of a cage, but if it was for the girls safety there wasn't much of an argument that Riko could really make. She only shrugged in response because she honestly had nothing else she could realistically add. "Guess that's something else we will have to buy," Riko said, holding up the picture for Mercy to see now.

"Who's this?"

Riko remembered what Mercy had said about her Alpha last night, they used to have sex quite a bit and there was a level of trust that they had with eachother so much so that the Alpha had given Mercy the right to take charge while they were in bed. Riko hadn't expected to find out that Mercy had killed the woman. Riko looked at the picture again, before putting it back in the pile and placing it back into the drawer, closing it up.

She didn't ask any questions about it, she didn't feel it was her place so she would just try and ignore it, though the mood had definitely shifted now because of what she had just heard. She honestly didn't know what to think now.

In the distance, off down the stairs Riko heard a beeping sound, the noise the coffee maker made when it had finished heating the water and mixing the coffee, Riko nodded her head towards the noise, as if to ask if Mercy would fancy a cup.

Riko sat down in the kitchen with Elle in her lap, Delorna looked up from the coffee pot at Riko's approach, raising a brow when she saw that Riko was alone. "Shower." Riko said simply, nodding back up the stairs. Delorna shrugged and turned back to the pot, pouring a cup for Riko who took it out of courtesy, and started sipping it slowly.

"So me and my conscience had a little talk, about you." Riko announced, placing her coffee down on the table and out of reach of Elle. "We've both seem to think that you are a little jealous." Riko stated smoothly. Delorna sputtered at that. Turning on Riko with a glare. "Me? Jealous? .... of what?" Riko didn't respond, she just grinned tauntingly at Delorna and continued to sup her coffee, to add to Delorna's salt Riko went so far as to shrug her shoulders. Before finally responding. "That I woke up in someone elses bed." Delorna had picked up a knife somewhere down the road, and was holding it to her side, in a way that would appear nonthreatening to most, but Riko saw what she was doing. "Listen here you little motherfu-"

They both heard the footsteps padding towards them that caused Delorna to quiet down, she tossed the knife into the sink, and sat back on the counter. "You look less like s**t than you did 20 minutes ago, shower helped?"

"Permanent Damage? Please, no one would even notice that." Riko joked. "I do believe I suggested that you mix it, but you acted like you were too good for a bit of caution, so its not my fault." Riko said with a bit of a shrug.

Riko spared a glance over to Delorna who was being a bit of a brat still doing her best to ignore Mercy. Riko rolled her eyes at the woman, she was just going to have to get over her dislike for the wolf. It wasn't exactly like they could do much avoiding each other anyway. They lived in a house together for ******** sake.

Riko shook her head and looked back to Mercy when the wolf began talking. Riko only offered her a customary shrug. She didn't really have much of a plan for today outside of more bonding with Elle. Such was the life of someone who didn't need to work. "How do you suggest we go about this family bonding, Mercy?"

"Well, we won't need much of a strat for the future BF/GF. Just show them Delorna's face before she puts on her make up in the morning and we'll be go- OW!" Delorna had jabbed Riko, hard, in the ribs before the Vampire could finish speaking. Riko turned and glared at Delorna who returned the glare with one that was equally as viscous.

Riko turned away from her back to Mercy while shaking her head. "I like the scrap book idea, lets go with that, I don't necessarily have any books laying around that are child friendly."

Riko placed a hand over looked for something to throw at Delorna when the woman began speaking up listing off books. "Books on business, Stock exchange, programming." Riko said with a shrug, she didn't necessarily read books for entertainment, that is what the internet was for. "I mean we can start training her early to be just like me, she could be just as wealthy as I am by 14 with my help." Riko said confidently, but while being rich was nice, the process had been so goddamn boring. She was pretty sure Elle would hate her forever for it.

Riko looked up at the sound of Mercy's phone going off, she raised a brow. She didn't remember Mercy being much of a texter, especially not usually so early in the morning. Interesting. She watched the read over the text and clock away from it not bothering to answer. Riko smirked. "Girlfriend?" Riko teased slowly, picking up on this Delorna jumped in "Feeling guilty for being dishonest?" Riko gave her a look before shaking her head.

"I also don't think Elle would appreciate the Mona Lisa comparison. I don't either. Don't call my baby a man." Riko joked.