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Lauren felt embarrassed at the whistling and clapping, "well, yeah I'm not that great."

She wondered what he meant by this , "I know Moreau, who owns the island yes. He is the one that saved me from the streets and I'm happy about that, so he helps me out a little more than usual." She made a face, none of her others seemed to like swimming much, "Well I'll just go with Awen and Jordan then. I don't think swimming is suppose to be for the birds, maybe only in bird bathes but not oceans."

And she smiled at the thought of her station, "My idea, I have a ******** sweet camera I was playing with, got some footage already. Still have no idea what I'm going to do but it will come to me. I've got to learn the programs first." She snuggled in burrying her muzzle into Miller's chest. "SO MUCH TO DO!"

Lauren laughed, "Well, maybe I can get you one, but I'm sure if you ASKED you would get one yourself." She didn't notice his brief nervousness over knowing about her being close to Moreau and she was just happy she didn't say a thing about him being like a father to her.

"I suppose I can... maybe we can have fun with it." She grinned as she gave a playful wink to Miller. "I think maybe I should work on that a bit more..." Lauren got up reluctantly from the bed. She didn't want to leave but she knew if she stayed too long things would stop happening. She still wasn't confident she could handle being that intimate with a man without flashbacks while sober. "Maybe... we can get together and do something later? After... we talk to Nita?" She really still was completely confused about this whole love triangle. Right now she thought it best to go with the flow.

"You asked for that door to be fixed? Well I will be sure to say something about it for you then." She told Miller as she got up.

When she reached the door Lauren returned the hug and gave him a kiss goodbye, along with a grab to the tail feathers. "Bye. Call me? I'm duplex 14 alright?" She told him as she went off.

Back to work, she had tons to do and she desperately wanted to get the show up and running.

Despite whatever he may have said to Nita the previous day, despite any half-promises, the winged horse-man was on the warpath today, with a very definite individual as his target. He marched across the lawn, bringing Vixen along for a change. The dog was a good companion, a side-kick to his one-man crusade.

The duplex was another second story one. His feet clipped sharply on the stairs and his hard hoof fingers lent a certain urgency to his knocking. Then Gaius stood there, filling the doorway with his large form, wings spread and tail flicking back and forth. He waited.

He didn't move as the door opened, nor as the bird-man looked out at him. Gaius kept his tone steady and calm as he spoke.

"Hello Miller."

And then with a suddenness that startled even himself, Gaius slapped Miller across the face and beak, right to left. It was something akin to getting kicked by a horse's hoof in the face, the hoof only making it all the worse.

Before Miller could have a chance to recover, Gaius was looming over him, advancing on the smaller man with a furious look in his eyes. "What kind of MAN do you think you are?! You think you can call yourself a man after doing that to a WOMAN?!" he bellowed, fists clenched as much as he could manage with his digits.

The horse-man jerked back as the racket swung past, then jumped in, trying to get too close for the stick to do any damage, and tried to catch some of Miller's feathery throat or a shoulder in his grip.

"Because YOU'RE the one who slept with the girl! I don't CARE what the circumstances were, whether she was coming on to you or whatever the bloody hell was going on, YOU'RE the male, YOU'RE supposed to watch your damned behavior! You went and broke Nita's HEART you ******** b*****d!" This last sentence was punctuated with another swing of the angry pegasus's hoof-hand.

The flailing lacrosse stick struck a hit as it bounced off the horse's snout, earning an enraged whinny from the horse-man. He backed up a step, having to hop back again as Miller's swing passed his knee. At least the budgie wasn't using his claws much.

Gaius grimaced. "I told you already, you idiot. You're the man. YOU, not Lauren, not Moreau, not your Mom, YOU have to take responsibility for your actions."

He clenched his teeth and stepped forward again, menacing the man. Vixen was there now too, hackles up but looking unsure. She could sense the aggression between the two, but was confused as to the reason. To her, it appeared as some sort of dominance display.

That opening was just the opportunity Gaius needed. Leveling his shoulders, the horse-man bull-rushed Miller, angling so the bird-man was slammed right up against the wall of his own duplex. The much more considerable mass of the horse could easily hold the boy in place as he grabbed for the lacrosse stick with one hand, trying to keep Miller from using it again. He managed to get a grip on the handle, but not out of the boy's hands. His other arm was pressed against Miller's chest.

Gaius leveled Miller with a dark scowl, looking straight down into his eyes, and spoke in a low growl. "You don't deserve the balls between your legs if that's how you're going to treat women..."