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Ako's glare eased into a smile as the man bowed up. The guard seemed afraid of him. Good, they should fear all of them. "Just thought I'd let you know," he kept his voice low and calm, like he was telling a friend a secret, "If anything bad happens to that little girl, you, and all your little guard buddies, will have to deal with me." The smile never left his face, and his voice told that he meant every word.

While he was calm most of the time, the group had seen him lose his temper at least once. It was never pretty. Short of turning green and instantly bulking up, Ako could pass for Bruce Banner. Once, after a phone call from his parents, Ako had to explain a fist-sized hole in the drywall of his room to the hotel's maintenance man.

Almost as if on cue, the tapping footfalls of expensive shoes fills the holding area. Nick turns quickly toward the sound and stands at attention. A long and wicked shadow crawls up the floor toward the cells. One might think their eyes were playing tricks, because the shadow seems to slither as he approaches.

Charles Ray comes into view, a wry grin on his face. His left arm hangs in a sling. He looks around at everyone, then to Annie, and says, "I looks as though your wish has come true Ms. Soulsmith."

Tansy sighed softly as she looked to the man named Nick. She blinked a few times. "There are people who choice to think that. If you wan to believe I'm an Angel, I won't stop you." She said softly. "Are you hurt? I could heal you if you could move closer to me."

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Nick coughs and wobbles up to his feet. He winces and looks over at Annie, feeling the air begin to heat up around her. "Don't, if those bars are broken an alarm will sound."

He comes up to the ladies' cell, but instead of getting close enough to Tansy to be healed, he takes off his right glove and starts punching numbers into the keypad. "He's a madman, Ray. Hes become drunk with that power. It's gotten worse over time. He was a p***k before, but now he's just sadistic. You kids are the only people who can stop him."

He puts a key into the lock and turns it at the same time he presses the enter key on the pad. There is a buzz and a click, then both cells pop open. The guard up the hall runs into the holding area with his sidearm raised, "What the hell are you doing?! I wont let you get us killed!"

Annie sighed relief, and around her little burn holes formed on the floor where she had let the hydrochloric acid she had made already fall on the floor. "Sir, you are absolutely amazin' I could just kiss you!"

Regaining her composure she said respectfully, "Well I would except that you are actually working for Charles Ray and that just..." Looking at the guard she held out a hand, "Can you give us your gun and any other weapons you have, before we go?"

Tansy stepped out of the cell and smiled. "Thank you so much." She smiled at him, and turned to Nick. She moved over to her, her wings folding into themselves. "Are you sure you'll be okay?" She asked, smiling gently at him and reaching out to place her hand on his.

"it's okay." She smiled once more and gently rubbed her thumb across his palm. "It'll be okay." She said softly as she let the warmth of her healing powers run through his body and path up anything which might have been wrong. She patted her hand on his once more. "Thank you." She stood and turned to the others. "We should get moving. And quickly."