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"What? Nothing to say?" Riko her grin widening, she resembled a shark now, her lips peeled back flashing her razor sharp teeth that appeared ready to feast upon this wolf. "I guess you just want to keep up your impersonation of a human wrecking ball huh?" She jeered, watching the wolf recover from her dodge of Riko's blow, in Riko's mind the woman had just gotten lucky, she'd ducked out of fear and not out of reflex.

It seemed that the woman didn't pay much heed to her words and instead wanted to attack, Riko hissed in frustration and began to back step, sliding left and right avoid the pokes that the woman threw at her, she had lived in this house for years so she was very aware when she began to approach a wall, suddenly she stopped, shooting her hand forward and gripping the woman's knife hand, and clamping down, hearing a few joints pop in the woman's hand as she did so, but no real damage was caused. The wolf yanked trying to free herself but Riko wasn't letting go. The vampire smirked again, holding up her free hand flat nails poised and sharp. "Don't worry, this won't hurt. I promise" With a shout she shot her hand forward aiming to dig her clawed hand right through the wolves throat.

Now Riko would admit, her and Mercy were not on the best of terms, before today, it would not be uncommon at all for the two of them to go days or even weeks without saying more than a word to eachother, but this just couldn't fly. Why the hell did Mercy have a gun, and where the hell did she get it from? Who the hell were these people and how the hell were they related to Mercy? That was the most important question and the one Riko wanted to demand the answers too, after she finished ripping this wolf apart of course. Or at least she would have but Mercy was telling her to let the girl go...

Right...

Riko glared at Mercy, her vibrant turquoise eyes darkening to let the wolf know just how swell she thought that idea was. If Mercy hadn't of suggested that she took Elle of her hands, there might of been more conflict but seeing the infant near tears in Mercy's arms made her think better of acting. "I would rip your hand off right here and right now," Riko spat, clamping down tighter, her free hand balling into a fist as if she was going to strike the wolf. "But I don't want your pathetic screams of agony to frighten the child." Riko said letting her go, before walking over to Mercy and taking Elle of her hands. "Once that b***h is out of my house, we are going to talk about this." Riko added her voice still deadly serious.

Her expression softened finally when she looked down at Elle who was still teary eyed. She began to bounce the girl up and down in a steady rhythm, whispering little nonsensical things to her. "Shh shh, everything is gonna be ok, that bad lady will never come near you again, if she does, I'll add her hand and her throat to the collections of things I won't tell you until you are much older."

Mercy seemed to be taking her sweet a** time and that was causing Riko to fume just a bit, but she had to try and keep her anger out of her voice as she played around with Elle, and instead of shouting like she wanted to she took in a deep breath and blew out with her mout closed, allowing the air to puff out her cheeks, which made Elle laugh so there was that, but it was really just Riko doing everything in her power to stay restrained.

However when Mercy did return Riko couldn't help the glare that set on her brow, she wanted to put Elle down and get to strangling the girl, but she decided to keep the girl within her grasp to avoid any violence and to allow herself to answer Mercy's question. Riko looked down at her hand, the one she had used to grab the knife, she was bleeding it seemed she had been knicked. "....No." Riko answered decisively, before looking up at Mercy and arching a brow as if to say "Get on with it."

"No," Riko repeated, now brooding. "I don't need you to tell me that you ******** know them, because I have eyes... don't I?" She wasn't in the mood for a lot of things, and Mercy being a smart a** after the people that she used to run with had came and broken into their ******** home, tried to kill her and tried to kidnap their newest family member was not one of the things that she was going to take to lightly right goddamn now.

"You know, I had another life before I met you people as well, and I had plenty of old friends, many of whom would love to stick their fangs into a mutt just like you, but guess what? None of my friends have ever broken into our ******** house!" Riko snapped loudly, as she yelled liquid spouted from her mouth in a human it would have just been saliva and while she was mad enough to slobber, it wasn't that. It was venom, Riko was so angry that her body was reacting and causing her to literally spit poison at her roommate. Riko bit her lip and forced her mouth close, looking away. When she was human, she used to have anger issues, she used to get so mad sometimes that she would be shaking and her eyes would go bloodshot red and she would stay pissed until she broke down and cried out her frustration. It felt like her body was tryna take her there, Riko shook her head. She wasn't going there. Not in front of Mercy.

"I don't care what you, or those other flea ridden scoundrels used to do in your free time, but if you think that Elle is one of them, then Riddle me this, whats to stop them from trying this s**t again?"

"********. You." Riko hissed at Mercy's retreating back. "Go ahead, run away. That's all dogs like you are good for. Well news flash, I don't need you! Not you, or anyone else." Riko didn't think of the hole that she could potentially be talking herself into, but honestly even if she had been thinking about it she probably wouldn't give a damn. She was so angry that she couldn't even see straight let alone think clearly.

She turned to Elle who was watching her with careful eyes as if judging Riko's every move, as though she could understand everything the vampire was doing. "Are you against me too?" She asked, of course getting no response as expected, Elle was just an infant, no way she understood. Riko sighed. "Come here you," She said forcing a bit of life into her voice. Her eyes were starting to sting now as her anger left her old habits picking back up but she wiped at them with hte back of her hands, refusing to let her emotions get out of hand. She inhaled deeply and sighed, Elle seemed to mimic the action smiling at Riko, who gave the girl a laugh.

"Ok you, lets go see if your clothes are clean, again"

(Wish I was done, lol. Gratz what is your degree in?)

Riko turned to the ghost as he stuck his shrunken head into the laundry room, he had reduced himself in maturity appearing before the both of them as a frightened little kid and like a kid he had no problem telling her why he was afraid. "We have all, been through some things Harry." Riko whispered placing Elle down on top of the washing machine in a seated position as she began opening the dryer. "You're insane ******** rambling is not going to make me get rid of this child we do not turn our back on our own and like it our not she is one of us." Riko said slamming the dryer shut and laying Elle's clothes down besides the child, wondering if it wouldn't be better to just let the girl go without them for the night, rather than risk her messing them up again.

"And I don't hate Mercy...I just.... It's complicated, okay?" Riko mumbled, turning back to Elle to hide her frown, the infant raised her grubby hands to Riko's face rubbing her palms against Riko's down turned lips, pushing at them, Riko couldn't help but chuckle despite how down she felt. "Where were you when i was being attacked anyway?"

(Ahh the Choir makes sense now.)


"I said, it was complicated alright?" Riko breathed shaking her head, she did not feel like having her relationship with the wolf questioned. They had their ups, and they had there downs, that was all there was too it.

"And I think you being afraid is the stupidest reason for you to spend the day hiding away. You are a ghost Harry." RIko stressed, suddenly not sure if maybe the boy had somehow forgotten that obvious fact "What the hell do you have to be afraid of? You are already dead, the least you could have done was provided a distraction for me so that I could remove that flea bags head." Riko said rolling her eyes as she picked Elle up from off of the washing machine walking past Harry, she was going to trot up the multiple sets of stairs to her attic room when Harry asked his question from back in the room.

"Case you didn't notice, you are not the only one who is dead. I can't create life, and I will never get the chance too, and as far as everyone is concerned all I am good at is killing, and being a b***h and while I don't disagree with those points, a long time ago I wished to be able to raise a child of my own and too be able to create a family for myself. This is as close as I am going to get."