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Pen fought smiling and tearing up. This had been certainly a long day after a another long day. The gang was still recovering from the zombie episode yet they came to her aid. Looking back at Skotti she noticed that he wasn't in his normal gear. The Kuro Uniform? He got the entire gang involved with this?

Though she couldn't turn her head she looked down and away from her leader.

"I'm sorry... for everything..." she muttered in a pained tone as if all of this was her fault.

Luciano gave Pen a big brotherly hug and then he said softly, ". . . Don't ever scare us like that again." He gently let go but then he suddenly gave her 'The Gibbs Smack' and then he said, "Do that s**t again, and I'm using your favourite jeans for target practice. When you get them back, you won't want to wear them."

Skotti nodded "Do you want backup?" he asked.

"If you like to keep about 50 yrds perimeter in case he is stronger than he looks I won't stop you." Pen grabbed the sleeping vampire and but him on her back. She gave her normal tired smile to both Skotti and Luc then headed out on the outskirts of the cemetery.

Luciano swallowed hard then he said, "Skotti. . I'm going to get healed now." he lowered his head and walked over to Kydre. Praying to God she wouldn't bite his face off.

When Pen got to the edge of the graveyard she heard the vampire start to wake. She sighed and leaned him up on the side of a mausoleum as she prepared herself for might be another fight.

Riche began to wake and feel the true amount of damage he had received. It was blinding pain that he could barely make out the elf that sat on a headstone only a few feet away.

"Your awake" Pen anounced as if it were a surprise.
"No help to our friend. Can't you play fair." Riche snarled at Pen's blurry image.
"Oh and you know whats fair? Listen, this is your last chance Riche. next time you pull a stunt like this I can't guarantee you'll be safe."

"I never asked for your help."
"You never needed to." Pen replied which only angered the vampire.

"I swear I will get you if I have to go through all those you hold dear."

I was afraid it will come to this."She sighed and walked over to the heap of a vampire. Pen knelled down beside the vampire and forced his arms behind his back.

"Going to kill me then." He seemed to laugh knowing far well Pen didn't have it in her to do so.

"Something worse." Taking out her bladed knuckles she started to saw the thumb of Riche's sword hand and other thumb. Not off but enough that the nerve damage would make it impossible to hold a sword or even a pencil. The pain was even more blinding and Riche became faint. Before he lost conscious Pen whispered in his ear.

"Last Chance my friend. Next time it will be your neck." He fell with a thud and Pen got up to return to the group. Knowing by the time he woke up the damage would be too great and old to have it ever repaired even with magic. It wasn't the killing part that was the problem it was the fact he was still the last living piece of her past that spared this scum's life. If he wasn't so intertwined with her past it would have been quick and painless.

"You have so much to learn Professor. Death is a privilege. The only real cure to all pain. Both of us aren't ready for such a remedy." she muttered walking to pair of headstones and kneeling down again. After a quick talk to seemly her self she left to find the group again.

"See mom and dad, I have a new family. You can stop worrying about me." She seem to regain her smile and found Skotti some 50 yards away.

The whole group got back home to HQ and everybody was exhausted from their search for pen. Skotti yawned and kissed his wife in the kitchen as she made herself a pickle and ice cream sandwich. He headed to his office where he checked his voice mail on his phone.
"Looks like I have a message..." skotti typed in his password and listened to the phone:
"You have ONE new message... FIRST unheard message, sent TODAY at 5:32 PM"
... shh Gven! shh... I am asking him! Hey! hey! Skotti! iz Rikka! just letting you know that I used your debit card to get some... things... bu the gooood news is, I started a band! Skotti facepalmed, knowing that Rikka emptied his debit card on equipment. "Ja! by the vay, vondering if you and Darkkelf vould play my freind, adam's, birthday party! anyvay, zat's it, call m-" the message cut off and skotti smiled at his sister's antics.

Once back at HQ Kydre, who on the way back had wanted so desperately a bath and then a hot meal, now found herself unable to climb the steps leading to the next floor. She stood staring at the bottom step for a long time confused as to why she wasn't moving. There was no spell keeping her from going up the steps, so why was she just standing there?
After what felt like forever she took a step and then turned and sat down. She sighed and propped her head up on her knees.
"What's wrong with me?" she said under her breath.