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Rosemary nodded, "Thanks Charlotte. We'll remind him. It was nice meeting you." Rose smiled at her and Louie yawned, loudly. She gave him a dirty looked that Louie pretended to not notice.
"Yeah, welcome to the crew. If you ever need help with somethin' let us know," he said and gave her a ridiculously over exaggerated winked.
Rosemary rolled her eyes at her brother and grabbed his sleeve, tugging him in the direction of the offices. "See you later Charlotte. Lets go Louie! I don't have all day to waste! I have a date with my bed." Rosemary muttered darkly.
Louie jerked his arm away from her. "The only date you're ever gunna get," he grumbled crossly.
Rosemary turned on the spot on and reared her hand back like she was going to smack him. After a moment's consideration she balled her open hand into a fist and dropped her hand to her side instead. "OH! I'm so sick of you! Can we get through talking to the big guys without your bullshit please?!"
Louie's eyes widened and he glared at his sister. "My bullshit?! You've done nothing but be bitchy and give me orders since we left the nest! I'm not your underling Rosemary!"
"I know that Louie! I'm tired and I'm just...tired." she turned away from her brother and crossed her arms tightly across her chest. She had a sudden overwhelming urge to cry but held it in like she was trained to do. The images of the mission they had just come from filled her thoughts. She shuttered and took a deep breath. They'd never come across something so sinister before and she'd be lying to herself she thought it didn't bother her.
Louie bit his lip, trying to regain his composure. He knew why they where both in such a bad mood. He couldn't say it out loud, they had been ordered into silence by the big guys in charge. He cleared his throat and broke the silence between them first. "C'mon Rose. Let's see who's home," he made his voice sound soft instead of irritable.
Rosemary nodded and together they walked toward the offices.

Mid-stretch, Nariana's long ears flicked as they picked up the perpetrator's raspy, but distinguishable voice. She lowered her hands and leaned nonchalantly against the door frame, responding to his comment in a strangely calm tone, "It only makes sense since you got to watch me. Besides, I didn't want Luciano to have all the fun." Her face was stoic; she didn't know how to react at the moment, so she decided to seem as calm as possible for the time being. Sitting around all night gave her plenty of time to dissipate her anger, but she was still pretty indignant about the whole situation. Plus, she was annoyed at the fact that no one had checked on her after Charlotte left, which made her still feel like doing a little damage to channel that annoyance. Then again, was it worth expending the last reserves of energy she had? She finally resolved that it wasn't. Instead, she did her job and began asking questions. "Why were you spying?"

((Sorry Angelo I don't know where Luc is so I'm gunna post something and hope we get moving a little.))

The Underhill Siblings reached the offices and after finding Skotti's office empty they knocked on Luciano's office door. Like Skotti's office there wasn't an answer.
"s**t!" Louie cursed. "We need to talk to at least one of them!"
Rosemary sighed and took her glasses off. "I know Louie." She took a cloth out of her pocket and wiped the lenses gently. "Since they're not here-"
Louie cut her off, "Wanna check out the elf-pire?"
Rosemary grinned mischievously, "I thought you'd never ask brother" She put the cloth back into her pocket and put her glasses back on. Louie bowed to his sister and motioned for her to walk ahead of him, "After you sister."
Once they reached the door they exchanged a grin before knocking once and entered the room without invitation. Rosemary stared at the man chained to the table, her amber eyes wide in disbelief.
"He is real," she whispered.
Louie licked his lips, a nervous gesture usually meaning he was trying not to say something that would probably get him into trouble. He looked around and saw Nariana. He gave her a node but still kept his mouth shut.

Louie cleared his throat snapping Rosemary out of her trance. Like a flip of a switch the smug amusement and surprise evaporated. Their posture and expressions changed, adopting the more stoic nature they where known for. Silently they parted and each walked the edge of the room, circling around the vampire on the table slowly.
Rosemary cursed herself silently as she made her way slowly around the room. She had left her gear in the car. There where plenty of things in the room they could use if they needed to but the lack of familiar weapons hidden under her jacket made her nervous. Louie wasn't in much better shape. He at least had his old Beretta 92 tucked away in it's holster under his left arm, unlike Rose who didn't have anything.

The prisoner's response made Nariana snort, especially his last few words. "No wonder Luciano hates your guts. You clearly just affiliated yourself with those disgusting vampires! Ha!" she chuckled darkly as she found the situation a little amusing. Crossing her arms over her chest, still holding onto her "vamp stamp", she sighed and recomposed herself. Continuing to inquire answers from the elf-vampire, she asked, "So if you're in danger, shouldn't you be flying away into the night and hiding or something?" she said sarcastically before becoming serious again, "What good is it for you to put yourself further in danger if we're supposedly a target of whatever is threatening our existence? Why don't you save yourself? Hm?" She leaned forward at the last part and raised an eyebrow. In her mind, it was absolutely ludicrous for this man to venture into enemy territory, especially because he had beef with one of their leaders. Did he have an ulterior motive, or was he just a sentimental sort of guy? She needed to know.

Twi didn't flinch when the newcomer unloaded near his knee -- anymore than the sound forced him to. he ignored the gunman's threat.

".... while it's true I'm a coward, it isn't true of all Vampires. and yes, I don't give much a damn about you or others I don't know.... but Luciano, Waffle, Mandi and Scotti... Koji and Sabe as well; they were family. I was one of them. and though they may hate me as a traitor, I've got to protect them."

he leveled his stare at Nari for a moment, and then shifted his head to look at the one with the gun. his eyes showed that he was looking at the past as much as the present, as though he wasn't realy seeing his surroundings at all.

"Luca means well, but... he's cracked. and you know it." he said softly. "do the right thing, for Elfkind."

Koji woke up laying on the floor of his room with his towel bound up into a pillow and a sheet that was halfway on his body and half tucked into the mattress. He blinked around in his delightfully dim lit room, thankful to have had blackout curtains installed so when he wasn't wearing his glasses, the morning sun wasn't too overwhelming. After he pulled himself up, he realized he must have fallen asleep on the edge of his bed after his shower. He reached around the blurry room looking for where his glasses might have fallen and eventually found them wrapped up in the towel-pillow, the arms slightly tweaked from being slept on. He grumbled, threw on some clothes, and shuffled down to the kitchen to get some coffee. There was still a mess in the lobby from the attack the night before, but that wasn't really important to him for the time being. Maybe after he got some coffee and worked out the kink in his neck he'd work on cleaning up a bit. He made his coffee, went to take a drink, then jumped as he heard a gunshot from downstairs. Koji let out a string of curses at the noise and then at the scalding coffee on his skin.
"What the hell is it now?" He said darting down to where the noise came from.


Koji's eyes widened as he took in what was going on in the room. Nari was standing over a prisoner, Louie and Rosemary were back and Louie was pointing a gun at the prisoner who, now that he got a better look, Koji recognized as "...Twi?" He stepped into the room and walked around the siblings. "Twi! You're back! What the hell is going on...?"