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"ROCH!!!" The ghoul's voice echoed through the bottom level of the Reaper dorm. The fact that the reason she was trying to find him was something she wanted kept quiet did not actually occur to her.

She threw open his door, and slammed it shut behind her - she may not have been worried about anyone hearing before, but she wasn't going to announce why she was so mad where anyone could here. "Where are they? I know you took pictures last night, and if you don't tell me where you have them, so help me, I will tear your room apart, I will find them, and I will destroy whatever I have to to make sure no one sees them. Ever."

The ghoul stalked over to him, taking the rare opportunity to glare down at him. "I would be if upon waking up, I didn't distinctly remember you taking pictures of me in that ridiculous outfit! Where are they? Now." She stopped right in front of the papasan, her hands planted on her hips. She was going to give him a chance to go along with her willingly, but one way or another, she was going to find those pictures.

Mitzi climbed up onto the bed beside Roch, snatching for the phone. "The hell they are. You're deleting them off, or I'm deleting them off, and then you are going to convince me there are no other copies. And if I'm not convinced, I will tear this room apart to make sure."

"Fine, then you're deleting them, and I'm watching you do it. But you are not keeping them." Somehow in her efforts to snatch the phone, she had ended up straddling his waist, and now she sat back, once more trying to kill him with a look. "I'm serious, Roch. There is no way I am leaving any copy of those photos anywhere."

The ghoul leaned forward and made another swipe for the phone, in the (admittedly probably vain) hope that he might have let it slip into her reach. "No way. I'm not even willing to take the chance. If -" she broke off, suddenly realizing it was probably better not to tell him exactly why she was so paranoid about those pictures getting seen. She swallowed, and then continued, Look, if you're not going to do anything with them, just delete them. Please?" Threats weren't working, she couldn't seem to get the phone from him, and she really was determined to get rid of those pictures.

She'd do almost anything for it.

As he pulled up the photos and started deleting them, her glare slowly shifted to still suspicious, but not longer either furious or quite so desperate. She relaxed slightly, eyeing him as she asked, "That's all of them?" It seemed like he was giving in too easily, but then, she didn't have reason to think he was really determined to keep them. Maybe he was just playing with her from the beginning, and gave in when he realized how serious she was.

As he reassured her that all the pictures were gone, she noticeably sagged in relief. Whatever about them had her worried, it had her very worried. She slipped off to the side, then leaned over and gave him a hug. "Thanks, Roch," she murmured into his shoulder.

And then suddenly he was on the attack, and even if she had been at all worried about the pictures still, it would have been more than enough to throw her suspicions out the window. "Wait, what?" She had almost forgotten about the bite, since it had been gone when she woke up after the whole magical girl incident. She thought she'd done a good job of hiding it, the last few days, and only Circe knew about it. She narrowed her eyes, but he must have seen it himself, if he was asking about it.

"Huh? No, nothing like that..." Her hand unconsciously went to her shoulder, covering over where the bruise had been the day before. "I thought I'd done a good job of hiding it..." She realized that probably was not what he wanted to hear, so she explained further, "I was just sparring with a friend, and he got a little... overexcited. It was nothing." She hadn't seen the zomboil again since then, but she'd pretty much forgiven him as soon as she had calmed down.