Adelisa shook her head and shrugged. "I mean, I've never actually tried. I'm not someone who enjoys hurting people." She looked in front of them and noticed the others moving faster so, in turn, she moved faster to catch up with Morven. She looked over at Maria and smiled softly. "hey" she said to Maria. "How are you doing?"

She smiled at Morven, trying to make more friends as she wasn't able too back then. She was free to live an undead life like she always wanted since she escaped. It wasn't that she's always dreamed of being a bloodsucking vampire, but she was happy to see the things she's seen. Even if those things were not so pretty. She atleast got to experience it.

Theo chuckled and said "be careful. The last woman I loved almost killed me." He rolled his head to crack his neck a bit, stretching it out, and sighed. "Much better." He smirked at Jar. "What are you going to do about her?" In Theo's mind, women were expandable. Adelisa was no different. He just hoped Jar would never find out how evil women are when men loved them.

Maria

They were headed home. Lucian had left her. Her sire had found her pain a thing to jest at. But she had no where else to go.
And she wasn't certain she would ever sing again.

Then the million dollar question was asked.
"Angry, that is how I am doing," she snapped then relented. "Not at you. I am angry at men. At that sick freak for doing this to me, at Lucian for leaving me and at my sire for not caring. So to answer your question I want to either kill something or hijack a Ben and Jerry's truck and put myself in a sugar induced coma. And right now Ben and Jerry's is starting to win."

They reached the Manor soon after. Maria sensed the presence of a long lost sister inside.
Brenna...

Sister, Maria called in her mind, her heartache translating to the mind of the deaf female. Once they entered the house Maria went right to her sister by blood, clinging to her as she trembled with hurt.

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Brenna

Sister...

She was shocked to find the mind that called to her was Maria, her sister borne from the same sire. Before she could send a mental reply the female was before her, holding on tightly as if Brenna was the only thing keeping her from falling into a firey hell. She held her sister as the female whimpered and trembled.

Sister mine... she thought and broke one of her own rules by searching her mind.

What she saw shocked and horrified her. It was bits and pieces, like someone was fast-forwarding a movie, but it was enough to know why her sister was in pain.
Sister mine... she repeated but in a different tone. Instead of curiosity the thought relayed sadness and grief, sharing of pain.

As Brenne held her sister close and made comforting sounds she turned a questioning frown to Alistair, and a look of surprise to Morven. It seemed her gut feeling had been right. Her family did need her.

Grand-mère she thought to Morven, a French term from her youth meaning 'grandmother' but denoting great respect to the older woman. Although Maria had always disliked the older female, and the feeling was mutual, Brenna had nothing but respect for the female Brenna considered their ancestor.

What happen future? Brenna signed. ASL had a different sentence structure then normal English speaking. She was asking what was going to happen, what they were going to do.

Jareth:

Jar shrugged at Theo's question. Truth be told, he didn't know what he was going to to about Trixy. She didn't even know his real name, there were still many secrets between them, they were each other's own secret in a way. But he did know one thing, and that was that she didn't love him back, he doubted she ever would. "Stay distant, I guess." he said aloud "Chick dig the apathetic mysterious artist, right?" Jar said with a signature half-smirk. "The bigger question is what are WE going to do now? The family is on the radar of both the Blackmoores and the Kingstons. Do we stay or do we go?"

Beatrix:

Trixy halted before reaching the entrance of Skye Manor. Only the head family members held residence there, so when Trixy saw someone that she didn't recognize open the door, her first instinct was to draw her gun, which she did. The reaction was a bit over-dramatic as, apparently, Maria knew the girl. The two women stood locked in an embrace that blocked the doorway. Trixy removed her finger from the gun's trigger and tucked it back into her lower back holster. Her cold blue eyes found Alistair's, the question evident on her face. Who was this stranger?

Adelisa's eyes roamed the manor with curiosity. The place was quite bigger than the previous family homes she had visited. Her eyes landed on the new vampire in the room and a smile appeared. Not a big one, but an inviting grin was all Adelisa could give to the girl. She wasn't the most graceful of people, but Adelisa was hospitable. She looked over at Alistair as he talked and her eyes widened in surprise. Brothels? He… destroyed brothels? she thought to herself.

This man, once quite hostile toward her, was surprising her day by day. She blinked a few times to clear away any left over shock from her visage, but it definitely made her wonder. She looked around for Morven and noticed the girl's disappearance. Her heart raced in fright and her already doe-like eyes shown her panick. Her one friend was gone and she felt alone. Adelisa watched the group, wondering what the next move was.


Theo sighed and said "that is a dilemma isn't it?" He sighed and looked up at the ceiling for a second. It was quite the predicament indeed. He looked back at Jar and said "since it's only the two of us, why don't we reek havoc upon the houses? They think I'm dead anyway." Theo smirked.

Jareth:

"Just the two of us, don't be so quick to count us out, brother. The Blackmoore's destroyed one of our locations, we have others, and they only did it because we had one of their own. We are out of this fight, if you so will it." His smile glinted in the limited light of his apartment. "But if you are looking to cause a little trouble, I'm always up for it." Jar said as he hopped "But first, let's go drain a virgin or two, shall we?"

Beatrix:

"Burning brothels... what an odd thing to do. I hope you did your research first, not all women are victims to the profession, not all are in need of saving." Trixy whispered to him, she couldn't hide the fact that this revelation disturbed her; Both him having another progeny that she knew nothing about, and this snip it from his past. But, when you live as long as they both have, she supposed you couldn't help but have secrets and things left unsaid. If he burned brothels, what then did he think of her? She, who was openly a madame to more than one house throughout the ages... she was french, after all. That being said, he didn't know the type of house she kept, that the women were always willing, they were sometimes vampires, and that lured in wealthy men, men of power, and traded sex for money and most importantly, for secrets that could be used to steal the power from the men, and give it to the women.

Auria

Auria sighed and nodded to Lucian. "I'll tell her, you just go get cleaned up. You need to prove you've at least got some control over who you are." She told him as she went back and knocked on Mirabelle's door again before sitting down reading over her invite to Praetor little get together once more. She wondered about these other Vampires and this group old ancients he was asking to come together. He must truly fear Dracula or be hopeful that they can find a cure for Lucian and solve his problems.

Praetor

Had finished arranging the house for guests and his spirits busied themselves cleaning and digging out relics from storage. Things he might need or could use should the time come, traveling the world he'd picked up quite a few interesting items. Some holy other's magical in nature, some possibly blessed by gods. He knew not only that they were of interest and that no doubt they could be useful to him in his search for a way to remove Dracula from Lucian. He'd free the boy if it killed him.

Lucian had made the walk up to his room and now he stood under the running water of the warm shower, he stood there as the water rinsed away the blood and dirt to reveal a beautiful golden haired knight, in a single night he had managed to bring doubt from his own family, fall in love...and then destroy it by losing control. He absentmindedly washed himself with the washcloth running his fingers along the muscles and sinew scrubbing deep as if trying to wash Dracula out of him. He hated what he had become...but the power was unlike anything he had ever felt...no...no this was wrong. Lucian shook his head and shut off the water before stepping out and glistening in the dim light of the bathroom. He dried himself before getting dressed slowly and placing on his formal uniform from world war 2 and making his way downstairs. Once there he sought out Praetor, "I came...like you asked brother..."

Morgan stood close by to Adrian but upon seeing Brenna a smile crossed her lips, "And the well of souls continues to grow...how wonderful. The ancient's eyes watched everything and gave off the most predatory of auras.

Praetor nodded showing him to a seat at the ornate table. "I have called the elders in the city together and invited the clan heads. We shall attempt to find a way to save you, if not then it will take more than before to end this fight." He said standing by the door waiting to greet the guests. "I'm assume you met Auria? She was the other Praetor, much like anything commanding armies is to much to bear alone. It why I took you under my wing, I've sired very few in my life you are my apprentice and my legacy when my time on this earth ends and I go to Pluto." He said with a sort of certainty that he would die before Lucian did.

Theo grinned and said "you, my friend, do know how to cheer a man up!" Theo hopped up from his original sitting position and grinned. Though he was weak, he felt much better than he did a few minutes ago. He just dispised looking weak. It made him feel as if he had no control or power, and liked those things- craved those things. He smirked at Jar and said "let's go hunting" with a knowing wink.