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Jack was sort of hoping that they could probably get out of the area rather quickly and move on from having to deal with the guards coming after them. He watched as Layla got knocked down but she still managed to stab the guard in the leg. He went to try and maybe hit the guard with some sort of attack when out of no where a freaking fireball appeared in his hand and went flying at the guard! In all honesty Jack was more then a bit stunned at what just happened as the guard ended up being lit on fire from the attack. Yeah, he was more then a bit confused as to what had just happened, that much was obvious.

Everyone else seemingly was starting to ask how he did that or since when and of course his sister was giving him a hard time about it. "I didn't know I could do that, and if I had known Meg odds are I would have done something like that before," he said to her with an eye roll, and when Hansel had said that they needed to look away or something, he closed his eyes for a moment, before opening them again and seeing that their enemies were stunned or something like that. Jack followed after the others back to the ladder, and followed the others back up the ladder and out onto the street near the pub, at least that whole ordeal seemed like it was done and over with.

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"Why would I work together with him ever?" she said rather bluntly to Merlin. Rosalia was likely never going to get along at all with Colby, and she definitely wasn't going to really try. If he came within 5 feet of her, odds were she would sucker punch Colby across the face without a care in the world. Actually that would make her feel better, since she hadn't really gotten a chance to punch him or anything before Merlin had stepped in and had separated the two of them, which honestly sucked since he had punched her to the ground!

Her attention was drawn away from her injury and thoughts (and her arm was getting healed at the moment now so yay for that) by Taylor. "Nah, I can always get back at him later, could use some ideas for how best to do that though," she whispered back to Taylor as she looked down at the puppy that was now laying down at her feet. She definitely was glad that the puppy seemed to hate Colby as much as she did and had bitten him. If only he was a little bit bigger, then his bite probably would have hurt Colby a whole lot worse. Oh well, she was glad that the dog seemed very protective of her.

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Taylor eyed both Matt and Colby a bit more, and started to smirk a bit to herself thinking of good ideas to either annoy, or scare the hell out of them. "I'll certainly think of something." She whispered back to Rosalia as she knelt down and started to pet Lucky, the pupper started to wag its tail happily and licked her hand. Sierra turned to look at Willow and sat down next to her and nudged her slightly, she didnt like the tension in the room and wanted to get away for a little bit.

"Want to head up stairs or something?" Sierra whispered to to, she had enough of the drama that Colby had started, since he was the one to actually throw the first punch in the first place. Gretel went and poured another drink to Matt and Colby filling it with some more booze, Merlin went and sat down on a nearby chair letting out a bit of a sigh, when he heard a door and Gretel got up to go and check it. Seeing that it was her brother and the others with Red in tow and she smiled letting the group inside.

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Hansel turned to look at Cassiopeia for a moment and smiled as he took out one of the arrows and handed it over towards her, it would feel a bit heavy at the end as the arrow head was a bit larger. "It contains some stuff that causes a flash on impact of a hard surface, my sister makes them she can tell you whats actually in them." Hansel said as he looked around, there werent any guards which was a good thing then, as Layla looked around she really just wanted to get back to the pub now. "I'm sure Merlin has some answers then." Layla said giving a slight shrug towards Jack as she made her way and followed Hansel, finding out that the door was locked and tried to use the key.

Hansel let out a bit of an annoyed sigh as he went and started to knock on the door several times, a few seconds later Gretel opened the door, as Red and everyone else entered the pub and looked at the others. "I need a drink." Red said as she made her way over towards the nearby bar and grabbed herself a bottle of beer. "It's good to see you again." Merlin said towards Red, as she simply nodded towards him and took a big swig of her drink, before setting the bottle down.

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Maddie blushed more as Colby answered him. Ofcourse it was his weight lifting classes, what else would it be? He heard the tell tale sign of the alcohol being poured into his glass as he picked it up and slug it back once more. The warmth that had taken over him was now burning hotter than before, and his cheeks felt practically on fire as his lips went on pins and needles. He took one step behind Colby as he made his way towards their shared room to get the cats. The room reverberated and his vision became unfocused as Matthew tried to recenter himself. Red and the others had arrived now and he wasn't quite sure if they needed to stay or if they were free to go, but as the booze made its way around his system he began to care less and less about what it was that they wanted and more and more about Colby's sudden urge to go get the cats. He took another step, then another, walking right behind Colby as they ascended the stairs towards the rooms and his mind began to race. Maddie was wondering if they were truly going to get the cats, or was this an excuse to step away from it all. Even then was this excuse simply so that they weren't in the same room as those who would think that Rosalias actions were ok? Or was he trying to get Matthew alone with him in privacy?

His cheeks were flushing even more now as his eye's widened and he thought about if Colby would be the kind of guy to ask him up to kiss. He didn't know if he felt the same as him, if he cared the way he did, or if he even viewed him in any way more than simply a friend or acquaintance with a cat. His thoughts enveloped his mind as he tripped on a floorboard and tumbled forward, catching himself on Colby's biceps, why did they have to be so nice? He felt warm, familiar, and safe. He had this scent, something unlike anything he'd ever caught off of another person, a scent he could bottle up for those times he needed reassurance and safety to come to him easily. Matthew realized he had lingered on Colby's back and was still holding his arms. He got off of him and blushed some more as he drunkenly leaned against the wall, looking down and avoiding Colby's gaze. He didn't want to look at his eyes, not right now, not when his mind wasn't right. But he needed to ask, needed to know. "C-Colby. Did you...invite me back up to get away from them or...were you hoping to...get me alone...to...y'know...k-kiss." His face was now beet red with embarrassment, ofcourse that wasn't why he asked him up here, and he had just made a fool of himself by asking.

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Cassiopeia looked at the arrow Hansel offered her with awe but grinned and accepted it. She examined it closely, listening to how it worked. Apparently Gretel was the one who made them. Cassi definitely needed to know how they were made so she could incorporate some; especially, with how effective they were. The pub came into view and Cassiopeia sighed, she was looking forward to a shower and a hot meal. The rescue hadn’t been hard but the sewers were awful. She was used to her adrenaline going with hunting but this was a fight and worked on her a bit differently.
The door opened and Cassiopeia sighed, grateful to be someplace comfortable and safe. She saw Red go over to the bar and smirked before looking at Rose. ”Have fun with your mom, you can patch me up later.” Cassiopeia really didn’t have an injury to worry about other than hygiene.
”I’m going to clean up,” she informed Layla before taking the stairs up to her room.

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Willow looked over at Sierra when she nudged her and she smiled a little. It looked like Colby and Matthew were going upstairs and the tension was starting to die down but now Willow just felt tired. Going upstairs to get away from it all was probably a good idea. The door opened though and Willow watched the rest of the group come back.
There was another woman with them who immediately went to the bar. She must be Little Red Riding hood but she certainly didn’t look like the little girl depicted in the story books. Willow glanced at Sierra, eyes widening a bit in curiosity before looking back at Red and then Rose. Willow wanted to stick around a bit more and hear about the story of rescuing Red.

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"I look forward to it." Rose said to Cass with a wink. She was thankful they were back inside the pub. She needed a shower badly, but she'd let Cass go first. She looked around. The two guys (other than Jack who could apparently summon fire) weren't in the room, which was a little reliving since she didn't like Colby. The kid was a danger to others.

"Well mom, this is... uh everyone, or nearly everyone." There were enough in their group she didn't feel like introducing them all. "How did team distraction go?" She asked. Sort of hoping that Colby had gotten killed or something. The group did seem upset about something and Roselia had blood, though no wound, on herself. It was a lot to take in and she didn't know what she missed, but what mattered was her mom was here and they could figure out their next step now. "What's the plan now Merlin?" She figured Megan would have to fight for her rightful place on the throne or something.

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Colby went from confused to flustered real quick. He had just wanted to get away from the others. He didn't want to be in the same room as them anymore. Heck, he'd appreciate it if he could be on a different continent. Who did they all think they were? But here was Maddie being cute. And very drunk.

Colby wasn't a sleaze though. He wouldn't take advantage of Maddie. "I really did want to come up here to check on the cats, and get away from that girl." He said. Missing the flirt entirely. He wanted to kiss Maddie, but he wouldn't do that right now, that was a conversation for later.

He stepped into the room, feeling like he was half carrying Maddie. And helped him onto his bed. Before checking on the cats. Both were curled up and his black kitty Jack only yawned at him. Apparently annoyed at being bothered. He was going to have to call his cat something else if they stayed with the main group since there was a Jack among them and he didn't want to cause confusion.

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Megan raised an eyebrow. She had known her brother to lie from time to time and hide the truth. He wasn't naturally deceitful, but they had played a few games together where the outcome might have gone differently if everyone had been a little more honest. "I believe you," Megan said stoically. To someone who wasn't familiar with them, it might have sounded a little passive aggressive - but to Megan, it was more just continuing along in her mission of teasing and annoying her brother to death. He also was a detective by trade, meaning that he more than likely was good at keeping secrets from everyone.

She stood a little ways back as Hansel rapped on the door of the pub. The door opened a few minutes later, allowing them to go inside. She snorted very slightly in amusement as their ex-prisoner immediately went to get a drink upon entering. It reminded her of some classmates in med school who had always gone straight to the bottle of vodka after a challenging exam in one of their units. Megan stayed quiet otherwise though, her eyes sweeping around the room as she waited to hear what they had missed - and ideally, find out what the next step was going to be.

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Jack still wasn't too sure what had happened or how he had managed to throw fire, but it wasn't the time to really talk about it or try and figure it out. They needed to get back into the pub and out of immediate danger at the least. He shrugged slightly in response to what Layla said with regards to maybe Merlin knows something. Personally, he didn't really want to know the answers. Since everything about this world was beyond weird to him, and the idea of him being able to throw fireballs was not a pleasant one, not really. Since throwing fireballs was not something he was used to people actually being able to do.

His sister said something and he didn't really feel the need to actually respond to it, rolling his eyes slightly towards her for a moment as they ended up reaching the pub and going inside. Red headed for the bar instantly, and based on what he knew about where she had been, that made sense. Getting out of prison and avoiding your own execution was definitely an excuse for a drink. Now he wasn't sure what the plan was, just sort of waiting to see what exactly the idea was. The new plan now that they had broken Red out, getting out of town seemed like a good idea in his mind, since from what he knew they probably would be looking for their escaped prisoner.

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Seeing the smirk on Taylor's face made Rosalia giggle. "Feel free to get as creative with it as you want, bonus points if it gets others to laugh at their expense," she responded, still giggling as she spoke and looked at the little puppy who was clearly a happy little camper. It definitely was good to know though that despite his size, the little dog was more then willing to bite people for her. That had definitely been entertaining for her to watch, the little dog chomping down on Colby despite the fact that his teeth weren't too sharp, made for some entertainment.

She was beyond glad that Colby (and Matt) decided to leave the area and head back upstairs. That was something she was perfectly fine with, them being as far from her as possible was always a bonus. The door to the building was eventually opened and in came the others with a woman she didn't recognize, but assumed was probably Little Red Riding Hood. The woman definitely wasn't exactly the sort of person that she had imagined, but based on the people that she had met so far from fairy tales, nothing was as they appeared in the story books that people had back home. Definitely made for some surprises when they actually end up meeting the fairy tale characters.

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Red looked towards the group that wasnt with the rescue team that had come to save her and gave the group a friendly smile and nodded towards all of them. "It's nice to meet you all." Red said as she took a sip from her drink and leaned back slightly looking at the others. "Thanks for the rescue by the way." Red had said as Hansel gave her a slight nod as he went behind the bar and started to fill himself a drink now as well to. "I have to go back to the tower and send out a few messages to get some more people here, and get in contact with the rest of your parents as well to. If anyone wants to come with me you are more than welcome to join me." Merlin told him, as Red took a moment to speak up.

"Also Rumpelstiltskin is probably in town to see my execution, so he probably knows by now about the prison break so he'll start sending people out to look for me and the other escaped prisoners we could try and capture him." Red suggested as Merlin gave a slight nod. Sierra nodded slightly as she leaned back listening to Merlin and Red speaking, if they could find and capture the guy maybe it would help things as well to, and she was more than eager to hopefully meet her parents to.

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Layla looked towards her sister and nodded towards her. "See you in a bit sis." Layla said, she didnt want to get cleaned up just yet, she needed to find out on what their next moves were right now as she went and sat down at a nearby table. She listened to the plan and nodded slightly she thought about going with Merlin and see if there was a way to contact her father as well to. She looked towards Jack for a moment though and wondered if he wanted to meet Merlin by himself at the tower to since he could apparently use magic now which was pretty cool in her opinion.

Taylor smirked slightly as she started to get a few ideas on how to prank both Matt and Colby as well, she knew what she wanted to do now and giggled slightly looking at Rosa. "I think I know what I want to do now." Taylor said as she knelt down and started to pet Lucky again as well, the puppy licked at her hand softly. "I'll go with you to the tower if you want." Taylor offered Merlin she wanted to get away from Colby and Matt for a bit as well to.

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Cassiopeia stole a few moments to herself and relished in it. She went over to the cats, given them both lots of love, telling them about the adventure they had. Artemis just stared at Cassi, rolling over for belly rubs before taking off and zipped around the room twice. Cassiopeia shook her head before she went and cleaned herself up.
It took her a bit to wash and clean up but Cassiopeia felt more refreshed and smelled less like a sewer. She dressed in a new pair of clothes, hoping there was a place she could wash the clothes she had been wearing. They didn’t have much on them and Merlin would probably have to magic her clothes like he did with her bag. For now though, she headed back down to see what was going on.

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Willow smiled and waved at Red when she looked at them all. Merlin spoke up about returning to the tower and contacting more of their parents. Willow was eager to go back to the tower if it meant contacting her mother. She wondered if contacting the rest of their parents would be easier than having to rescue Red but if people were going to be after them now, it would be a risk.
Being on the road again with people looking for them would be difficult but Willow was more eager to be on the move. ”I’ll go back,” she said. She wouldn’t miss any opportunities to meet her mother. Willow looked over at Sierra to see if she would be on board as well.

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Maddie enjoyed the feeling of Colbys strength helping to carry him to the bed. When they had finally reached it Colby just...left him there. He didn't join, he didn't kiss him, he simply meant to check on their cats. Heh their. His face blushed a harsh shade of pink as he laid on his back making grabbed hands towards Colby as if that would somehow call him over regardless of the fact that Colbys back was to him while he checked on Jack and Carroll.

"Hey Colbs, can you come over here real quick? I think I need a little help."

"You're a little drunk." Colby said but was compliant and turned around making his way over to where Maddie lay. "What do you need help with?"

Maddie reached up and wrapped his arms around Colbys neck, pulling him down onto the bed and nestling his head into Colbys chest. He giggled absently as he nestled in and finally let out a soft sigh like a child falling asleep. "Nothing. Just wanted to cuddle for a bit. Feel some human warmth...today sucked."

Colby giggled, which he didn't expect. He enjoyed the cuddle. "Yeah, but it wasn't the worst. You were there."

Maddie hid his smile in Colbys chest. It felt nice, like coming home after a long hard day. That was the nicest thing anyone had said to him. "Thats true." Maddie slid his hand down Colbys arm, finding his hand and interlocking his fingers with Colby. "I wish we could just stay like this" He began to speak softy to himself, in a tired sing songie voice. "You are the reason Im smiling when there is nothing to smile about"

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Megan frowned for a moment, hearing Red mention that Rumpelstiltskin was in Camelot in order to observe her would-have-been execution. The name belonged to her brother's biological father. And given that Jack was suddenly able to conjure fireballs, she assumed that Rumpelstiltskin was likely some sort of sorcerer. Merlin and Maleficent had magic, it wasn't that unreasonable to assume that Rumpelstiltskin would as well, especially if magic was something inherited genetically. How would Jack feel about being asked to capture his biological father? Did he consider Rumpelstiltskin to be his father? Or was he more like herself, feeling that biology did not mean family?

"I can accompany you to the tower," Megan volunteered. She didn't see much point in sitting around in a pub. She wasn't sleepy either, given her curse(?) of being an insomniac she hardly slept more than a few hours each night. Accompanying Merlin promised to give them more information though, and she wondered if perhaps her brother could do with another activity to focus on at the moment. She had no idea what was running through his mind and she couldn't help but worry slightly. He could be terribly sensitive at times.

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It was a relief to be back in the pub. Rose didn't blame her mom for going straight for the drinks. She had seen that look on plenty of people in her time as a bartender. She hoped her boss wasn't too mad at her for dipping on her shift. Especially after she had sent him the text about potentially being in danger. Were there flyers at the bar for her? Had her friends in Kansas started looking for her? She had at least called her parents to tell them she'd be out of contact for a bit because of a lead she had on her bio-mom. Something they had wanted for her for years, and here she was now standing next to her. Red hadn't abandoned her in the woods. However, Rose had ended up there it had been an accident. And now she felt like a kid not wanting to part ways with her mom, being so afraid that if she lost sight of her she'd never see her again.

"I'll go with you." She told Red. She felt her mouth almost say mom but caught herself. She wasn't totally ready for that. Mom was Mrs. Buckner and had been since she was eight. Rose didn't ask for a drink. She wanted her mind to be as sharp as possible. "Before we go anywhere though we all need showers and a change of clothing." She grinned. The whole group had been traipsing through the muck. Her clothes were drying stiff and gross. There was no way she was going to stay in what she was wearing any longer than necessary.

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"Oh there is plenty to smile about. Such as how are we gonna get back at her for being so annoying. He didn't get why Rosalia wouldn't just drop it. It had been done and there was no undoing it. So why couldn't she just move on. Colby could have let the push into the lake yesterday slide if she had stopped being so rude. But today had sealed her in his mind as the worst. Which made sense because she had a dog and dogs were the worst. Proven by the dog bite he had on his leg. "Oh shoot I should check out my leg make sure that dog didn't do any damage."

Maddie hummed in agreement as Colby proposed that they get back at Rosalia. He didn't know how they would, but he was sure that Colby could find a way to do so. When he heard about the leg however he instantly opened his eyes and decided it was priority number one. The alcohol didn't allow for him to think too hard on the situation, having had Maddie slip his thumb under the waistband of Colbys pants in an attempt to remove them.

"Oh right, well let's see it"

"Ack!" Colby said. He was still on the bed and Maddie was trying to pull his pants off. "I was just going to pull the pant leg up. He didn't bite that high." It was a bit of a relief actually that the dog had missed sensitive bits. He wiggled trying to get out of Maddie's attempt to strip him.

Maddie looked at Colby inquisitively as if he spoke a foreign concept to him. His eyes widened as he removed his hand away from Colbys pants. "Oh… right. I guess you could just roll up the pants leg to look." Embarrassment was faintly creeping its way in him, overshadowed by a new feeling and a racing heart.

Colby laughed. Not at Maddie. He smiled his half smile. "Drunk you is silly." Now that he was free he sat up and pulled his pant leg up. There were four little puncture wounds were the dog had bit him and it was red on the site. "Dang that dog. But it doesn't look like it'll bleed or anything. I clean it before we leave just in case."

Maddie sat up on the bed looking at the dog bite from there. Well, looking at those calfs and getting distracted before finally focusing on the issue at hand. It didn't look too bad, though definitely wasn't looking good. He got up from the bed, a small wave of wooziness hitting him as he tried to stabilize himself. He walked up behind Colby as he wrapped his arms around his waist and nestles his chin between Colbys shoulder and neck giving him a light kiss. "You should wrap that up too. Don't need to catch an infection while out here."

Colby found himself leaning into the touch. If he could purr he might at that moment. "Yeah. Later." He didn't kiss back. But he was leaning backward into the hug.

Maddie smiled as he kept him in his arms. Swaying a pit side to side. "If that's for later, then what do you want to do right now." As he asked he pulled Colby even closer, pressing his chest against his back and securing himself around his best friend.

Colby suddenly became very aware of the body pressed against him. He shifted a little bit. "I uh...I don't know." He said a little flustered. Color rising in his cheeks.

Maddie loosened his grip slightly as he swung around to face Colby now. Having kept his arms still wrapped around him before finally pulling him back in, looking at Colbys eyes as he was inches away from his face almost daring him to kiss him. "I'm sure we can figure something out."

"Was there something specific you had in mind. I didn't. I just needed to get away." Colby didn't pull away. Instead he leaned ever so slightly closer. Their lips not yet touching. It would be so easy for that to happen. "You're drunk. We can lay down till you're sober. Just rest." Colby wanted to do more than rest, but he didn't want to cross any boundaries.

Everything was firing off inside of him as Colby moved in closer. Was he teasing him? Did he actually want to kiss? Did he realize what it was that was happening? Maddie had so many unanswered questions, and all he wanted to do was kiss Colby. But he was too afraid to cross that line, too afraid to ruin a good thing. So he moved in even closer, lips still not touching, but being one breeze away from having them meet. His eyes moved downwards as he looked towards his pants.

"Well...I have something we can play with in my pants." There was a pause as he thought of what to do. "You wanna play Go Fish or War? I'm up for either."

Colby raised an eyebrow surprised at first at where Maddie was saying. It was weirdly forward for him. "Oh I love Go Fish." He said grinning. He loved most card games honestly.

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Jack was just listening to the conversations that were happening as Merlin more or less started talking about what needed to happen or something like that. He stopped really paying attention when Red mentioned that name again, Rumpelstiltskin. The name of his biological father, someone he was pretty sure that from what he had heard, he'd likely want nothing to do with him. Also from what he could tell, just about everyone else in this group was the kid of some character in a myth or fairy tale who was typically a hero, but he wasn't. Nope, he was someone related to the villain in his story, that was part of the reason why he didn't really mention the fact that he was related to a villain or who his fairy tale parent was.

Now his brain was wondering if he wanted to stick around here for a little while and maybe the group would run into his father, or go to the tower with Merlin (and his sister) and then maybe ask Merlin some questions about magic and what not and mentioning he had thrown a ball of fire earlier. There were a lot of things that were going through his mind, and considering the fact that he was at a pub at the moment, one of the first things that crossed his mind that he probably could really use a drink right now. He still wasn't entirely sure which group to stick with, so he was remaining relatively quiet for the time being.

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"Ooooh I love surprises, I'm more then a little bit excited to see what you come up with," she said, before turning her attention towards everyone else who was still in the room. There seemed to be some talks about doing other stuff, but she wasn't really paying attention. Currently the main thing was that mentally she was rejoicing that Colby wasn't anywhere near her in the group, and actually had gone off with his boy toy to save the rest of the group from their stupidity. That was nice, and the place was a whole lot quieter too.

Rosalia thought about what group she'd want to be with, going with Merlin to his tower, or staying here and maybe dealing with this Rumpelstiltskin character. Considering the fact that Colby wasn't in the area, she figured that sticking around in the building if he was here would probably not be a good idea. "I'll go with you to the tower, sounds like fun," she commented, looking over towards Merlin, "Unless you want me to not come along and stay here in the same building as the idiot I might want to strangle or potentially bash his head in... I'm fine either way, but going to the tower sounds like the most fun to me."

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Sierra took a moment and looked over at Willow when she said she was going to go to Merlin's tower again, she couldnt help but be curious as well and wanted to see the tower again as well to. "Sure i'll go with you guys." Sierra said as Merlin nodded looking at those who wanted to go with him back to his tower. "Alright then, if anyone of you wants to get cleaned up I suggest you do so now then." Merlin told them, he wanted to get back as soon as possible and contact the others and hopefully bring them all here in order to hopefully reunite everyone with their parents again. "You are welcome to join as well to." Merlin told Rosalia he didnt want her and Colby to get into it again really either.

"I'll be back then." Sierra said as she decided to get a quick shower as well, even though she wasnt the one to go through the sewers like the other group did. Red looked at Rose and smiled towards her, glad that her daughter was coming with as well and stood up and made her way over towards her.

"We have sometime if you'd like we could try and get to know each other a bit more." Red offered Rose, and she probably knew that her daughter had a lot of questions. "So how good are you with tying knots?" Taylor asked giving Rosalia a mischievous look towards her, she was curious since she wanted to make a little trap for the two of them.

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Over in Colby and Matthew's room, the two would hear some tapping on the windows, when they looked they would notice a murder of crows near them cawing, like it was out of some really creepy horror movie. When three of them suddenly flew forward, two of them werent able to damage the glass but the third was able to crack it. Then another took the opprotunity and managed to shatter the glass and flew in and started squawking and clawing at Colby's face and receiving a few claw marks on his face.

"I'm going to go take a shower to, i'm going to stay here though." Layla said as she headed up the stairs and started to head over towards the room that she had shared with her sister. When she heard something shattering and quickly headed into one of the rooms seeing a crow was attacking Colby she quickly went over and managed to yank the bird off of him, just as more crows started to come through and attacked Matt as well clawing and pulling at his hair.

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Matthew sat crisscross on the floor looking down at his hand, then back up towards Colby, then back to his hand as he let out a disgruntled sigh and grabbed three Ace's from within them, placing them on the floor and sliding it towards Colby. He glanced behind him to see if there was a mirror or reflective item and saw nothing to his chagrin. "Lucky guess. Alright well its still your turn." There was a hint of agitation in his voice, though it was mostly playful as his piles or books of cards were far less in number than Cobly's. But before the game could come to an end there began to appear a tapping at their window. Maddie slowly lowering his cards face down as he got up from the floor to get a better look. Outside there was a murder of crows swarming the air, as he took a step closer to investigate what had them all in a tizzy, one of the crows slammed into the window frightening him as he jumped back clutching non-existent pearls. He leaned forwards once more only to be met with a second bird colliding into the window until finally a fourth broke through and began an onslaught of pecking and flapping about. Instantly they flocked towards Colby clawing and pecking at him and as Matthew neared to help the began to tug at his hair and attack. He heard their bedroom door open but he could hardly see who it was as the birds surrounded him forcing him to keeep his head down so they couldn't get to his eyes.

Matthew made his way closer to Colby, reaching out and snagging one of the birds that was attacking him and then began to frantically wave it around trying to bat the other crows away. He missed every mark, not really aiming or using strategy so much as getting lost within the confusion of the scenario. As he held the bird he considered dropping a ball of fire on them, but knew it would do more harm then good. Between Carroll and Jack, the rando that joined them, and Colby, there was too much to risk if the room had caught ablaze. Maddie decided that it was an idea for a mad-man, and given his father was the Hatter it would make sense to use it. However there was a more improbable and nonsensical answer to this chaos and it wasn't a fire, but to fight birds with birds. So Matthew choked his grip onto the bird he was holding, making sure it was beak out, and then jabbed forward as he watched a crow fly towards Colby. There was resistance, then a cushioning feeling as he looked and saw his makeshift dagger had found purchase onto the bird. "Im sorry Im sorry Im sorry Im sorry" he began to cry out as tears formed near his eyes. He had never harmed an animal before and this was breaking his heart causing a very sobering situation.

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Cassiopeia was nearly to the stairs when her sister climbed up and then there was a crash like glass breaking. She jogged off with her sister, curious as to what the sound was. What they found though was not what Cassiopeia was expecting. Crows were flying in and started attacking Matthew and Colby. Her sister dove in right away and Cassiopeia followed suit.
Attacking crows wasn’t something she had a hard time with. They were scavengers and always picking at things and were a nuisance when it came to camping. Hunting on the other hand, they were excellent at cleaning up the mess. Cassiopeia waved her arms around at the birds, trying to get them to release their hold on Matthew. She succeeded but then the bird started attacking Cassiopeia.
"Where are the cats when you need them," she grumbled. Cassiopeia would normally try to just kill the bird but with how much was freaking out about using a bird for his own devices, he might freak even more or pass out.

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Cleaning up sounded like a wonderful idea and Willow was happy they would be given time for it. She smelled like fire and it was a bit nauseating. Willow sniffed her clothes, smelling the fire on them as well but she wasn’t likely to get a new pair of clothes. Maybe she had something in her bag that would help with the smell. Meanwhile, she could get the smell of smoke out of her hair and off her skin.
Willow followed Sierra up the stars and heard a commotion. It sounded like yelling and squawking crows. Willow frowned, following the sound to Colby and Matthew’s room.
”What on earth…” There were crows flocking around Colby and Matthew, while Cassi and Layla were trying to help. Cassiopeia went back to the stairwell and called down for Merlin.

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"I do have a bunch of questions, but I'm going to start with this one. I have this memory of a wolf, it was growling but it was standing in front of me facing away. Like it was growling at something coming toward me. I've always liked wolves because of this memory, but is that real? Did that happen? Or was it some kid fantasy thing?" Rose wasn't sure about kid fantasies in a world that three days ago she would have called a fantasy.

Rose lifted her head as Willow called for Merlin. Wondering what was going on that she needed his help. Though there did seem to be a lot of noise coming from upstairs. She raised an eyebrow and looked at Red. "Think we should investigate?" She was curious about what all the ruckas was for.

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Colby's face was scratched up by the birds. What had happened? He had no idea why the birds were in the room attacking. This seemed like some weird magic thing. He grabbed a blanket off the bed and used it to catch some of the birds. He was able to get five of the crows. Corvids are notoriously smart. Could they be trained birds? "That's what you get for ruining my game of Go Fish. I was winning." He paused. "Wait you weren't attacking cause you thought we actually had fish right?" He asked the birds as if they could actually answer him.

Meanwhile, Jack, that cat, stretched and started swatting at a bird nearby. The cat seemed immensely pleased with the prospect of murdering a bird. Even if the bird was able to escape. Colby shook his head. "Come on Jack you're better at this than that. Cats are responsible for the extinction of 33 species you can kill one apparently magical crow hell bent on murdering us."

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Jack had more or less decided that he's going to stick around here and not go to the tower. What was the point of doing that anyway? Merlin had said he was going to go get in contact with their parents, what he should have said was he was going to get in contact with everyone elses parents. Not his, since his father was a villain and far from a hero type from what everyone was saying with regards to him. He was pretty dangerous and right there with apparently the person mainly responsible for all of the horrible things that were going on in this world. Definitely wasn't sure if he wanted anything to do with the guy at this point.

Then again that had been Merlin's reasoning for bringing along a few children of villains right? To see if they would be better people then their evil parents or something like that. He didn't remember too much of this world with regards to his father, and honestly he wasn't sure at this point if he wanted to try and remember what things had really been like. His thoughts were yanked away when he heard someone calling down the stairs or whatever for Merlin, so something had clearly happened upstairs or something like that, and he was more then a bit curious as to what exactly had happened.

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"Cool, getting out of here sounds like it is going to be fun to me," she responded to Merlin with a bit of a shrug. At least he didn't want to keep her stuck here in the same building as the idiot. That was a nice thing, and she was a bit curious as to what everyone elses parents were like, not necessarily her own, she didn't really care much about them, but she wondered if the others were like the fairy tales. Especially since clearly Little Red Riding Hood wasn't at all like she appeared to be, despite what her story tended to say and have happen. It definitely was entertaining to her that was for sure.

Rosalia glanced over towards Taylor when she asked about how good she was at tying knots and she had to think for a moment, "Not too horrible at it, do I want to know what your plan is though?" she said to her in response with a bit of a giggle. She was a bit excited to hear what Taylor's plan was to mess with Matt and Colby. Well, more of specifically Colby, but messing with Matt in a horrible way would just be an added bonus at this point. Hearing the others call for Merlin made her laugh slightly, "What did the idiots do this time?" she asked, figuring that it might have something to do with Matt and Colby, and more of hoping that they were the ones doing something stupid again.

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"There were some support beams or rafters whatever you wanna call them, my idea was to tie some rope to their pants and underwear, then hoist them up into the air giving them a wedgie that they wont ever forget. Find something sticky like syrup and some feathers and throw it at them." Taylor whispered to Rosalia, she was the only one who was able to hear the plan she paused for a moment as she heard some cawing in the rooms above. "Whats that exactly?" Taylor asked, just as Cassi came down. It took Merlin a moment as he closed his eyes and sensed that there was some kind of magic going on. "Nothing good at all." Merlin said as he quickly bolted up the stairs.

"Our house at the time was on fire, I couldnt find you but a wolf managed to find you somehow just as we found you to." Red answered Rose giving her a bit of a smile, just as she heard the comotion going on as well to and quickly followed behind Merlin as well along with Hansel and Gretel.

Sierra watched as the adults went to go and investigate pretty much, just as she heard a door opening and a man entered, he was just by himself by the looks of it as he waved his hand and the door shut behind him. He turned his attention towards Jack and started to grin at him, seeing his son there for the first time in years. "Ahhh, so good to see you again Jackie." Rumple said grinning at him as he stared at the group, seeing how young they all were but his attention was mostly on Jack right now.

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"Really this is how you guys handle some stupid birds?" Layla said seeing the crow that Matt was holding like a weapon of sorts, the crow turned around managing to move it's head enough and bit into Matt's hand rather hard forcing him to let go and drawing some blood as well to. Layla quickly would snatch up a pillow and would shove it into the broken pane of glass in a way to board up the window as Layla turned to see the others had come up and Merlin stepping into the room. He used his magic to suddenly make the crows disappear. "Grab whatever you can and get out of the room right now." Merlin instructed everyone.

"You don't have to tell me twice." Layla said as she quickly bolted out of the room, just as more glass broke and more crows flew into the room, Merlin used his magic to get both Matt and Colby out of the room, along with their cats and immediately backed up, closing the door and made sure that it was locked. Layla could hear the birds hitting at the door, even one managed to jam it's beak through the door leaving a small hole.

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Megan was a little bit intrigued at what the girl with the curly hair was saying about bashing in the head of some idiot. She didn't need to be a detective like her brother to come up with the most likely target of the girl's fury. She wondered then if they had anyone conducting autopsies here - she supposed they probably didn't, which meant that if she did end up killing the boy from earlier, Megan would get to be the one to take a sharp instrument to his head and cut it open, remove his brain, and then do the same to his other internal organs. She sighed slightly, feeling a bit melancholic. Life was so much simpler before all of this. She wasn't as used to talking to the living as she was conversing with the dead.

"I'm alright, thank you," Megan said, when Merlin directed them to go get washed up if they needed it. She was used to being covered in blood - she went through quite a fair number of lab coats in her line of work. A run through the sewers wasn't enough to make her feel like she needed to take a shower, and she doubted that they had any water pressure here. It was probably just cold tubs of water. It wasn't too long until someone was shouting for Merlin up the stairs. Megan was a bit impressed. They had hardly been back and already, someone had found a way to get into trouble. "How much do you want to bet they're crying for Merlin because showers had yet to be invented?" Megan quipped to her brother, taking a seat.

She was very glad she hadn't gone upstairs to look into the chaos with Merlin though, when a stranger walked into the bar and the door shut behind him like magic. He looked like a corpse - like something Megan would've been brought in a bag, with the explanation it had been fished out of the river. She didn't see any traces of her brother in the stranger's face. Megan put one hand on the hilt of her sword. "Just say the word," she whispered to Jack.