"We'd invite you to stay with us but...""You might not wanna stay with two mangy mutts," Caius finished. He chuckled as he leaned on the counter and watched Callie study her cautiously.
Claudia rolled her eyes and then pointed at Callie's drink.
"Try it. It's good. It's just raspberry schnapps, strawberry vodka, 7-Up and cranberry juice with a splash of dark rum," she enumerated the mixture of ingredients to reassure the witch.
"There's a lot of tension between the wolves and vampires...and I'd rather not tick off an excentric original..." Callie said softly. She only really liked tabitha out of the three orignal's, although Garrett, while scary, hadn't done anything to her. Lucinda...seemed to treat Tabitha like a child. While she mighgt act childish, Callie suspected that Tabitha wasn't at all child-like. She gave a sigh,
"I just need a garden, thats all. I just want to grow herbs and make potions" She didn't think she could watch Tabitha all the rest of her natural life, but she didn't see anyway out of what she had gotten herself into.
Frowning, she listened as the drink was described to her.
"There's strawberry vodka?" She wondered, picking up the glass, she tried a little bit of the drink, simply to not disappoint either sibling.
Caius nodded. Tension between the two races existed for as long as he can remember. He was not about to trigger an unwanted and an unwarranted conflict with them now.
"I certainly hope you fare well with them," his observant eye noted Callie's hesitation with the drink.
"Don't worry. You're free to tell me it sucks if you don't like it. I won't take it against you," he gave her a lazy smile before he turned away to tend to another customer.
"Werewolf," a male vampire hissed under his breath when his eyes fell on Caius.
Caius returned the hostile look with a lazy look of his own.
"And this wolf can mix one helluva drink. What are you having?"The male vampire looked hesitant. He glanced towards Claudia and then back to Caius. Deciding he needed the drink more than getting into trouble with two wolves, he sat down. "Death Sentence," he said in a low voice. "Two shots."
Caius grinned.
Claudia watched the exchange with a raised eyebrow.
"I don't even know how he does it," she grumbled.
"No, it's good" Callie said softly, wondering if she must forever balance between two races, while shunned from her own. It was a strange thought. She stared at her drink, but glanced up at the hiss.
Why couldn't they just get along?
"Some people just have a knack for communicating" Callie said to Claudia,
"It probably helps that he's serving alcohol" She added, with amusement, taking another sip of her drink.
"There were a couple of wolves at the house, when I snuck out. Was that you guys?" She suddenly asked.
"Makes sense. He's the friendlier of the two of us anyway," Claudia nodded.
"Yeah that was probably us... unless there were other wolves scouting the area."Callie gave a shrug. She was aware that something had gone down, but she was aware what. There had been a...solelum air about the place as she had snuck out, but she hadn't wanted to get involved.
"I don't think so. I woke to Tabitha gone, having dumped me in a room that was practically all mattress, so it was probably hers." She pondered that a moment. She hadn't seen any sign of Tabitha in the house, but she was sure the girl had still been there.
"Its like puzzles in puzzles in puzzles...how the hell did I end up in this situation?" She sighed to herself. She finished off her drink, setting the glass down,
"I'm sorry you guys got looped into this, I hope Alex doesn't get mad I kinda let you guys take over...Maybe he'll think next time before just leaving me here" She didn't want to bring either of them down, and she glanced down at her empty glass. Had she really drank it that quickly?
"Oh...maybe I shouldn't have another one...I might do something foolish"Claudia chuckled.
"Glad you liked it. Caius never fails at making something nice when he mixes," she looked around as if expecting Alex to already be there. She didn't want to get Callie in trouble nor did she want to have to deal with a vampire.
"We'll just slip out through the door when he comes back," she grinned.
"At least you can slip out" Callie said, leaning against the bar slightly, letting her hair curtain her face somewhat. The only people who had talked to her lately, and didn't seem to want anything from her, and she was stuck, in the middle, of two races.
"Maybe take me with you, so I don't get given another task to do"Claudia raised an eyebrow.
"Are you sure about that? Won't they come looking for you?""I'm sure Tabitha will...but she's oddly worried about free will. Still...I didn't mean forever. I just mean...a night out" Callie said, a little flustered, tumbling over her own words, she was glad for the glamour that would hide the blush.
Claudia grinned sheepishly.
"Oh, sorry. I thought you meant like permanently," she said.
"I'm sure Caius won't mind if that's the case," she added.
"I wouldn't mind what?" Caius asked as he walked back to the ladies.
"N-nothing" Callie said quickly,
"Well, it might be nice, but...Like I said before, I don't want to tick off an original by just...leaving" She said, biting her lip nervously.
Caius raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, I didn't know you wanted to leave.""She doesn't! Stop butting into other people's conversation, Caius," Claudia scolded.
Had it been any other wolf, Claudia's words and her arrogant tone of voice would have triggered a fight. But Caius has always been strangely calm. Even on that first full moon, he had attacked his sister but was able to control himself in a matter of hours. He just shook his head.
"Fine. I'll stay out of it."Callie closed her eyes and rubbed her temple. What was she getting herself into? Vampires and werewolves? How did she get here?
"No, gods. I...I'd like to leave, but I don't want to hurt Tabitha...She just seems so...innocent. A strange concept to put to a vampire...She seems lonely as well. It must be hard to...be what they are, always seperate from their spawn, just those few steps higher...I don't want to hurt her, don't want to throw her hospitaity in her face." She said, shifting slightly to include Caius into the conversation.
"You're not butting in, Caius" She said softly,
"I'm sorry, I'm probably not making sense..."