Sebastian blinked, he wasn't aware he was being quite so obvious about his growing affection towards Serena and seeing her blush and the flicker in her aura made him wonder if maybe she was beginning to feel the same. Either way, he HAD planned to use today to try and get his nerve up to tell her... He rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly a moment before tossing an arm around Serena's shoulders. "Please do, we need to gossip about you and Anna... Who thought we'd see the day," he teased.

He sighed at pretended disappointment, "I suppose we should at least grab our popcorn, I don't think Anna has enough hands. She's failing on all levels these days... Don't tell her I said that... She'd hurt me and I'm fragile," he joked.

He went to the counter and ordered himself a large popcorn and two sodas and passed one to Serena, "The lady doesn't pay," he explained. Then held up the cookie dough he'd bought, "Want some?"

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Anna hadn't been gone long when she'd felt the hair on the back of her neck stand on end... She felt watched. She frowned and shrugged it off, it was the middle of the day... Yeah, sure a Stigoi could maybe have taken some of the old Subway tunnels to get here.... but ever since the year when Rose and the group of her friends had gone missing the Guardians had made sweeps just to make sure they were clear... She wasn't 100% sure when the last sweep had been but she was sure that news of the sweeps had probably been passed around to any would be Strigoi squatters... She paid for her things, and then headed back towards the theatre. She hadn't gotten far and was just passing a piller when she was grabbed and yanked behind it. She struggled, slamming her heel onto her attacker's foot and then her head back into his face before she was slammed face first into the piller itself... As she fell to the ground, dazed and seeing stars, she saw a male face and red eyes and then everything was black...

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