Reed stalked up the stairs, not giving himself a chance to hear Lilith’s threats that were barely thrown out to his ears over the din of the crowd. He shook his head, knowing that this may not end well and entered a room that was free of drug dealers. Well, when Reed implied free, it meant that he had punched the dealer in the room squarely across the face and tossed him out into the hallway. Reed took two of the chars situated at the desk in the room, putting one facing him and another just off to the side. He stood in the middle of the dimly lit room, the lights from the party providing the majority of the light. He sighed gently, it had been a long time since Reed had to rely on the skills he picked up years ago. Before the name change…before the months of wiping records and changing identities. He sighed gently and rubbed the scar on his neck, remembering the sharp pain of the knife that cut into skin. 

Reed waited and smiled as Lilith entered with a form of entourage, a tall guy with bad teeth that reeked of alcohol had the honest look of a drug dealer. Or at least a user. Reed recognized him as Cooper Harley. Reed had spent a few months previously feeding the Officers working to crack down on drugs in the area of the campus about a few of the prime suspects, and was this guy a prime suspect. After a cocksure speech that spewed from the man’s mouth, including him referencing what he had done to Lilith.
 
Reed’s icy eyes looked over to Lilith “here I was thinking it could be without some idiot threatening violence.” His eyes shifted to Cooper “AMT Backup huh?” He smiled slightly, pale lips parting and showing perfectly white teeth “Not a very scary piece.” His hand went up to his shirt and he pulled it slowly to the side, showing three pocked circles of flesh on his shoulder “AMT bullets don’t hurt too bad.” He smiled and nodded at the gun “So please….put it away before I walk over there, break your hands so you can’t take a cowards way out and shoot and we can talk in a civilized manner.” He smiled once more and looked at Lilith “Now…I have a friend here that is very eager to meet you, an old friend of Maria’s, and she isn't very happy with what she has found out about Maria” He nodded gently “so…If you’d prefer…you can deal with me and not have to deal with a very angry woman.” He smiled “because if you left her angry, well let’s just say she prefers to not fuck with people physically…understand?” He looked to Cooper once more “I don’t expect the dunce here to…but I trust you are smarter than him, No…Miss Adams?” He grinned and began rattling off some of her personal information that he had collected before crossing his arms “as you can see…it’s be a good thing not to piss me off hun.”