Serena stood when Sebastian helped her up and a small smile played at the corner of her lips when he kissed her. She shook her head, "It's okay... If it didn't, I wouldn't have this bond with you... And despite it... getting a little scary, I like having this bond. Being able to help you.. and I can know where you are and make sure you're safe."

She pulled away from him as he offered to go to the gardens and nodded, "The gardens sound perfect... Not much is perfect right now..." She walked over to her bag and pulled out a sweater as well as another silver ring and put both on before she returned to him. She took his hand in her's and rested her head against his shoulder. The two enchanted rings helped, she was just glad that she had some left in her bag. She leaned her head against his shoulder. She felt his own emotions stabilizing and she clung to those because it helped her stabilize a little.

Then they were out the door. The warm evening air was nice. It helped. She looked up at him, "I love you."
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Gunner's stare down with Jace was interrupted when Anna stepped in the way. Although, the emotion behind his eyes changed, he merely had a new staring partner. He watched her as she ran at him, he kept still knowing he could wait until last second to react. So, it was hardly an issue when Anna dodged to the left because he hadn't even thrown himself forward. He turned fully, pulling his leg out of the way of her attack before he caught her jaw in his hand. He smirked, his eyes filled with lust as he looked at her, "I think you just bit off more than you could chew, Banana."

He licked his lips a little before his hand moved to her wrist. He was free to do as he wished and forget about the guardians for a moment due to the fact that his mother had already tossed aside her two guardians, leaving them alive to later be turned and was working on those around Jace. He slammed her wrist against the wall, hearing the crack followed by the pinging of the stake hitting the ground. Gunner knew taking out the wrist was the most effective way to deal with a guardian. One couldn't really brandish a stake with a shattered wrist. He pressed his lips to her temple, "Two years is too long," He almost hissed before grinning, "Unfortunately, I've been waiting four years to kill Mr. Szleskie." 

He tossed Anna to the ground turned on the three guardians, who were all a little busy dealing with his mother. He smirked and easily slipped between them and grabbed Jace. He shoved the man against the wall and grabbed hold of the stake he held and easily ripped it from his hands and tossed it aside, ignoring the burning in his hand. He wrapped his hand around Jace's throat and stared at him, "Strigoi still just a joke?" Gunner hissed in comment to his Halloween costume all those years ago. He pressed a little harder against his throat, "Death is too good for you."

He stared at him, "I'm going to make sure that for the rest of your life every time you look at another living being you feel your skin burning. I'm going to drive you so far off the deep end, you'll beg for death... But I'm going to make sure you live until you are old and grey... Because that is what a monster like you deserves, Jace," Gunner hadn't really played with compulsion and he could see the man fighting against it but he knew that Strigoi's compulsion was strong than the Moroi's sooner or later he would break, "Your skin will burn. Your eyes will bleed. You'll never sleep. You can't feed. Drinking blood makes you sick.... The thought of blood makes you sick. Things haunt your every waking moment. You're every regret and fear will forever be in the forefront of your mind and you will live like this until the day the Earth eats you up... When nature decides to end you because you won't be able to end yourself."