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[center][color=darkorange][h1]Xerxes Arvanitis[/h1]
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[b]Location:[/b] Sky Lakes Medical Center.
[sup][b]Interacting With:[/b] Cassandra Arvanitis ([@Caits]), Linus Teague-Winslet ([@Oliver]), Zoe Flores and Syleste Vos ([@Vicier]), and Melissa McCall.[/sup][/color][/center]
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[color=darkorange]She was there, safe and warm in his arms, and then she was gone - drawn away by Zoe's careful hand. His soft brown eyes looked to her, a flash of hurt crossing over them for a small moment. Why? He had just undergone the most terrifying moment of his life - the moment he wasn't sure whether or not his daughter was alive - and she was pulling them apart? Cassandra was just getting into what had happened - that bit closer for him to know that she hadn't been bitten. Oh Gods, please let her not have been bitten. That was why she wasn't in a stretcher like the others, right? She had played it smart - hid somehow... maybe tripped over a log and hurt her hand... He refused to listen to what his heightened senses were starting to tell him.[/color]

[color=Plum]“You can both kill me later for that, but right now, I need you to help me out. Cassandra, your friend over there, the one shouting out at the top of his lungs; I need you to help him into that room there… the one with Aron and Cody in it. Once you’re there, just sit down and relax, your dad and I will be in there in a moment with the rest of your friends.”[/color]

[color=darkorange]She was taking control, though not over his domain like the Druid had, but of the situation that she knew better than anyone else in that room. Ever since she had approached him when he had moved himself and Cassandra to Klamath Falls, Xerxes had formed a bond of respect for the woman. Keeping Klamath Falls safe, looking after an entire pack, running a successful restaurant... Despite not knowing (or refusing to connect the ties that pointed straight to what had happened), the series of events that led up to this situation, he found that not only did he respect the Alpha, but he trusted her too.[/color]

[color=plum]“Xerxes… I will answer any and all questions you have; but right now, we need to get them all in the same room so I can talk to them all, and so I can explain to them what’s actually happening… I’m going to go this way, you go that way; when you come across one of the teens, take them into that room, and I’ll meet you there.”[/color]

[color=darkorange]Xerxes tore his somber gaze from Zoe to look to his daughter, seeing it clear in her eyes that she didn't want to leave either. But she was strong, and knew what she had to do. He watched quietly as she went to go and help a boy - Sebastian, and couldn't help but to feel a swell of pride rising in his chest. That was [i]his[/i] daughter. Strong. And always caring for others.

"Tend to the boy." Xerxes told Melissa, watching briefly as the small child began to seize up. He was in capable hands. He wouldn't have trusted him to anyone else right now, given the situation.

Sighing and taking a moment to run his fingers through his greying hair, Xerxes headed off in the direction that Zoe had instructed him to go. He wasn't even sure what he was looking for anymore. He only knew some of Cassandra's friends- 

Oh... 

"Syleste?" The bright pink hair was unmistakable against the white sheets of the hospital bed she had been put on. He rapped his knuckles on the open door a few times, letting her know that he was coming in. "Syleste, it's Doctor Arvanitis." He paused for a moment for his voice to settle into her mind, hoping that the familiarity could help calm the obviously rattled young woman. He was just glad that his daughter and Syleste spent enough time together that she would know who he was.

Silently, Xerxes crossed the room and sat on the edge of her bed, clearing his throat to give the blind girl an idea as to where he was if his weight sinking down onto the bed wasn't enough.

"Syleste, you are going to be just fine. And your friends, my Cassie, are all okay. But I need you to relax for a minute, alright? I'm going to take just a few minutes and check you over, and then I can take you to Gage. Sound good?"

He waited for acknowledgement before he stood back up. Donning the rubber gloves, Xerxes spent the next few minutes checking her body over. The most severe, by far, was the puncture wounds on her shoulder. The skin around the wounds was already dead and decaying and the blood coming from them needed to be stopped. After bandaging the wound to the best of his ability for the time being, and then addressing the wounds on her side, he gave her a quick shot of penicillin. There was much more that he needed to do, sure. But for now, it would have to do. At least until Zoe was able to explain just what the hell was going on to everyone.

He could really use that left Twix stick right about now.

And a beer... or five...[/color]