Atticus, above all else, was happy that he hadn't managed to offend their guests. He had been notorious for how he acted with Kat to come off as offensive, but as he watched them he nodded. Obviously they did understand what it was like to go crazy for the people they cared about. He noticed Billie gently pat Logan's hand when he placed it on her leg and he nodded a bit. "Okay." He said. It wasn't long after that, that the attention fell on Lia and even Billie looked at her. That was a huge offer for someone to make to those they had just met, especially given the circumstances, but Lia gave a nod. "I can respect that, just know the offer is on the table until it's formally declined. I've not been around vampires who are like you. Well, aside from Cassandra and Checkov, but they're coven leaders." It was then that the new redhead, Willow, came in and greeted Sal and introduced herself. The girl had a very bright and happy demeanor, and it was refreshing. Especially given everything that happened. It wasn't long after, Lia found herself leading the girl into the kitchen to cut her banana bread. Admittedly, Lia remembered that rule as she called it, but that was because she was born and raised in the South. It was also why she had pulled out food for everyone. If nothing else, Lia had become a stickler for southern hospitality. "If I may, you are right about it being a rule, but not everyone observes it. In the South, it's a huge thing, but here in the North it's not." Lia explained to Willow as she went looking through her drawers for a knife. -- Before they left the infirmary, Randa had taken a second to laugh a little when Garret said she might have to take it easy on him. “Depends on what exactly you want, I’m leaving it open for discussion. But if you want to, I suppose I could take it easy on you.” She had winked at him too, and once they joined the others, she was kind of glad that Billie and Logan had appreciated Garret’s ‘pretty kill’ as much as she had. Plus, it was kind of validating to know she had captured it well. Once she sat with Garret, she felt his arm around her and she felt herself smile a little. Then she felt someone staring in their direction. She was trying to be as nice as she could, a little glad Garret had said something to the girl. Randa knew she had a bad tendency to come off as bitchy, even a little bit hostile, when it came to staring. She couldn’t help it, but it had proven to be good lately. Especially with the hunters around, it fed her paranoia, but if someone was watching them or staring long enough for her to start feeling paranoid… well it was usually bad. She had kind of zoned a few minutes, remembering when Billie and her had their regular lunch date a few weeks back. She had noticed a few guys watching them, and they had decided to test and see if they were being followed. They had been, but rather than tell the others about it, they had ended up finding out they were just regular creepy humans later on that night when they had gone out with Garret and Logan. Billie broke the jaw of one of them, and she was pretty sure the other guy was still in the hospital. She shook her head a bit when she heard Clary laugh at the blonde’s joke. “You know, I’m starting to get why you commented on all the blondes now?” she whispered to Garret as she looked around the room. There were a lot of blondes, and if it were any other time or place, she’d have made a joke and laughed about it for entirely too long. Clary smiled to Kat when she complimented her and Cole. “Thanks. Cole said my aura used to be really bright and colorful.” Aless piped up that time. “Used to be?” Cole nodded. “Yeah. When she was a spirit.” Clary smiled a bit. “Yeah. Last year something happened and I was given a choice… so I became a reaper. Reapers don’t have aura because we’re neutral parties. We ferry souls… well, I’ll be able to once I’m done learning.” She corrected herself at the last bit and she felt Cole rub her shoulders a bit. It wasn’t long after that when Aless got up and headed into the kitchen. Clary took the few moments to look around a bit before her eyes fell on Logan and Billie. She tilted her head up at Cole and smiled, “I’m glad everyone is okay.” Her head turned a little to look over at Garret and Randa. She still felt bad that Garret had gotten stabbed, and she rolled her head back up to Cole. “He’s alright, babe. The most he can do to it now is reopen it. I told him if it gives him any more trouble to tell me.” She whispered, placing a kiss to Clary’s forehead. She noted Willow coming back in and she saw her sit with Sal and place a cookie in his hand. Cole couldn’t help but to admire how helpful Willow had been with Sal. “Thank you.” Sal smiled a little and he broke the cookie in his hands and put a little in his mouth before he listened to Willow. Atticus looked to her and saw her hand extend out to him and he took it and shook it. “Thank you. I’m Atticus.” He said to her. “I’m glad you think so. I forget what the name of it is, but it’s this cologne that Kat and Aless picked out for me.” Atticus let his eyes look over at Kat and he gave her a gentle smile. He was actually surprised that this room wasn’t more tense, especially given what had just happened. His eyes traveled over to Lia and Mitch, briefly, and he could see it in Lia that she was about to address the hunter thing. He couldn’t blame her, the amount of hunters was alarming. Very alarming. Dahlia smiled a bit at Zach, “I know, babe. Cooking I don’t mind, shopping for stuff to cook though. That takes me forever.” She laughed a little bit before she looked over and Rose and Joe. She caught Zach looking too, out of the corner of her eye and she subconsciously took his hand. When he said something about them all being safe, she nodded. “Yes, it could have ended up so much worse. I’m very glad it didn’t.” It was once the conversations ended and Lia began in on the new one that this got a little bit more active though. She had been thoroughly surprised at the lack of bad reactions to who she was. It was extremely shocking, and she almost didn’t know how to react to the lack of severe judgement… most of the time she would get looked down upon for it, but very few people actually knew that there was beauty in what she could do. Not to mention, that name was not who she was anymore. One reaction had caught her attention, and it had caught Aless’s as well. She seemed to kind of draw herself back after that though. Then the one named Zach spoke, and Atticus felt himself look at him. However, it did explain a lot that he had fought in the last two wars. Hell, Atticus hadn’t been involved in any war battles, but he had been dragged into it because of the hunters. He’d killed quite a few before he finally got to the safety of Checkov’s coven, but they hadn’t had weapons that he knew could hurt more than one race. Then again, they could have and he just didn’t know too. Dahlia sighed when it got brought up when Hoyt brought Ryan to the airport. She remembered when he had told her about it, he had barely got the word hunter out of his mouth and she sated freaking out. Fortunately enough, between him and Zach, they’d managed to calm her down enough so Hoyt could finish, but she was always so worried about it. Hoyt was like her little brother, and God help anyone who hurt him… and if he would have gotten captured… oh. Dahlia shook her head a bit, trying to keep the though out of her mind when she felt her wings starting to itch. She calmed enough to keep them from coming out and ruffling. Billie looked to Logan when he spoke and she felt Clary look over at them. So far neither of them had noticed anyone following Logan home, but Clary almost wondered if the one that she had found trying to break in when she was coming home with Dahlia from the shelter that day had been following Logan. They had been trying to get in their house, and Clary hadn’t seen them before. Luckily for her and Dahl though, Cole and Drake had been on their run and saw him too. Drake took care of it, and once Dahl and Cole got Clary to calm down, they woke Logan up and told him about the situation. Billie looked away from Logan once she heard Jo speak up. Her eyes had looked to her brother who she saw pinch the bridge of his nose and sigh. He didn’t comment, and that was concerning. Of course, Jo hadn’t kept the experience to herself, and had told Billie about it. She hadn’t told Alex either, in fact, since there hadn’t been a repeat incident, she hadn’t said anything to anyone. Billie had just made it very clear to Jo that if she felt she needed help to find her, and the two of them would take care of it. However, given the state of how Jo and Alex were right now, this wasn’t t time nor place to bring this up. Alex was not at all happy to hear what Jo had said, and had it not been for the fact that the graveyard had been brought up, he wouldn’t have reached out to her at all. He had rubbed her back a bit, but after a moment she moved away and he closed his eyes once he felt them go over black. She got pissed at him for not letting her fight all the time, and she had made him feel bad for leaving her with a couple of strangers and in a graveyard. Then he finds out she had kept a hunter following her from him and then moves away from him when he was trying to comfort her. Oh, he wasn’t a happy camper at all. In fact, had it not been so amusing that Billie had just yelled at herself, he likely wouldn’t have said anything at all or reacted. Billie kind of smiled at the fact these new people weren’t freaked out by her eye thing and she nodded a bit. “Never thought of it like that before, normally it makes people very uncomfortable.” She admitted and she looked at Kat and nodded. “Yeah, babe, [b]the[/b] Lucifer. He kind of took Alex and I in as his own. He’s really good to us too.” Alex nodded. “He’s just constantly busy, you know, having to deal with all the issues in hell and everything else.” It wasn’t long after that, Lia had offered them all to stay with them. It was a lot to consider, but they’d make a decision soon, as Alex had said. Once Clary yawned, Billie looked to Logan when he answered her and she gave a nod and a small smile. “Thanks babe.” Her hand found his and she gave it a gentle squeeze before Cole and Clary started heading out. She had given him a small nod to wanting to check the door she couldn’t say she blamed him, half the time she did when he wasn’t home yet and Clary wasn’t staying the night with Cole. “I got it Logan. See you guys.” Clary said, waving her hand to everyone before yawning again. Cole had taken her hand, but once they got outside, she stopped, hearing Rose and Joe jot far behind them with Hoyt. Clary looked to them and leaned against Cole as they walked. Joe had simply nodded to Rose and whispered to her, “Alright, you know you’re always welcome.” They had headed out with Hoyt not far behind them, and Joe put his arm around Rose as they walked. Dahlia had waved to Hoyt when he followed the others out and sighed. She noticed Zach pinch the bridge of his nose and she took his hand once he said the bit about it being like dealing with a teenager. She nodded to him when she asked if she wanted to stay the night. “Yeah, it gets lonely without Ryan around. I just need to check on Poppy real quick. I’d summon her, but you know how she gets.” She stood up and stretched a bit before waving to everyone. “Just be careful going home, okay?” she said to everyone as she and Zach left. Randa had kind of been off in her own little world once the conversation died out, and shook her head a bit when Garret spoke to her. “Yes, please.” She said, and she let him pull her up and to the door. Once they were out the door, she noted the other groups were already out of sight and she sighed a bit. She knew being around witches always put him on edge, understandably so, but now that they were out of the house and heading home, she hoped he’d finish calming down. Granted, sure, she was still trying to get over how they had been stared at. She hated being stared at herself, but the one who had been watching Garret after the new girls had announced themselves as witches had bothered her more. She only didn’t say anything because she didn’t feel like fighting anymore, she was mellowed out herself. “I vote we don’t get out of bed until noon tomorrow.” -- Back inside, just a few were left, and Billie looked over to Mitch when he asked his question. Logan had answered, and Alex looked over too. “He’s right. Garret won’t give you any issues like that. I should tell you though, I mean you’ll notice it, but if his girlfriend is in an off mood and someone says something to set her off… he tends to go off.” His eyes had traveled to Roland. “Just so you’re warned before hand if someone makes a dumbass comment.” “I won’t” Roland assured him. Drake smiled a bit at Tiffany when she came over to him and put her arms around him, she had asked him to stay the night and he nodded. “Of course, babe. I just have to stop home real quick and I’ll be over.” He looked to Sal, who was being helped by Willow, and he let them head out the door before he and Tiff followed. Alex was still sitting down when he saw Jo look back at him and he stood. He looked at Mitch and Lia and waved. “It was nice meeting you guys, and I’m sure we’ll see you soon.” He said and then he looked to Logan and Billie. “Be careful going home.” Billie nodded. “Yeah, yeah. You too.” She said and Alex headed out the door and walked with Jo. It had been quiet the entire walk. He had watched Willow and Sal head in, and when Tiff headed inside after Drake headed to their house to grab a few things, he looked to Jo. He had calmed down some, but he had things to say, and he couldn’t just stay quiet anymore. “Why didn’t you tell me?” he asked her, and her answer made him turn a little and click his tongue against his teeth. “For one thing Jo, no I wouldn’t have asked you to quit your job, and second, I’m your boyfriend, shouldn’t I have the right to walk you to work if someone’s been following you? I know, I can be overprotective, but fuck Jo, what if something would have happened?! Who would have known?!” She had told someone… Alex looked down and his tongue clicked against his teeth again. Who the fuck did she tell then? “Jo, I love you, I care about you. It’s why I get the way I do, and I know you know that. I know that it annoys you sometimes, but it’s not because I think you’re weak that I protect you. For the love of Lucifer, Jo. I know you’re mad at me for tonight, but a real good way to tell me you have been followed before. Thanks for pulling the wool over my eyes on that one.” He pinched the bridge of his nose before turning and walking away. He headed home, he needed to calm down before he said something he’d regret. He headed in as Drake headed out and he sat in the kitchen. He took out one of Billie’s bottles of vodka from the cabinet and poured some in a glass with some cranberry juice. He set his glasses on the counter and just sat there and drank. -- Sal looked over to Tiffany once he was situated on their couch. He searched for a second before finding her aura and giving a small nod. “I’m okay now. My head hurts a little, and my aura sense is still evening out a bit, but I’ll be back to normal by morning.” He sighed a bit, hearing a bit of the fight going on outside. “That’s not going to end well.” He said, frowning a bit. He heard the door open not long after, but it was Drake coming in and he felt some clothes in his lap. “Thank you, Drake.” Sal said. “No problem.” He said and he sat down next to Tiffany, “I say we sit here for a few minutes and then try the stairs. I’m really not wanting to deal with anymore right now.” He had gone back home to get Sal some clothes and to get the gift he had hid for Tiffany in Sal’s room. He’d give it to her before they fell asleep, after they had gotten upstairs. Truthfully, he was waiting for Jo to come in because Alex seemed pissed heading in and she was still outside when he got here. -- Once the last of their group left the cottage, Billie smiled a bit to Logan when he helped her up and they headed towards the door. “Thank you, again.” Lia said and Billie looked to her. “Really, it means a lot.” Billie shrugged, “Something tells me you’d have done the same.” She said, and she looked to Logan. “We’ll be in touch.” She said and once they were out of the cottage, she sighed. She was finally completely healed, but she felt nasty. “Babe, I hope you know the first thing I’m doing is taking a shower. I feel nasty.” She leaned her head against his shoulder as they walked and sighed. “You know, I don’t think it’s a half bad idea to take their offer.” She could feel him looking at her. “There is a certain safety to that cottage, especially with it being so out of the way. Plus a few more numbers, and they’re strong. It actually would make me less stressed out. Between half of us being followed as it is, and the other half probably being watched… I don’t like it. We got lucky that Drake happened by with that whole Clary thing, and that since I’ve started running with a partner that red head has kind of backed off.” That had been interesting. Billie had stayed with Logan one night and had gone on her morning run a little later than usual when she noticed a red head following her. She had managed to lose the girl in the park, but that night when they were hanging out with Garret and Randa, Garret had mentioned something about scaring a redhead off his trail. Since then she had been rotating running buddies. Normally she’d run with Drake and Cole, or Randa, or Logan would if she waited long enough. She shook the thought from her head. “I would tell Alex about it now, but I think Jo dropping that little bomb on him earlier, it might send him into a frenzy.” Once they got back to the block, Billie looked at all the houses and noticed everyone was inside and a few lights were on still, and she waited for Logan to check the lock to his and Clary’s house before she opened the front door to her own. She could hear the radio in the kitchen and she sighed a bit and wandered in ahead of Logan. She saw Alex, sitting in the kitchen, drinking vodka and cranberry juice. “Al, you alright?” she asked and Alex just waved his hand a bit. “You were right B, I shouldn’t be so overprotective of her. Keeps her from telling me shit.” He said. He was on his way to getting drunk and Billie sighed and took his glass away from him. “Cutting me off?” “Yes. Because you do stupid shit when you’re drunk and mad. Just chill, it’ll work out.” She said, and he cradled his head in his hands. “Yeah, yeah. We’ll see after this little fight.” He mumbled and Billie rolled her eyes. “Go turn on Bach or something, I’m going to go take a shower and I really don’t want to come back in here to find you drunk.” She said, and she walked over and kissed Logan’s cheek real quick before heading up the stairs and into the bathroom. -- The cottage had finally cleared out, and Lia stood at the door a moment, watching as the forms of Logan and Billie disappeared into the darkness before she turned and looked to her daughters. Aless had finally gotten up and headed into her bedroom, and Kat was still sitting there with Atticus. She let out a sigh and shook her head a little before her eyes went to a small notebook on the table near the door. She almost picked it up to start working on the wedding again, but she stopped herself. She walked over and rubbed Kat’s shoulders a bit before she saw Roland move out of the corner of her eye. “I’m going to work on some more wedding stuff in a bit, if you want to help.” She whispered before placing a kiss to the top of her head and heading towards the bedroom her and Mitch shared. She sighed a bit and sat in the chair they had and took off her shoes finally and looked up at the ceiling for a minute. There was still so much to do, and tonight’s hiccup put her back a little. She leaned forward a bit before she stood up and walked over to the mirror attached to their dresser and picked up a hair tie and pulled her hair up in a ponytail. “Okay, I’m at least going to get… I don’t even know what I’m going to get done tonight, but I’m getting at least one thing done.” She told herself before she looked over at the bed and sat on it. She had her dress picked out already, luckily, and Cass would be bringing it with her when she came next week, and they had decided on Elder Dana to officiate, so there was that. “Maybe we can figure out table settings?” she thought aloud, still not completely sure what else to do. Oh, and then there was the tiny detail she still needed to write her vows, but she could do that when she had some time alone in the morning. -- Rhi gave a soft sigh as Axel left, really glad he left it be after that and she looked to Eli when he asked if he wanted to know. “We grew up together.” She said, but she left it at that. Then they got on the topic of why she didn’t tell him about the bombs and she sighed. “I know, and I’m sorry, I guess I should have. I get a little all over the place when things like this happen.” Once Rhi changed shoes, she could feel herself walking at her normal pace again and it was much better than having to creep around everything here and try not to kill herself. She had poise in heels, but not in all the wreckage that there was here. She nodded to the werewolf thing and sighed, “At least it wasn’t one of those zombies that I keep seeing.” She mumbled and when he asked about the bombs she looked at him. “There are, but I always use a fuse. Granted yes, the wait time tends to be longer but they are by far safer and have a better time accuracy. With powder, it’s caused by the chemical reaction between the ignition agent and the powder already inside the bomb. Sometimes the explosion happens within seconds, other times it takes longer for the reaction to occur. Then you have to consider how much powder was used. If you use too much, you can level an entire city block with a bomb the size of the sole of a shoe, but if you don’t use enough,” she pointed around to the building, “It doesn’t explode properly and tends to only blow up a fifty to hundred foot radius. However, in buildings, you can get away with being stupid and not using enough because the building will topple over itself. Honestly, that bomb should have leveled the place without the se on even needing to be planted.” When they got to the body and she examined and shot it, she didn’t hear Eli and the girl talking. When Eli answered her she nodded. “Sure. I’m kind of curious myself to see who was gotten on the hit list.” She said before she shot the body again and put her gun away. Then Eli introduced the girl as Tara and she nodded. She had heard a few things about her, and she smiled and shook her hand. “Thanks, I don’t leave home without it.” She kind of chuckled at the dress comment before she looked over at Eli and saw him moving a little. “Nice to meet you too.” When she said that she didn’t know who Kyp was she chuckled, “Trust me, he’s hard to miss!” she called to her and then looked back at Eli as they started heading off. “She doesn’t seem as bad as he said, but maybe that’s because I just met her. I like her though.” She said, and as they started getting to some bodies, she looked them over. She let out an irritated sigh and nodded. “I hate when things work like that, but they were heavy hitters, so it actually doesn’t surprise me that they aren’t here. Wish they were, not surprised that they’re not. If the recruits had thought to work together once they figured out who the others were, they could have brought down a couple.” She said, and she got to a body and gave it an odd look. “We got alpha wolf though.” She moved on to the next body before seeing the corpse of one of the zombie hunters there and her face turned. “Still will not get over whatever the hell it is that Death Witch does.” She mumbled to herself, staring at the corpse as she bent down near the next body. -- Kyp sighed as he headed up to the ward where Taylor was set up and sighed a bit. There were a lot of wounded, but there were even more dead. He scanned the ward a bit before he spotted Taylor looking at Charlotte and Kenny. He got over to them as a small girl with blonde hair approached Taylor and said she was looking for him. “Hi there,” he said, looking down to her when he approached. “I’m Kyp, so I’m guessing you have been assigned to help Charlotte and I do body count? And Emmett, wherever he went.” Kyp shot a look to Charlotte before speaking, “Mind finding Emmett and then we can get this done?” he asked and then he looked back to Tara. “Sorry, I didn’t catch your name. I’m assuming you wouldn’t answer to tiny lady though.” He said, giving half a laugh as he looking at the notebook in his hand that one of the recruits had handed him from when Rhi was walking about. He shook his head. This was going to be a fun body count, that was for sure. He already saw dumbass with a number next to it seven times. “Don’t mind the notation on this, Rhi is not a very happy person when she gets pulled off of recon and has to go back.” He said, handing the notebook to Tara.