[hr][hr][center][h1][b][i][color=orangered]Caesar Gonzalez[/color][/i][/b][/h1]
[img]http://cdn.movieweb.com/img.news.tops/NEvyrxPbk7zLyD_2_b/Inmate-Number-1-Movie-Danny-Trejo-Documentary.jpg[/img][hr][b] [color=orangered]Location:[/color][/b] La Hacienda [hr][hr][/center]

	So much for not reacting. If Natasha wanted to leave the gathering early, Caesar wasn't going to stop her. Unfortunately, if she [i]was[/i] an innocent, her mere presence here would put her under scrutiny by the wrong people. It didn't matter to Caesar, seemed to always attract the wrong people, and the damage was done with Cecily, which is why she had been receiving the ongoing protection of himself or his employee, a particularly large British man who Caesar needed to punch very, very hard out of general principle. 

	[color=orangered]"Talking privately was for your [i]protection[/i], Doctor,"[/color] began Caesar, barely raising the volume of his voice. [color=orangered]"We don't know each other very well. If I wanted to intimidate you, I would have said what I did in front of Maria. Or Thalia. Or half of the people in the courtyard. But I do need to apologize. Allowing you to come here might have put you on Juno's radar if you weren't already."[/color] That last part was a little sobering for the venerable Mexican. If Natasha was uninvolved, the fact that she accompanied him to his family's home in Mexico would paint an interesting picture for the opposition. 

 	Regardless of personal insult, Caesar did not get angry. It was in his nature to react to insult, but not solely from basic, grade-school level name calling. Much more had happened to him in a lifetime of horrible things for something as trite as that to provoke his ire. She did have a point, though. [color=orangered]"You are right about one thing. I [i]am[/i] a bastard. And I have more direct methods of getting information from people than having a polite conversation. I know what I know because my company is pursuing their own investigation into a series of related murders, one of which is M'hija. Your boss is involved. Your hospital is a crime scene. I will ask questions about people who are near that, and are then near my family. And my people keep me informed."[/color] 

	Switching direction, Caesar offered, [color=orangered]"I would prefer it if you did not, but if you insist on leaving, I can have someone drive you. The cabbies here will rob someone like you blind."[/color] 

	[i]Meanwhile, in the courtyard...[/i]

	"Oh, there you are!" This from Thalia, just locating Cecily's quiet nook away from the press of friends and family members. "Hey, they're about to start passing around food, if you're hungry, girl." Of course, she didn't really look like she found an unattended corner someplace because she wanted to have a lot of company. "Hey, you came down here, you saw a few people, you paid respects. This is going to keep going for a long time. There's no shame if you want to get back up to your rooms. I'll go with, if it makes you feel any better."