Benjamin returned the hug and gently stroke her hair. Some blood from her wrist and droplets that fell from her head landed on his clothes, but that was the last of his worries. Steph had come back to him. He held her tight. There were several things he wanted to say, but Mike's words kept him from doing that. [i]Don't make this about you[/i]
"Steph, shall we ask for a new room for you? Or would you like to stay at mine?"

Mike relaxed a bit when Harriet showed her usual gentle smile and didn't talk about violence anymore. He nodded when she mentioned giving the culprits an earful of her mind. He didn't mind how much she would scold them, but the implications of before were something he didn't want to be a part of. 
"I don't really have any plans for the night," he said. "You?"

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With a gesture of his hand, agent Morisson allowed Jase to take the lead. He certainly didn't mind to be on first-name basis with Jase, but he did wonder what his regular partner would think of all this. He was less accepting of all those beasts and unknown creatures, and it was part of the reason they were able to hunt so well together. Vampires, werewolves, demons, they had hunted them all, but vampires were their speciality.