Julian kept hitting at the punching bags until he finally felt himself calm down the rest of the way. The weird thing was, he wasn't sure if the rage was pulled from him or if he had actually finished calming down on his own, all he knew was that the calm felt weird. He could feel eyes on him after he threw his last punch and he turned to see Samantha there with a few trays. He approached her after taking a deep breath and took two of the trays from her. "Thank you." he said, trying his hardest not to let the anger come over him again. "Bringing Aren his too? From what I heard, he's still in a meeting with a student that came in today." he said. He waited only a moment for Samantha to start walking before falling in step with her. All he had hoped for at this point was that it wasn't Tony he was meeting with at present because there was no way he'd be able to handle that one. The Goodsons weren't known for being good. Sure there were the two children that disowned Tony and their father, Clyde, but the name was carried by Tony and Clyde. Julian knew Warren fairly well, but the girl, Jenna, he had only heard of in passing. He knew Tony had adored the girl when they were younger from what he could tell, but whenever she was brought up now, he seemed bitter to the fact she existed even. It was one of the things that had at least made him bearable at one point in time, but it seemed to have been ruined before he left too. He looked over to Samantha as they approached Aren's office. "Has DeAndro found you with the latest 'new' student file?" he asked her. Now that he was thinking about it, he was curious. -- Miles was drawn into his own thoughts. How could Michael actually do this? There was no way he didn't know that she was here. Unless that was the point, to hit him in the face with his own failure. He sighed, not realizing he was picking at his food until a voice came. He looked up and saw the girl he had mistaken for Professor Kane. He smiled a little and motioned to the seat. "No at all." he said. "Is it always so... chaotic?" he asked her. He thought she would be a good person to ask as she had been at the school for a while. His eyes jolted up when he heard commotion from a table where a blonde girl was talking to a brunette guy, and he did not seem happy at all. Once things fizzled out he asked, "Do I even want to know what all the commotion is over?" -- Ryan nodded a bit. "I avoided it too, I try to keep myself out of trouble, and the less problems I'm involved in, the better. Especially since my brothers aren't here anymore." She said. When the gossip started filling up the space around them, she sighed a bit and shook her head. "I don't know him personally, but my brothers said he was a reasonable guy. I just feel bad about the whole thing because now they're being put on blast when it's not really worth it, y'know? This is why I'm glad that I can just skate by without being noticed for the most part. I only get noticed when I want to be anymore. Safer that way." She smiled when she saw Clary at a table, waving, and she waved back to let her know she saw her and waited in line. The sight of seeing Jackie and the shifter leader was one she didn't expect and Ryan frowned a little. "I really hate the drama. I hoped to get away from it when I graduated human high school, but I guess drama is just amplified with being supernatural." -- Billie was more than glad to get back to her room and away from the cafeteria. The talk only bothered her so much because she knew Colten quite well, and while she didn't really know the shifter leader, she had never heard a bad word on him. Colten even mentioned they were good friends. Plus problems with the shifters were almost unheard of because their numbers, much like the dragons, outweighed even her groups. She kind of chuckled at Tiffany's comment about decorating. "Eh, I'm not personally into all of that, but there are some who are. I prefer clean over decor personally. Hence that slight bleach smell that lingers." It was a good way to break the ice, but she could sense something in Tiffany that felt uncomfortable. Then it came. The offer of an alliance. "Alliance?" Billie repeated. She didn't dare interrupt Tiffany while she spoke. She may not have known much about the fae, but she also knew how hard it was to let pride get set aside. She was a proud creature herself and barely asked for help, and while this wasn't a direct ask, it was in a sense. She nodded. "Done." Billie moved her food away from her after she had eaten about half of it and lit a cigarette and waved her hand to let the window open itself and she moved herself to smoke by it. "Sorry, trying to take into consideration not everyone is okay with the smoking thing, hence why I'm at the window." she said. "But as for an alliance, it's a good step for both of us to take at this point. I do apologize for what has happened for it to come this though." She looked down and sighed. "For the record, I tried very hard to reason my group's way out of this feud, but Jackie does not adhere to reason. It's part of why whenever there is fighting, actual fighting, for this feud, it's typically not demons that start it. I am still trying to prove that I want this handled sensibly, but it's past that point now." She took a long drag and blew her smoke out the window. "One of my rules for my group is don't start the fight, but if it comes to you, finish it." she said, and she looked to Tiffany. "Granted, the vampires that tend to start shit fight dirty, and demons, while we could, try not to. I say [i]try[/i] because there are times it is unavoidable." She studied Tiffany's face. "I only ask one thing of this alliance. There are some vampires that aren't bad and I don't want them involved if we can avoid it. I don't care about fights, your group will have mine at their backs if it ever ends up needed, but there are some that I don't want dragged into it." -- Ez looked at Erin and chuckled. "That would be Cole. Drake kind of adopted her as a sister, and she's a sweet girl. A lot of people don't realize how much shit they'd be in if that girl wasn't a pacifist." she chuckled. She shook her head at Erin's reaction to Maggie telling them that Billie and Devin had dated, but couldn't help but to agree with it. It was disgusting and Billie could have had anyone she wanted. "Like I said, ask Randa. You know they tell each other basically everything. Even if they didn't, Randa would still somehow know. It's creepy, but she does always somehow know." she laughed. She sighed when Erin said that. "Honestly, I didn't expect Billie to stop him. Honestly Alex killing Devin would have solved so many problems, and when Randa was telling me why she stopped it. I mean it made sense, she didn't want to see Alex get kicked out of the school, but at the same time they have a lot more pull than most and might not have even. Considering Lucifer oversees for them." "Yeah, when I called Billie to check in right after it happened, she sounded like she regretted not allowing him to." Ez sighed. "I'm honestly surprised Billie didn't kill him." "For as old as she is, I guess she doesn't have a body count yet." Maggie said and Ez looked at her surprised. "Yeah, Randa let that one slip when we were drinking. Billie has never actually killed anyone yet. Something in her always stops her, and plus she said Devin wasn't worth being her first kill." "That's fair though." Ez laughed. They all began eating and Ez nodded to Erin's notion. "I missed it too, being surrounded by all of my siblings is always great, but I need a break from it all." Randa slipped into a spot at their table and before she could say anything she saw the commotion over at the table she just left and she shook her head. "Well shit, I should have sat there longer." "Is everything okay?" Maggie asked. Randa raised a brow. "With Abs? Yeah. Kajun is cool as fuck from what he and Drake have told me. Plus from what I just saw. And he earns brownie points for putting bitchpire in her place." she laughed and she finally looked to Erin. "Hello beautiful, I swear next time you and your brother leave, Maggie and I are coming with you. I lost what little I had left of my mind without you two." Ez gave a look. "That bad?" "I mean, I got bored enough to be around to witness a great many of fights. Only actually got involved once, and the reaming I got from Harlow was awful, but hey a month's worth of detention was pretty worth the exchange. And Glenn punches like a bitch by the way. I've met literal children that could hit harder." she laughed. "He hit you?" Ez asked. "Story for when so many ears aren't around." she said with a wink. -- Drake chuckled a bit at Kajun's question. "Ez? That's the leader I've been telling you about. Things at home are finally stable enough for her to stay here full time. If you want, I could introduce you too sometime." he said before heading off. Colten nodded a little. "Alright, still figured I would offer." he said. He was glad to see the others come to the table not long after, and he answered them when they asked him questions, honestly just glad for the normal banter to be brought up. Then Jackie came over, and Colten didn't even fully expect for things to go the way they did. He wanted to be angry too, but he couldn't be. He was still in an eerily calm stat and he noticed Ravenwood come in just as Jackie huffed herself back to her table with the girl he and Randa had run into in the hallway. He got up. "I'll be right back, anyone want anything while I'm up?" he asked. A few of them said no, but he did have one of the newer, more timid shifters ask for something and he nodded. He was glad he managed to get in line behind the girl and Ravenwood. Once their conversation paused, he gently tapped her shoulder. "Holy shit, you're way bigger than I actually thought you were." she laughed. "Sorry, sorry. What's up?" "I'm... What is your name?" he asked. "Oh right, I did kind of just ditch you and that girl in the hall. I'm Azura. Also, that eerie calm will wear off in an hour or two." She said. "Now, what is your name?" "Uh... right, Colten. What did you do?" he asked and she laughed again. He saw her look up to Ravenwood. "You know I live to confuse people, this year is gonna be fun." she said. "I pulled your rage from you. I have that gift. Plus, helps that it was righteous rage, that always feels better to feed off of." He just gave a nod and saw her smile and go back to talking to Ravenwood. He got what the shifter has asked for and brought it back to them before patting Kajun's shoulder. "I'm gonna go find Brooke now. Thanks man." -- Azura smiled at Cian when he said he was glad and at his sigh, her expression changed. "That bad already? I came at a good time then. I heard some shit about how things were going here and aside from needing to get away from Hell, my dad thought it would be good if I were to come here. He and Mark Martin I guess had talks about my particular talents and how they seem necessary now. Just from what I've seen, I don't disagree." She shook her head and sighed. "Better than Hell at present though. My dad and my aunts and uncles barely know what's going on. I was supposed to bring someone with me, but with the state of things here, its best they backed out last minute. I don't need this place breaking him." She chuckled. "Thanks. Sounds lovely. And needed a changed, and Aren swore that my roommate wouldn't be affected by me. I had doubts until he told me that they were a giant. I didn't realize giants even existed in this realm, much less interacted with the lot of creatures." she said. When they got into the cafeteria she could sense the tension dying out, but she could still pinpoint its origins. She shook her head. "Looks like we missed something good here not long ago." she said. Soon the boy she had pulled rage from first was behind her and she smiled and answered his questions before seeing him head off. "I forget that not many encounter creatures that can pull literal emotions, much less rage." Once they got their lunch, Azura smiled seeing Erin with a group of girls at a table, but she wasn't ready to make herself known to her yet. "So, your office? I'll get antsy in here with the lingering tension." she asked. -- Reg smiled a bit and shook his head. "Well, glad to see you made it." He looked to the pile again, "I've had it added to at least three times just today. I've been ignoring it solely because it can usually wait until after classes." He chuckled at Kingsley's antics a bit before Kingsley finally shifted into human form. "I told you that guy smelled weird." Kingsley said, off-handed. "DeAndro I'm assuming. I don't care for him, plus from what the other teachers have told me about him, I'm not impressed. He seems somehow familiar to me, but I can't place him." Reg said, but shrugged again. "I still get lost here too. I rely a lot on Kingsley to be honest. He navigates here very well." "I spent all summer exploring, what do you expect?" he asked. "Plus, still trying to decide if I want to take a few classes or not." Reg motioned for Knox to sit down. "If you want, you are more than welcomed to sit in on my next class while you wait too. Aren has been extremely busy today with these meetings and I doubt he will get out of this one quickly from what I understand. I poked my head in this morning and he had a stacked plate." Kingsley sighed. "I still want to know what this whole feud thing is that I've been hearing about." "Been eavesdropping I see." Reg said, and Kingsley shrugged. "My skills have helped before." he laughed. He looked to Knox. "You hungry? Now that I'm up, I'll go get us all lunch."