After watching John drive away with Ylva, she went back to the SUV figuring she could just have Twombly drive to Luciel's place as she really wasn't in the mood to drive after the excitement of what just happened. "Alrighty, Twombly you're going to have to drive," she said as she opened the back door, only for a Twombluciel-pile to drop rather unceremoniously onto the ground, "Oh... uh... what exactly is going on here?" As she questioned the two males, she looked down at them, finding their scramble to untangle themselves from one another rather amusing in and of itself.
"I wasn't aware you swung both ways Tommy-boy, why wouldn't you tell me something so important? Or is it that Luciel here is the only acception considering he can easily pass for a female if need be?" Aeron pressed, stepping back a bit as she crossed her arms over her chest, one ear perked up while the other tilted off to the side.
"Actually, hugging him is quite theraputic and a great way to calm down." Twombly replied, picking-up the jackalope by the armpits and presenting it to the jackal, "Here, you try."
"I'm pretty sure Luciel doesn't want to be manhandled like that," Aeron stated, a small smile tugging at the corner of her lips for a brief moment before she simply shook her head, "I would like you to drive us to Luciel's apartment, we have some things we need to take care of while we are there and I'm pretty sure there are a couple things he would want to grab before I move him into one of the rooms at my home." Considering the Jackalope was already presented to her, and the Jackal had a really hard time saying no to anything adorable and fluffy, she let out a sigh and gave Luciel a hug, despite the fact that Twombly was holding him out for presentation.
Having not expected the door to open so suddenly, Luciel's foot dropped, throwing him off balance and resulting in dragging Twombly out the door with him. His first thought was of adjusting to the light to find John staring him down, though Aeron's voice convinced him otherwise. The second thought was a curiosity if he had broken anything from falling out of the SUV and having Twombly practically land on him. "It's- ngh... not what it looks like, Twombly-" he began to explain before the wolf spoke, explaining matters rather coldly though the jackalope was quickly distracted by being lifted off his feet.
"T-Twombly!" Luciel barked, ears folding back as he squirmed. "Put me down, this instant!" he continued, about to start prying at Twombly's hands before he found Aeron's arms around him. With a tiny growl of annoyance, he sighed and returned the hug since he had a hard time saying 'no' to her. After a moment, Luciel looked back at the wolf. "While you are at it, could you help me back into the car?" he asked with a slightly raised eyebrow.
"Well, since you two are asking nicely." Twombly observed with amusement, knowing that Luciel was still fully capable of standing up and limping the nine inches back into the SUV, he even knew that though the Jackalope wasn't ever going to admit it, probably was enjoying the attention. He picked him up, this time cradling him with a bit more support as he eased their guest back into the rear passenger seat. After he made sure he was buckled-in properly, he went over to the driver's seat and had his seat. All this provided plenty of time for Aeron to hop into the passenger-side front seat.
While his request to be helped back into the car hadn't included being picked up, the jackalope had to appreciate Twombly's strength. Luciel could have picked himself up and climbed back into the vehicle, though he shamefully enjoyed the attention, leaving him slightly conflicted with what he really wanted out of the request. Regardless, he shrugged off the situation with a small 'hrmph' as Twombly made the extra effort to buckle him in. The gesture was responded to with a lifted eyebrow to soften his very uncharacteristically cold glare that came with a flick of an ear. "Yeh, thanks" he chirped, the tone expertly forced to mirror the grateful expression he wore, night to day in contrast to the previous scowl.
With Aeron climbing into the seat next to him, they were off. As much as Luciel would have liked to recline, the initial shock of the crash was subsiding and relaxing had eased the sting of fresh injury to a dull ache. After a series of instructions on how to get to the apartment complex, the jackalope fell silent and gave no instructions to stop as he looked out the window at the two black cars parked outside as well as three people waiting around the entrance. The neighborhood was good enough to the point where the sight of the small collection of people concerned him...especially how one of them poorly hid a revolver on their hip.
"Pull up around the corner, I was not expecting company..." he mused with mild authority as he watched the people while they drove past. Ears perked for a moment as Luciel looked back to Twombly before politely correcting himself, "No offense, of course. If it were any other day I would...just love to entertain guests" and his voice gradually softened to an annoyed growl as he drew 'sandcastle' and began fixing the silencer to the end. It had miraculously remained undamaged, and the gesture was to quietly impress that he wasn't the best at 'entertaining guests' in the conventional sense.
Twombly pulled around the corner as instructed, and drove up a further way around the next corner before borrowing someone else's driveway. He also raised an eyebrow when he saw the glint of dark parkerized steel from Luciel's Sandcastle, and resisted the urge to hug the Jackalope once again; finally, a sidearm that wasn't chrome. The raised curiosity was also due to concern of whether or not Luciel would be able to handle the three plus up to five or seven more inside in his condition.
Patting his leg-holster as he got out of his seat, he quickly checked to make sure his custom-krinkov had its own silencer, and the gas-port adjusted to cope such an attachment. "Hope you don't mind if I play with them first for a bit." He had a slightly wicked grin on his face, since he knew John wasn't anywhere nearby, he had no reason to play nice with these perfect strangers. Besides, it helped to get word on why people wanted Luciel dead, directly from those trying to kill him.
He approached them in a bit of a cavalier manner, with his signature sidearm remaining quite visible on his hip as he greeted Luciel's house-guests by tipping his hat. "Morning fellas. Waiting for a lift to the bar, too?" He then gave a curious glance the lookout with his revolver very poorly concealed in his waistline, "Eh, didn't I see you flirting with that Kaite-girl last night?"
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