Tobias arched a brow, trying not to show any fear or discomfort after Pace revealed himself. He lifted a hand and straightened his glasses, brow furrowing. "The Society would probably avoid you." He said. Nora looked less convinced.<br/><br/>"As long as you don't fuck with them, they wouldn't fuck with you. They pick their targets. That's why we had a difference of opinion." She walked over to stand next to Tobias and put her hands on his shoulders. "Tobias aims to change the system, and I'm the sort that would prefer to see it burn." She knew that her anger toward Tobias was misplaced. Despite his nature, he truly did seem to love her sister and he kept the darkness at bay well enough in the last few years. And Sera loved him. Nora could not exactly hate someone Sera loved. Her sister was much more forgiving than she was, but she was also a decent judge of character.<br/><br/>"I kill monsters." The wors were stated more as a passing fact than anything weighty. To Nora, monsters were creatures like the thing that killed Will, or like the creature who had tricked Tobias' mother into thinking her husband had survived a fight with a demon and come back to her, just to ensure he was able to bring his child into this world. Humans could be monsters just as easily too, the sort that preyed on the weak and the young. Nora did not typically hunt those sort, but she had no mercy for them either.<br/><br/>"My bed is another matter altogether." The smirk blossomed back on her lips and Tobias shook his head.<br/><br/>The man in the glasses went to a computer, gesturing for Nora to take a look at the tag the item had been marked with. "35694."<br/><br/>His gaze narrowed and he arched a brow. "Hmm. The person that purchased it claimed they thought it held the entity that was inside it, but...If that were the case, they would have been foolish to store it here. We have higher security storage with much better wards." Tobias looked at Nora and his lips pursed, a clear sign of frustration. "Nevermind. Lucian Blackthorne was the one to barter for this piece and the fact that he signed all the paperwork and called it a day isn't surprising."<br/><br/>Nora remembered the name. Lucian's father, Nathaniel, used to run the European arm of the Society until Tobias' mother managed to show him for the power-hungry dick that he was. From the way Sera told it, they had kept Lucian around as a mercy to him, he lacked other real-world skills.<br/><br/>"So he knew that mother fucker was free and he still claimed you all did your job and caught the bad guy?"<br/><br/>"It would seem that way. Yes." Tobias nodded, and turned to Pace. "Which means I have a long night ahead of me looking into all the other missions he claims he 'completed.' As enticing as your offer sounds, I'm afraid I'm swamped and I don't think my fiancee would take kindly to such a thing...Nor would your...date."<br/><br/>Nora arched a brow at Pace, but she got the sense the offer wasn't a joke. If she had made a list of people she wanted to sleep with, Tobias' name would likely be at the very bottom, so she was glad he answered before she had a chance to.<br/><br/>"Sera's helping with the binding," Nora confessed, which drew a scowl from Tobias. He had no doubt read what was in the file on the creature that inhabited the necklace.<br/><br/>"Then I supposed I will have to make sure that Lucian completed his work later. I'll call her and let her know she's needed." Tobias gestured for them to leave the storage room and Nora did not wait to be told twice, she took Pace's hand and led him out of the room.<br/><br/>"We should probably make up a plan in the future, decide in advance who's going to pick on poor Tobias?" They had both laid it on a bit thick. Her eyes met Pace's, and for a moment the supernatural glint in his eyes called back to moments she ahd shared with Will. This was the issue, wasn't it? She actually liked this guy. She was supposed to be serving penance and instead she was on a date that had turned into an adventure. She looked away and tried to brush it all off. "And now you know my whole sob story. You'll have to tell me yours some time, so we're even..."