Zoruna<br/><br/>Chris looked at Aki and then to Vince. He didn't want to leave the room but nor did he want to be here when all hell broke loose. He nodded his head. "I'll call him. I'll go pick up the stuff for Vince on the way." He headed past Brivariith and even when the man just glanced his way his eyes flashed and he hissed violently at him before flitting off to go do that thing.<br/><br/>Brivariith just blinked and even angry he didn't growl at Chris when he hissed violently at him. Just blinking and then the guy was gone. Looking at Aki and narrowed his eyes at the man. "Oh?" He said with a growl. He had those thoughts but at the same time hadn't really been thinking about doing it. His claws came out as his hands turned to fists. At the moment just loose fists but he merely nodded his head and muttered something hostile in Drakken that wouldn't be easily understood by Aki as he hadn't taught him much about the Drakken language. Just enough to get by. The words he used were slang. His claws soon began digging into his palms as Aki continued to talk. Growls leaving his throat but it was only through his respect and love for Aki that he did not leave and go kick Chris's ass. His eyes stayed narrowed and the hostile sounds in his throat still kept emitting. His fingers clenching and unclenching. He needed to burn off some steam but his love for Aki as his remaining family kept him right where he was for the moment. His Drakken was growling and letting out snake like hisses though in his mind. He was trying to ignore him. He lifted his gaze slowly and stared at Aki with glowing black eyes. His whole eye black not just the iris's. He had a bit of smoke coming through the sides of his mouth as he fought what his real urge was which was to hurt Chris. Possibly kill him. If he didn't care about his only remaining family like he did....they'd be fighting right now. Oh...but his resolve was highly tested. "Then we may end up fighting Akihiko. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow. Yet you know as well as I do that the Drakken is much more volatile and hostile towards betrayal then a dragon." He said with gritted teeth. "I think it best that after Elizabeth wakes I take off for awhile. To cool off to not do something I will regret later. You mean enough to me that I am fighting my nature. I am fighting what the Drakken wants to do. I do not wish to drag a wedge between us but if I stay then we will fight and I will drag a wedge between us. Not intentionally." His claws dug into his palms causing blood to drip drop onto the floor. "It is my love for you Akihiko...for the last of my family....that keeps me where I am right now but it is a downhill spiral. I give you my word though that I will not touch a hair on Chris's head. In order to do that...I must take leave of you and everyone else for awhile." He said. His voice coming out in rumbling growls.<br/><br/>Vince whimpered as the tension filled the air. He didn't like the tension. His mind didn't register or even take focus on the words being said. His right hand moved from hugging onto Aki's chest. The palm pressing into Aki. "Too tense..." he said softly. Partialy Aki was unintentionally holding onto him a bit tighter with how tense he had gotten. He nuzzled Aki and went back into a deep sleep again. The warmth helped the pain stay numb even greater than the medication did. together he barely noticed any pain.<br/><br/><br/>Tenshi<br/><br/>Aki's eyes narrowed on Brivariith, "If I need to fight you to help you let off steam I will. To prove what Chris means to me I will. But do not misunderstand me when I say that I will fight you for him that I do not love you. And that I do, but I will not have you two tearing into each others throats over ME... Thank you for restraining yourself..." Aki paused and made himself relax for Vince. Aki sighed and leaned back in his chair, shifting Vince in his arms a little. Aki looked down at his desk and whispered, "Even if I'm not worth it..." He closed his eyes and just sat there listening to everyone breathe.<br/><br/>Elizabeth mumbled a little and pulled the covers tighter, making them move off of her feet. She grumbled and curled up tighter to get the covers back on her feet. She shifted and her skin cracked a little, unnoticed by all.<br/><br/><br/>Zoruna<br/><br/>Brivariith moved a bleeding palm to his face. The somewhat black blood getting on his face. "No. If I wished to fight you I'd have intentionally walked out. A fight between us near Vince would upset him. He really hates it when friends fight. Knowing him as I'd do he would try to stop us from fighting. Literally stop us even if it meant getting hurt in the process. He has done it before. With his three quarters blood friend and an arch demon. Arch demon recoiled on fire some when Vince's wings came out. His friend that is three quarters...vampire or human...don't remember really. The point is he doesn't remember that but I had just come around the corner when it happened." He sighed a bit even though his hand didn't move from his face. "Vince has gotten himself black and blue to keep friends that he holds dear from fighting. I am not sure what his thinking is just that he does it. Yes we are dragons and we have territorial fights but we are also Vince's friends. I would rather not have him react horribly and possibly break down crying like the time Chris and I got into it a few years ago." He lowered his hand ever though it left a smear of blood down his face. "I know you do not wish to have that happen either." He growled a bit. He understood what Aki was saying but at the same time hearing that Aki did and did not love him angered him. Not because it really angered him but because Aki was all he really had left when it came to kin. Everyone else was dead. He forced himself to calm. "I just gave you my word that there would be no tearing at each others throats. Want me to sign it in blood Akihiko? Because I will if it makes you happy." He snapped a bit but the voice that talked was the Drakken and not his own. He pushed his Drakken back again. It hurt to do it but he did. "Akihiko...if you were not worth it...then I would not be restraining myself. I would not care that he clearly means so much to you. More than I had realized. The fact that you are willing to fight your own kin to prove what you say just proves it clearly." He looked to Elizabeth as he heard her grumbling. He looked back to Aki. "You are worth it Akihiko...just because a few idiots say otherwise doesn't make it true. If you weren't...do you really think I'd even be able to slightly control my Drakken? Knowing what you know about my bloodline...do you really think I'd have any control for someone who wasn't worth it?"<br/><br/>Vince nuzzled Aki again and his hand fisted but stayed resting on Aki's chest. "I need to go underground Akihiko...for a little while. You have my word that I will be back. Yet when I am back...there will be no tension. I will have brought myself to a reluctant acceptance. My must find my center Akihiko...and to do that I must leave behind anything and everything I hold dear." He closed his eyes and wiped the blood off his face. "Take care of them both Akihiko. I may not really accept or like and honestly it pisses me off to the extreme this thing with you and Chris but...when I come back..I will have come to terms with it." He fell silent after that but his eyes were still a glowing black.<br/><br/><br/>Tenshi<br/><br/>Aki stood slowly and placed Vince down in his chair, removing Vince's grip from him. He walked over to Brivariith and stood in front of him. He hugged him and wrapped his wings around Brivariith as well. He let out a small, innocent growl and nuzzled under Brivariith's chin. "We can always just go to the gym and tell Vince we need to work out, leave him with Chris and Elizabeth for a talk and go throw some punches you know... I understand you feel you need to do this on your own but... I don't want you to leave me again..." Aki's tail came out, ripping his pants a little, and wrapped around one of Brivariith's ankles. He let out a small keening noise, "Please don't leave me after I just found you again... I'm sorry I'm being this hard about Chris, but I don't want there to be a bigger rift between the two of you or for one of you to kill the other..."<br/><br/><br/>Zoruna<br/><br/>Brivariith watched Aki suddenly hug him and let out an initial growl then laid his head on Aki's hair. He felt the wings wrap around him. His teeth nipped Aki's cheek but didn't draw blood. His Drakken both pleased and displeased with the familial comfort. He pulled back to listen to the innocent growl and feel the nuzzling under his chin. His hands moved and jerked Aki in tighter. His claws cutting into Aki's flesh but that was merely unintentional. He was combating with his other half. He growled as Aki spoke but it wasn't filled with venom. It was just growling because of his inner turmoil and how tense he was. He looked down at him and his words though took a moment to register. He didn't say anything when Aki said he didn't want him to leave him again. He felt Aki's tail warp around his ankle. The human in him wanted to just hug Aki back and calm down. The Drakken was like hell no. Not happening. The keening noise brought him somewhat to his senses. Just a bit. He sighed and let out a frustrated growl. Throwing his head back against the wall to make his Drakken shut up. He looked at Aki and didn't say anything to Aki for a good long moment. His claws still digging into Aki's flesh some. "I could kill you Akihiko and then I would have no purpose for living...yet I would at the same time. It would not be the same. If I killed you...I would in essence kill apart of myself." He said with a bit of switching back and forth between his voice and the Drakken's. He loosened his hold to keep from hurting Aki further. "You are really not wanting me to go that badly...that you'd lie to him. Not a bad lie but a white lie." He said softly. Looking at Aki. "Very uncharacteristic of you." He fell silent for another long moment. "I don't want to leave you again but neither do I want to hurt you or Elizabeth or Vince. In the way back of my mind I don't want to hurt Chris because we are friends...most of the time. Yet my Drakken...he wants blood Akihiko. He wants lots of it." He crushed his cousin to him and breathed in his cousin's scent trying to still the raging chaos within his mind. "We could do that....go fight in the gym. You better own it because it'll be falling apart by the time we are through." He hesitated for a moment. "I do not really wish to leave you but I must find my center. You know it is hard for the black rage to circle around into a circle of peace. My Drakken is thrashing around wildly in my head. I am quite certain if he could attack me then he very much would until I was bleeding profusely." He looked over to Vince. "I know there is a rift between Chris and I. It started when he wanted to be your guardian. When he would not back down and challenged me for the right to do so. He put up a good fight. He healed quickly from it because any blood he drew from me he used as a source to speed up healing. I could've killed him then but he didn't back down. We dragon types...we can be territorial but we are evenly matched by a determined vampire." He lowered his head to Aki's hair. "For you...I will try to accept this...without leaving. Akihiko...you are all that I have left of my family. There is no one else. I have Elizabeth yes but...it isn't the same thing as the hole that would be there if I lost you over a rift and disagreement between Chris and I." He growled a bit and sighed. "I know of his importance to you now. We shall go and "work out" but we may have to do it numerous times in a week before that black rage fizzles out within the Drakken. Yet I will do no harm to Chris. I gave you my word and I always keep it." His claws dug into Aki a bit more. "Shall we train later tonight?" He said with a heated growl from the Drakken within.> Vince protested profusely in his sleep about being detached from Aki. Once set in  the chair he curled up into a small tight ball much light a cat. His hair falling and shrouding his face as he laid there like that. Completely unaware of what was going on outside the dream he was having about the day his parents took him overseas to go to Disney World.<br/><br/>Chris arrived at the apartment and used his phone to call up Aki's contact with the police. As he listened to it ring he searched for the medication. Snatching the evidence medication from the protesting police man. Hissing violently when he pointed his gun at him. "That is not evidence." He said. Walking towards the bedroom and practically shoved a policeman aside as he went inside to gather the things that Vince needed. He waited for the man to answer his phone.<br/><br/><br/>Tenshi<br/><br/>Aki didn't even notice the slight pain of Brivariith's nails digging into his flesh. Magarish was not happy, but understanding. "I know you could, but I do believe in you... It may be a lie, but I don't think he'd want you to leave either. Nor would Elizabeth... He may want blood and he will get some. We still have the newest threat to worry about and I can make it to where only you and I go raid them. Along with a fight whenever you need it... Does that relieve you any?" Aki didn't look up at Brivariith, it was disrespectful and wouldn't help anything. It would make things worst.<br/><br/>Aki made a small keening noise again. All the noises he made were for family and meant from a lower to a higher status family member. Like Beta to Alpha which is how they were because there was no one else except Chris.<br/><br/>"Of course I own the gym, it just happens to be about six hundred miles below ground... here..." Aki trailed off. "We should wait till later for Elizabeth and Vince to feel better and be awake..." Aki nuzzled his collar bone and hugged Brivariith tighter.<br/><br/>Jethro took his phone out as he stepped into Aki's apartment. He noticed a shaken officer and just shook his head. He flicked his phone open and said, "Lestat." He stopped when he saw Chris getting some stuff from the apartment with a phone to his ear. Jethro hung up and walked over to him, "Do I want to know?"<br/><br/>Dead men littered the halls. Blood, body parts, and whole bodies everywhere. Bullet holes and claw marks. It was obvious that this wasn't a normal scene. Two apartments, one floor, over twenty dead and no witnesses. It was a raid gone wrong. "They were after Aki or something they may have thought was here. Aki I assume was here judging by the state of the kitchen and the messed bed. The other apartment had a messed up bed so visitors. You I'd assume since you know what your here for and where it is. Though I know you don't usually have paramours or would bring them this close to home and that there were women's clothes in the other room, Elizabeth was here and you wouldn't get that near her because she's spoken for so her lover made an appearance. You were in this apartment, but according to the tapes you had left earlier and arrived after. You came upon this then and so you most likely killed some, I'll keep you out of interrogation. Anything else I should know besides that they were Marlo's men and he's underground or dead and not reported?"<br/><br/>Jethro looked at Chris with a raised eyebrow. The lowly officer that had been here had left when Jethro appeared. Most likely to get his commanding officer and speak of the devil. Jethro gave him a look, "I'm taking over Rios."<br/><br/>"You usually do when it involves Akihiko Tsukimori, that man there, or those circus freaks. I want a memo at least about this." Rios gestured wildly as he spoke, pissed.<br/><br/>"Sure." Jethro gave him a smirk. Rios left and with him his men. Jethro's came in and started to finish what the police had been doing.<br/><br/>"So, Chris?" Jethro looked to him.