"Oh yeah, sure, just slam my $3000 door then, that's cool." Ghost muttered to himself as he moved to once again slouch in his high-backed chair, sighing. Maybe his killers were more trouble than they were worth.<br/>Plum was certianly a handful. He recalled one incident, from years before, in which exerting his authority over her  had earned him a swift kick in the balls. Of course, it had earned the night nymph a week in the Room, in a straightjacket with nothing to do and nothing to eat. Many things could be said about Ghost, not the least of which was that he knew how to punish his subordinates.<br/>Then again, Plum was hardly his subordinate anymore. As much as she offered him council on who to kill and who not to kill, and hell, as much as they had dinner together, Ghost found he'd come to think of her as a sort of...fixture, a fact of his life. How...strange.<br/>His thoughts were interrupted by Kai, who strode into the office looking annoyed and not wearing his usual, alarmingly red jacket. Ghost raised an eyebrow, and Kai sighed.<br/>"I brought her back. The human. Oh, fuck you." The last statement was in response to Ghost starting to reprimand him, and the White Wolf didn't take kindly to the shapeshifter's words, actually baring his teeth and growling. That, too was interrupted...by Kai's gun in his face.<br/>"Ghost, for once, I am so not in the mood for any shit right now. Not only does Cherry, and therefore her Coven, know we showed interest in the human, but that fucking La'Feyal guy knows Cherry. Plus, I had to move my plans for the human up to, oh, I dunno, sometime around FUCKING NOW!"<br/>Even Ghost was mildly startled by Kai's outburst. The shifter was usually so calm. That, and the exceedingly alarming news he'd brought (not to mention the gun in his face), were the only things keeping Kai alive at the moment.<br/>Perhaps Ghost's two favorite killers were more trouble than they were worth.<br/>"Kai. I will kill you." He said simply. Usually, Kai only needed the one warning.<br/>Kai lowered the gun, but for just a moment, his face became Brie's. Ghost's eyes widened with fury and he started to speak, but Kai cut him off.<br/>"The human will stay in my room. I will train her to be useful to us. And Ghost...remember the most important thing about me. I follow your orders, but only until they stop lining up with what I want, then I shift into a vampire or a nymph or something, and go offer my services to someone who wants you dead."<br/>Ghost just glared, raw rage burning in his eyes. However, Kai was right. Shapeshifters were notoriously hard to kill, once they learned to control their power, and Kai was especially proficient. Plus, he was simply too valuable an asset to risk losing over a 'who's got the biggest dick' type of argument.<br/>So, Ghost watched as Kai strode from the room in a huff, slamming his $3000 dollar door yet again.<br/>His two favorite killers were almost definitely more trouble than they were worth.