<span style="font-style: italic">I hate Mondays.</span><br/><br/>The last thought that ran through Hanna’s mind just before another punch contacted with her jaw. The painful sensation of her teeth being clamped down caused her to see stars for just a moment. Another punch was on its way, and Hanna recovered just in time to block the blow, both arms thrown up to stop and catch the arm before she shoved him back. The lumbering beast staggered back, its weight thrown off balance from the force of her counter attack.<br/><br/>“Look,” she said as she spat the blood which had pooled in her mouth. “If you had just come with me calmly this would not have gotten to this point. You’re the one who had to go on that midnight snack binge the other night. I’m here to settle up the bounty that is on your head, and since you don’t want to calm down I’m forced to put you down!”<br/><br/>As if her remarks were worthless the werepanther snarled and charged. Hands now with claws, it slashed at her face and then her stomach, one blocked and then the other dodged. On the next attack, she caught the wrist bent the arm around and used its own claws to gut the creature. “Raphael, of the Southern Pride, you are found guilty of murder, mutilation, and feasting on the flesh of an innocent human. Failure to comply with my summons has forced me to execute you. By the right of the Church and the Holy Treaty, I have judged thee,” her voice held no emotion. It was her job simple as that. Even as the hot blood spilled from the wound and covered her hand's nothing passed over her face. When the last of the blood was spilled, and the body seized to struggle Hannah allowed him to slip to the floor. The sign of the cross was made as she bowed her head and whispered a final prayer.<br/><br/>Next, her phone rang, “Yeah?” A pause as she listened, “Yes. It is done. Tell his pride they can reclaim his body from the usual drop zone, and we need a cleaning crew at my location. I’m off to get a cup of coffee.”<br/><br/>Call ended, Hannah stepped over the body and headed out to see the only person she actually wanted to speak with this morning.<br/><br/>------<br/><br/>“Yeah can I get a grande anything as long as you are the one serving it and the one who stirs in the sugar for me,” the smile she flashed was one of love and affection once she got to the front of the line that Avalon manned. “Sorry that I left so late last night. Work and all that shit.”