Elizabeth easily returned the kiss when it was given, and giggled softly at Aleksey when he apologized. "Don't worry, Aleksey.. It's alright.." She cooed softly, and all but jumped a foot at the sound from upstairs. She tensed when she jumped and on reflex clung onto Aleksey's shirt lightly, her gaze quickly and immediately going to where the sound had come from, looking towards the stairs in the next moment, obviously spooked from the sound alone if not scared already, trying to convince herself in her head that something must've fallen. But, that was soon ruined when the sounds continued, and she jumped each time.<br/><br/>"Yeah.. I did.." She answered quietly and reluctantly, just barely letting go of Aleksey's shirt enough that she wouldn't be pulling on it when he moved to walk towards the stairs. "W-Wait a minute," She tried saying quickly before he had a chance to go up the stairs, quite literally trembling as she could only think of negative things that the sound could be coming from, and desperately not wanting anything else to happen to Aleksey, especially.<br/><br/>"Aleksey, let me go," She insisted as she watched him start hobbling up the stairs, holding onto the railing of the bottom of the staircase as she wondered if she even had enough courage to go up the stairs in the first place- But would it be any better to stand down where she was alone when there could be not just a 'thing' in the house, but 'things' in the house.<br/><br/>Without waiting for an exact answer from Aleksey she rushed to catch up with him while he was hobbling up the stairway, quickly simply stalking behind him, afraid to go in front though not wanting him to get hurt, already as tense as all could get from this. She'd tried relaxing that day, but it appeared some days just weren't meant for relaxing. And this, seemed to be one of those days where the timid part of her would get the better. "Just, be careful.."