Chan stood back against the wall, glaring at Queen Lilly as she spoke. He finished his cigarette and tossed the butt on the ground. He almost had to laugh at the sophistication in the girl's voice.<span style="color: #FDF5E6">"Cut the 'better-than-thou shit, girl. I'm not one of your council members you have to impress. So now that you have my attention the answer is no I will not play house with you. So just run home to your mommy, little girl. Or just go back to playing 'queen'."</span><br/><br/>Garland, who was coming back to reality and becoming aware of things, could hear the annoyance and hatred in Chan's voice.<span style="color: #7DF9FF">"Are you ok?"</span>She whispered softly to him, genuinely concerned.<br/><br/>He sighed.<span style="color: #FDF5E6">"Just peachy. I'm standing in an alley with two helpless little brats - one sick and one injured. There's Lassie and Benji over there so you know we're all going to get fleas."</span>He motioned with his free hand toward where the half-bred and the mutant wolf were.<span style="color: #FDF5E6">"There's a were who transforms into something from the Village People with assless leather chaps,"</span>he directed the comment at the werebear, describing an old band and using the term 'bear' as the slang amongst gays. He'd dealt with his kind before. He'd dated a female werebear once - or more like she'd slung him over her shoulder and insisted he was her boyfriend, but whatever, close enough.<span style="color: #FDF5E6">"There's another bloodbag playing fiddler on the roof,"</span>he pointed upwards, now getting a halfway decent fix on the human though he still didn't much care about where he was or that he was even there.<span style="color: #FDF5E6">"And Barbie vampire edition over here who thinks she's all high and mighty because she killed off the only true leader the vampires had. Yeah, I'm doing fucking great. What else can go wrong?"</span><br/><br/>As he reached for his pack to pull out another cigarette, he heard the sirens just as the werebear descended upward to the rooftops. To make matters worse he had smoked his last cigarette and had put the empty pack back in his pocket. He crinkled the empty pack.<span style="color: #FDF5E6">"Perfect. All we need now is - "</span><br/><br/><span style="color: #E3A857">"Give up the two children in your custody and walk away now, if you don't comply with our orders we won't hesitate to use force"</span><br/><br/>He threw up his free hand.<span style="color: #FDF5E6">"Ladies and gentleman fucking G.I. Joe! Now it's a party!"</span>He grumbled.<br/><br/>Garland giggled, finding amusement in the vampire's current misery. She wiggled down off of him and reached in her pocket. She pulled out a stick of gum.<span style="color: #7DF9FF">"Gum?"</span>She held it up to him.<br/><br/>He sighed.<span style="color: #FDF5E6">"I'm not chewing some fruity little gum with some cartoon animal on it."</span><br/><br/>She shrugged and started to put it away before he snatched it. He took a piece and shoved it back to her. She knew it was either the gum or him nicing. He smoked way too much, especially when stressed.<br/><br/>She looked around as the military people started making their way towards the group. She looked back at Chan.<span style="color: #7DF9FF">"I have to pee."</span>She whispered to him.<br/><br/><span style="color: #FDF5E6">"Well, what do you want me to do about it? Go up to them and say 'hey can we hold up because she has to pee'?"</span>Wonderful. They were going to get attacked and she had to pee.<br/><br/>But his words gave her an idea. She started to walk more towards the center where everyone could see her. This caught Chan's attention as he came up beside her.<span style="color: #FDF5E6">"What the hell are you doing?! Are you crazy?! You're going to get us killed!"</span>He could stop her, but the girl was headstrong - just like him. So he simply just stayed by her side for now.<br/><br/>She stopped. She took Chan's hand and held it. With her other hand she held the pack of gum as high as she could. Then she called out in the loudest voice she could muster.<span style="color: #7DF9FF">"Who wants gum?!"</span><br/><br/>Chan pinched the bridge of his nose and put his head down. He mumbled under his breath.<span style="color: #FDF5E6"> "Great. We're going to die. We're all going to die but at least everybody will have some fruity breath as they kill us."</span>Of course he wasn't going to allow that to happen if he could help it. But then again if he knew she was going to do this he would've stopped her. He looked up and popped his gum.<br/><br/>As the two of them stood there it was obvious who the dominant one was. This was clearly not a case of a vampire who had kidnapped a human child. Instead it looked more like the case of a human child with her own personal pet vampire. Chan hoped they would get out of this alive.<br/><br/>Garland hoped someone would come forward. She wanted friends and she thought Chan could use some as well, despite her knowing he would say otherwise. She wasn't afraid of dying. She was already doing that now without the help of anybody. And she didn't fear for her safety. She knew she had no reason to as long as Chan was around. Now all she could do is wait to see if anybody would break the ice and come forward. This situation was all over children, right? So if it took a child to begin this mess maybe it would take a child to resolve this mess as well.