Natasha watched the situation unfold as she let Juliette place another bid...she could see Juliette was looking concerned about this other bidder that Davis had brought in and gave her a reassuring hug as she placed a hand gently upon her shoulder and smiled down to Juliette.  If the bidding went any higher then she was going to raise it to ten million and gauge both Davis and the other man's reaction.  Davis would surely have to pay the other man back for his part in this or at least provide him with a very big favour...he seemed a little worried by the man's incredibly large raise of four million in his last offer  The other man had seemed desperate in his raise from one million to five million...possibly hoping that it would put Juliette off bidding.  He had a slight smirk when Juliette only raised the bid by three hundred thousand...so Natasha came to the conclusion that the man had around ten million...at the very most he would have no more than twenty million, the reaction she would get from his next raise...or her own next raise would tell her exactly how much money he would have to bid on the woman though at the moment she was pretty confident of beating him.  Natasha didn't care too much for money...so throwing away millions didn't really affect her much, but to people who were used to a high standard of living the amount of money in their bank account meant a great deal to them.  Natasha smiled, she knew she would be able to win...the question was, by how much.  She wondered if Juliette knew the same thing...she seemed more focussed on Davis than anything, annoyed with him for going against her.<br/><br/>Tabitha cowered in the jar covering up as much of her flesh as she could as she curled up timidly...she felt like a slave either way she looked at it, if Davis's friend bought her then she was still classified as property and would never be able to return to the city if Davis's plan worked out...or at the very least she would have to give herself a complete change of identity.  On the other hand, maybe she could reason with Natasha...she held the key to the design of the shrinking devices, if she got on her good side, maybe she would get her height restored to at least a quarter of her original size...it had a plus side...if they wanted her to be a maid or servant, at least she'd be looked after and wouldn't have to resort to stealing just to survive.  She was probably fooling herself to think such things, but it made her feel a little better about the situation even though she really didn't like belonging to someone else in the slightest and was dreadfully worried about what kind of torture she'd have to go through just for a little kindness.