…..Shadow smirked… softly she closed the bedroom door behind her, not that she had any fear that he would have heard her, in fact it would be unlikely her would hear anything for a while.  She bought the empty syringe from behind her back and smiled… it had been effortless, he hadn’t even noticed the gentle scratch of the needle against the back of his neck.  Likely it felt much the same as her nails had done when she had raked then teasingly down his back… once he noticed, it had been too late, the drug had kicked in and she had watched the consciousness flicker from his eyes…<br/><br/>She slipped down the stairs, and into the kitchen… her eye was drawn to a hand written note on the counter, she placed the syringe down and picked it up, her eyes narrowed a little quizzically at first before a smile crossed her lips.  She spent the next ten minutes making a coffee and flicking through the post… normal things in any normal household… but this was no normal household.  Shadow sighed and dropped the bills back on the counter, the electricity was through the roof again… she glanced at the clock; it was getting towards mid morning.<br/><br/>Softly she placed the coffee cup in the sink and made her way into the grand entrance of the house, she went to the hidden door beneath the staircase and flicked the catch… It slid softly open and the lights flickered on… slowly she made her way downstairs with a faint flutter of excitement to see exactly what Thorn had been up to that night…<br/>