As soon as Kira was free Maddi sheltered her, keeping her a little behind and to one side, but her attention remained on Elijah until he stormed off and she frowned, not really quite sure what had happened there as some of what he was saying didn't really make sense but seemed full of raw passion.  She actually felt a small stirring of compassion for the guy, he was obviously in some sort of hell of his own making.<br/><br/>She could see that Tony was very enamored of Kira, how ever polite he was being right now, and a she wished she'd never given into the various feelings that had brought them together earlier, he was going to regret he came near her now that he only had eyes for Kira and there was going to be so much hurt up ahead she knew.  She switched off the feelings that were curling in her stomach, it hurt, but she'd had do it many times before, fuck she was an expert at it, when would she ever learn?<br/><br/>Just as she turned to speak to Kira her friend let lose and the words she was going to say died in her throat.  She felt herself go pale and suddenly it was all too much, for Kira to put her down like that in front of someone else – and after all these years of always backing each other up.  She felt the whole weight of what had happened over the last few days come crashing down on her, she'd worked so hard and held it all in check to care for her friends. She really couldn't take much more and the pain at her friends words seemed to rip her in two.<br/><br/>She turned and faced Tony saying quietly but firmly, trying not to show the pain she was feeling inside and managing it with all but her eyes, "Thank you Tony, that's very kind of you, but we'll go with you, Lizzie may need us, she doesn't know you and may not believe you know us or come to her with good intentions -  it would help though if you could lead the way so we can get to her as soon as possible, she may be very worried about us."<br/><br/>She didn't voice her fears that<em>she </em>was the one worried about<em>Lizzie</em>, with what had just happened it could be these guys may be a little stir crazy - and there were still two unaccounted for. The sooner they got to Lizzie the better.