Trinity watched the tableau with mingled irritation and interest as the drunk man pawed her sister.  Her fingers tightened around the tall glass she had snatched from a waiter as she'd made her way to her own mark, the glass cracking slightly in her steely grip.<br/><br/><em>Oh hell</em>a corner of her mind groaned as the drunk Man's hand groped Pandora's breast, squeezing the pliant flesh between his fat fingers.  Silence spread in nearly visible waves as shock gripped the crowd.  No one was<em>stupid</em>enough to do that to one of the sisters!  Trinity's long pace ate up the distance with urgent haste but she would have just as well stayed where she'd been as the Man's hand slipped between Pandora's legs.<br/><br/>Despite the speed of Pandora's economical, yet brutal, movements Trinity was two thirds across the room before the first blow was struck.  But she halted as that first sickening crunch broke the silence; the Man's howling scream sending a sensual shiver down her spine, but that was unimportant, barely noticeable next to the bloodlust she saw racing through her sister's normally cheery face.<br/><br/><em>Too many witnesses</em>, her brain dispassionately flipped through all the possible consequences of what was unfolding before her<em>She knows BETTER than this, better than to . . .<br/></em><br/>Her thoughts ground to a halt as her beautiful sister tore the mortals throat out in a spray of gore.  She'd spent so much time as the ‘bigger’ sister, the planner, the one that got her hands dirty, that she sometimes forgot the beast that lurked beneath her sister's smooth skin.  A beast, if possible, even wilder and more brutal than her own demons. Trinity felt her pale skin flush as she saw that terrible, impossibly alluring creature slowly recede as her sister spat orders to the bouncers to dispose of the mess.<br/><br/><em>At least she has that much presence of mind</em>Trinity sighed as one of the bouncers looked askance at her and she gave an equally curt nod.<br/><br/>A vampire in the midst of a blood lust was a very dangerous thing;  as likely to continue her rampage through any nearby targets as to release it as Pandora had done.  And given just how strong her sister truly was, she doubted she could have stopped her before half of the club, human and vampire alike, lay dead around their feet.  She also doubted that anyone else in the club realized just how very,<em>very </em>lucky they were to still be breathing.<br/><br/>As she looked back towards her sister she saw the subtle fold of time and space as she left the club  -<em>Good, I need time to clean up this mess.</em><br/><br/>She arranged all the details personally;  the transporting the ‘badly injured’ man to the hospital and the ambulance crash that would erase him forever, ‘convincing’ the man’s friends he’d pulled a knife on Pandora and she'd managed to grab it away from him.  A few minutes, and several thousand dollars later, Trinity turned back to the bar, noting with a low growl of frustration that the girl had disappeared.<br/><br/><em>Probably frightened.  Shame.  She looked . . . . tasty</em>. The vampire thought with wistfull regret.<br/><br/>Trinity's mind reached out, tracing the thin tendril of darkness that still linked this room to Pandora's destination, and shifted herself amid the pounding beat of the club.  She emerged in the blissfull silence of Pandora's own palatial rooms.  Pading softly along the lush carpet, Trinity peeled off her costume as she approached her  sister.  Her normally calm and impassive mask slipped as she saw Pandora's shaking shoulders convulse as she sobbed, pain flirting across her face at her sister's agony.  Trinity didn't feel things like the mortals, or even to the same level her fellow vampires did.  But she could be hurt, and Pandora's low cry, the soft musk of her agony, was a barbed dagger thrust through her heart.<br/><br/>Reaching for her, wrapping her arms around Pandora's sides;  she let the mental barriers slip, feeling the throbbing hurt of her sister's mind in her own soul and tears welled up in her eyes.<br/><br/><em>&lt;Hush love&gt;</em>she whispered over their link as she lightly kissed her sister's shoulder, pouring all the love and support her soul possessed over the link<em>&lt;Hush.  I will always be here for you. Always&gt;</em><br/>