Death and snakes

For @Victoria

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It was late and it was mainly just her and some of the other serpents back in the bar. So, even if Victoria was working he was mainly chatting with some of the others, refilling their glasses whenever they were empty. The night was dull, but for the first time in a long time - it was needed. Then the door opened, and what the shapeshifter didn't know yet was that the night was going to be shaken just a little bit up. For better or for worse. A woman stepped inside, and greeted her with a high pitched voice, her face screamed at Victoria to react. And the shapeshifter's instinct hit right away, "no worries, I was just about to call you." She smiled at the woman, watching the three men walk in behind her, once again her animal instincts moved closer to the surface. Victoria moved her eyes from the guys and turned them to the banshee. The banshee confirmed to her that the guys had been following her, Victoria had met the types before, sadly. "Don't worry love, I got you," she replied grabbing a glass and filled it up with beer and served it to the banshee.

The shapeshifter moved her eyes over to the guys, giving Landon a slight nod to keep an eye out for them. Her eyes shifted color shortly for a slight second to a green-grey color as her snowleopard pushed a little through, but she pulled it back. For now. "I don't think I've seen you around here before?" she wanted to know the guys intentions, if they were stupid enough to try anything on the banshee. "Travelling through the area?"

"Victoria," she whispered her own name back to the stranger, so she could use it if she had to. She watched the girl take a sip of the beer, her expression said a lot to someone like Victoria who had been sipping alcohol since she was around twelve years old, that happened when parents brought their kids here - not that she ever would do that herself, but thinking back she wasn't really proud of how her mother and step-father had raised her - or her own father for that matter. Then again, what didn't you do when you were running away from your traumas? But she didn't judge, if the girl had survived this long without using alcohol to cope for anything - that was another kind of strength. Victoria listened still keeping an eye out for the guys that had found themselves a nice spot by the window close to the door, as if they were just waiting for the girl to leave again. Human's which meant they were just nasty men who needed to be taught a lesson, but it also meant they couldn't hear her as clearly because of the music from the radio.
Victoria listened to the story she was told, this was one of the best parts of the job, listening to people's stories. "In Aston?" She asked, when she said that she had a job as a cleaner at the hospital. "A friend of mine is a doctor there at the hospital," she said truthfully with a warmer smile. It was nice having Mono and Cecilia back in her life again.

What is this place, anyway? Victoria looked around shortly. The snake like symbols on the walls to symbolize the serpents, the pool table in the back along with everything else that was placed here down stairs in the snake nest as some would say. "You are at The serpents'," she replied and poured some whisky up to herself. "Cheers," she lifted her glass to toast with Kasumi. "Now, if you will excuse me for a second, I have some rubbish I need to take out," she down her drink before heading out of the bar. With a small movement with her hand another of her members had already taken over. "Hello boys," she presented to them her best fake smile, and tilted her head a little bit. Victoria placed her hands on the table leaning a little over the table, just enough to make them believe they had caught her attention. Then as one of them copied her, leaning a little closer she moved her left hand quickly to the back of his head and smacked his head down to collide with the table.

"That first one was for following my friend here down the street and sit here and wait for her like some prey," she kept her hand on his head pushing him down, then shutting his brain off only having one more to deal with. However, that guy was quick on his feet and got up from his seated position. He wanted to make a run for it, but Victoria wasn't going to just let him go away that easy. So, she grabbed Stephen's empty bottle of beer and smashed the stranger right in the back of his head, letting him fall over. Glass shattered all over the floor as she breathed out looking at the two bodies. "And that one was for free."

Looking at the guys knocked out on the floor, she breathed out and licked her lips a bit. "Assholes," she hissed underneath her breath, and waved two of her members over to drag the guys outside. She didn't care if they ended it in the lake or thrown into the woods, as long as they learned a lesson to not stalk people at night. Victoria stepped over the broken glass pieces of the floor, having it crack a bit as she stepped on one piece with the heel of her boot. Victoria walked back behind the bar and threw the last part of the broken bottle in the bin. She had cut herself on glass, but it wasn't anything deep. "Sorry you had to see that, but types like that just pisses me off," she confessed pouring up a glass of whisky for herself. "Your on gang territory sweety, we do things a little different around here," Victoria lifted up her glass and almost downed it in one sitting. It had been a hard year, and taking things the usual way was somehow become her last priority. Victoria breathed out, placing her elbows on the counter. "They are not going to bother you again," Victoria assured the banshee with a warmer smile that slowly brushed up on her lips.