Smooth Criminal

Now Kasumi would love to converse with the others, but Timothy was doing a very good job at distracting her, making her just stare rather blankly at the screen, forgetting who she was actually about to call and ask if they would come and pick her up. Her head turned towards him, as he started speaking to Elias that clearly was annoyed by the situation. Her eyes narrowed, as he asked if she would mind translating. At first, she was just going to ignore him, but somehow, she believed that he would just become even more annoying if she didn’t. “He would like to let you know that he thinks you’re pretty” she said with a sarcastic smile, before turning towards Timothy and her smile disappeared again. Almost giving him a mental fuck finger.

Leon put an arm around Mariella as she was up standing. Looking from Ava to Kasumi, so that bastard was standing there talking to her? He eyed Elias as he proposed an offer of dropping the demon at the bottom of the ocean. “How about that he just stays away, and we won’t bury parts of his body all around the world” he said looking towards Kasumi as she closed her eyes and let out an exhausted sigh. “He would like you to know that he doesn’t like you” she said, looking down at her phone again, and tried to text Valdemar if he was available to pick her up by the bakery.

Timothy frowned by her first translation, "that is not what I sa-" then he looked towards Elias and tilted his head a little bit together, "I guess he is very well put together now that I look a bit more closely," he mumbled a little bit and clicked his tongue a little bit nodding before straightening his back a little bit again, putting his hands in his pockets. Then his eyes moved towards the fairy and the other werewolf, he rolled his eyes a little bit. "See, why are they so rude? Jesus guys, what happened to sharing is caring," he mumbled a little bit. Okay maybe he had listened a little to his grandfather and that one witch what was his name, Oliver Jones time to time when hearing old stories - or at least maybe Timothy had created his own version of it. "Now there was thought" Ava replied to Leon's words, while keeping her eyes more or less on Kasumi. Right now it would almost be easier if he was alive, because Ava knew Leon could simply just compel him to stay away. "Count me in," Timothy pressed his brows together, "okay, okay - No need to do something that drastic," he explained and lashed out with his arms. Of course it was only the banshee who could actually hear him. "I will cut a deal with you, take one leave the others.. no? Okay, okay - uhm."

Mariella could feel how bugged Kasumi was by the demon, clearly he still didn't know how to shut up even if they couldn't hear him. And honestly she didn't find comfort in him knowing where she worked or with the power he held, she was lucky that Leon had been able to soothe things over before her fire had gotten out of hand. In all honestly she wished they could just get out of here, but she wasn't going to take a leave before she knew Kasumi was in good hands.

Kasumi folded her lips together; she could feel how her entire jaw started to tense as he kept talking. At this point she just shut him out or tried too at least. She wasn’t answering him, nor translating anything else. It just made him even less tolerable. Kasumi finally found Valdemar’s contact and texted him if he would have time to pick her up the bakery where she worked. Then she sent a second message telling him, if he had other things to attend to, she would just go back to the academy. She would never be very good at bothering people with her own troubles. One could just look at where that had gotten her. But even so, she couldn’t get herself to just ask things of people, especially if they were otherwise occupied.

Leon cleared his throat, looking towards Kasumi then his brother. “I would offer to take you back to our place, but I’m not really comfortable if it means this” he pointed towards where the ghost might be standing “Idiot follows” he said with a small apologetic smile, because he understood that it could be stressful. Especially after he had tried to drag her away, were the likelihood of her getting killed by said demon had been quite high. Kasumi nodded with a half-smile “I understand” she said, letting out a small breath “go” she said while nodding again giving Mariella a small smile. She walked over and put a hand on her shoulder. Leon let go for a moment, so she could give the fairy a hug. “Text me later, okay?” Kasumi asked, taking a step back giving a smile that was a little brighter “His not the worst I’ve dealt with, I’ll be okay” she reassured her friend, which sadly was true. There had been ghost that had just screamed for hours. Or that would not leave her until she had helped them figure out who had killed them. She could get through this as well.

Elias nodded a little, no he wasn't really comfortable with it either. Especially not with Flora's ability either, not really wanting to risk the chance of Timothy finding a way to communicate with her as well, since it seemed like it was his thing to stick his nose in places he shouldn't. Mariella also understood why it would be a risk to drag the demon along, it was really the last thing they needed in the end. She looked at her friend, taking a sharper breath in as she told her to go, and walk towards her. Feeling Leon letting go of her for the moment to let her hug Kasumi, giving her friend a little squeeze. This was clearly not how they had imagined closing up the store. Mariella would make sure to contact Alison and see if she could pull up some way of making sure that Timothy couldn't enter, or perhaps that strangers couldn't get in after hours. Not that they had this issue before, sadly some people should come by and ruin it. "Why are you people so boring I don't get it," the demon mumbled a little bit placing his hands in his pockets.  "I will," she replied to remember to texting her later, Mariella kept her eyes towards Kasumi as she pointed out that the demon wasn't the worst she had dealt with, "doesn't mean you should have to deal with it," she mumbled a little bit, letting Kasumi go again. Mariella's arm per instinct reaching out for Leon again, to stay close to him. "I will make sure she gets whereever she goes without complications," Ava assured. Not really going to give the banshee much of a choice in the matter.

Ava looked towards Leon giving him a little nod. Not really her ideal of catching up, but the vision had just hit on her usual little rooftop watching. Had she known earlier she would have just shown up at the shop or who knew, tackled the demon on the street before he had entered. The options were many. Now Timothy could feel how his body was healing back together, making his spirit unable to leave the body over too much distance once it slowly got pulled back, so he just sat himself down on the ground and looked at the group of people. "Let's get going then," Elias exhaled a little and walked a bit further down the street to find a door that didn't really seem to have any lights. The last people needed was to see three strangers outside their house looking like someone about to break in, so yes he did choose his doors carefully, finding his key to open a door.

Leon was quick to be there for Mariella again, when she reached out for him. Kasumi gave him a small smile, before she turned towards the hybrid, her smile became a little bigger. “Thank you” she simply said, instead of starting to argue with why she could just go with the others. Maybe she could be a bother, just for today. She closed her eyes for a moment, before taking a step back. She saw how Leon, Mariella and Elias started walking away. She breathed out, looking up in the sky. Then she felt how the phone was vibrating, he would come and pick her up. A soft smile formed on her lips “someone will come and pick me up” she said towards the hybrid, a person she hadn’t got the name of. But maybe this wasn’t the best time, since they weren’t actually alone. “Hope we can meet again one day, where there isn’t someone tagging along” she said with a smile.

She sat down by the curb and waited till a car pulled up. She nodded towards the woman and placed herself in the car. After telling him that it was a long story, she saw how Timothy had disappeared. She just needed a good night sleep, and she would better in the morning.
Hopefully.

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