These streets

For the most part, people forgot just how ruthless the Phoenix brothers could be. Maybe it had been easier to blur the line between being a criminal and a hero, given into account how Francis and Linus were starting to turn things around in Southside. Cleaner streets. Restorations. Criminals off the road, and the same with drugs. The problem was that it was all moving underground instead. Taking it away from Southside and expanding the business; had started to prove to have been the best way to get a steady money flow in, and it was beginning to show in how the Serpents had newer and more expensive toys to play with. Taking higher risks contracts, new members joined in the best way possible.
But when someone took his son and tortured him, and then proceeded to lure some of their best members into a trap to take them to a mental hospital? Well, then you were playing with the big league, and when they hit, they hit hard. When Blaise had come back and said that he had seen Imogen and Helio talking, well, then things had started to move into place; someone had to have ratted out where to find Scorpio and who had gotten the closets to his son these past few months. None other than the demon that had seemed to be a little too cosy with the leader of the gang that had taken his boy.

Now, nothing was a secret, and with the right connections, doors opened that you never thought were there. It would seem that Helio had more than one kid, but the most interesting had been a young girl that had seemed so perfectly ordinary that it would be a shame if she ever got taken and brought into a world that they clearly had tried to keep her out off. Maybe it was just Linus that wanted to show Imogen what happened if you tried to cross him, not that he had done the girl anything—he had just handed her over to an interested party, that would ship her out of the country if Helio didn’t come through on the agreement that they were about to make.
“His here” Linus said to his brother and moved the cigarette away from his lips as he turned and looked at the cars rolling into the warehouse. The siren that had been very keen on annoying Landon last, he had seen her stepped out, staying in the background while observing. “Was beginning to think you might not show up Helio” Linus said with an almost welcoming voice as a smirk curled over his lips.

The things most important to the brothers were family, it was no secret. There was a high price to pay for those who dared trying to mess with one of them. It wasn't the show of force in the face of blood and violence, but more of the actions and how far that the Phoenix brothers were able and willing to go, torture wasn't the worst thing that could happen to someone, the world could get way darker than that.
Francis turned his head towards the car that rolled into the warehouse, and let out a small almost amusing sigh. There was a part of him that liked feeling this sort of power, having leverage - even if they had no idea how Helio would react, this was also a threat to him in knowing they could reach out information of him that he didn't even have a hold on himself. Making them the dangerous ones.

Helio stepped out of the car, having left Elijah and Ares at home, knowing they would just make everything worse. Ximena had insisted of joining in case of anything, two against one was unfair. "Well, when getting such fine invitations from you two, I thought it would be best not risking anything," he gestured his arms out to the side then stepping closer towards them. Helio had no idea what they had or wanted, other than for him to leave -which was not going to happen. "What do you want?" He asked, knowing it had to be about Elijah's attack on Scorpio - not something Helio himself was happy about, but he was not going to stand here and say that Elijah was out of line, no it would just make it out like he had no control over his people. So, Helio would rather wear the face of the act rather than let his brother take all the blame.

“Straight to the point” he looked toward his brother with a grin forming over his lips; he would be lying if he told Helio that this wasn’t pleasing him. Having all the cards, and even then, Helio had shown up; it told him something that he was sure the Coyote’s leader would rather not have revealed. That all his cards had been played, and he no longer was in control.
“Well, we would be fools if we didn’t react to what your brother did, even if we also know that it was made without your knowledge” Linus blew out grey smoke as he fished out a phone, then he threw it toward Helio, knowing that if he didn’t manage to grab it, the pretty little siren would make sure that it didn’t hit the ground.
“Sometimes it can be a disadvantage when you have a lot of women coming and going in your life, one of those being if one doesn’t remember to protect oneself” Linus was a master in spinning stories, mostly because he knew just how much people hated it when he didn’t just come to the point. He was just, once again, remembering Helio that he held all the cards. “Of course, one could ask themselves, does the great gang leader care what happens to one of his children when he didn’t know that they existed?” as soon as the phone was unlocked, it would show a terrified girl sitting in, what looked like an underground chamber of iron. “but then I asked myself, if not for himself, then maybe for that pretty little demon that he got to infiltrate our ranks” the smile disappeared when he talked about Imogen—“I want you and your gang to pack your backs and get the fuck out of Southside by tomorrow morning, or that pretty little girl gets a one-way ticket to Mexico, and we both know what the cartels do with girls that look like that” was it wrong? Yes. Very much so. But Linus didn’t care as his eyes almost came alight with fury. He wanted Helio and his family gone and would go to great lengths to achieve it.

Helio grabbed the phone, narrowing his eyes a little looking at it while listening to Linus' words. Now, it wasn't like Helio was surprised to the fact that he had a child he didn't know about, actually it was to be expected, yet he had no idea at first who it was with. How would he? Helio had possibly slept around more than one should. But he cared about Ares and Isaac. It was as far he went. Helio could care less about some daughter of his he had no personal connection to, couldn't he? Yet, he looked at the terrified girl, then realizing it was Imogen's daughter. Of course, he should have noticed those features by the second. Those news were the first thing to make him flinch a bit. "oh, this is what you are so sad about, that I had someone on your inside?" Helio pointed out, well he could play along on the fact that Imogen was secretly on his side. He could do just that. Because he also knew just how good Imogen was at what she did, and suddenly Helio felt like a few cards got back on his hand. I want you and your gang to pack your backs and get the fuck out of Southside by tomorrow morning, Helio chuckled a little bit dry and clicked his tongue. "Yeah would be horrible for her, it just so happens, I don't care. Send her away to the artic for what I care - we are not going anywhere, maybe you should just think about taking on another city?" Helio raised his brow a little bit.

"You should know, if anything happens to me or my beautiful Ximena here. I have people out going door to door in Southside, making sure to leave a lovely bloody mess. Now, I did promise this one to go gently on that fallen angel, but those stunning shifters of yours... you think they can outrun bombs Mena?" He asked his siren not taking his eyes off Linus and Francis while asking."And by the means, you aren't the only one with off-spring here... who knows - maybe I will pay one of your pretty daughters a visit? Maybe I will send Elijah, and we know he has a problem controlling his temper, he gets so caught up in the moment," a smirk crossed Helio's smile. "I don't like threats," he added. Francis took one step ahead, he didn't like threats either. Not that Francis didn't know his daughters were pretty secure, it didn't mean he liked threats directed towards them. "So, go ahead send her away, try to make us leave - see what happens."

Linus titled his head. Maybe he shouldn’t be surprised. But he was; it was clear that Helio was able to put two and two together and see that it was Imogen’s daughter that was being threatened; it was so easy for him to discard her? Well. A smirk curled over Linus’s lips as Helio started to tell what was going on, bombs and killing serpent members? That was his plan; a laugh left him—he should care more, but he didn’t. Shaking his head, his index finger scratched the side of his temple, “trying to murder every serpent” he clicked his tongue and then took out his phone; a few rings, and he was on the line of those that had Daphne “yeah, you can go, the negotiations fell through” then he hung up and looked toward Helio with a smirk as he inhaled the last part of his smoke before he dropped it; “you thought that was our only ace up our sleeve?” he wondered raising a brow, then shaking his head, these empty threats—even if he could hear the explosions in the distance at this point, they didn’t face him. Not when he had seen Esme fall down from the roof, silently and without being able to be traced. With a quick grab, the blond vampire had her hand over Ximena’s mouth and walked backwards with a knife against her throat. “You really shouldn’t threaten people with a good time Helio, because what do you do, when the party is over?” he nodded toward the car where Esme brought Ximena and sat her into the backseat before she slid in herself. “Well, it was nice doing business for you, and thank you for Mena, I’ve been thinking how to get her for quite some time now” it hadn’t gone past Linus’s nose just what the pretty siren could do, and he would treat her right—well, to some extent.
“Have fun telling Imogen that her only daughter is on her way to Mexico” he waved and walked toward the car, fishing a new cigarette out of his pocket then he called Victoria.

Helio flinched for a second, once Ximena then was pulled back, he listened mostly but didn't look back. Yet he remained aware, knowing it looked like he was outnumbered. Clearly it looked so. But he also knew this brought him time to regroup the next thing. Even if he knew that he had two who would be very so angry at him for getting Ximena in trouble. Helio wasn't fan of it himself. But what should he do? Run after them and tell them he would leave? No, it wouldn't make the brothers just throw Ximena back at his feet. Helio would have to talk to Isla, hear if she could give him anything on how this could playout. Matching her with Elijah's abilities they could perhaps get the upper hand again. So, he just stood there for a moment processing. Watching Linus pick up his phone, as he back towards his own car.

It rang in her ears still, feeling slightly dizzy as she once again woke up, coughing because of the dust falling around her. Victoria let a pained groan escape her mouth as she reached after her phone she could feel buzzing. "Hey," she picked up, closing her eyes tightly shut. She had managed to protect most of herself from the blow by using the earth as a shield, but even earthen matter wasn't made to take all blows, which was how she had ended up getting stuck underneath some metal parts of one of the other trailers in the park. But not having realized that yet, the pain was not there yet. She couldn't see anything but the remains of trailers and what they contained burying her. She was thankful Landon and Reina were out of town, and that she knew Eric and Noa was home at their own place. Cyrus not here either. It meant she had less people to worry about. "H - how did it go with Helio?" She tried to speak, realizing how hoarse her voice was from the dust. Then she noticed the scent of Kennedy, trying to pick up the scent. Fear started pumping faster, what if Kennedy was buried deeper down the mix of torn apart trailers and rocks. "Fuck -" she cursed a little now realizing she was stuck herself.

Linus pulled a face looking over his shoulder and seeing the scared siren; Esme had put away the knife and found her phone; now it wasn’t normal that she did this, but she felt like Hatsu might be the right person to text and tell what had gone down—this was bad, and the groups that somehow was still intertwined in one another it was only fair to give a heads up like she would think Yuumine would do if their paths would ever cross, having similar traits it was hard not to get to know one other.
“Yeah, as you might feel, things fell through; he bloody told us to ship the poor girl away, for fuck shake, I really thought he would have more sense than that; I’ll be back soon” he hung up and then took a turn where he stopped, he then turned and looked at Mena “maybe you should think about whom you put your alliance in” it wasn’t normal that Mena showed fear, but she felt how her legs were shaking, standing there she saw how the shapeshifter drove away—this had all to show how far Helio would go to get back southside?

Kennedy coughed, she had managed to throw herself on Victoria just in time as the bomb had exploded, but in the shock wave, she had been pushed off and landed underneath some opened cupboards taking the worst of the damage. Her ears were ringing, however, making her somewhat dizzy as she staggered on her legs and started moving toward Victoria. “I got you!” she breathed as she lifted the debris that was pinning the other shapeshifter down “what the fuck happened?” had it been a mistake, or had someone gone off the rails a little too fast?

Imogen had gotten anxious when she hadn’t been able to find a trace on Daphne’s phone, she had tried to call Scorpio but he had ignored her more or less since the day he had been tortured. At first, she had thought he might have needed more time to get over it, but as the days had passed and she hadn’t heard a thing she had gotten suspicious, which had led her to hack into the phones; where she had found a video of Daphne, alone and scared, but she couldn’t trace where it was from because as soon as she had gotten into the feed of the camera showing her daughter it had cut off and gone dead—like a trojan horse her entire system had been fried leaving her powerless. It had been through normal measures she and her sister had found the warehouse, where she saw Helio stand as two cars drove away. “Helio? Helio what is happening, where is Daphne?” her heart started beating in her chest, painfully throbbing away. “No” her voice cracked before her arms folded around her stomach, the pain almost too much to bear "please don’t tell me she is gone!” she screamed in agony falling to her knees feeling they connect with the concrete then her hands as grief overcame her, this couldn’t be happening; anything but her daughter.

"What a mess," Francis let out a sigh, knowing he should perhaps text Juniper a call to make the girls know they should be a bit careful. His eyes look shortly at the scared siren, lifting his brow a little bit. His bet was that Helio would try find a way to get her back, his own plan to see if he could convince the siren to rather stay with them than head back to those demon quarters. Landon could play part in that he assumed once he got back tomorrow from his road trip with Reina - or who knew truly what were to happen or what they got in the mood for. He placed himself in the car with Linus to drive back leaving Esme with the siren.

A pained half choked scream left Victoria as the debris that had pushed down on her legs and bruised the delicate skin. But she crawled out from the mess, and looked around. The heavy cloud of dust making it almost impossible to actually see anything here. Victoria pulled some smaller pieces of metal out from her arm, feeling the hit mostly in her head, feeling lightheaded, but she got up on her feet. "I think the Coyotes just made a terrible mistake," she coughed a little bit, then manipulating the molecules of the dust to fall to the ground rather than trying to reach their airways. "We should see if we can get back to the serpents," Victoria mumbled a little, still feeling the ringing in her ear and the heat as the fire had started to spread a bit further down. "Good evening ladies," Josephine folded her hands in front of her looking at the two shapeshifters, before she took out a gun and fired two shots - small arrows injected with something, perks of learning how to turn your abilities into weapons. And well her daughter had just been shipped away or threathened to be shipped away, so who was she not to show just what mistake it was messing with her? "Need a hand? You don't look so well."

Helio let out a sigh, he had heard the explosion. "Fucking hell Ares," he mumbled a little knowing his son shouldn't have pushed before his signal. But well, he likely would have told him to make a point either way. Helio picked up his phone and called Elijah, "yeah - you know what to do," he then hung up and turned around as Imogen suddenly came towards him. "Oh so that's her name," he took a sharper breath in, but watched Imogen beginning to crack. Helio should feel more pain about this, perhaps he would've if it wasn't for the fact he hadn't known about this girl till few minutes ago. And right now Linus and Francis had Ximena. Ximena would always be high on his priority list. And he intended to get her back no matter what it took. Helio didn't care who he had to kill to make that point. "Maybe next time you should think about telling someone they have a child so they would be able to protect her," he sounded cold. Maybe he was, a bit too stern. "Get them to release Ximena, and I will find a way to make sure your daughter doesn't reach the shore of Mexico," he took a sharper breath in. He had contacts in Mexico as well, strings he could pull. Isla could perhaps make a portal there, or he could get Isaac to teleport himself and see.

“You don’t say” Kennedy laughed, even though it hurt every time she tried to breathe. She just managed to get up on her legs, pulling Victoria’s arm around her shoulder so she could use it as support to get her friend out of here. Not that they managed to take a few steps before turning around and looking at a dark-haired woman, a woman that looked so much like Imogen, that this couldn’t end well for either of them. And at this moment Kennedy knew that she needed to get Victoria out of here before her luck would ended up getting her more hurt.
She kicked a round metal thing, that she was pretty sure once had been part of a tv. It flew up, just in time to take the hit of the two arrows that had been fired toward them. “Yeah, I think we’re good!” Kennedy called as she started dragging Victoria away “fuck, I’m going to do something stupid Victoria, just keep holding on to me, okay?” she hissed and with a scream she turned, it didn’t take more than a second to tear through her clothes as she started sailing up in the air, even if Josephine hit her, it wouldn’t be enough to sedate her, at least not right away, it would be enough to get them to the headquarters—it had to be enough.

It was like all air had been sucked out of her lungs, she couldn’t breathe and the words that Helio spoke, were so cold and distant, they tore in her heartstrings making her cry out in pain. He was barging with her, telling her to get one of his own back before he would help her. For all she had done for him in the past, even warning him while she was dating Scorpio, and now she was paying the price. “You bastard!” she screamed, flying up and letting her hands connect with his chest pushing him back; not that she could do much as she wasn’t the strongest of demon races. “Why do you think I didn’t tell you!? Why do you think I let Josephine raise her and not me! Do you know what that does to a mother, to watch your child grow up, and you not having anything to do with it!?” She hit him; she didn’t know what else to do. Completely rendered powerless “she is just eighteen years old!! How can you—and you question why I didn’t tell you!”

“Mierda, tu puta madre” (shit, you motherfucker) Mena’s voice snarled behind them “what the jhell is going on JHelio, why didn’t you tell me what you were planning!” she demanded to know, this wasn’t what she had signed up for, none of what had been going down in the coyotes were something she wanted to leave behind as a legacy of hers.

Victoria's head tried to cope with the explosion earlier, which was one of the many reasons why she didn't use her powers more than she could have done. Luckily, Kennedy was able to block the arrows coming at them. Victoria nodded to confirm she would hold on, hating the sound of her friend's scream as she turned, but held on, her head feeling like her mind was melting from the pressure of the blast earlier. All she could hear was Josephine cursing at them as they flew in the air, Victoria struggling to keep on hanging onto Kennedy but she did.

First as they landed outside Scorpio came running towards them, cursing in all sorts of ways, both in awe watching Kennedy in her shape, then worried about the girls state. "I need you to call this number, just tell her its me and I need we need her and Willson's help," she informed Scorpio her phone having opened the contact to her mother, yet it was just saying her mothers name: Sophia - not giving much information to Scorpio about who or why this woman was important to call. But Victoria could see in especially Kennedy's state, they needed some professionals to look at it, and she didn't trust that driving all way to Aston hospital would anything but cause a scene. "I'm fine, just take her," Victoria insisted as Scorpio wanted to help her inside, Scorpio walked over waiting till Kennedy had transformed back to help her inside so she could sit down. Then calling the number from Victoria's phone.

Victoria followed right after, feeling lightheaded once again, placing her hand against the front doors frame and took a sharper breath in, she knew her head at taken a hit. Her powers pretty much told her it wasn't good and that she should slow down and get some help. But she needed to know Kennedy was okay. It was first as she took the next step inside her legs began to fail her and send her towards the ground.

Helio remained the same, stern, it was easier like that. If he first let himself feel something towards her emotions, all he would feel would be pain. At least right now he felt in control of his own emotions. Then she started hitting him, pushing him back, but he didn't fight her back. He let her. It was hard for him to try empathize with it, mainly because he never had looked the girl in the eyes, it all seemed so unreal to him. "I don't question you on it, but maybe you should question who you are friends with, since they know this is your daughter and they did this to her," Helio replied looking Imogen in the eye. Then turning his head as he could hear Ximena's voice. "I wasn't actually planning on doing it, it was a what if - Ares might have pushed two of the triggers. But are you alright, did they hurt you?" Helio asked, only caring about this. But now if you will excuse me I have a phone call to make so I can make sure my daughter gets back safely," he commented, well he cared even if he didn't show it. And he knew Isla would know he was about to call.

"Can you go any slower," Francis didn't like this, getting moody over the fact he didn't trust that Helio hadn't already put Elijah up to something stupid. So, he knew he could call Juniper about it, but he also knew she was weakened by the forest taking damage. He wanted drive through Aston to check out the area for Elijah, but he also knew they had to check up on Southside first. Then he could reach out to Hope or Juniper - if they would pick up, it wasn't like he was having any good reputation. "Sorry," he mumbled also realizing they were rolling in towards the headquarters, just in time to guess that Kennedy and Victoria had made it back, even as he saw the Victoria falling towards the drown just as they drove in.

It was the first time she had ever shown anyone her form outside of the arena. Her dragon had been begging, clawing, howling—but she hadn’t let it, scared of what would happen if she ever let it loose. Who would see and report back to those who had kept her prisoner for such a long time.
But right now, she couldn’t give herself the luxury to worry about such things. She felt how tiny arrows pierced her skin, which meant that Victoria had taken some as well; she dived down and roared as she came to the headquarters. Seeing Scorpio coming off the doors, she could smell someone else—an ancient werewolf; it made her uneasy as she landed, changing back to her human form. “Fuck”, she hissed, almost falling to the ground if it hadn’t been for Scorpio’s support. “Don’t don’t let her out of your sight”, she hissed as she was helped inside, some of the other serpents looking at her “someone, get me a fucking coat or something, jeez!” she shouted at them, letting someone else take her upstairs to the office that had been converted into the use of those in the inner circle instead of an apartment that Jack had used before he had been demoted. Sophia was quick to pick up, not wasting a second before she called Willson, having him meet her at Southside; she didn’t like this, far from it, really.

Linus rolled his eyes but hadn’t said anything to Francis when he had commented on his driving. It didn’t take more than fifteen minutes before they drove into the headquarters, just in time for Linus to step out of the car running toward Victoria. She looked terrible, but that was something he could worry about later as he ran upstairs.

Minerva walked toward Scorpio, putting a hand on his shoulder; she didn’t need words to convey that she was here for him if he needed it.

Mena set her jaw, this was getting out of hand, and Helio could try to blame it all he wanted on his brother or children. But at the end of the day, they followed their leader, and she was about to have it up to here with all this bullshit. She walked over and put her arms around Imogen, guiding the grieving mother toward a spot where she could sit down, letting her head move between her legs.

“Yeah, I know why you are calling, but I’m pretty occupied here; I can’t help you” Isla’s voice was heard when an overwhelming explosion was heard in the background and then gunfire; “yep; I have to hang up, tell Imogen that her daughter will be with you shortly, bye now, love you” a small thing that she and her sister had always used, telling people that they loved that they did before hanging up, especially when you had no idea if it would be the last time you would speak.

And as Isla had said, all the shadows started to pull into a corner of the room, and from the shadows, a beautiful blond-haired demon stepped out, with a scared kid hugging around her waist, shaking badly. Atarah’s face was set in stiff folds as she looked towards Helio; lucky for him, she wasn’t doing it for him, but for Imogen, that worked for her and was a dear friend. “She’s fine, just pretty shaken up” Imogen ran toward Daphne and pulled her into her arms, crying as she kissed the top of her head.

Scorpio let his tongue run over his front teeth, annoyed and confused by all of this. He looked at Francis for a moment, he looked far from pleased. Then watching his father run upstairs with Victoria, two shifters down was not good. None of this was good. Scorpio looked towards Minerva and let out a sigh as she placed her hand on his shoulder. Maybe he should call up Hope, not because she had given him her number - but because he had found it snooping around at the academy. Letting her know to sleep with a light on. They never knew just what Helio and Elijah would do. Scorpio for one knowing a little bit about what Elijah was capable off. So, he opened his phone and texted her.

[11.27.] There might be threats lurking around from some demons in Southside, sleep with a light on and inform your sisters to do the same.
- your favorite cousin

Helio exhaled a little turning his back on the women, listening to Isla on the other line pressing his brows together. What the heck was she up to, he didn't ask. Not yet anyways. Helio let out another sigh as Isla hang up before he got to say much more. "It's taken care of," he turned his head towards the two women. Eris came out from the shadows, letting his eyes meet the blonde beauty's, not saying more.

Willson pulled up out front, having heard some of the explosions echo even from Aston, he didn't like why Victoria had asked for them. But he knew they had to go, so here he was, waiting for Sophia before heading towards the door. If anything he was happy that he was here with her and that she hadn't just rushed here herself. Willson walked towards the open door, surprised to see a familiar face. "Minerva?" He blinked a little bit, "anyone care tell us what happened?" He looked from the werewolf towards the other beings in the room. Then following Francis gaze upstairs.

Minerva turned and looked at Willson as he and Sophia walked inside of the bar. “Hi”, she whispered and then nodded before turning and looking at everyone else, looking like it was the day that the world was ending; at least no one else seemed to take over, so she did—she had after all, a lifetime of experience that most of these people hadn’t. “I’ll take you to Victoria, and another shapeshifter is down as well; this way”, she guided them up the stairs. “I think they have been shot with some tranquilizing venom; at least they are both out cold” she opened the door where Linus put down Victoria, “okay one of them is down” Kennedy lifted her hand and pulled a pained expression as she did “well I don’t think I’ll be able to stay away much longer,” she said with a distressed chuckle, but somehow she felt that she might be able to make the treatment of Victoria quicker and easier if she was able to convey what she was going through before she passed out. Linus stepped away letting his hand glide through his hair as he did, what a fucking mess this was, he needed to regroup and figure out who had been in the explosion and if there were any casualties. Now that they hadn’t harmed Ximena there might be chance that there wouldn’t going more down tonight, but somehow, he didn’t count on it, which was why he felt like he might be more needed out on the streets rather than sitting around here waiting for Victoria to wake up again.

Mena walked toward Helio and looked into his eyes “you went too far dis time” she murmured, before she turned to walk over to Imogen’s side, guiding her back to her car where she would drive her and Daphne home. Atarah returned to the shadows and disappeared. Leaving the leader standing back on his own as the three women vanished into the night, Imogen texting her sister on the way that she had gotten Daphne back and she was safely in her care.

Willson nodded and followed Minerva upstairs. Listening. Some sort of venom, that couldn't be good in any case. The warlock could feel his heart skip a small beat, last time he had been here if had been chaotic as well - just a whole other sort of battle. He looked towards Linus shortly and nodded a bit, then walking over to check out Victoria, noticing some blood near the ear, might be cause of the explosion. "If it's a specific type of venom there is a chance that only the person who created if can cure it," he informed before sitting down, "hope you aren't afraid of needles," he tried to lighten the mood a little bit. "You have any idea who might have injected the venom?" He took a blood sample from Victoria since she was the one knocked out by it. Willson knew her powers a little bit, and the he knew she could force her brain to wake up once she realized she was out cold. A dangerous move to make if her body was fighting just that. He placed the blood in an analyzer, maybe he should have brought Clay along with him. Willson hated to be the bringer of bad news, the venom in Victoria's body making him groan a little. Because one thing was magic, magic and science weren't friends. He couldn't just cure this with a spell without risking making it worse. "Someone knows what they are doing with this," he mumbled a little bit, then moving over to take a sample from Kennedy - same thing. It could take weeks to find some way to a cure, maybe hope Clay could do something. Willson just feared they didn't have that long, and even if Victoria would likely wake up after - he would like it better that she didn't have to go through another death. Who did had they pissed off? He wondered.

Helio took a sharper breath in and held it for a moment. Then shaking his head, he hadn't heard anything from Elijah, but also knew better than to disrupt him in his games. However a text from Ares confirmed that Elijah had been out dancing with the wrong people, well - perhaps they should have done some more stalking about their victims before picking them up.

Josephine took her phone out and exhaled. Now, the only reason she had taken the shot was to prove the point, that they had taken the wrong persons daughter. It wasn't personal that she had targeted Kennedy and Victoria with the deadly venom. Josephine knew how to cure it, but as she walked down the streets of the center of Southside and looked towards the bar, she couldn't really figure out if they deserved it or not. Going this far. It had been too far. She watched Francis storm off in his car, not seeing her that was clear. She just stood there for a moment, wondering if anyone would pick up on her scent inside or if they were too worried about the fate of their friends.

Kennedy shook her head as her lips pulled in a downward motion “Nope, can’t say that I am”, she said; it wasn’t the first time she had been examined. But she had a feeling that Willson would be far gentler than those doctors that she had seen while being locked away in the arena. “Some demon, I think that she’s the mother of Daphne” she turned and looked at Linus, his eyes narrowed, before he turned and looked out the window, down at the street where he saw a woman standing; now most people would look a single woman and think she was just at the wrong place at the worst possible time. Well, Linus wasn’t like most people, and he instantly connected the dots; she had to be the woman who knew how to cure Victoria and Kennedy. “I’ll be back,” he said and then pushed himself off the wall and walked downstairs without saying anything as he passed Scorpio and Minerva, that had taken the stairs down again, not wanting to be in the way. Minerva let her dark brown eyes follow the shapeshifter as he pushed open the door. Clearly, he was a man on a mission. And also, it would seem, the more levelheaded than his brother at this moment. Which could easily come as a surprise as Francis was the leader, and Linus just wanted to get what was coming to him. In the bottom line, Linus wasn’t a great or a good man; he knew that and had stopped trying to pretend otherwise for a very long time. He stopped a few feet away from her; “so, you made your point, or are you going to let them die because Helio fucked up?” he wondered, not even going down to the fact that he had been the one kidnapping Daphne. He hadn’t even used force, and there wouldn’t be a scratch on the girl; it was more a test to see just how far Helio would go when it came down to it.

Josephine kept her eyes in the door as Linus pushed it open. She knew who he was, pretty much down to detail she knew most of the people and had a brief summary of each member; both serpents and Coyotes. Josephine knew she easily could get a hand in one of the gangs but she chose and had always remained natural. At least till it came down to anyone harming her family: Imogen and Daphne. Even if she wasn’t the most carrying person, it would be foolish to assume that she would do nothing other than avenge her child. So, his reply make her chuckle a little bit: “Hélio’s mistake? If I’m remembering correctly it was you and your brother that screwed up the second you involved my family. Terrible mistake,” she pointed out and reached out in her jacket pocket after a small closed reaction glass with some green like substance. “I don’t want to be your enemy, so next time. Keep my family out of this, or there won’t be any cure.” She walked closer to him and hesitated a moment if she should give him the glass or not. For what she cared Linus and Francis could kill Hélio and put his head on a pike as an example, as long as they left Imogen and Daphne out of the trouble. So she handed it to him. “They should be back to themselves within minutes after taking this.” Josephine pointed out then taking a step back.

A grin formed over Linus' lips as he looked at Josephine; he could easily have pointed out that Josephine was a little too late in the game to start caring about a daughter that clearly did everything she could to get her mother's approval. It didn’t take a mastermind to piece the things together “do you really think we were going to send her to Mexico? The boat was going to the coast of England; the girl would have been safe at home by daylight,” he said and slightly lifted his brow when she mentioned that she didn’t want to be his enemy “well, I’m sorry that it affected your family” he wasn’t really, but he also understood that she at this moment held the power; “this was all a ploy to see just how much Helio was willing to sacrifice to get Southside back under his control, besides this was as much a warning to Imogen,” he took the cure “thank you” he put it in his pocket and then looked at her, almost expecting her to say something else, but he also knew that it wasn’t the moment that he should push his luck, sometimes it was better to walk away. “I’ll make sure that no one harms Daphne now that Helio doesn’t see her as his”, he pointed out before nodding; well, if anything, Josephine would be a much stronger ally, and he trusted her more than he did Imogen.

He walked back upstairs and handed Willson the cure “here, that should help,” he said, before turning around and walking back downstairs to get himself a drink, contemplating where they should go from here.

Sophia sat beside Victoria, letting her hand find her daughter’s shoulder, waiting for the cure to work, and she would return to her usual self.

Josephine didn't care much if they had made it a real threat or simply to scare Helio. It mattered that they had put Daphne into the game, a game that Josephine wasn't pleased about her being in. Yes, Josephine was not the most caring and overall present mother - but she loved her daughter, when her heart could follow the speed of her head. ... as much a warning to Imogen, Josephine narrowed her eyes a little bit, but let Linus take the cure. There were plenty of words wanting to leave her tongue, but she remained tongue tied on this note, because they weren't her enemy; they would be fools to make themselves her enemy. And Helio had just managed to piss her off, if she saw him, he would be fixed up with a way more nasty toxin than the one she had given the girls. "Good," she then nodded and turned around walking away. She had to get back to her girls.

Willson hated his too much, it was too close and he had not really counted on having to deal with this right now. But Linus returned and handed him something that should be able to help, Willson prayed it would. So, he made sure there was enough of the cure for both of the girls, first injecting it into one of Victoria's veins, leaving Sophia to look at her vitals and observe, while he injected it to Kennedy, keeping an eye on her.

Victoria finally seemed to take a sharper breath in, feeling it was easier to breathe again. Then allowing her brain to kick in and open her eyes, faster than she possible should be; but hey, it had its perks of being able to control your brain. "Hey," she took a sharper breath in and exhaled, having no real idea how thing could have gone. But she gave her mother a warmer smile, happy she had come here.

Scorpio looked back at his father who sat down at the bar, then taking a deeper breath in looking over at Minerva. Wondering what was going to happen now. Should he talk to Imogen about this, when was he allowed to even? Even if Scorpio was doing most things to break the laws and rules, one thing he always had done was following whatever his father had told him to do, so such thing as not seeing or contacting Imogen, he hadn't questioned it - even if he did have questions for the demon he had fallen in love with.