Metro 2034 Role Play.

[t⊗theark]

A knock came on that door very suddenly. Nikki dropped some of the things and answered the door. There was a man at the door explaining that he heard that Nikki was a mercenary and that the Hanza was not above hiring her for her services.
"I'm sorry mate, I'm about to leave"
"There's no leaving here ma'am, the outa defences are up so the tracks are on lockdown."
"What, why?" The man went onto explain the situation. Nikki saw the opportunity.

"Fine, 2,000 GMR's."
"What, are you mad? This is an emergency!"
"So you need me right? 2 K guaranteed."
"Wha- fine, what about 500 GMR." Nikki looked at him blankly.
"Do you think I'm a cheap *crow caw*? Well you're very wrong, I'm a very high quality *crow caw*"
"1,000?"
"2,000"
"1,500?"
"2,000"
"1,750?"
"Deal"

Nikki went to strive off with Yuri to go off and defend the station. She then stopped to look back at the vulnerable kid still reveling in his own nightmares. She then saw the bartender upbehind the young man rallying every able bodied fighter.
"Don't worry mate, I'll look after the boy and your possessions."
"How can I trust you?"
"How can you trust a god father with his god son and his possessions? Go!"

With that, Nikki waited for Yuri to catch up before them moved off.

[Yuno]

Yuri too had dropped the things he'd been gathering and rushed out past the bartender, "If that boy ends up in trouble I'll be back, and I won't be a happy drunk." He grinned saluting the man as he pulled out his shotgun loading as he followed Nikki, "So you're a merc and a *crow caw*. That's a nice set of skill you have there if you don't mind my sayin'." He chuckled as they neared a group of rangers who nodded waiving Yuri over. He veered to join them. They huddled for a moment before the broke off clearly having trained for this before.
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The butler was heaving in terrible pain from the shots and he looked up at Dimitri his vision clearly blurring as he began to fade from the pain. "I am a Lord's butler. I have diapered that man. I have taught him the gentleman's world. I have taught him to handle a sword, to dance, and waited on him everyday from the moment he awakes to the moment he slumbers. And you are asking me to betray that."

He was beginning to turn a sick white color, "You ask me to betray the little girl that I read fairy tales to. The young miss that I taught to ride and curtsy. The young miss that has colored my Lord's cheeks since he bought her eighteen years ago." The man shook his head smiling quietly, "I would not betray the only children I will ever have. God himself could not make me tell you where he takes her." He looked down, "I have done many wrongs. But I won't do that one." He slowly sank back as a maid scurried around the corner noticing the situation and screaming. "Over here! Hurry. The intruder, he's killed Gerard. He's a monster." She turned to run falling over herself in a frenzy.

Dimitri didn't even have to approach her for the answer to his question. "He's taking her to what they call the country suite. It's located several miles from here. The Lord keeps a home there. Most say it's for his dallying since his miss left. It's not well/" She was cut off by a bullet exploding through her head. Dimitri saw the butler's arm extended holding a revolver. His arm slowly fell as he finally blacked out.

[The ranger]

Reich land

Dimitri aimed his Ashot at the butler pulling the trigger letting the shotgun shell ring out as the mans face exploded. "Killing a innocent women is uncalled for." Hearing the albino pack again and a group of guards he pulled a sticky grenade out and threw it behind him running the hidden passage tram line the maid talked about and the area the butler came from.the explosion of gunfire and the grenade made his ears ring as he half stumbled half ran tworeds the door.
When he reached the hidden area a albino jumped him scratching at his back, Dimitri jumped forward foreign a dragon breath round into it and threw a knife at it for good measure. He then started to run cursing that there wasent another car here. Damn reich not thinking this threw.

Stations.
The few rangers that were at the station went over the defensive plan with yuri thinking that if they can get a flamethrower in front and bottle neck the mutants into it, then this would be good. Or exsplosives would work, claymores in particular.
The militia readied using the one inplaced wepone the had behind the barricade. Many we're old soldiers from before the war others young men and wemon.
Nikki was sent to the front left were some older soldiers were readying knifes and a variety of wepones.
"Please oh mighty lord let the angels of grace guid us and protect us from the women in black holding her scythe." A older man said as he loaded a clip into a valve rifle

[t⊗theark]

Nikki did some last minute maintenance on her equipment, checking the mechanisms of her of her Abzats, loading one of Dimitri's Dragon's Breath round into her Ashots, cleaning her new VSV and relishing this opportunity to use it. If she could snipe with that (please do not swear) lolife than nosalis headshots would be her claim for sure with her new companion.
"Hey, you ol' geeza," she said to the sesperate man, "Your god abbandoned us a long time ago, you should play on this the woman in khaki holding the rifle." She said with a confident smirk. in truth, her heard was in her throat. When thosemutants gather in packs, it could be uncanny how well they coordinated. She looked down the tunnel as if she were waiting for the tides of hell to come in. A couple of distant grunts had many of them on edge. Nikki used the scope of her salvaged weapon to see if she could glimpse any scouts for the horde. There she saw a little movement.
"Alright, I have some movement fellas, hang tight." One of the men moved their flood light further down the tunnel. There they saw a small scouting brood nosalis, lead by a green variant clinging to the ceiling of the metro. There leader dropped and crashed to the ground as Nikki sniped the creature out of impatience. She pulled the bolt for the next round as the rest ran back to report to the main pack...

[The ranger]

Station

The first wave of nosalis came forwarded atleast 20 of them to start. Five moved to the left, the left held Nikki and a few old timers, another five went to the right to the rangers and yuri. The other ten went forward to the gate and first barricade. Inside the barricade men and women of the defense team were slaughtered at the sheer brutal assult in the first two minutes five humans lay dead as only eight nosalis were dead. The rangers opened up with there AKs and fired taking a few more down. The old timers weren't that bad one of them even took his knife out and got two in the head before being knocked backwards into the barricade. The militia force would probably hold against this attack.

Hidden reich tunnel.

Taking his mask by the lower right corner, Dimitri ripped it off. It was blood stained and broken beyond use. His hand then went to his wound above his right hip and held it, blood was gushing out but it was still hurting. And the worse was to come, behind him three albino nosalis. Dimitri turned letting lose with the rest of his clip from his VSSK. He was on his last mag now, and broke off into a mad dash for the light at the end of the tunnel. He was five minutes away now.

[Yuno]

Vladmir dragged Aninka from the truck as his personal guard captain approached the two. "Miss. Lord. We are securing the area as we speak. It would be best if we got you inside." Vladmir continued to grip Aninka's wrist as if she might run off otherwise, "What is the situation at the estate?" The captain grimaced, "Your butler and a maid are both dead. Few others are wounded. Some damage to the estate by the intruder's entry. Nothing too terrible. He's left now, on his way here from what we can tell. Shall we drag him in or just leave him to the buzzards?" Vlad considered before answering, "Bring him in if you can. I'd like a word and the honor of disposing of a man who has taken such from me."

Aninka came back to reality long enough to mutter, "It isn't Yuri." Vladmir nodded at the captain as he dragged Aninka into the smaller sanctuary. It had served as a pleasure palace for his father, but Vladmir had it turned into a hideout after his death. It was small, but well decorated and a good place for holding high level meetings. He didn't speak as he dragged her into the hall pushing her against the wall harshly. She slid down it without a sound and continued to not give him the response he desired. He leaned over her growling, "Is it Yuri?" She looked up with no emotion, "No. It isn't. I don't know who it is. But Yuri wouldn't have made it this far. He's not smart enough or strong enough."

Yuri leaned back grinning to himself. As petty as it was, he was glad to hear this from her lips, and he stroked his stubbled face happily as he dwelled happily on her words. It was just some clever Spartan then. Or at least a thuggish one with endurance. Slowly, his mind drifted back to Aninka who had finally begun to cry again. He considered her for a moment, torn and muddy dress, sliced up feet that were adding blood to the mess, her hair was in complete disorder from the wind, with tears dripping over dust. He moved forward slowly lifting her up into his arms, "My dolly got lost again didn't she. And hurt. She was being foolish and made me angry." She let out a small whimper before burying her face in his shoulder. He petted her hair as he walked through to the sitting room. "It's alright stupid-face." He said smiling as he set her down on the sofa. She choked on a laugh. He left only to return with supplies to clean and medicate her feet.

As he worked he looked up at her smiling, "Do you remember the day you ran away to the city after me?" Aninka had stopped crying by this point and sat like a wounded animal on the couch. "I do." She said with the smallest of smiles. He smiled back up at her as she continued. "I don't remember why you'd gone. Only that I wanted to come with you. And father said no. He said it wasn't the place for a little girl."

"And you slipped the maids and Gerard and walked there all by yourself, " Vladmir supplied easily.
"Yes. And then I got there, and I was very lost. I couldn't find the baker or candy stores or anything. And I was tired and nobody would help me. They just kept walking by until I was crying for help."

Vladmir grinned as he pulled a piece of rock from her foot. "Yes. And when we got back and you weren't at home father fell into a mad state. He had all the servants going out for you. Even me and Gerard went out while he sat at home worrying." She grinned at this, "And I was just sitting there crying, and this pimp comes up to me. I'm six years old he comes up to me and starts trying to drag me off while I scream that he isn't one of the Lord's men."

Vlad dabbed at her feet with water cleaning away the dust and mud. "And me and Gerard were the ones that stopped him. Gerard broke his hand as I remember. And once he'd sent the man running off you were just standing there dirty and crying." Aninka glared at him obviously not feeling this was the good thing he thought it was. "It wasn't a good thing." Vladmir smiled as he began to wrap the bandages around her feet, "I don't know. I thought it was very cute to see you stand there sobbing as you explained what you'd done and why. It was very amusing to see Gerard conflicted between scolding and comforting you." Aninka had to laugh at that. "But you taunted me that I was going to be in trouble!"

Vladmir shrugged at this as he finished tying off the bandages, "Yeah. I was ten. That's when ten year old boys do. They call you stupid face." Aninka glared as if she could freshly feel this scorn. "And then Gerard carried me to the carriage while you followed behind taunting me. Then he put us inside."

Vladmir moved from his position on the floor to sit stroking her lower leg. "Yes. And you started crying again because I got you very worked up and convinced you'd be strung up and beaten." Aninka grinned at the thought, "You were a mean thing to do that to me. I was six." Vladmir grinned at the thought, "Yes. But it is quite funny now. You crying over it. And then I felt bad and I hugged you until you fell asleep." Aninka looked up thoughtfully nudging him with her leg slightly, "What happened after that?I don't remember." Vladmir shrugged, "I don't know. I fell asleep too." She smiled, "I bet this happened. We got home, your father and Gerard found us like that. And your father said something about how it is good to see that even though we fight like that cartoon cat and mouse we really do love each other. And then I bet Gerard being the joker he is asked which of us was the cat and which the mouse." Vladmir laughed at this heartily, "Probably. And I bet my father said I was the mouse and you the cat, but that it would change, and someday you'd be the mouse and I the cat." Aninka nodded laughing at this. "Yes. Probably." Vladmir smiled at her leaning forward, "But I still think you're my doll. Just like I did the day we found you." Aninka smiled leaning forward to kiss him.
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The guards descended on Dimitri like wolves, well organized and totally ruthless. He found himself surrounded by guns of all kinds, "You'd do best to put that down Spartan. Our master has elected that we bring you in alive. Come quietly, and at the very least you can bleed to death in comfort."

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"Sir, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but" Vladmir pulled away from Aninka his hand slowly sliding away from where it had been pulling her skirt up and he turned to look at his Guard Captain, "Yes what is it?" His voice was terse and showed his disgust with the situation. Aninka grinned impishly as she moved to slide her arms around his shoulders and look at the captain. "Sir, our men have him under gun. Where do you want us to take him."

Vladmir nodded at the ground, "I want him right here. And try to keep him alive if you can." The captain salluted relaying the orders to the men in a way that Dimitri heard. Then he left, leaving Vladmir with Aninka once again.

[t⊗theark]

Nikki pulled up her rifle and unloaded the magazine after the assult.
"Can I go now?" she looked up at a superior-looking bloke, not exactly the most familiar with this station's heriachy, like an impatient child .
"You want to go now!? How about if there are other waves?"
"I'm sure you'll handle it. Now where do I get paid up?"
"How can we be sure that you even-" she put a finger to the man's lips and handing him one of her bullets.
"This VSV has a very particular calibre, if not at least 4 of those things have that sized hole in their head than you won't have to pay me. And I mean really, you're inconveniencing me to no end you guys are."
"Fine, I have sent a message to the town hall, you can't miss where that is, your payment should be waiting for you there." She walked away without another word.

After returning from the town hall to collect her bounty, she went back to the pub where she knew Alex was probably sleeping. She went upstairs to and oprened the door to where his God father had pointed a sawn off shot gun at her, a potential threat.
"Ah, sorry. You know it's rude to burst in like that, no?"
"Sorry, I just want to get out of this god forsaken place. I'll wait for my friend before we get to the Polis."
"Ah, yes, that reminds me. Joseph, littly here's uncle, has contacted me. He said that there was some increased activity there too."
"How is he in contact with you?"
"Boris became a piece of (please do not swear), Joseph remained a good man however. He even raised Alex while his father didn't want him. He remains loyal to his father's contacts and is a smart man, the smartest in all the mtro, I'm telling you," he said with his tongue in his cheek, "I think the better question is how will you get there? Cars won't start moving until news of roving packs of nosalis gets around."
"I'm with the young man next in line to be the smartest in the metro, he would know the service tunnels there and it would be quicker that track the way he moves."
"Good. You wait for your friend then, he says he'll meet you there. He said that he now lives where the University is, The Emerald City, where he's keeping Boris' granddaughter safe. Funny, I didn't know he had a grandchild, I thought Alex was an only child" Nikki smiled at this little bit of news, she knew people who moved there too.
"He is," she responded, "He's a Riga boy, the reputation is only slightly worse than reality. Don't think about it too hard, a lot of kids come out of there for a reason. Drink?"
"I'd love one."

Alex stirred a bit before screaming from his nightmare in a cold sweat.
"Good, your up. We're waiting for that man, I forget the name but I know he was with the nazi chick, and we're off to the Polis." Alex panted for a bit,
"Uhm well, okay. Who's he?" he looked at the bartender,
"It is best you not know, I have a bad case of trouble and am highly contagious." he said before leaving. NIkki gave him a nod of approval,
"Well get dressed, we're just waiting for somebody and we're (please do not swear) off out of here."

[The ranger]

Station.

The horde approached the sound of a large growl was echoed threw the tunnels as a wave of nosalis attacked again fallowed, by a mix wave of plated and normal. Then she came, a big mama. The rhino charged gathering speed enough to knock the first barricade flat. Bullets rained from the wall baricade as nosalis tried to get into the station. The rhinos arms raised as she started to pound on the gate. The rangers moved the mini gun and aimed it at here letting lose with large wepone.

Hidden reich bunker

The albionos weren't stupid two left they needed more. A nice call from one echoed down the tunnels calling for what ever nosalis were left in the reich station to get here now.
Dimitri was half dragged half carried into the room with ani and Vladimir. His wound re opened again bleeding slowly. He thought to himself, Diana would probably kill him when he got home, if he ever got home. He looked up and smiled looking at ani. "Hey kid, who's the new boyfriend." He said getting the stock of a shambler shotgun to the back of the head. "Ow. Ok fine I ment the new *crow caw*" he chuckled getting another hit harder this time to the back of the head makeing him fall to the floor. One of the troopers picked him back up and took his face makeing him look at Vladimir.

[Yuno]

Vlad hadn’t acknowledged Dimitri as he was dragged in, as if he was below looking at. Instead he continued to stroke the side of Aninka’s face far more interested in her reaction at the sight of Dimitri than in Dimitri himself.
He watched her face move from that of total adoration and desire for him towards noticing Dimitri from the corner of her eyes. The look didn’t totally fade, it more seemed like she was trying to make the two pieces of emotion fit together in a way that they couldn’t. So her face just registered shock as Vladmir continued to run his hand down her face and neck to linger at her side.
She looked at Dimitri as he spoke to her, making it clear he had her full attention. She looked plainly surprised at him. She didn’t stop the guards from the smack, and he watched pain register on her face at the *crow caw* comment, even though she somewhere in her heart suspected he hadn’t been meaning to imply she used men. Seeing the look on her face Vladmir finally addressed Dimitri, and his face displayed malice and enjoyment of the other man’s state.
“Do not speak to her, you are lesser, I have not had you brought here to address my bride.” The guards were looking at Vladmir with anticipation of him wanting the man beaten. Vladmir moved from the couch his hand moving to lift Dimitri up by the collar, “You killed my maid and my closest confident and manservant. You trashed sections of my estate, and now you come here and dare speak to what is mine.” Vladmir grinned as his hand moved backwards to strike. The blow never landed, Aninka had finally stopped sitting on the couch and was holding his arm with a grip that looked like it could break diamonds. “Don’t. This one is mine.”

She looked up at the guards her tone thick with ice, “Leave us.” The guards looked disappointed and looked to Vladmir for confirmation, he looked frustrated but nodded suddenly, “As my lady wishes, so I shall grant. He is her’s. Leave us.” The guards moved out as Vladmir stood looking at her, “Remember who you are Aninka. And remember who these people are.” He gave Dimitri a kick as he passed out of the room slamming the door. Aninka waited to hear the steps away before she went to Dimitry whispering frantically, “What are you doing here?”
She noticed his numerous wounds before he could respond and she rose not noticing the pain in her feet as she moved to the first aid Vlad had used on her. She returned holding the basket, “Come on sit up. Let me look at this.” She sat him up long enough to pull away his jacket and shirt before pushing him back down and hovering over his wound dabbing at it with this and that before going to work on bandaging him. “You idiot…why would you come here. If it were Yuri I might have understood, but you? What were you thinking?” It was easy to notice the practiced hand with which she worked sewing his wound together, almost as if she’d received far more than first aid training.
Yuri appeared moments later wiping sweat from his brow and blood off his boots. He noticed Alex and smiled waving. “Hey. Good to see you’re up. We’re setting out the moment you’re ready. And seeing as I’m not getting paid for this, I wondered if you might tell us some stories along the way. I can’t read very well, but I figure a bookish lad like yourself might know something worth hearing.” He tossed a loaf of bread forward to them both before he sat down to begin the process of cleaning and reloading.

[The ranger]

Dimitri stopped her as she was sewing him up placing two fingers in his wound and pulled a small cloth out that had a small blade wrapped in it. "I made a promise to a old dieing man that I would save." He stood up and gripped his side leaning on the wall. "A lost soul looking for the light. And now, I'm not one to kill a lady, the maid was shot by the butler, and we will probably have a veary bad encounter in a few moments. There were two albino nosalis after me and they will probably bring more with them." He took his lighter and heated up the blade, he then pressed the hot blade to his wound gritting his teeth. "And you protected Diana those years ago. Now I, will do the same.". He slid back down the wall coughing some,

[t⊗theark]

"Do you here that?" Alex said,
"(please do not swear) that Yuri guy, where are the service tunnels into the Polis?" Nikki barked back.
"Nikke, we have to-"
"-We don't have to do diddly (please do not swear) for them. We need to keep you alive."
"Why, why am I so important?"
"Because I have no idea what your dad was doing with the fate of the VDNH commonwealth but if it made them want to kill his whole family than you have some (please do not swear) power. You've had your time being insignificant. Now I'm going to take you to the roof top and we're finding a service tunnel out of here." alex backed off again, his head held low. Nikki hadn't the time for apologies.

As they were making their way to the next Red Line station, they could hear the sound of battle below. Alex stopped as a ventr grid let them see the battle lines as heavy weaponry held back the tide.
"Nikki!"
"No!"
"But they'll die."
"Some of them, yeah, but I think they can handle it."
"It's huge! You have to...." Alex' whiney pleas by this point were tugging at her heart strings. She could hear the cries of despair slick the air like a thick crude on crystal waters as the Rhino came charging.
"Fine!" she snapped as she took aim, kicking the vent grill out. It took all of her concentration to track the huge beast as it absorbed heavy fire. She tried to make sure she wasn't emotionally involved. She waited until she could hot a clear shot at its head. She didn't mean to take the shot when it happened, it just sorta went involuntarily. For a one in a million chance the bullet embeded itself into the creatures vestigial eye and deep into its brain. If feel just short of the barricades. Looked at Alex,
"Can we go now?" as they made their way to Krasnye Vorota.

[Yuno]

Yuri had stepped in front of Alex as he pleaded with Nikki, "Lad, sometimes the best help you can give these people is to get to the ends." He ushered them along as best he could after Nikki helped the people. At most moments, he found himself helping the two up and around obstacles to their physicality and acting as a rather excellent pack mule.
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Aninka's face hung shadows covering her face as he spoke. She considered what to say to this mad man. She knew Vladmir would be returning soon, and it was likely that when he did he would require an explanation as to why Dimitri was not dead or in multiple pieces. She knew that she wasn't who this man thought her to be. She could talk a very good game. And she wished that the world she spoke of could be, but nobody had to tell her that such thoughts and ways existed only in fairy books.

"I'm not the person that man thought me. And I did nothing for Diana, I was a coward then. I could have taken her out of there, I had the ability." She shook her head, "Thank you for this, but I do not deserve the life you offer me. Please, I will help you leave this place, but you must go." She stood up slowly rubbing her blond waves sadly, "Go back to your life, any debt you have to me or that man is absolved."

The door opened to reveal a dangerously smiling Vladmir. He strode in looking at Dimitri with cold eyes, "My. You aren't in pieces. That's not only surprising, but you also have your shirt off." His gaze turned to Aninka as the guards advanced towards Dimitri. Vladmir moved towards her his hand sliding up her waist to her throat. He gripped her hard, "Explain to me, my beloved why he isn't dead or cut up. Explain it quickly, as a fight is brewing and I haven't enough resources here." Aninka's face showed true fear as he squeezed her face harder, "He's no one to concern my blades with Vladmir. He isn't worthy. Just let him go, it was a fools errand he got sent on by command. A mistake." Vladmir only squeezed harder and turned to his guards, "Kill him." The guards moved drawing guns while Vladmir raised his hand to wave in a firing motion. Aninka grabbed his hand, "No. Don't. Please don't. He's just trying to help me from a fate that he doesn't understand. You would kill a man who protected your beloved." Vladmir leered at her his hand slowly falling as he cast Aninka aside from him hard the marks from his hands already showing.

Aninka's face showed hope despite this, and it was that look that caused Vladmir to call, "Kill him." Aninka rushed forward throwing a gun from her hip towards Dimitri and yelling, "No." Vladmir turned in a rage falling upon Aninka his hands finding her throat where he began to squeeze harder, "Why do you do this to me Ani, work me into a rage, who is this one?" It wasn't long before he released her throat because she'd gone unconcious.

[The ranger]

Precision was a snipers virtue. The lowlife being slid tworeds him, the knife still hot in hand and a barrel to his face, as a sniper he viewed things faster his mi d slowing time down for him. The knife he could stab into the one closer turning the barrel of the one at his face to aim at another man and catch the lowlife up into his own hand were he could fire of rounds into each one of them.. He would do this now.
Dimitris hand reacted stabbing the hot blade into the eye of the man with the shotgun gripping the gun and moving it at the ba$tered rifle man as the shambler fired letting pellets fly into one. Dimitri turned grabbing the lowlife spinning it in his fingers. putting a round into the mans head that he stabbed and another three into the man that had his VSSK. Dimitri then turned the lowlife at vlad as he went for his VSSK placing it on his back.. " now. Shall we start with you hurting a women." He says shutting the door as the nosalis have regrouped in the tunnels makeinig there way for vlads little summer home.

Station
The station rejoiced as the rhino went down militia and ranger alike fired everything they had at the remaining nosalis. Cheeses of triumph and jousts of pride filled the baricade.

[Yuno]

Aninka lay motionless splayed over the couch her arms having fallen limp one hanging off the couch the other open palmed beside her head. For a long moment, Dimitri couldn't have been certain that Vladmir hadn't graduated from hurting a woman to killing one. But then her chest slowly rose up drawing in a small strained breathe. She didn't move at all.

Vladmir was clearl furious at this, but he composed himself far quicker than anyone normally would have. His confidence was alarming, and seemed to smack quite a great deal of Aninka herself. "I'm not inclined to discuss anything with you, Spartan." Vlad's gaze flicked over to Aninka and although it seemed ridiculous, Dimitri could see true concern and love in his eyes. "She disobeyed me, and now I've taught her the error of stepping in my way. She won't forget the lesson, and our relationship shall be better for her understanding."

His gaze once again flicked over to Aninka before he strode towards a cabinet pouring out a glass of vodka, "You aren't going to hurt me." He smiled as he drank the glass down, "Because if you do, she'll kill you, and I suspect that for all your bravado and disregard for the way of things, you care about her, and what she wants, and while you might not like it or approve, she does want me." Vlad poured another glass grinning momentarily as he drank it before he turned coldly towards Dimitri, "Do not think to understand our relationship as a man hurting a woman. She has been many things to me for many years, and we are far above your wholesome ideals of chivalry."

He glanced at Aninka again before he moved to approach her wondering if Dimitri would allow it.

[The ranger]

Keeping the lowlife leveled to vlads head Dimitri moved closer to ani and glanced back at her. " come on kid get up and if you have to climb on my back we are leaveing now." He said gesturing vlad to get away. " I will kill you if you come any closer." In his head he could remember what the old man said

He said. "Listen Dimitri, that girl is a lost light." Kiro held the cross he kept close to him. "As a shepherd I must take on the responsibility to guid them to the light.. Dimitri, would you kindly, go and fetch the child." Kiro said lying down on the medical bed as Dimitri left going after the reich.

Returning to now Dimitri pulled the hammer back on the lowlife saying again. "Get back I said, you will never touch her again"