Take you away, show you the life, you'll ever see.

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Gabriel had spent his time in New York primarily on the streets, migrating wherever and whenever it was prudent. Some of Gabriel's best mortal days had been in New York, he'd even had an apartment for a short while in Harlem

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Narcisa held little love for what had become of the world in the long years since her embrace, both worlds. Mortals had made a mess of things, of the wilderness and the forests and the rivers, of course, but also of its cities. It was hard to describe beyond feeling, hard to express the changes she had seen come about, but like always she would endure, she would see this age come and pass, and renewal would come, as it always did. And she would be left standing. New York could crumble to dust around her and her pack but she and her mates would be left standing.

Most of her mates. A handful anyway. It seemed even her own kind were growing weak. Most of her own childer even. It made her sick to think that her city rested further in the palms of Camarilla than in claws of the Sabbat.

There was at least one she could count on to remain strong. The childe she was most proud of. She could even overlook the fact that he had fled this coast for California, had found another pack to run with, one that was mostly Toreador at that

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Shocked was a good word for what Gabriel felt when he heard an unfamiliar tread on the hardwood foyer of the apartment. He also heard Grendel's stutters, and a low female voice that he didn't recognize at all.

Presumably the approach meant that the visitor was friendly, to Fen at least, but Gabriel was hardly dressed to entertain. Or indeed even greet.

He turned as soon as the woman entered the living room, pausing with a smirk that made Gabriel's skin crawl. He turned his back to her, hardly ashamed but he certainly considered his cock a bit more than he wanted to share with strange women.

Even if this one was presumably Fen's Sire. Fen hadn't told him much, indeed, anything about the woman, but there was always that uncomfortable shiver up his spine, that sparked intensely when she moved her hair, revealing a horn.

Gabriel checked a snarl, directing his annoyance at Grendel instead, though he would more than make up for it later.

"If you will excuse me, Lady Narcisa." Gabriel left it at that, continuing on his way to the

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Narcisa kept an amused smile on her face as Gabriel fled the room; she dismissed Grendel with a small gesture, and then moved to stand by the wide floor to ceiling windows that made up one wall of the living room.

"Good evening, and well met. Despite Grendel's insistence, I prefer to be called Gabe."

The old Gangrel turned away from the window, back toward the Ravnos, that small smile once again returning to her lips, one that said she was stronger and wiser than the Ravnos, and he had better remember that.

"You must forgive my unannounced intrusion, Gabriel," Narcisa's words were polite, but her tone was far from apologetic. "I had hoped my Bjorn would be home, it has been months since I have seen him. He and I have catching up to do. But for now you must come and sit with me, I would like to get to know the Cainite that has my childe so distracted."

Narcisa moved to the wide couch that faced the window, gesturing for Gabriel to join her. Her eyes fell on the gun he wore at his thigh, and she raised an eyebrow. "You must be very

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Gabriel caught the slightest threat inherent in the smile she gave him, and he returned it with a curl of lips and a show of mortal teeth, a forced smile that meant i am not afraid of you.

And he wasn't. If this went poorly and Gabriel had to die at her hands, so be it. He would fight to defend himself if need be.

He would not ever grovel before a Gangrel.

She called Fen Bjorn and Gabriel checked a frown. She wanted him to sit, and sit he would. Gabriel was frustrated with her presence, put on edge by instincts that he couldn't comprehend, but he wasn't stupid enough to pick a fight with someone in their own territory. Plus, he still wanted to make a good impression, if just for Fen's sake.

Despite everything, Fen's Sire meant a lot to him, and far be it from Gabriel to change anything about their relationship.

He simply hoped that Narcisa's obviously poor opinion of him didn't effect his relationship with Fen