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[_alex__]

Note to self: Stay the hell out of the M'lora dimension for a century or so. That was a lot of unnecessary violence. You'd think I'd be used to demons hunting me down wanting to settle scores because Dad or Vin pissed them or their family off. I'm not my father or my brother and really getting sick of being attacked just because of the family blood

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[_vince__]

*walks into the Sirens Layer, walks up to the bar takes a stole and orders a drink. askes for Rhia, learns shes on vacation. see's another familiar face down at the end of the bar. Orders him a drink has it sent to him* waits*

[_alex__]

*accepts the drink*

*looks down at the bar*

You have got to be kidding me.

*picks up the drink and makes his way down to approach Vince*

Following me? I thought I told you to knock the overprotective stalker crap off, Vin.

[_vince__]

*smirks*

Contrary to popular belief, little brother, I've got better things to do than follow you around.

I was here first, I came to see Uncle Mal and Rhia. What are you doing here?

[_alex__]

*looks stubborn*

How do you know you were here first?

*shrugs, takes a seat at the bar*

Looking for Rhia. She's in Puerto Rico.

[_alex__]

Block Mal from my thoughts? Sure, I can do that. Just don't expect me to be able to chew gum and walk at the same time.

*rolls his eyes*

You know, one day, you and Ma are going to have to accept i'm a man and not a little kid. Just sayin'. I had the fight mostly under control.

*looks uncomfortable*

Like it's any easier to be on this side of the fence, Vincent? Mom is the only one who gets me. The rest of the family, especially you and Dad, you guys...look it's not important. We all make choices and we live our lives the way we choose. Dad isn't avoiding me because I disapprove of him. He's avoiding me because he disapproves of me.

[_vince__]

You're missing the point, kiddo. You shouldn't have had to be in that fight. They ain't got a beef with you. But they know you ain't gonna sink to their level, so you're the safest way to send a message to us. It ain't right. And it ain't acceptable. Has nothing to do with whether or not you're a man. It has to do with they ain't allowed to touch you. Mal, Dad and i have made that perfectly clear but they keep doing the same damn things over and over. If they got a problem with Mal or any of us, they come to us. Not you.

*inhales and exhales before continuing*

Mal finding out you took the heat for him will bug him to no end.

*frowning*

I know you picked a harder path to follow. We may not get you, but you're still family. Dad may not be able to show it right, but hes proud of you. So quit the he dissaproves of you shit. Cause it ain't true.

[_alex__]

Heh, you forget, Vin, I can read Dad's thoughts. I know what he thinks about me. Look, I didn't want to debate this with you a century ago, don't want to debate it now.

*sits upright when he feels someone looking in his direction from across the bar*

Friend of yours back there or are we going to need to step outside? I've fought in a lot of places, but I am not ripping apart Rhia's bar. She scares me.

[_vince__]

*shakes his head*

Fine we wont debate it again. But did you ever think that maybe Dad puts those thoughts out there for you to read? Keep it all black and white for you?

*shrugs*

Whatever, man. You think what you want to. You always have.

*looks in the directions Alex is looking in. recognizes the guys heading towards them*

Settle down there, trigger. We wont know what they want til they say something. Last time I checked they were frinds, things change, you never know who's gonna turn on you. Though if they have turned on my I doubt they'd be stupid enough to try anything in here. rhia would kill them in a heartbeat.

*smirks*

Good. Having a healthy fear of Rhia proves you're getting smart in your old age.

[_alex__]

*smirks*

Vin, you're nearly two centuries older than me. You're old. Deal.

*nods his head*

Half these people are under his thrall. They keep recruiting others. See those pretty blondes with the two old guys? They're succubi.

Looks like there may be another love in, Bro. Might make the family business slow down.

*shrugs*

I don't know about big excitement, just want to break out of this holding pattern I've been in. Figured after Larissa, I'd shake out of it, but so far, not happening.

[_vince__]

*eyeroll*

Yeah, keep riding me about how old I am. It only points out you, little brother, are younger than I and in need of my guidance.

*disgusted*

Don't be too surprised if Mals in a bad mood when we see him then. He isn't too fond of the in laws. Guess that does explain why things have seemed quiet since the ascension that never was. Just fucking great.

*looks away*

Larissa was a bitch. You shouldn't let the shit she pulled fuck up the way you see life.

[_alex__]

God you are a study in contradictions, dear older and not wiser, bro.

*arches an eyebrow*

You tell me for decades I'm too trusting, too emotionally vulnerable and the moment I decide you're right and close myself off? You tell me I shouldn't change the way I see life.

Mortals and demons are predictable, Vin. They're out for themselves and mostly they don't care about their fellow man. I may not be a fan of the train wreck that was my relationship with Larissa, but I don't judge all succubi and Incubi by her, just like I don't judge them all by Rhia.

Maybe the world needs Pan to influence them. Get them to put away the rage and hate, stop relying on violence and weapons, and just fuck instead of fight.

Makes the world a lot easier to deal with, right?

[_vince__]

Yeah, you're too trusting, too vulnerable and that doesn't make looking out for you easy. But those things are apart of who you are. I just...don't want you to go from one extreme to another.

*jaw set*

Wrong. Wanna know why? Cause it ain't real, kid. None of its real. Pan uses his mojo and gets everyone feeling all good and shit. But when that goes away they're still left with themselves, who the were before he started working his thing.

You ask Rhia. Ask her if she had ever been in love before she walked away from that life. Then ask her if she ever had to wonder if they were with her because of her charm or cause of who she was on the insede. See what she says.

*shrugs*

I prefer those in my life to be real. Good, bad or indifferent. Whatever gut feeling they got about me, I want it to be cause of me, not casue they mindless puppets, under some love thrall. And I sure as hell don't want any succubus fucking with the way I feel either.