One big happy family. For bitter_brother.

[the_dead_lady]

Lilah has started keeping company since her
impromptu visit from the boy wonder. It's not the most ideal company - but she had learned a little from the good old days when she was alive and it was the old man that kept on making those unwanted house calls. Angel had taught her that the standard muscle men just didn't cut it - even if they were

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[bitter_brother]

"Crazy person off the street?" Tucker says, half-amused/half-wounded. He presses a hand to his heart and leans against the reception desk. "But what if I'm a crazy, scary guy off the street but I'm also authorized personnelIt's flirting. He's a little wigged out about the charges, now that he knows what they are. He's spent the last ten minutes reading dogbitelaw.com, and it hasn't helped his nerves

[the_dead_lady]

Hey!

Lilah hears the door-girl say as the door opens and Tucker Wells moves in, making noises that she can't quite make out but don't sound complimentary.

The girl in the corner looks up from her magazine, looks down again, looks up. Her mouth opens and shuts. She's dying to say somethingShe thinks better of it

[bitter_brother]

That's some greeting. Tucker stalks into Lilah's office and sets her coffee down for her. It's not a latte. His is the latte. Her's is a tripple Americano. Can't get too much stronger than that.

Unless it's Lilah's tongue. Strong. And sharp. Possibly forked.

Tucker smirks down at her and says, "Can you get your sweet little schoolgirls out of my eyesight? You never know when I might snap."

There are plenty of people who might have something against him. He walks deliberately over to where the girl in the corner is pretending to read a magazine and sits down next to her on the divan. Invades her personal space a little. Not TOO much, but enough to smell her soap and see what she's reading.

"Go on, now," he purrs.

[the_dead_lady]

It had been a serious question. That's exactly what Lilah wants to know. Who on earth - if that was their playground - cared enough to do this. You get rid of the source you get rid of the problem.

"Play nice, Tucker."

Lilah doesn't purr, but she does smile.

"I thought sweet little schoolgirls were just your style?"

Plenty of people who might have something against him doesn't equal plenty of people willing to go to the effort of digging up the dirt to nail him to the wall. And it takes a certain type of person to channel their revenge through the justice system. A person like Lilah, the sort of person Lilah can appreciate.

"Get out." Lilah tells the slayer. "He can't think straight when there's jailbait in the room."

The girl isn't jailbait, but whatever. She gets up, mostly relieved, and leaves.