Safe Haven.

[Luigi Largo]

((Set June 15 right after Nothing's Going To Harm You. Closed to Mina, and the Largo's.))
Luigi walked up and down the hallways of the Largo manor. Moody as always, ticked off as always, but bored out of his mind. He had grown accustomed to the steady stream of paperwork, P.R. conferences, and everything else that had to do with the running of GeneCo.

And when he wasn't doing that he was doing something else (like stabbing people, getting really really drunk, hitting on peasant sluts and then tossing them out on the streets when he was done with them.) but here there was nothing to do. The town was almost completely dead and he was going through Geneterns faster than they could be shipped from Sanatorium Island.

And it irked him beyond anything else that Pavi not only liked it here (because of Mina) but that he had suggested in the past that maybe he should move her permanently in with them, or at the very least near them.

Neither of which Luigi was particularly happy about.
For starters anything that made Pavi happy, made Luigi furious. Usually he'd just stab Mina and leave it at that, but it was obvious that unlike other places The Dark Woods Circus would not only no be bribed, but might take revenge on him. Which considering what they did to innocent people who had done nothing to them....

Luigi took another deep drink from his flask. His mood darkening from the thought of Mina. Out the window he could see Pavi's limo returning from the circus. Usually he'd be gone all day (and most of the night) when visiting her. But this trip took less than thirty minutes.
"Some-thing's up." Luigi thought heading downstairs to see just what was going on with his brother.

[Pavi Largo]

The limo soon pulled up to hotel, and Pavi's guards wasted no time in helping he and Mina out of the car. Pavi refused to let any of them pull her out of his arms, not that she seemed to want to leave them, and they obeyed, pushing them towards the entrance of the building.

Pavi had tried calming her further, but it seemed that nothing could convince her that she would be completely safe from the creature that had attacked her. And, though Pavi would rather die than admit it, he felt a bit of uncertainty as to whether or not he could truly protect her without fear of the other man coming back for her. After all, he'd been unable to defend himself against Hyde, or his own brother...what chance did he stand against a man who'd managed to practically destroy a woman as strong as Mina?

However, before they could get very far down the hallway of the first floor, they happened to run into Luigi. The guards immediately stopped pushing the wheelchair, as ignoring one Largo's presence for the sake of another's had cost many previous guards their lives. Pavi tried to avoid Luigi's gaze, but as the situation somewhat called for him to say something, he managed a curt, "Mi scusi, fratello," before motioning the guards to push him forward again. He doubted he would get very far before Luigi stopped him, and questioned just what in the hell he was doing, but there was little else he felt he could do at the moment other than try.

[Amber Sweet]

Amber lay in her bed, she had taken a large hit of Z early in the morning and had spent the rest of the day in a euphoric high and sleeping deeply. Amber rolled over and noticed that the clock next to her bed read 1 P.M.
"Shit!" She said rolling out of bed and stumbling about her room. She grabbed onto a bathrobe and put it on. That was one of the nice things about living out here with just her brothers and a handful of sevents. She didn't have to constantly worry about her apperance and someone taking a photo of her at her worst.

Amber walked downstairs wearing underwear and just her bathrobe, hair a mess and makeup smeared. But what she saw when she got down stairs made her look beautiful by comparisson.
On Pavi's lap lay Mina, who she met days before, pale and dirty. Her face and neck caked with dried blood and dirt. And her neck, which Amber had never seen before, was scared up and bloody. It looked so raw with the dried blood on it, like chewed up beef jerky. And Pavi...Pavi was in a wheelchair and looked almost as bad.

"Pavi..." Amber said rushing down the stairs. "What the hell happened to her? And to you?"
Amber hadn't been around when Pavi came back to from the circus after he had gotten beat up by Hyde. (Well she was but she wasn't in the state to do anything but lay down.)

[Luigi Largo]

Luigi begrungenly stepped aside for Pavi, now that Amber was here he didn't feel to much like getting into a fight. Especially with what she was wearing...
Despite the seriousness that Mina was in Luigi couldn't help but stare at the sheer almost see throught fabric of her slilk robe. And the fact that she was nude underneath it wasn't helping matter either.

"Did Hyde do this to her too?" Luigi asked scowling deeply. He had gotten back from Hyde's "punishment" hours ago. And frankly the man disgusted him, he was worse than any of them. And considering who they were, that was saying something. "Fuck! We should've had him put down the moment he laid a hand on you. That....thing, isn't fit to walk this Earth."

[Pavi Largo]

Pavi was actually surprised that Luigi let him pass; but perhaps the seriousness of the situation called for even Luigi to set aside rivalry. However, before he could go anywhere, Amber immediately appeared just as he was about to move forward again. Shit. So much for taking care of the situation without dealing with questions.

Pavi met his sister's gaze, scowling a little at her smeared makeup and messy hair. Normally, he might have leered similarly to Luigi at the fact that his little sister was wearing next to nothing, but Mina was his top priority at the moment, and Pavi was more disgusted with the fact that his sister had been too consumed with Zydrate for the past day or so to take notice of practically anything going on around her. Namely the fact that both his legs were broken and he was currently in a wheelchair, carrying a bleeding, obviously shaken woman.

"Mina was attacked," he said in a deadpan tone, scowling deeper at the words. Turning to Luigi, he gave a quick shake of his head. "No. Someone else. Someone worse than-a that thing, according to-a her." Turning back to Amber, he continued, "As-a for me, I had...a bit of a problem with-a my 'competition.'" Pavi rolled his eyes at this remark, thinking it rather ironic that despite the fact that he'd lost the said competition, his opponent was the one going to be eliminated shortly.

"I need-a to get Mina cleaned up. I don't expect any help out of-a the two of-a you, nor do I particularly want it, but I would appreciate it if-a we could move along now," he added curtly, narrowing his eyes a bit as he glanced between his siblings.

[Mina Murray]

Mina was trying, very very hard, to keep still and quite. But every time she moved she felt a sharp stab of pain going through her body. One of her wings were torn pretty badly and the left side of her face was swollen and bruised. When Luigi and Amber showed up she felt ashamed.

She couldn't look up at either of them, instead she buried her face into Pavi's chest. But listened closely to their conversations.
"I wasn't sure, is all." Luigi said following after Pavi, ignoring his words. "I was there today, when they were punishing him. It's going to take a lot more than we thought to get rid of him. But it'll be worth it."

Luigi grew unusually quiet after awhile. Unsure what to say or how to say it next.
"There was a little girl there, the same one as before. Gwendolen her name is...she came to watch Flacier and Morgan punish Hyde. He...threatened to rape her Pavi. He threatened to rape little girl who's barely twelve years old."

Mina's face jerked up at that, and disgust and anger welled up in her stomach.
"Hyde did what?!" She said forgetting her wounds and fear in that moment. Instead she was angry, furious. " Did he touch her at all, wound her?"

"No. Not at all, but if got lose or tried...I wouldn't doubt he'd do it." He looked at Pavi. "Which is why until Hyde's dead, I think we should move her here, or at least as far away from the circus as possible. If he got loose, Pavi..."He left the rest unsaid.

[Pavi Largo]

Pavi held a hand out, motioning for his guard to stop suddenly. He turned to look at Luigi with an expression of disgusted shock on his face. Pavi knew of the fact that Hyde had threatened to rape an underaged girl before...but never one so very young. Even Pavi was above that, and he never let the women he raped live afterwards. It was his own sense of sick chivalry, he supposed; not leaving them around to have to deal with the damage and problems left over from the act.

He nearly answered yes, of course they should take in the girl...but suddenly, a rather backhanded thought came to mind. There was no way Luigi was going to take to Mina staying with them permanently now, despite the circumstances, but if Pavi could make a bargain of some sort...one that he couldn't refuse...well, he just might be able to convince him.

"If that girl is-a to come here..." Pavi said slowly, looking up at Luigi with a concentrated frown. "Then-a Mina is-a to stay as-a well. I will not-a bring her back to stay anywhere near-a that monster. If he is-a to do something like-a that to a child, Luigi, then-a what will-a stop him from doing the same, if-a not worse, to her? Especially given the current-a circumstances."

At this, Pavi gestured towards his cast legs, evidence that Hyde definitely knew of Pavi and Mina's love affair, and that he was not happy about it. Pavi didn't trust the brute around Mina in the first place, and now things were even worse. Wrapping an arm protectively around Mina, Pavi gave a deadset expression.

"They'll-a both stay here. At least until he is-a put down."

[Amber Sweet]

Amber came in at that time, catching the tail end of the conversation. The only thing she caught was something about Mina and someone else staying with them, and someone named "Hyde" who both Pavi and Luigi wanted killed.

"Ok, who the fuck is Hyde?" She said adjusting her bathrobe so it wasn't quite so open. "And who's going to be staying with us now?" Amber didn't really like the idea of anyone staying with them all that much, as this place was already crowded by her standards.

[Mina Murray]

"He's no one important." Mina said quickly to Amber, turning away from her as much as she possibly could on Pavi's lap so that the woman could not see her throat. "But if you're curious, he's the one who put your brother in a wheel chair."

It irritated Mina that Amber had no clue what was going on in her own household. And that one of her brothers was physcically unable to move and she was only just now realizing it.

"He also threatened to rape a little girl, several times." Luigi chimed in. Then added some what begrudgingly.
"Which is why we're going to let Mina and the girl stay here until he can be put down. For their own safetly."

[Amber Sweet]

Amber frowned deeply at the conversation, mostly because everyone had stopped paying attention to her (she hated that) than what the conversation was about. Though that troubled her as well.
"No shit they can stay with us! That's awful, and I am never going back there again! I mean, imagine what happens to the customers, if they're willing to let someone like that work there."

[Pavi Largo]

Pavi felt a bit of relief at Luigi's assurance that the two would be here...though admittedly, more for Mina's sake than the girl's. Hyde was a monster, and he would probably try and stop him from committing such a repulsive act normally, but he was more concerned about Mina's well-being, if her were to be honest. Though he didn't intend to tell Mina that, who would no doubt feel that he should be more concerned about the girl.

"Before we do anything, can I please take-a Mina to get cleaned up?" Pavi said, irritated with his siblings for simply being there and in the way at the moment. Mina was far more calm now that she had been originally, but Pavi wanted to keep her from getting worked up again, especially in front of Luigi and Amber, whom he knew she didn't want to show her vulnerability to. Which he could definitely note from the fact that Mina seemed to be trying her hardest to keep her throat out of Amber's sight.

"And there's-a something else out-a there that needs greater attention to at-a the moment than Hyde, I'm afraid," Pavi added more to himself, with a frown, as he turned his attention back to Mina. He frowned worriedly down at her, and gently placed his hand beside her throat, being careful not to touch the flesh for fear of frightening her again.

[Amber Sweet]

Amber nodded not knowing what Pavi was refering to. "I'll send up a couple Geneterns to run a bath for her and to help her bathe....and a couple of surgenes to take care of her wounds."
She thought a moment her face contorning in an almost grimice as the thought struck her.

"Does she need to eat something? Should I get someone for her to....eat? She 'll probally need a lot of, blood in her."

[Mina Murray]

Mina's head snapped up at the mention of the Geneterns bathing her. If they bathed her they'd have to touch her wounds...her scars. If someone touched them now, she knew she'd have another breakdown. And the women already hated her for taking Pavi's attention from them, more than likely they'd find way to exploit her fears. And talk about her neck and other faults.

Mina tried to tell Amber and Pavi that she didn't want that. But she felt herself become weak, from the bloodloss.
"Food first...please. I feel weak, if I could get enough blood in me I think I'd be able to clean myself."

[Luigi Largo]

Luigi took a step back when Mina said that, knowing full well what she meant by 'feed' as he had been at the end of those fangs before, and did not wish to be so again. Luigi didn't think that Amber knew just how vicious Mina could be when she wanted to be.
"So it's settled then," He said looking at Pavi. "I'll send a car over later today to pick up the girl," He glanced over at Mina then. Wondering if it was a good idea to have her in the same house as them, he didn't know how much she ate. Or even who she ate most of the time.
Luigi made a mental note to have all the locks on their doors double checked, maybe even re-blotted later that night.

[Pavi Largo]

Pavi shot his brother a glare, noticing the other step back at the mention of Mina feeding. More than likely she'd rather drink boiling lead than drink your blood, he thought sarcastically. He'd have to work on getting his siblings more accepting of Mina's "alternative diet."

But what sort of judgement did they even have right to? Amber probably consumed more Zydrate than actual food. With a sigh, Pavi turned back to Mina, holding her protectively. "I'll help-a her with the food situation," Pavi replied curtly to his sister, motioning for his attendant, who'd been waiting silently behind his chair, to push him forward again and out of the room. "Have the GENterns send-a some blood bags from-a the warehouse to-a my room," he said, turning back to glance at the man, who answered with a nod.

"I'll take care of-a you now, amore," Pavi whispered into Mina's ear, leaning towards to cradle her more closely in his arms. "Don't-a worry about Luigi and Amber. This is all just...a bit of a shock to everyone at-a the moment..."