Vampire: The Requiem (Role-Play)

"Good to know. Thank you, Alice. As for 'him', we'll wait for when we all get stronger, and let him slowly come to us. We'll take care of any 'distractions' and let you have your way with him soon. Don't worry, you'll get your chance."

Graves smiles and returns back to his side of the desk, and calls for their attention.

"Alright, people. I believe we've said enough for one day. For now, I won't ask anything more of you, so you're free to do whatever you want for the rest of the night. Sunrise isn't till much later. Enjoy yourselves for the time being. Hang around upstairs in that club, wander the streets or sewers, whatever you want, but just don't get into trouble. Takes quite some effort for one Ventrue to clean up a big mess. And remember, my door's always open whenever you need anything at all. So, for now, have a nice evening."

Graves sinks back into his seat and resumes smoking.

"Remember to heed my warnings, and should be safe. Oh, and in the drawer in the table in the waiting room, you'll find four cellphones marked with a name. Take your respective cell before you leave, so as to keep in touch with me and one another. Contacts have already been stored. Take care now."

Alice sighed again, "Very well then.".

She makes her way to the drawer, and the cellphone was her name marked on it, and keeps it within her pocket.

She goes up the stairs, probably making way to the club.

Cross picks up the phone... "Tsk, Iv had better!"
Cross grins "I'll be around!" Cross grins as he runs pass Alice.

"I'll be back, got to settle something. Watch if you want, Graves..."

I pick up the cell phone and head back to where I started, I notice that the bloody corpse with the symbol is dead, a blood trail leads to the other room. I hear movements and crying. The body was left at the door, scavenged of weapons. The girl cornered herself and is crying.

"Get back you son of a bitch!" she screams, she pulls out a gun. Once again, how we just met.

"Stay back! Just stay back!"

"Calm down, girl..."

"I don't know what or who the fuck you are! But I'll take you with me if I have to!" as she stands up, her legs are shaking and can barely hold a stance.

"Listen, I'll make you a deal... Give me some info on who your boss is and I might let you free..."

"Might? I don't know if I can trust you..."

"Who was the person that brought you down here in the first place? Who forced you in the front lines against me?"

She begins to react to this and starts to put the gun down, as I step forward...

"Stay back! Please! I don't want to shoot you again, you're not even human!"

I start to mess with her mind.

"How did he disappear? Was I seeing things?"

I come from the side and slam her into a wall. She begins to cry again.

"No! Please don't kill me! Leave me alone!" She screams.

"Hear me out, I won't kill you. Just give me some information first."

"Please, just let me go!"

"LISTEN, DAMN IT!"

She starts to simmer down and starts to calm down.

"I just work here as a bartender and DJ at times, I don't know much of anything else, just that the boss doesn't do much here and is a pretty quiet guy!"

"You're useless to me then!" I grab one of my knives and start to rip through her clothing, slowly...

"No! Please! Please believe me!"

As I start to focus on her movements, her genuine fear, movements and voice are sincere... I start to loosen my grip on her, after removing all the weapons on her and around her. I hear the sounds of a camera... Once again, reminded of Shirley, her eyes are the same. I finally let go of her and she drops hard.

"Please, let me go! Let me live!"

She picks up the gun and tries to shoot me, I dodge the bullets until she runs out of ammo. With a surprised and hopeless look, I once again rush her and slam her onto the wall. She faints once again...

"To think I even had the thought of killing her to have crossed my mind... At least this will make it easier to get her blood."

I sink my teeth on her neck, taking in a lot of blood. I haven't felt so satisfied on feeding before. However, as warned by Graves... I don't go the whole way... Licking any drop that escapes my fangs and around her neck.

As I finish, I lick her wounds. No more problems around here... She won't remember anyway. I set her down on the wall, in front of the elevator. I sit on the opposite side... Not knowing what to do...

Shirley... What the hell do I do now? I can't leave her here... Yet I can't let her live...

Graves watches the scene Richter puts on in the room he was trapped in with an almost disappointed face.

"The things I have to do..."

He walks over to the console and turns on the microphone.

"Ares. My office. Now!"

"Hurm. Should I take the girl while I'm at it?"

"Leave her. I'll deal with her later."

Graves massages his temples slowly.

"As long as you promise that you won't kill her or any harm will come her way..."

"Just get back to the office."

Son of a bitch... I can't take a risk if all four come down for me...

"Fine, I'll be there..."

As I arrive, I proceed to sit down on one of the chairs and begin the conversation.

"So then... What is it?"

Graves sits down on his own chair and confronts Richter.

"That was a risky stunt you pulled. One that you didn't even need to. What part of 'trust' each other did you not understand?! Besides...if you really wanted to know more, all you had to do was ask. At least, in private."

"Sometimes others say more than the main person themselves. Old habit of mine. Besides, not like she had anything on her. However, I would like to know what truly led you to this. There has to be more than Caramilla."

I'm being cautious for any slight movement...

"Weirdo... ", Alice thought to herself after seeing Cross pass by.

She went upstairs and found herself standing before a somewhat nightclub. It was darker than the usual clubs she's been to before. She gave out a sigh of relief, "How long has it been since I've been to such a place? I think I'll try to enjoy myself here.", Alice thought out loud, making a slight smile, she proceeded to enter.

((OOC: If anyone wants some character interactions, I'm up for it.))

Cross its sits near the center of the nightclub, surrounded by beautiful women. (HAHAHA, stupid human girls, can't resist me!, They look so ...tasty!)

"Ohhhh sir want another drink" ...the women bartender asked.
(tsk, time to put up my act...I better get food for this.)
"Why yes madam. I would love to have a drink," I smile "from you."
"R-right away!" She says in a stutter. (Too fucking easy....I really want to taste her, she better be good!) She comes back and givers Cross his drink. "Yes, thank you very much....would you mind coming with me to the back to have a drink too?" Cross says with a grin...the girl couldnt refuse.




Cross comes out of a room with bloody hands, "That was not worth the fucking trouble! I should of killed her for not satisfying me!" Cross calms down for a sec and starts looking around, and spots Alice(Hmm....thats that daddy's girl right...Alice was it, fuck she has a sexy look!) "Well, I have to trust her, might as well get to know the bitch, I think I can kill her if I feel like it" I say under my breath.

Cross walks behind Alice and speaks "Hello bit- I mean Alice. I didn't get to talk to you, Name is Cross." Cross said with an upbeat voice.

Graves takes a cigarette out once again and starts smoking.

"The truth is, it mostly is about getting back at the Camarilla. I don't really expect you to believe that. It's just, I've always been the ambitious type. Overambitious, you might say. That was another factor of people declining my ideals, aside from my inexperience. I had to make a choice: stay down like every other Kindred who was told that his dream would never come true, or take a huge risk that could either end in disaster or rise above every other covenant that came into existence in the world."

He exhales and sighs.

"And I'll be honest with you. I was actually scared of taking that big a risk. But call me damned if I was gonna let my fears dominate my ideals. I've already come this far, so I'm gonna follow this through or die trying. And I'm gonna need all of your help for it. Can I trust you on that?"

As soon as she entered, she saw Cross calling out to her, right before she ignored him and were about to move on, she remembered Graves' words, and decided not to ignore, "Hello! Its nice to meet you, Mr. Cross! I'm Alice, oh wait, you know my name already.", she smiled and giggled, and continued, "Is that what you wanted to hear when you called out to me?", she winked and showed her tongue, so as to mock him.

Cross was confused for a sec then "HAhahah! I love that response, and no I didnt want to hear anything like that, I felt like killing you for a second there." Cross said with a grin "Heh, so lucky I'm a nice guy!"

"Ahahaha, dream on scum! I bet you don't even know what a "nice guy" means.", she replied while smiling like a really cute girl, while showing no sign of any fear whatsoever.

"So how the hell is this girl a threat? I already told you, you have my trust. Besides, it isn't easy talking to the one who knows everything about me. How long have you been looking at both, Shirley and I?!"

"That girl you caught back there? She's just another human I used for your test. Don't worry about her. I have connections that can help me manage messes like this. I have backup identities for all kine I take under my assistance. Once their work is done, a little memory re-doing, new files, she's as good as new. To make sure such a system never backfires, I take people who don't have close family or friends they see regularly. That way, no one misses them."

He stubs the cigarette and continues after a sigh.

"Well, I'll be honest. What I've heard and learned about you initially was through classified information for various contacts. It wasn't till I spied on you one day that I saw you with her. There was something about you two. Something that really separated you from most Kindred. It made you more human, yet it also gave you a strength no one knew of. Made me really envy you. After that, I scrounged up some more info on Shirley, but nothing else. I actually wanted to give you to some privacy."

He smiled at the last part, but it soon disappeared.

"Then, I started hearing rumours. About a plan the Ordo Dracul had. About getting rid of both of you. To tell you the truth, I was hoping to get both of you in my team. It took some time, but I found out the location and time of the act. However, when I got there, it was too late. Shirley was already dead. I quickly hid from everyone's view and watched the carnage. I swear, just a little sooner, I probably could have saved you both. After she was done, they moved onto you. Of course, I was alone at that time, so I wasn't stupid enough to try anything, but...I saw the look in your eyes at that moment. A part of you no longer wanted to be saved, after she was gone. Am I right?"

Graves then has a solemn look on his face, with almost a hint of sadness.

"The sight was even more gruesome up close. You were out cold and almost dead, and she...I thought that the least I could do was close her eyes. I'm sure she didn't want to see you so helpless like that. I left just before you woke up. If it helps, and I doubt it will, I'm really sorry I couldn't save her. Scratch that. I'm looking into your eyes now. I should be thinking, 'I should be sorry I couldn't save them both'."