Shoot or hug or both?

[Aden-OCarrol]

Laughs" Joe is probably the only friend I have in this town. I don't know my sire I'm assuming she just puts up with me. I don't think she has what to do with me either. I'm not an easy person to deal with. I do what I want I'm not really a team player. I naturally travel upstream. I'm direct in what I say, I do what I want and how I want to do it."

He leans back and looks up at the ceiling " I forgot what her real name is, I call her Valkyrie. She looks like Britney Spears like literally could probably her doppelgänger. She yells at me a good bit glares at me a lot too. Probably happy when she doesn't have to spend a lot of time with me. She owns a club and some other type of store. I work at her club as a bouncer on occasion but mostly unload the truck. Give me something to do. I love her in a way I don't really have words to explain. Like she's a sister, in a way it's deep but complicated. But not like a girlfriend."

Leans his head back runs his hands through his hair then combs his beard a little bit." I have a girlfriend or mate. I call her beauty she calls me Beas". She's young as you may be a little bit older. I know that old man trying to regain his youth thing. She's interesting, she threatened to shoot me in the nuts a lot. She's adorable, she doesn't expect a lot out of me at least at the moment. But I have a feeling that's going to change and were probably going to have that argument about her demanding I move in with her instead of living in hotels here soon. She disappeared for a while now she's back, interesting things are going on so I'm not exactly sure was going to come of it." then he suddenly stopped. " She is going to smell you on me and I'm to get yelled at. I swear some house to know the difference between the feeding on you and spending this much time with you I don't know how. And she's gonna think that I was trying to cheat with you. This going to be funny and complicated to explain. Then she'll probably use you to gang up on me. Valkyrie will probably do the same when she meets you."

gets up and starts to stretch" Which is funny with all of my issues with women. " Spins around and looks at his daughter. " So I don't expect you to call me dad, I haven't no way to earn that title. Call me Red, but if ever at some point that feels comfortable to you and welcome to call me dad. But only if that ever feels right to you okay? Did grandpa know why you took off?"

[Cara (DELETED 10504)]

Boy this is weird isn't it? she thought as she listened to him elaborate more on his sire, this valkyrie woman. Seemed an odd situation, but then again, there wasn't anything else normal about any of this so why should that be. Not like it would make anything actually more normal, if anything it would just not fit with the trend at this point.

Ah, and there was the girlfriend. Hm, rather long then? Well, when vampires were brought into the picture did age really even matter at that point once you got to a certain age it was surely all the same from then on out. She was pretty certain they had to be somewhat immortal if not just have longevity. After all that was one of the most common and basic assumptions so it was more likely one of the true ones. Cara raised her eyebrow at the mention of the girlfriend smelling her on him, "Vampire too then I imagine."

Cara considered his next mention on meeting them, and then on calling him dad, something she simply nodded at, and then onto whether or not her grandpa knew why she'd left. Cara shrugged and half nodded, "Pretty sure I told him. If not, I'm pretty sure he'd have found it obvious. He was kind of the origin of most of what I actually know about you so that would make sense don't you think."

She shoved herself to her feet and off the chair walking up against a wall and fiddling with her knife absentmindedly in thought, "So, you don't think it's any problem for me to meet them then? I mean, would you explain the truth? Also, you're girlfriend smells people, freaky."
she shook her head looking at her knife, really that shouldn't be a surprise. No, it wasn't a surprise, it just sort of piled onto everything else she'd just had to absorb so quickly that she had just sort of had to shut down her idea of awe and disbelief at this point about anything he told her. She could believe just about anything at this point.

[Aden-OCarrol]

" Sure, Valkyrie is a bit easier. It's not like she can smell you, your mom had this power too. She could swear. That if a woman hit on me or was all like close to me, touch me that she could just know. She always claimed she could smell them on me or something. I know I swear it's one of those women six sense power that some women have. We had several big fights about her claiming that I was cheating. Which I never did."

Reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out his cell phone as he started to text " So ... there is someone that wants to meet you. Ummm, it's kind of important. .... " Hit send. " Cara think fast" As he quickly tossed his phone at her.

"You might as well put my number in your phone, is a lot easier if you just text yourself." If she paid attention to his contacts it literally had four numbers in it. Joe, Valkyrie, Beauty, Brit.

About the time that it landed in her hand the phone buzzed. Across the screen, there was a response from Valkyrie.

The text read " Okay? Set a time and place, I'll be there" from Valkyrie/a.k.a. Kira.( Was given permission}

" That was a response from her wasn't it. She's probably confused as I never use the word important. "

Holds out his hand and wait for her to toss the phone back. " It's starting to get late/early. The sun is going to be up in an hour or so. And I'm going to need to rest and you probably do too. That's probably a lot to take in. Check that hour change and find a good one to give dad a call. He probably told mom you're on some type of explore America trip. Figuring out what you want to do before you go to college. I can take you shopping tomorrow if you want. You probably need to give you the number to the lawyer so he can give you your bank account."

He stopped and started looking up at the ceiling as she could almost see his brain working " Armstrong's... No... Morgan and Morgan. 770 – 453 – 2731. Gary Olson. That's who you want to speak to.."

He gets up and starts to walk towards the door than he stops turns around and looks at her " Do you at least want to hug?"

[Cara (DELETED 10504)]

Cara shook her head amused about the mention of the smelling thing again, and that her mother claimed to have it. Ah well, she was odd, it wouldn't really surprise her that she would have done something like that, even only from her own experience and not including everything else she had heard by this point.

Her hand shot up as he threw the phone towards her and raised an eyebrow before looking at it and furrowing her brow as she saw only the four numbers. Goodness he didn't really keep in touch with a lot of people, at least by phone for sure. It buzzed just a moment later before she even sent the text to herself.

" Okay? Set a time and place, I'll be there"from Valkyrie/a.k.a. Kira

"Real quick to respond wasn't she." Cara commented before nodding at his question and also sending herself a text from his phone to hers with a short reminder of who it was from, not that she really needed it. She guessed she wouldn't be getting a ton of texts.

Looking up at his comment about the timing and then glancing at the clock and grimacing, "Ah crap, yeah." she answered checking her phone and then setting it away again. Nodding a few times as he actually finished what he was saying, then having to take out her phone again to put down the lawyers number and name when he gave it too her.

He gets up and starts to walk towards the door than he stops turns around and looks at her " Do you at least want to hug?"

She hesitated. Honestly, she was having a bit of mixed emotions about that. She sort of wanted to, on the other hand, she wasn't sure if she actually wasn't mad at him or not just yet. Not to mention she hadn't really even known him for but maybe a few hours at most. Cara bit her lip, "I can't, just not yet." she answered.

[Aden-OCarrol]

Aden nodded " I told you I'm bad at the things. I have to work for a few hours tomorrow. unloading a truck at work. It should only take me like two hours. Being that I can't eat because I'm a vampire. Would you like to grab something to eat after or do something together? I don't spot we can go through knives, I know that's not great but. That's what grandpa did with me. like literally when I'm not working I'm generally fighting monsters trying to become.. You would say when you spend time with your sire and your girlfriend. Sire randomly when something happens kinda hard to explain. My girlfriend disappeared for like a year kind of complicated, she was kidnapped by an organization. I still don't really understand that we're working through things. But she's back now. So I don't know, it weird."Scratches his head


" I'm generally trying to become stronger when I'm not working and I'm generally just training religiously. And sometimes killing bad people. But mostly training. Long story short there is vampire that is best friends to Valkyrie that stronger than me but I'm going have to kill her. Because another B*** *** punk of a vampire decided to talk ****. And when was time to pony up he ran and hid behind their skirt like a B***h on the playground.when he realized I was a badass. So now I have to get stronger than that person so that I can finally kill that guy. I did some investigating she's a badass is going take me a while. But it's one of the Code/pillars. Once you join the Hands of Death. Which was the Merc group on the part of with Brit. You have to fallow the code pillars rules however you want to say it. When I make a promise to keep it. I've only broken two promises in my life. And both I had no choice in breaking. One was to you the other was to your sister."

He looked at her realizing that probably did not help or make things any better. "I told you I'm not really good at this and I'm not really a good person. By most people's understanding of what a good person should be. I'm loyal to a fault those I care about people that treat me right. I'll do almost damn well anything for. I never lie. You are always going to get the truth for me. No matter if it's going to hurt or not. I never going to sugarcoat it I'm always going to tell you what I think and do it the way I feel it has to be done. As you can tell I talk too much."

[Cara (DELETED 10504)]

Cara shrugged in response to what to do after his work, "Knives is good. Gives a little extra too do other then just eating." she answered in response after hearing his extra bit of information on him and his relationships, so to speak anyway. They were a bit unusual but that word seemed to be the best fit.

Then he went on to what he did regularly, including apparently training to kill someone and being a part of some strange thing that had specific rules about things. She furrowed her brow in thought, a bit odd, but, in a place with vampires, it would make sense that people would want to have people as allies. Or at least some sort of group that they could lean on in one way or another, even if only as insurance. Though it didn't sound exactly like that was it's purpose.

Heh, not going to sugarcoat it. Not really many ways to sugarcoat much of this without sounding nuts now is there? She thought shrugging, there wasn't really much else to say tonight. Perhaps tomorrow, maybe she'd just try and hang out with him a little, see how he functioned in this world, then decide how to go on from there. Though, she'd find out if she met those friends of his. Ought to make things interesting being a complete outsider to them and then suddenly learning of them as vampire because she was his daughter. "Well, I didn't exactly expect sugarcoating coming here."

[Aden-OCarrol]

There's a soft smile on his face as he finally reaches the doorknob. Then he thought about it for second reached in his pocket pulled out his wallet opened it up pulled out a black credit card. The literally just had numbers on it no name no nothing. Toss that at her '" Get whatever you need on that. There's no need for a pin. If you want something from an upper tier store they might treat you like you're Donald Trump Rich. It's a special black card. Basically, to rich people it means that your money is so deep could probably swim in it. Please don't lose that it is a horribly a pain to prove that it is me and get another one."

With that he opened the door stepping out should he get behind to make a good way into his room next to hers.
Taking off his jacket sitting on a chair moving close to the bed and taking off his boots. Knowing the sun is going to be up in a few hours making sure that the curtains are close lights are completely off. That he reaches over and grabs the phone and calls the front desk letting them know that he does not need made cleanup. " We already know your normal room instructions." then he covered himself completely with the blanket and went to sleep.

Hours passed and he naturally woke up as the sun went down. Walking over to the bathroom splashing giving himself the smell test. Was satisfied he wasn't horrible. But on his jacket. Picked up his phone and texted his "Daughter. On the way to my job to unload the truck. Take me about an hour and a half as likely or less."

As he starts heading towards the elevator.

[Cara (DELETED 10504)]

Cara had eyed him when he gave her the card looking at it skeptically but nodding with a "Thanks" before she went off to head to sleep on all that had just happened. She sat up for awhile, just thinking on it, even as she laid in bed and slept the whole thing just kept rolling around in her mind on the situation and craziness of it all. She woke up some time before the phone call, fidgeting with one of her knives in thought. She still didn't know how she felt about it all. Or at least, she didn't want him to know all of it yet. She wanted to get to know him, but she didn't want him thinking she needed him in any way. Just that, he was around, and that since he was she should visit him and know who he was and the people he knew. Course, she felt a bit more then that but she didn't want to be blatant about it.

When the phone rung and she picked up it was pretty simple, he told her he was off to work and when he would be done, she said alright and then waited. She'd meet him afterwards, see how things went. She still had to decide what exactly to do about this, would she stay, would she go, would she just hop in between here and her grandfathers. She was gonna need some way to pay for things herself but in a place like this surely there was a more interesting one then most jobs. Maybe one that was more permitting to her schedule too.

[Aden-OCarrol]

Aden made his way down to the lobby out to the parking lot got on his motorcycle and through on his helmet driving down to Kira club.part of his motorcycle and made his way towards the back. He was sitting out by the back door waiting didn't take long before the tractor-trailer showed up. The driver recognized him quite quickly rolling down his window having him the paperwork. " Not a bad load today, it's a divided load stop when you get to the strap." Aden nodded " Got you".

He could unload and place everything in the back all sorted out like three times faster than if he had help from her groovy was just easier for him to do it by himself once he got everything sorted. He would hand off the paperwork and they had to unpack everything. Ever so often she made him actually be a bouncer most of the time he got away with just unloading the truck when it came in. Depending on the week how many times he had to do it.

It didn't take him long once he opened the back looked at what was there and proceeded to start grabbing boxes jumping out of the truck making his way inside and putting them where he knew that they would go. Using the paperwork and the numbers on the boxes he was able to figure out most likely what was in the boxes as well as experience from doing this multiple times before.

But he said it took him about an hour which would've taken them about three hours. He handed the paperwork off to Kara employee. " I'd stay and chat but I've got some business to do tonight. Tell Kira. That important business I told her about it's about that and I will schedule up a meeting here soon. I know that cryptic. She should understand". The sweet girl nodded at him as she was used to him being a bit weird.

quickly headed back out to grab his helmet through it on and pull out his cell phone. Sent her a text " There's this diner that I first went to when I came to this place. I don't know if the food any good because I can't eat. It's where I first met my Sire. It's one of those little 24-hour joints. Do you want to eat there?".

The texted her again" I can Drive you?"

[Cara (DELETED 10504)]

Wasn't much for Cara to do while she waited, so she didn't she sat and thought, using a dartboard to practice with her knives as she did so. What did she really want, did she want to stick around for awhile, did she want to just stay a few days then go home for a week and come back. Maybe just call her grandfather again instead of actually coming back for awhile.

When he did text he mentioned a diner and whether he wanted her to drive her there. While eating was hardly the first thing on her mind right now, she really didn't think it a wise choice to turn down a meal. She'd definitely be hungry later, or at least, she'd realize it later if she made the mistake of not eating now. She thought about whether or not he should drive her or if she should use the rental. Unfortunately gas cost money, and while thanks to him she wasn't exactly strapped for cash necessarily, she did think it'd be good to hold off on things until she got money for herself for her own car since the rental would be going back soon, and her own gas as well.

"Yeah sure, I'll just wait outside." She said getting ready quickly and heading out the hotel giving a wave at the clerk as she past her and headed outside to wait her father.