Reine looked up at Jonas, his eyes still a bit sad. "It's alright," he whispered, both to Jonas and Dax.

Lily smiled, gently taking Alea from Reine, and standing up. "I'm going to put her in bed, I'll be right back."

Ty smiled and entered the house.

----

Jonas scuffed at the floor with his foot and just shrugged.

Dax patted Jonas's shoulder. "It's okay, man."

Sebastian walked around before entering the living room. In there was the house's owner/seller, a small goblin woman.

"Hello, Sebastian!" she said.

"Hello, Quinn," Sebastian said.

Reine got up, moving next to Jonas. "It's alright, I know you didn't mean it." He smiled. "And besides, I'm only a half vampire," he said jokingly, trying to lighten the mood.

Lily could be heard upstairs cooing a lullaby to Alea, who had woken up for a short while.

"Nice to meet you, ma'am," Ty greeted her witha smiled, "I'm Ty."

Jonas smiled slightly. "Thanks, kid."

Dax looked at Jonas. "So what's changed with you over the past year?"

Jonas shrugged. "Not much really."

"Hello, Ty," Quinn said. "I'm Quinn Gearmaiden. So, Seb, do you have the money?"

"Depends," Sebastian said. "How much?"

"$475,000," Quinn said.

Sebastian pulled out the check and wrote down the amount. "Yep," he said, handing Quinn the check.

"Das is gut," Quinn said, pocketing the check. "Well, have fun with the place. Seb, Ty, good bye." She left.

"Well, this place is ours now..." Sebastian said.

((To Sebastian's House))

"You're welcome," Reine replied, then his eyes widened. He ran out the door, sitting down outside with his head in his hands.

Dax frowned and followed Reine outside, still holding the now squirming kitten. "Reine? What is it?"

Reine had one hand over his mouth as he looked up at Dax. "I'm thirsty," he whispered, "And I didn't want to ask in there..."

Dax kissed his forehead, then hugged him so that Reine's head was on his(Dax's) neck. "Then drink now."

Jonas watched from inside the house.

Reine slowly bit down, and started to drink.

Dax closed his eyes, still holding onto the kitten and just let Reine drink.

Reine finished about a minute later, and pulled away, wiping his mouth. "Should we go back in now?"

Jonas turned away from the window where he'd been watching.

Dax blinked a few times and nodded. "Yeah, that would be a good idea." He got to his feet, swaying a little.

Reine stood up as well, wrapping one arm around the other boy's waist to steady him. "You alright?" he asked concernedly, "Did I drink too much?"

"yeah, I'm fine," Dax assured him, "That happens every time, you know."

Reine smiled up at him. "I know, I just get a bit worried every time. Now, let's go back inside, before those two think we've abandoned them."

Dax smiled at him. "Yeah, let's."

Reine led Dax back inside, where they ran into Lily, who was coming downstairs.

"I finally got her to get to sleep, so try to be quiet," she whispered, obviously ignoring the fact that the two were coming back inside the house from outside.

Dax nodded. "Okay."

Jonas gave Dax a look that plainly told him he'd seen what had happened. He wasn't too happy about it, either.

((I gotta go to bed now. Night. I'm gonna be gone all day tomorrow.))

{Aww... alright}

Reine noticed the look on Jonas' face, and shrunk ever so slightly into Dax.

((BACK! obviously.... XD))

Dax handed Reine the kitten, then stepped up to Jonas and quietly asked him something in another language.

Jonas crossed his arms over his chest and nodded, frowning.

Dax led the way outside with Jonas following and the two immediately started talking, Jonas sounding rather angry.

{Yup!}

Reine let the kitten climb onto his shoulder, where he just went through the motions of petting him.

"Something wrong, Reine?" Lily asked from behind him.

"No... it's just..." he shrugged, not really knowing how to explain what had happened.

The two outside had raised their voices, still going on in the other language.

Jonas was waving his arms about and yelling something that made Dax narrow his eyes dangerously. Only Reine would probably realise just how mad Dax was. Jonas pointed to the direction of the house and said something and before he could blink, Dax had slapped him across the face. Hard. Then he said something low enough so that no one could catch the tone besides Jonas.

Jonas stared at the ground, holding a hand to his red cheek and nodding slowly, though he was still visibly upset.

Dax just shook his head and turned to go back into the house.

Reine's eyes were wide, and he was breathing just a bit faster than normal. Lily had almost the same expression, but she had one hand over her open mouth. Around the same time, they both thought, I'm glad Alea's asleep right now...

Dax entered the house and immediately noticed that Reine had seen it all. He sighed and collapsed onto the couch in the living room, leaning back and closing his eyes. The hand that had struck Jonas was curled into a fist at his side.

Jonas rubbed at his cheek, as he started back into the house.

Lily practically dragged Jonas off to the kitchen to look at his cheek, and to give the boys some privacy.

Reine slowly sat down next to Dax, still petting the kitten. "Dax? W-what were you talking about out there?... Or do I even want to know?" he asked quietly.

Jonas pulled away from Lily a bit. "I'm fine. I deserved it."

Dax opened his eyes and looked at Reine. "He saw you drink from me," he replied in a near whisper, "And he wasn't happy. At all."

Reine looked away, snorting bitterly. "I get that a lot."

Lily just shook her head, then asked Jonas, "Did you say something about Reine?"

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