Carmelita had felt bad for the knocked out Knox.Since he was asleep he wasnt big and scary. So she was more then willing to help out getting him patched up. So the ride home she just glanced at him...Tilting her head from side to side as the naked beast within sniffed at him. Though to say she wasnt nervous of being in the car with three powerhouses would be a lie. Before she went in for the night she called Tommy telling him that she wouldnt be home tonight and that she was staying at the rodere house that she would be back home earily in the moring.

     She didnt have to call...Not really. But she did it so noone would wounder where she poofed off to. When Barbie gave her the option of sleeping alone...She just shook her head...She was a bit shaken up to do that. If she had gone home she would of curled up at the bottom of big brother Tommy's bed. He had become her best friend here in Salem and he was the only one who didnt scare the holy hell out of her...At least not completely...Though towards the end of the conversation she asked if he would come out if he could.

     With Knox patched up and her borrowing some of Andrews pj pants and a shirt she would throw back on that military jacket and curl up between Knox and Andrew...Her hand on his chest to make sure he was still breathing...She just hoped she waked up before he did.Cause he just scared her when he was awake. So soon as she was curled up enough she was fast asleep...The smells of Dade,Andrew and knox wrapped around her like a warm blanket.

-Milo was at all times the goddammed man of the house. But he was such a pussy when it came to Barb. She could say jump and he'd leap like an idiot from the roof to the pool. Luckily when it came to sleeping he was a big cuddly ball. Montant, Barb, Knox, Dade, and Carma went up. He went to the kitchen and grabbed a couple pints of Ben and Jerrys with spoons from the drawer. With those in his meathook paws he leapt the steps three at a time. Stopping at Valcrists room he stuck his head in and tried to drag the boy with him to the bedroom where everyone was gathered. They could all eat ice cream, talkm and snuggle-

 
    Carmelita face lit up when Tommy joined them...Arms curling around his neck.

       " Thanks for coming"
 
   Sure he had been on his way to the rodere house but still. Having him close kept her calm. She didnt know why...He just seemed to chase those oggly booglies away.When the ice cream was offered she would sniff some...She hadnt tried any of that kind before...Passing the cherry garcia over to Valcrist she would try some of Tommy's ice cream.

   " Mmm. Thats a new one. Oh thats Knox." 

  She said this as she poked the sleeping man with her spoon. Oh yes she was pretty ballsy with him asleep. Leaning in she would whisper to Tommy as if it was a really big secret.

  " He evil. Yup and Milo beat his As...Butt at the Cafe and that place is wrecked."

  Thos was followed by a firm nod. Yawning she would return the ice cream to him. Snuggling down between her nights tormentor and her hero..Super Mouse. Yes she was happy he was close by cause as sleepy as she was...She doubted she'd be up before sleeping trouble maker was...Which ment...Oh no another blush.

   " Night Tommy...Night Dade...Night Andrew...Night Milo...Night Barbie..Night Valcrist...Night Knox even though you cant hear me."

  She would giggle some as she settled in...Trying to remember where she heard that whole night list at.

It had been somewhat of a rough first day at work, his body barely adjusting from moving from table to table, taking orders and dealing with various server-tasks, so naturally, he was pretty much exhausted as his feet basically dragged themselves to his room when he got back home. He was completely unawares of the events that had transpired earlier today, but the homely scent of rat indicated that everyone was home, and piled into one room. He was about to fall over and crash on the bed when the slightly grizzled visage of Milo appeared, basically telling him to pile up into the room with the others. A smile curled at the corner of his lips as he simply nodded and followed the man. No matter how hard the day has been, it was always nice to come home to the new family. His shirt, peeled off as he stopped a moment to toss it on his bed, and soon joined the others. Everyone was piled onto the bed. As soon as he sat down, the carton of Cherry Garcia and a spoon was handed to him. Taking a bite, he would, for the moment, allow the smooth, mellow coldness relax in his mouth while eyes would take in the visage of what seemed to be the new rat, knocked into another world it seems, by the look of him. "Quite the introduction, what happened to him?" He asked in quizzical fashion as he handed the carton back to Carmelita before taking up a laying position within the pile....

/-When his room was descended upon by the crew of rats, waking him up in the process he sat up, back against the headboard, and turned on the bedside lamp. The body of the unconscious rat was tossed into his bed and Dade grabbed his glasses from the nightstand and put them on, looking from the man to Milo and back again.-\

"Quite a night huh?"

/-Dade wore what he usually wore to sleep in, a pair of silk brightly colored boxers, his skinnt upper body nude, and showing that though old her still kept in shape. As the kids all piled up in his bed he climbed out and went to get extra pillows and blankets to pile up for their makeshft slumber party. When he asnuggled back in he patted a spot beside him for Barbie.-\

"Leave that handsome beau of yours and come keep the original company for awhile. That way you can tell old Shakes the story of what happened."

::Milo was good at rounding up the 'kids,' and the Ice Cream. He even got Valcrist to join the party. After Aurriana took off that suit and dressed herself in something comfy, with was nothing more than a shirt she stole from Milo. It was green with the old Nintendo Cartage and the two simple words, that reminded Aurriana of Milo when she got him the shirt, 'Blow Me'. At the pat from Shakes, Aurriana crawled in next to the sexy older man. Age had nothing to do with the fact at Dade wasn't sexy. He looked darn good for his age.

Between Tommy's garbled story to Valcrist, Aurriana did nothing to hide that fact. Head falling to Dade's shoulder as she giggled lightly.

"He's not a bad kisser..."

A playful look was given to Milo.

"My King is a hella lot better though."

Truth and nothing but the truth in those words.

"Night Carmelita!"

She would answer the beautiful red head. Getting settled in, she would start to tell Dade what happened.

"Knox came in, and just grabbed me, told him to wish him luck, and before I could get the words out... I was being kissed. Then he kissed Dakota, and grabbed poor Karma, and straddled her, after I told him to sit. He's a spit fire that one. Bouncing from one woman to another, couldn't sit still, until I told him to. Still he sat on Karma, not even in a chair. I was grabbing him the shirt, and then Milo came, pulling Knox off and onto a table, ready to hit him. And then Milo releaized who it was, screaming about what he was doing in....."

The story stopped there, as Aurriana covered her lips muffling a yawn.

"Excuse me... town, and they said their shocked hellos... then Karma, dear girl, said that I had been kissed, and after I told him I was, that's when Milo threw Knox through the cafe window and processed to beat him up. Soon after that, well... we all piled in the car and came home and here we are."

Shocking blues turned up to Dade with a small smile.

"I think...."

Aurriana's voice would go low whispering so the rest of them couldn't hear.

"Its good he's here... I don't know him, but the look Milo gave Knox, right before he threw him out the window was the sort of look you gave a really good friend that you've missed..."

A pause of her words, as she sighed lightly to curl closer to the older man.

"Milo doesn't talk much about what happened in LA. I'm just guessing that's where Knox is from... if not New Orleans.... Even still, he doesn't talk much about those places either. Doesn't matter really, whatever happened shaped him to be the man I love, the leader we follow, and the pillar of strength that he is. Someone I'm glad to spend the rest of my life with."

A sweet smile was given to those words. Words she had whispered to Dade's shoulder and partly the pillow her golden hair was scattered on. Dade was Aurriana's confidant. Had been since she first met him. Something about Dade just relaxed Aurriana, the way Ash did, and Marcus and of course Milo. Though, that went really without saying. Milo was just her everything. He gave her a family, a home, and a life to call her own, and soon their own. He was her King, her Mate and her Husband, even without papers.::

-- Edited by WereRat Barbie at 01:45, 2007-09-04

Valcrist had been listening intently, and trying to decipher the garbled story Tommy was telling him, when the scent of powerful leopard had soon made itself known. Just as he was about to turn his head....WHAM! Valcrist went colliding into the pile as he shook his head. That was actually quite a head-reeling shot, as he was unprepared for it, Finally, his eyes turned to his assailant, but then smiled that warm, gentle, and certainly love-stricken smile when his gaze fell upon the Leopard Queen, and by the looks of it, she too, had decided to join the cuddling fray. When she came to lay down, his arms instinctively curled around her waist, while concerned eyes had basically asked if this was okay before he soon layed his head against her chest, while the rest of him had been tangled within the mass of bodies, and finally, he was able to start drifting off to sleep after saying "Night, everyone".