Helping Hands

[Nox]

The place went to hell and back and Nox sighed when Elias nearly literally called Aria a monster. He was almost inclined to let her kill the man. Or at least try to. This was a fucked up day. His good deed had blow up in his face. And now the one friend he had in the Atharim was stalking away. And Lucas was standing too close for comfort. He was seething with anger, his face and his voice spoke volumes to Nox. And Nox was at that point where he didn't care right now. He wanted a drink.

He didn't have a right to tell Lucas what to do. Why should he care if his girl would have put her sword through him. Lucas' entire attitude prompted Nox to go into defensive mode. He wanted to throw what his sister would call a tantrum, with swearing and long lecturing sentences. But Nox sighed and took a step back with his hands up. He only held the power to keep from overwhelming Aria.

"For the record, I didn't just bring people over here. I called her, she said yes. So she at least thought she could handle all this."
Nox glanced back at Aria in the bathroom, staring at the water filling up. "She asked me to leave. I'm going to go. If you want to make more of this then by all means we can step outside. But personally all I want to do is go home and crash on my bed with a cold beer and forget this day happened."


Lucas looked at him a moment and then nodded. "It's been a fucked up day."
He looked back the door where Aria was and then sat down. "You have no idea."


Nox shook his head, "I'm sure I don't want to know."
Nox spared a glace back at Aria and felt bad for the shit he'd added to her plate. "May our next meeting be more pleasant."
Nox offered Lucas his hand.

Nox turned and walked towards the door. He opened it and turned back to Lucas. "Take care of her She needs someone like you."
He walked out and hoped he didn't run into Elias again. He might be tempted to throw him into on coming traffic.

((with Lucas))