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She needs to be protected. She just thinks she doesn't want to be. She's still.. addled.. from whatever that vampire did to her!

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She belongs in her own home with her brother and father to care for her, and Leila says that we're going to start back on our way there as soon as the sun comes up.

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I'll make sure her brother knows how to deal with a vampire this time. He didn't know what he was up against last time.

I've already lost many lives to that vampire.. His time is at an end.

You're going to be in serious trouble if that vampire finds a way to communicate with her and she turns on you. *soft, settling near him*

Seeing her home safe is worth that risk, Miss Yuna.

You are so stubborn, Grove. *sets a hand on his forehead, smoothing back his hair and shakes her head* I think she made her home with him.

You do not make a home with a vampire! I don't know what he's told her, but vampires want one of two things. To kill or to enslave.

I'm not letting him have Miss Elbourne!

*his eyes shut slightly at that touch, and he doesn't pull away* You haven't seen what he's capable of..

He didn't come off to me like he wished to kill or enslave her and half of the time we were speaking he didn't even know I had a connection to this.

*shushes him, very gently* don't over-excite yourself, okay? We can talk about this calmly.

*she cards her fingers through his hair a while in complete silence and speaks after a while* No. And I don't want to.

Vampires are very good at lying, Miss Yuna, especially to people like you and Miss Elbourne who are very kind and trusting. You cannot trust anything that a vampire says..

*he is attempting to remain calm now, because of her request*

He massacred a whole town while we were on his way, turned every last one of them into undead slaves to do his will.. Of course, mindless things like that were no match for my brothers and Leila.

I would not trust him with my life, but I have no reason to think he would benefit from lying to me, especially when he half-believes he is just looking for a body to put to rest.

*she keeps her voice smooth and soothing, she knows that it's hard to stay calm when no one else is*

Of course not, but you would hardly want him to do such a thing again, would you?

He thinks she's dead..? *a pause.. maybe reconsidering his thoughts?* Then I don't even want to know what his sick mind wants with her. *..obviously not*

This time, Mr. Elbourne will be taught how to deal with him. He got away the first time because the family did not know how to go after him and did so foolishly.

He believes that she is either dead or in a mental institution, yes. *watches him and shakes her head, quickly* He wouldn't! He's sincere, at least about this. He wanted to marry her, to make her his wife. He wants love, just like anyone else does.

Grove. Please.

Miss Yuna... *he reached out, touching her hand and gripping it slightly* Listen to me. I am sorry to tell you this, but they do not know what love is. They understand it enough to know how humans value it and manipulate that... but they do not feel it.

None of them.

*she traced her thumb over his hand, thoughtfully, glancing away and narrowing her eyes, not in anger but in thought* ...Do you really believe that? I...how can you make such a generalization?

...Have you ever thought that maybe you assign them this role in life so that it makes being a hunter easier? So you can say "It was better" and hunt without guilt?

They are monsters, Miss Yuna. They are not human. They are monsters. Very intelligent monsters but still monsters.

I have seen the things they can do and heard about even worse.. The things that Borgoff saw and would tell me about...

No one is safe until they are all eliminated from this planet!

*hesitates a long moment and then speaks*

From what Meier told me, some of the things the Markus Brothers have done are just as monstrous. *it's the closest she will come to questioning him about what she had heard, what troubles her*

...I'm not all human either, Grove. Would you kill me because I'm not?

We did what we had to do to make sure that vampires wouldn't threaten the people who hired us.

You're not part vampire, Miss Yuna. So no, I wouldn't ever harm you.

It sounded less like insurance and more like torture for sport.

...Have you ever stopped to think that maybe it's not race that makes us good or evil but our choices?

My brothers did only what they had to do. They wouldn't have done anything else. Only what they had to do.

There is capacity in a human for both good and evil, Miss Yuna, but not in a vampire. They know only evil. They can be only evil.

...Do you know that for certain?

...Why? Why can they only be evil? How do you know?

He could see them even now. Borgoff sharpening and polishing his bolts, Kyle making sure his knives were sharp and their hinges in the best of condition.

They always talked about their hunts, grinning widely. Leila didn't like the terms they used sometimes, but they were men. Of course they were crass..

Because I know my brothers, Miss Yuna. I know what they would and would not do.

...Because they are vampires. They are made from stealing innocence and death. No good can come of that.

...How? I know myself, and I never knew that I could do harm to a member of the Temple of Yevon, and if you told me before I would call you mad.

...But they're a part of life. Like all other creatures in the world, they have their place and it isn't their fault, really. I...understand that some are evil, maybe even most. But I refuse to believe that they all are. *traces the lines of his face, frowning and moving her hand* ...I can't be so hopeless.

The thought seemed to trouble him, but he shook his head, almost violently.

My brothers would never do anything that they didn't have to do. They were good men, not cruel, and whatever else some vampire says is a lie!

You are the kind who looks for good everywhere, Miss Yuna, and that is very rare... but there isn't any good to be found in vampires. They might make it look like there is, but it's all an act..

*shushes him again* I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Calm down, okay?

...Why would they benefit from such an act though? And surely they'd slip...*sighs and looks at the ceiling* ...I'm sorry. I can't believe it.

*a few sharp, short breaths, trying to calm himself down*

I... Please, try to avoid that vampire, Miss Yuna. I don't even want to imagine what he might do to you.

OOC: The joys of having a character who lives by a rigid dogma and has never bothered to question what he's been told, eh? Haha.

*hums, trying to calm and comfort him, though her mind is racing*

...I think he'll honor his word and leave me alone until I put myself in the path between him and the Markus Brothers. But I'll...try.

((Totally. Yuna is just out of that, so she can relate. "What? Someone LIED to me? NO WAI."))