Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: ((Eeek!)) **Now there's one tiny italian woman most men wouldn't mind stepping into a back alley with for a quick romp. At 5 feet, Gina's all curves. There's nothing subtle or demure about this woman, wide hipped and big breasted, she's all badda boom. Long curly blonde hair frizzes around her face in a wild perm, the color of tarnished gold. Light mocha brown eyes blink from within a slightly too square face.. nose a tad too long over pleasant salmon colored lips. She looks to be in her mid twenties, and certaintly not part of the yuppie culture, in a skirt just the safe side of indecent.. until she bends over.. and a shirt that barely keeps her boobs from saying hello to the rest of new york. Her voice is high and pleasant, tinkling like tiny bells.. easy to listen to and sweet. (app3) (ench vc)**

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *She's leaning against the cheap pressboard desk, anxiously flipping through the yellowpages as she waits. There was no Gideons bible in this place. hell no. No one came here to think about God almighty, though his name was certaintly thrown around enough in the dingy shoeboxes that counted as rooms here.*

Claudius: He makes his way to the hotel room, an invisible creature moving through the throngs of humanity. No need for him to be followed. He slips in the front door behind a couple, and up the stairs, eventually coming to the room in question. There is a moment's pause to make sure no one is coming before he takes his normal Masquarade-safe seeming, and knocks.

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *The knock is nearly swallowed by the din of a headboard in the next room battering atthe wall, but there's a yip, and she comes to her feet fully, opening the door and stepping out of the way. The Italian woman breathes deeply and crawls onto the bed, springs squeaking under even her slight weight.* Hello loves.

Claudius: "Hello, my dear." He slips inside, shutting the door behind him, and moving to hug her as always. "It's good to see you."

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *she raises up on her knees and wraps pale arms around the thin man. Burying her head into his chest and rubbing her face against him almost painfully. She mutters something like "good to see you too". Crushing herself close*

Claudius: He lets her hug as tightly as she wants...not like he needs to breathe. He's quiet for a long time, just there and holding her, being there for her. She'll tell him what's wrong when she's ready, he knows.

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *mutter mutter something mutter gunther something mutter something tommy something something bollox something something. Its all very clear as she rants too quickly into his chest, one muffled word slurring into another as tight bony fists rap on his back angrily. She leans back, eyes angry* An then the bollox threw a BRICK at me!

Claudius: He blinks, frowning as he looks down at her, his face tight with concern. "I'm sorry, my dear...who threw a brick at you?" His first thought being her ex the wolf...oh, dear would that cause problems...

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: Fucking Gunther! *she feigns spitting, her eyes flare and she sits back on the bed with a squeakum noise* I saw the bastard on the street, and he made talk about me looking at him.. and I lost my bloody temper. *she looks up and notes the pinched look, scoling* Don't fret.. I didn't give myself up any, but he wouldn't bloody well leave me alone, even after I threw a bit of brick at him. The baddie kept followin me, until he finally threw a brick at the back of me head and I scuttled! Damnit!

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *she slings off a shoe furiously*

Claudius: He blinks at that, a remarkably human gesture from the two-century old undead. He's been hanging around humans for too long. "Oh. Oh my dear." He sighs, nodding as he sits next to her. "I'm sorry, Gina."

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: An now bloody THOMAS knows.. I can't bloody talk without givin myself away! *she hurls the other shoe away from her in exasperation and climbs into the vampires lap, clinging like a curly haired orangutang as her voice rises shrill and cutting* Thomas Bloody judge, of all fucking people!

Claudius: "Oh, dear oh, dear..." He lowers his head as his arms slip around the Italian woman, holding her close and smoothing her hair. "That...oh, Lord. You impressed upon him the need not to say anything, yes?"

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *she nods so hard it appears her head might come off* reckon he'd only breath a word out of bad will if he does tell a folk, he knows i'm good as dead. But still.. thomas bloody judge loves... *Brown eyes look up to him, pleading and earnest, before they skate away*... reckon I'm best to keep far from flks what i care about. *her face crumples at the implications. wasn't this what she'd been scared of in the first place?*

Claudius: "You need only take pains to make sure you are careful about those that know, Gina." He smiles and moves his head to look her in the eyes, his Mask melting away to reval his true, sand-blasted form. A blood-filled eye joins a regular one in watching her, a soft smile on that warped face. "Perhaps...Thomas Judge was not the best choice...but there are those you can trust. You know this."

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *she rubs her head against his shoulder, nosing his collar and falling silent a long while. The silence stretches between them, before her voice tinkles* I lied to him .. made up a story.. but he was havin not one bloody bit of it. Savvy, he is. thought i was a ghoul trying to smoke out my own bloody where-abouts.. was ready to do away with me right there rather then let me bugger off with whatever information he figured i had. Reckon'd he was going to tear my bloody arm off. baby an all. *she scowls despite herself, looking to where her phone is on the desk*

Claudius: He nods a little bit and looks down to her. "What is important, my dear, is that you did convince him not to, and that you impressed upon him the need to remain quiet. And hopefully, he will remain so. I'm sure he has no love for my kind."

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: don't reckon so. We get a bit of a bad rap loves. *a miserable sort of kiss to his featureless cheek area, hands fiddling with the tiny braid wisping like a rat tail from the ancient deadite's skull*.. you reckon everyone thinks i'm dead yet?

Claudius: He shakes his head. "Not yet, I do not believe. I think most feel you have probably left. I imagine soon, though."

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *She rearranges herself on his boney lap, bed squeaking a little as she does so, face screwed up in thought before she dismisses whatever's bothering her atthat moment, and flicks her eyes to his mismatched ones* I'm sorry I didn't bring the baby peaches. You really think it'll be alright?

Claudius: "I think it will be fine, yes, Ita." He nods a little bit, watching her.

Claudius: d10: Per+Emp: 6,1,6,1,3,7,

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X} -> Claudius: (she's still right pissed.))

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *She offers a tired smile, half hearted, but its a sweet attempt. She curls into the comfortable awkwardness of foul robes and cold papery skin, blond curls smushing against the thin monster's frame* i have your paintings dove.. going to hang them in the new house.. reckon you'd be up to meetin Joe once we're settled?

Claudius: "I look forward to it," he says softly, nodding to her, spindly arms wrapped around the pretty lady and holding her gently. "I've heard so much, after all. I would love to meet him."

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: He's - *she stops short. Good folk? Who was she to judge character. She's begged gunther's case at one time. Still.. She swallows and finishes on a quieter note.* He's joe. *A heavy sigh* I should have thrown more than one bloody brick *she mutters bitterly*

Claudius: He chuckles slightly at that. "Yes, I suppose you could have, my dear. But then you would have gotten more then one thrown back at you." He looks down to her, long fingers smoothing over her hair. "Do not over-worry, Gina. You are safe. Your family is safe."

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *Her hair is a mess of frizzy tangle that refuses to smooth, stubborn as the woman herself. She frowns and tucks her ankles behind the creatures back, breathing heavily through her nose in exasperation and bitterness* yeah. *she softens and repeats herself* We'll be fine. Not get muddled.. it'll just be simple i reckon. It'll be alright.

Claudius: "It will be alright," he says with a nod, agreeing quietly with her. Stubborn or not, he continues the motion...the intent not to settle the hair, of course, but the mind beneath it.

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *She hugs him tightly suddenly, crushing him with all the strength in scrawny arms*

Claudius: A smile lights his qrotesquely featureless face, and he hugs her back...far gentler, but no less caring.

Gina Torrio {Sleazy Motel X}: *She's quiet a long while. Languishing in a comforting embrace that for once didn't end in fevered groping. Not that she was complaining, joe was wonderful. But this was something different altogether. After awhile she begins to fill the ancient vampire in on the everyday mundanities of Archie's teething and childhood, talking late into the night*