Gabriel was sleeping, he had brought Nine to the cottage and in a bed. Still unsure how to help him, but he was going to try. Slowly woke up and just stretched some. He got out of bed and slowly began to emerge down the hall. Which lead him to a doorway to the kitchen/dinning area. He head through and looks to his right, which was the living area. To which he finds yet again Zantro with his brother, who was smoking opium. Gabriel blinks "You....how...how did you get in here?!" he shout. Zantro turn to see Gabriel and says "He let me in." Gabriel saw a variety of drugs on the coffee table before them. Zantro was once again straddling his brother. Gabriel march over and just as soon as he did, Zantro stumbled off Nine "Hey he ask me too. You need to stop coming at me like this."
"Get out." Gabriel spoke coldly as he move to open the door. Zantro stared at him and then sighs "Fine..." moving like he was going to leave, only to shove into Gabriel last second and kiss him. Pushing the Vampire against the wall, while he slyly shoves the bracelet on him. The bracelet immediately got snug on his wrist and he felt like a shock went through him. He wasn't fully aware of what it was, all he knew was now he was overwhelmed. Between the lust of the bard and his brothers depressive state, it was worse then ever and when Zantro step back Gabriel feel to the floor. He even felt another feeling, who was this even coming from? It was loneliness and sense of wanting to belong, he thought maybe it was Nine. Nine always sort of felt like that, so to Gabriel there was hope maybe that Nine was still in there.
Gabriel tried to get the bracelet off "What did you do." he hissed. However in this time Nine had gotten up, grabbed Gabriel by his foot and tossed him outside. Then locked him out of the cottage, Gabriel blinks and sat up "ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!" Zantro blinks as he watched this and saw Nine go back to the couch. Gabriel sat there a moment, remembering Ravens talk how his uncle tortured him till he became numb. He take this as a new lesson, get control of his empathy to the level Raven could, so he slowly got to his feet.
Gabriel moved around to try and find another way in. As he does move, he gets to the side near the window that was next to the couch and could hear talking "You know he is trying to help you. " Nine groaned "Just shut up. I didn't pay you for your opinions." Zantro would keep talking, as Gabriel listen in. "I'd given anything to have someone like him to have been there for me. I mean maybe they would have stop me from doing something stupid..." Nine cut him off "Is there a damn off switch to your mouth?"
Gabriel rolled his eyes and moved to find a way in again, while Zantro stared at Nine. "Of course." He would move to prep opium for Nine, but in a different way. He grab a syringe and put some of the opium on a spoon and over a fire. He then get it in the syringe and moved and sticks Nine with it. He growled some "What the hell." Though the effects hit him faster and he relaxed. While Zantro had taken a cup of drugged blood into his mouth. He sat on Nine and went to kiss him, forcing the special blood into his mouth and making him drink it. In the short time Zantro had notice Nines lack of eating and thought this be a way to trick him into atleast eating.
Nine only ever so slightly struggled, but then just was relax again. Zantro leans back "I really hate people like you." he say "You have people there, who actually care. You treat them like shit. I'd given anything to have that. You are on this self destructive path and people still keep trying to help. I'M CURSED AND NO ONE CARES!" choking Nine now at this point "Its not right, why should some selfish bastard like you get kindness, but me who just happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, am just doomed to be kicked around and told get away."
Nine couldn't really stop the bard from strangling him, However Gabriel happen to get back in and grabs the Tiefling off Nine. He had the boy by his waste and carried off with him, heading to the hall and opens a door to one of the rooms and tossed him in there. Then locks the door, Zantro blinks at being tossed in a room and not outside. Figured Gabriel had made a mistake, moving to the windows, it was no mistake, there was no window big enough for Zantro to get out of due to his horns.
Gabriel then grabs Nine and drags him to his room, there he cuffs him to the bed with special enchanted cuffs that he couldn't break. Not that in his current state he could, Gabriel hissed "You are going to detox." moving out and then punch the door to Zantro room "You want to be here so bad, THEN FINE!" moving to the living area and finds Voltaire coming in. "I take it every things going well?"
Gabriel glared at Voltaire, out of all the emotions he could feel, Voltaire was a void still. While it was a relief to not have an extra emotion upon him, it kind of bothered him that Voltaire was just that a void. Nothing came off him and Gabriel knew that is not the case, he then sighs "Can you get this off?" showing the bracelet. Voltaire inspects and hmm some. "Possibly I need to look into it, I haven't really seen anything like this." Gabriel sighs and rubs his temples "I....its like I am overload of feeling emotions." Voltaire raise a brow "I see." Gabriel plops in the chair "On top of it all that tiefling bastard keeps showing up and won't go away."
Voltaire smirk some as he slowly move to stand next to the chair "How are you handling that?" Gabriel looks up "Got him locked in a room, since he keeps coming back. Plus he tried to strangle Nine." Voltaire arch a brow "Thats...kind of different." Gabriel looks at the empty fireplace "He was upset that Nine push me away. Saying stuff like he wish had people like that." Voltaire leans on the chair "So he wishes for friends who care it seems. Must be real hard with that curse." Gabriel looks at him "What is this curse..." Voltaire looks "Have you forgotten... perhaps Caine took that from you. Zantro is curse with hedonism. He can't not be lewd and such, must make, making friends so hard. Probably very lonely and never really belonging anywhere. I mean then he's a tiefling and that already outcast him."
Gabriel then realized the feelings he felt before where Zantro. That the bard could feel outside of well his lewd ways. Gabriel groaned "I can barely help Nine, I can't help this creature too." Voltaire leans to him "And yet you put him in a room and not outside." Gabriel scowled some. "Perhaps this bracelet affects you too much, I will get on how to get it off. I merely came to check on you." leaving as Gabriel groaned again.
Voltaire headed to a tavern and sat next to a man "Well everything going off quite well. I think." Astaroth smirks "Oh?" Voltaire nods "He's got Zan in a room locked...the bracelets on him and he's rather confused." Astaroth "interesting. Would have love to seen his face when that bracelet hit him." Voltaire nods "I have my comeback." Astaroth looks intrigued "OH?" Voltaire sets down a bracer set "These I am going to have put on Nine and Zantro." Astaroth looked surprise "You are going to get one of your own in this?" Voltaire nods "Oh yes. You see these connect the wearers together. They can't travel far from one another or else they pass out and won't wake till reunited. They bother can feel to a point of what the other feels. Gives Nine a sense of empathy, Zantro well lets see what a mope hedonistic bard like. All while Gabriels super charged. Lets see what happens." Astaroth ponders "We are starting small, but growing. Ok...Ok... would you let me do the honors?" Voltaire taps "Both of us will. You get Nine and I will get Zan." Astaroth smiled "Deal."
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