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He seemed to soften at her response. She cocked a brow as he leaned in before smiling at the word he’d chosen. “Hmm, not quite. You’ll have to try a bit harder.” 

Zac pretended to be deep in thought, he knew he was being childish “hm okay, what about...por favor?” he asked. it was the magic word after all, she didn't say it necessarily had to be in English. 

Jamie looked up from her phone when the voice brought her back to the reality that was the present earth only to hear a quite harsh response as he continued. She couldn’t help the little smirk that tugged at her lips as she turned around to face him. “What’s the magic word?”

Zac smirked back in return, he was expecting a more uptight response. He leant close “now?” he replied playfully. 

bree had no idea why she go this phone in the first place - she really didn’t it but also didn’t want to cart her laptop around with her everywhere she went. phones were small and convenient – plus the upside is that now she can pizza come to her. she felt someone was behind to her but didn’t really pay attention to it as she was focused on how much music can be stored on it and thinking of who she could put in here for contacts. ..there’s no way i’m letting rose find out i have a phone yet – and i could also call people to check what kind of camera’s they have and what kind of – breanna was completely thrown out of focus when she now heard the person talking to her. gaze not ever leaving the phone, bree spoke, ‘ if you had places to go then common sense would tell you to walk around me but your mouth decided to open up and tell me you have places to be. use your feet instead of your mouth then you wouldn’t have trouble. ‘ after saying that - bree ignored the person and went back to her phone,

Zac looked down and saw she was on her phone and rolled his eyes. she was looking at it like it was the most complicated thing out there. He scoffed and crossed his arms. Of course he knew he was being a pompous ass but he hadn't had the best month and he didn’t really have to be anywhere important, he just wanted coffee. “I don’t know if you noticed but its a small path and I don’t fancy getting hit by a car thanks” he replied with a sarcastic tone. He smirked “but using my mouth is so much fun” 

Slipping her phone into her pocket her eyebrow quirked again. “Yeah, you were. But, apology accepted.” Every word out of his mouth had been frankly idiotic but she appreciated his willingness to accept it. “You must know, unless your mom still does your hair for you.” 

He nodded sighing deeply “yeah it’s a lovely personality trait I have” he paused “it’s a gift and a curse” He chuckled and shrugged “Unfortunately, no. That’s why it’s such a mess. I should really start asking her to” 

Titus leaned back in the chair, crossing his arms and watching the wolf struggle with himself. It was so much more interesting when they truly fought. “Shame. We’re a marvelous species. Much more refined, you’ll find, then the packs. You see, there is a certain level of respect that’s just not observed in some of the lesser… interesting species.” He took a stick of gum out of his pocket, deliberately and slowly unwrapping it. When he curled it into his mouth and looked up, he caught the tear, but the glare that accompanied it was even more intriguing. 

“You could always just apologize. This doesn’t have to get worse. Though I do admire your strength. It’s an impressive mental capacity I haven’t seen in quite some time. Tell me, where is your breaking point? Would you like to find out?”

Zac grunted and clamped his eyes shut in pain. The blood had started to run down his leg and he could feel it pooling in his shoes. He opened his eyes slowly and forced a laugh “A Marvelous species?” he joked. “your ‘Marvelous’ species created the vampires who have killed hundreds of thousands of people? All for a ego boost!” he spat. “Oh I can definitely show you how interesting my species is if you let me go” he taunted imagining the pleasure of ripping the guys throat out with his teeth. 

“I refuse to apologize for doing little to nothing wrong. Especially to the likes of you. Go on. Torture me. I've had worse and you can only keep this little trick up for so long before someone notices” he taunted “My breaking point is death but I know you wont do it. You can’t.”

Smirking, Titus appraised the wolf. “You learned a lesson, albeit not the right one. The right one has to do with respect for your superiors, both in status and in species. Yes, I am old enough to be your grandfather, which means I’ve been perfecting my craft since before your parents were born. Kid.” Removing the pin from behind the face of the watch, Titus held it up so the other could see. “It’s a variant of the drug morphine. Specially made for wolves. Before you ask, no it won’t kill you, but it will make you pass out long enough that if I wanted to, I could kill you.” He smiled. How the head witch wished Rose were here, she’d be enjoying the little display. She’d probably want to make him one of her minions. Sighing, he put the watch back on his wrist. “Though, killing you would spoil my fun.” Release your claws into your wrist, without screaming.  “You’ll notice: I could just force you to apologize… I just want you to mean it.”

Zac scoffed “yeah right” He was so done with this guys magic show but he knew he had gotten himself into it. He was always putting himself in the shit even though he tried to hard to stay away from it. “I don’t respect witches. Never have and never will, mate. It will never happen” He tried calming his heart rate down but it was racing too fast. Zac could smell the drug from where he was sitting and even from a distance it was making him feel lightheaded. “Well isn't that clever” he quipped. Zac’s breath caught in his throat as those words were spoken. Fun? What fun? what else was he gonna be put through? 

Completely silenced and controlled Zac winced, grunting in pain as his claws ripped through his flesh drawing blood which started to seep onto his jeans. A small tear rolled down the side of his cheek as he forcibly held back his scream. He shot death glares at the man with yellow eyes. He would not apologize. 

‘You’ve been through worse. You’ve been through worse. You’ve been through worse’ He kept chanting in his head.

Ashley rolled her eyes at his response. Great. A werewolf. She really wasn’t in the mood to deal with this first thing in the morning; especially one who was so ready to expose himself so easily. “You’ve got a real niceguy’s impression of friendly, kid.” Ashley cringed at the pet name, resisting the urge to rip him a new one in the middle of the street.

Zac smiled and shrugged “I’m sorry, I was being rude. Apologies” He looked down and sighed, the rude approach wasn't the best and it was hard to maintain when he had a pretty face staring him down. “Kid? that’s new, I wasn't aware I looked like a baby goat?”

Kids these days. At least Titus could flex his muscles a bit. After all, it had been a while since he’d played with a wolf. “Now, why would I stop it since you clearly haven’t learned your lesson?” The witch grinned, sitting across from the wolf. “Yes, you. Apologize. To a witch.” He nodded, as if Zac were stupid instead of rebellious. Shaking his head, he pushed the wolf to press one hand into the other under the table. “I have a feeling your teachers have had nothing on me, kid. Now.” He leaned forward, voice going quieter. “What happens if I prompt you to release your claws? Or… Say, play with some silver?” He took off his watch, dangling it from a forefinger. “Want to apologize now?”

Zac’s heart-rate increased as his breathing became rapid “oh I learnt it, never trust anyone and revenge is better served bloody” he growled still unable to move. Zac laughed bitterly “yeahhh NO. Not gonna happen grandpa” Zac watched as one hand moved over the other under the table and grunted as he tried to move it away. He looked up quickly trying to keep a hard face, he had been through worse. He just needed to keep saying that to himself. Zac looked him dead in the eye and smirked at the silver “unless it’s soaked in wolfsbane, that watch won’t do jack squat to me” he paused for a moment “Nah, I think i’ll pass” 

Titus sighed. “If you don’t realize there is a war going on, you might need to pay a bit more attention.” It wasn’t the witch’s day, apparently and this obnoxious wolf was just about the last straw. Glancing over, Titus saw a little cafe set on the sidewalk. “Why don’t we just take a seat, instead?” The words were genial, but the mental push was not, it was forceful, deliberately harsh. Sit. Now. “If you apologize, we can just pretend this little incident never happened. Or you can continue being an obnoxious little shit and I’ll teach you a thing or two about manners.” 

Zac chuckled “yeah...sure” he rolled his eyes. A harsh force overcame his body as he started to move towards the chair, he looked around frantically and locked eyes with the old man. a witch, he should have smelt it.  “Stop it” he growled trying with all his might to break the link. He winced as he sat and looked up at the man “me? apologize? to a witch?” he spat out each question trying to take control of his own body. “Your kind have taught me a few lessons and all the teachers have ended up dead. Try me” he taunted dangerously.

Ashley frowned, weight shifting from one foot to the other as she sized him up. “And you are? You got somewhere to be you should get on your way- I don’t appreciate whatever this,” she motioned in his general direction,”is.”

Zac grinned “Zac, and you are?. It’s only fair I get to know your name, considering your heartbeat sounds like you are concealing some rage there” he shrugged “I was just trying to be at least a little friendly” he stepped forward “It’s nothing, love. Just a man having a misinterpreted conversation to a lady”  

Ashley let out a chuckle as she read an incoming text, a chuckle that quickly vanished when she heard the voice behind her. If vampires were high on her shit list then so were rude, entitled men. She raised an eyebrow as she turned to the approaching stranger, one glance was all it took to confirm her thoughts. “There’s an entire sidewalk, shrink your ego and you might be able to squeeze past.”

Zac let out a laugh and shook his head. She smelt human and a human with an attitude but he liked a challenge. “For someone so pretty you have a sharp tongue. Looks like someone else needs to shrink that ego” he paused and looked up and down “or don’t, it suits you” 

The clicking of the keyboard  sounded with each new letter James imputed. Had he not been so invested in the response to a ‘business’ partner he was trying to get out, the sound would have been absolutely maddening. His insistence on ignoring such a sound inevitably made room for acknowledging other, more annoying sounds. Like the sound of a whiny stranger behind him. James let out a sigh. He turned around to face the stranger. “Huh. Sounds a whole lot like a personal problem to me.” 

Zac laughed, he didn't quite understand what was so hard about moving but having a small stand off worked too. He had a lot of pent up anger and this was a perfect opportunity to get it all out. “it’ll be your problem too if you don’t move out of my way” 

Titus’ jaw clenched once, hard, before he turned around slowly. “Listen, kid. I know you think that getting where you want to go seems like the end of the world, but I actually deal with life and death every damn day, so I’m betting my conversation” He held up his phone. “Is more important than whether or not you get to bath and body in time for their next sale. 

He made intense eye contact with the old man stood in front of him and cocked his head to the side followed by a smirk. “It’s not the war anymore grandpa. If anything life and death is at the bottom of my priority list right now” he paused “So you gonna shift out my way or continue being a stubborn git?”