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[enjoythe_ride]

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[maleficum]

[He nods, before pushing the door open wider and letting them come inside.]

Honey, we have company.

[Mostly for Ezra's benefit, so he's not surprised when he sees them. But with that, the door closes behind them and he continues.]

For the record, I'm not a taxi service, and we aren't friends. So this isn't something that's going to come for free.

[matriarchate]

( Ezra has come into the other room, a laundry basket in hand. He just stands idly in the doorway, hovering. )

I'm not trying to imply you're anything like a taxi service, but, Isaac and Bonnie know you, and have witnessed this first hand. If this means I owe you one, then you wouldn't be the first witch I've owed something and you won't be the last. You were in London and you were in Prague. You understand why I have to be here. And why I came here to your doorstep.

[maleficum]

I do, and I have people there too that I'd like to see make it out in one piece. They need all the back up they can get. Which is why I didn't say no and slam the door in your face.

[He shifts to lean against the doorframe.]

But that also means at some point, I'm going to call to collect so if there are any hard nos you'd like to put out there, now's the time.

[matriarchate]

I'm not going to kill for you.

( That's her hard no. She has a few others, but they sound cliché when she thinks about mentioning them. She's done everything from brokered peace, extracted teammates and prisoners, stolen something (that was rightfully theirs), and it has been a long time since she's come up against a hard no. )

And I won't sleep with you. But. I think we both know we're good for that. I keep my word, David, or I have a team who will do it for me. Please.

[maleficum]

I wouldn't have asked the second.

[He's not going to lie and say that killing someone could have been very useful with the way things are going witch-wise, but he'll respect her wishes and not force her. He knows how deals work, the way people like to twist things to their advantage.

He spent long enough being a demon's skin after all, and those aren't the kinds of deals he wants to make. He just doesn't know what he needs right now.]

But fair enough on the first. Are both of you going?

[matriarchate]

( There is always renegotiating, especially when it comes to every avenue having been explored, but right now that's her no. )

Just me.

[maleficum]

Okay.

[And he reaches behind him for the front door, but this time when he opens it, she's looking at the charred out remains of Rousseau's, as that's the door he knows. There's a moment of regret as he watches it, before gesturing for her to make her way through.]

If you see Harvey Specter, tell him the back up her requested will be there by sundown.

[and with that, we finish Act I.]