A Subtle Change of Pace

After a few weeks of clean up, rebuilding, and refocusing themselves members of both the Morave and the Xeres clans had finally began to work towards their clans mergers. With most who were involved with protecting the two clans having been able to make some form of stable recovery.

Walking around the Morave manor Julius observed everything that was currently going on, and for a moment he actually allowed himself to smile, seeing that everyone was beginning to truly work together under the same roof. It was something both he and Jadamine had hoped for. It was something he hoped she would have been able to witness. Seeing her family being able to easily and quickly blend with that of another. At least he hoped it was a easy transition for them.

Taking a deep breath Julius looked on continuing to watch over everyone, when he felt a hand gently pat his back gaining his attention. Looking to see who it was, Julius saw Draven holding a little girl on his arms.

"Who might this little one be?" Julius asked with a arched eyebrow. He didn't recognize the girl in his arms, and he didn't really remember seeing one around when they were bringing more of the Xeres family into his home.

"She just came in a moment ago with the newest batch of my family" Draven spoke with a soft smile forming on his lips. "This little one's name is Myst."

"Is she another natural born?" Julius asked as he observed the child in Dravens arms. If she was that would make the Xeres family one of the highest in capability of natural birth. Since it was near impossible for vampires to even conceive a child. It was even harder to give birth to one due to the amount of life it took from the mother to do so.

"She isn't...one of our own turned her. The reason why, we haven't really found out yet. But we are hoping to soon" He said in response as he flashed a small grin at Julius. "She is cute though"

"Another mini Devil to trash our very expensive floors" Julius sighed rubbing the back of his head before paying closer attention to the girl. "Are you thirsty little Myst?"

The little girl pulled herself closer to Draven as Julius got closer. Telling that she must be afraid of him. He took a few steps away to make some distance, so that she would feel a bit more comfortable.

"Don't worry Julius she'll warm up to you eventually. I'm going to give her a tour of the manor. Once she gets used to being in her new home, she should open up more" Draven said with a slight nod before slowly turning around and walking off.

Sighing to himself, Julius also turned and began to make his way down the hall towards his office where he still spent the better parts of his mornings sleeping. Even if he had gotten slightly more intimate with Angelica, he was still. Well unsure about what was a good idea and what was a bad one when it came to her.

Entering the office he looked around and slowly sniffed as the familiar scent of flowers wafted into his nasal passage ways. Raising a curious eyebrow Julius looked around trying to figure out where the scent was even coming from as he slowly made his way through his office and looked under the desk. Seeing as no one was there he slowly got up and continued to look around his office. Frowning he tried to figure out why on earth it smelled heavily like flowers, and not heavily like cigar smoke and aged whiskey.

Walking to the leave his office, he was on a path to try to figure out who had. Now that he was starting to put two and two together. He wanted to figure out who cleaned his office.

Opening the door he was greeted by the sight of a shocked Angelica who held a bucket and a mop in her hands. Slowly moving a few steps back it was obvious that she had been caught in the act.

"H-hello there Julius" Angelica stuttered nervously as she took in the sight of the man before him. Noticing he wasn't wearing the coat he always wore, his arms were revealed by a black short-sleeved button up shirt. And the damage that had been done to his left arm was all but healed at this point. The only remnants of the injury was light scaring where the blade had imbedded itself into his arm.

"Hello Angelica. May I ask why you are cleaning my office?" Julius asked crossing his arms over his chest and staring down at her softly. He felt touched by the fact she would even consider doing something like this considering everything that had happened before. But he also didn't want her to push herself.

"Well...you see I had nothing else to do since everyone in your family has insisted on us not doing anything when it comes to cleaning and making our own things. And I noticed that the one spot they never touch when cleaning is your office. And I noticed it smelled quite awful so I decided to give it a good cleaning and make it look like a office again. Even dragged that big mattress out." Angelica said in a rushed tone as she was becoming more noticeably flustered.

"You dragged the mattress out of my office that I was using to sleep?" Julius asked as she looked the woman up and down with a impressed look. Granted he didn't know how physically capable she was to begin with, but moving a full on king sized bed was defiantly something to write home about. Especially with the ones that they got custom made to take quite a bit of a beating and liquids being spilled on them.

"Well I was thinking you didn't have to sleep in your office anymore and would want to sleep in your own room again for a change." Angelica said in a voice of feigned innocence as she fluttered her eyes at him.

"And where would you sleep Angelica?" Julius asked the girl as he continued to look down at her feeling his own heart beat skipping a beat every few seconds. What was this girl doing to him?

"I would sleep with you silly" Angelica said as she smiled at him, boldly telling him what she wanted to his face. And that fact caused him to swallow hard. He was not ready for the days to come. But it was something he knows he has to accept, even if it was awkward for him.