Blink of an Eye {Seth}

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Her weight akin to a feather, Raven`s footsteps were barely audible as she stealthily moved throughout what her little black flashlight showed her was a fairly simple and tidy one bedroom apartment. Tidy was always good, it meant she wasn`t about to trip up over anything in the dark. It was a little after nine in the evening, and the lights being off this early was a good sign that no one was home, so she had teleported right on in. She liked to hit the bedrooms first, not only did it reassure her that no one was home but it was usually where any jewelery was kept, so she made a beeline for it right away - after a brief detour to the fridge and grabbing an apple first.

Silently pushing the bedroom door open just enough to pop her head in, listening hard for any noises from within, she peered inside and narrowed her eyes at the dark outline of the bed. From the moonlight shining in through the bedroom window she could see that no one was lying on it, so she pushed the door open the rest of the way and shone her flashlight around the room, munching away on the apple, noting at once there was no form of jewelery boxes or anything remotely feminine lying around for her to take.

Great, was this a guy`s apartment?

Raven walked over to the bedside table and opened the drawer. Sliding her long black devilish tail out from under her black peacoat she tossed it the flashlight to hold and shine the light in for her so she could still snack on her fruit with one hand while her other was free to sift through the various objects inside the drawer. A smile lit up on her face when she found some old-looking jewelery, and she held it up in the light turning it this way and that to get a good look at it before unceremoniously stuffing it inside one of her coat pockets.

Nothing else really stood out, aside from some spare change, so she moved to the dresser and swiftly rifled through the drawers in that. However, it was nothing but guy clothes, so she quickly lost interest and headed back out of the room and did a little skip back into the kitchen, where she tossed the core of the apple into the garbage. Her hand free to hold the flashlight again, she hid her tail up under her coat once more. Despite the snack though she was still hungry, so she raided the fridge again, this time opening the freezer part, and found a quick microwaveable snack which she promptly opened and stuffed inside the microwave. She was so cocky that she oftentimes did this, made herself a meal while she robbed a place. A few minutes later, the microwave binged, and once she had located the right drawer that had all the forks and knives in it, she set her flashlight down onto the table and turned it so that the beam wasn`t in her eyes but still lit up her food, sat down, and started munching away, thinking she had all the time in the world.

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Tonight had been another full moon which slipped the minds of the Rileys, unfortunately so they had needed his help in restraining Nikita to get her down into the basement to lock her up for the night. She wolfed out on them and started after Kaydence who was the worst one to go after being a pregnant and defenseless human and all. Ava had freaked out screaming and crying so Johnny had made his little girl go to her room with auntie Sasha while he tried holding Nikita off from his little sister. In the meantime, Sasha had called Seth in a panic and he hurried over from wrestling training as soon as possible where he showed up and cold-cocked his sister a good one. Knocking her on her ass long enough for Johnny and him to drag her to the basement.

It had been a big hardy-ya-do to get her down there because she kept trying to fight them off but they eventually managed. After locking the door tight, Johnny had thanked Seth and went to check on Kaydence and his daughter while Seth left to head home. He was in a dire need of a shower after training and all that struggling with his sister. Unknown to him that he would soon have another situation on his hands.

As he came to his apartment, he pulled out his keys to unlock the door but had heard a bing sound coming from inside. What the hell? He'd thought as he rose a brow. His eyes narrowed in thought wondering if he had forgot the TV on when leaving earlier on or if he had an intruder? Not taking the chance, he quietly turned the knob as he unlocked the door and opened it where he stepped almost soundlessly through the living room in time to see someone sitting at his kitchen table...eating?

"Who are you?" He bellowed, sounding angry, wondering why they were here and what they wanted. And why on earth would a stranger break into his apartment and take the time out to eat a meal? Don't you think they'd be in a hurry to leave after getting what they wanted? Not like he had much. Except for his mother's jewelry. His eyes widened at the thought. "What did you take?" He demanded, stalking his way towards the woman.

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Raven paused with the fork halfway to her mouth when a guy suddenly bellowed at her demanding to know who she was, then only her eyes moved to look over at him, looking much like a kid that had just been caught with their hand in a cookie jar. It appeared that the owner of this abode had just walked in, having somehow managed to do it without her hearing him, and he wasn`t very happy.

Understandably.

This wasn`t the first time she had been caught in the act, which was why she wasn`t all too surprised or upset now.

She turned her attention back to her meal and calmly took another bite even as he demanded to know what she had taken and started stalking towards her. When he was getting too close Raven took up her flashlight and shone it directly at him, seeing that he was a well-built guy that could probably rip her in half if he could catch her, but still she remained seated at the table and continued to eat. However, this time she answered him, and with a mouthful of chicken.

"Other than this dinner?" she paused and made a show of trying to think what else she had taken. "Some spare change you left lying around, some old jewelery I found in your bedside table...Oh! And an apple!" She gave a smile then a shrug as she added, "I didn`t check what else you have, yet. Got any expensive electronics? But like, stuff that`s not too heavy? I can`t carry a TV out, unless it`s like a nineteen-inch flatscreen..." She turned the beam of her flashlight passed the guy and into the livingroom, trying to discern the type of TV that he had.

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Seth had squinted when the woman shone her flashlight at his face, refraining from shading it with his hand. To say the least, she was ballsy to just ignore him like that and continue eating. Of course ignoring his demand on who she was but going on with what she had stolen from him. He pressed his lips together in anger at the thought of her taking his beloved deceased mother's jewelry then having the nerve to ask if he had anything else of worth to steal. He caught her eying his TV when she mentioned it and snapped at her.

"Don't even think about it!" He yelled, not caring if any of his neighbors had heard him or not. "Now, if you don't give me everything back I'll have the cops here in a second." He stated as he pulled out his cell phone and held it up to show her. And if need to, he would restrain her himself. He had no problem doing that after just battling his werewolf sister tonight. "You got some balls there lady. Sitting there bragging what you took from me while eating my food." He gestured with his head towards the microwaveable meal she'd made herself. He really wasn't in the best of moods right now.

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Raven flicked the beam of her flashlight back on the guy when he yelled at her threatening to call the cops, and saw that he was holding up his cell phone. To her that was an invitation to play. Seeing as the threat to call the police was already in effect, she would have to skip the mindgames and go straight to using her powers in front of him, which wasn`t too disappointing. It made things more fun for her as it was her favorite game, and certainly made the victim`s report to the police...less credible.

Who would believe a complaint that you had just been robbed by a girl who had a tail and could teleport?

"So...if I give everything back, you`d let me walk right on out that door?" she inquired, eyebrows raised. It was impossible to see her whenever she had her flashlight pointed away from herself, she realised this, and that wouldn`t do for her game at all.

She abruptly switched her flashlight off.

Veiled in darkness, her tail slid out from under her coat again and rose up and flicked the lightswitch on on the wall behind her, illuminating the kitchen - only then was she and her black and devilishly-tipped tail fully visible. She waved it slowly a few times, as if she needed to draw anymore attention to it, but otherwise acted as if nothing was out of the ordinary.

"Gosh, that`s swell of you, but you see, I can`t give you everything back. I ate most of it." Raven pouted, looking as if she felt bad about it, and gazed down at what was left of her meal. "You can have the last mouthful of rice!" she offered brightly, pushing the tray a few inches along the table towards him and watching him carefully. Mr. Crankypants looked like he was gonna snap at any minute, which was always hilarious to see, but she had to be ready to move if he reacted violently.

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The flashlight was almost blinding when she shined it on him again. This time he raised his hand holding his phone to his eyes until the light was no longer directly in his face. "Well, yes. If you give everything back, I'll forget this even happened." He lowered his hand, having had a rough night so this was the last thing he wanted to deal with. If he could wipe it off clean without involving police or any kind of personal restraint, he'd much prefer so.

Then the light switched on and the darkness of the room was suddenly behind them, leaving him a little baffled at the sight of her tail. A tail? She obviously was far from human although other then the tail, the rest of what he could see seemed fairly normal. "Nice tail," He could've smirked at that, not being the first time he'd been around a supernatural creature. His sister was a werewolf for Christ sakes! How was this any different?

"Very funny," It really wasn't. He knew that she knew he had obviously meant his personal belongings. He could give a crap less about a microwavable dinner. He just glanced at it when she pushed it his way. "You know, I had a bad dealing with my werewolf sister tonight. I'm really not in the mood to deal with...whatever the hell you are." He stated with a nod of his head in her direction.

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Huh, he didn`t look or act very surprised at the sight of her tail, Raven hadn`t came across that lacklustre reaction before. "Ammmm...thanks," she said at length, when he merely stated she had a nice tail. She gaped at him for a moment, her smile fading; for the first time she found herself unsure on what her next move should be in this little game of hers, a decision that wasn`t easier to make by the guy`s statement that his sister was a werewolf. Considering she always made up her own rules in these games then that was saying something.

She didn`t really know what she was, so she couldn`t come back with a witty retort regarding that, but she did know of witches and demons, purely because she and her late mother had been labelled as such by humans and hunters loads of times in the past, and the accusation of her mother being a witch ultimately led to her death. That, and the fact that there were supernatural hunters around meant such things were very real. That there were such things as werewolves then was completely plausible.

How exciting!

"Really?!" Raven asked, her face breaking out into a grin, her tail practically wagging as she leaned forward in her chair gazing at him with almost childlike wonder. "Wow, I`ve never seen one of those before! Fur, fangs and all?" she asked, not bothering to hide her excitement. She hadn`t yet come across another that wasn`t completely human so she was intrigued. Then a thought came to her, and she looked even more delighted as she voiced it, "are you one too?" Now that would be some awesome bragging rights, right there, that she had robbed a werewolf. "Is that why you`re so cranky?" she added understandingly in a lower voice, like a secretive whisper.

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Raising a brow, Seth looked at her kind of strange at her huge grin and the excitement then shone on her face at what he believed was the thought of his sister being a werewolf. He didn't find the thought very exciting to say the least. It was exhausting. "Very unfortunate," He replied in a neutral tone, shaking his head slightly at her following question. "Not exactly," He answered, his sister not being much like the werewolves you saw in movies. He didn't know if all werewolves were like Nikita or what but if they were, he wanted nothing to do with them. They were a complete and utter nightmare.

"Not even close," He responded, feeling a bit agitated at her questions now. What was with the twenty-one questions here? "Only she is. I'm human," Which was the least he could say for her. It still puzzled him not knowing what the hell she was either. She had a long tail and that was it as far as he was concerned. That wasn't telling him much. Why was he answering her questions for anyway? "No, I'm cranky because you took my dead mother's jewelry and I want it back, now." He demanded yet again, although what he'd gone through earlier hadn't helped any neither.

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Her excitement ebbed away when the guy said he wasn`t a werewolf, and she slumped back in her chair, after which she started poking the leftover rice with her fork - looking very much like a sulky kid that had just been denied a treat.

"Aw man, I was gonna ask you to shift and everything. That would`ve been cool," she said, visibly disappointed. She had wanted to see how fast she could teleport around a werewolf, test her abilities in a more challenging game. Naturally, she was confident that she could do it easily, so the challenge didn`t really matter, it just seemed like it would be a lot of fun.

For someone that was asking a lot of questions, it was hard not to notice her sudden stillness and silence when the guy stated that the old jewelery she had stolen actually belonged to his mother. Even her tail seemed suspended in time.

His dead mother, something she could certainly relate to.

Raven mutely slid it out of her coat pocket and gazed down at it for a moment, thinking back to when she had lost Loren. "This belonged to your mom?" she asked quietly, not looking up from it yet not really seeing it either. Then she suddenly slapped the jewelery onto the table and shoved it towards him like she`d previously done with the food, and just as abruptly voiced her frustration, "AARGH! I can`t steal this now!" She really couldn`t. Anything that even remotely reminded her of her own dead mother always caused her to stop whatever it was she was doing, it still hurt.

'Bamf!'

In a sudden flash of black smoke she had literally vanished in her seat, the fork noisily clattering onto the table in her wake. Another 'Bamf' sound later she had reappeared with another flash of smoke right into the center of his livingroom. "I`ll take this though!" she said, all smiles again, already unplugging his TV. "Ooh, and that!" she added happily, spotting his sound system and using her tail to unplug that. She`d have to teleport all this out of course.

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Seth couldn't help but raise another brow at the strange woman creature at her sudden disappointment. "Sorry to disappoint," He said dryly, not really caring what she had wanted. All he wanted was for his mother's stuff back and for her to go away so he could shower and sleep in peace. It had been such a long day in between wrestling trainings, his sister's full moon transformation, and now this. "If I turned, trust me...you'd be dead right now. It's a full moon tonight." He had pointed out to her, gesturing towards the closest window where the moonlight could be seen shining in.

Nodding silently, he replied, "She died after my sister was born." He didn't know why he offered such personal information but she was making things personal by taking that jewelry. She then slapped it down on his kitchen table, saying she now was unable to take it. Really? Is that all it took was to tell her that it had belonged to his deceased mother? He looked surprised but didn't hesitate to grab for it.

Then she was gone. Then in another spot! The cloud of black smoke left him bewildered and confused, blinking in surprise as that wasn't what he'd been expecting at all. She could teleport? "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hey now! That stuff wasn't cheap!" He yelled out, raising out his now free hand as he dropped his phone in surprise at her movements. Now she was taking his electronics? What was with her?