[sylvanSpider]

Ashi sighed. In her entirety of being a vampire, she'd never been treated less human than these ladies, save maybe by the hunters. Granted, no one save them and other vampires knew about her ...condition...but still! She stared straight ahead as her blood was drawn, making no attempt to hide the dejection in her eyes. It was only too much of a relief when they moved from her over to Josef.

He was scowling when they stepped through the curtain and folded his arms, “No. I just don't get the fuckin' reasoning behind these dumb ass gowns. To draw blood? Are you kidding me?” He ran a hand through his blonde hair, immediately wishing for another of his cancer sticks but knowing it might still be a while before he got a hold of it. The second they were out of their chains, it was the first thing he latched on to despite effectively kicking the habit out of sheer necessity when chained to the dungeon walls.

When they left, Josef joined back into the conversation, “They don't scare me. Elizabeth? She scared me. Something wasn't right with that woman.” He prattled away, fully aware that the women were still listening and giving little to no shits about it. “We survived her. I mean, Rin's got a point. If we can survive that, we can survive fuckin' anything.”

“Tch. Speak for yourself,” Ashi huffed in response to the “newfound acceptance.” “The entire time they were in here they treated me like I was going to attack them at any moment! I mean they were acting like a couple of...a couple of...” Ashi struggled to find the words.

“Bitches?” Josef offered to fill in the word that Ashi couldn't bring herself to say.

“No! They can still hear you, Josef...” Ashi muttered.

“Yeah? And they treated you like ass. Maybe they are?” Josef continued, “I don't care if they hear.”

“Josef, you treated me like shit when we first met...on the basis that I'm a vampire. Do you not remember that?”

Josef huffed, folding his arms, “Yeah, well, I'm a hunter. It was sort of my job.”

Ashi quieted though, wanting to hear Rin's response. What are they now? The supernatural are now common knowledge...”

Josef rolled his eyes as he got to his feet following the nurses and taking one of the clipboards in his hands. It seemed straightforward enough, but the fact that they kept dodging what they were actually doing with the ladies of their party was concerning to him. His eyes went from the clipboard to the lady's face, blue eyes piercing and glinting, “Ashi's fine. I can promise you. She has problems with hurting a fly let alone a human. She's killed less than Rin and I have, that I can promise you.” He looked back at the door. “I actually would prefer to stay here with them. I don't know if I can trust you with them...”

He looked back down at the clipboard and shoved it back into the lady's hands. “I'm not going without them.”