Thankfully Max hadn't turned around to see the horrific mess that his neighbor was leaving behind, or else... well, it wouldn't have been very pretty. He was beyond obsessive, it was the reason for all of his headaches, since it didn't seem his mind could every just stop. His footsteps echoed on the marble flooring as he made his way down the long corridor, not saying a word to Johnson, or his neighbor. Even thought his headache had started to subside, he knew another would work his way into there before he could even find relief from this one.

A heavy sigh escaped him as he stopped in front of a rather ordinary door, almost out of place in the huge and well-kept mansion. What should have been some high-tech security system, guarding all of his equipment and the likes, was a simple door knob, which with no key, turned and the door creaked open. A hum of white noise filled the air as he entered, and various lights blinked and flickered in the room. Max pushed a button by the door, and all the screens flickered on, nearly 30 screens flashed with images of all parts of the cities, even a newly placed one of Ted's gardens.

He sat down in the leather chair, and pushed a few buttons, and the center most screen, double the size of the others, began to rewind. He watched diligently until the street view darkened, and he saw the first few flashes of green. "See those? I don't want to see them! Call them off." He said, pausing on a view of one of the little green creatures, zooming in (but it was little more than a green blur).

Gabriel was fairly happy to get away all of a sudden. now that his work was done, he was rather anxious to get back to wandering and exploring the new city. At Zaria's mention of their previous conversation, his curiosity about the woman was reawakened.

Gabriel smiled at the others then said, "I'll see everyone tonight then." With a nod, he walked away at an easy pace, waiting for Zaria to follow him. "Forgive me if I don't quite remember what conversation we were having that needs finishing," he said to her when they were out of hearing distance from the others.

Tait grinned, "It's all settled then, I'll see you tonight. Now I do believe I must be off to work, I'm alread late enough as is."

Zaria grinned at Gabriel, glad the snake woman was gone, "I don't really remember either, I believe it was something about blood though. Really though I just wanted an excuse to hang out with you more Gabriel, you interest me and you're fun to talk to."

Ted couldn't help but touch things as he followed Max through the vast hallway. The place was so cold and sterile. How could a guy live like that? Max couldn't see it, but as Ted passed through, he set some to mold growing in the walls. It wasn't bad mold. Oh no. It was good. The spores had painkilling properties, or so the unicorn hoped. Maybe they'd even be relaxing when inhaled. Ted did not think they would explode. He'd keep an eye on it.

Max was actually lucky a jungle didn't start growing in there. Ted was showing extreme restraint, really.

Ted stared at the monitors when they reached the surveillance room. He didn't have much time to consider that his neighbor had been spying on him before the center screen changed, revealing… He squinted at the little green things. They were startling, and definitely not his.

"Dude, those are demonlets. There are some lines you just don't cross. And that's not a dimension you want to cross to." He shook his head. "They're not mine, man."

Gabriel raised an eyebrow at Zaria. "You just wanted to get away didn't you? Why exactly don't you like Anya. I rather like her myself," he said, for the most part ignoring what she'd said to him. "You interest me too, but you really don't play well with others do you?" He wondered why she seemed to like him though. he was a person of order and yet, he didn't appear to bother her.

Zaria grinned at Gabriel, "I can play perfectly nice with others if I want to." she said, a smirk in her voice, "As for why I don't like Anya, let's just say it's a female thing." She had to bite back a snarl when Gabriel said he rather liked the snake woman, but Zarai felt she held back her snarl pretty well.

"I haven't seen anything that proves you can play nicely," Gabriel said simply. "You snarl at everyone!" He didn't know how to comment on the 'female thing' though, so he simply didn't. "Well its fine so long as no fights break out tonight."

Zaria made an affronted face at Gabriel's accusation. "No I just snarled at her." she said distaste in her words. "I was perfectly nice to them and I'd say quite cordial to you." Zaria made a face at him, "I promise not to start any fights tonight." she said, mildly annoyed by the suggestion.

Gabriel sighed. "Very well. you just made yourself look very unapproachable with all that snarling at Anya. were you two comparing fangs or something?" He paused and thought. "Yes, you are rather cordial to me. far more friendly than you are to anyone else...." He didn't say any more though. only tilted his head slightly with a thoughtful look. "Yes, good good. I just don't want to have to break the fights up," he said distractedly, still looking thoughtful.

Zaria chuckled at Gabriel, "Yeah you could say we were comparing fangs." she laughed and then she noticed the thoughtful look in his eyes and her own eyes widened a bit, "uh-oh what did I say?"

Gabriel snapped out of his thoughtful look, putting the idea in the back of his mind for further inspection for later. "oh, its nothing. hey, do you want to grab a bite to eat? all that work earlier has made me hungry."

Zaria made a face at him that said she didn't really believe him before shrugging, "Sure whatever," she said, aware that at some point in the next few hours she might want to go feed. She definitely need to do that before dinner tonight, a hungry vampire was a very cranky vampire.

"You do eat human foods right? or do you need to....?" he trailed off with a questioning look, wondering if she needed to feed on blood. If she did, he would let her do that before they went to a little lunch place. he had no intentions to watch though.

"Yes I do eat human food, yes I do need to feed sometime soon, mostly just because if you want me to play nice tonight I better not be hungry or I'll be cranky." Zaria said this all very nonchalantly.

Gabriel nodded, taking what Zaria said in stride. He was still bothered by the thought of her being a vampire and drinking blood, but she said it like it was nothing, so it must be. "How about you go feed and I'll get us a table somewhere and you can meet me there?"

Zaria nodded, "That sounds like a good idea, where are you going?" she paused for a second and then looked at him and sighed, before saying in a soft tone, kinda unlike her normal tone. "I'm sorry I know this blood thing probably weirds you out, disconcerts you, but it's so second nature to me so if I make you uncomfortable just tell me."

"There's a small lunch place I saw earlier today called Pete's Pizza, I believe was its name. you can meet me there," Gabriel said with his usual polite smile. "Don't worry, you only make me slightly uncomfortable." With that comment, he waved and started walking towards the pizza place.

Zaria shook her head and grinned at Gabriel, "See you soon." she said before walking off to a random park to feed from a deer or something. She was soon fed and headed to the pizza place Gabriel had talked about and walked in smiling as she looked for the blue-haired man, who wasn't hard to spot.

Gabriel smiled as Zaria walked into the pizza place. "Hello again. Care to share a pizza with me?" he asked with a smile. His small talk with the vampire girl was coming easier and easier. He could see himself becoming very close to her even though they'd just met.

Zaria smiled at Gabriel and sat across form him, "Sure I'll eat a slice or two." She cocked a head and studied the dragon man, she had to admit this man's peaceful personality brought out a softer side in her. She didn't know what to make of it but she liked being around Gabriel to much to walk away from him.

Thankfully Johnson noticed the mess that the hippie was making, and had the workers get on it right away, cleaning it before Max could discover it. Should Max see it, well... no one would be in a good mood. Gardeners worked in the setting sun, trying to tame the mess outside, and several maids scrubbed the walls.

Meanwhile, Max looked at the screen. Through his headache, and the pulsating behind his eyes, he watched the creatures in slow-motion, moving on the screen. He could see black little eyes, and what seemed to be a devilish grin. A groan escaped him, the hippie was too proud of his creations to lie, he figured that much. It seemed thus far to be true, anyways. Plus, he somehow knew it wasn't really his neighbor, he just wished it was. "Then we have a problem. I don't want them here, and you seem to know what they are, your creation or not. How do I get rid of them?" He had a whole envoy of people employed that could do... well, just about anything. But he never brought them in until the time came, he was generally untrustworthy. But it didn't matter, he didn't have time to cover every track, he just hoped that no one would believe this hippie, if they bothered to talk to him.

Gabriel nodded and waved over the waitress and ordered a pepperoni pizza for him and Zaria to share. After she walked away, Gabriel tried to think of some more small talk. He knew he wanted to keep chatting and he felt that Zaria did too. "So, how do you feel about meeting everyone at the burger place tonight?"

Ted scratched the back of his neck and thought, staring at the imps. "Now, see, man, getting rid of these little dudes is tricky," he hedged. "They're imps, right? Mini-demons. Demonlets. Only the dimension they're from, they don't like it. Low dudes on the totem pole. Grass is greener just about anywhere, so if a door opens, they go through. So, you know, never open those doors in the first place 'cause the trick is to convince the imps that this place is worse than the place they're from." He paused, then looked Max straight in the eyes. "Not many places worse than a hell." Turning back to the screen, he studied the footage. Fascinating little creatures. He wondered how mutable they were. Could he hybridize them with clams or something? Mini demon clams might be… well, less harmless than clams, but less harmful than… Hmm. "Best thing to do would be find the door, close it, and contain what got through, man."

Zaria grinned at him, "I'm fine with it. Though I'll probably be a bit out of place, I assume all of you are Order and I'm well obviously not." she shrugged, as if the distinctions didn't really matter to her. She then frowned slightly, "Though I may not be pleased about all the dinner guests...."

Gabriel nodded, glad that Zaria wasn't too upset with being so out of place with all the Order people. "That's fine. You don't have to be friends with everyone, just be able to work with them."
It was only a minute it seemed before the pizza came and Gabriel took a slice, nearly burning his fingers with it. "Hm, this is good. I'll have to remember this place."