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<sub>Hey, for a moment both of them were shirtless! Andromeda pulled out his own gun, returning upstairs and looked over to Cepheid, as Selena came up as well with a glass of water for Cepheid. He needed it anyway. Selena then cocked her guns and grabbed her belt. Unfortunately for her, she was going on a mission... in her nightgown.

Andromeda himself had his shirt and own gun. Now would be the best time to move out. He then looked over to Cepheid when he spoke up, his voice dangerously calm.

"... Then lets go. Once we're there, you rest and get to a hiding spot. I don't want you in the crossfire." He then would help his brother down the ship, followed by Selena as they would be directed where they would be.

"Those men are all going to suffer." He hissed, almost scaring poor Selena.</sub>

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While Selena went to get him some water, Ceph exerted the immense effort of putting on his blood soaked shirt, rather uncaring at the cold sensation of the moist fabric clinging to his side.

Forcing himself to his feet, he accepted the glass gratefully and drained it in a few large gulps, letting out a breath and setting the cup on the closest surface as he listened to Andromeda. "...Right." He said, too tired to argue.

Grateful for the help down the ship, Ceph was forced to rely on his brother almost completely on the way down. Despite the pain he was in, he directed his two companions in the direction of the building and moved as quickly as he could. Time was of the essence.

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<sub>It was a very silent walk over to the place, and Andromeda observed the building. He would make this place their grave. He then sat Cepheid down, as Selena put the bullets in her gun. As Andy worked his own gun, he looked at Cepheid.

"Be prepared to leave when you see either Selena, Nerys, or I come back, okay?" He then looked to Selena and nodded. Now would be for the exciting part. He whipped around to walk over to the entrance, seeing the two guards back to being stationed there.

"HEY, I told you to- Andromeda shot the guard in the chest, as Selena took down the other. Andromeda looked up to see one of the guards at the window aim for him, and it had to take a couple of bullets to take that one down.

"Fuck being stealthy." Andromeda muttered as he burst into the building. He then looked over to one of the guards aiming at him, but Selena took him down.</sub>

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The silence of the trip was only broken by Cepheid's directions, which were given in a tired-but-trying-to-sound-fine voice. Finally he called a stop.

"Here, this is the place." He said. At first, he was hesitant to tell Andy where Nery's father was, as that would be a confession that he had allowed her to get this far, but any information was necessary, and he explained which room she might be in.

"Alright then." Cepheid answered, shifting tiredly over to the nearby alley and sitting down in the shadows, still enough that no one would see him unless they were really looking. "Good luck."

He closed his eyes and rested, trying not to fall asleep. Surprisingly difficult, despite the fact that his twin was making a serious racket. Hopefully, none of them got hurt. He wouldn't be able to live with himself if Nerys, Selena, or Andy were hurt or killed because he didn't risk Nerys's wrath and brought her back to the Star Crash.

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<sub>"Cover me, Selena." The man growled as he went inside. Two guards came up and fired their guns, and like any western movie missed completely. Selena had to shoot several times herself, watching as Andy slipped off so she could deal with these guards. She rolled and dived behind a counter as the men shot at her and shot one of the guards down, the other injuring his hand and backing off.

Andromeda's sharp eyes managed to catch one of the (and the last) guard trying to drag Nerys away and he aimed his gun to fire. Thanks to his good aim, he managed to kill that guard rather than wound him, missing Nerys completely. He then walked over to the young woman, before he pulled her over by her arm and then slapped her.

"You are a FOOL, Nerys! Go back and leave with Selena!" He hissed at her before he stepped back. "... I have business to attend to." He then whipped around to look for Vladimir.

He found the man hiding in his own room, a posh, red carpeted room with chairs right in front of a lit fireplace. The bed was empty, but it did look like he was in there. The man seemed to be opening the window, tossing what a rope over. He whipped around to see Andromeda. The brunette aimed his gun and shot the man in the leg, causing him to buckle down.

"... Heh, it's you again, Andy. Long time no see!" The old man seemed to be amused to see him. "It's been years, how about we... reconcile? After all Nerys was my daughter and we knew each other!"

Andromeda was silent, before he looked over at the fireplace. he then returned his gaze to the man on the floor. "I never really cared about you, old man, just like how you never cared about Nerys, but you... You pissed me off now." he spoke up, the old man's grin fading when Andromeda took the poker from the fireplace and stuck the end in the fire. "I've spared you before, but this time... you fucked around with Nerys, and your guards shot my twin brother."

"It was an accident! Nerys was messing around my building! And your brother...!" Vladimir started to beg. Andy grinned at the man, his lips thinning as the pleasure of seeing him beg felt so... good. Nerys would be happy to see this, but... maybe not. Andy wouldn't be proud doing this. He pulled the glowing hot poker out and approached Vladimir.

"Accident or not, you'll live with the consequences. You fucked with my family!"

When Nerys, Selena, and Cepheid met up outside, they could hear a very, very loud, pained scream. I'll leave it up to your imagination where that poker went.</sub>

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<sub>Nerys was going to stab that man! She was being manhandled in no other way possible and her father came in to insult her and berate her for coming. not only that he openly mocked her for not being the son he wanted. That entire hate he had on her was because of that! What bullshit. Either way, once she heard gunshots her head snapped up form the room she was locked in, and one guard came in to forcibly get her out of there. Thankfully Andromeda had come in to shoot the man and she turned to thank him.

Only she was slapped right on the cheek. She stared at him in shock as he pulled her away, but she knew what he meant. What he was going to do.... nobody wanted to see. She ran over to Selena, who finished off the guards.

"You okay Nerys?" Selena asked her. She shook her head, tears going down her eyes.

"I turned everything into a mess.... Let's go." Both girls ran outside, Selena leading Nerys back to where Cepheid was. Nerys's eyes widened at him and she ran to hug him, burying her face in his chest, avoiding his injury. Selena went over to Cepheid's good side and pulled his arm over her shoulders for support. Both girls would sit with him.

"I'm so sorry-!" When they heard the scream from Vladimir, Nerys and Selena visibly shuddered.</sub>

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Cepheid leaned wearily in his hiding spot an felt his eyelids droop. He hadn't realized that he had fallen asleep until he heard movement nearby, in which he then snapped to attention and watched. Thankfully, it was just Selena and-thank god- an unharmed Nerys who promptly ran to hug him.

He let out a slight grunt as she landed on him, and winced very slightly as his arm began to pulse, but he still took his good arm and wrapped it around the woman, stroking her hair. He'd let Nerys continue clinging even when Selena took his good arm and put it over her shoulders.

He gave a violent start as the scream ripped through the air, and he looked up towards the building, wrapping his arms, injured or otherwise, around the two girls in an attempt to comfort. Whatever Andromeda just did....

Well, he'd really rather not know.

"It's done. Lets get back to the ship." Andy had told him to get the hell out of there as soon as one or both of the females returned.

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<sub>Andromeda, once he was done with that mess, tossed the poker aside and turned around, walking away from the probably now nearly dead man, without even turning back from the building. Blood spattered from that incident so there was some on his hands and shirt, but he could care less unless the man had a serious disease. Once he walked outside, he saw Selena and Nerys helping up Cepheid and he looked at them.

"Let's go." His voice was much calmer and he seemed to be much more chill than how he was before, especially since slapping Nerys. He would have helped Cepheid along with the girls, but... he had blood on his hands. Logic and experience has told him not to mix two and two. Plus the girls were all on him. He had no room.

"Cepheid, are you feeling any better? We'll have to get you bed as soon as we get back. And you, Nerys..." He eyed the woman. "Never EVER do that again. That was a stupid stunt and I TOLD you not to do it."</sub>

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<sub>Nerys and Selena accepted the comfort from Cepheid as he wrapped his arms around the both of them. However the same thought crossed both their minds as they put thought to it. How is it that Andy and Cepheid were identical twins.... but they were so different in their morals and ideologies? How could they stand each other?

"I agree..." Selena finally spoke up. As she helped Cepheid up, Nerys taking the other side as Cepheid looked like he was about to collapse. Nerys' head snapped up when Andromeda came out, and addressed them.

"..." She wasn't scared of him, since he would never harm her or his girls, or even Cepheid, but still... his wrath. It was horrible, and the fact he could talk so nonchalantly to them while blood was on his hands...

Nerys kept quiet as they went to trudge back to the ship.</sub>

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That was a question that, if asked, Ceph wouldn't be able to answer concretely. Even he wasn't entirely sure. They just did.

Getting to his feet, he glanced up as Andromeda appeared, covered in blood. For one horrifying second, Cepheid was sure that the blood was his twins, but he then realized that it wasn't. More than likely, it belonged to the man who let out that scream before.

"Some. Seeing Nerys unhurt definitely took the edge off." He attempted a smile. "I'm not going to bed until I get something to eat." He then said stubbornly. He felt frikkin' HUNGRY after losing all that blood.

Not talking unless addressed, he trudged back to the ship, leaning slightly on the females helping him along. By the time they reached the ship, he was feeling exhausted to the point that he might even forgo food in favor of sleep for a bit.

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<sub>Well, that's a relief. As long as Cepheid is feeling better, and he wouldn't get any sort of infection from the wound. Luckily, they keep the ship pretty clean, so there shouldn't be any issues for him. Just dress the wound often and make sure it doesn't get worse. Daniela and Selena should help with that; they're better at the medics thanks to her constant sickness.

"Right. We'll get you something to eat." He nodded. The trek back, however was slow, and probably painful for Cepheid, but as soon as they were back, Andromeda would take off his bloodied shirt and wash his hands and face off in the sink in the bathroom. He's usually very good with cleaning. It's so ironic.

He'd return to check on Cepheid, knowing the girls would help with him. Right now, he was exhausted, but he had to check if Cepheid was okay, and that Nerys wasn't hurt either.</sub>

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<sub>Nerys herself helped Cepheid up into the ship, making sure that everything was okay. By this point, the sun was probably barely peeking over the horizon. Selena would head over to the kitchen to give Cepheid a fairly reasonable helping of food to help forgo his stomach's complaints and.. well, food will keep his energy up. She'd also grab some bread for herself and the others, just so they got something to eat as well.

"...." Nerys would help Cepheid to his room, though, her eyes down and completely silent. She felt completely responsible for this mess and right now, she felt horrible. Andromeda was probably pissed at her for causing an injury to Ceph and...

Well, he checked on her and Ceph, and she was fine, aside from bruising around her wrists and that red mark from her cheek.

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The trip was certainly rough, and he wasn't going to be prancing around as The Star Man until the wound was healed, but he managed. Aided in climbing onto the ship, Ceph took only a brief detour to grab his small cape\bag that he crammed the extra parts of his costume in and tossed them on the closest table where he was sat down.

With a word of thanks, he set into the meal with an appetite that he hadn't had in years. He only looked up from his food when Andromeda walked in and Nerys spoke up. Setting his silverware down, he looked between the two, really unsure at what to say. Tell her it was her fault? Deny it? Claim it was his? Share it?

Damn it all this was a tough one.

"...We're all still alive, that's the important part." He said. He was about to say 'no one got hurt', but that was a load of bollocks, his blood covered shirt and pants were proof to that.

....Oh hell, if he couldn't get the blood out of his pants, he'd have one hell of a time getting a replacement pair. He was smart and bought a rather bulky amount of extra fabric that his whole entourage was made from, but he held no skill with a needle and thread. Maybe one of the girls would be willing to help make a replacement pair of pants that weren't covered in his vital fluids...?

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<sub>Awesome, Selena thought ahead there. Andromeda would take the bread and just scarf it down, feeling much better after all that exercise. Not only that he probably lost several hours of precious sleep. So did Selena so he excused her so she could eat her bread in peace. She nodded and then walked off with a loud yawn and a bit of a shiver, as if the place was cold.

"..." Andromeda looked at the two of them carefully. Whatever had happened woul dbe between the two of them, but he knew what he was going to say. Plus, not only did Ceph get hurt, but those guards and definitely Vladimir did, so it would be a load of bollocks. "He's right. Just... think about what you're doing next time before you run off." He murmured.

Andy looked at the two of them, deciding he should leave them alone in their private conversation. Plus he was exhausted and they looked okay. He then stood up and sighed.

"I don't know about you nightowls, but need to catch up on sleep. Holler if you need me." He then left the room. Where he promptly went to spy on them.</sub>

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<sub>Nerys wasn't hungry. She felt kind of sick to hr stomach anyway but she appreciated Selena's offer. The young girl looked down at the piece of bread on the table, even as the twins spoke up. She didn't even hear Selena leave... Her mind was dead set on feeling responsible for all of it because of the way she was raised, plus... it was Vladimir.

"... But..." She quietly spoke up, but Andy would leave the two of them... gulp... alone. Cepheid would probably want to pass out anyway, though she was unaware of his need for a seamstress. Nerys did used to do lots of seamstress work, and that's how she made her own dress and even Daniela's clothing (since the poor girl was so wide shouldered). She blinked for a moment and then spoke up.

"Rest well." She spoke up when Andy left. Now for awkward dinner table scene with Cepheid.</sub>