You know when you really fuck up and you hear that one voice you REALLY don't want to and it sends the equivalent of ice water down your spine? That is exactly what I felt at the sound of Aro's voice coming from the other side of the cell door. I must be drunker than I thought because I certainly didn't see that coming. I knew something was and I knew that my mate was gonna be fine when on her own, but I had figured that Aro skipped off into the sunset right after we ran into each other the other day so that was the furthest thing from my thoughts.

Turning my head so slow it creaked, eyes widening at the sight of both Aro and Demetri before blinking at the sight of my mate. I knew she had fed during my absence because she was still damp from getting cleaned up and there was still blood visible in spots. However, it wasn't her appearance so much as the expression on her face. She did not look happy right now. She was a cross between annoyed and pissed off. Wonderful.

Before I had the chance to say anything to her though, she smirked at me and crossed her arms, "Did you have fun? Was it worth it?"

From behind and below me, Jasper snorted, "Fuck yes on both counts."

All eyes settled on him and he ignored us all. Iz, Garrett and I just kinda stared at him, Demetri snorted, and Aro... well he looked far less than amused and more than a little ready to beat the fuck out of all three of us.

He crossed his arms, his lips thinned, and his eyes narrowed as they roamed over us. Finally, they rested on me and it took every last ounce of mind I was currently fighting for to not gulp. Again, before I had any time to even try and defend myself, Aro spoke, his voice deceptively calm, but that was probably because he wasn't talking to us quite yet. "Do you mind, Officer, if I have a word with my nephews in private for a moment?"

The guard looked at him in confusion for a second prompting Aro to repeat himself in Spanish so the guy knew what he said. After a simple nod, the guard left us alone with the only person on the planet that can actually kill us. Damn it.

Once the door at the end of the hall slammed shut, Aro growled at us, "Well, do any of you have anything to say for yourselves? This has to be the most stupid, fucked up thing you have done thus far. If you want to get drunk and act like a bunch of damn fools, then do so when you are not responsible for the life and safety of someone else. Do you have ANY idea just what could, and DID, happen, because of your little stunt this evening?"

I went to open my mouth and saw Izzy shake her head frantically at me with wide eyes, prompting me to actually listen to her and keep my mouth shut for once. Instead, I shook my head, as did Garrett. Jasper on the other hand, the drunk fuck, started singing.

"Nobody knowsssss, the trouble I've seen. Nobody knowsssss my sorr..."

There was a collective facepalm by everyone but Aro, who growled again before barking, "Major!"

That sobered his ass up a bit. At least enough for him to realize now was not the time to act like a jackass. His mouth clicked shut and his head snapped to the cell door, eyes wide now that they were open.

"Oh, fuck."

Aro glared at him a little harder before cocking a brow at him, "Get... up... now."

Jasper rolled to his feet and had enough good sense left to look at least a little sheepish. After glaring at him a moment longer, Aro turned his sights on Garrett, "I don't know you, young man, and I will tell you now, you really do not want to know me. This is going to be the last time I ever see you like this lest you want to face serious consequences for it. Am I understood?"

Garrett nodded quick, fast and in a hurry, "Yes, sir."

"Good." Then he turned back to me and this time, I was unable to suppress the gulp. I knew I was in trouble, as was Jasper. I just didn't know how much yet. Aro stared at me a long moment, not saying a word, letting me stew in anticipation to the point I was beginning to fidget. After the pause, Aro shook his head, "The last time I came to your aid in jail, Captain, what did I tell you?"

I didn't want to answer that. However, one was not asked a direct question by him and not answer. Heaving a sigh, "You wouldn't do it again."

He nodded, "Yet, here I am. Do you know what happened to your mate after you were taken this evening?" I shook my head in the negative and really hoped it wasn't that bad if it was being brought up like this. He tisked a little and cocked his head to the side, "She was responsible for the death and massacre of ten humans. She is a scant two months old without the know how on how to properly clean up after herself. Do you not care enough about her to keep her safety in mind when you consume alcohol? Not only would she have been punished should the mess have been discovered by humans, she is also the center of a ring of foolishness that could have landed her in a lot of serious trouble should your absence in her protection been discovered.

"I am holding you completely responsible for the loss of human life, the fact that my guard was the one that cleaned up her mess, and the fact that you failed in your responsibility of her protection."

Wincing at being told that but not having a leg to stand on, I did what I do best... blame that shit on others. "It wasn't completely my fault. It wasn't like it was my intention for this to happen."

He cocked a brow at me, "Are you certain of that? The young lady's memories tell a slightly different story. From what I saw, this was all your idea, as I had figured from the beginning. Though, to be fair, I don't think you would have done it had your little jailhouse buddies not agreed to it as well."

Dropping my chin to my chest at finding out that I was really to blame for this bullshit, I sighed, "So, now what?"

At this, he smirked, "Since this time your actions were both dangerous and destructive to more than just yourself, I believe some time actually paying for your crimes might do you a little good Peter. You and your little friends are staying right where you are until I decide otherwise."

WHAT? Oh, hells naw. Blinking at him, "you're not serious."

His smirk widened so I saw teeth, "I'm dead serious. How are you ever supposed to learn anything if you are not punished for doing something wrong?"

God damn it. I looked over at my mate and saw her looking at me with a cocked brow. I knew that sounded just as familiar to her as it did to me. Looking back at Aro, "Seriously?"

He nodded, "Completely. Since none of you were concerned with the safety and well-being of an infant that you are completely responsible for when you decided to be a bunch of jackoffs, resulting in a human massacre, you are going to stay right where you are. I highly suggest that you take this time to think about your actions and what you can later do to avoid this."

Then he got a little exasperated as turned to look right at me, "Honestly, this is what... your fourth arrest this decade? Eventually you will learn that this is not, in anyway, acceptable behavior. You are responsible for raising a child, and as such, she is going to learn from you that this is fine when it is not. So, I suggest you think long and hard about what you want your mate to learn while in here because eventually, this will cease to be amusing and will begin to piss me off. Is that understood, Captain?"

I groaned a little in my throat as I plopped down on the cot bench next to me and nodded, "Yeah, I got it."

He nodded a little and then turned to Jasper, "Now, as for you, Major. I gave you a pardon from your last fuck up and this is your repayment for it? The term disappointed doesn't even begin to cover it. When I do someone a favor, I do not take kindly to it when they then spit it back in my face."

Looking fully chastised at the remark, Jasper looked at the ground like a child getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He cleared his throat, "Sorry."

Aro cocked a brow at him, "I understand that it has been quite a long time since your human days, but I am near positive that you were once taught that 'sorry' does not change shit. I care not for an apology, Jasper. I care only that you actually LEARN from the mistakes you make and not repeat them again. You are as at fault for this as they are and will face the same punishment. None of you are getting out of here until I decide otherwise and I'm not sure how long that is going to be yet." He then glared at all of us, "And I mean it when I say that this will be the last time this happens for the foreseeable future. Am I clear?"

Once we all said yes, he nodded a hard nod and turned to look at Izzy, "Take a moment to say good night, Stella, so we can leave."

*X*

Watching Izzy walk out with Aro and Demetri was one of the hardest things I have done to date. It wasn't really because she was staying with them while I sat in here, it was that I was sitting in here, looking at a wall, still drunker than fuck. The thing that I was actually most pissed off about was that she didn't even argue with him over this. All she had to do was say 'no' and he would have caved, but she didn't and now I am stuck around humans that I can't eat with two other drunk assholes.

I can't really blame her though, I guess. She did warn that it was a bad idea and not to do it, but come on... we dominated that stage. When you can make a Mexican stripper part with her tips for the night, you know your ass is a sexy beast. I snorted as the night replayed in my mind drawing the other's attention to me, and neither one looked amused.

Jasper kinda glared at me, "I fail to see anything funny about this."

I cocked a brow at him, "Really? because I find quite a bit funny about it. Like the fact that I can see a twenty sticking out of the top of your jeans."

He blinked at me a little before looking down and taking hold of the bill and pulling it out and just stared at it. After a moment he stood up and unzipped his pants prompting both Garrett and I to turn away and cover our eyes when we saw a little too much of his second in command, "What the fuck are you doing, Jazz? Ain't no one wanna see that shit."

He snorted a little before explaining, "Well, might as well see how much a night in jail costs others these days." I glanced at Garrett out of the corner of my eye for a second before we both shrugged and stood, shoving our hands down our pants and began to pull cash out.

Once it was all out and counted, between the three of us, we collected over 900 bucks. Not bad in my opinion for as short a time as we were up there.

Over the next few hours, as the booze started to wear off, a very different picture of the night's events began to swirl in my mind as I paired them with the reprimand ass-reaming from Aro. By the time that I reached the short conversation with Iz from the back of the squad car, I noticed things that I didn't then; like her dark red eyes showing that she was getting hungry and the scent of fear that radiated from her every pour.

Mother fucker but I am a jackass.

If that wasn't bad enough, I was then assaulted with a million different scenarios of things that could have happened to her while on her own. I have no idea why I was so ready to rely on my intuition at the moment knowing that it hasn't been its most reliable lately. I knew someone was going to be calling my phone, but not who exactly it was, and I told her to follow their orders blindly. It could have been anyone and she wouldn't have known otherwise because she listened to me. I knew that she wasn't going to get hurt while we were separated, but there are a lot of other things that could have happened that wouldn't have resulted in injury.

On top of that, I still didn't know the extent of the mutated fairy's plot that involved her, Maria was out and about in the Mexican area and all five of them would love to get ahold of her with me not in any position to stop them.

I felt like shit.

It was hours after dawn, probably about ten in the morning, when we heard the door that led to the holding cells open and a guard call out as he heading down the corridor, "Whitlock, Whitlock, Randel; your bail has been posted." When he got to the cell and unlocked it, he shook his head at the fact that we were still only half clothed. He wasn't here last night when we were brought in and probably heard about it but didn't believe it. "There is restitution on your part to the club. The owners decided not to press charges if you pay for the repairs needed after the mob you created."

Jasper and I looked at each other for a moment, thinking the same thing since this was not the first time we caused damages to a club. This was our first try at dancing for dollars, but we have been in our fair share of bar fights. So we knew they were going to use this to get us to pay for a complete renovation. However, before we could agree or decline, someone beat us to it, "They will be more than happy to pay whatever the owners ask for."

Glaring at Demetri out of the corner of my eye, I whispered under my breath, "asshole."

He actually had the audacity to wink at me. "That is the terms to Aro paying your bail. If you would rather stay here over a couple of hundred dollars in damages, that you caused to the establishment, I don't he is going to be too broken hearted. The choice is yours."

Again with the proper talk. I swear, every single one of the guards AND the brothers need to spend a little time in Texas or some shit so they knock it the fuck off. However, as I have no desire to hang out here, I nodded, as did Jasper and Garrett. "Give a us a bill and we'll take care of it."

Demetri snickered a little as we were led by the guard passed him to get out shit they took from us and to find out what the damages were. Turns out, is was a hefty fucking bill; stingy fuckers.

Five thousand dollars and a criminal trespass restraining order later, the three of us followed Demetri out of the police department and to the car that was waiting to take us to wherever Aro was with my mate.