Erik rounded the corner eagerly. He heard Alice odd accent a mile away, and she didn't sound happy. She was apparently getting into quite the argument with Enrico Maxwell.

"I told you I'm not interested in returning. I left years ago," Alice hissed.

"But what about everything I've done for you? What about your supposedly undying loyalty?" Enrico retorted.

"You broke that the night you-!" Alice stopped suddenly.

Erik tensed up. Had she sensed him? Impossible, there's no way, she hadn't mastered any type of tracking…

Erik jumped to the side just in time; he literally felt the bullet slice through the air where his head had been seconds ago.

"Damn it missed." Alice muttered, red eyes glaring at Erik.

"Miss me sis?" Erik said, smiling.

"Hardly," a smirk formed on her cheek.

"whatcha mean little girl?"

Erik landed on the ground with a light thump. When he descended Enrico took a step back, only to be blocked completely from Erik's view by Alice.

"I may not work permanently for the Vatican, but tonight I do."

Erik smiled and lit another cigarette and popped it in his mouth. He just stared at his little sister; the vampire had done her some good after all. She finally had grown into her adult life and looked meaner than anything. Sometimes it's hard to believe only a few decades ago he was chasing her around teasing her for being so puny, back when she didn't hate him. And now he returned to her, only this time with threats.

"Well little sis, you take your job way to seriously. Every stuck up piss-off in there does. And the Millennium, they ain't happy," he flung the cigarette down and snuffed it out, "so why don't we just leave these humans to commence with their slaughter?"

"VAT ARE YOU DOING YOU LITTLE BRAT!" the Doctor roared into his ear.

Erik took the inner ear out and let it hang there.

"We can leave and come back collect the souls from their efforts, and get stronger together. It's a tough world for half-bloods like us. So come on and leave this farce."

"No." Alice replayed blankly, "A couple hundred years will not change my answer brother."

"Couple hundred? I thought it was only a few decades."

He didn't even see her finger move on the trigger, and this time the bullet actually grazed his cheek leaving a paper thin cut.

"Couple hundred, I've been counting."

"That bored are we?" Erik teased a malicious grin spreading on his face.

He pulled out his own gun and pointed it at her.

"Let's see how fast you are."

Alice smiled. She'd been waiting for him to pull a weapon out. Now she can finally show her brother she's not a weakling anymore.