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They walked outside. Audrey pulled her hood up and put her sunglasses on. Rochester looked at her and whined a little. She smiled reassuringly at him. "Good boy," she said. "Come on." Leash held firmly in hand, she began to walk.

Grace walked right next to her, also wearing sunglasses and a knit cap. Her blond curls were pulled back fashionably into a low ponytail at the nape of her neck. They made an odd pair.

It didn't take long to reach the address the boys had given them. It was a pretty awful place, but Audrey just hunched her shoulders and walked inside, finding the apartment quickly. The door was unlocked, but she knocked anyway, taking her sunglasses off and lowering her hood. Grace removed her sunglasses too, but her cap stayed on. It was probably part of her ensemble or some such.

Connor opened the door. "Hey," he said. She looked up at him and their eyes locked for a moment. Her body tensed and her heart beat faster. She looked away swiftly. She hated it when that happened! Eye contact was stupid. "Come in." She let Rochester come in first. "Who's this?" Connor asked.

"Rochester, our dog," Grace said, shoving past Audrey. Rochester sniffed the Irishman's shoes.

"He can kick your ass," Audrey added as she waited for the bulldog to pass judgment.

"Language," chided Grace.

After a while, Rochester seemed satisfied and looked up at Connor with his tongue hanging out, smiling happily. Connor reached down and petted him.

Audrey sighed. She was hoping Rochester would smell some kind of evil intentions or something. That would give her an excuse to flee. The longer she hung out with the MacManus boys, the more she wanted to run, and the more she felt rooted in place. The paradox was… uncomfortable, to say the least.

"I thought you said this dog would kick my ass," Murphy said, coming to join everyone else by the front door. Rochester sniffed around his legs too, and came to the same conclusion he had for Connor. Murph smiled. "Doesn't seem very dangerous."

Audrey watched as Grace smiled at Murphy. She quickly closed the door and unlatched Rochester's leash.

The now free Rochester wandered over to a wall with a large red stain on it and immediately began licking it. "What's that?" she asked.

The boys turned, and then looked down at the floor. "Uh, cat blood," Murphy said, rubbing the back of his neck.

Grace blinked. "Oh, well… that's okay then," she said. Audrey grinned and rolled her eyes. She knew Grace didn't like cats much.

Audrey turned to Rochester, "Stop," she ordered. "If you get sick, you're going to have to clean up your own vomit." Rochester looked sheepishly at her, but he backed off. She went back to looking around the place. "Is this your apartment?" She asked.

"No," said Murph. "It's Rocco's."

"It's pretty shitty."

"Yeah," both of them said at the same time.

"Language," Grace reminded her, but she'd noticed something. "Who are they?" she asked, pointing to the two addicts passed out on the couch.

"Rocco's girlfriend and her friend," Murphy said, coming to stand behind her. "Are you going to tell us what's going on?"

"Audrey is," Grace said. Audrey bristled; getting the feeling that statement was meant more for her benefit than for theirs.

"Only if you tell me why you think you need to know," she replied, squaring her shoulders. She sat down at a small table littered with empty cans of Guinness. The boys too sat down, with Grace joining them a moment later. Audrey looked from the twins to the trash on the table and back again. "Quite a party."

"Why do you speak French?" Connor asked, leaning forward with his elbows on the table.

She raised an eyebrow, "Why do you?"

The boys shrugged and leaned back against their seats. "We paid attention in school," Murphy said.

She drew her knees up to her chest. "Grace's mom teaches French at the local high school."

"Can you speak any other languages?" Connor asked. She shook her head.

"Just French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew," she replied. "You speak," she paused for a second, then started to count them on her fingers, "French, Latin, Irish Gaelic, Russian, and" she thought about it, "probably Italian and Spanish too." Rocco was in the Italian Mafia, which was why she suspected they knew Italian. And if a person knew French, Italian and Latin they knew Spanish.

"You over looked German, but other than that you got it," said Connor.

"Are we ever going to get to the point?" Murphy asked. He looked at her. "Why?"

She glared at him. "You guys first."

They glanced at each other. "No."

She clenched her hands into fists and got up from the chair. "Go fuck yourselves," she said. "Rochester, come." Rochester obediently plodded over, and she started to put the leash back on him.

Murphy looked pleadingly at Grace, but Grace only shook her head. "I'm looking forward to this as much as you guys are." Audrey's hand clenched on the leash. She knew she should have told Grace more, but Grace wouldn't be her friend anymore if she knew, couldn't be her friend anymore.

"Wait," said Connor. She did not look at him, but she stopped messing with her dog's leash. "We'll tell you if you swear to tell us after, alright?" he asked.

"Just know," added Murph, "You aren't going to like it."

"I already don't like it," she said, glowering at the table.

"You swear you'll tell us?" Murphy asked.

"I swear," she said, looking them both in the eyes as she sat back down. Connor's blue eyes nearly trapped her, but she closed her eyes briefly and took a deep breath. "You can begin any time now."

The boys looked at each other, and she knew they were considering lying to her. She could tell, just like they could decide whether or not to lie without saying a word. Her hands were tight fists again, pressing her nails into her palms.

Then Connor flexed his left hand, and the confrontation was over. She relaxed. Veritas.

The boys turned to her, all business now. "Destroy all that which is evil," Connor began. Audrey's blood turned to ice at the words.

"So that which is good may flourish." She and Murphy both spoke at the same time. The four of them were staring at each other, completely taken aback.

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