"Here." He told her, handing the girl the things he'd gotten.

Diva sprung up from where she'd been sitting, looking over at her cocoons for a moment.

"Grimmjow, will you please watch over my babies while I put this on?"

He sighed.

"Yeah, fine, whatever."

The girl took her dress and pulled her current one off as Grimmjow looked away at her babies. The black dress had dark-blue trim as well as a floral design done in an even darker shade of blue. She loved it, and that Grimmjow had gotten it for her meant all that much more. Diva quickly turned around again and glanced at her cocoons to make sure they were safe before sticking her arms out.

"Ta-da!" She declared.

Grimmjow eyed her like a tired person inspecting something that usually didn't hold their interest.

"Damnit. You've got no fat at all do you?" He questioned, causing the girl's head to tilt in curiosity.

"I thought that one would be in your size but you had to be all skinny-chick on me."

She bent over, looking down at him.

"I could try and fatten myself up if you'd like."

He shook his head and reclined against the hard cement roof.

"Nah, stay skinny. I'm going to sleep."

"So what else did you get?" She asked nicely… as if he hadn't expressed his desire to go to sleep just a moment earlier. Grimmjow sighed and kept his eyes closed as he responded.

"That, the two dresses for your kids, some beef jerky and a steak."

She eyed him suspiciously, as if waiting for him to admit to something.

"Alright I got a… magazine."

"What kind of magazine?"

He covered up something behind his back.

"No kind. It's, uh- blank."

"Really?" She asked with humor in her voice.

"Yeah."

The breeze blew, and she hopped on top of him, tearing the magazine from his grasp.

"Hey ya little witch! Give that back!" He complained as she held the must-be dirty magazine triumphantly over her head and prepared to make fun of him about it-"

Her eyes stared at the title.

"Hunterlicious; ten tips on how to stalk your prey without making any noise."

The man grabbed the magazine from her grasp and shoved it under his back.

"Like I said, nothing."

She shrugged, bored with the matter now,

"So why didn't you get any toys, or a rattle or something?" She asked in a tone that didn't make her sound upset.

"Look, this may tick you off but… they're balls of silk, okay? They aren't playing with anything right now. When they hatch or whatever they'll get something else but until then the 'panther delivery service' is finished."

With that he fell back down to the floor of the roof, evidently exhausted.

She frowned in thought for a few moments and then walked over to her cocoons and picked them up, bringing her babies over to him with her and laying down beside the man who had slipped into unconsciousness.

Diva smiled at him and snuggled against his sleeping body and putting her babies between them to bathe in their shared heat. As the cold wind blew across the roof she felt warm, next to Grimmjow and her children.

"Yeah, no doubt, that was Grimmjow alright." Ichigo told her.

After she'd quickly spoken to him and told the teenager that she thought she'd seen someone like him and that she wanted him to follow her back to their hotel he'd done just that, as getting David and the others to believe she'd found an invisible man that could help them most likely wouldn't have gone over very well.

"You've fought him before?" Haji asked him quietly.

It was probably a good idea, since their room wasn't behind very thick walls and Kai and the others were in the next room.

"Yeah, a few times actually. It never really ended in any kind of decision though. Every time we always got interrupted. The last time some guy showed up in a burgundy suit and took his sword and then he chased after the guy.

Saya and Haji shared a glance.

"Amshel." She explained.

"What?"

"He's one of my sister's guardians. It's difficult to explain, but basically I believe- no- I know that Grimmjow has joined my evil sister Diva, and we aren't powerful enough to stop him."

Ichigo stood up straight, looking down at the both of them.

"Don't worry, I'll handle Grimmjow. If he just runs free he'll destroy the whole world eventually."

"So we can trust you to keep him out of the way when I confront my sister?"

Ichigo nodded.

"Yeah, I'll make sure he doesn't get between you two and whatever you've got to deal with."

She smiled, and nodded appreciatively.

"Thank you, Ichigo. You're a very good person."

"I understand that. However, the blast that damaged the top floor of our building was technically and legally, a work-related explosion. And unless you have reason to believe someone intentionally blew up our upper floor which housed priceless fossils, none of which were stolen to be sold, I believe it would be in your best interests to cover the damages." He explained to the insurance representative over the phone.

Amshel Goldsmith stood on the top floor of the Cinq Fleches headquarters building, staring out across the city. Neither the view nor the phone call were particularly interesting to him. All he could think about was finding Diva and her important children that lay inside of her.

Diva had been a wonderful subject in the past years, most often not even knowing she was part of his experiments. But now it was time for her children to shine. However, he couldn't discover what he needed to know about them if they couldn't find them. And that meant finding Diva, who could be anywhere with her free spirit.

The representative on the phone was silenced by a few well-chosen words from Amshel as he continued to manipulate the man until he was sure the damages would be covered. As he pulled the man's strings, though, he heard another person calling his cell phone and told the man to "get it done" before "flashing" his phone to the other line.

"Amshel." James spoke in his usual tone.

"James, did you find anything?"

"As a matter of fact, we did. I spotted her and that man on a roof in the poor district of the city by using the satellites. It doesn't look like they plan on going anywhere tonight."

Amshel turned around and headed past Nathan towards the elevator.

"Another thing."

"What is it?" Amshel asked while pushing the button for the elevator.

"It seems Diva's cocoons have already come out of her stomach."

Amshel's expression tightened even more than it usually was and he stepped into the glass elevator.

"I understand. Tell me the exact address of where you found them, and tell Karl as well, then head for the building yourself. This man has had our Diva for far too long."