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While the human was stunned, Daphne stepped inside the apartment, looking around just to be aware of her bearings. "Why would you need his keys Hathaway?" Daphne called out, sounding more snarky than she usually was.
The sound of sharp inhaling was her, bringing Daphne's eyes to the blonde Princeess that she'd been tasked with bringing back. Out of years of respect drilled into her by uncle, by her family in general, Daphne tilted her head down in respect to the Princess while rushed footsteps approached the area.
"Son of a bitch..." Rosemarie Hathaway breathed out, looking at the dangerous Novice from their Academy, she'd rarely seen Daphne with her hair loose but there wasn't a day in which she didn't have her lips coated in red.
"I've come to bring you home, both of you." Daphne started as she lifted her head back up, "Now we can go gently, or you can try you luck with the Guardian downstairs waiting for you." There wasn't much of a threat in the Seong's tone, merely educational information.
Vasilisa Dragomir stood in the same spot that she'd been seemingly frozen on while Rose merely launched a vase in Daphne's direction. A weak attempt at attacking or distracting the Seong girl, she knew that. It was evident that the attempt was even more unecessary when Daphne merely side stepped the vase and looked at Rose with a raised brow.
Daphne wasn't anywhere close to Lissa for Rose to spring into a full on attack on the Novice of Korean descent, she launched herself at the girl, hands curled into fists and annoying anger clear on her face.
Lissa could only watched the scene unfold while holding the backpack that held the cat she'd rescued during her stay in Montana.
Daphne grabbed Rose's fist as it approached her, the easiness and fluidity in her movement reminding Rose that Daphne had been having the training that she'd been slacking off of. Daphne gently pushed Rose away from her, by using her fist and wrist to direct her, and onto the couch, making Rose look as if she'd merely slouched on it.
"Do not make this harder than it already is Hathaway." Daphne warned, looking at her as if Rose attacking her was the greatest offence in the world. But in true Rosemarie Hathaway fashion, she didn't listen, grabbing a pillow and chucking it with brutality at her opponent.
Daphne caught it with pained ease, a pain shooting up her right arm, towards her just out of sling shoulder. An annoyed groan escaped her as she approached Rose, who was now standing on top of the couch in a fighting position, surprisingly as the couch was trying to trap her feet in the bundle of blankets and pillows.
Rose attempted to kick Daphne once she deemded her close enough to her, but given her location, it didn't end up well for her. Daphne merely had to pull on the blanket that Rose was stepping on, for her to fall back onto the couch.
Daylight schedule made her weak, tired and grown to only funtion in the sun.
Rose cursed crudely once more as Daphne retreated in the direction of the blonde Princess, "Dragomir, would you please allow me to do my job correctly and take you back?" Daphne questioned softly, her tone being one that Lissa Dragomir knew to be Daphne's voice when talking to Moroi, except Christian.
"She's not going anywhere!" Rose growled, standing up at the best of her abilities and charging towards Daphne with a raged look on her face. It was endearing, it reminded Daphne of her own actions whenever someone tried to touch Christian.
Daphne ducked, dragging Lissa with her as she did so, in order for the Princess not to get hit by accident. She turned around to face the enraged Novice with an impassive look on her face, a part of Daphne pleased that she was finally having an opponent her age that would be a new breath of air.
Not that she didn't enjoy training with Dimitri. His skill were a talent tornado that she needed to tame.
Rose's attacks were sporadic and uncoordinated, almost frantic. It was clear what drove her to act like this, at least to Daphne. But her sporadic and frantic attacks were almost what she'd been waiting for, what she'd almost wished she'd drawn out porpusefully.
Daphne pushed the Princess into the arms of the human in the dorm, knowing that she would be safe as long as she wasn't in the way of the two vipers.
Daphne quickly felt her back connect with the doorframe that no doubt lead to the rooms, she was mainly doging Rose's attacks, not really attacking her as she knew that Rose hadn't had training for a year. She quickly duck as Rose aimed a punch towards her face, making her fist connect with the doorframe behind her.
Groans of pain escaped the olive skinned brunette, who clutched her wrist to her chest in pain. Daphne almost felt sorry for her, but her almost feeling was orverthrown by the fact that she had a clear access to Rose's middle, allowing her to tackle the Hathaway Novice with ease, making her gasp.
Another one escaped her lips as Daphne merely stood up with Rose on her right shoulder painfully.
"Should I call the cops?" the human questioned his blonde roomate, his voice shaky and filled with confusion. "No need, I'm her ex." Daphned told him quickly, placing a mocking smile on her lips "It was a rough breakup, I cheated."
Lissa looked possitively baffled by the carelessness in Daphne's tone. The human looked like he believed whatever the Seong Novice told him, almost as if her own words were like compulsion as it's strongest form.
"Let me down!" Rose shouted, pulling her leg back so that she could knee Daphne in the stomach, but just like before, Daphne had anticipated Rose's possible move and pulled her knee back into place, wrapping her arm around it to secure it.
"You should really clear the room, she tends to become bordeline murderer with each passing moment since we broke up and I am in her presence. Which is completely understandable, I did cheat on her." Daphne continued, patting the back of Rose's leg with a the same smile on her lips.
The human looked absolutely compelled to do what Daphne told him, but he still looked at Lissa, silently questioning if he should actually leave. Lissa looked defeated, she knew that if Daphne actually put up a fight Rose would get hurt, and a bigger side of her didn't want to know who was the Guardian outside.
Especially not with what Daphne told them earlier.
"It's alright Jeremy, you can go back to your room. Forget that we were ever here." Lissa compelled the human, her velvet commands making the human's eyes haze slightly before he retreated into his room.
While Rose was shouting profanities, Daphne smiled in appreciation at the Princess. "Would you be so kind to collect all of your belongings and follow me, Lissa. I'm not above taking you over my shoulder if need be." Daphne told her.
With a quick shake of her blonde head, Lissa retreated to her and Rose's bedroom, grabbing the bag that Rose had dropped and filling it completely with their belongings.
"You are a bitch you know that! Bringing us in! Have you thought of taking your Moroi of the Academy instead! Maybe if you do, you won't lose him like you lost Vanya!" Rose continued to spew, angering the Seong Novice and making her pull from her leather jacket pocket a syringe and sticking it into Rose's side, pushing down, until the liquid was all gone from it.
A gentle inhale escaped the brunette as she slumped on Daphne's shoulder like a dead weight, making her hiss slowly in pain.
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