Arrival fallout

[cardinalsinned]

[Two Cesares and a Juan walk into a bar Canada. It may not end well.]

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[cardinalsinned]

We can reconcile the details in private. For now I would like to know where I will be staying, assuming I have your help in finding a place.

[maleborgia]

I suggest that you stay in one of the unoccupied rooms upstairs. You would be hard-pressed to find more private or better furnished lodging, especially at such short notice.

[foundjuanting]

You need not fear of an equal retribution, brother. It would be pointless here.

[cardinalsinned]

Thank you for the hospitality.

[then, to Juan] An empty promise made by an empty man.

[foundjuanting]

Only empty because I've been gutted, by a cain no less.

[maleborgia]

*taking a drink you both drive him to it* Please, have a seat. *motioning them to the table* If you will humor me, there is much I would hear of Roma. It has been too long since I have seen her.

[cardinalsinned]

At least when I kill a brother it is clean and quick. I did not leave you to suffer at the hands of an amateur.

[foundjuanting]

[Man if shaun were here to see that NOW.]

...

[Oh fuck this, trying to take down a douchebag brother]

Would you have me show you the lesson I learned? I will carve it into where you contain that withered heart!

[maleborgia]

*goddamnit fucking diversion isn't working on you, glass down and yanking Juan off*

Children, both of you!

[cardinalsinned]

[good, let someone else deal with Juan for a while. not moving to counter, although it is tempting]

Crawl back into your cups, 'dear brother'. Perhaps it will make you easier to stomach.

[foundjuanting]

I would say the same of you and that woman you drove to nunnary, but she is beyond even your reach now. A shame that you must slake your frustrations on our dear sister in her absence.

[maleborgia]

Do not denigrate our sister further by pulling rumor of such things into a place that has of yet no knowledge of it. Argue if you must! But keep it to a level that will not cause others to think poorly of our family or our world when they have no need to.

[cardinalsinned]

[quietly, because damn it, other him is right]

I do not know of whom Juan speaks, he has no sister. She gave him up the moment he endangered her child and when I took care of the situation, she shed no tears for his loss.

[foundjuanting]

[Man you are so lucky that the awesome Cesare is holding me back... not that an attempt to lunge isn't happening anyway]

I am sure father wept enough for both of them, as he mourned the loss of his only son.

[maleborgia]

*sure hope my arm isn't hurting your windpipe* Enough!

[cardinalsinned]

[he's only awesome because he isn't killing you right now]

I doubt allowing him to live here will end well for either of us, doppelganger. He may tolerate you now, but he is a snake and he will turn on you eventually.

[foundjuanting]

[You know how a dog will strain against a leash, even if it's choking him? Yeah it's like that]

I am not the one that put a blade in my brother! Who knows when you will decide to rid this place of your other self.

[maleborgia]

*tightening his grip, but he's directing his words at Cesare*

That was directed at you as well. Sheathe your tongue, you are threatening to ruin us all.

[cardinalsinned]

You hold our ruin in your arms. And so long as he draws breath, our family can know no honor.

[turning to leave. if other him is going to keep defending Juan, he's not going to stick around for it]

[foundjuanting]

[God he's just. Shaking with rage]

And where will you sleep brother, outside with those corpses? You are familiar enough with them, but these can fight back.

[maleborgia]

Silence! Or do you think I enjoy listening to this vitriol?

[cardinalsinned]

I can sleep out there with one eye open, or stay here and sleep with both eyes open. I will take my chances with the corpses that have not betrayed me once.

[leaving]

[foundjuanting]

I have not-!

[well balls]

...That could have gone better.

[maleborgia]

*letting go of him, pushing him towards the stairs* Go to your room and wait for me. I will come by to speak with you.

[foundjuanting]

I-!


...Of course.