Sounds Like War {Abby, Lucien, Regan}

[Xander Ulrich]

Xander had been enjoying his morning peacefully, going over some of the things he'd been doing in the passed few weeks. An envelope was dropped onto his lap by a passing Felix, who'd accused him of leaving the unopened photographs in his mail space for far too long. Xander grunted a response, and then stared at Felix for an uncertain amount of time as the vampire stared right back, waiting for him to open the thing.

"Fine," he said, after two full minutes of staring. He tore it open, and dumped them out onto the coffee table in the living room, spreading them around gently with his large fingers. "These are from a few months ago. I  don't even remember why I was there, or what the subject... was..." he trailed off. Abruptly, he leaned forward. Eyes narrowing and dilating nearly fully, he grabbed two photos in particular, bringing them closer to his face.

"Holy fucking shit," he said gruffly, but surprised.

"What? Let me see!" Felix said, snatching them away from him. There was no hesitation in the vampire's actions, either. "You need to take these to Lucien. Like, NAO."

The two of them practically raced for Lucien's office - and that was the recount they'd just told him.

"It's in Pyrige," Xander heard himself say. "You can clearly see her in this photo, and again in this one, getting into the car. I'm one-hundred and ten percent sure, sir. That's Tsunai - but who is the blonde with her?"

[Lucien Cobriana]

Lucien had just about accepted the fact that Tsunai and the child he'd almost had were gone, Sigried had just vanished as well, and he'd been seeing a lot of Rhona recently.  He would never admit that he was getting paranoid about her disappearing as well, given his luck as of late, but he was trying not to get creepy about it. 

In any case, his life seemed to be getting back to normal, even if he was still on the look-out for information regarding Tsunai and the child.  Whether or not he was better off just letting it go and moving on wasn't exactly clear, though he wasn't getting a choice in the matter.  Having Xander and Felix practically tripping over each other on their way into his office was bad enough, but the insane stream-of-consciousness style explanation he'd gotten was way too much to ignore.

The pictures were worse.

He stood up so fast that his chair fell over behind him, but he completely ignored it in favor of staring at the pictures.  That was definitely Tsunai, and the blond?

"FUCK!  That's a white viper!"  There's this thing about serpiente, where they don't really do well with hiding emotions?  Yeah, one shouldn't have expected their king to be any better.

He slammed the pictures down on his desk and twisted around the kick the chair that he'd previously been rather comfortable in, ignoring Felix and Xander for the time being.  This was all his fault, and he knew it.  That was the same viper he'd run into at the Masquerade, which hadn't gone well.  "THAT is a white viper, and I need her NAME!  Go through the police, through the shifter council, through whoever you have to, but find out who the hell she is!"

It didn't matter to him how they did it, really.  He was going to see that viper dead. 

[Anna Snow]

Felix watched rather silently--which was hard enough for him as it was--as Lucien flipped out.  Naturally, he understood the reasoning, but the cobra was usually such a calm man.  Seeing him freak was definitely a new experience.  But eh, after the first extra ten years of your life, things start to hit you less.  Not to say that he didn't care, he certainly did, but his level of care was just naturally different than most.

That explained half of the crazy things that he did.

Nodding, he saluted.  "Sure thing, boss!"  His eyes shifted to Xander, making a gesture for the door with his eyes.  "We'll get right on that."

And that was that.

[Xander Ulrich]

"Well," Xander said as he and the vampire positively ran out of the office. He paused at the corner, and pulled out his phone. "Wait, wait," he said. "Before we go running out for a full shakedown, let me make a phonecall."

He'd met Abigail at the Christmas party, and he'd determined only from a few times in speaking with her that she was someone that he could ask for help from without having to hear about it for the rest of his life. He glanced up to Felix, and then turned, phone on ear.

"Abby," he said, gruff voice full of faux joviality. "Listen. I need some information, and I need as many able bodies on this as possible." He caught her up to speed as he paced up and down a six foot span of hallway. "So, basically, you've got a better shot at recon for right now than I do. If some big friggin' guy starts askin' questions, someone is going to start talking. I've got no problem beating someone into submission, but I just lack the size to do it quietly."

There was a long pause. "Yes, I know. This means I owe you. Yeah, well, we'll see." He chuckled. "Alright. 'bye." He glanced back up at Felix, and raised his brows.

"Looks like Abby is going to come over here, so I'm going to make copies of these to give  to her. Do you know anyone else who would be of help, here?" he asked him, folding his massive arms.

[Sarah Ross]

Sarah sighed as she pulled up to a parking space outside Onyx. She had known that she was going to have to settle up the bill for the shrubbery and the potters AND the trainee's jaw (which to her amusement, she had managed to break, even in her condition). She hopped out of the jeep and hurried in, she wasn't happy about this shit and she wasn't coming her to socialize. She heard a flurry of activity as she approached the Guild Leader's office. She strained to hearing to see what was going on as she got closer. Whoa Whoa Whoa, they had found Lucien's fiancee in Midnight? Who was far enough out of their fucking mind to do something so foolish? As she turned the final corner to Lucien's office she saw Xander rush out on and get on the phone. Seems like he was recruiting hunters for this. She watched as he turned to Felix and asked if he knew anyone else that could help. Fuckin' A she did. She walked up and tapped him on his massive shoulder.

"I'm fucking in...and before you object, I'm a serpiente and I hate Midnight with every ounce of my being..so No is not an answer I'm going to accept!"

[Abigail Madison]

Abby didn't take long at all to show up, given the explanation she'd gotten.  You didn't get called in on recon for a Guild Leader's family, even if it wasn't Connor, any day.  She'd called her own leader to inform him of the situation, just in case, and he encouraged her to go.

She was on that.

She loved doing recon, especially if she got the gist of what Xander was asking.  She could smash some skulls quietly.  Of course, she wanted to see those pictures, first.  Copies would be even better, since she could wave them around.  She'd find the bitch responsible for kidnapping a pregnant woman.

"Xander, you rang?" she called out as she entered the guildhouse, taking in the blond woman behind the wolf.  "Or is this party already full?"

[Xander Ulrich]

"No, not full at all. I was actually hoping to have quite a few of you on hand, so if you have any other friends in the Crimson Guild who want in on this, I'm sure the reward will be worth their time. I don't even think it's about money at this point, so I'd recommend putting the word out - but be careful. We don't know who's involved, and I don't want to find out there's an inside man. It couldn't have been a complete random act for someone to snatch Tsunai off of the street."

Xander had been fortunate enough to get a time allowance between Abigail and Sarah's arrivals to make copies of the photos, and he was more than willing to give them both. "That woman - I need to know who she is, who she's working with, and what she knows. She's a White Viper though, so be careful. They usually have as many connections as we do, that is if the stories are true."

[Sarah Ross]

Sarah sized Abby up. The other hunter was human, and Crimson but Sarah didn't give a shit. They were finally gonna take a shot at Midnight, or at least someone prominent there, and hopefully find Lucien's woman...and maybe she could find out about her mother. She studied the picture, the woman looked slightly familiar but no name came to mind. Sarah wracked her brain trying to figure out how to get the info. Who would have the shit to crack something like this.....MIKE. That geeky ass dude that just transferred in from London could probably find out who this bitch was quick if she had any kind of record anywhere. Sarah slide around Xander's big frame to reach a hand out to Abby.

"Abby, I'm Sarah..I've seen you around guess we just never had a chance to get properly introduced. Look, I've got an idea on how to run this down maybe. You ever met a guy named Mike that hunts for Frost? Kinda a dork, says alot of stupid shit? He can get into just about anything with his computer shit...we might want to drop these pictures off to him and see if he can run her description against whatever he does and see what he finds. Fucker is goofy, but he can do some crazy shit."

Well, Sarah thought it was a good idea. It was how he caught up to most of his targets from what she had heard him say. He did say strange stuff sometimes, and seemed to always put his foot in his mouth...but if he could help them crack Midnight, Sarah was all for bringing him on board.

[Abigail Madison]

Other friends in Crimson to get in on it?  Oh, she was calling Regan!  "I'm sure I can think of a few people to help, babe," she answered easily, looking at the pictures as she handed them over.  She wanted to know EXACTLY what she was looking for.

Hmm.  Considering what she'd heard already, and the pictures, this was going to be a mess.  Anything involving Midnight could be, in all honesty.  "You know, if this bitch ain't already in Midnight, she's probably going to go there as soon as she catches wind of this," she pointed out.  "If it was me, it's what I'd do."

She glanced Sarah's way at the introduction, and obviously didn't need to give her own name.  Sarah knew it already.  "Nice to meet you.  Do what you want, you heard the man.  He just wants us to be careful, so if you think that Mike dude can help, go for it.  I'll see what I can dig up elsewhere."

Crackin' some skulls.  Quietly.

[Xander Ulrich]

"If she's smart, she'll go there and stay there," he said, voice gravelly as he thought of the idea of actually having to go in and yank her ass out. "But, considering the thin ice she seems to be treading on, and the trail she's already leaving, it looks like she wanted someone to know it was her." He looked pointedly at Lucien.

"Something we missed, boss?" He called all of the leaders boss, but Lucien was technically his boss, so it didn't seem out of place. "This seems kind of personal. I mean, there are a lot of people to randomly kidnap." Xander felt like information was being left out, and as a hunter, especially in a case that could get bad fast such as this, he wanted to know everything.

"I'm going to bank that she's sticking close to Midnight," he said, giving his final bets. "She's probably not more than a twenty or thirty minute car ride away, and I bet she's confident enough not to have detail with her in case someone does find out. Dumb bitch," he hissed. If this had been Xander, well.. there wouldn't have been any photos, for one. Good thing Xander was a 'good guy'.

"When and if she's found, she's got to disappear, or else she'll find a way to get there. That's the one place they know none of us are willingly going into."

[Sarah Ross]

Maybe none of them were eager to go into Midnight, but Sarah was. She wanted to avenge the death of her mother, or find which ever sick fuck leech had taken her. Her mind cranked over into high gear. There were 4 highly skilled hunters in this room, if they could recruit just a few more of their equals they could burn that fucker down again. But recon was the most important aspect of this mission, and she'd have to get Mike right on that.

"Ok, that bitch might think she's safe in Midnight...but what if we lure her out somehow and somebody gets her with a rifle? I have a .50 sitting in my room that belonged to my dad that I never use. I'll lend it to whoever thinks they could take the shot...But first things first we need to set up some sort of eyes and ears on Midnight...Do you think it would be possible to plant small camera's and parabolic mics on the property? That would at least give us an idea of what we're getting into."

Sarah wanted to just waltz up to the front door and blow it off the hinges and start killing. But she knew that would likely get the people they were trying to rescue kill. No, patience was just going to have be the course of action this time.

She fired off several quick texts messages to Mike, who luckily and predictably was sitting in his quarters at the Frost house playing a video game. BAM, Mike knew where to get the equipment...and even said he had a friend that was an "experienced operator" when came to infiltration, which was fine with Sarah.

Sarah waved to get the groups attention, then gave the good news.

"Ok we have access to some good cameras and mics.....I'll set all that up if ya'll think its a good idea?"