Old Friends (Diana, Later Mari)

[Reginald Edmund Sinclaire]

Reginald came back from a day of cut throat board meetings and sighed, his daughter was out with Trenton as usual and so she had not been home save to collect clothing and sleep. She had been doing a lot of sleeping because of her injuries. Part of him felt guilty but he'd made her a stronger woman because of it.

Slipping out of his suit he stood there in his bedroom and regarded himself in the mirror. He looked about his daughter's age now. She hadn't actually seen him of course but it was only a matter of time. He wondered what she would say. His thoughts traveling to the girl. 'I wonder if she'd even recognize me.' he mused on the interesting thought. Stretching like a lazy lion he padded into his bathroom to hit the showers. He needed to think about this long and hard. Was it worth the risk of discovery?

[Diana McKenzie]

As soon as Diana had found out about how easy it would be to visit Reginald here in town too, it had only taken her an half hour to find his house and stood there for a few minutes outside, examining it and grinning eventually when she thought to herself that it looked pretty much like exactly what she would have expected from Reginald anyway.

She smirked then, mischievously before using her vampire speed to move over to the house and it also didn't take her long to find a way into the house to sneak in and walk around a little, keeping quiet and trying to track down if Reginald was actually home and where he was. It was pretty big and elaborate for what she was used to mostly in the last few years, but she still liked it and exploring it for a bit too while looking for him.

Still in a few short minutes Diana came to what was clearly his bedroom and was sure she just saw him going into his bathroom and followed him, speeding from one end of the room to the other first and then after a few seconds stepping into the bathroom and crossing her arms in front of her chest. 'Well well, look at good ol' Reggie, looking as good as ever, but it does however disappoint me of you that you obviously didn't even know that I was in town.' she said as she smirked and pulled her eyebrows dryly teasing him without fear as she kept standing there and looking at him. 'By the way, you really need to tell me what kind of creme you're using to make yourself look so young.' She added after that while pretending she was frowning thoughtfully on purpose.

[Reginald Edmund Sinclaire]

Reginald sensed Diana entering the premises and relaxed. They were old friends and it wasn't like Marina was home to worry about, He continued on turning the jets on in the shower. Four shower heads made for a full body experience. The fact that he had an additional four on the opposite side for company just made things extra nice.

When she appeared out of nowhere he chuckled, "As lovely as always, Diana. Would you care to join me or do you mind me hopping in there for a few? Its been a ducedly long day, Darling you have no idea how good it is to see you." he purred. Then, he slipped into the shower and began putting soap in his hair, "As for not knowing you were in town, my dear. A lady of your stature hardly needs me keeping tabs on her. You know you're welcome to visit when you like. However in honor of this special occasion I do think I can pamper you a bit. We can go hunting. You know the nice thing about me is no bodies to trace." he winked as he continued to scrub away the day. "So, how have you been? Broken any hearts and necks lately, lovey?"

[Diana McKenzie]

Even though Diana was sneaking around so much and trying to be stealthy, she knew that Reginald probably already knew she was here, but it was still fun to do, and that was something Diana really loved too, making fun. When she had appeared her eyes wandered over the shower for a moment as she raised her eyebrows, and after all the crappy places she had stayed in, but even the fancy ones, the shower was something pretty amazing in her opinion which the smirk on her face showed too she was sure about.

Diana laughed when she heard Reginald greeting her and the words he said to her about for one if she would like to join him or mind hopping him in for a few. 'Come on now, you know I don't mind watching you do about anything, except when it's not what I want, but this is something you don't have to ask me.' She teased him as if it was a very silly question. 'But you have to be more clear if you want me to join you, you know that.' She said as she grinned now and to tease him some more took a somewhat more seductive pose as she leaned somewhat against the wall while keeping her eyes on him.

It was just good to play around with her old acquaintances like Reginald, and Trenton that she had searched out first of course. But even with how hard and cold she could be since some years, it still felt good to hear those people say how lovely they called her and how good it was in their opinion to see her again. 'That's exactly what I thought.' She said with a wink about it being good to see him again. 'Even though you're not my first visitor since coming into town.' She added simply and shrugged thinking of Trenton for a moment. 'Yeah but still, it would have been nice to be on your radar quickly. She joked dryly. 'Hmm, I do liked to be pampered, so something like that sounds like fun.' She said more seeing forward to it the more she thought about it. 'A few... Not much worth mentioning though, I've been kind of bored lately.' She said with a bored and sad sigh as she looked at her fingernails to strengthen her point before looking back at the shower and Reginald and smiled in her sweet but devilish way.

[Reginald Edmund Sinclaire]

Reginald laughed and stood there, shampoo dripping off his sleek form and he smiled wickedly, "Indeed, isn't it obvious how I'm saluting you that I would love to have you join me? Still if you wish further convincing I shall endeavor to do so." He bowed and the water trailed off of him in interesting ways, "Would you do me the honor of joining me in the shower so I may welcome you home properly?"

"Now now my dear. I would be a horrible person to keep you all to myself. You are a lovely jewel that deserves to be admired by as many men as possible. Who am I to keep you from being a social butterfly or command your attention? I am not so selfish as all that. A free thinking woman like yourself would most likely resent an old codger like me mooning over you before you'd settled in properly."

He stepped out, the shampoo washed from his hair. With a soft sexy growl he leaned forward, "Shall we save your clothes or do you care?" he asked with a smokey leer in his eyes, He had no problem shredding them and solving both their problems but it was always good to ask first.

Her thoughts of Trenton did not bode well for his daughter. WHY could nothing go smoothly for him?

[Diana McKenzie]

Diana was pretty sure that Reginald would know and see from her facial expression and devilish look still in her eyes that she all but minded of the view of the shampoo dripping of his sleek form and to see the rest of him so open. 'Oh yes, that was pretty clear, but come on Reg, you know I like it way too much when someone puts a little effort in it for me.' She said simply as she smirked and kept looking at him. She followed some of the water that trailed of over his body before looking back at him and waiting for him to endeavor to do so like he just said. 'If you put it that way then... Definitely.' She then told him when he had bowed like that and asked it so straight to the point at her, how could she no want that?

Still Diana kept where she stood on purpose for a moment as she kept her head tilted to the side while she kept looking at him. She took in his words and compliments that automatically followed with it when he talked about her being a lovely jewel and who he was to keep her from being a social butterfly or command her attention. He was almost always so good with words, and it made her only enjoy this visit to him even more than she already did. 'You're always so good of playing the charming guy aren't you? But I just thought I was important enough to you to keep tabs on me a little.' She said as she acted like she was sad as she said that before smirking quickly enough again because she couldn't keep that act up because she was still just teasing him with it, she obviously appreciated how he put it why he didn't, and it was also something she wouldn't forget that he did and viewed it like that for and with her.

Once he stepped out, Diana felt how she got quite a bit warmer already inside and she kept standing stubbornly where she was as she especially now didn't look away for a second. As Diana looked over him at how the shampoo washed from his hair, but mostly when she heard his sexy growl that he leaned forward with, Diana felt a pleasant shiver run down her spine and the rest of her body and couldn't stop smirking, this was exactly the kind of more fun that she had been looking for, and both her and Reginald knew that it was nothing more than just... Having fun and him greeting her back in town properly right? So how could she resist him? She kept her eyes locked on the smokey leer in his eyes and then leaned forward herself toward him. 'I never know when seeing you, so I brought a bag with new clothes and put on these old ones so... You do whatever you want? I'm all in anyway.' She told him playfully smirking still and making her voice be a little softer but more sexy with it too, wanting to know what the man was going to do with those words. In the meantime she was praising herself that she was happy that she had decided not to wear one of her favorite outfits, at least she wouldn't lose anything of value either way.

[Reginald Edmund Sinclaire]

Reginald felt mirth flow through him, Diana knew that the game was half the fun and rushing to the finish line was not what it was about. "Now my dear, I am hurt. When have a not done my best to put a smile on that lovely face of yours?" he moved towards her and looked down at her form. "h I will definitely keep tabs on you if you want me to." that smile grew a little more suggestive, "But its easier when you are gracing my bed, pet." he gently laid a hand on her neck and watched the water trail down her form provocatively.


"Well you do know how I love to unwrap my packages." he said as he nibbled her neck and started to follow through with his promise. Savoring the endeavor and using it as one of his many ways to let her know he was so very glad to see her. He lifted her up once clothing was no longer a hinderece and carried her into the shower before closing the door behind him and smiling at her with a wicked twinkle in his eyes.

[Diana McKenzie]

Diana realized that both she and Reginald knew very well that for the both of them it was the case that the game was half the fun and that it would be a lot less fun if it was too rushed, or rushed at all anyway, she didn't come here to rush her seeing him again, so it was nice to see that they could both enjoy playing the game first so much. 'You have, I'm not denying that' Diana had to admit as she laughed and just kept her eyes on him as he moved more towards her again.

'Hey, it's up to you buddy if you keep tabs on me or not, as long as it's not all the time.' Diana told Reginald with a teasing and playful smirk again because she still wasn't going to make it easy for him to figure out what it was that she wanted, she just loved teasing and playing with him, and if he was really going to keep tabs on her or not, that she would have to find out eventually. 'You know I don't grace your bed so easily.' She whispered that with a big and suggestive grin back on her face. As soon as she felt his hand on her neck and saw his eyes watch how the water trailed down her form, she felt another shiver she wasn't going to stop, it was just good to see he still obviously enjoyed her and the way she looked.

Diana laughed when Reginald said that she knew how much he loved it to unwrap his packages and at first she just simply nodded, showing him that indeed she knew and remembered that and then laughed for a moment. 'I know, so enjoy unwrapping this one, again. She told him because it had been a while since their last encounter, but it was clear that they didn't quickly have an encounter that didn't end something like this. She closed her eyes with a pleasant sigh when she felt him nibbling on her neck and she totally willingly let him fulfill his promise.

She honestly felt somehow free a little when clothes weren't a hindrance anymore and once he lifted her up to carry her in the shower, she swung and wrapped her legs around his waist. She just kept looking at him once they were in the shower and she felt the pleasant water run so freely across her body too and tilted her head to the side again. 'So now that you've unwrapped it, what's your next move?' She asked him on purpose again because she was also pretty curious to that and she still was going to wait to do any work.

[Reginald Edmund Sinclaire]

He smiled and caressed her cheek with one finger. "I am very glad to hear that, love. Few women are as passionate as you are. You make me remember my youth." he grinned at her toothily as he continued to flirt with her.

"Well there is at least one tab I'd like to keep on you." he said with a wiggle of his eyebrows as he looked at her and tickled her flat stomach with the tips of his fingers. He let her play her cat and mouse games. She'd tell him eventually and not because of the sex but because she wanted to or was bored enough to do so.

"You're one of the few Supernatural beings I've known since before Marina was born. I realize that this means very little in the grand scheme of things but it matters to me."

"Thank darkness for that. I love a challenge more than anything. You know that as well as anyone minx. You often brought me the toughest nuts to crack. Remember when we ransacked that cheerleading camp one summer just for fun?"

He continued to relax her slowly. The reality was that unless SHE initiated it they were likely to continue to tease in the shower. Sex wouldn't even happen to after but it always was nice to make her feel special. She certainly reciprocated to his effort and he showed his appreciation in many different ways.

"My next move is to relax you completely, talk under the covers and maybe after you've told me why you're here lovely I'll actually get around to having sex." He licked a droplet off her neck and slowly rubbed some soap into the palms of his hands to begin massaging it into her shoulders.

[Marina Anne Sinclaire]

The Next Day...

Mari had come into the home to get some last minute things taken care of. She still had plans but she kept those thoughts far from her mind anywhere near her father. Looking at her reflection in the mirror she grimaced. It was time to get a touch up. She made a detour to the salon in her quarters. Hearing the door close with a mechanical sound she felt her shoulders sag. Between that and the shatter proof, and bullet proof glass on the windows nothing was ever going to get in here. Her brothers attacks had turned her dad paranoid and so this security system now locked her part of the house down like a vault.

Padding over to the television she pressed the on switch and the music channel came on. Soft classical and relaxing. Stretching lightly she went to go sit down in the salon chair and awaited the stylists arrival. Her father would be coming shortly no doubt. He always had the last say in anything regarding her looks. While she waited another assistant gave her a pedicure. She barely noticed she was so deep in her thoughts. Nothing coherent just a bit of melancholy in general filled her features. She had to stay here a few more days and she was feeling ansy.

She felt her father's presence in the back of her mind and smelled his aftershave as he entered her part of the house. Turning slightly she blinked in utter confusion and a little fear. Cringing back in her chair at what looked like a stranger in her rooms, "D-daddy?" she said softly. Her eyes were wide and then she noticed Diana, "Aunt Diana?" she said with a puzzled look on her face. Her first urge was to hide. People coming in here was not good. She'd learned that the hard way but this was her father and adoptive aunt...confusion warred on her features as training fought with instinct as she sat in the chair and had her feet massaged.

[Diana McKenzie]

Diana had no good description of how much she had enjoyed the day before with the time she spent with Reginald, and they had definitely come to the point they both knew it was heading with sex eventually. She certainly happy that she had brought the clean and new clothes and when it was the right time she had come out of bed and had quickly dressed herself as she waited for Reginald.

Eventually they had went through the house and to another part of it and she looked around as they walked that way, taking everything in as they did until they finally entered a room and as her eyes were still going in front of her, she heard a familiar voice that she hadn't expected just yet actually, but still made a smile appear on her face and look shortly next to her at Reginald, because of the way Marina seemed to react to his looks. 'You didn't tell her? Geez Reg, you always leave everything to the surprise don't you?'

Diana said both with a teasing smile as she rolled her eyes and then looked back at Marina and lowered the arms she had shortly crossed in front of her chest to step forward and put her hand up as a greeting to as she kept smiling. 'Hey Mari, it's been a while, but I've been busy, you know me, always busy.' She said as she laughed and then shook her head and temporarily looking at Reginald. 'So... I told your Dad he should really tell me his secret remedy for looking younger, it's really doing him miracles.' She said innocently as she shrugged and looked back at Mari. She knew how it worked around a couple of psychics, so to hopefully spare the drama she, from the moment she had heard and spotted Mari, had put all the thoughts of what happened last night too out of her head.

[Reginald Edmund Sinclaire]

Reginald lead her into a series of rooms that were more in keeping with a Victorian style. Delicate chairs and brighter colors filled the space that his daughter inhabited. The rooms had undergone remodeling as Marina had aged and now it showed a more mature style. His daughter preferred roses to decorate her rooms and their scent filled the room lightly. Her coat of arms had graced the door that closed behind them with a quiet swish of air and pictures of the family graced the main hall where one would walk to get to the various rooms here.

He was relieved to hear classical playing. It was too early to play anything faster paced. He grinned openly as his daughter cringed into her chair. That was exactly the reaction he wanted here if she didn't know someone. Her maids and help had known her since she could toddle but strangers were NEVER permitted here and she should never forget that. The room was done in soothing pastels and he saw with approval she was wearing a modest color on her toes and fingers.

"Of course, Diana. Surprise makes the blood pound through the body and makes one glad to be alive." he smiled seductively at her before he came up behind his daughter and placed his hands on her shoulders, "Hello, darling. I didn't mean to scare you. I just haven't seen you to tell you of my change." He kissed the side of her cheek and nuzzled her neck slightly before tilting his head and looking at her reflection, "I think we need to change something." He looked at his daughter with a thoughtful look as he let one hand trail through her hair gently, watching its silken strands fall back and catch the light. He tilted her head to the side to get a better view of her bone structure even though he'd memorized it years ago. It was more the freedom to do so that made him do it than anything else.

"Perhaps highlights, maybe we should be bold and go red. Your coloration lends itself to nearly anything after all. What do you think, Diana? Something to brighten up our pretty little siren? She's been behaving herself. I think she deserves a reward."

To Diana's comment he simply laughed seductively and hugged Mari gently, careful not to mar the manicure or pedicure in the process, "You are such a flatterer, Diana. I have been enjoying the excitement that a badly cast love spell has afforded me. I daresay that I could enroll in College here with Marina and no one would know I was her father at all unless someone told them. And we all know no one would do that." He chuckled and watched his daughter's reaction in the mirror.

[Marina Anne Sinclaire]

Mari nodded her head at Diana, her hands were in the middle of being painted and it would be awkward to shake hands with her. Once she was cleared to move she'd hug her but not before. "I'm glad to see you, Aunt Diana." she smiled warmly at the other woman. Diana was one of the few women that hadn't trampled all over her and had treated her decently. It was why her father had held onto the relationship as long as he had. He wouldn't permit cattiness on the part of his lovers and after one too many had tried framing her for things she had not done he was extra vigilant about who he introduced his daughter to.

There was a part of her that wanted to vomit when her dad touched her like this. Just the smugness and the idea that he had the right to do so made her want to be physically ill. Years of practice kept her face from showing any appearance of revulsion from showing on her features. He would never tolerate such disrespect in front of others. As he discussed her in front of Diana she stayed silent and still. Her own suggestions would likely be discredited. She felt his nose on her neck and the hairs rose on the back of her neck rise. It took everything she had not to shudder and pull away. "I hope you got to see the sites. Has Venice changed much since we saw it the last time we went on vacation together?" Diana had kept her father "occupied" and for that Mari was grateful.

"No one would believe me, Daddy. You look younger than I do." she said more to soothe his ego than as if she truly believed it. She felt his hand pick up the chain of the cross and he posed a question to her mentally. "Trenton gave that to me. He didn't want anyone bothering me, Daddy." she said as she felt him release the necklace and kiss her cheek his happiness at the gift filling her mind.

[Diana McKenzie]

Diana looked at Reginald and she laughed because of what he said to her before he turned his attention to Mari who Diana looked at herself too and smiled as she nodded in agreement. 'It's good to see you again too, you're still doing we I see.' She said friendly before she looked at the sight of how Reginald was still busy with Mari and how he touched her, which made Diana cross her arms and stay quiet and wait patiently.

She didn't try to look at it too much because she didn't want to get involved, she actually knew that both had their own reaction and thoughts with it, not that she could read them, but she was pretty good at reading people, and she knew these two, but she didn't want to really get in between it, not with these two, she didn't know if she would ever get out of it otherwise and she didn't need that on her mind. She was pulled from her thoughts when Mari spoke again at her and she smiled because of what she said and asked her then about Venice and the last time they went on vacation together. 'Last time I was there wasn't that long ago actually, but things got a little complicated so I didn't get to see much of the sights, but enough things that I got the chance to see were still the same or looked interesting.' Diana told her as she smiled afterward as she had temporarily had a thoughtful look on her face and couldn't help but give a look toward Reginald as she thought about it.

'Yeah I know what you mean Mari.' Diana said as she grinned to how Mari told Reginald that no one would believe her, but she meant that more than that Reginald looked younger than her, but that could also be because Diana still knew a lot better. 'By the way Reggie, about those things you said of doing with Mari, I still think that you should give her a chance to choose, a good woman has to be able to choose that for herself, look at me.' She said as she smirked and spread her arms for a moment before looking at Mari with a smile that she at least tried for however Reg would react. Still when she heard what Mari said about Trenton she pulled up her eyebrows for a moment and turned toward her more. 'Trenton? He gave that to protect you?' She asked a little surprised as she looked at the necklace and back at Mari.

Still she glanced at her watch for a moment and bit her lip before looking from Mari to Reginald and back before she spoke. 'I can't stay too much longer, I need to get to work.' She said innocently as if it was the most normal thing in the world for her to have a job, but with how much she traveled, it wasn't really that usual.

[Reginald Edmund Sinclaire]

Reginald smiled softly and relaxed as he listened to Diana, "Perhaps you are right, Diana." he murmured softly as he watched her reaction to things, "Very well. You get to choose, Darling." He said gently to his daughter as he sensed Diana backing off of them due to her views.

He did narrow his gaze and look to Diana, "Is there something about Trenton you did not tell us about, Diana? He ran into Marina at the library. I spoke with him and he expressed interest in protecting her. Evidently they spoke while she was waiting for her car at the library and he's visited her in the hospital." he said this causally as he rubbed his daugher's back. She seemed to imperceptive droop a bit and instead of stiffening up with the touch seemed to relax with it. As if Reginald had pulled a bit of air out of her.

"Well we shant keep you from Trenton. A busy lady such as yourself must have a lot of old times to catch up on." he said lightly as Mari just turned whiter and bit her lip. Her head bowing gently. Submissive and quiet for the first time that Diana had ever seen her. Reginald gestured and the salon professionals began to work in more blond into her hair. His right arm seeming to support her up as he smiled at Diana.

Inwardly he was angry. Not at his daughter, she was obviously near tears at the realization that an old lover of Trentons, who also happened to be HIS lover. He was upset for her. He may have not been a good father but he was not so heartless that he wanted his daughter hurt like this. Marina was doing a fine job of keeping her breakdown at bay as the color set on her roots and she sat there.

'This isn't your fault, Darling. No one could have anticipated this. You didn't do anything wrong....' he tried to reassure her and she seemed to take comfort in his words.