Dragon

Seth rubbed his face and pushed a hand back through his hair, "I guess I should try to see her," he sighed as he stood up off the table, "thanks Dria... again." @Morrigan

He looked away for a minute, shook his head and then shrugged, "I don't know... What do you think I should do?" he asked, "I mean... I know you and Lex would never knock down and drag out like that but what would you want?" @Morrigan

"Yeah I kinda did," he admitted, rubbing his wrists and muttering a thank you to Alexei when he was finally able to pull them around, "I could never hurt her... not really anyway. She just knows how to push my buttons like no one else in the world. Doubt Dag took it as easy, though, so she's probably just being stubborn and wallowing in it somewhere. It's what I'd be doing if they hadn't dragged me in here." @Morrigan

"I'd appreciate it," he sighed. @Morrigan

Seth gave her a bit of a dirty look but didn't try to argue - they both knew she was right, "Can you get these things off me please." @Morrigan

"Not directly," Seth muttered, giving a huff. He knew he wasn't going to be cut loose till Rusakov was convinced he was calm enough not to swing at him, "I let Alice get to me again and the brawl that came after started cutting into training regiments time... She's so god damn hard headed," he added under his breath. @Morrigan

Kaella was impatient enough order her charges to mop up the mats around her, then line them up anyway. Most of them seemed a little uncomfortable about it but they did as told and tried to work around her as best they could. Across the facility in the sick bay Seth was still cuffed and simmering as Dria patched him up for the thousandth time over. @Morrigan

"Honey I just did fuck you," Dag retorted as he walked away. When Alice snarled at them the two women that had approached stopped, "Then crawl your ass out of the way," Kaella scowled, "the rest of us have shit to do and you've held us up enough already." @Morrigan

"I have to admit you ain't half bad," Dag said as he stood over her, "but you're still in way over your head here girlie. Redford woulda done you in easy if he'd really wanted to and I could've put you down a lot quicker. You go back out there and you're as good as dead," he said bluntly, "you couldn't even roll me and you've got natural strength advantage something fierce. So imagine what's gonna happen when one of her orc officers gets a hold of you. Then what's gonna happen to your boyfriend and that daughter of yours - Lillian's got some sick fucks serving her," he said as he stepped back and turned around, "someone drag her to sick bay. The rest of you get back to work, show's over," he barked. @Morrigan

Even Dag had to admit she was impressive - but by now he'd been fighting most of his life and had probably been in more life or death scrapes than she'd been in fights. She was also angry and already worn down, all of which Dag took advantage of as he fought, keeping pace with fluid ease as he focused on taking her to the mat until she either couldn't or was no longer willing to rise again. @Morrigan

"Get the fuck off me," Seth snarled at the two that had him. "Shut up," Dag snapped over his shoulder, "drag his ass to Dria," he ordered as he squared with Alice, intending to show her what would have happened if Seth hadn't been pussyfooting around - though by the look of it, before the Shield of Light she'd probably been able to thrash him with relative ease. He'd have liked to see what she could do with more development. @Morrigan

The fight was hard and fast paced. Brutal enough that some of the onlookers started to leave after Dagonet stopped them intervening - at least for now. He let the match continue until they were both bleeding and the mats were splattered and smeared. But when it became obvious to him that Redford had no intention of actually following through on his threat he finally motioned at two of the other officers to come to him. They waited until Seth briefly got Alice down onto the mat to move in. While she was rolling to her feet Dag caught Seth from behind and took him down hard - the other two jumping to fully restrain him in that split second he was too dazed and caught off guard to react. While they wrestled him down into a set of cuffs Dag faced off with Alice to put a final end to the brawl f she didn't choose to back off. @Morrigan

He shifted back to square his footing, "You're not taking her to be crucified for your own stupid fucking pride. So if this is how you want it then come on." @Morrigan

He snagged her arm again, this time dragging her back and throwing her further into the room - ignoring that now they had a full audience to the ongoing dispute as the other occupants had stopped their activities to watch the unfolding drama. "No fuck you, Alice," he said in a strangely calm tone, given the build up, "you think this is some high horse act? I've been in the god damn mud for years, I've got blood on me that's never coming off. But you and Harper are alive because of it. My parents, my siblings, your brother are still alive because of it. I did what I had to, with what I had to work with, to keep you all alive -and for the umpteenth fucking time maybe I was wrong, because these fucks have lied to me before," he threw an arm out towards the room and the people watching, "but I've done the best I could. Now if you and Richie want to leave I can't stop you but you will have to fucking kill me yourself before you take Harper out those gates, Alice, and I fucking mean that." @Morrigan

He staggered back and steadied himself only to step forward again, "Well then you're fucking stupid Alice. You're arrogant because you don't really know what's out there," Seth glared at her, "you got out with my parents. You had Penny there watching you. They took you deep and you've spent most of the last five years living almost in isolation. I know this, Alice, I fucking know this. You did not see the shit that happened. Yeah, maybe you caught glimpses here and there, but you don't fucking know. You don't fucking know. But I do. I've seen it, I've been in the middle of it and I'm telling you right now that even with that fucking wand, all the power that comes with it, I could not have kept you safe if I'd been with you." @Morrigan