My post in a Btter chronological area
 

In the aftermath of the attack Harm found himself studying the security footage of the attack. He found three students, a teacher and the old man who had intruded into the school. He recognized Rob, Trish and Troy as well as Mr. Silva, the substitute in Laurella's class from the school as well as the old man, Josiah.

Taking down notes Harm studied the movements and tactics used by the Death Books, it didn't seem as though they were making a serious attempt on Laurella, otherwise they would have sent more than one man into the mansion. Seeing this worried Harm, along with the "timely" intrusion of the unknown parties. Harm decided to talk to Duncan about getting some of the air cleared with a bit of a meet and greet at the mansion and began trying to get a meeting scheduled with the SECA agents on the scene as well as the senor protectors from each group.

Later that afternoon Harm sent the same message to all of them, including one to Josiah, Silva, Robby and the twins (he had managed to pull thier files thanks to his master key at the school and help from Duncan on Josiah):
"Today's attacks and lack of coordination and planning make it apparent that we need to spend some time together and form some cohesion between our groups. Those of you who are relatiely unknown to us can take this chance to reveal their intentions and improve later relations. Duncan has agreed to provide us with the west ballroom. Please plan to attend starting at 2200, semi-formal attire is suggested and the bar will be open"

"If nothing else at least the booze should get a good attendance..."

Trying to escape via the front gate probably wasn't the best idea.

After all, people tend to guard the front door.

In this case, in the aftermath of the Death Books withdrawl, two people had secured the front gate.

One of them happened to be a mage from the Society. Seeing the smoke coming towards them, he pulled a small paper from his pocket, and chanting the incantation, throws it. The paper vanishes, and in it's place is a very noticable burst of wind, which pretty much clears out Josiah's cover.

The second man was a S.E.C.A. agent. Seeing the target pretty clearly thanks to the wind, the pulled a grenade from his belt, and hurls it. But instead of being the stanard "death to all within 10 square feet" kind of grenade, this was a much nicer grenade.

If you could call a flash-bang grenade nice.

Josiah probably wouldn't considering it went off a few feet away from him.

He probably wouldn't refer to the two men moving in to subdue him "nice", either.

"I'm not even allowed to play a simple card game with her?" John asked as he started on that bag of M&Ms.

"What were you expecting me to do, turn into a giant tentacle demon and rape her into mindless submission? Normally I save that for you, but I'd hate to disappoint..." Tentacles were already sprouting from John's back as he mumbled a spell.

Laurella nervously backed away from John. "Miss Elissa, what's he doing?"

It looked like she about to be in trouble. "Maybe I should have taken Rick's (her adoptive father's) joke about wearing a chastity belt seriously." she said dryly.

"Yeah yeah John, I know. You're pretty docile for a world destroy hell spawn or whatever the hell they like to call you, but orders are orders."

She raised an eyebrow at him, "Now come on, we both know you don't like me THAT much." she gave a very sarcastic wink and went back to relaxing.

"Laurella, don't worry. I don't think he's really gonna do much. Demon's have a sense of humor too."

Laurella nodded. "I know they do. Playing the Persona and MegaTen series taught me that much."

Before the tentacles could go anywhere, John suddenly started coughing. His good health was gone, and the sickness was back. The coughing and blood spitting interrupted the spell's incantation, and the pain broke his concentration for the form change. Now he was just a weak human kneeling on the ground trying to deal with having his organs on fire.

"Just before the good part..." He muttered between coughs and blood.

~Somewhere Across Town~

The park was empty about this time of day. Few wandered about save a couple of homeless people.

One of the thick trunked trees shook ever so slightly. A tiny rune, carved into the bark of the tree, glowed a shimmering rainbow. As the anchor rune activated, it pulled an invisible specter towards it, bringing it slowly back to a solid form.

Thomas Silva, his shirt stitching itself up from after the fight, poofed into existence from a wisp of smoke. His hands smoothed down his hair, the thick spellbook held in his palm.

"Oh, Mother...how exciting a life you lead. And such interesting bodyguards." His eye flicked over to his shoulder, noticing the thread of spider web that was stuck to his body.

"I've been caught? Well, this is certainly a surprise...I'll need to record this spell. Quite useful."

"Oh my god!" Laurella exclaimed, getting angry. "Please get out, Johnny! You're ruining the carpet."

Despite himself, Nathaniel chuckled a little bit. "Are you kidding? I'm sure if they here from Duncan one more time about how they're all more than likely to end up demon-food than die of old age, they'll kill him. Besides, they got the job done...I don't care what their attitude is, as long as they get the job done."

As Caleb took a pull from his flask, Nathaniel shook his head. "That better all your having...I'm not driving your drunk butt home."