Resting room

[Austin]

"Sure Darkota, my office is just accross the hall"
he replied, keeping half of his attention on the room

[Azrael Jiraco]

"I'm gonna get something to eat," Azrael said suddenly.

He walked in the general direction of the stockroom.

[Darkota]

"Thanks" said Darokta his mind still on the idea he had just had and how best to explain it

[Jaden Kalen]

Jaden followed Azrael, "Burger and chips I think" He said licking his lips.

[Azrael Jiraco]

"If you want, but I'm not in the mood for cooking anything. I'll probably just open a packet of cookies," Azrael replied, helping himself to a whole packet of marylands cookies.

[Hope Mêler]

Is food all that is on their minds? Hope looked at Azrael and Jaden and rolled her eyes. At least Cindy was still immersed in her book. Yes, what Rino needed might be in the museum, but they hadn't actually established it yet, so reading Cindy's books was probably a good idea. Though it didn't seem like anyone cared.

"And they're not in English, dammit," Hope mumbled to herself, looking aimlessly at the pile of books in front of her.

"Austin?" She said loudly, so the voice would be carried across the room to where he was standing with Jaden.

"I'm sorry for asking, don't mean to be rude or anything," she smiled. "It's just that, you keep emphasising how we should work as a team, the team helps every team member, basically blah blah - then why does everyone leave the room and speak in private with you when he has something important to say? It's like..."

Hope paused.

"Well, not how I was taught team work works. I thought the core of this whole team ... thing is that everyone should trust each other. Speak openly about whatever ideas they have, so the rest can build on them."

She shrugged and turned the page of a book.

"I realise that it might be because you don't trust me and Cindy," she continued, underlining Cindy, they had no more reason to trust her than Hope. "But as a group we can't go half-way." She picked two books and put them on opposite sides of the table.

"It has to be either ]this," she pointed at one of the books. "Or that," she pointed at the other. "My point being that the Circle won't work properly unless you trust us completely. So you have to either do that or kick us out."

[Austin]

"Hope, while your points are valid, a few members of my team prefer to use me as a sounding board before they make their ideas known to the team, it's not that we dont trust either of you it's just that's how we do things; personally i dont like the sounding board idea but if it makes my operatives feel more comfortable then i guess it's a small price"
Austin sat down and opened a book, still looking at the room in general
"right, new rule"
he said to get their attention
"any idea - and i mean any no matter if it sounds stupid to you, or infeasable - sound it, maybe there will be something we can build on"

[Darkota]

Darkota went and sat down in one of the free chairs and thought over what he was going to say. He asked the room in general "How many people does Rino know are in the Circle and does he know there names?"

[Jaden Kalen]

Jaden took one of Azraels cookies" No burgers" He sighed, he sat back down in his favorite chair listening to Darkota "I think that he knows all of us, if he's as powerful as you say" Jaden nodded to Hope "then he's probably been spying on us. He attacked us all in the bar the other day, the only people that weren't there were you Darkota and you Cindy. Everyone else was there, he openly attacked Austin and Azrael, I attacked him so did Alucard then Hope did. Kunoichi and Alucards friend got out of the building, Ara left with you Austin so... He knows most of us members" Jaden paused for a moment.

"That woman who attacked outside, I heard Hope say it was that woman who we met when Hope Kunoichi and I went to Devil's Advocate's. That makes me think that he is spying on us. What do you think?" Jaden asked everyone gathered.

[Austin]

Austin nodded at Jaden's summary
"that sounds about right"
he considered
"yeah, i'd say he's identified most of us already, so we're best suited to all staying here for the moment where we can look after each other and he cant pick us off one by one, i'd suggest putting a mole in his organisation but that's negated by him knowing us"
he considered more
"it's hard to fight an enemy that has outposts in your head - it's a typical demon tactic, i'd be very surprised if he either hasn't tried to inflitrate the circle already or isn't planning to"

[Alucard "Pyr0" Valentine]

Alucard almost skiped into the room. He liked it when he did well, and he think he did well this time. With a smile on his face, he placed the list of items on Cindy's lap
"There you go, i hope this helps... Anything else?" he asked.

[Austin]

Austin spoke to Alucard
"Alucard, i got a message from your brother's wolf, he wants you to call him ASAP"

[Azrael Jiraco]

"Sorry Jaden," Azrael said, as he started scoffing the cookies.

"Cookie anyone?"

[Alucard "Pyr0" Valentine]

"Phone bro, got it... anything else for you?" he asked, tapping Cindy lightly on her shoulder. He looked slightly worried at the mention of his brother, his cheerful grin gone from his face.

[Cindy Harker]

"All I need is this musuem list." Cindy replied, a slight irritation in her voice from the work and arguing around her. "The list, and time."

She looked back to the books, and pulled out one.

"It's in English. Old English, but English." She passed it to Hope. "So now you can be useful."

It was clear all the work (and bickering) were stressing her out. It was a mammoth task, and she couldn't forget the picture of what they were facing...

She suddenly felt like adding 'and quiet' to her list of things she needed.