Surprising Visitor

Dante was in his new room and found he was feeling a little better, only two days since the meeting with Braxton, Mel and Nathaniel. Five days since the attack itself. Nathaniel had helped him heal a bit more but still his ribs and leg were being left for him to manage. Standing though he changed from his hospital gown and put on some shorts, socks and a t-shirt. He was tired of wearing the gown and wanted to be able to walk around to build up his strength, he was on some pretty good pain killers but he wanted to make sure he could still focus on his tasks. As he got out of bed he began is walk around his room, his feet in his loosely tied runners. After he spent 30 minutes walking he moved back to the bed but chose to go to the wheelchair so that it would force him to get up and walk again soon. He wheeled himself to the small window and surveyed the island view.

After a few moments he heard footsteps approaching and turned and started to push himself to his feet. The first person he saw was Riley Bennett the head of the secret service, though they knew each other and were casual friends it didn't appear to be a social call. After a quick survey of the room Riley turned to the door and said "All clear Chancellor." Once he was on his feel he saw Masin appear and he was surprised, he definitely didn't expect a visit from the Chancellor to come visit him.

"Masin...I mean Chancellor, this is a surprise and a great honor. I'm glad to see you survived the attack. He smiled and slowly moved towards her extending his free hand towards the two chairs visitors normally sat in, "Please if you have time take a seat."

Riley lead Masin through the halls of the hospital and thought the repairs had started he could still see the signs of the attack and once again felt his anger build, he should have been there not following a foolish lead. He asked at the nurses station where First Captain Tyrell was and thanked them before continuing on to the room. Once there he turned to Masin and said, "A moment Chancellor, I will let you know when it is clear." Though he doubted the hospital room had any dangers he wanted to make sure, there was nothing left behind. As he entered he saw Dante near the window attempting to stand, his face looked like hell and had a multitude of colors, since he was wearing shorts he could see the bandage on his left left. The man had taken a beating, literally if the rumors he heard were true.

Once he scanned the room he turned and gave the all clear and saw Masin enter. Dante appeared stunned and spoke to Masin with the proper respect her office held, and like Riley, Dante expressed his surprise at her visit. When she was offered a chair he said, "I'll wait outside Ma'am, Dante good to see you up and about so soon. We will catch up later." With that he stepped outside so the pair could be alone, but he remained close enough in case there were any issues.

@masin

The last few days Masin had been sickly aware of the fact that she owed her life to Gregory Tyrell, at least in a sense. She normally wasn't one to go visiting people in hospitals, unless it was Ember, but here she was finding herself asking Riley to accompany her to the hospital.

She tapped her foot as she waited for Riley to announce the all clear. She stepped in the room behind Riley, giving an uncharacteristic little wave to Dante as she did so. She nodded once at Riley before accepting the offer to sit, "Thank you, Riley. I won't be long," she said before moving to sit in the chair beside Dante's bed.

She looked down at her hands for a moment, before looking up at him, sitting on the edge of her seat. "I came to assure that you are being treated well. Do you feel satisfied?" she asked, her businesslike manner coming back into play.

Dante sat down in the wheel chair again wincing a little but glad it wasn't as bad as a few days ago, his ribs though would be healing for another several weeks if he was lucky so he would be able to attend meetings and file paperwork but he wouldn't be able to train. Looking up as Masin as she spoke had him chuckling, "Masin, you seem a little tense. Thank you for the concern I am doing as well as can be expected. Congratulations are in order, I would offer to take you to dinner, but I doubt my brother would appreciate me risking my health for a dinner, could I have a rain check on dinner though?"

Still smiling he looked a Masin carefully wanting to make sure she wasn't injured seeing that there wasn't any visible signs he breathed a sigh of relief, "It is good to see you though, after I left the wedding I was worried I had made a mistake. We are friends after all."

Dinner. They did say they'd do dinner, didn't they? Well, there was no way he'd be the one taking her. No, she owed him. She simply stood there as he chuckled, calling her tense. She internally winced a little at her first name, but she wasn't sure why. "A rain check is in order, then." She spoke flatly, not really giving any sort of emotion away. She was very uncomfortable with owing someone her life.

She did smile back, though, she didn't want to be rude. As he mentioned their friendship, her smile became less forced. "It's good to see you as well. We left the wedding soon after you did and quickly made it to safety, we had many helping us," she explained.

Dante saw the slight wince when he said her name and he smiled a little, she was in her professional mode and anything other than her title was not going to properly fly. Rolling the wheelchair closer he took his hand he said, "I'm sorry I made you uncomfortable Masin... I mean Chancellor Delisle. I am glad you came whether as a friend or official visit, having you here is a surprising honor none the less." Smiling he added, "You will always have people who will work to keep you safe, especially now that you are our leader. So now out of your many talents you can call yourself, intelligent, beautiful, a powerful leader and very charismatic leader with a strong vision of the future." He squeezed her hand a little before moving to let it go.

Now he was apologizing for making her uncomfortable, which was one of the worst things he could do for her pride. As he took her hand, she relaxed a little, but her mind was still tensed up. "No need to apologize, nor compliment," she said with a slight shake of her head, pulling her hand away as he began to release it. "I'm here as a friend. I just... I'm not a fan of owing someone my life," she admitted, nodding firmly. "I'd like to repay you somehow."

Smiling he leaned back finding that movement was getting easier, either that or the drugs were working better. "Masin, you don't have to think of it as me saving your life, I did what I had to do as a part of my job, and because you are my friend. You don't owe me anything. Also I should compliment you because you deserve every one. You love your people, you care about all of us Roman or Greek, you even care about your friends. Add to that you are a rather beautiful and intelligent Demi-Goddess who has a strong desire for justice as does her father." Turning the chair to face his bed he got up and slowly walked over to the table and grabbed his glass of water and took a couple sips before he set it down and returned to his wheel chair, "Anyway you would have to wait a while before repaying me even if I let you. As you can see I will be here for another few days at least."

There it was again, her first name, but this time she didn't wince. She nodded as he spoke, trying hard to release the tension in her shoulders. It wasn't working. Now she was beautiful and intelligent? She narrowed her eyes and smiled a little, shaking her head slightly. As he left the wheel chair, Masins eyes widened and she stood, but she sat back down again once he found his way back to his wheelchair. "Well, I'll be sure to contact you when you're feeling better," she said, "I mean, that is if you'll accept my repaying you?"

As he eased into his chair he smiled, was she actually worried he might get hurt again? Masin was beautiful and he didn't lie about that when he told her, she always came prepared for anything and never had a hair out of place, until now. Pushing himself from his chair he took the two steps till he was just in front of her, slowly he reached his hand up and tucked the stray strands behind her ear, his finger tips brushing her skin and for a moment he help them their until he pulled away suddenly. Laughing, "There we go, the escaped prisoner is back where it belongs." Dante said referencing the stray strands, "I never said I didn't want to see you again, I just don't think you should call it repaying me. Lets just call it dinner between two friends, I don't want a tally up on who saved who the most because I am pretty sure in the end you might just beat me." Dante said in response to him letting her repay him for saving her, he knew that there was a good chance he wasn't lying about her saving him, after all she was here the day after he realized he still was in love with Mel and Brax wants to do who knows what to him.

He was moving in front of her and Masin froze. Her hair had gotten away from her, it seemed, and he was moving it behind her ear. His words about the escape prisoner made her mouth slowly form a smile, and she laughed a little. As he said he didn't want to consider it a 'repaying' thing she shook her head. "Greg, please," she said, reaching a hand up to place on his shoulder, "Let me have this, or we'll never be okay," she said, in all honesty. She realized that she was touching him and slowly pulled her hand away, but kept a stern/pleading gaze on him.

Dante reached up and caught her retreating hand and said, "Very well, you can repay me for simply doing my duty. Though I will want to wait, can't have you be seen with this ugly mug." Smiled he pointed at his face laughing a little, to add to the point he placed a playful kiss on her knuckles before letting her hand go. "So other than future dinner plans, tell me how have you been the last five days, I have been in the hospital, recovering and annoying my brother far to often. Since I have only really been awake for three days and I took a stroll up to the roof on the first night I woke up... that was painful to say the least." Shrugged as if to say, that's what I get for being a stubborn idiot.