Chris was driving back into town yet again. The woods were nice on the outskirts of Miami, but the drive to anything with people was always long, but that was the price he paid for the great acreage he bought. This time, Christopher wasn't headed into work though, no this trip was for himself and no one else.

The ride was rather uneventful, he jammed to a Best of Aerosmith CD, which he didn't think held enough of there songs to be called The Best of... Chris was wearing his typical brown hat and a Rolling Stones vintage tee and a pair of jeans with brown leather flip flops. It was the closest thing to bare foot he could get and still be able to go into places of business. As his trunk pulled in front of the Pack House, he took a deep breath before rolling up the windows.

His wolf perked up, happy to have company of some more wolves. Chris hadn't done much more than work and sleep after the latest case from Tallahassee he had been consulting on. Most of his time was spent on the phone or in front of his computer at the office and going home was merely a formality. But now, he had been able to see Katt and his life seemed to be on track once again. His mother always said he needed a strong woman to show him just how much he needed one in his life, "Well you were right" he said to the air as he climbed out of his truck and walked up to the door.

Adelphus had given him a key, he assumed the Pack all had one as to feel this place was their home as much as their Ulfric's, but Chris knocked anyways. His wolf began pacing, finally able to move in the open air, feel the trees and the wildlife around him rather than skyscrapers and cars. They both needed the company of the Pack and to meet more than the King and Second on a regular basis. He hoped someone was home, if not he would use the key and wait.

Apollo grunted from his spot on the floor. He could smell the person on the other side of the door was a wolf, so why didn't they just come in? Sighing he paused Boy Culture and padded over to the door. Putting on a "stage" smile he opened the door for the wolf, "Good afternoon. Err, are you coming in? I think it's just me and you here right now. I came by to meditate but someone left a most alluring DVD sitting out."

Chris was going through the five hundred keys on his key ring to try and find the one that actually opened the door to the pack house. "What did I do murder a janitor one night?" he muttered to himself. His senses were all concentrated on finding the one key, he didn't even feel the wolf come to the door until the door was opened.

His wolf was irritated with the man for being caught off guard, but it was at least by friend rather than foe. "Good afternoon" he smiled and put away his keys. "Thanks, I don't know how long I would have been out here" he joked. "Christopher" he offered his hand to the...wolf of some sort - not your typical kind, but a wolf all the same. Ah yes he was the one who was Adelphus' friend from the lupanar hunting trip. The dingo.

His wolf was filing away the scent of the man in his mind so he would know him from now on. "A DVD? Anything interesting?" Chris asked as he walked through the door way, his eyes quickly adjusting to the darker interior of the hallway. Slipping his shoes off, remembering Adelphus' customs, he walked to the living room barefoot to make a new friend and maybe watch a movie.

Apollo smiled at the man easily, "Murdered a janitor? Well at least you can eat the body to hide the evidence." OK, so it might have been a bit of a jab to say that, but hey.

At any rate, the dingo took the proferred hand, "Apollinare, though I'll answer to Apollo or 'Pol, or really, I'll accept anything non-sexual or derogatory." The dingo made to make a submissive greeting but stopped himself. He motioned towards the living room, "Actually, I doubt most people would like it. Considering the main character is a hustler, I catch the distinct feeling it was intentionally left for either myself or that one who can't keep his fly zipped as some sort of rather rude joke,"

Cool air blew into the room, rustling many pieces of paper strews across the floor, as well as turning the pages in a few books. Kelsi mumbled under her breath, now being bent over with her hand stuck underneith her matress on the floor. With a quick glare at the window, she turned back the pages in one particular book that was sitting on her bed to the pages that had been showing before. She glanced at the book again, making certain that the instructions that it held said that there was needing to be a 'small, metal rod' for it to work. She cursed mentally, finding out that the 'small, metal rod' that she had bought just days before had now gone lost, hidden underneith her books, papers, and other random objects on the floor.

The wolf walked out the door of her room and leaned over the banister, having heard some voices not moments before. "Apollo? Is that you?" Kelsi asked, leaning over the railing and calling downstairs. "Can you get me a spoon? No- actually, a fork would work. Or maybe I should get it..." Kelsi mumbled to herself. She turned to put a weight on the book in her room, making sure that the page would not be lost again. Turning out of her room once more, Kelsi made her way down the stairs, two steps at a time.

"Besides, I doubt you know which one I'm talking- Oh, hello..." Kelsi had just noticed the man standing in the doorway. She stopped, staring at the man with a face that of puzzlement. She reached into the back pocket of her jeans and pulled out about half an inch thick pile of pictures. Kelsi went through about five of them, glancing up at Christopher every so often before her face lit up. She flipped over the picture to look at the name on the back. "Er...Christopher. ...Harry, right? I really need to put surnames on these..." Kelsi pulled out a pen, poised and ready for the wolf to either agree or correct her.

A chuckle left him at the catching of his janitor comment. “Never thought of it that way” he added at the end of his laugh. “Nice to meet you Apollo” Chris said as he followed him in, “Non sexual or derogatory…I will out that in my notes” he nodded sagely. Christopher had no idea what the DVD was about, but nodded his head in slight puzzlement. “Joke?” he asked though he knew exactly who Apollo was talking about when describing their appointed Eros. He fit the bill and Chris definitely did NOT want that job.

Words filtered down from overhead, Chris looking up instinctually toward the voice. He glanced over at Apollo and his expression switched between a grin and a questioning glance back up the stairs. The footsteps left the railing and quickly returned. The rather nerdy gal from the Lupanar was coming down the stairs, but he again didn’t have a name to the face. “Hi…er…what are you…” he trailed off as she looked through what appeared to be polaroids. “Yeah Christopher Henley” he corrected. “You are?” he asked walking towards her and offering a hand.

“Now Apollo, what is this movie you are talking about?” Chris asked as they all walked into the living room. He turned to the female and smiled, “Want to join us or are you too busy…eating?” he ventured a guess, she chose a fork and a spoon, what else could you do with those?

Apollo smirked at Christopher and decided to be slightly mean and let him realize he was watching a movie about a male prostitute once he sat down. Maybe not the nicest thing in the world to do, but since he hadn't caught the hint, well he. That was of course until Kelsi came flitting down the stairs.

Apollo smirked at the brief exchange between the two. He quirked a brow and decided to cut Kelsi off before poor Chris' mental sanity was damaged, "Christopher, meet Kelsi Whittle, resident odd boll... It's probably safer not to ask her what she wan'ts silverware for. I'd have noticed if she'd made anything to eat. Speaking of which, Kelsi, be sure you don't ruin the silverware won't you dear? I just convinced Adelphus that it's necessary."

Kelsi glanced back down at the Polaroid that she had in her hands. With a few shard flicks of her hand, she had placed the name ‘Henley’ on there as well. Putting the pictures back into her pocket, Kelsi smiled and took Chris’s hand, shaking it gently. The wolf was just about to introduce herself when Apollo took it upon himself to do so. She wouldn’t have minded as much if he had refrained from calling her an oddball. Though, Kelsi had to admit, there was some truth to the statement.

The female glowered at Apollo. “For your information that was only one time, and the knife was completely usable after it had cooled down a bit,” she said, excusing herself to the kitchen to grab a four-pronged fork. Coming back out of the kitchen, Kelsi slipped the piece of silverware into her pocket, glanced at Apollo and then to Chris. “I’ve actually found this really interesting experiment involving copper II sulfate and a metal rod. It actually rusts the subject until it’s mere flakes.”

“And, yes–” Kelsi said, the last word having a bit of force on it, and looking at Apollo with the look of triumph. “I would love to join you.” Kelsi then walked over to the couch and sat down. The wolf looked once more at the Christopher Henley character that was standing in front of her. He didn’t look too imposing, or at least not in this state. She would have to remember that to put in her laptop profile of him.

Chris took her hand and glanced back at Apollo who was introducing the girl for her. Turning back to Kelsi he smiled, "Well its nice to meet you Kelsi. And oddball isn't a bad thing." Of course, Chris really wouldn't know anything about being an oddball, he was always the popular guy in high school lots of jock friends, but he could sympathize.

He raised an eyebrow as she explained the issue with a knife. He turned back to Apollo with as much of a whisper as he could manage knowing she would hear him anyway. "Isn't she usually with a laptop, sort of the resident...geek of the pack?" he asked. Geek usually had a negative connotation, but he didn't men it in that way, she just knew a lot about technology and apparently silverware.

He turned back to Kelsi as she reentered the room and listened to her explain the necessity of a fork. "Interesting." She was a smart cookie apparently. And had an attitude to boot, Chris had to hold in a laugh at her tone and offered her his arm to lead into the living room. They sat down and Chris picked up the DVD case and flipped it over reading the synopsis out loud. "Hmm" he said reading the summary about a con artist male prostitute. "Is it interesting?" he asked Apollo with sincerity. "You aren't too far in the movie are you? I hate to ask questions at every plot turn, its an annoyance of mine."

Apollo smirked at Kelsi and grabbed the fork directly back out of her hand, "Yes. She's our pack geek. Mind you, it has its pluses. Any girl can paint her nails, but only geeks can formulate their own. However, I must insist that you NOT rust the silverware, Kelsi. I am SO not buying another set. And I'll have you know, that knife is still warped from your use of it as an electrode for hydrolysis."

He plopped beside Christopher back on the floor and reclined back like the lazy dog his beast wanted him to be for the time. He motioned towards the DVD player for Christopher's benefit, "It's not gone very far. Barely Breathing just stopped breathing and X, who I might add is absolutely delicious but unfortunately rather submissive if left to his own devices, is going to meet Geezer for the first time. They haven't shown his roommates yet, but it's coming."

Kelsi was about to reply to Christopher when he commented on her being the ‘geek of the pack’, when Apollo answered for her. This time, though, she smirked. At least she knew that someone in the pack appreciated the fact that she could use her brain. She turned to Apollo, sighing a bit. “Geek is actually a compliment. I would much rather be called a geek than some of the other words that are used when talking about most women,” she said.

When the wolf was offered an arm to the living room, “I’m perfectly capable of walking on my own, thank you. It’s been seven years since I sprained my ankle.” Kelsi started walking back into the living room, but a sudden glimpse of arm stopped her. As the fork was taken out of her hands, though, she kind of wished that she had taken the arm. That way she could have dodged the sneak attack. The wolf pouted and jabbed Apollo in the ribs, then jumping for the fork, but to no avail. She huffed and sat down on the couch in between the two men.

“Not this one...” Kelsi said with a glance at the television. Apollo and his choice in movies. In her opinion, she would have much rather watched Total Eclipse. Kelsi shrugged despite the movie and reached over Apollo to grab a jar of planter’s peanuts. She popped them open, plucking out one at a time and plopping them into her mouth as the two boys conversed over the movie.

It didn't dawn on Chris that the offering of his arm, out of sheer politeness, would be construed as an insult at which was aimed at Kelsi. He went to open his mouth, but decided against trying to defend himself. Most women perceived him to be a chauvinistic pig when he was only being polite, apparently they thought he was trying to revolt against the feminist movement.

He watched with a smile on his face as the two wolves play fought for a piece of silverware. It seemed Apollo had won this day, but he didn't doubt Kelsi would find something to complete her mad science experiment upstairs. "Well thats good" he said to Apollo as he explained where the movie was. He was completely lost but nodded anyways.

"Have you seen this before Kelsi? Not a fan?" he asked watching her hijack a jar of peanuts from Apollo. They seemed to interact like an older brother and younger sister. But the pack is a family so this all made sense. Chris just wasn't quite sure where he stood in it other than being with Katt. "So Apollo or Kelsi, do you guys work here in Miami?" he asked as he settled into the couch comfortably ready to start the movie back up.

Apollo shot a backwards smirk at Kelsi from his spot on the floor, "I swear, if you suggest Star Trek, Star Wars or Total Eclipse again, I'm hiring a hacker to cause the death of your entire electronic set-up to s ave us all from the horror of repeated bouts of, comment dit-on... sci-fi." He reached his arm behind him to grab peanuts from the container Kelsi pilfered causing him to inadvertently brush against Chris' lower leg and revel the lines of his abs and hair trail to the other man. "Besides, Kelsi, shouldn't you make Jace watch this? He's the slut, not me... Though he might say I'm the whore..."

He suddenly remembered Chris and blushed at the thought of what had just come out of his mouth. "Great job," he thought to himself, "Insult your pack mates in front of an alpha male... Real smart." Deciding to push on anyway he pressed the play button to resume to movie, "Of course, if you'd rather watch something else, without the homosexual intercourse scenes, this would be the time to say so."