“No,” she shook her head, she wouldn’t agree and she didn’t agree. “You’re wrong.” Expansions of what is natural? He was talking rubbish and she knew it. There was no way that she would ever believe that, even though in that split second, Aria had come to mind, the one vampire that had and continued to show her kindness, who had helped her and practically saved her life and she went against everything she was brought up to believe. But that was one vampire, out of how many? She wouldn’t show Mateo the conflict she felt, no way, not even when she couldn’t understand it herself and she couldn’t trust him, so that was that. “That body has probably been dead for a long time, so the fact that whoever it is— or was, was not even on your records as a missing person… means that your whole system, that this country, is a failure.” she was spinning it back onto him, again. To say that she didn’t get where he was coming from, was a lie. She did, she understood, she knew what he was saying, but she couldn’t shake the reality of it all, she couldn’t push aside the supernatural aspect to this whole situation. “Because how many times did you meet Dante? How many time could you have figured it out? But you didn’t. You can’t stand there and tell me that moving a body from a grave it was not even buried in properly, was not the right thing to do in terms of the welfare of a living person — many living people that would have had their life cut short, because of this one stupid thing.” she should have stopped it, she shouldn’t have helped Leo dig his body up and she certainly shouldn’t have let him go to Dante with it, but she did and did anyone die? No. What if she stopped it all? What if she did everything in her power to stop everything, could she say the same then? Would Leo be alive? Would his parents? His sister? Her siblings? She couldn’t put her hand on her heart and say yes. “It doesn’t matter what violation laws were broken, because the only person that knows what happened, is you. This isn’t a situation where you can reel off laws and conduct and expect me to think oh hang on, that won’t happen.. because do you not think that I have not been trained to deal with people like you? I think IF all the time, maybe these last few months I haven’t but that’s not important. We don’t need to continue to go round in circles, I’m tired of it. The point here is, you broke my trust, you lied to me and now we have another thing to deal with that wouldn’t be there if I didn’t put my faith in some stranger that I hardly know.”
He sure could dig up records or attempt to but he didn’t. That was the agreement he had with Dane. In the world of law enforcement some things were ignored for the sake of information, a bargaining chip of sorts. It was something that tended to go unspoken. Some hoops had to be jumped through. ‘’The system fails when information goes unnoticed. As in, no one reports. As in, kept to themselves.’’ In the hunting business that would be common. Though he didn’t entirely disagree about the failure of the country and system. It was. He refrained from commenting, keeping options to himself. He had no say in that. That problem was in the control of people in a higher position than he was. He was trusted to follow orders not question them. ‘’Demons are not so easy to investigate.’’ For the supernatural? There was no actual system that existed. A bigger problem.‘’.....I wish. I wish I could make it better. For us all. To make it easier to not have to hide. To not be stuck. To not have fear.’’ He didn’t enjoy anything about this. Of Dante and how he had affected many lives. ‘’People hurt, I know this. You are angry with me because I should have done better.’’ He could apologise a thousand times but he had still let her down. He was too angry at himself for it, a lot lately. It was as if he suddenly lost the ability to help anyone. Every choice he seemed to make was wrong.‘’I’m sorry I lied, but you know that I had tried to do what I could. To help you and your friend when you had nobody to turn to.’’ All he ever wanted, was to help, but it did not always work out so well.
