Ralph took a deep breath, and stepped out of his HQ. The past few days had contained more then their fair share of mind losing chaos and business was just settling down again. So of course, something came up.

"Johnny, lets head for the Adams place. Time we sorted that little problem out properly, and it seems I need to put my hand in personally. Auriel and Giovanni will meet us there."

The Adams place was more a mansion then a house. Sheldon Adams, the owner of the house had been an asset to the work of the Pasadena families...until He began holding back. This last job was supposed to have netted 4.2 million, so when only 2 million was discovered, Ralph began to wonder. Digging by Praxis revealed that Adams had skimmed nearly half of the take, and secreted it away. It wasn't the first. All told, It seemed that Sheldon Adams had stolen the Family's cut of over 50 million in job money. That was not going to fly, so the the Adams estate they went. It was a shame that Mrs. Adams and her young son would have to leave the lifestyle to which they had become accustomed, but Mr. Adams knew the risks he was taking.

The Car pulled up. As planned, Auriel and Giovanni were waiting, Gio in his usual Suit, Auriel dressed to the nines for business. The little purse Auriel carried would have the normal punishment for such affairs, as well as a smaller, less pleasent, but subtler option.

"Good, You're here. Lets go. Gio, keep Mrs. Adams out of the way, I'll see to the kid. Auriel, You've got the tough part of the job. Give him the option. If he wants it, he can have the syringe, for his families sake. and make it clear that they will not be harmed, and that they won't end up on the streets."

Auriel was stood waiting with her leader, Don @GiovanniLaurel, for @ralph_lombino their Godfather. She could not help but wonder why she was ordered to dress up for the mission. She felt silly holding on to her little purse containing her favourite gun and a syringe full of god knows what. They both stood in silence until they saw a car coming up the long driveway, "Must be him" Gio said firmly as he straightened up his tie to be formally ready.

The car pulled up and out got the man they've been waiting for, the Godfather of Pasadena. He didn't waste much time as he explained what would be happening at the huge mansion. All of a sudden, it made sense to what she had been entrusted to do. All of a sudden she no longer felt silly by carrying that little purse. Once she realised what the contents of that syringe were of something lethal, she then realised why Don GiovanniLaurel had insisted she took a purse. She no longer felt silly.

She watched as the two gentlemen went into the mansion, to go to the rooms where Mrs Adams and her child would be, as she braced herself to head towards where Mr Adams was being held. She made her way through the gardens of the mansion to a gazebo in the middle of it. There, she found Mr Adams tied to one of the posts, as he was guarded by a few of the Godfather men. "I'll take it from here", Auriel said as the men nodded to back away.

Auriel opened up her purse and pulled out her gun, "Now" she started to speak as she looked towards Mr Adams, "If you so much try to move, I'll shoot" she said further with a firm tone to her voice. "You have the option to have a chat, to see reason" She went on to say further, as she walked over to him to remove the gag from his mouth, holding her gun up towards him, before stepping back again.

"Please, my family has nothing to do with this" Mr Adams shouted at Auriel. "Tsk" she replied "We're not here to shout" she snapped. They talked some more as she made it clear that he was about to leave the world. "Your family will be safe, they will not be ill-treated, nor starve", she explained to him. "But, you need to look at the bigger picture here, we have two choices to give to you, none of them consists of you living, granted. But, you do have the choice of a bullet or a needle, which is it to be?" she asked, she finished up saying as she saw the look of horror appear on his face. 

She gave the man a few minutes to mull it over, "Think of your family when you're gone" she said mercifully, she was trying to point out that if he went the 'quieter' way, the less traumatised his wife and child would be. They would just think he went to 'sleep'. Whereas if he was shot, they would hear, they would know he suffered. "Plus I am wearing my best dress Mr Adams, please don't ruin it!" she said with a little grin. She knew there was no way of lifting the moods but at the end of the day, she also needed to see through what she has been tasked to do.

Mr Adams soon went from being panicky to full-on hysterical, the tears, the fear, "This can be over quickly and painlessly" Auriel snapped at him and went to fire her gun into the air. "Syringe" Mr Adams blurted "Quick", he said further. "Alright" she replied as she went back to her purse to pull out the injection.

She wasn't too sure to why she feared needles more than a gun, but looking at what she had held in her hands she could see what she of chosen had it been her and it wasn't some needle. She walked over to Mr Adams and rolled up one of his sleaves to gain access to his upper arm, before injecting the toxic into his flesh. "Sleep sweet Mr Adams" she whispered to him as she watched him slowly pass away. It felt odd to her, she had never taken someone life this way before. There was no blood, no mess to clear up, and certainly no adrenaline running through her veins. 

Once she had double checked that Mr Adams was, in fact, dead, she made her way back up the garden path and into the luxurious mansion to find her leaders. 

There had been no noise, aside from a brief shout. Since the shout had been panicked, and male, it seemed all was going well enough. The child was sleeping soundly, the innocence of youth. A shame that the boy would grow up without a father. He would have to see that the boy had good mentorship. Ralph placed the envelope of money on the table by the bedside. It contained a letter that Mr. Adams had written for the child, and enough money to pay for a college education, financed by Adam's ill gotten gains, and by a "small" donation from the family, wereguild of a sort. 

Stepping back into the hall, Ralph saw Auriel reappear from the room where Adams had been held. There was no blood, and he had heard no gunshot, so the man had taken the needle. Good. Wouldn't do to scare the poor kid, as well as take his father away. Ralph spoke as Giovanni reappeared also.

"So he took the needle. Smart man, if not one i'd agree with. Gio, any trouble with the wife?"

At Giovanni's small head shake, Ralph continued.

"So, that is taken care of, and the widow Adams will be on her way to her brothers home with her son in tow tomorrow. Mr. Adams was kind enough to sign over this place as an apology of sorts. I was thinking of taking it myself, but that might be a little bit too brazen."

With a grin, Ralph turned to Auriel. 

"Instead, I think you'll take it. You have been an asset to Pasadena, and the leadership you have shown as Consigliere to Giovanni is nothing but wonderful work. Now it is time to take the next step. Take this place, make it the core of a crew to make Pasadena proud. Continue to grow this city with my blessing.

Now, What will you call this place when it opens under new management?"

All the sudden the words she heard earlier that day "Wear your best dress" started to make more sense. She was honestly stood in shock for a moment or two to what has turned into a far different night than she had envisaged. She looked around the Mansion and could see it had a lot of potentials to become something great. It had so many rooms to the place, plus a huge area that could easily hold a place for socialising.

She listens to her Godfather some more as Gio stood beside him grinning like a Cheshire cat. The thoughts of all the possibilities of what she could do at the mansion went rushing through her head. 

She finally came up with an idea of what she could do. "I will open a hotel here, get it spruced up and make it into an actual business too" she replied to him as she simply then said, "It will be called, Hotel California". She then thanked Don GiovanniLaurel and her Godfather ralph_lombino for the opportunities and hopes she does them justice, "Thank you, I won't let you down!".

Giovanni put a cigarette between his lips and lit it.

He had a nice sit-down chat with the wife, explaining what Ralph had planned for them. His week had been going a little rough, so he wasn't in the best of moods. A couple of sneering remarks put Mrs. Adams in her place, albeit the 9mm handgun pointed at her gut certainly helped. An unpleasant bit of a great day for his city.

Standing beside his good friend Ralph_Lombino, he grinned. He was proud and he could barely hide it. In the same way one looks at an accomplished family member, his gaze sat on Auriel. A family member. A friend. A trusted advisor and underboss. He took a long drag before speaking, trying to find the right words to express himself.

"We all come to a tipping point in this life we've chosen. This is yours." he cleared his throat slightly before proceeding. "After years of work and dedication, your purpose is finally clearing. The same cut that shapes a diamond in the rough-shaped you into a beautiful jewel of competence, loyalty, and vision. And such is the vision Pasadena needs."

Giovanni nodded at the Godfather and fiddled with the buttons on his shirt. His had had finally healed and he was still getting used to it.

"Now that we're done with the eviction, we should have a celebratory drink. Today is Auriel's day, after all."

Thawne awoke to a someone banging at his door really loud. Grabbing his robe and wrapping himself in it as he made his way to the door. Opening it cautiously to notice that it was just one of Ralph's bodyguard. Looking way more annoyed than normal for one of the Godfathers bodyguards. Noticing the note that the bodyguard was holding in his hand gripping it out of his hand reading.

"Eobard, meet me at my office asap." Thawne tapped his chin.. Not listening to the body guard yelling at him. 

Coming to when he said, "This was a few hours ago.." 

"Why didn't you start with that? Asshole!" Only to slam the door in his face. Thawne quickly got changed, but barely giving himself time to tie his tie. The bodyguard didn't get a second to say anything else as the door opened and closed with yellowish red lightening streaking past him. 

He made it to the Godfathers office realizing long gone he quickly went through every file, document, or anything he could find to help him find where he was. Grinning as he found something just an address of a Mr. Adams. Thinking to himself oh this is the place. Looking around at Ralph's office noticing how bad of mess it was, which only took him 30 seconds to make it. Shrugging, "I'll take care of it later." 

A few minutes later making it the Adams home noticing the door was open. Rubbing his face with this hand as he zipped into the house going from room to room. From outside it looked like each room was getting lit up by a photographer. Finally finding body of Mr Adam's body, noticing them walk out into the hallway. Raising his hands up as he saw ralph_lombino, standing next to GiovanniLaurel. Not noticing Auriel yet. 

"Damn it Ralph! You always kill them before I get here. You know I enjoying watching them die." Eobard Thawne looked completely disheveled, his tie was undone from his suit and his hat was tilted back as if he just walked out of wind tunnel. 

As he walked around noticing Auriel. "Well damn don't you look nice for once." He began to chuckle as he teased her. "Gio a pleasure as always. So what did I miss, besides the dead guy?" His attention returned to Ralph.

"Thawne you dumbass, For one of the fastest fuckers alive, you are incredibly slow now and again. Did you forget that settling Adam's account was tonight?"

Ralph shook his head, Thawne's mind moved so fast it left itself behind. Ahh well, He'd missed the business, but made it in time for the celebration, how like him.

"we already finished the job. Adam's took the needle, and we took the house. Mrs. Adams and the kid are headed to a family members, with something to live on.

But you missed the news Eobard. I decided that it is time to expand our operations here in Pasadena, and With this building now in our possession, Auriel will be stepping up. The Hotel California is open for business, friend Thawne."