Machine (Madeline Frost, please)

[shinigami]

The next time mad Maddy Frost - Madeline, oh, Madeline - checks her phone messages there is one in particular of note. It waits like a spider.

The voice is familiar; the voice is rough silk; is silver and musk and laconic; female. Maybe it'll take Madeline a moment to recognize the woman. Then she'll have it: Sirène M. J. Siddal. M. J. Friend.

To the point, as ever. "Mad? I'm in town; I've actually moved into town if you can believe it. The usual business. Hopefully it won't take long." Then: "That isn't straight. Yes, I know you measured it; you measured it wrong. Do it again." Brief pause. "No, but this time correctly." Brief sigh. "Honestly." Then: "Anyway, about that business, I figure that I might as well head off the urge to get really drunk by getting really drunk before I get the urge. Show me around, please? It's just me. No Dante. Here's my current number. Ta."

And then there was a click, and Sirène went back to directing the movers, who weren't living up to her standards.

[lily tomlinson]

Maddy came home from a long day of training and yelling at Liam. And also beating him upside the head with her giant axe. Needless to say, she was in a very piss poor mood by the time she got through the front door of her flat. And when she saw she had 20 new messages on her answering machine, she just about threw it through the window and then set it on fire.

18 of them were from a very irate Liam, cursing her foul, and trying to shred her insides with petty Englishman words. They just made her roll her eyes.

One was from Frost, commending her on training and on attacking yet another bullheaded male employee of Seth's.

And the last one, was one that made Maddy's mood lighten a bit. Enough that she was calling back her ol' friend Sirene, and suggesting they meet at Axed to get shit-faced drunk and possibly harass all the idiots prone to be there. Possibly cause some mass mayhem, or just reminisce about old times. It kinda sucked that she got the answering machine too...

"Hey, Sirene, it's Mad," she said into the phone. "We're meeting at Axed at nine. Come prepared for massive quantities of alcohol. I'll bring the fun. Oh, and if you see Liam on the way, run him over with a car! 'Kay, thanks, bye!"