Allison was bored, she was stretched out on the black leather couch in the living room, Isis, the black leopard laying next to her on the floor. It was odd how alike they were, in appearance and attitude, both about the same length , Allison had black clothes and hair had the same slinky way of moving and shared an almost identical personality as the large can next to her.

Deciding she should try to do something, she arched her back and got up and made her way down stairs to her kitchen, she would have to let Isis out to go hunting soon, but she enjoyed the quiet company.of the large cat. Pouring herself some Vodka with Orange juice and sat at the bar stool, scratching behind Isis' ears when she heard a heavy knock on the door

Aria walked up to Allison's house. She was suprised at herself, she seemed to be making a friend, which was unusual for her, she usually liked to be alone.

She walked up the steps, her light blue robes swishing around her. Raising her hand, she knocked on the door, admiring the beautiful house.

Then she stood back and waited to see if Allison was home.

Allison went to the door, leaving the cat in the kitchen and almost smiled when she saw Aria at the door. It was for odd for her to have company or to start feeling friendly towards someone, but Aria was one of those few people she could stand.

"Good afternoon." She said letting her in. "What brings you here?" she asked leading her back to the kitchen. "Would you like a drink?"

"Yes please," said Aria, "A glass of brandy if you have it." She eyed the panther with interest.

"Who's this?" she asked, wondering if it would bite her fingers off should she try to pet it.

She heard her ask what brought her here. "I was sick of the school. I know I showed up unexpectedly, I can leave if your busy..." she finished.

"With ice?" she asked getting a glass and brandy she looked over to where Isis was sitting. "Oh, that's Isis, if she hasn't bit you yet, she probably won't. I take it as a sign she likes you." She said with a smile, "Don't worry, I wasn't doing much today either, it's nice to have someone to do something with."

"Yes," she replied to Allison's inquiry about the ice. Then she turned to the panther and reached out to pet her. "I needed something to do," she said, "I just don't know what."

"I like you panther," she said, "How do you keep it hidden from nosy muggles?"

She put some ice in the class and handed it and the bottle of brandy to her. "There are anti-muggle security charms around my property so she has a place to hunt and run around, she knows where the boundaries are, and if one were to come by, I'm fine with her having a nice snack. I see it as her doing the world a favor."

Aria laughed out loud, "Yes, I suppose your right," she said. "So what is there to do around here?" she asked, "It's a very nice home, and large by the way."

"Thank you." She said hopping up on the counter and folding her long skinny legs while she mixed herself another drink. "If you scratch behind her ears, she'll do just about anything you want.." She said and thought a moment about what there was to do. "Well I could give you a tour, and you can see for your self."

"A tour would be great," said Aria, reaching over to scratch Isis behind the ears as Allison had suggested. She wouldn't mind seeing the house and the grounds.

"By the way," she added, "Your welcome to stop by my house anytime you want. Although it's not actually a house, it''s a castle."

"Now, that's got to be a nice place to live, I'm impressed. " She said. "So I guess we will start here, this is the kitchen, obviously, over there is the dining room, but I don't really use it. " She said pointing to the larger room to her right she led Aria out of the kitchen . "Would you like to go downstairs, upstairs or outside first?" she asked her.

"Let's go upstairs," said Aria, glancing around at the house. "I'd like to see the room you sleep in. I'm expecting something entirely black, with skulls and knives adorning the walls, a red puddle that looks mysteriously like blood, and a mud-blood in the closet, slowly dying."

Allison laughed when she described what she thought what her room would look like. "I have special rooms for that, I don't want that filth in my bedroom." She said leading her upstairs and down the hall to her bedroom, which was painted dark red and had dark wood floors. A large bed with blankets that matched the floor and walls sat in the middle. "It's not quite what you had in mind, but I like it."

"It's nice," replied Aria, "And now that you mentioned it," she said, "I'd like to see a torture room."

"I thought you would." She said with a grin as she exited her room and went down the hall to what looked like a hall closet, opened the door and entered a room much larger than what the way it looked would allow. A collection of sharp objects lined one wall while chains with cuffs on the end were attatched to another. "Here's one."

"Now if only there was a muggle in here to play with," she said, looking around. "I like your collection," she added, admiring all of the torture instrument adorning the walls.

"I don't care who it is as long as I get to torture them."Family, friends, people she had crossed on the street, they were all fair game in her mind. If you crossed her or she got bored with you, there was a good chance you would find your self here.

Aria raised an eyebrow, considering what Allison had jsut said. She'd have to be more careful around her. She made sureher wand was still in her sleeve pcoket, only seconds out of reach.

"So how many of these torture chambers do you have in here?" she asked, wondering who had ended up in them.

"Six." She said with a smile. "All of them are a little diffrent. It's nice, I can torture them depending on what I'm in the mood to do to them. Do you have any in your castle?" she asked

"Just one, in the dungeons. I've never really been in there though. My father told me though, it has around ten cells, tables and manacles that hang from the ceiling, along with a collection of torture instruments my great-great-great grandfather chose."

"Perhaps I'll put it into use one day," she continued.

"I'll have to come see it sometime, give me some ideas for my own. You should really try it. i think you would find it very enjoyable. I do." She said, thinking about how fun it would be to see an old torture chamber.

"Perhaps," she said. "When I find someone to keep down there. I aslo have an entire wall of very rare poisons, that I never use. They are a collection. I just acquired one the other day actually."

"Perhaps we can have an NDE gathering at my house, with torture as the entertainment," she smiled wickedly.

"We could always kidnap the mediwitch, keep her down there and no one would walk in on us this time." she said, she had just a little bit of a score to settle with her, no one got away from her twice when she wanted them dead. 'I'll really have to come by and see what you've got.

"Go after her again?" asked Aria. "I don;t know. I suppose we could but Trey and the other one would probably come looking for her again." she finished angrily.

"You can come by whenever," she added.

"I need her dead. It's gotten a little personal between us." she explained. "No one gets away from me twice. I don't care if Trey comes looking for her, he won't find her until she is dead, I'll make sure of it. I'll probably drop by sometime next week."

"Alright." said Aria. "I have excellent security and a big hous ein the middle of nowhere, I'd doubt he'd get far."

"That's good to know. and if he somehow does, we can always feed him to Isis, she'd have fun with it, she hasn't had anything like that to snack on for a while."

"Speaking of pets, I'm sure my two new ones would like a bite. I added two snakes, a boa and a python, to my small animal collection," smirking because it really wasn't that small. She had several nice animals, some rare and some illegal, and was now trying to acquire one more.

"I was thinking of getting another cat, but I don't know if Isis would like it very much, she doesn't get a long with a lot of things, she gets a little aggressive."It might be hard to think the cat that had been laying with her could hurt anything but she had been in a wrestling match to know some of the power the laziness hid.

"Another panther. They are nice," said Aria, remembering the sleek, black panther.

"Oh I forgot to tell you, apparently Death eater have been recruiting in the forest. I hadn't known but when I took a stroll there I found an eager student. He could come in handy with helping me cause more havoc, especially in Hogwarts."

"I was thinking more along the lines of a tiger. Something bigger, something new." Allison said, and nodded when Aria said she had met a student in the forest eager to join. "There was a boy that was close to Trey who I bet would. He tortured Gwen when he found out about the two of them. He's an interesting kid."

"You should talk to him then," said Aria. "A tiger huh? Thinking of having someone mauled. I am, you know the muggle-born, Ricky Ladder? That filthy mud-blood had the audacity to kiss me once. As if I would ever be interested in him. I owe him a bit of something..." she said, smirking.