I was never loyal except to my own pleasures
I didn't really know what to do after I talked to Tyler. I thought about going after his sister but she wasn't really.....well, I guess my problem anymore. I knew Lexi thought, she was bound to be everyone's problem and when the time came I'd man up just like everyone else but for now? I'm on retirement. The Osborns had paid me well and that meant I could afford to take some time off. Hell, if times got tough I could always resort back to cat burglary. Employment is so overrated.

Considering my first assignment and I'd let the kid get killed, or worse probably meant that my career as private security was long over. Now all I could do was wait around for the fallout and try to give the Osborns some space. I'd left Gracie a message on her voicemail and told her I was sorry and that I'd be around if she needed me but she never called me back. I assumed that by then she'd found out and had herself locked away and hard at work at Wolfram and Hart trying to figure out how to save her niece.

Being unemployed was kind of boring. Lydecker kept callin' me up, telling me I needed to get more info for him and I knew the guy could probably just come down here and haul me back off to Manticore anytime he damn well pleased but I wasn't sweating it right now. None of Lexi's family members had called and I wasn't about to make plans with Spike these days just so I could spy on him and his girlfriend for Lydecker.

Eh. Maybe eventually I'd go back to work and try to look out for Tyler but I needed some time too. Maybe I wasn't actually part of the family but it was gonna be weird without Brat Number Two around. At least, not in the way that she used to be. Everybody's gotta have some time to adjust. Even old Alec.

I grabbed a beer out of the fridge and started walking back towards the couch when I saw a familiar brunette walk in through my front door. Well, at least she remembered where I lived.

"Hi." I said to her cause I wasn't real sure what else to say.

(Grace...)