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tough.”
    Thomas and Charles sat back down in their chairs. They looked at each other before Thomas spoke up again. “We can’t just leave your grandmother there, Penny.”
    “Exactly, I’m glad you agree with me,” Charles said, crossing his arms.
    “Thomas, you can’t really want to send your brother in there!” Penny argued. “They’ll kill him.”
    “I agree, so Charles will go back, but…” Thomas replied, placing a hand on Penny’s, “only as a Trojan horse.”
    “You have a plan?” Penny asked. Of course he had a plan. Thomas always had a plan.
    “ Yes,” Thomas said, a broad smile appearing on his face. “But it will require your girlfriend’s help.” Thomas looked at Charles.
    “She’s not my girlfriend,” Charles said with a huff.
    “Well, your baby mamma then,” Thomas said and laughed.
    At this point the argument had settled down enough for the waitress to appear at their table.
    “Funny,” Charles said, scowling. “There have been no babies.”
    “Can I get you anything?” The waitress asked in English.
    “Not yet, anyways,” Penny said harassing Charles with Thomas. It served him right for being so surly all the time. She looked down at her menu and ordered the most German sounding dish.
    “I’ll have the Schnitzel,” Charles said, not even looking down at his menu because he ordered Schnitzel at every restaurant. “And a side of those noodle things…”
    “ Spaetzle ,” Penny said, rolling her eyes. “Those noodle things are called Spaetzle .”
    Charles shrugged his shoulders and ordered a local beer to go with his meal.
    “Nothing for me,” Thomas said, smiling politely at the waitress. Penny knew that he was more interested in the waitress than the menu.
    “Really, could you be more obvious that you are a vampire?” Penny hissed at Thomas as the waitress walked away.
    “You are paranoid,” Thomas said, looking into Penny’s eyes. “Do you lust after every sandwich that you come across? Even if you just ate recently until you were stuffed?” Thomas wrapped his fingers around Penny’s seductively and she just melted.
    “Okay,” Charles said, breaking up the lovey dovey moment. “I am sure that Lorelei will help, but really, what is a water creature going to do against the Brotherhood?” Charles asked.
    “You’ll see,” Thomas said with a smirk on his face. “We’ll have to gather a few more allies if we want to make a direct assault on the Winchester Mystery House.”
    “Ha, Thomas, you are so funny,” Charles said. The Winchester Mystery House was the main base of the Brotherhood and was specifically designed to confuse and keep out vampires and other supernatural creatures. A direct assault on the house was a suicide mission.
    “Nope, I’m actually being serious for once in my life,” Thomas said, drawing on the table with his finger. “I’m tired of running aren’t you?”
    Yeah, but the Winchester?” Charles and Penny looked at each other, wondering if Thomas had finally lost his genius brain to insanity.
    “Look, if we have the right allies, we can do it,” Thomas said, scribbling some notes on a napkin . “I f we band all the supernatural creatures together.”
    “You make that sound so easy,” Charles said, continuing to argue with his big brother.
    “Hey, that might not be so hard with you on are side,” Penny said, cutting Charles off. “You remember how Lorelei responded when she found out who you were.”
    “Exactly,” Thomas said, not looking up from his writing. “Plus, I have a killer plan.”
    “Are you going to tell us what that killer plan is?” Penny asked, taking a look at what Thomas was writing. Most of the words were unfamiliar to her. She assumed that they were names of races that she still hadn’t heard of yet.
    The Waitress returned with Charles’s Beer. “Are you sure you don’t even want something to drink?” she asked Thomas again.
    “Well, I suppose you could bring me whatever he is