Sebastian Payne was standing off to the side as Erik came out of the room five hours later. The principal looked pale, and seemed almost tired and weary from his ordeal. Slowly, Erik made his way to a seat, and flopped down into it. He reached up to loosen his tie, taking deep breaths and trying to settle his nerves. Sebastian just watched from the side, not going to move up on the other just yet. He knew he had the upper hand, his mind shielded from the other whom could read anothers mind without much effort.

"Now...we have to wait and see." Erik spoke to no one really, eyes closeing slowly as he let out a shuddering breath.

"That is what kills most. The waiting." Finally, after five minutes, Sebastian walked over to look down at the other man.

This newcomer wore a tailored suit, fitted to him alone, deep blue, almost black in color. His hair was deep brown, golden highlights gleaming in the sunlight that filtered through the high windows above. Eyes the color of a lush forest stared at the other male, almost like a cobra ready to strike. He was almost shaped like a box, shoulders square and straight. He looked very much like one not to mess with.

"You know that I know what it feels like to wait, Sebastian." Slowly Erik would stand, his coat slipping off his shoulders and then onto one arm.

"Ah yes. All those years trapped where again?" Slow smerk crept over Sebastian's lips as he turned and began to walk with Erik.

"You should know. Your the one that put me there." Erik only chuckled, seeming not to take the other seriously.

"Good point. And you know...I can put you back there if I so wished." He kept going down the stone stairs, not caring that Erik had stopped and now only looked down at the other man.

"I am much stronger than you remeber, Payne." He only shook his head slightly, making his way down the steps to where Sebastian had stopped and now waited for him.

"Oh yes. Been training and such then I am guessing Shalamar." He turned to look at the other that now stood next to him.

"More ways than one. But enough of chit chat. Why are you here?" Slowly he turned his dark eyes on the other. "You never do this out of the kindness of your heart. We still hate each other, over...what was the real reason you started to hate me again?" Slight smile curled up on Erik's lips, knowing that this would get under the more egotisical Sebastian.

"Why should I tell you my reasons? Why not just read them from my mind?" He looked out at the passing cars, and chuckled. "Oh yes. You can't read my mind still." Slowly he reached up to rake his fingers through his hair, sighing deeply. "You know why I hate you. You took that which was mine from the beginning."

Erik only shook his head and slowly made his way across the street, followed by Payne. Erik tossed his jacket on the hood of the car and quickly pulled a cigar out of breast pocket. Slowly, from up the road, Mia came back up to the two, her face paleing when she saw who was there.

"If I remeber right, she was never yours in the get go." Erik turned his head and nodded to Mia, then turned his cold gaze back to Sebastian. "Right Mia?"

She only clenched her teeth, jerking open the car door and slipping into it. Seems she would wait inside for Erik than stay out with the two. One could see the change in Sebastian's face when she came up on the two. It softened, eyes growing warm only to go cold again when she got into the vehicle. He turned to look back at Shalamar, snear on his lips.

"So you like to say each time we meet. You know..." He slowly turned and started to walk away, though calling back over his shoulder to Erik to hear. "I do hope they do not learn that you have a school for such 'gifted' people like yourself. It just might make them pass that bill all that quicker." He shrugged his shoulders, chuckling under his breath.

What he did not tell the other was that Payne himself had been put in charge of such a project if it did pass. And, Sebastian was going to make sure that it did get passed. To have his revenge on the man who took his pet away.

Slowly, Erik only shook his head and picking up his jacket, she went to the drivers side and slipped in. They sat there for a long moment, silence speaking volumes that neither could put into words. Finally, nodding his head slightly, he started the car and they both started the long drive back to the school. They had much to ponder and plan for, though with Sebastians return into their lives, he was something that they could not plan for. He was, after all, just like them. Different.