Spade and Brandon ran into the studios straight after Markus, Charon lagged behind just enough to make sure Stefan arrived okay. He spotted her as her long jacket whippped through the doorway after the others and followed. Charon caught up just as Markus was about to pick Spade up and throw him at Simon Cowell. Charon reacted by dropkicking Markus right in the back of the head sending them all crashing into Simon Cowell who was busy hitching up his trousers as high as he could. Markus wasn't sure who to try and throttle first but Stefan got there first, he wrapped his fingers round Markus' throat and squeezed, Spade rolled out and grabbed Cowell by the ankle as he tried to crawl away to hide under a nearby table. Charon stood up slowly and pointed the crimsonlight gun at both Spade and Cowell.

"Move."

It was a demand, not a request but no one was quite sure who it was aimed at. As she was about to pull the trigger it was Brandon who came in from the side and knocked the gun upwards as she was about to fire. The two of them started to struggle. Stefan had been thrown off Markus by Spade who'd lost Cowell in the chaos and it was now Stefan who grabbed Brandon by the hair and hauled him upright. As Spade starting smacking Markus around, it was now Charon who who hit Spade in the side of the head with the butt of the gun.

"Stop fucking around, get Cowell."

Charon stalked at speed from the room following a trail of urine....