His narrowed emerald eyes remained steadfast upon the obsidian feline, his muscles taunt and poised for what he saw as an inevitable onslaught on the kittens that he wasn't yet even sure of himself. Still, one thing that Tetradore was entirely certain of was that the cubs were family, regardless of weather or not he wanted to accept them as such. Their origin might have caused him grief but at the end of the day, he valued the concept of family above all else - thanks entirely to majority of his life spent in the confines of a very controlled dance club. Tetradore watched with a low growl as her amethyst eyes moved from from his figure towards the kittens, entirely dead set on their removal. He understood, in some fashion or another, that some packs preferred their animalistic side. Some packs cared only about alpha status - about the children of two rather then the survival of many. It was an archaic idea, one that even he refused to fall too. Tetradore did his best to not become the monstrosity that Risque has so strove to beat him into, enough so that this was one such thing he refused to budge on.

The feline could feel his companion at his side, his shoulder brushing ever so slightly against his flesh and yet, Tetradore paid no heed to the spotted leopard. He heard the growl of the creature and yet hardly dared to turn his attention off of the ebony tigress. His gaze hardly deviated until the male's silent paws brushed against the earth, Tobias seemed to so freely approach the poised female, his demeanor entirely void of the poignant bristling that was so often affluent within him. He heard the firm certainty behind his lyrics, claiming the children as his alone. Quite frankly, Tetradore was hardly certain that the claim was going to help the already tense situation. However, he stood by silent, his gaze shifted towards Raven to carefully watch her approach. Although Tetradore extremely doubted Raven would join in on the attack, he had hardly expected much of Reagan either. His entire view of the two present questioned, enough so that a low growl still reverberated within his throat, warning her perhaps just as much as the contentious feline that she so sought to calm.

He heard the soft whisper of words reverberate within the air as Raven admitted her difficulty, her words seeming to echo the very ones that he had offered her only moment's prior. His head bobbed ever so slightly in but the slightest display of approval, agreeing whole heartedly with the words she spoke. Tetradore understood having difficulty with them - hell he had his own fair share but that hardly was worth taking a life. His baritone voice only reached out at Regan's response, the low, deathly growl still present somewhere deep within. "Killing them would be a blight on everyone's honor. They're helpless, defenseless children. Is that who we are?" His emerald eyes stayed firm upon the two women, daring either of them to voice a word of disagreement. He hardly reacted to the bear's presence upon the scene, knowing all too well that the large creature was hardly a threat to the children. The worst she could do was perhaps eat them....and frankly that might be a better circumstance then the one they were currently presented with.

Tetradore's ears flicked ever so slightly as Nadya growled, giving up whatever disagreement she had with the tiger to chase after what she presumed the larger threat. "Tobias, leave it." He commented sharply, a small glance given towards the leopard. His gaze lingered but momentarily upon the bear before fluttering back to the far more demanding matter. He hardly cared about the way his sibling darted back towards the tree with her kittens in tow. In fact, he hardly reacted to her presence at all until her voice pierced the stillness, "Shut up Nadya, just because you had a nice life doesn't mean you have to be snide. I thought they would have taught you better then to be so fucking childish." He commented, returning the venom that she offered them. His eyes flickered immediately back towards the tiger as she approached him, his gaze still narrowed towards the female as she pressed her frame against his. Once, he would have welcomed the sensation of her flesh against his. He had thought, perhaps, that tonight they'd be able to further their budding relationship. He heard her whispered words touch his mind and yet Tetradore found himself unable to give her what she offered.

"We're trying to make a family here Reagan, something more then just how dominate or submissive you are. You're choice is to be apart of that or not. I am not the people that you ran from. I am not the ones that hurt you and I won't push upon the children the things they forced upon you. If that is the kind of pack you want, then you need to look somewhere else." It was with that ultimatum that Tetradore stepped away from her, turning his back upon her as his tail flicked with the agitation that still ran rampant through his veins. "Nadya, Tobias, return to the Ark with them. Nadya can go back to the flat at sunrise when they are done with their shift. Minn..." He paused, his head dipping ever so slightly towards the bear, "A pleasure as always. Glad to see you could join us tonight." Slowly, he paused, his gaze shifting briefly over his shoulder towards Raven and Reagan, "You two have a lot to think about, I suggest you take your time and make your decision wisely." And just like that, business had been completed. It was by far the most cordial Tetradore had mustered himself to be, it was as much as he could trust himself to do. His claws extended, scraping against the dirt in but a brief show of the tension that still lingered within the panther before he stepped off and into the umbrage of the forest, attempting to calm his anxious demeanor before he too returned to the cargo ship that had become his home.