PrincessKitteh
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- Posted: Sun, 31 May 2015 10:15:41 +0000
xxxHartson Girls xxxxxx As long as our dream's alive,
xxxHired Guns xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxWe will survive...
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- God it hurt like hell. If she had to name the main disadvantage to her line of work, Alice would scream 'the ******** pain' at the top of her lungs. Because right now, nursing what felt like a broken rib or two and a dislocated shoulder, she was in a world of pain. And that wasn't even mentioning the scrapes and bruises and- "SON OF A b***h!" she shouted, shoulder jerked back into place in a swift, practiced motion.
"Language!" Emilen chided, sighing and practically forcing a flask of whiskey between her sister's lips, "You hate if I warn you ahead of time, you hate if I give you no warning... A shoulder doesn't pop itself back into place unless you have a skill-set I didn't know about." She was fairly calm about it at, setting to work cleaning up the scrapes and cuts along Alice's arms. It was a careful, delicate process, mostly because outside of popping her sister's shoulder into place, she wasn't keen on causing any additional pain. "Well, at least you got off pretty easy. No broken legs is a plus!" she commented with an optimistic grin.
"Yeah, getting thrown from that bike like that could've been worse. I'm the luckiest b***h around," Alice grumbled, albeit genuinely agreeing with Emilen. She was insanely lucky that the fall and impact hadn't done worse damage. Hell, she could've died if her luck had been particularly bad. "But we still didn't catch the b*****d," she added.
"Minor detail. I'll head back out and get 'im once I've got you all patched up! No way he's getting away after he roughed up my big sis!" the younger sister assured, grinning mischievously. One sour look from Alice told her she better not actually commit to whatever plan she had in mind. "Fine... We'll let someone else get that bounty... I was really looking forward to being able to get some work done on Moxie... Can't remember when we last had her properly looked at to make sure everything's okay," she sighed, applying liquid bandaging to Alice's more superficial injuries.
"Is this about the rattling noise again? Because it's always, made the rattling noise so it's not like it's gonna kill us," Alice retorted, huffing a bit.
"But what if the systems could run more efficiently after a professional looks at it? Look, we can't fly around and pick up whatever jobs we want if the ship breaks down," Emilen continued, trying to talk sense. It likely was going right over her sister's head though. She could just tell by the stubborn set of her eyes to the scowl. They'd had this discussion before and Alice kept righting off the maintenance as frivolous. They didn't have the money right now to feed themselves, fly, and take the ship in to a professional. They hadn't caught a big-fish in months or been hired for anything that paid particularly well. Today had been intended to be their comeback, but somehow the target had gotten the slip and taken out Alice's bike and thus Alice. It was beyond frustrating, but Emilen knew the last thing Alice needed on top of feeling humiliated was for the little sister to go running out and raising hell to meet their goal. It wasn't worth it for Alice's emotional stability. "I'll go up and see if anyone's contacted us with any other work," she sighed, setting down the first-aid kit and making her way out of the tiny room that served as Alice's living space. She could hear her sister call out a reminder that she better not go back out and after this particular bounty.
When she reached the bridge, she practically threw herself into the seat, all pouts and feeling like quite the sour puss as she looked in vain for some sort of work. She could make a few calls. Alice said she couldn't go after that one bounty, never did she say anything about not actively looking for some work. Granted, Emilen imagined it'd be easier to go out on her own and handle what Alice had labeled a lost cause. She had all the intel, she knew he'd be on the edge and perhaps maybe a bit rattled since they'd actually managed to find him at the least. But Alice was the big sister and Alice sometimes needed to feel fully in charge and Emilen felt whimsical enough to let it go and move on.
So she sat, calling up past employers, seeing if they needed any work. For the most part, everyone in the area was a bust or the pay wasn't good enough. Nothing sustainable enough to be worth flying out and wasting her time. There was one number, one she was hesitant to use. There were a handful of people that Emilen wasn't particularly fond of the thought of working for, no matter the pay. They just gave off a bad vibe. The Lady Death was one of those people. It was a good couple of minutes that she sat, debating and chewing on the nail of her thumb while she weighed the pros and cons. They really needed work, or at least Emilen did while Alice recovered. She didn't really know how to go about most 'honest work', let alone how to even get a temporary 'honest job'. With a resigned sigh, she hit 'call', waiting anxiously and trying her hardest to calm her already fraying nerves. Best-case scenario, some underling would answer and turn her away. Worst-case scenario, the Lady picked up and offered her work that would make her cringe to think about. But there was still the power to refuse and go attempt that 'honest work' thing, no matter how tough it sounded in her head.