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 Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 2:10 pm
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Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:02 pm
Sheo rolled her eyes, and sped through the narrow turns and streets of the city. She hit a bird, or at least she thought it was a bird, but they were already gone so fast that she couldn't tell for sure. Either it was a raven, or a short kid with black hair....
Anyway. Sheo convulsed for a moment, but her driving suffered none for it. The crazy driver realized that Kate was about to take control, and fought to stave it off this time, if only because they were speeding through the streets. Sheo was reckless but she wasn't stupid.
The car rounded another corner, coming dangerously close to ramming into a building corner, and then spun to a stop, deep inside the crowded streets, where traffic was everywhere. The Humvee was then gently eased into a parking space, but Sheo had never claimed to be expert at parallel parking. The car in front of them was a few inches farther along now than when they had begun to park.
Sheo inhaled a deep breath, twitched for a moment, and then exhaled. Then Sheo was gone, and Kate sat in the seat, looking around, confused. Then she turned to look back at Aurelio quizzically.
"Dude," she said, "why are we at my apartment?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:00 pm
Aurelio laughed.
"Oh," He said. "You must be Kate. Well, to be honest, we needed another hiding spot. Sheo suggested this place, and well, here we are."
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:30 pm
Kate blinked. "Oh," was all she said.
A few awkward moments of silence went by, then Kate shrugged. "I guess that makes sense. You coming?"
Kate stepped out of the car, slammed the door, turned and whistled as she walked up to the apartment complex. She opened the door, stopped, and slowly turned around.
She saw the damage to her car, and just stared. Kate didn't speak, didn't move, hardly even breathed. She just stared.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:44 pm
Aurelio backed away.
"Let me explain. Travis betrayed us, there were guns, and, your humvee kinda got shot. Would it help our current predicament if I told you that the japanese mafia is coming to help us?"
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:13 pm
A single tear streamed down Kate's face. She shook her head, slowly, as if by denying it, by willing it not to be, the car would not be full of bullet holes.
Then, more tears now, Kate just turned and ran into the apartment, up the stairs, not bothering to wait for Aurelio, Lulu, or [that other person].
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:15 pm
Aurelio sighed.
"I'm not trained to deal with emotions. Someone tell her we can fix it."
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:43 pm
Kate got up to the fourth floor, ran to her apartment, and shoved the key into its lock, opening the door with a bang. Inside was a quaint, three-room apartment, consisting of bedroom, bathroom, and living area/kitchen. A closet also existed in the cramped space behind the bathroom, near the front door.
If this had been Sheo, she would have gotten a brick, taped an apology note to it, then dropped it out of the window to plummet down four stories and land on Aurelio's head.
But since this was Kate, she just stuck her head out of the window, winced at the sight of her car, and yelled her room number before telling them to get their hides up there.
To take Zero was a given.
Also, to note, Kate didn't seem to be overly angry or sad anymore - it must just have been the initial shock that brought forth tears. Inside once again, Kate busied herself looking around for any kind of a snack to put on the bar.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:53 pm
Aurelio grabbed his stuff, and walked up to the apartment.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 10:07 pm
"So," Kate supposed, "why was my car fired at, exactly, again? Travis just decided to shoot it up for the fun of it?" She was busily chopping up an apple.
"And do you want sliced fruit or a bag of Cheetos?"
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:46 am
Aurelio sighed.
"As you may have seen, Travis has mechanical eyes. My guess is that his father used them to control him, and, well, considering I betrayed them, and we've got Zero with us, he shot at us."
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 10:50 am
Kate sagged her shoulders, then finished the fruit. She opened a small package of sugar glaze, poured it over the apples, then set the bowl on the bar. A bag of Cheetos was tossed to Aurelio.
"So, Aurelio, what are you going to do? ...I'm not going to have a bunch of foreign Mafia thugs toughing it out in my apartment, am I?"
((Oh, I don't know if you know or not, but SN is going to be gone for the rest of the month or so... so, if we want conflict, we should probably conduct it ourselves.))
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:23 pm
Aurelio caught the cheetos, but not before they hit him in the face.
He laughed.
"Jigen has enough money that they can get their own base of operations. With luck, I should be out of here in a day or two."
"Unless..." He smirked.
"Unless you want me to stay here."
(Aurelio's an idiot, but he means well.)
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2008 7:29 pm
((XD I replied before you edited. Had to delete the post.))
Kate looked up from her bowl of glazed fruit. She popped one into her mouth and chewed. "You could stay," she hypothesized thoughtfully, "and I could put you to work cleaning out the basement to repair my car. Will your Mafia friends really repair my baby?" she asked finally.
Kate didn't really care for sarcasm or cruelty while her car was riddled with bullets.
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