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 Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2010 9:00 pm
((Damn I forgot Hakim is still there. XD;; ))
It didn't take the thief too long to locate the mop and bucket. In his nightly excursions throughout the school, he had a fairly good mental layout of where everything was. Dragging the cleaning materials over to the site of the chaos, Blade frowned as he saw all the mess there was. Both Riyo and Neko's blood had gotten onto the floor, and there were scorch marks as well. The mop wasn't going to clean up the latter and he wasn't about to try and scrub that out.
Oh, not to mention the neat little bullet hole in the wall. For the moment he was amused with the thought that this small section of the school made the whole institute seem like it was in the ghetto or something. But then he recalled the task at hand.
With a sigh, he wiped up the blood while thinking over everything that had happened lately.
It's been one hell of a year for sure.
Before arriving to the office, Hakim had to take care of a thing or two with the police, explaining a few things and the like. Once he was done, he popped into Atticus's office, seeing that Riyo and Neko looked like they were faring a little better.
"The police have your mother now, Riyo," he said to her, "I'm sure you know what this means regarding your home... Are there any things you need to gather from there?"
It saddened him, to know that two girls had essentially lost their homes all on the same day. But housing a student at the school semi-permanantly wasn't new to the dragon. There was already one other who practically lived here after all.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 12:16 am
Riyo had never enjoyed hearing the whole "rest" bit, feeling that even through whatever was plaguing her, she still needed to prove something.
But at the same time... Thinking about it... Did she really want to go clean that up and relive it so fast?
No, she supposed she didn't.
As Hakim came in and explained the situation with her mother, the girl sighed and shook her head. "I... Have everything I own with me." Which wasn't much, but it was there. She'd lived in what was practically a closet, after all.
Laying back on the bed carefully, she stared up at the ceiling, a sadly thoughtful look on her face. "Unless you'll let me take a bat to all the windows and smash every bit of glass in that house. That might make me feel better, at least."
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 2:40 pm
It was a sad situation to be without a parent, but apparently Riyo had been without one for a while. Instead her parent had been replaced by a soul sucking demon hell bent on making her miserable. Congratulations, Neko thought sarcastically. Way to go for the gold.
"I'm going to make sure this mess gets cleaned up," Neko said to Hakim before he made his way back to the door. Untying his jacket from around his waist he threw it on in a rather stiff manner covering his shirt. There was still a little bit of blood on it but it didn't make it appear like he had a bullet wound in his shoulder.
Glancing once more at Riyo he headed out to check to see if Blade had started clean up. Moving to the scene Neko gave an approving nod. "I'll have someone else scrub the scorch marks, at least no on will slip this way." Had to pretend to be responsible after all.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:55 pm
Nodding to Neko, Hakim stepped out of the way so he could pass on through. Turning his attention back to Riyo, he raised his brows at her little suggestion. Then, shaking his head, he gave a light chuckle.
"As satisfying that may be, I can't quite condone vandalism," he said with a more lighthearted tone, "Well then.. if there's anything you need, come to my office later to speak. We may be able to work out some sort of tuition plan for you that'd be more manageable on your part."
He wasn't really happy to have to go through with that for her since it was likely bound to be rough regardless, but it was a necessity.
Glancing up from his work as Neko came on by, Blade wondered if the guy should really be walking around like that after being shot. Whatever floats his boat he supposed.
"Right.. right," he mumbled as he moved onto another blood splotch to get rid of it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:17 pm
Watching Neko leave, she wanted to stop him and thank him... For finally ending the years of s**t she'd gone through by simply stepping in.
Something that seemed so easy, yet nobody, not even Atticus, had managed to do... Hell, Atticus hadn't even tried to stay with her...
Her eyes glanced to Atticus, who had apparently been staring at her for awhile. it made her look away rather quickly. Still... It was hard for her to believe that all of this was over. That she'd never have to see that woman titled 'mother' again.
With her thoughts stuck on that, Neko disappeared before she could even open her mouth.
When Hakim mentioned tuition, her mind automatically sank. She... Hadn't thought about that yet. "T-thanks..." No, really. As if she didn't have enough to think about.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:30 pm
Rotating his arm stiffly, Neko moved to have a look at the bullet hole in the wall. He wasn't sure if he wanted to bother trying to dig the slug out of the plaster and frame work, but there was a bit of blood splatter so the wall would have to be scrubbed, the hole patched, and the area repainted. Sounded like a job...for someone else.
"You're that girl's friend right?" He asked still focused on the wall. Neko didn't even really wait for an answer before he continued. "I would watch out for her....for more reasons than one." It seemed the scientist was interested in her but he wasn't sure what he was waiting for. Neko was fairly certain he had a 'project' underway but he wasn't sure of any details or who might be involved though the little white haired girl made him wonder. There didn't seem to be anything special about her...but that didn't mean anything. And Blade seemed like a smart kid....reckless but smart, he could no doubt put two and two together with his warning.
"I'm going to track down some other kids to clean up the rest. Just leave the mop and bucket here when you're done." Neko said before he turned to glance at the burn marks on the floor before moving to leave.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 9:43 pm
"I.. well.." he started to say but Neko had cut him off. Quite frankly he couldn't be certain if he could call Riyo a friend at this point. It was nothing against her of course; a good part of it was that he wasn't entirely certain of what it took for people to be at the friend level instead of being acquaintance that didn't mind one another. There was that and he didn't quite know how she felt about him.
The warning caught his attention though. At first he thought it had to do with Riyo's 'outburst' on Halloween, but he soon realized that there was probably more to it than just that. He hadn't forgotten about Neko's sidejob at the school after all. Unfortunately ever since that night he ran into the guy, he hadn't really turned up with anything. The strangest thing he found between then and now that had to do with Suto was that Flopsy had apparently been killed... and then stitched back together as a stuffed rabbit.
That was creepy.
"Alright.." he said while watching Neko go off. With a sigh, he worked on getting the rest of the blood. There wasn't really that much of it, but it kind of got all over the floor.
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