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Post by Goblin on Nov 3, 2011 19:50:50 GMT -5
"I didn't expect to," he said grimly, carefully pocketing the key. "Just tell me you found out where."
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Riddle snorted. "We never would've made it out. The place is crawling with guards. But Goblin...he never would've come back to this place without an exit strategy. If the key helps him escape, maybe he'll be grateful enough to take me with him." She didn't say "us." Goblin probably hated Gypsy far too much to let her tag along at this point. And Riddle couldn't quite decide whether she cared.
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Post by Gypsy on Nov 3, 2011 19:53:50 GMT -5
Cav nodded, frowning. "They took her to Heather Mae's. It's--it's the brothel in the Points. Eastman's territory..."
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Gypsy looked grim. She was getting out alright. Just not the way she would prefer. "Jimmy told me they're taking me." She stared at a spot on the wall, not looking at Riddle.
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Post by Goblin on Nov 3, 2011 19:59:57 GMT -5
With considerable effort, Goblin kept his face blank. "Well...at least Tristan knows the area." He turned to his sister. "You got that?"
Wraith nodded, glancing at Cav with wide eyes but not bothering to try and stutter out a greeting. "He'll get her out. "Don't worry, Seb, I know he will."
Goblin just nodded. He barely knew Tristan, but Wraith trusted him implicitly, and Wraith didn't trust anyone, so that was good enough for him. "And, uh...do you think you could...?"
"I'll come back for you afterward," Wraith assured him with a quick, reassuring smile. "I know a way in." And she shimmied back up the rope, vanishing as quickly as she'd appeared.
Goblin stared blankly at the window, suddenly realizing that he couldn't do anything now but wait. While his girlfriend was carted off to a brothel. He sat there resisting an urge to try and kill everyone in the room.
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Riddle glanced at Gypsy in surprise. She hesitated before speaking. "Well...maybe I'll come look for you. If I get outta here. Make a diabolical plan to get you out."
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Post by Gypsy on Nov 3, 2011 20:08:39 GMT -5
Cave watched Goblin carefully. He knew better than to touch him, or move to quickly for that matter. "Goblin...she's gonna be okay..."
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Gypsy almost snorted. "Honey, it's too late for me. So if you get out...don't worry about me. I can take care of myself." That was the second time today she said that to somebody. She still didn't believe it.
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Post by Goblin on Nov 3, 2011 20:19:23 GMT -5
"You don't know that," Goblin said, stating the obvious. He glanced at Cav, realizing he had another piece of bad news to break. "If we get out of here...Footsteps won't come. I mean, you can ask her, but she won't."
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Riddle snorted. "If you took care of yourself a little less, there might be someone somewhere who actually gave a damn about you. Make some friends, Gypsy. Wherever you end up." As someone who'd lost or betrayed every friend she'd ever had, that was her sage advice. And the angry murmurs around the room were getting louder.
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Post by Gypsy on Nov 3, 2011 20:34:05 GMT -5
Cav froze, hands at his side. "What're ya talking about?" She had to come.
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Gypsy's eyes lifted to the other end of the room, and she finally stood up. "What?! Just fucking mutiny already and get it over with!
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Post by Goblin on Nov 3, 2011 20:38:40 GMT -5
"You haven't noticed?" Goblin said incredulously. "She has a bigger hero complex than I do. She feels responsible for all the kids in here--looks after 'em, keeps their spirits up. She won't leave until they're all free. All of 'em, right down to Riddle and Gypsy." He raised an eyebrow. "Ask her if you don't believe me."
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For a moment, there was total silence in the girls' bunkroom. Then Bitter obliged by striding across the room and punching Gypsy in the face.
Footsteps would have tried to stop her, but she was too busy holding back a kicking and struggling Yankee as a full-scale riot broke loose.
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Post by Gypsy on Nov 3, 2011 20:42:41 GMT -5
Cav's face was stony and grim. "That could take years. She's almost 18 as it is." His eyes flicked up to the vent, debating whether to go to her and make her talk. But he couldn't. He couldn't care that much. He opened his mouth to speak again when noise broke out on the other side of the wall. A lot of noise.
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Gypsy took the punch in stride, wincing, then hurled her fist right back at Bitter before clawing at her and any other girl who was withing reach in the complete and utter chaos.
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Post by Goblin on Nov 3, 2011 20:54:47 GMT -5
"What the hell...?" Goblin jumped up and ran to the vent, took one look, and turned back to Cav. "They're rioting. If you're that worried about 'Steps, I'd get her out of there if I were you. And Cav?" he added. "It won't take years if the plan works." So you're gonna have to help me see it through to the bitter end.
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Post by Cavalier on Nov 3, 2011 20:59:10 GMT -5
Cav nodded at him, catching his eye, then took off to clamor through the vent, headed to the girls room. He honestly had no idea what the hell he was thinking when he poked his head in, and called for Footsteps.
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Post by Goblin on Nov 3, 2011 21:11:50 GMT -5
Footsteps had already tried with all her might to shout some sense into the girls and stop the riot, but that was clearly not happening. She'd tried to at least keep her friends out of it, but Bitter was already entangled with Gypsy, and Yankee had escaped her grasp and jumped on Riddle.
Finally, she'd settled for getting Mouse and the other younger girls tucked safely away in top bunks. Now she was pressed into a corner, ducking flying objects, when somebody's head popped out of the ceiling. "Cav?" she yelped, dodging around the other girls as she made her way over to him.
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Post by Cavalier on Nov 3, 2011 21:14:06 GMT -5
Cav reached his hands down. "Come on!" He grabbed her wrists when she extended her arms up and pulled her up into the vent, closing it behind him before crawling to the storage closet, hoping she was following.
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Post by Goblin on Nov 3, 2011 21:23:26 GMT -5
Stunned, Footsteps followed him through the passage and down into the closet, and suddenly, they were standing there in the darkness together. "Cav, did you just...rescue me?" She was pretty sure such gallantry was unprecedented in the history of the Refuge.
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Post by Cavalier on Nov 3, 2011 21:27:02 GMT -5
Cav swallowed. If he were any other guy, he might have blushed. Instead he blurted out: "Goblin and me are gettin' out in a couple days and I want you to come with me."
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Post by Goblin on Nov 3, 2011 21:35:10 GMT -5
Footsteps' eyes lit up at the news that her friends had an escape plan, but she shook her head gently. "I can't. I couldn't leave Yankee or Bitter...or Mouse, or Canary, or...well, any of 'em."
She looked him in the eye. "You know what I got thrown in here for, Cav? Sleeping on a park bench. It was a two-week sentence, a slap on the wrist. But ever since then, I've made sure to break the rules every once in a while...and get caught. Stealing food, sneaking out of class...whatever it takes to get them to extend my sentence. I'm not leaving these kids, not as long as this place exists. Even if I have to stay in here till I'm twenty-one."
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