A Walk in the Park

[Birdie]

In spite of the warning bells ringing in her ears, Birdie gave Finn a confused look and quickly pulled her case out of the way so he wouldn't sit on it. "Um, I don't believe we've met before," she mumbled, bewildered, looking from Hawk, to Finn, and finally to Lenny.

[Hawk Hoffman]

"You and I personally haven't, but we've been watching you," Hawk interjected, smiling at the waitress as she delivered Lenny's eggs and Birdie's pie.

"Can I get you boys anything?"

"No ma'am, I think we're okay for now," Hawk replied with a grin. He began to bite away at Lenny's eggs.

[Birdie]

Birdie watched the waitress slide the plate of pie down the table, feeling suddenly ill. She flicked her eyes nervously around and tried to figure out an escape route.

"You don't work for Priest," she said in a quiet voice, curling her fingers into white-knuckled fists under the table. "Why are you doing this?"

[Hawk Hoffman]

Hawk pointed his fork at her. "That's what you think, Dollface. We can do this the easy way," He pointed at Lenny as he said this, and then pointed at Finn. "Or the hard way."

[Birdie]

She wet her bottom lip and drew in a slow breath. "Fine," she said softly, blinking and turning her eyes away from the Brooklyn boys as they filled up with tears. "Let's go, then, shall we? I'd like to get this over with."

[Hawk Hoffman]

Hawk chuckled, and offered Finn Birdie's pie. Finn began to eat it. Lenny could barely look at her, he felt awful.

"Give us a second doll face."

[Birdie]

Birdie took another breath, then picked up her violin case from between her and Finn. Without looking at any of them, she suddenly brought the case up and slammed it as hard as she could against Finn's face, wincing as she heard the strings of the violin squeal miserably. With that as a distraction, she bolted straight up on the seat of the booth and tried to climb over the back of it before anyone could catch her.

[Hawk Hoffman]

Finn's head hit the table with a large THUD, with Finn's painful grunt even louder. Hawk and Lenny both jumped out of their seat, with Hawk managing to tackle her to the ground.

"Yeah, We're going we're going!" Lenny said to the manager, gathering Finn up and hawk grabbed birdie, holding onto her tight as he dragged her out.

"she's my wife" he explained to appalled witnesses.

[tshamien]

((oh god! The boys better get their asses in gear fast. How is hawk in bed with priest? I need a pm! Lol))

[Birdie]

((haha!))

"I'm not!" Birdie cried a little wildly behind her as she was hauled out of the restaurant, her lip split and bleeding where she'd hit the tile floor. She squirmed uselessly and tried not to cry. "Let me go, please!"

[Hawk Hoffman]

"Sorry, songbird " Hawk replied, his voice non apologetic. He kept a firm grip on her arm.

One of his boys pulled up in front of them with a carriage and Hawk dragged her in. Finn was still whimpering, and Lenny got him into the carriage as well. It began to head to Queens.

[Birdie]

Birdie tumbled gracelessly into the seat of the carriage. She tried to right herself in spite of Hawk's hand hooked on her arm.

"He's going to kill me," she said in a trembling voice. "If you take me back there, he'll kill me."

[Hawk Hoffman]

Hawk chose to ignore her. "How ya doin, Finn?" He asked, worried that his best muscle man was now done.

"Deliver her," Finn growled, holding his head. "I hope he kills her."

[Birdie]

Birdie sniffled in her corner of the carriage but flicked a gaze at Finn. "I didn't hit you that hard," she mumbled. After a moment, deciding that her hope of appealing to their sympathies was wasted, she added, "You're quite large for such a baby."

[Hawk Hoffman]

Lenny shook his head. "He's bleeding pretty bad, Hoff. We should take him to a hospital."

Hawk thought about it, then eventually nodded. the carriage immediaely stopped. lenny and Finn got off and two others immediately got in to replace them, and they were back on their way again.