Wraith
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Post by Wraith on Sept 16, 2011 21:20:42 GMT -5
((Finally starting this. ^_^))
Wraith walked into O'Reagan's hesitantly, ready to bolt at the first sign of trouble. She was looking for Tristan. He wasn't home, and Kennedy didn't think he had a fight tonight, so maybe he was here. It wasn't the kind of place she normally walked into all alone, but she was getting kind of desperate for some friendly advice, and she didn't have an awful lot of friends.
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Post by tshamien on Sept 16, 2011 21:46:19 GMT -5
Tristan was sitting at the bar having a beer by himself, he was down at the far end, not really in the mood for socializing with the crowd.
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Post by Wraith on Sept 16, 2011 21:53:12 GMT -5
Wraith spotted him and sighed inwardly. He was clearly enjoying a drink and some time to himself, and she wouldn't be surprised if he was starting to see her every appearance as a bad omen. Which, in this case, it pretty much was.
She approached him by an indirect, shadowy route, and was standing right beside him when she said, "Hi."
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Post by tshamien on Sept 17, 2011 1:58:07 GMT -5
Tristan jumped a bit and exclaimed, "jesus!" When she appeared next to him. "Don't do that," he said with a sigh. "What happened now?" He immediately asked afterward.
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Post by Wraith on Sept 17, 2011 11:53:23 GMT -5
She winced. "Sorry! Habit." She hopped onto the stool next to him, trying to figure out where to start. "Well, uh...Goblin's out of the Refuge!" Good news first, right?
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Post by tshamien on Sept 17, 2011 12:55:10 GMT -5
"Hey that is good news! Congrats. You wanna drink to celebrate?" He smiled at her and then took a sip of his beer. he knew she was there for another reason and was just waiting to hear it.
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Post by Wraith on Sept 17, 2011 13:26:28 GMT -5
"S-sure!" She accepted a beer of her own and took a sip, hesitating for about a million years, because that was just how she rolled. "Uh...Tristan?"
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Post by tshamien on Sept 17, 2011 13:34:30 GMT -5
"Yeah Wraith," He turned to face her and smirked. "Just spit it out. I know you aren't exactly comfortable in places like this so I knew right away you wanted to ask me something...go ahead."
((HAHA))
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Wraith
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Post by Wraith on Sept 17, 2011 14:05:39 GMT -5
"All right." She took a deep breath. "Remember that thing we did that one time, with those other people, and the alley, and..." She stopped. It sounded like she was describing some kinky sex act. "You know, that thing! Well, what if someone maybe...maybe suspects I had something to do with it? Someone who, um, possibly kind of has something to do with law enforcement?"
((Hahaha! Poor, poor Tristan.))
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Post by tshamien on Sept 17, 2011 14:31:55 GMT -5
"You're telling me a cop is onto you?" Tristan asked her, whispering so no one else could hear. "I don't even know if I could help you with that. You better tell me everything."
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Post by Wraith on Sept 17, 2011 20:26:08 GMT -5
She sighed nervously and had another swallow of beer to steel her nerves. "Well, there's this guy in my lodging house. I followed him because Goblin asked me to, back before our whole...adventure. He thought there was something off about the guy, and, uh..." Another gulp of beer. "Turns out he's an undercover cop.
"I made a deal with him," she went on, speaking so softly that anyone else in the bar would just think she and Tristan were whispering lover's talk to each other. God help her if this ever got back to Nevada. "I said I wouldn't tell anyone about him, and that I'd find this long-lost sister he was looking for--if he didn't tell his cop friends anything about me, and if he got Goblin out of the Refuge. Well, he got Goblin out and I found his sister, but I'm breaking the other half of my deal right now 'cause I don't trust him to keep the other half of his."
She shook her head and took another swig. "I've met the guy twice, and...let's just say it got kind of intense both times. And he's still living there, going around asking questions about people, and he mentioned the Ericson murder, and...and you know how I feel about cops!" Wraith polished off her drink and looked at Tristan as if he would have some idea what the hell she should do about all this.
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Post by tshamien on Sept 17, 2011 21:09:20 GMT -5
Tristan sighed heavily and then chugged the rest of his beer. "Shit..." he raked his fingers through his hair. "Alright...well, how much do you think he's figured out? You know newsies don't talk about anybody else's business, hell most of the time nobody even knows each others real names."
He drummed his fingers on the bar, "lemme see if I can get him to fill me in on what he knows, maybe I can scare him off."
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Post by Wraith on Sept 17, 2011 21:19:46 GMT -5
She shrugged helplessly, thinking back on her heated conversations with Risk. "I don't know, I don't think he..." Then she remembered, and winced. "I told him Goblin's real name. So he could find him in the Refuge. It'd be easy enough to figure out mine after that. But...he can't have any kind of proof, and I don't think Ershey or Mush would talk. I think Mush might be onto him, in fact. He seems to hate the guy."
At Tristan's suggestion, she eyed him nervously. "You're not gonna...do that thing we did last time, right? 'Cause that was personal, this'd just be covering our tracks." It was almost nice to realize she wasn't willing to shoot just anyone who got in her way. "Besides...he's Ershey's brother."
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Post by tshamien on Sept 17, 2011 22:25:21 GMT -5
"I ain't gonna kill him and I ain't gonna soak him up unless I gotta." He smirked at her.
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Post by Wraith on Sept 17, 2011 22:32:01 GMT -5
She nodded, and sighed again. "I'm really sorry to ask. I'd do something myself if I could, but..." But dear God, that Risk guy scared her, though she never let it show when she was confronting him. "Look, can you think of some really huge favor I can do for you sometime soon? Then we can call it even and only meet to have nice, pleasant chats or eat ice cream with Kennedy." She smiled faintly.
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