Detective was just laying back in his dorm watching TV looking for some kind of Giant monster sighting or something when he turned to the news channels they where talking about a Kidnapping. As he continued to listen he toke a sip of his Diet Coke. Shortly after the can left his lips he saw that one of the people Kidnapped was Kris O’Sullivan. As soon as he saw the name flash past the screen he spat out the Beverage and Darted for the door looking around Lycia and Stasis. As D ran to the Girls dorms he could hear Giggling and Laughing knowing that was coming from Q5 he quickly ran and knocked on the door. Normally he would have run into the door almost knocking it off the hinges but he didn’t want to intrude on anything private or something of that matter. As Lycia opened the door she looked at Detective and started wondering what he was doing in the Girls Dormitories.
“What are you doing here D?” the Goth asked only to be interrupted by Detective
Before she could finish her Question D had run into the Dorm and changed the channel to the news cast about Kris’s kidnapping….
((OOC, sorry for makeing this so breaf but i am just so interested in wondering what Stasis and Lycia would say to this happinging))
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"We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming for this important news update..."
No. No, this wasn't real. This wasn't happening.
Water trickled down her back, dampening the hastily donned tank top, stuck the jean shorts to her spare curves. The discomfort of the interrupted shower was forgotten though as she stared across at the little figures that wove and spliced themselves across the screen. There was voiceover and commentary and no no no, that's Kris they have there, that's Kris, that red coat, that's a Seer, that's Arachnos instant replay of grainy video obviously taken from nearby security cameras. It had the look of hasty looping in order to make this edition of the evening news.
How long ago had this video been taken? How long had Kris been gone? This afternoon? This morning?
Last week?
Sitting beside her on the bed Lycia was silent as a tomb, her face as pale as her makeup.
"We've got to go get her!" Her own numb thoughts but it wasn't her voice. The words were deeper most of the time but near cracking now with pressure and excitement. Detective was still standing in the middle of the quad. His long fingers were clenching and unclenching in fists, probably in anticipation of his gun. "I'll round up the rest of the teachers, some of the stronger students. We'll try Warburg first, betcha they're going to take her by water. Catch them before they get there."
That was Kris. They've taken Kris.
"You girls wait here. I'm going to..."
Before she realized it she was on her feet.
"No."
He kept talking like he hadn't heard her, "...go talk to some people, see what I can find out..."
"No. No! I'm not waiting here like a... a good girl while you go talk to anybody."
"Stasi, get real." It was on his face, that look of utter male condescension that always made her grind her teeth. "Let me take care of it, I know what I'm doing. I've got seven security levels over you, I'll let you know what I..."
Anger, then, bright and clean.
"Get out. Get out of my quad, Detective."
"Stasi?" The stunned expression on his face would have been comical at any other time. She'd never talked back to him before. She'd never even raised her voice.
"I said. Get. Out. If you're not gone by the time I count to three, I'm going to flash-freeze everything on your body that you consider important. I mean it, Detective."
He was already starting to argue, it was on his face, in his eyes. He got as far as opening his mouth before the arctic wind screamed across the room, hit him in the face. She took one step, fists tight and the floor between them flashed white with rime.
"One."
_____
It was turning out to be a great day. Jade had finished his morning exercises early, busted a drug deal over in Indy Port over lunch break, and gotten his English Lit essay back with a glowing B+ written on its cover. After a brief jaunt to the pool for water resistance training he was on his way back to his dorm for a snack and a few crunches in front of the television.
Ruffling his damp hair with the towel that hung lazily over his shoulders, he rounded the corner of his floor just in time to see someone leave his quad in a hurry.
"Hey, D!" His voice fell upon deaf ears as his lanky roommate bolted down the hall and out the door on the opposite side.
"Huh," Rooster mused out loud to himself, continuing into the common area of the quad. "Wonder what's got him so worked up?" He'd probably never know of course. It was sort of hard to tell with D most of the time since nearly everything got him riled up. For all he knew it was Sapphire's turn to serve in the cafeteria again. If that was the case D wouldn't be back until he was so stuffed he could barely waddle.
Jade grinned and tossed the towel with an easy flip onto his bed, half stretching as he headed for the mini-fridge. With a contented sigh he retrieved a bowl of some odd green puree from its place of dubious honor near the back and flipped the television on to the local news.
He was mid-way through crunch number five when the subject matter of the news registered.
A heartbeat later the talking head on the special broadcast was delivering its news to a spinach-colored puddle on the carpet and a slamming door.
______
Rail. Jump. Balcony. Ledge. Drop. Roll. Run.
It didn't take Jade long to get most of the way across the school grounds. Freerunning was typically just another exercise, another way to show off to his peers and mark himself as more than just another student. Now the mobility it lent him was finally useful for something other than making it to class on time. His mind shut off, giving way to lightning reflexes and honed instinct as his body carried him along the soaring dragon winds.
Twist. Right. Climb. Around. Window. Duck.
Almost there.
Vaulting over the rooftops, he swung down around a drainage pipe and came to rest on a window ledge. For the first time he hesitated, his fingers closing over the frame even as voices found his ears.
______
"We have to do something!"
Lycia was nearly shredding a pillow in her agitation, sitting cross-legged on the bed. Stasis couldn't manage that, pacing back and forth.
"I know."
"We can't just sit here. Kris is .. Kris is ... we have to do something!"
"Tell me something I don't know! Oh .. Lish, I'm sorry. It'll be okay, we'll get her back. I'll come up with a plan and we'll get her back."
A plan. But it was Kris, Kris that did the thinking! Panicked amusement bubbled up from somewhere.
Hours at best, days at worst and Kris vanished somewhere, like Founders Falls again only a hundred times farther into nightmare, with no directions to tell her which way to go, Arachnos spread all over the entire hazy Isles and just some silly video footage from somebody's shaky cel phone to say that her friend hadn't just vanished into a black hole.
"Maybe we should .. get D back?" Lycia's voice was soft. Not like her at all. "He seemed to know what he was doing."
"No! Maybe? Oh, I don't know!"
For all she knew, Detective was already on his way to mess things up as only he could. She'd gone through too many patrols with him not to have an appreciation for the sheer chaos he could cause.
Stasis ran agitated hands through her hair, shedding ice crystals like beads. It almost disguised the small sound at the window, the tiniest of noises. A heartbeat later a dark form vaulted through the opening, rolling across her bed.
Ice ran up her body, frost splintered a crazy pattern across the ground. It was Arachnos coming for the rest of them, coming to finish the job. Lycia was already up and crouching, both fists streaming darkness in boiling clouds. The intruder continued the motion to come to his feet, snapping his head back to clear the sticky hair from his face.
"Rooster!!"
She'd already registered him somehow, her hands already lowered even before Lycia launched herself into a scrambled hug. "I'm so glad you're here! Kris! Kris has been kidnapped!!"
"I know, I know, I saw it on the news. I got here as fast as I could." His arms were around the smaller girl, for comfort, for protection. She saw it on his face as he shot her a worried look over Lish's head, clear as day. He wasn't even breathing hard although she saw the sweat prickling across his shoulders. They looked good together, dark heads close enough that for a moment their hair mingled.
"Jade. God... Jade." It was as if his sudden appearance completed something in her and she sank to the floor in a boneless slide. Cross-legged she stared up at them. "What are we going to do?"
Automatic inclusion; from the start it had never been anything but her and her dark angels. Left hand and right hand, they both stared back at her. Worry, fear. Indecision. She didn't think she was giving them back anything better.
"What.. what do we know? I mean, do we even know what we saw is true?"
That was Lish, her face tight. She'd already moved out of Jade's arms, pulling him down to sit with her on the bed. She could almost see the bright wing he still covered her with although his tense hands had fallen away. Truth. That was her own half formed thought made real. What did they know? So it was on the news, that didn't actually mean anything, did it? Did it?
"We... don't. Jade, what do you think? Can we.. oh, I don't know. Find out? Hack into the news station?" It sounded so silly. What was this, some sort of spy novel?
His dark eyes were made darker by the concentrated look belied that thought. "Maybe."
She scrubbed her hands over her face, for once not paying attention to the feel of the tattoos. "Everyone else will be hearing soon. Detective.. gah. Detective's already on the loose. If he thinks of the station, we'll be lucky if anything is left standing by the time we get there." Maybe it would be okay. The Big D was likely to tear off in practically any direction.
"That was Arachnos, wasn't it?" She nodded along with Lish to Jade's question. "Did... Kris mention any names? Any places that might help us figure out where they might have taken her? A friend there we could call?"
Stasis had to laugh, if a little hysterically. "God. I didn't pay that much attention! I figured.. it was just like, a boogie-man. Sure, I knew she was sort of hiding out but I just thought.. just thought..."
Mute, she could only stare at them, her fingers twisting in her lap. She hadn't actually believed the danger, not really. She'd reacted only to Kris' fear, Kris' worry. She hadn't thought this could actually happen. It was so horribly, horribly messed up.
"It's okay, Stasi," Lish said. "I don't know anybody she might have known there either." She ducked her head, guilty and grateful for that piece of support.
"I just don't have a high enough security level to know anybody that could help us," she admittedly finally. She'd been too busy messing around to focus on her training. Another guilt.
"I think," Lish started then stopped. She looked at the floor a moment, her expressive face still with thought. "I think I might know somebody. He's not really, well, somebody you'd care to meet in a back alley though. At least not without a lot of backup. Not to mention he's sort of.. expensive." No mistaking that euphemism. Stasis blinked. Lish? With an Isle contact? Her friend didn't seem to want to meet her gaze for a moment.
Stasis nodded once, abruptly. It didn't matter, not now. Any information was better than just fumbling around in the dark.
"Okay. Lish, I'll give you what I've got." Jade murmured in instant agreement. "You see what you can find out from this guy."
"I'll try the news station, see what I can turn up." Jade met her gaze straight, gave a barely perceptible nod. For a moment she almost pitied whoever worked there. If Detective hadn't thought of that idea and charged off there first, they might have a chance in that direction. Gong Ji looked as focused and hard as the jade he was named for.
"I'll... take Kris' things. Maybe there's something in her books, a diary, a note. A letter to a friend." It seemed wrong but what else was there? Stasis ran hands through her hair again, disarranging the spikes into new and violent configurations. Maybe. Maybe they'd find something. It had to be better than just sitting around. Anything was better than nothing.
She stood up even as they did. One step, two and suddenly she was hugging them both fiercely, tight enough to bruise. Her angels. Kris was gone but not lost, not yet. They'd find her, bring her home and make sure this would never happen again.
"Be safe," she whispered at both of them. "Be careful. These are really, really bad people. I don't want to lose.."
"You won't."
"We'll find her, Stasi. We'll be okay."
She stepped back as swiftly as she'd stepped in, brushing one angry eye clear again. "Keep in comm contact. Open channel and sing out if anything even breathes at you too fast. This isn’t a game, not this time."
"You got it. We’re gone. C’mon Rooster." With a swirl of skirt Lish was out the window and up onto the roof in an catch and easy leap, a hundred midnight escapes apparent in the smoothness of motion. Jade waited just a heartbeat longer, staring at his pale friend as she stood there with her hands clenched impotently at her sides.
"We'll find her." His voice was low and fierce as if trying to carve its reality into the air between them. She nodded jerkily and then he too was gone in a dark flare.
She wished she could believe him.
No. No, this wasn't real. This wasn't happening.
Water trickled down her back, dampening the hastily donned tank top, stuck the jean shorts to her spare curves. The discomfort of the interrupted shower was forgotten though as she stared across at the little figures that wove and spliced themselves across the screen. There was voiceover and commentary and no no no, that's Kris they have there, that's Kris, that red coat, that's a Seer, that's Arachnos instant replay of grainy video obviously taken from nearby security cameras. It had the look of hasty looping in order to make this edition of the evening news.
How long ago had this video been taken? How long had Kris been gone? This afternoon? This morning?
Last week?
Sitting beside her on the bed Lycia was silent as a tomb, her face as pale as her makeup.
"We've got to go get her!" Her own numb thoughts but it wasn't her voice. The words were deeper most of the time but near cracking now with pressure and excitement. Detective was still standing in the middle of the quad. His long fingers were clenching and unclenching in fists, probably in anticipation of his gun. "I'll round up the rest of the teachers, some of the stronger students. We'll try Warburg first, betcha they're going to take her by water. Catch them before they get there."
That was Kris. They've taken Kris.
"You girls wait here. I'm going to..."
Before she realized it she was on her feet.
"No."
He kept talking like he hadn't heard her, "...go talk to some people, see what I can find out..."
"No. No! I'm not waiting here like a... a good girl while you go talk to anybody."
"Stasi, get real." It was on his face, that look of utter male condescension that always made her grind her teeth. "Let me take care of it, I know what I'm doing. I've got seven security levels over you, I'll let you know what I..."
Anger, then, bright and clean.
"Get out. Get out of my quad, Detective."
"Stasi?" The stunned expression on his face would have been comical at any other time. She'd never talked back to him before. She'd never even raised her voice.
"I said. Get. Out. If you're not gone by the time I count to three, I'm going to flash-freeze everything on your body that you consider important. I mean it, Detective."
He was already starting to argue, it was on his face, in his eyes. He got as far as opening his mouth before the arctic wind screamed across the room, hit him in the face. She took one step, fists tight and the floor between them flashed white with rime.
"One."
_____
It was turning out to be a great day. Jade had finished his morning exercises early, busted a drug deal over in Indy Port over lunch break, and gotten his English Lit essay back with a glowing B+ written on its cover. After a brief jaunt to the pool for water resistance training he was on his way back to his dorm for a snack and a few crunches in front of the television.
Ruffling his damp hair with the towel that hung lazily over his shoulders, he rounded the corner of his floor just in time to see someone leave his quad in a hurry.
"Hey, D!" His voice fell upon deaf ears as his lanky roommate bolted down the hall and out the door on the opposite side.
"Huh," Rooster mused out loud to himself, continuing into the common area of the quad. "Wonder what's got him so worked up?" He'd probably never know of course. It was sort of hard to tell with D most of the time since nearly everything got him riled up. For all he knew it was Sapphire's turn to serve in the cafeteria again. If that was the case D wouldn't be back until he was so stuffed he could barely waddle.
Jade grinned and tossed the towel with an easy flip onto his bed, half stretching as he headed for the mini-fridge. With a contented sigh he retrieved a bowl of some odd green puree from its place of dubious honor near the back and flipped the television on to the local news.
He was mid-way through crunch number five when the subject matter of the news registered.
A heartbeat later the talking head on the special broadcast was delivering its news to a spinach-colored puddle on the carpet and a slamming door.
______
Rail. Jump. Balcony. Ledge. Drop. Roll. Run.
It didn't take Jade long to get most of the way across the school grounds. Freerunning was typically just another exercise, another way to show off to his peers and mark himself as more than just another student. Now the mobility it lent him was finally useful for something other than making it to class on time. His mind shut off, giving way to lightning reflexes and honed instinct as his body carried him along the soaring dragon winds.
Twist. Right. Climb. Around. Window. Duck.
Almost there.
Vaulting over the rooftops, he swung down around a drainage pipe and came to rest on a window ledge. For the first time he hesitated, his fingers closing over the frame even as voices found his ears.
______
"We have to do something!"
Lycia was nearly shredding a pillow in her agitation, sitting cross-legged on the bed. Stasis couldn't manage that, pacing back and forth.
"I know."
"We can't just sit here. Kris is .. Kris is ... we have to do something!"
"Tell me something I don't know! Oh .. Lish, I'm sorry. It'll be okay, we'll get her back. I'll come up with a plan and we'll get her back."
A plan. But it was Kris, Kris that did the thinking! Panicked amusement bubbled up from somewhere.
Hours at best, days at worst and Kris vanished somewhere, like Founders Falls again only a hundred times farther into nightmare, with no directions to tell her which way to go, Arachnos spread all over the entire hazy Isles and just some silly video footage from somebody's shaky cel phone to say that her friend hadn't just vanished into a black hole.
"Maybe we should .. get D back?" Lycia's voice was soft. Not like her at all. "He seemed to know what he was doing."
"No! Maybe? Oh, I don't know!"
For all she knew, Detective was already on his way to mess things up as only he could. She'd gone through too many patrols with him not to have an appreciation for the sheer chaos he could cause.
Stasis ran agitated hands through her hair, shedding ice crystals like beads. It almost disguised the small sound at the window, the tiniest of noises. A heartbeat later a dark form vaulted through the opening, rolling across her bed.
Ice ran up her body, frost splintered a crazy pattern across the ground. It was Arachnos coming for the rest of them, coming to finish the job. Lycia was already up and crouching, both fists streaming darkness in boiling clouds. The intruder continued the motion to come to his feet, snapping his head back to clear the sticky hair from his face.
"Rooster!!"
She'd already registered him somehow, her hands already lowered even before Lycia launched herself into a scrambled hug. "I'm so glad you're here! Kris! Kris has been kidnapped!!"
"I know, I know, I saw it on the news. I got here as fast as I could." His arms were around the smaller girl, for comfort, for protection. She saw it on his face as he shot her a worried look over Lish's head, clear as day. He wasn't even breathing hard although she saw the sweat prickling across his shoulders. They looked good together, dark heads close enough that for a moment their hair mingled.
"Jade. God... Jade." It was as if his sudden appearance completed something in her and she sank to the floor in a boneless slide. Cross-legged she stared up at them. "What are we going to do?"
Automatic inclusion; from the start it had never been anything but her and her dark angels. Left hand and right hand, they both stared back at her. Worry, fear. Indecision. She didn't think she was giving them back anything better.
"What.. what do we know? I mean, do we even know what we saw is true?"
That was Lish, her face tight. She'd already moved out of Jade's arms, pulling him down to sit with her on the bed. She could almost see the bright wing he still covered her with although his tense hands had fallen away. Truth. That was her own half formed thought made real. What did they know? So it was on the news, that didn't actually mean anything, did it? Did it?
"We... don't. Jade, what do you think? Can we.. oh, I don't know. Find out? Hack into the news station?" It sounded so silly. What was this, some sort of spy novel?
His dark eyes were made darker by the concentrated look belied that thought. "Maybe."
She scrubbed her hands over her face, for once not paying attention to the feel of the tattoos. "Everyone else will be hearing soon. Detective.. gah. Detective's already on the loose. If he thinks of the station, we'll be lucky if anything is left standing by the time we get there." Maybe it would be okay. The Big D was likely to tear off in practically any direction.
"That was Arachnos, wasn't it?" She nodded along with Lish to Jade's question. "Did... Kris mention any names? Any places that might help us figure out where they might have taken her? A friend there we could call?"
Stasis had to laugh, if a little hysterically. "God. I didn't pay that much attention! I figured.. it was just like, a boogie-man. Sure, I knew she was sort of hiding out but I just thought.. just thought..."
Mute, she could only stare at them, her fingers twisting in her lap. She hadn't actually believed the danger, not really. She'd reacted only to Kris' fear, Kris' worry. She hadn't thought this could actually happen. It was so horribly, horribly messed up.
"It's okay, Stasi," Lish said. "I don't know anybody she might have known there either." She ducked her head, guilty and grateful for that piece of support.
"I just don't have a high enough security level to know anybody that could help us," she admittedly finally. She'd been too busy messing around to focus on her training. Another guilt.
"I think," Lish started then stopped. She looked at the floor a moment, her expressive face still with thought. "I think I might know somebody. He's not really, well, somebody you'd care to meet in a back alley though. At least not without a lot of backup. Not to mention he's sort of.. expensive." No mistaking that euphemism. Stasis blinked. Lish? With an Isle contact? Her friend didn't seem to want to meet her gaze for a moment.
Stasis nodded once, abruptly. It didn't matter, not now. Any information was better than just fumbling around in the dark.
"Okay. Lish, I'll give you what I've got." Jade murmured in instant agreement. "You see what you can find out from this guy."
"I'll try the news station, see what I can turn up." Jade met her gaze straight, gave a barely perceptible nod. For a moment she almost pitied whoever worked there. If Detective hadn't thought of that idea and charged off there first, they might have a chance in that direction. Gong Ji looked as focused and hard as the jade he was named for.
"I'll... take Kris' things. Maybe there's something in her books, a diary, a note. A letter to a friend." It seemed wrong but what else was there? Stasis ran hands through her hair again, disarranging the spikes into new and violent configurations. Maybe. Maybe they'd find something. It had to be better than just sitting around. Anything was better than nothing.
She stood up even as they did. One step, two and suddenly she was hugging them both fiercely, tight enough to bruise. Her angels. Kris was gone but not lost, not yet. They'd find her, bring her home and make sure this would never happen again.
"Be safe," she whispered at both of them. "Be careful. These are really, really bad people. I don't want to lose.."
"You won't."
"We'll find her, Stasi. We'll be okay."
She stepped back as swiftly as she'd stepped in, brushing one angry eye clear again. "Keep in comm contact. Open channel and sing out if anything even breathes at you too fast. This isn’t a game, not this time."
"You got it. We’re gone. C’mon Rooster." With a swirl of skirt Lish was out the window and up onto the roof in an catch and easy leap, a hundred midnight escapes apparent in the smoothness of motion. Jade waited just a heartbeat longer, staring at his pale friend as she stood there with her hands clenched impotently at her sides.
"We'll find her." His voice was low and fierce as if trying to carve its reality into the air between them. She nodded jerkily and then he too was gone in a dark flare.
She wished she could believe him.
"So pay attention to me; I don't talk for my health."
"I want you on my team."
"... So does everybody else."
"I want you on my team."
"... So does everybody else."
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detective
As Detective passed the floors of the news channel waiting for a copy of today’s Broadcast on the O’Sullivan Story one Question was on this mine “why now”. Detective knows about Kris’s past from what she had told him when they where patrolling. But then he thought about what Stasi Said to him back in there dorm. She was more than just angry she seemed more than just shocked she was Petrified to even think of this happening to Kris…well. So was I when I First heard. Then a woman in a White suit came out with a DVD in her hand and gave it to Detective. “Thanks for the Video it’s greatly appreciated” D said with a smile on his face. “After you saved out station it’s the least we could do” the Woman Replied, “if there is anything else you will need please give me a call” “I will and thanks”. After that D returned to his dorm and Put the DVD in his computer and started Watching.
Shortly after watching the Video for about 2 hours He started to realize something and got a Digital clock out. On the Video every time the van the O’Sullivan where traveling in Stopped about 3-4 min later A cleaning van was right behind. “Hummm this could be interesting” He said with an Evil yet Clever Smile on his face. As he got up he called the TV station again and asked them a few questions about one of there choppers that morning “was the Chopper Receiving any Muffled Codes or anything like that something like a Message threw the microphone?” “Actually yes…something about an attack plan but we thought we just picked up a military code and let it be” “thanks for your help”. With that Information he ran down the halls to Q5 again where he found Stasi inside.
Shortly after watching the Video for about 2 hours He started to realize something and got a Digital clock out. On the Video every time the van the O’Sullivan where traveling in Stopped about 3-4 min later A cleaning van was right behind. “Hummm this could be interesting” He said with an Evil yet Clever Smile on his face. As he got up he called the TV station again and asked them a few questions about one of there choppers that morning “was the Chopper Receiving any Muffled Codes or anything like that something like a Message threw the microphone?” “Actually yes…something about an attack plan but we thought we just picked up a military code and let it be” “thanks for your help”. With that Information he ran down the halls to Q5 again where he found Stasi inside.