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Okay, here i the low down on the activities in this StoryLine.

It's pretty straight forward, or should be. Questions? Please, ask them on the the 'Freelancers' section of Underground.

Again, if you want to post an entire RP, then please, do so in 'Active StoryLines' or perhaps in the 'Roleplay Archives', in the 'Archives' section if you deem it real good.

If you have any announcements to make, just instant message them to me and I will post them in the Ajoia Jewel.

Thanks.

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Played characters involved in the Guild:

Jared Ryvan Valkeri - Aly
Drake Sei Ryu Blithe - Aly
Aleckandea Valishar - Tasha

Locke - Wane


Other characters involved and who they are/were played by:

Amon Glythorn DoJima (Vicious) - Aly
Clive Dree - Aly

Chastity Truman - Heather

Hope Truman - Heather - dead
Liman Statham- Aly - Lee - dead
Livia Van Dross - Tasha - dead
Morgan Mackenzie - Tasha - inactive
Sylvia Havana Dray - Aly - dead
Thirst - Zane - dead
Thirst A.I. - Zane - inactive
Vincent Marshall Valkeri - Aly -dead
Zanon Jin Rinray - Aly - dead

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First R-play:

Was the introduction of Valkeri, Blithe and Silvia…the three main and played characters of the SGSN assassin guild *at the time*. Valkeri had been killing some defecting members from the clan upon the dock in pier 6, not knowing their ring leader was the only women member (Silvia) though he had his suspicions. Blithe was browsing the shady establishments with lady companionship as usual that night and had stumbled upon one of the Truman clans brothels…met the lovely character Chastity Truman and Hope Truman *Chastity and Blithe got better “acquainted” that night. Silvia was on the run and unfortunately found her knife wouldn’t get her back into the Building of Halves, marking her as suspect to what happened.

Second R-play:

Valkeri returned and was waiting on the arrival of Blithe back at the Building of Halves, he wasn’t to happy about what went down and what it implied…some one had been stealing info as well *traitors where never welcome* Blithe showed up was fussed at for being late *Blithe wouldn’t say where he had been knowing Valkeri would be angry if he found out he had been with Chastity*…they then disused Silvia…Valkeri expressed his distaste for women…Blithe told him the newest applicant for incorporation was a women named *Alecks* (played by Tasha), they argued but Valkeri said he would at lest find her out, Silvia was on the run.

Third R-play:

Valkeri went out on the streets again looking for Silvia…who had contacted him that she wished to arrange a meeting; she had photos of Blithe and Chastity hoping to incriminate Blithe whom she hated for dumping her after incorporating her into the organization. Blithe was once more out with Chastity…Silva and Valkeri met being followed by Alecks…The meeting went sour Valkeri took the case from Silvia no deal happened letting her back in and he had stabbed her in the leg with his clan knife *a symbolic symbol for a assassin telling the victim they would return later to retrieve the knife and kill them. Valkeri hadn’t killed her that night because he still didn’t know who she was working for by betraying the clan.

Fourth R-play:

Blithe returns to Find Valkeri interviewing and excepting Alecks who had followed him back to the Building of halves…*that was a fun r-play encounter* Silvia running in a desperate flight ended up at * Mackenzie's manor with her friend Morgan* where she could hide out for a bit, not knowing her friend had her own problems.

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Fifth R-play:

Ball happened at the Mackenzie Estate all the top riches attended Blithe going for the SGSN guild…also because he wanted to see Chastity…Silvia being there noticed him…she hid and acquired more information to send to the doubting Valkeri who didn’t believe Blithe who had denied the relationship was lying. Valkeri was acquainting alecks with Senses Wake beneath the Building of Halves.

Sixth R-play:

Trouble at the manor (Locke and Thirst) enter the picture at Silvia’s Friends house, Silvia had gone out that night as well and had met *the intro of the WW and Vicious* up with a dark figure she had hopped to forget *the one she had made a deal with to trade SW information too against Valkeri for safe passage…was raped and beaten…she fled back almost dead…was helped at her friends house to find a new drama happening there. Valkeri was confronting Blithe about Chastity and had with his anger exiled Blithe in a sense from his presence of trust; who then moved out to the District five apartments.

Seventh R-play:

Silvia hung with her friend, Morgan, for a while until she couldn’t stand her main squeeze anymore (Thirst) and their friendship ended abruptly. Valkeri and Alecks where still not seeing eye to eye but emotions founded with respect began to build between them…Blithe and Silvia had a meeting where she then too moved into the apartments but only until the next r-play where she then moved into the district five shopping center with a friend not far from WW’s Cathedral, two agents where out looking for her, roof top battles including Locke who was trying to help her happened driving her toward the docks and leaving Locke wondering where she was *Locke had killed some of the agents *Vicious now had his eyes on Locke*. Locke was ordered by (Thirst to hunt Silvia down).

Eighth R-play:

Valkeri caught up to Silvia after a cat and mouse hunt happened through a few r-plays…*Alecks helped in this but was against his attacking her after they found out who she was working for…Valkeri went into the lions den anyway found Silvia under Vicious protection and killed her in the dock side warehouses *Locke finds her dead and begins his hunt for Valkeri, in revenge* Blithe and Alecks become friends, and Blithe helps her concerning advice on how to deal with Valkeri.

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Ninth R-play:

Valkeri left for a while going back to Japan and the *Underworld Dragons* for a summoning…also to find answers as to why the UD would send out Vicious his arch enemy to the city…or at lest support his presence there. Blithe and Alecks held down the fort as more and more WW activity began. Alecks went under cover infiltrating Vicious’s body guard group (her disguise altering her appearance including long black locks.)

Tenth R-play:

Blithe was chassing down leads concerning the WW’s, Alecks visited with Valkeri who had returned somber and beaten up by his own leaders, Physically and mentally…*after getting over his shock at her appearance change* (though his appearance had changed as well his brown eyes was slowly shifting more subtly so you could see their different tone and he had dyed his long hair red) He told her that the UD leadership where splitting between his supporters and Vicious’s crazy ones. They ended up binding there hearts and bodies that night. * A trigger that will have interesting side effects latter.

Eleventh R-play:

Vicious makes a more official appearance now and his group starts making their appearance… *Vicious has unawares to both Valkeri and the kid; Valkeri’s younger brother Vincent* through some interplay Blithe discovers this through some stuff Silvia had given him before her disappearance and death and inform Alecks who informs Valkeri…Valkeri send some agents to pick him up Alecks heads this group makes contact and Vincent is moved to a bout of Valkeri’s, they meet after many years of separation where Valkeri thought Vincent dead.

Twelfth R-Play:

Vicious gets Vincent back by destroying the boat and killing everyone on it…Valkeri and Alecks where in the twin towers at the time Valkeri still recovering from his wounds…they where discussing what was going on and Vicious…Blithe was on his way to tell them what happened but they both see it from the upper towers room that over looked the water…Valkeri is furious…*Locke shows up right after Blithe still hunting Valkeri for killing Silvia…shoots Valkeri* Blithe Alecks and Valkeri escape out the window to the roof above were a helicopter waited…they head outside the city To a mock power plant which was really a escape route for emergencies from Senses Wake, the SGSN five houses shuts down including the Building of Halves…Valkeri terribly wounded is taken down into Senses Wake and the organization goes into red alert lock down…Vicious and the WW’s take to the streets.

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Thirteenth R-play:

Vicious kills Vincent when he realized Valkeri had retreated into his impregnable hole, trying to flush him out…Livia shows up a clone of Silvia created by Vicious, she meets up by chance with Locke who thought she was Silvia…She tries incorporating Locke into Vicious’s group against Valkeri by telling him she might now of his origins as a super worrier created in the scientific vats of the UD. Blithe along with a few agents where still sniffing about the surface assessing Vicious’s strength on the streets, finds out about Vincent and with a heavy heart returns to SW to talk with Alecks about it.

Fourteenth R-play:

Alecks advisees him not to tell Valkeri at first since he is very slowly recovering and still bed ridden…Blithe agrees knowing Valkeri’s most likely explosive reaction. Valkeri finds out but doesn’t react the way they think…Valkeri with Alecks help recovers enough to walk, Valkeri address’s the assassin group; they swear their loyalty and willingness to assist him against the WW’s for Valkeri had given them a choice knowing the perhaps explosive war that may happen will have many casualties.

Fifteenth R-play:

In helping Locke find information about his past Livia becomes embittered toward Vicious who is cold hearted…and the possibilities of her only ever being a shadow creation of Silvia…Blithe returns to the surface for more recon gets captured by Livia, she doesn’t turn him over to Vicious but keeps him hidden for her own purposes…she though is discovered and comes up with a quick plan to cover her butt from Vicious that she was trying to get Valkeri…Vicious lets her because Valkeri didn’t come out after the be-heading of his brother.

Sixteenth R-play:

Valkeri against Alecks knowledge and suggestions leaves with a team of agents to get Blithe back, Valkeri feeling guilty about his mistrust of Blithe over the Chastity affair and the death of his brother and despite the fact he is still not fully recovered follows some leads about several WW’s truck routes rumored to be transporting a prisoner of the WW’s…*Blithe*

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Seventeenth R-play:

Alecks is furious about finding Valkeri gone but she helps anyway she can after they have some words over their OPSAT…Valkeri attacks one of the truck processions thinking it to be the correct one…Livia watching the affair noted another one of her Truck routes being attacked the *right one* but not be Valkeri and she rushes in to find all her men dead by Vicious who takes Blithe for himself Leaves Livia there to trap Valkeri who found his truck that he attacked to be the wrong one…and with his remaining group charge toward the correct one, Alecks with another team speeding there as well…Livia wounded and angry sets up an ambush waiting for them to arrive and plotting still on how to get back at Vicious for killing her men, stealing Blithe, and threatening her.

Eighteenth & Nineteenth R-play:

Two intersections on the dock side of Ajoia, namily the shaddy part of town where ripped apart by atomatics and explosions as Aleck V *Deaths Kiss* and Jared Valkeri *Crying Valkery* tore through that part of town on motorcycles in a deperate attempt to rescue the member of their group Blithe...their failer was paramount and stamped on their faces by the conclusion of the evenings rplay when they found one decoy after another, Both these characters limped back toward SW, with one prisoner in custidy *Livia*perhaps the most sugnifgent thing to happen in a while* Jared is desturbed by this womens appearance since she looks like the Assassin guild member Silvia whom he had killed previously. Tensions still flare between Alecks and Jared

Twentieth R-play:

Jared and Alecks *whom is still recovering from the fiasco in the streets* both still on edge at this point, and with tensions mounting between each other Alecks returns to SW and Valkeri disappears for a couple days. He returns one night covered in blood and not in the mood to talk to anyone; Alecks wants to talk. There are things broken, fists thrown, and bruises acquired *Mostly one the surprised Valkeri's side who hadn't seen it coming* They both finally resort to words as both of them calm down and Valkeri reveals to Alecks a little why he has been acting they way he has been the last couple months *though he omits the part about his fears of slowly slipping into the madness that rules Vicious* He tells her about the seriousness the SGSN will soon find itself in, and just when it looks like the two are finely knitting their differences together a bit they are interrupted by a commotion being caused by their prisoner Livia Van Dross...they go to investigate, and Alecks begins to interrogation with Valkeri watching.

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***Ok, from this point on, it is weekly updates about what is going on in the SGSN StoryLine.

Twentyfirst R-play:

Interrogations went toward the worst. Valkeri concluded he would have to force Livia into any kind of cooperation. She revealed her hatred for the SGSN, for more then just her allegiance to Vicious and the WW’s but also that she was the daughter (whatever that may mean) of the ex-assassin member Silvia Havana Dray.

While Valkeri is mulling this Over Alecks is non to pleased about his choice to depart for Japan taking Livia along with him, where he is hoping to find out exactly what Liman (through Vicious order) has done there, how much damage there is and If the SGSN is completely cut off from the Underworld Dragons as a resource. He tells Alecks he is leaving her in charge, her job while he is gone is to make it look like he is still in the city, try and find Blithe (maybe rescue him but no heroics) and just to hold what they still have from being taken over by the WW’s.

Alecks and Valkeri spend a troubled but pleasurable night together before he leaves again without a word, byes where never his thing, Alecks then assumes the disguise of Kaitlan and heads out among the clubs of Ajoia’s waterways, the hubs of gossip and intrigue; lucky for her, her first night out she runs into who may very well be the third in line for the command of the WW’s, one Clive Dree an ambitious cleric…and the only one who knows that Valkeri has left town…Alecks calculates he could be her in and little does she know at that time but he and Liman have an outstanding rivalry…a good place to begin discord.

Valkeri meanwhile has arrived in Japan, is holed up into his own emergency quarters along with Livia.

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Update Time…The ins and outs and things going down within the SGSN

Valkeri and Livia are hard at work and six weeks knee deep in crap in Japan…Liman and Clive’s agents are breathing down Jared’s neck and he is burdened with extra baggage *the beautiful yet uncooperative Livia* who’s hopes of rescue are small at best. To Valkeri’s surprise he meets up with three other assassins from the same line of experimentation doses he himself had experienced, they are helping him dig for information but Liman Vicious right hand is keeping them at bay…Valkeri is not only upset at his lack of progress but Alecks has also been unresponsive to his weekly reports…Livia and him are planning a trip back to Ajoia…Jared is considering doing so without giving them any warning…<br>
Alecks is deep with the WW’s and at Clive’s side…she is also a month and a half pregnant and not sure about what she is going to do about it…Vicious unfortunately has more then a passing interest in her…Clive and Liman are almost at each others throats…and the Blithe’s Clone is sitting tight amounts the Truman ranks…<br>
The clock is ticking but where the bomb will go off is the question

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Update Time

Valkeri returned to the SGSN with little to no warning, concerned for Alecks lack of responses to his weekly reports, he fears the worst that something my have happened. He gets back and unceremoniously dumps Livia into his own private quarters, an attempt to keep her away from everyone, a decision that will bite him in the butt later.

He finds out Alecks meanwhile hadn’t been within the SGSN the entire time. Instead she was infiltrating the WW’s…angrily he confronts her, only to be given a double whammy kidney punch…Alecks was pregnant/ and she wasn’t going to leave the city no matter what Valkeri said…he makes a deal with her and heads out to try and begin finding a way to rescue Blithe once and for all…<br>
The Truman’s spring ball is on the list of things to do…right below Kill Vicious…<br>
Vicious may also be attending this ball…who knows what might go down if politeness doesn’t rule these two clans this night.
#nosmileys#nosmileys#nosmileys#nosmileys

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Meanwhile, through out this expedition, Alecks is trying to fins a way to balnce out the mission snow with the Warrior Monks, that is to kill her 'husband', that means settiong up a kiling of one of her own agents, without really killing him. A letter has been drawn up and sent out to the agent, they haven't much time to do so.

Alecks is now juggling trying to be present enough in the WW's location without being there too much. It is quite different. She has come to a startling realization that will follow her until the WW are exterminated: they have Kaitlan Bryant's DNA, thus, her own. She has yet to inform Valkeri of her realisation.

Alecks has also started some of her own mischief with her Ghosts. At the immediate time, eight of the seven Ghosts are surrounding the Cathedral, all at different places, and times through out the day, watching the ins and outs of the Warrior Monks. So far, there has been one man who has been knocked unconscious, and who has missplaced his access card. An other one misplaced his weapon. Minor stupidity on their part of course.#nosmileys#nosmileys

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During the ball, Alecks was undercover as Kaitlan, Clive Dree's date as the representative of the St. Micheal's congregation. All was uneventful for her during the night. She did not see Vicious, she did not learn anything new about the WW, other than Clive is very anti-social, but that she knew. Perhaps, if you consider her dancing episode with Clive, she may have learned that he was graceful and knew the sword. She hadn't known just how graceful, nor smooth he was until the end of their dancing and he kissed her. *ooh, so no good*

Because of this, Kat stayed in her hotel, awaiting her 'husband's' return. More to avoid Clive and to get to go talk with Valkeri. Well, the talk didn't go as planned, and words were exchanged, he more or less flipped out and got all uppity about Clive kissing her(which she was already not pleased about) then left in a huff.

In this time, Alecks spoke with her Ghosts and ordered more surveillance on the Cathedral and more hits on random parts of Vicious' establishment... mainly his men (guards) who didn't really seem like guards. She was hoping that it would become more and more apparent to Vicious that there was a mole in his group and that Liman was not it(considering he is dead -- and Alecks nor Kaitlan know he is dead yet).

She also got in contact with the member in Louisiana who is now posing as Kat's husband. He will be arriving in Ajoia early next week.

After a comment from Valkeri, she did in fact carry out the promise she had made him the week before, the day before the ball. She went to kill Livia. It was both for personal vendetta and for the sake of her sanity, because the woman was naught but a nuisance on Valkeri's mind. She did not, how ever, kill her before she had gotten the answer to her question. She was Vicious' daughter.

With the argument between her and Valkeri, she is still debating on telling him, considering he cannot look at her without sputtering angrily. So much for him.

She will be returning to the Hotel soon enough, undoubtedly to organizing her 'husband's' death with Clive. Little to what she knows, Clive has been silently looking for Kat because she has not been at the hotel. But that will be dealt with when it ensures.

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Update

Situations of tension escalate between Alecks and Valkeri…he heads out to spew to a fellow assassin/genetically enhanced experiment…aka someone he reveres like an older sister…though she has told him she would have no direct affiliations with his group she would at lest be there for Valkeri if he needed her…<br>
Their convo. as follow:

Valkeri
Storms down the streets cig and lighter in hand, he pauses long enough to light the damn thing, his whole face contorted with anger, he snaps the lighter shut viciously and continues on his way….it would be an understatement to claim that he was just angry…Alecks had over stepped her bounds and pissed him off one to many times…he didn’t have any aim nor goal in his explosive wake…so he was surprised, yet not so much when he stopped in front of a certain building…he peers up at the large billboard above the building…<br>
Valkeri
He takes one last drag on the cig and flicks it away in annoyance, he needed to quit…he takes the steps two at a time and pulls the doors open, he side steps the front desk, it was night time and most everyone had gone, which was a good ting he wasn’t up to being around plastic people…he didn’t know how you did it…you played your double life better then he did and with extravagant colors…he headed toward your office his black trench billowing about him…he knocked and entered with one smooth motion…”Eleonore?”

Eleonore
She glances up from the piles of papers and photos on her desk, two in her hands she purses her lips and says…”Look what the receptionist didn’t keep out” she stood then and eyed him closely…”you could have knocked and waited for an answer you know…the smirk tugging at the corner of her lips revealed her true feelings about the interruption.

Valkeri
He shrugged as he stepped in and closed the door…”I needed to talk to someone before I explode…and you seemed to tolerate me and my problems quite well in Japan…” he trailed off as his glanced over the prospective model’s photos dotting the large cork board on the wall…he shakes his head…”I don’t know how you stand these people…” he mad a face…they were beautiful…but quite useless in his line of work…<br>
Eleonore
She stepped around the desk her high heels allowing for more of a height difference to be overcome as she stood beside you, she smacks your shoulder softly with the files she held…”Those people…” she mock sneers…”Know how to dress unlike you” she waves the files up and down indicating his black shoes, black pants, black shirt, tie, coat etc. “Would it kill you to add color” she roles her eyes as she walks over to her large filing cabinet and shoved the perspective’s within….”and your problems are usually intertwined with mine in a weird way and that is why its easy to tolerate them….but explode Valkeri…” she laughs at that, “now I can’t have you messing up my office so tell me about it over dinner because this is going to be good…I have a sense its about a women?”

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Valkeri
He smiled and nodded…”very well…I will feed that fat ass of yours in payment for my shpealing…and yes, your damn right its about a women…one that’s a pain in the butt…and…”he trailed off his fists clenched…he couldn’t allow the part that he loved her enter his mind at this moment, he wanted to feel rage…so many things had been going wrong recently…and it annoyed him beyond belief.

Eleonore
She shook her head, eyes sparkling with laughter, she had a feeling it was more then the woman on Valkeri’s mind, and perhaps it was the other things he was really angry about…but leave it to a guy to miss that…she grabs her long fur coat and says as she throws you a helmet…”I am driving” she saunters out of the room her hips moving with such graceful motion hinting as to the reason why she had become so famous and proficient in both of her professions.

Valkeri
Roles his eyes as he caught the helmet…”you mean we taking that …” he chokes off as you shoot daggers at him with your black eyes…”Ok…your driving” he smirks as he eyes the helmet in his hand, his pace matching yours as he follows you from the building…”these are new…” he comments as he notices quite a bit of gadgetry within the helmets…<br>
Eleonore
“Yes, “she answers dancing down the steps toward her prized Harley *ignoring the slight drizzle*…”It has built in VCD and comb…there are some things I want to talk about as we drive and files you can look over as we do so…this helmet makes that possible on my baby” she smiles and feels up her ride…she then buckles on the helmet and straddles the thing gloved hands laced in fur, gripping the handles, she waits for you to mount.

Valkeri
He shrugs, latches the helmet on and sits behind you still murmuring *taking your ride in the rain*, he leans back into your custom made seats and blinks a few times as images appear on the inside of his helmet, your voice also bleeps over the comb…he smiles as you tell him to keep his arms and hands in at all times, and too make sure his coffee table is in its up right position…”what table you talking about, and what position?” he teases, only to get a chuckle from you and get thrown back into his seat as you speed off

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Jared paces in front of the café, waiting, it seemed endless…Blithe said it was urgent and that the matter concerned Alecks….one hand lifted a cig to his frowning lips, his amber eyes glancing at his watch as he lit up…damn he was late.

Blithe weaved his way through traffic, his goal, a small café on the docks…it was in a crowded area, ideal for wanting to blend in and disappear…with Clive’s boys around and Alecks missing…that might just be what was best…he shook his head his long bangs tickling his lashes…he had changed allot since his “death” life held so many surprises, but he wasn’t looking forward to the confrontation with his boss…he could he even call Jared his friend anymore…he knew he didn’t trust him.

Jared takes a last drag on his cig and then chucks it in mild annoyance, the trip back from Japan and the rivalry there hadn’t placed him in the best of mood, but he had to admit to himself, those struggles where far from his mind when danger was looming for his lover and child…”damn it Blithe” he turns and stalks into the café hoping caffeine might do something for him.

Blithe swerves one last time as he pulls his Harley in front of the waterways…he pauses a moment glancing over his shoulder at the shadows he was sure where fallowing him…he smirks and revs his bike once more and passes the ‘pedestrian only’ sign, heading down the peer toward the shops.

Jared shakes the cities ever damp atmosphere from his black trench as he heads toward the counter, his amber eyes glancing over the pretty attendant…”an espresso, tripled please” he threw the cash on the counter and rain a hand through his tangled hair, his eyes once more glancing at the cafes clock…’patients’ he told himself…

Blithe pulled into a side alley beside a block from the café, curses following his speeding wake, the pedestrians hadn’t thought his breaking the law as amusing as he did, but wasn’t that how it always went…someone would always disagree…might as well do it anyway…he swung one leg off the bike, securing it with a D9…he headed back out on the street his own long trench marking him as a member of the SGSN…he flicks up its high collar and heads toward the café.

Jared situated himself in a corner, the place was closing down, but they new him…they would leave locking up the entrance, leave it to Blithe to time it perfectly….the place was closed now, lights shutting off, door secured, he knew Blithe would most likely come in through the back, but that didn’t keep his amber eyes from watching the lingering crowds still mulling about outside the cafes large windows….they would be able to talk here in private.

Blithe slid through the back entrance giving Shelly the café attendant a hug as she locked up, he whispered to her to be safe and then shut the door behind her…he walked silently down the employees hall toward the front of the café…the place was dark but for the exit signs red glow, that didn’t inhibit his vision…he stepped through the door knowing you expected him, he watched you a moment as you watched the crowds, your mismatched eyes always giving me the creeps…

Jared sipped a few seconds more before saying “You took your time Blithe…any reason why?” His eyes didn’t turn toward you, their mismatched orbs watched the streaming lines of people who thought they had a night life but didn’t realize they were the food for the scavengers of society to feed upon in the dead of night…he waited…with all his being he wanted to demand what had happened to Alecks…but he knew he had to be patient…you had died…or …he still wasn’t sure if you where real.

Blithe stood there nibbling his bottom lip…the place was dark, except from the street light outside that filtered through the window…its harsh light made your features ominous…he didn’t want to answer you, not because he was afraid, he just knew that this was the prologue to him informing you that your greatest enemy held your lover and child prisoner…he pushed away from the door and glided over to the cafes’ counter, he poured himself some coffee and said…”I wanted to wait until I was certain I hadn’t been followed…Clive has become more influential since you have been gone…Vicious chose him well, even I have to watch my step”

Jared placed his empty cup on the table before him, his eyes transfixed by the ripples caused from the turbulence of the table. He absently fished for a cig in his coat pocket, he was supposed to have quit…but it helped, when he was apart from the only women who could keep him sane…he looked over at you suddenly, sharpness in his tone and echoed in his glance…”Where is she?”

Blithe sighed inwardly, his shoulders slumping slightly…he turned and matched your stare…”She is safe, yet within the enemies strong hold” he lifted his hand quickly halting ant immediate response of yours…he hoped at least…”Please Valkeri hear me out…she is being held captive by Clive, but he doesn’t know who she is…for some strange reason he has a reason for keeping Alecks double persona by his side ‘Kat’…but he is hiding her from Vicious just as much as you would be…I think this might be even best…Vicious would never look for her within his own keep…” he took a breath hoping you would be calm enough to agree.

Unwittingly Jared's fingers had curled around the cup and squeezed so hard the glass shattered, the shards of glass that didn’t dig into his skin turned to powder, the sound a sharp crack in the otherwise silent café…no other outward appearance was displayed on his features though, he was very angry…yet watching your unflinching face, he in turn took a deep breath and considered your words…

Blithe watched him, his gaze unflinching…he considers the inner struggle deep within your eyes, he was also aware of the grinding sound of glass, and the smell of blood…he lifts his steaming coffee to his lips and leans against the counter…he would wait for you to calm then, they would continue the conversation. He had known from the beginning, when Alecks had first told him her secrete plan, and when she had suggested that they keep it from Valkeri…well he knew this would happen sooner or later.

Jared sighs and lifts his bleeding hand, he eyes the streams of blood trickling from the wounds on his hand, he begins to pull out the shards watching as the nanos with in begin to re-nit his flesh…he doesn’t look at you as he speaks his eyes remaining on his bloody hand…”So what do you propose I do…why did you call me back if you think this is the best choice?” he wasn’t really interested in the answer, he just needed to say something before he left and murdered someone.

This time Blithe did flinch slightly…leave it to you to find a flaw in his reasoning…”Fine consider myself not as confident in the validity of her being safe…I just think its better that your here….I can’t double and run the SGSN at the same time, and for Alecks own safety, Clive has to think she is still running things out here on the streets…your better at that then I am considering you are the leader…” he placed his own empty cup on the counter and walked over to sit across from you eyes intense…”Its imperative that Clive remain ignorant of Alecks disappearance…he can’t know that that’s who he is holding prisoner.”

Jared's glance shouted Duh!...he nods and wrung his hand, the dried blood remaining caked to his fingers as only a few drops where flung thither and yon…”Look….I get your drift Blithe…its important you remain undercover…but that’s my wif….” He stops…he was about to claim something that wasn’t true yet…he shakes his head…”Ok the point is, I will stay and run things, be all Alecks like, as best I can, but don’t think for a minute that if I get a chance, I WILL go after Clive and Vicious’ respective throats”

Blithe nods and glances down at his watch…”I got to head out Clive is expecting me…don’t worry I will keep my eye on Alecks…” he rose and placed a sympathetic hand on your shoulder…”Remember she means a lot to both of us”

Jared said nothing to your words his eyes cold, he wanted to remind you that you had died and where not his friend nor Alecks anymore…but he said nothing, he knew you understood how he felt…”Ok Blithe see you later”…he stands up shrugging your hand off and heads over too get more coffee…he would stay here, coffee would keep him from finding booze.

Blithe watched you, his blue eyes sad…he turned and left…was he real, or was he…he shook his head as he exited the café and headed down the back streets toward his bike…he lights up and glances up at the starless sky…damn rainy city.

jared listened to your footsteps fade…he turned a cup of coffee in hand, he walked over to the sink and poured it out…he would go back to the BOH, and get drunk…or at least try to.