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(Setting) Cain's Apartment (3)
| > That was quick, but nonetheless Felix makes his way in, taking a good look around.
"Very nice place, here."
> He speaks to himself quietly.
| "Yep! Mom's place is the best place i stayed at in a while!"
>She blushes a bit, both from the commment, and at the leftover pizza she was eating
"I'- I'll go clean this up!"
| >A small knock is heard on the door
| "so many people... so little time!"
Could you get that uh... Mister?
| "Felix, and yeah."
> He heads back over and answers the door.
"..Hello?"
| >A very tall woman wearing a tight turtleneck appears in the entrance, with a long trenchcoat draped over her arm, her eyes glow warmly, it's OS!
"H-Hi"
>She says, her cheeks flushed
| >Marie sees OS, and his face lights up
"OS!"
>He runs over to her, giving her a big hug
"I was so worried! i heard you got hurt and.. and...
>He begins to tear up a little
| "Well hello there."
> Felix gives space and chuckles a bit.
| >OS hugs back, her face is an expression of total bliss, she pats his head slowly
"Don't worry about it, I was a bit dumb and ended up in trouble, but i'm all good now"
|
| >>175859
>OS turns toward Felix and extands her hand
"The name is Elena, but you can call me OS"
>She has a warm smile on her face
| >another knock on the door,but more like a thud.
| >Marie regretfully pulls out of OS's grasp to get the door
| >>175893
>beyond the door is an oddly cute looking flying drone holding a bag.
>it awaits permission to be let in.
| >Marie beckons the drone inside, and returns to clinginf to OS
| >Marie, infact, is too lazy to go frlm OS's side and just lets the bag sit there, for someone else tl open
| >OS clings back, before picking up Marie from the ground into a princess carry
"I missed you a lot ever since that date, I'm happy to see you again, and that you got a place to stay"
| "I missed you too... i know it's my birthday, but here's *your* present
>Marie reaches up and gives OS a kiss on the lips
| >OS accepts the kiss and blushes furiously, she hugs Marie tightly
"T-Thank you, ehehe~"
>She seems happier than ever
| >>176119
>inside the bag is a a box with chocolate moist cake
>another with a chocolate mousse cake.
>3 bottles of vodqila.
>and a note.
| "Marie! We got too much cake!"
>Cain takes the cakes and sets them, and leaves the note unread for Marie.
>She also takes the bottles of vodquila, and puts them away.
| >OS lets Marie down, blushing and finally noticing Cain
"Hi, I'm OS, you must be the owner of this appartement, thanks for taking care of Marie"
| "Oh, Sorry! I didn't mean to interrupt anything, my name's Cain. You must be Marie's girlfriend?"
>Cain sheepishly says, feeling like she interupted a moment...
| >Marie blushes as well and tries to change the subject
"There is never such a thing as too much cake Mom! Even if i'm watching my weight!"
>he goes over to read the nite
| >Cain covers her blush with her hand, embarrassed to be called mom...
"For the record, it was a joke that spiraled out of control..."
| >>176175
>the nite (lol) says
Hello marie i sent you the cake as promised,as well as some vodqila careful with tge stuff,my pal drank too much once and he forgot his own name!but my gift to you is not cake and booze,but the drone that sent it,i call it Munch but feel free to call it whatever you like.
>N3
| >>176179
>OS laughs a little
"Then that would make you my step-mother, pleased to meet you!"
>She says, a smile on her face
| >Cain sighs...
"Pleased to meet you too..."
| >>176254
>OS blushes and shakes her hands
"I-I got a bit ahead of myself, my bad..."
>She laughs nervously
| >Yet another knock at the door his heard but this time its a little loud... Like someone could break their hand if they did it long enough...
| >Marie, feeling awkward, goes to get the door while her mom and her wife uh... meet eachother
| *His, rip been a while, can't change
| "Hello..."
>A tall man with messy bedridden hair and glasses stands at the door smoking a cigarette...
"Party right?"
>He cocks his head to the side.
| >Another Knock on the door
| "Yep, it's a party all- Can't you people come in all at once?!
>Marie goes to answer the door again
|
| "Okay cool... So whats the plan?"
>He looks around puffing his cigarette.
| >Marie thinks for a bit
"Uh... eat, drink, get wasted? i dunno! it's the first time it's been someone other then me!"
| >OS looks at the new arrival and then turns to Marie
"Is this really your first birthday party with people?"
>She says, looking a bit concerned
| >Wearing her usual greatcoat, Ferris walks in taking a look around
| >>176489
>OS instantly recognizes Ferris and looks at her for an instant, wondering what she was doing here, before returning her gaze to Marie
| "Marie! You never told me you had so many friends!"
>Cain is absolutely amazed at the amount of people who came!
| "Oh uh... I mean i guess i did send it out on a public forum but i never expectef this many..."
>>176484
>He bounces up excitedly
"Well, there was that time my dad stopped by to tell me to get to work, but otherwise this is my first!"
| "Hello Ferris... Again... Last time I saw you... You were blackout drunk!"
>The man laughs teasing a bit
| >>176519
"Yes. And I woke up to a gunfight and every enforcement agency short of the Fishermen coming"
>Ferris replies calmly. Beside trying to recognize the man
| >>176524
"2 Pcorps dead. Some weird unexplainable event and the brits declaring war. It's been good since then"
>she goes on now with a smile
| > And another sudden knock!
"H-Hey! Don't listen to Felix! I'm perfectly capable of making this party!"
| >There's *another* knock on the door, and Marie gets it, letting in a bandaged Dahk with a bloody and singed coat, and the dumbest look of bliss on her face
"Sorry i'm late~ Got into a tiiny scuffle~"
>Marie is a little surprised, but calms down
"Oh... it's just Dahk, are you um... alright?."
| >>176528
>OS hears Ferris' statement and walks forward
"Wait, Pcorp officers died during that mess, How?"
>Ferris can recognize the Woman, Lieutenant Douji. Her eyes glow a but stronger
| >Cain instantly notices Dahk, and gives her a hug.
"Dahk! Are you all right?"
| >>176544
"Yeah. The reports say the gangers had a Panther assault cannon."
>Ferris shakes her head
"But that's topic's not a good mood setter for a birthday party at all"
>She raises a plastic bag labeled "Mimi's Icecream"
"Oh and sorry you had to leave the force"
| >>176547
>Dahk replies with a smile
"Yep! Got into a fight with three other dudes while doing a job, blew all the circuits on my stealth suit buut... I got a cutie's number! and panties!"
| > Felix looks between the crowd members before approaching IS and Ferris.
"Well, fancy seeing you guys here."
| >>176565
>OS shakes her head
"I would of done so anyway the paperwork was starting to drive me insane, and lets face it, if I didnt leave the higher ups would of made me take the blame, I did rush in that building moments before it blew up"
>She smiles
"But yeah, we shouldnt talk about this kind of thing right now, lets have some fun"
| >>176572
"Hey How's it going in the force and what's this about looking through my files and getting bored hmm?"
| >>176599
"Pretty good, so far."
> He pauses and sighs.
"It's not a personal thing. It's, ah.. How I keep up. How the hell did he get to you so fast? I dropped him off at Lilly's not long before he left."
| >>176607
>Ferris laughs as if keeping something
>(There's a good reason for knowing. If you know about what happened to AM)
>>176580
"Well where's the birthday boy?"
| >>176612
"Which thing are you talking about? the fight started because they attacked me randomly, I got restrained, so i blew the battery on my cloaking suit to electrocute my captors, oh and here's the beer
>She pulls out some brown bottles from under her jacket.
"Cracked open my secret stash just for the occasion!"
>Not having really any idea what she was talking about, Marie clings silently to OS the entire time.
| >OS clings back, looking prideful and happy, a smile on her face along with a healthy tinge of blush
| >>176646
>Ferris looks over at the li'l shota-loli
"Wow I can't believe you're older than me"
>She hands over the small gift. A gallon of mint ice cream from Mimi's
| "Gosh, i'm older then you? jeez now i really feel old..."
>Oh no, a fight, her love for icecream, or her love for OS? Marie thinks really hard about it and... leaves OS to start digging into the icecream with a spoon
"Shank yoush"
| >>176666
>OS pouts a little and stares at the icecream, but decides to let Marie eat it in the end
"I wont lose next time, Ice cream..."
>She says
| >>176667
"Ok now before you begin to doubt everything I am as an officer"
>Ferris sounds partly as if she's about to say a joke
| Love it
| >>176670
"Well ok but I'm just a fresh grad y'know"
>Ferris raises her hands in a sort of defensive gesture
>>176666
"You're welcome kiddo"
>Ferris pauses awkwardly after saying that, thinking if kiddo's even right
| >>176689
>OS shakes her head
"I didnt mean to say that to discredit you, I was just under the impression you were older than me, being a fellow LT and all..."
| >>176690
"I'm like 4-5 months into the cop job. I didn't even really grad as a cop but I got the credits and a bit of experience to get into a rank in -this- city."
"Well enough about me. What do you do now that you're off your old job?"
| >>176701
"right right, here they are, Marie are you drinking too?"
>He is too enthralled by the icecreaam to respond
"guess not"
| >>176707
"I'm helping out at a kind of detective agency, along with a guy named CN, it's a good job, puts my skills to use, and keeps me off most of the paper work"
>OS says, smiling
| >>176711
"Dahk, I still got your stash of alcohol from another time in the fridge if you want one?"
>Cain point back to the fridge in the kitchen.
| >>176717
>Dahk shakes her head
"Nope, not drinking tonight, gotta cutback you know? besides i'm happy enough after getting a cutie's number..."
| >>176715
"A related job huh. Good on you. Can't really blame you for leaving Investigations. That dep is a mess. And paperwork is everywhere everyday anywhere"
>Ferris shrugs
"Say, what can you tell me about CN? met him a few times almost worked with him even. Seems to be a kind of hero with his fingers in a lot of business"
| >>176721
"Ok, good to know you are trying to get rid of at least one of your vices."
>Cain begins to walk away before snapping back
"Wait, I thought you already had a girlfriend?"
| >>176722
"I don't really know, I know he's a decker or a hacker of sorts, but aside from the rumors I haven't really heard more about him, nor really asked him too many questions, he was part of the Dynamo fuckers, I think? Maybe he still is, he just mentionned it in passing to AG."
>OS says
| >>176733
>Dahk freezes
"We're just friends! I would never cheat on Angus! The number is just for when i need some help! and well the panties... Well, i looked for yours too it's not like i'm trying to hit on you!"
>She realized she's yelling and drops to a munble
"We only snuggled a bit..."
| >>176745
"He's my Boss slash partner now, we both found out we had an interest in retro flicks too, he's a nice guy"
| >Cain tries to keep a serious face but bursts out laughing
"So not only my dear friend is a pervert but a heartbreaker too?"
>Cain jests
| >>176754
"I wonder if I can get in on that. My unit does nothing but train everyday anyway. And we've got some clearances that'll work for those kinds of jobs"
| "...I mean the jobs by the way"
| >>176755
>Marie finishes her fill of the icecream, getting up and (struggling to) putting a hand on Dahk's shoulder
"Jeez, lay of her mom, Dahk, if it makes you feel better, you can some of my underwear too!"
>Dahk just groans, walking to the washing machine
"Stop teasing me, i only go for cute girls you trap!"
| >Cain drapes her arm over Dahk's sholder, leading her away from the washing mashine.
"How about we go relax in the kitchen, have some cake?"
| >Dahk raised an eyebrow
"Well if you say so..."
| "What do you mean? I just haven't caught up with you in a while."
>Cain shrugs, as she walks over to the fridge, grabbing some juice.
| "Well, normally when you drag me to have a one on one it's to lecture me on drinking... but i'm not drunk!"
"Anyway, how's your sex life?"
| >//////<
"It's um... well... going good?"
>Cain stiffens up, not knowing what to say
"A-And for once I'm not lecturing you!"
| >Dahk looks a little amused, but then dejected
"Ours has been going kind of slow..."
| >Aleid wonders into the apartment with a large box, wrapped like a present.
"Cain! I can't see in front of me! Help!"
| "Marie's still here, right?"
| >>176843
"Whoa hey! You could have called ahead so that I can help!"
>Cain begins to slowly lead Aleid towards the birthday gir- boy.
"Come on, he's still here."
| "CN tries to be mysterious to look cool... "
>Graham shrugs...
| "Yeah I didn't think about it until I realized how large this thing was gonna be!"
>Aleid replied with a blush.
"Thanks, Babe."
| >Marie jumps with joy
"Papa Aleid there you are!"
| >>176853
"W-w-wha?! Papa?"
>Aleid blinks in confusion...
"Eh...well I guess that makes sense...? Where'd this come from? Did we just adopt a twenty-five year old?"
> Aleid laughed.
"Marie this is from Cain and I, come help me out it down before I knock something over!"
| (put it down*)
| >Marie runs over to help aleid bring it down, getting hrribly crushed in the proce- i mean, it gets placed on the ground without a hitch.
"Well, i *could* call you both mom... but that's too confusing!"
| >>176860
"Yeah... I kind of played a joke on Dahk, and it went a bit far..."
>Cain helps out Aleid by carrying part of the present, and leading her, so she won't knock anything over.
| "Eh, being a dad can't be all bad when your kid is 25. Just make sure you pay rent!"
>She joked.
"So! In this box is a prototype outfit I designed. TECHNICALLY it was ordered by someone else but it was so nice I wanted it...and I wanted to doll you up, so I thought 'FUCK IT LET'S GET THE WIFE AND KID ONE!'...that was my best dad impression. Anyway...I brought you a nanoshifting outfit that uses holographic technology to change the clothes to different appearances."
| "No it isn't hacked yet."
| >>177029
"Wife and kid? You got me one too? Oh Aleid,you sweety!"
>Cain, now curious as to what was in the box, hugs Aleid.
| >Marie is equal parts delighted and confused.
"How, wha? I mean... How'd you even..? Never mind that, can i try it on now?!"
>She hugs Aleid too,
| >>176849
"Well, I guess that goes hand in hand with his nickname of Shounen Protagonist, huh"
>OS says, before turning to Marie and Aleid
"I would love to see what that outfit would look like!"
| >Marie, in anticipation for the outfit, has already begun stripping infront of everyone.
| > Felix has turned red, immediately spinning around.
"Holy shit."
| >Ferris sees nothing wrong with the situation and heads over to the table. Taking a beer and using it to open another beer, and another, then popping of the now damaged cap with her hand, she hands one to Graham, then Felix. Finally taking one herself.
| >OS blushes a little and tries to hide Marie from sight as well as she can
| >Marie looks around confused
"Huh? Is something wrong? All i did was take off my shirt..."
| >Aleid of course snerks in amusement at everyone's reactions.
"Aaaah I love traps. Anyway~."
> She begins helping Marie open the box to reveal three cases each sitting in military grade suit containers. When one of the boxes are opened one can easily tell it's in Marie's size. The suit looks like a 'casual wear' plug suit with rather tastefully placed micro containment pouches placed on various parts of the outfit for the nano-machines to rest. Pretty stylish for a jump suit.
| >Cain takes a look at the suits, and recognises the work, trying to avoid looking at Marie undress.
"Aleid, is this the nano-camo side project that I seen you work on?"
| "Okay so you put it on like any suit of this sort, and when you activate it a holo-wheel of clothing selections should appear around you. You can move them around with waving gestures and select by prestting one of the holo-windows away from the wheel-group."
>Aleid explained.
"Once you've made your selection the suit will be altered by the nanomachines to the desired outfit and the NanoCamo and hologram fields will adjust the color and apply any other style choices you add."
| > Aleid beamed proudly at Cain.
"Indeed it is, M'lady!"
| ( Prestting is supposed to be 'pushing'. I'm not sure how that typo happend. )
| "Oh! By the way! To activate it, snap your fingers and point in front of you in one move. Heheh~. I wanted the gesture to look cool."
| >Marie, who completely changed during Aleid's lengthy explanation, beams at her
"it's so cozy! And high tech!"
>She spends the next few minutes fiddling around with with, changing outfits quite a bit, before finally Settling on a maid outfit.
>He leaps at at aleid again hugging her.
"Thank you so much, how can i ever repay you..."
| >OS looks at Aleid, and does a thumbs up, a smile on her face
"You look really cute in that Marie, its perfect!"
| "Show off as much as possible and tell em you got it from the gallery."
>Aleid said with a laugh as she hugged Marie back.
| "Not bad."
> Felix takes a swig, realizing he's empty.
"Well shit."
| >Dahk comes back from the kitchen
"I you need more beer i got some in the fridge"
| "Thanks."
> Felix turns and heads to get himself another beer.
| >>178112
"Well go on! What can you pick?"
>Cain says in curiosity, impatient to see what Aleid programmed, and what Marie will pick.
| "Why don't you see for yourself?"
>Marie opens another one of the cases, and mildly shoves cain into her own room
"Go on, Take it *all* off!"
| "HEY, WAIT WHAT!"
>Cain mildly reacts to being told to strip, closing and locking the door behind her, you might hear her mumble while she undresses.
"I hate taking this sweater off, takes god damn forever..."
| "I thought this was a birthday party.."
> Felix returns to Ferris and OS, sighing.
"I wonder where our EMT is."
| >Cain finishes changing and picking an outfit in the suit, settling with... exactly what she had previously...
>She comes back to the party, joining Felix and the cops.
"Why would we need an EMT?"
| >>178603
>OS looks at Felix
"EMT? The only one I know is Kazuki, and I dont think he's coming tonight is he?"
| "I got Lane on speed-dial if we need an EMT..."
>Cain sheepishly says, trying to fit in...
| "Er.. He said he might come, in the thread.. But the thought in my mind was unrelated. I was just curious.."
> Felix takes a drink.
| >>178643
>OS goes for a drink herself, before returning to Marie's side, and checking out his clothes
"That's some cute clothes, but how does this even work in the first place?"
| "Nahomachine magic!"
>Marie proudly declares, clinging once again to OS
|
| >>179187
"Well, I know a lot about that"
>OS cuddles Marie tightly
"It's very cute, and fits you well"
| >Marie begins to get a weird look on her face.
"...Hey OS, am i an adult yet?"
| >Marie nuzzles back, and almost whispers
"Well then... for my birthday present... can we have uh... sex?"
| >Os seems surprised
"I-"
>She just nods weakly and blushes
"Y-yeah"
| >Marie blushes too, but keeps her eyes trained on OS
"We don't have to do it if you don't want to..."
| >OS shakes her head
"No, no I was just surprised..."
>She gets closer and whispers into his ear
"We can do it if you want"
>She hugs Marie and blushes a lot
| >He mumbles
"Right now?"
| >OS blushes
"Right now? that's huh"
>She hugs tighter and nods
"If you want... anytime is good"
| >Marie smiles, slowly leading OS to his room where he then
>*THE FOLLOWING HAS BEEN BEEN DELETED BY THE FBI*
| >Cain just smirks, and goes to turn the music up, covering any 'noise' from Marie's room.
| "Shit...I remember back on my 23rd birthday...I had five... No... Sixs girls in my bed by the end if it... It was quite interesting."
>Graham shrugs taking a swig.
| >>180922
"I was but now I'm more of someone who just sits in my house eating junk food..."
>Graham smiles.
"It was a better time eh?"
| >Dahk comes out the kitchen with with a cup of hot tea, which she nearly drops after hearing loud moans from the bedroom over the music
"Jesus christ, Cain I thought I told you to soundproof your place!"
| "Sniff. I'm so proud!"
>Aleid says jokingly.
| >Le while sometime after the birthday.
>There is a knock on the door
| "Who is it!"
>Cain says angryly at the door between sobs.
| > Aleid walks up toward Cain's apartment while pulling out her key to it. She stared at it for a while and looked up to see someone at the door while she was heading in. She'd left after being called to do some work with one of her contacts...
"...Aaaah...Okay."
> She mumbled. How was she going to handle Cain in this situation? There was no way she was doing well...Or if she hadn't figured it out then...
| >A stoix Dahk walks in, carrrying a squiriming Marie on her shoulder His make is completely ruined from all the tears, and he reeks of alchohol
| "Oh Dahk! Thanks for finding Marie!"
>Cain swoops in, taking Marie from Dahk.
"Don't do that, I don't want to loose you too."
| >Marie breaks into tears again
"I'm showwy i-ish jusht that I'm a mess right now and......."
>He buries himself in her chest, sobbing
| >>183360
"Me too hun. Me too."
>Cain sits down, fighting her own tears, comforting Marie.
"Dahk, grab a few bottle of your beer from the fridge, please."
| "Sure thing."
>She goes into the kitchen, noticing AM's ol spirit collection. She loudly slams thr door on the stash, and comes back with several beers
"...he's pretty drunk already, you sure you're gonna let him drink?"
| >>183379
"It's not for him, It's for me and you."
>Cain keeps patting Marie, trying to calm her. Cain herself is pretty drunk at this point, sobbing every once in a while.
| >Eventually, Marie's sobs slow down to a trickle, where he whimpers
"I'm s-sorry... this definitely isn't cute at all..."
>Dahk sighs and sits down
"For the record, I drink out of need, not desire"
>She downs most of the bottle in a single chug, and tears start to well up in her eyes
"I hope Aleid can handle three cry babies.."
| "He seemed ok on the outside, why, why did he never tell me?"
>Cain takes gentle sips, sombrely crying.
| >Dahk angrily smashes the bottle on the ground
"Diddn't he fucking leave this hellhole!? What happened to the cushy dev job? Why the fuck was he *back*
>She opens another bottle,
"None of this shit makes sense, i feel like I was lied to..
| > Soon later, a low knock can be heard on the entrance door of the apartment. The knock doesn't repeat however, it was only made once.
| "I don't know anymore. Why god do I have to suffer. It was hard nearly loosing him again, but this time..."
>Cain holds on to Dahk, wanting her to ease up.
"Go get the door, please. I got to deal with Marie."
| >Dahk calms down, and glances at all the glass shards on the ground
" ...Sorry about the floor"
>She gets up, and goes to the door,
opening it, bottle still in hand
| > There was no one at the door, perhaps the one who knocked had already left.
> In the person's stead was a wooden basket. The basket's mouth is enclosed by a single piece of white cloth.
| >Dahk rubbed her eyes
"I'm not drunk enough for this..."
>she crouches down and removes the cloth, to see whats inside
| > Inside the basket was not quite plentiful, but thankfully it wasn't anything dangerous either.
> On the top is a Five-SeveN, it has been unloaded from its all its ammo,
> A folded paper and a glowing bronze coin resides near the gun,
> And finally, in the bottom part of the stack is a chocolate cake. Its apparent size fills the basket as a whole.
| >Dahk sighs, even more confused. She brings the basket to the others, carefully removing everything but the cake from the basket
"Look Marie! someone got you a cake, so cheer up ok?"
>Marie reluctantly turns her head spots the cake, and smiles a little.
>Dahk pets her too,
"Now why not go get washed up so we can enjoy it together?"
>Marie reluctantly lets go of Cain, and walks slowly to the bathroom
>With Marie gone, Dahk reveals the other items,
| "Is this another of AM's friends?"
>Cain sighs, seeing the items.
| "Who knows, it was juat a basket when i opened the door. You know anything special aboht the Five-seveN?"
>Dahk passes the gun over to Cain, while she unfolds the piece of paper to hopefully understand more
| >>183543
> The paper contains very little, in exception to the smears and smudges of what seems to be ink.
"Don't fret. Don't fear."
> A very unnoticeable text is written below it, but instead of ink, a pencil was used instead.
"Believe in him."
| >Cain looks at the note, crushing it in her hands.
"It's Uni. She thinks he's alive. He's not. I saw the pictures, GOD DAMN IT!"
>Cain flips the coffee table in rage
| >Dahk swears under her breath
"I swear if she does something stupid too"
| >Cain sits back down on to the sofa, now crying her eyes out, gripping the note in her hand.
| >Dahk fixes the Coffee table, and sighs
"I'll go prepare the cake for Marie"
| >Cain barely makes a response, mumbling a word through all the crying
"Yeah."
| > Aleid finally makes it in after remaining in the hallway for a moment going back and forth between her phone and a certain handheld she had. She finally put both away and wandered along inside. She saw the three and didn't look surprised. Instead she goes straight to Cain and Marie and hugs them both close, assuming they're close enough!
| >Marie had exited the shower, dressed in a simple tshirt and sweatpants, he had walked over to cain, about to ask if she was alright, but is taken by surprise when he finds himself in aleid's hug.
>Dahk meanwhile, whistles a little, sweeping up the broken glass from the earlier incident
| >Cain reciprocates the hug, still crying in to Aleid's shoulder.
| >Aleid didn't bother speaking. She just kind of climbed on to the couch so she'd be in a position to pull them in and cuddle with them both. She ran her fingers through Cain's hair and rested her chin on top of the woman's head while she was at it.
"...Geeze you both smell like the alcohol drank *you*...Any left over?"
>She of couse asked gently, though she hoped to inject some levity into the atmosphere.
"I know....I know." >She mumbled as Cain cried. Her own expression somber.
| "Fr-f-fridge."
>Cain tries to answer through the sobing.
| >Dahk speaks up,
"I'll get some for you, they... need you more"
| "Thanks, Dahk. Heh...I wasn't gonna move anyway."
>Aleid admitted that with a smile and hugged them both as close as she could comfortably. For extra effort she also kicked up her internal heating system a notch just to help warm them both up. Not enough to be uncomfortable obviously.
"Hey...Cain? Let's have a vacation. For a few weeks, let's just...stay in and be shutins or go somewhere off the grid for a while?"
| "Marie, you wanna go?"
| "I-if you'll have me..."
>Dahk quietly sets a few bottles of bear next to Aleid, along with a chocolate cake
| "Mmmm."
>Cain mummbles in to Aleid's shirt, no longer crying.
| "Where do you wanna go?"
>Aleid asked gently while still running her fingers through Cain's hair.
"Heh! Maybe Marie should be the one to dream up a place? It might be fun going as a family somewhere, eh?"
>She offered this while resting her head on Cain's as if to use her whole body to shield the woman from the rest of the world. She smiled peacefully and attempted to comfort her that way. Of course Marie was still held close and watched while she spoke.
"Any dream vacations?"
| "Thanks, Dahk. Gonna stand around looking lonely or...?"
| >Dahk looks a little surprised at being acknowledged
"Oh, I diddn't want to intrude on your family moment"
>Though she does eventually snuggle up with aleid, cause warm lilim are nice...
>Marie chuckles a bit
"Oh, i'm not creative enough to have a dream location. Although...I always wanted to see the sea."
| "I mean you're like Marie's constantly drunk uncle at this point so..."
>Aleid trailed off jokingly. She smiled at Marie and shrugged gently so not to disturb Cain.
"Doesn't Glitch City have a beach? Then again...I dunno if I wanna go to GC's beach...We could go to Neo Hawaii for a bit, maybe? Wanna take your girlfriend with you?"
>She turns her head and gently kisses Cain's head, even though she really only has access to the back of Cain's head.
"What do you think, Babe?"
| "W-wait why am I uncle? Can't i atleast be aunt?"
>Marie chuckles, feeling a lot better
"who's ever heard of a drunk perverted Aunt? you're definitely a an Uncle uncle."
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>Cain keeps to her one word answers, still in a state of denial, but slowly recovering.
"Mmm. Hawaii."
| >Someone knocked on the apartment door multiple times.
| >Dahk sighs, reluctantly getting off Aleid and going to the door
"I'll go get it..."
>
| >Knocks repeat after a little while.
| "Yeah yeah i hear you all right..."
>Dahk opens the door
| "Good evening. I am terribly sorry, but would you mind me uncloacking after I step inside? I promise, that I do not mean any harm."
>Says a large bouquet of flowers, floating in mid-air, in a young male voice.
| >Dahk looks confused
"Do we uh, know you mysterious bouquet of flowers? Cause we're kind of going through an emotional moment... Though i guess you can
>She takes a step aside, letting the person in
| "Thank you."
>You hear the sound of multiple steps, heading inside the apartment, and soon stopping, not going too far away from you. Bouquet of flowers flies inside, simultaneously.
"I do not think we were introduced properly, which is one of the reasons I am currently here."
>Bouquet seems to be waiting for you to close the door.
| "Who is there, Dahk."
>Cain asks, voice muffled by Aleid.
| >She closes the door, and leans up against it
"...Okay... what's this about then?"
| "Not the time for a joke, Dahk."
>Cain mummbles.
| >The person holding the bouquet decloacks.
>The first thing you see is a pair of cold, blue eyes and something lurking deep, deep within them. The owner of said eyes is a tall, blond boy, in a yellow buisness suit. If you were to guess his age, you'd give him somewhere about 19. There's something about his face, that makes Dahk think she has already seen it, sending her memories back to the first meeting with Angus.
"My name is Richard King Dragonheart." >Boy says.
| "I am the current employer of mister Doe. You probably would be more used to the nickname 'AM'."
| "Nice to meet you, Richard."
>Cain looks at Y-King, suspicious of his intent.
| >Dahk sees the face and thinks for a bit...
"I bought drinks for you once right?..."
>A serious expression suddenly crosses her face
"Wait, 'Current?' are you aware he died or..."
>her voice drops off,
| "Would you mind if we sat down? I'd like to discuss the situation that is currently unfolding with you."
>King calmly intercepted, bowing slightly in Cain's direction.
| "There is nothing to discuss. He died. End of fucking story."
>Cain's blood begins to boil, why do people keep saying he's alive? He died!
| >King sighed.
"You see, I have inspected what is supposed to be mister Doe's body personally. I have reasons to believe that his, khm, suicide was either his own attempt to fake his death, or the attempt to do so by yet unknown third party."
>He turned to look Cain in the eyes.
"Do you still believe there is nothing to discuss?"
| "...so who killed him?"
>King can see the raging fire in Cain's eyes, eclipsed in her brown eyes, barely contained.
| >Marie looks up and around, a little confused and red eyed
"What's going on?"
>Dahk groans taking a swig of beer
"Next thing you know there's going to be fucking lasers shooting out of the ground..."
| "Do we HAVE to discuss it while standing in the hallway?"
>Ice in King's eyes was just as freezing as Cain's fires were passionate.
"It was a very long day."
| "Nobody is stopping you from taking a seat."
>Cain keeps her eyes on King, holding out a bottle of beer.
| "I'll consider that an invitation then."
>The boy slowly walked deeper into the room, and collapsed on the nearest surface supposed to contain people in it. He put the bouquet near him.
"Do you mind people smoking inside?" >He said, taking out his pack of cigarettes. Made in black and yellow colors, it featured no text or markings on it.
| "I do. But go ahead."
>Cain sighs.
| "Ahh geeze..."
>Aleid groaned, and adjusted. She kept Cain in her arms just in case.
| "If you do, then I won't."
>King shrugged, but did not put the pack away.
"I'd ask you to listen to me until the very end, and only then ask questions. I'll keep it relatively short. I have, with minor troubles, gained access to what I will from now on refer to as AM's body. Please, do not take offence in it."
>He paused for a second.
"What I've found, was doubtlessly, if not the actual body and I will explain this possibility later, then an extremely precise copy."
| "..."
>Cain stares, being held by Aleid helps, but she can still feel all her muscles slowly tense.
| "I have obtained samples of DNA and blood from the body, and they're currently worked on. Usually, - >he pointed out that word,
- I would not have come here until the analysis is done. However, there was one, and only one minor discrepancy, that either mister Doe or the unknown third party, from now on 'Them', have not prepared for."
>He raised his pack of cigarettes.
"These cigarettes I am holding."
| "You will not find them on the market. You will not find them anywhere, because they're produced exclusively for me."
>King took out a small piece of plastic with a big red dote on it's end.
"They contain a special mixture of drugs, specificly designed to keep me sane. I'd rather left the reasoning behind it for the later date. Moreover, each cigarette contains a special strain of nanomachines. When put into human's mouth, these nanomachines integrate themselves into the tongue."
| "They are used to confirm my identity should the need arise. This here, - >He pointed towards the plastic piece,
- is the fairly simple device. It contains a different strain of nanomachines on it's end. All they do is change color if put into the contact with the nanomachines in the tongue."
>He put the thing into his mouth, and took it out. The colour changed to blue completely.
"Like this."
| "At multiple points in the past, I've lent mister Doe my cigarettes. Without any malicious intent, I'd like you to believe this."
>He put the device away.
"Naturally, I attempted to use the device on mister Doe's body. As you can probably guess, it did not react in the way it should have if the body was the same body, that smoked these cigarettes."
| "Since there are very few people knowing this fact about my cigarettes, and mister Doe, fortunately or not, is not one of them, I have a reason to believe, that the suicide was an attempt to fake his death. And be it mister Doe's own attempt, or Theirs, - >King finally looked up,
- they did not prepare for this. The first part of my story ends here. You are free to ask me any questions."
| "who is they."
>Cain bluntly says, her hug now begins to squeeze Aleid.
| >Marie sits on Dahk's lap, enjoying a few head pats and a chocolate cake, and he looks incredibly confused.
"I'm not sure I follow... Or if I should even..."
| >King shaked his head at Cain's question.
"I do not know. This is another reason I've come here. If mister Doe faked his death himself, then he had a reason for it. If not, then someone else faked his death to shake anyone willing to investigate his sudden off their tails. Either way, this also means that either people close to mister Doe or me myself, might become the next target. In case mister Doe faked his death himself, he did it to protect you from exactly this."
| "Which means, that our security has overlooked a very major threat. Not every day my employee gets snatched right beneath my own nose."
>Richard paused.
"If mister Doe encountered a threat he couldn't overcome himself, I would have expected him to come to me to ensure his own and his close ones protection. Should he have been kidnapped or, in worst case, killed, I should have known who was responsible for this in the first five minutes."
| "I also want to note this. If this were an actual suicide, we would not have been having this talk. I have a firm belief, that each person has a right to decide, how to live and if to live at all."
>He put the cigarettes away.
"I am here, because I believe current situation to be our corporation's security's fault, and that makes it MY fault as well. I am not obliged to provide protection to anyone but my employess, but in this case such protection will be provided to you."
| "If you are willing to be protected, that is."
>He said with expresionless face.
"The choice is always yours. If anything, I might be mistaken, and mister Doe is actually dead."
| "..."
>Cain is unsure of what to say, but tries to anyway.
"I'll take the protection. But..."
>She looks at Aleid, and their plans to go on vacation.
| >Aleid relaxed against the couch with Cain still held basically in front of her. She looked King up and down casually and tilted her head slowly.
"What would AM have done that'd have made us targets? Secondly...What if AM figured your trick out somehow and found a way to negate it? He's got friends in dark places, King. Lots of them. He may have been hated, but there's some people out there that either owe him or he owed..."
| > Aleid then leaned forward and rested her chin on Cain's head again.
"I don't mind the protection but...We were planning to go on vacation. Get out of Glitch City for a bit..and just not live the nightmare for a little while."
| "I am offering you protection exactly because I have no intel on what has happened. And if AM did figure my trick, he would have either got rid of nanomachines entirely or left them untouched."
>King shrugged.
"I want you to understand, that I personally do not care what happens to you. If you do not want protection, I will not force one onto you. Not unless I get a solid confirmation to my theory anyway. If you are targets, then it will give me chance to intercept the attackers."
| "If you aren't, it will be a huge waste of time and money."
>He stood up.
"I am not a hero of justice. I'd like you to decide right now. You can stay here under our protection, or we can provide you a way out of the city, and then you are on your own. Or you can be on your own from the moment I walk out of here. After all, I can be mistaken."
| "We will take your offer on a way out of the city. I will pay you back for this, it's the least I can do."
>Cain says, unnervingly calm in her emotions.
| "I don't want to sound rude, but I doubt you can cover the price of the fuel."
>King shaked his head.
"Save your money to spend on something useful. Who will be going? How much time do you need to prepare?"
| "It's the 4 of us. One day prep, I just want to get aay from this damn city before I lose someone else."
>Cain says, ending on a somber tone.
| >King nodded.
"I left a listening device in the bouquet. When you are ready, say so. Our security team will be waiting."
>He bowed his head slightly.
"If you have any more questions, ask them now. I doubt we will meet again."
| "I don't doubt it. Not if you're going to seriously persue information on AM's death."
> Aleid said casually.
"The way this city works...Well. If you haven't figured it out now...You will. Anyway I'll remember the offer all the same."
| >Dahk stays silent for a while, processung the information
"...How many people are you willing to fly out?"
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"Of course, make yourself welcome!"
>Marie goes to answer the door again