Pending Deal

[Nessy]

sinclaw said:

[Can't really say it's a good idea, but I can't look away now]

( Say what? )

[Sinclaw]

[Snooping around Pixie's files, miss Nessy. And I can't look away, because I want to know what happens next... I created Trevor, after all, I need my daily mayhem stew]

[Nessy]

(Oh! XD Oki!)

[Mina Crow]

Mina grunted wordlessly. "It seems she intercepted some of the Cigarettes files - wait. She says they caught a Vampire, but nothing else. If she has their own files backed up here..." Mina looked over her shoulder. Still no sign of Pixie. She browsed through a few more files; most were useless ramble, fruit of Pixie's insane mind, but somewhere among them... "Got it!"

The moment she opened the file the volume of the singing birds climbed up to deafening. Instinctively, she brought both hands up to her ears, trying to block out the sound.

"What are you doing?" came a shriek from the doorway. Pixie stood there, looking at the Vampires with incredulity, as if she had totally forgotten them.

[Sinclaw]

[See? ^_^]

[Mina Crow]

[Bad. Idea. To. Freak. Out. The. Nerd. Ditto.]

[Nessy]

Sven frowned, "Dancer, you reckon?", he instinctively asked when Mina informed him. He watched her search for the files, looking over his shoulder, always alert. The moment the chirping birds began to scream, Sven hissed and covered his ears. Goddammit. Paranoid girl. Smart. "Close the files, quick.", he whispered to her ear, loud enough for her to listen, but not enough for the sound not to cover it.

He turned around to look at Pixie, wincing. How the hell wasn't she covering her ears? "The screen was blinking. We didn't know what it was, we went to check.", he said, as if he was telling the truth. "We thought something was wrong.", wincing at the sound.

[Nessy]

(Sven saaaaaaid soooo)

[Mina Crow]

[Curiosity killed the cat, dear Mina.]

Mina clicked frantically on the windows to close them, her ears aching from the explosion of sound. Then, suddenly, she turned away from the computer, leaning on the desk with both hands over her ears. The alarm - or whatever it flaming was - would not stop, yet Pixie seemed unaffected by it. She simply walked to them, hands twitching at her side, crazed green eyes narrowed at Sven. "The screen was blinking?" she hissed, barely loud enough to be heard above the noise. With a furious pose, she walked to the desk, brushed Mina aside and typed a set of numbers and letters. The cacophony died down immediately. Then she turned to face Sven again, standing too close to him. "The screen was blinking?" she repeated.

[Sinclaw]

[But "there's more than way to skin a cat... and I happen to know that's factually true" (the Mayor, from Buffy). Ok, I'll go back to passively reading/writing (nothing like writing on a brutalized empty stomach) now]

[Nessy]

(I thought she was a crow? xD)

When that crazy girl inched closer, Sven instinctevely grabbed Mina's arm and yanked her behind him. Never trust a crazy person. Ever. He watched her move and sighed in relief when the sounds stopped, rubbing his left ear. "Fuck.", he frowned and looked at the girl. He just wanted to grab her by the collar and shake the hell out of her, but right now he was more focused on not letting that girl lay a finger on Crow. "Yes! Blinking, twitching, I don't know. I don't understand computers.", he hissed, towering that girl easily, glaring at her. "We touched some files, trying to stop it.", he was a good liar. A very good one. With his diplomacies skills and his lying abilities, he could have made a great politic.

[Mina Crow]

[Yahda, yahda, crow, cat, same stuff. xD You do realize she's too insane to deal with diplomacy, right?]

"Wait", said Mina. "I'm sorry if we intruded on your files, Pixie. It was not on purpose. But there is something I cannot forget now. You have written something about a Vampire captured by the Cigarettes. A girl. Please, we need to know more about it." It was not on Mina's nature to plead. In fact, it set her nerves on edge, and she had to let that exceeding energy flow away somehow. So, she just grabbed Sven's shoulder and squeezed, trying to calm her breath and recover from the rush of adrenaline. "Please, Pixie?"

The other girl seemed like a cat poised to jump on its prey, waiting for it to make just the wrong move. "You violated my privacy", she said acidly, slanted eyes dripping poison.

[Nessy]

Sven groaned when Mina decided to tell the truth. He sure was glad to be her Beta. If it was someone who cracked under the pressure, they were both done for it. He felt the grip on his shoulder and clenched his jaw, turning his blue eyes to the insane girl, before crossing his arms over his chest.

"Hey, see my hair?", he pointed to it. "It's all arranged. You can play with it anytime if you promise to forget this little incident that will never happen again.", hey, no matter how insane, Pixie was still a kid, and Sven had been a bigger brother. He knew how to make deals with kids. Everybody was still a child inside.

[Mina Crow]

"Oh, can I?" Pixie giggled, her attitude completely changed, the menacing aura gone. Like a small kid, she reached up and messed up Sven's hair again, laughing. "I owe you one", whispered Mina, letting out a deep breath. "Count on me to put that back on place." She released his shoulder, realizing how hard she had been gripping it. But they still needed that particular bit of information. And the codes, of course. "Pixie, how about the codes? Can you replace them after all?"

The answer was almost disdainful. "Of course I can. Take this." She proffered a small, nondescript dark box, offering it to Sven. "Take it, puppy. You just have to replace the other code box with this one. Nothing too fancy. Just give me the nano."

Mina took off the small metal spheres from her pocket again, giving them to Pixie. The girl snatched them from the Vampire's hand and carried the twin processors to a shelf like they were the world's most precious possession.

[Nessy]

The young man looked and her and frowned a little, "Oh, yes you do.", he shook his hair before bending over so that Pixie could reach his hair, squinting one eye, trying not to smash his head against the floor as she destoyed one more time his mohawk. His pride was being stepped on a lot, lately. Damn it.

Sven took the dark box, arching his eyebrows up. "Thanks.", he smirked at her, not touching his hair. He looked like he had just stuck his head inside a wind pipe or something of the sorts; a flusterred rooster for sure.

He watched the box on his hand before giving it to Mina. He and technology didn't get along that well. "Satisfied?"

[Mina Crow]

"Not yet", murmured Mina, putting the code box away. "Pixie? The Vampire? Please?" She was grinding her teeth. The girl seemed not to notice, flashing her a huge, white smile.

"They took her. Seraphim, it seems." She was smiling, speaking as if describing the weather. "I would have liked to see it, it must have been fun."

Mina forced herself to keep her hands away from Pixie's throat. The cyberpath was rocking on her heels, looking at the Vampires with her gleaming green eyes wide open, hardly blinking.

[Seraph, please PM me Daisuke's description of the 'trial'. I don't know what to post xD]

[Nessy]

Sven frowned deeply and clenched his teeth. "I hate that pyromaniac arrogant bastard.", he hissed, looking at the computer. He felt like making that girl show them all the files. That girl... she was insane, but he slowly understood that she knew more than anyone. She knew what was going on among each Tribe, each dirty little spot of New Pork. Damn it., he narrowed his eyes and ran his fingers through his way too messy hair.

"Pixie? Do you know... where did they take her to? It was Dancer, wasn't it?", it was the only vampire Sven could think of: afterall, she did went to scout the territory.

[Mina Crow]

Pixie was humming tonelessly. "Dancer? What? Oh, you mean the girl!" She nodded vehemently, her golden locks swaying over the purple ribbon. "Yes, it was her. Seraphim got her during patrol, then took her to their Castle and beat her in front of the Tribe. Cool, isn't it?"

Mina stepped forward, hands clenched in fists. Pixie was going over the marks - and Seraphim as well. "It looks like you do have someone to torture, Rooster", she growled. F***KING SERAPHIM!!

Pixie just cocked her head at the furious Mistress, smiling peacefully while twiddling her thumbs.

[Nessy]

Sven smirked sickly and cocked his head up at the growling Mina. "Oh, yes. I will, don't worry.", he snickered and cracked his fingers softly. "So, Pixie...", he looked at her with his slightly psychotic face, eyes somewhat wide. "Is there anything else you can or want to tell us? About Seraphim", he spat his name like he would spit out a foul tasting food, "or Dancer? How can we get them out?", he was more concerned in getting Seraphim out of the Castle Smoke to torture him, actually.

[Mina Crow]

"Of course I can. Seraphim is cute. But he doesn't like purple and pink. Evil." Pixie pouted.

Still on edge, Mina took a deep breath, exhaling audibly. "We are done here. Let's go, Sven." The girl would not tell them more unless they forced it out of her, and it was best not to be on Pixie's bad side. The echo of those bloody chirping birds still rang on her ears. "It was a pleasure to see you, Pixie", she spat, not caring to conceal the sarcasm on her voice. It would be useless, anyway, since Pixie seemed oblivious to their rage.

"Bye bye Mina! Bye puppy! Come back soon!" she chirped on her childish tone. Fuming, Mina turned on her heels and started to the exit without waiting for Sven.