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Post by Masquerade on May 7, 2006 15:28:48 GMT 12
Shrapnel used her teeth to pop the tab; her right hand was too shaky to manage the maneuver, and she needed her left free.
She cocked an eyebrow at Nails as she raised the can to her mouth, taking tiny sips of the sweet soda. The first few were all bliss and heaven, and she found herself wondering just how in the hell she'd managed to go without it for so long. Whatever his excuse for sharing with her, she'd take it at face value, no questions asked so long as she could finish the soft-drink unhindered.
"I'd take it that you're not to popular with the Vampires right now." she said between small, savoured mouthfuls.
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Post by Rico Brooks on May 7, 2006 15:33:38 GMT 12
Rico smirked alittle and shrugged turning down the stereo beside him and then watching the crackling fire.
"...I may not seem it because I'm not in the mood right now but when your as ruthless as me when it comes to fighting you begin to be respected. Even feared....and thats what most of the vamps round the outskirts of this area do....I didn't make Hunter in one day for nothing.." he grinned to himself as he remember the fight he was picked up in
"...What about you...who you run with ?"
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Post by Masquerade on May 7, 2006 15:39:09 GMT 12
Cocky sonuvabitch, this one.
"Vampires don't fear anything but their Crow." she said coldly, swallowing a hiccup as her throat tickled at the long forgotten feeling of carbonated liquids. At his inquiry of her Tribe, she tossed her head back and effectively sent it falling to her shoulders, reveiling the grey-white triangel under her left eye.
"Cigarettes." she said warily, as if expecting him to take this new tidbit of information poorly.
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Post by Rico Brooks on May 7, 2006 15:44:18 GMT 12
Rico smirked gently and his eyes flicked to the triangle, he had a few fights and a few peaceful conversations with the Cigarettes but generally they left eachother alone.
"...Scared of their Crow...try telling that to the one who pissed himself when I had him pinned against a car. " Rico grinned and shrugged "...hell if you wanna live dangerously you gotta act dangerously right. I'm a big guy and I know that, so why not use it to get where I want to be. " Rico had a careless tone on as he spoke to her.
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Post by Masquerade on May 7, 2006 17:33:36 GMT 12
Shrapnel rolled her eyes discreetly, muttering something under her breath that was most likely quite impolite.
"Sorry to be all cliched and sh.it, but generally the bigger they are, and I mean that in the egotistical sense, the harder they fall. I can deal out the as.s-whoopings, but I don't exactally go around bragging about it. In fact, screw the while arrogance thing, talking sh.its just plain rude, screw the fact the people y'r dissing aren't in your own Tribe. It'll come back to bite you where it hurts."
Her little speech was made in short, snappish bursts between sips of her drink, and her sudden erratic movements spoke of build up agitation just below the surface.
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Post by Rico Brooks on May 7, 2006 22:26:36 GMT 12
Rico calculated her behind a stoney unreadable mask, then split his face into a silent grin and looked back at the fire
"...I 'ain't bragging, I'm telling it how it is. " he flicked an old rusty washer off the top of the train and it clanked off the barrel
"...Anyway whats got your knickers in a twist ?"
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Post by Masquerade on May 8, 2006 4:32:53 GMT 12
"Huh, I dunno. Maybe it's the whole digging through garbage, eating rats, fighting and killing to survive kinda thing thats got my 'knickers in a twist'." she growled, the pop can crimpling slightly under her sudden increase in grip.
"...But I don't think I want to discuss personal philosophy on survival with you any more." she added in a bored tone, returning to drinking her soda.
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Post by Rico Brooks on May 8, 2006 8:56:39 GMT 12
Rico took this girl with a pinch of salt. She was still openly hostile despite his attempts to lighten her mood which obviously hadn't worked so he tried the next best thing.
"...What you planning on doing then after this..just ambling topside or ? "
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Post by Masquerade on May 8, 2006 8:59:50 GMT 12
Shrapnel had been relaxing, but the whole subject of being big and nasty had soured her mood. Shrapnel didn't have much to her advantage -she certainly wasn't big, and despite having a lethal temper she wasn't regarded as being a tough sh.it- and it made her... uneasy.
"I'll go back to scavenging. Going back empty handed would just mean I wasted a day."
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Post by Mina Crow on May 8, 2006 9:06:53 GMT 12
[*Nudges Seraph* Shrapnel reminds me of Solitude...]
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Post by Masquerade on May 8, 2006 9:24:24 GMT 12
[dude. now I need to go find solitude's thing to reeead. DX *huffs off*]
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Post by Rico Brooks on May 8, 2006 23:15:35 GMT 12
Rico nodded and heard a tiny little voice inkling in the back of his skull. Rico frowned and then sighed slightly ' Alright alright ' he said to himself and leant over, he lifted the stereo he'd found and held it out to her.
"...Here take this back to them.. save's you having to waste time searching ..." he picked up 3 of the chocolate bars and stashed them in his leather jacket. He gestured to the box of them, there was about 12 left.
"...Take them too if you want them ...I dont need them "
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Post by Masquerade on May 9, 2006 5:36:00 GMT 12
Shrapnel stared.
"You're handing over a dozen bars to me, when you could take them back to the Wildcats and probably get into the good books 'round there... a dozen bars of chocolate, even." she said, shaking her head in disbelief.
"You're a crazy bas.tard, alright." She wasn't going to turn down his offer, however. Food was food, even if it was a hand out from a rival. "
"But thanks, I suppose."
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Post by Rico Brooks on May 9, 2006 7:06:20 GMT 12
Rico laughed loudly and grinned at her with his pearly whites
"..Thankyou ! Best compliment i've had in along time " he gave a small wink and then laughed gently for a few moments before sighing softly and leaning forward on his knees.
"...I'd get flayed for saying this but I dont give a monkeys about being in the Wild cats good books...we're all playing for survival in this game...just being with the Wildcats is a big help I guess ...and hell they found me first. "
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Post by Masquerade on May 9, 2006 9:38:05 GMT 12
Shrapnel mentally sighed. She wasn't pleased about the forced drafting into the Tribes, but at least she was loyal enough to the Cigarettes. Even if some of them were a little... off (but to be fair, she'd yet to meet a truely stable individual in New Pork.
"You're welcome, I suppose. Hope the whole self-appreciation thing helps when your superiors go commando on your sorry as.s." she said, sliding fown from her perch and to the floor below. "But I need to get going. I've been sitting around f' too long as it is."
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Post by Rico Brooks on May 9, 2006 11:07:09 GMT 12
Rico reached behind himself and pulled his curve cut pole from its hiding place and a 4 pack of beer and jumped down, holding the pole across his shoulder like a sword and clutching the beer in the other hand he gave he a gentle nod and began to move off down the subway away from the blasting stereo he left for her to take
"...See you out on the war zone then "
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Post by Masquerade on May 9, 2006 11:22:12 GMT 12
Shrapnel paused in her steps, watching the Wildcat retreating off into the gloom of the tunnels with an incredulous look on her face.
Hot damn, that boy was weird.
"Sayonara, Nails." she said quietly, scrabbling up into the overturned car and snatching up the walkman before he had a chance to turn around and change his mind. She could probably barter off the stuff he'd handed over for something a little more useful, but for the moment she simply stuffed it all into her various pockets and jogged off in the opposite direction, intent on finding a safe place in which to check out the walkman. Maybe it had a radio feature. That would be sweet.
[Thread = Finito Dx]
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