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POSTED ON Jan 11, 2020 2:58:51 GMT

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There's always that gut feeling you get when you're about to do something you shouldn't. Where you question your motive and what you'll gain from taking that one step in the direction you know is wrong. [break][break]

Dread had coated River's neck with sweat. It had made his stomach tighten with fear, but he had gone ahead with it anyway. [break][break]

Knox had asked him to and for some reason he had agreed. Maybe part of him didn't want the guy to get in over his head alone. So why not with a friend?[break][break]

It had been a routine hit, Knox had said. Or maybe he'd said it would be a piece of cake.[break][break]

'Trust me,' he'd probably said. This was probably River didn't even trust himself, because he definitely couldn't trust the people he ran with. [break][break]

Their objective to steal a stash of drugs Knox had been keeping tabs on had seemed simple. Straightforward, easy enough to manage. There was no one around, nothing out of the ordinary. They were golden.[break][break]

Until they weren't. Until River's nose is dripping blood and there's a cut under his eye because someone caught them. Some guard or something that had stumbled upon them stuffing their pockets with Ziplocs and loose cash. Why had there been so much money hidden with the stash of that good good? [break][break]

Oh, right. Because Knox had been stealing from a drug lord or worse and had neglected to tell River that part. Or maybe he was so out of his skull he hadn't known himself. [break][break]

Regardless, the two boys had managed to disarm and knock out the guard and were now freaked out trying to figure out what the fuck they were gonna do now.

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POSTED ON Jan 13, 2020 16:52:43 GMT

[attr="class","knoxpost"]there are studies on the subconscious. about how even if the conscious mind is not aware of certain facts, the subconscious picks up on what's been glossed over. and in knox's case, acts on those facts in a self-destructive manner.

so he hadn't known, until adrenaline had kicked in and the guard with too much training was felled by the two boys, that he'd been stealing from a drug lord all this time. probably from the very person that distributes the shit he buys from seedy hookups in back alleys. he hadn't known, in his conscious mind, in his waking thoughts, of what he'd been doing, but he'd never questioned why he felt so compelled to carry out this self-appointed mission.

it could go deeper than that. perhaps his subconscious was sick of his shit, sick of what he was doing to his body, and thought he could become a hero--dismantle the crime ring, cut off the supplier, and there wouldn't be anyone around to give knox another needle.

"it's fine. it's fine," he snaps at river. they'd dispatched the one guard before he could utter a work on his radio, but the static has the people on the other line asking questions. won't be long before they realize he's not calling in.

knox pats him down, grabs keys and a key card and the guy's wallet. there's powder all around them from where one of the bags had split during the fight. knox's pupils give him away. he scratches at his nose. river might not have seen him dip into the stuff all over the dirty carpet, but it wouldn't be hard to draw a conclusion.

"we wash it all away. get rid of prints and shit, right? and then we get the fuck out of here. easy."

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POSTED ON Jan 20, 2020 21:59:31 GMT

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"It's fine? Are you fucking insane? This is not fine, not even a little bit fine! We just dropped that guy! I've never dropped anyone in my life and we just.."[break][break]

He hesitates because he's not sure what he wants to say, what he needs to say, what he can say to make all of this better. They were in trouble, serious trouble. The kind of trouble that usually led to your name carved into a headstone. [break][break]

Is he shaking? It feels like his palms are sweating and twitching and he's trembling. Come on man, snap out of it![break][break]

He can hear the other guards on the guys radio crackling in and out, asking for an update. There wouldn't be one, and neither him nor Knox had the kind of official, growly voice that could make all of this better.[break][break]

River stands awkwardly as Knox ransacks the mans body, grabbing keys, wallet, anything he can find that might be useful. It's a blur and River is scared, genuinely scared this time.[break][break]

"Sure, yeah, whatever. We just gotta get out of here, man!"

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POSTED ON Feb 2, 2020 2:41:00 GMT

[attr="class","knoxpost"]he's been in shit before. he practically lives in shit. in a whole fucked up whirlwind of bad decisions.

that's why he thinks so clearly now. that's why his hands know what to do and his brain is firing on all cylinders and it's also how he's gonna get them the fuck out of there. and he's gonna get them out safely, securely, and without any sort of inkling as to who they are.

summer might be the clever one, but he's his own brand of genius.

blue sprays down the carpets at his orders, soaks everything she can. captain scours the room for anything that could be linked back to them. she finds a couple locks of silver hair and tucks them in knox's ratty jacket pocket.

when she gives the clear, he stands to river, grabs him by the shoulder and yanks him towards him.

"i need you to shut the fuck up and stop worrying. we're gonna get outta here, alright? for chrissake, haven't you done anything like this before?" the anger stretching across his cheeks dissolves into a smug sort of amusement. "c'mon."

knox reaches for the door, hesitates. he swears under his breath and circles back to the desk, to the splintered wood and the hidden door, now broken in half, where some of the stash is still squirreled away. he shoves a couple fistfuls of the bags in his pocket, takes a wad of cash, and then jerks back up as he hears voices down the hall.

"shit." he jogs to river, throws him against the wall beside the door, holds a finger to his lips.

"you'll know when to run," he whispers. and then he looks down at the glaceon waiting patiently by his feet. he gives the signal and she freezes the wet carpet beneath them, and with blue's help, leaves a crystalline and slippery surface right under the door.

knox pulls his hood back over his head, hiding his blue and green hair, and grins from the shadows as the door creaks open.

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POSTED ON Mar 9, 2020 16:22:19 GMT

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River is not bright, he is not clever, he is not anything. He is a mess, a panicked mess who's colour has drained from his face and who isn't able to pull himself together. It takes Knox's rough hands on his shoulders, his anger to seize him, for him to finally come to his senses. And even then, his eyes are wild and don't quite focus on the shape of his friend's face.[break][break]

"Are you fuckin' serious, bro? No, no I have absofuckinlutely not done anything like this before. I thought you said this was chill, no big deal, just your run of the mill bust. Are you mental?"[break][break]

Knox smugs and River nearly melts as the boy's hands run down his arm and disappear. He's reaching for the door and River is stumbling after him with legs like jello. Voices down the hall make both boys freeze for a half second, listening.[break][break]

And then his body is pressed tight to the wall as Knox's weight crushes up against him, a finger pressed to his lips. Despite the smell of sweat and fear, it could almost, almost be considered romantic.[break][break]

As Knox tugs his hood over his head, River does the same, mimicking his movements to try and appear like he was just as in control of the situation.[break][break]

The door bursts open and the guards slip on the suddenly ice-covered carpet. It's well hidden, the layer of ice so transparent that, at first, River hadn't even realised it was frozen at all. They grunt and flop onto their backs, winded. Some have slammed their heads so hard they're out cold.[break][break]

And, under the impression that now is his chance to run, he runs. Sneakers squeak on the ice as he skates around the corner.

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POSTED ON Mar 31, 2020 18:41:08 GMT

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if there was anyone who could make any situation feel a lot lighter than it really is, then it was katherine.

she's luckily the worst person to ask to come rescue people, let alone distressed ones... if she had to guess? rocket simply had no one else nearby who could take care of it. they had to resort to calling her. not that it mattered. a mission is a mission, and money was money. she was more than happy to accept it. "come on, gallade. we said we'd be there in time. i don't want to deal with a body." they'll think kat did it, if she had to guess. a pink light flashes within her hotel room as gallade begins to teleport himself and katherine around the city.

kat knows how to make an entrance.
she knows how to make an entrance so good, that the room flashes with the same shade of pink once gallade teleports himself and her inside-- only to find the same guards beginning to rise back onto their feet. "uh-oh! looks like we got the wrong room, gallade..!" underneath the dark bunny mask she wore, a smile begins to spread. what could she say. the rush that knowing she'd be chased was better than any drug she could ever take.

she glides across the ice, moving further away from the guards. "gallade, psychic on their guns please. throw them away." and just as her command is said, while the guards are still somewhat disoriented by their fall, the psychic type does as he's told. the guns glow with a blue outline as an invisible force tosses them here and there. "sorry about that!"

now kat's free to skate away. and so she does.
until she cuts the next corner and notices river, "oh, there you are. they said i'm supposed to help some cute guy not die." gallade's eyes shifted between his trainer and the person they just met, almost as if asking if this will take long. the sound of running alerts her of the guards who were very much still around.

"oh, right. escaping. we're supposed to be doing that. let's keep going!"

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There's a pink light, the sound of struggle. Guards are getting back up and River is still cowering around the corner. Knox had fled already, gone in a heartbeat and not bothered with making sure his accomplice got out. Nothing could trace River back to him after all, and he was a dead weight anyway. He was a coward.[break][break]

He gasps as he watches through the crack of the door that some super babe had tossed away the guards guns. She slides outside, stopping just short of him and she's talking but he's too dazed to put sense to her words.[break][break]

"Wh-what? Cute guy?"[break][break]

Of course that's all he caught. And then she's reminding them both that they were supposed to be escaping, and while the drug dealers henchmen were busy trying to retrieve their weapons, River looks down the hallway. They were trapped, surely. He could hear people coming from another direction, closing in.[break][break]

"How did you get in here? Get me the fuck out of here!"[break][break]

He reaches for her arm, hoping she might have teleported or something. They were gonna die otherwise, surely.

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she's awful & the worst person to be with in a place like this. 

oh.
so there were more of them coming from the other direction. frankly, she hadn't expected this. katherine figured out that running outside would be fairly simple-- but it seemed as if that wasn't a course of action they were even able to consider. a shame. she truly wanted to get to know who exactly she was saving, and from what.

"what, already? but we barely got to know each other..." she teases, making light of the situation only further. she passes a glance at his hand around her arm, a blink or two following her stare. "maybe we should stick around. see if they're willing to talk this out? they wouldn't just shoot us, would they?" rocket truly sent the worst person for this job.

oh well.

the men begin to arrive, first to scan the room with their eyes - and immediately point their guns at their target. unfortunately despite his trainer's wishes, gallade waits no longer. as soon as the first gun is directed at katherine, the same pink light flashes and they are teleported outside. luckily, river had already grabbed onto her arm. he is transported safely along with her. even still, the guards frustratingly shoot their guns at all three of them.

they likely hoped they'd catch someone with a bullet before they were gone- but they fail, missing them by a second.

"god! i swear-- i totally felt one of their bullets reaching me. haha! that was great!" the rush of adrenaline still flowed within kat's veins.
now, the three of them stood outside of the building. but they were obviously far away from being even remotely safe. the guards were already beginning to flock the grounds outside as well, hoping to catch someone before they escape entirely.

"do you think they'll consider speaking to us this time? or should we just keep running?"
she did contemplate retrieving another pokeball. but was it necessary already?

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"Yes, already! Are you nuts? They'll kill us on sight, lady!"[break][break]

Thankfully, just as the armed crooks come around the corner to fire on them, the woman's Gallade whisks them away to safety. Bullets drop or become embedded in the wall behind where they were last standing. Some go astray and shatter the glass, and River glances up at it. [break][break]

They were on the ground now just outside, but he heard the shatter of glass and patted his chest in a panic. He hadn't been hit, oh my god, that was close.[break][break]

She's laughing though, clearly getting a kick out of their near-death experience, and River let's go of her quickly. [break][break]

"You are absolutely mad. They will not wanna speak to us. We just broke into a big ass drug cartel dude's office, thing, whatever. They think I stole some of their shit - which I didn't, the other guy did - but they don't care."[break][break]

River shakes his head, booking it. He wasn't inclined to stay around and chat with a psychopath, he was just grateful she had arrived on time to get him out of there unharmed. [break][break]

"Keep running, you idiot!"

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kat tilts her head to the side for a couple of moments, only to tilt it to the other side next. as if weighing river's words and trying to figure out if they made sense in her head.
okay, sure. they made some sense. but she didn't want to admit that. losing out on all this fun? that'd be a waste of time.

"cooome on! you're freaking out too much. it isn't that bad!" only it is. the criminals that chased after them fully intended to take care of them. if not for the drugs that were stolen, then to send a message to the person who did steal from them. "that story sounds fake. why would a guy like you be stealing drugs? you would've died there." katherine mentions so it casually, as if she was describing her breakfast. "gallade, buy us time. make that group of idiots go to sleep, will you?"

a curt nod from the psychic-type followed, "good. don't take too long though. it's best if you stay by my side and the baby's."

and with that said and done, kat finally began to follow river's advice. she began to run (although not at a pace she'll tire from so quickly), peering at her sides every now and then. gallade waited patiently for them to henchmen to arrive, his eyes beginning to glow red as they pointed their guns at him. not a single one of them managed to take a shoot, instead preferring to yawn and close their eyes-- until they fall to the ground and surrender to this strange urge to nap all of a sudden.

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River's face contorts into some manner of confusion and disgust. He looks nearly grotesque and it's mostly because he's nearly shitting himself. He'd signed onto a quick in-and-out heist. Get the goods, get out, easy peasy. Except then all of a sudden Knox realized he was a crazy person and they were robbing a bigwig with enough money to put both of them in the dirt and get away with it.[break][break]

Then all hell broke loose.[break][break]

Where the hell was that kid anyway? River glances this way and that, but doesn't spy the silver-haired kid and his sleuthy Vaporeon.[break][break]

"Fake? Does this look fake to you?"[break][break]

He tugs at the front of his jacket. It was covered in white powder, courtesy of his own clumsiness and Knox's impatience. He was literally covered in the stuff.[break][break]

The woman orders her Gallade to put the guards to sleep, and River doesn't really stop running. In fact, he doesn't even look behind him to make sure she's following - if she wanted to hang out with a couple of psychos with guns she could be his guest.[break][break]

The boy skids around a corner finally, nearly vomiting from the exertion. He leans over, hands digging into his knees as he fights for air, gasping.[break][break]

"We.. I think we lost em.. thank god."

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POSTED ON Mar 31, 2020 20:20:54 GMT

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the powder is inspected with a narrowed stare, katherine focusing on it for longer than she should.

and then, she uses her digit to collect some of it with a quick swipe. the same finger is stared at for a couple of moments, katherine judging whether if it'd be smart to test whatever drug this was here and now. but then again... rescuing someone while being high might prove to be difficult. "okay, okay. fine. it's real. i guess you just didn't know what you were getting into."

"that's kind of funny when you think about it."

funny, unlucky, sad. all of it. but mostly funny if you were asking kat. a familiar, warm pink light flashes beside them as gallade reappears, appearing uninjured. that must have meant everything went according to his trainer's plan.
.. and then the boy spews a river of vomit. gross. really gross.

"oh god. are you serious? you couldn't just hold it inside?" she's unable to restrain the eyeroll from coming. "did you try some of the stuff you took? because if that's the case, then you should probably spend the night with someone."

just not her. someone else. like a parent or a caring sibling. kat was no babysitter.

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River wipes drool from his lip as he recovers, taking a deep breath and stepping away from his mess. He throws the woman a challenging look when she accuses him of testing the goods.[break][break]

"No, why would I do that? We were gonna get into it later. Who organizes a bust while high?"[break][break]

He grumbles, looking away and feeling mildly embarrassed about the whole situation. This was not the ideal, he was smarter than this, surely. Cillian Quinn would be disappointed, livid with him, even. As much as he couldn't stand the guy, it made him even more humiliated to think of what the old fart would think.[break][break]

"Goddamnit."[break][break]

He rolls his shoulders back and wipes his shoe in the grass angrily. He must have gotten some on himself by accident.[break][break]

"I don't even have any of it anyway. What a waste of my time."[break][break]

And a waste of a partner, too, it seemed. Knox had just gotten the hell out of dodge and didn't look back.

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