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1x1 Kim and Shade RP (+Hush)
Spade raced on, hurrying to the spot where he lost the trail. “So, camera footage and eye witnesses ends here.” He pulled in a random alleyway. “Parking, we hoof it from here. Ready to try your tracking abilities?” His voice was tight, severe. Adam sighed as he leaned back, the sofa groaned. As he reclined. “Uh-oh, I think it’s protesting...” He chuckled to himself. “Well... you know. I understand if you don’t like me being here. I can sit in the hall. Let you have the place to yourself, just be a big bolder to block the entrance.” He looked over his shoulder.
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Hush continued to watch Adam, though at his words about not liking him being here Hush actually shook his head. Thing was, Hush was still a very nice boy who didn’t like to make anyone feel bad, but he of course now had the added dead which made it a bit more difficult. He signed ‘its fine’ to Adam, though realised the man might not understand, and so he forced a faint smile to try and communicate that while he couldn’t help being a little nervous, the guy didn’t have to worry about being here, as long as he did nothing bad at least...
“Can’t say I know, but bloodhounds are usually wet police use and I think they’re supposed be better than most. Your call though, might be better doing a bloodhound just because it won’t stick out if anyone sees us as opposed to a wall say might try and call animal control. This way I’m just a guy with my dog off the leash.” He tried to smirking give her half hearted chuckle hoping to ease the tension being stressed wouldn’t help this work better. Little did he know they really weren’t at the spot where she was taken since she had zigzag through many alleyways.—-
Adam smiled. “You sign?” He didn’t know what it meant though but it was cool.“ Well as long as I’m not bothering you. Do you by chance have a book around here? I don’t know about you but if I don’t keep my mind occupied I’m more likely to worry and get anxious.” His crooked grin was warm.
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Shade grunted. “True. Bloodhound it is. Here’s the brush.” Shade passed it to Spade since of course he had to be the one to hold it and stick it out for Shade to sniff. Then Shade shifted into a brown bloodhound dog.
Hush smiled bashfully and ducked his head as he nodded. Then as Adam asked for a book Hush looked a little concerned. He reached for the sign language book, hesitated but then offered it to Adam with what appeared to be an apologetic grimace on his face. It was the only book here presumably, apart from the cut up magazines he and Kim had used for makeshift puzzles.
Spade Took the brush and watched in amazement, he couldn’t help being impressed of the ability this kid being able to transform like that it was just… So not surprising as the first time. When he finally became the dog. He held the brush out for him to smell. Saying a silent prayer that they could find the trail.—
Adam shook his head and chuckled as he took the book. “It’s fine, maybe you’ll be willing to practice with me a little bit. It can’t Hurt to develop a new skill!” He began to flip through it.
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At that Shade managed a smile and shrugged shyly. Though indeed he was happy to practice with Adam and would go on to sign the gestures and point out the meanings in the book and as time went on Hush finally seemed to grow a little less nervous.
((Okay feel free to focus on just Spade and Shade now thanks for doing that little bit with Hush though I wanted to have them interact just a little ^_^ ))
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spade was quick on the heels though unfortunately the dog could run much faster than him even tracking a set like this so he was a bit winded keeping up but he didn’t make any motion to slow out of risk of a dog losing the cent he didn’t even know how that really worked but I’ll see cared about was that it did indeed work!—
Adam was pleased to see the willingness from the young man and he proceeded to look through the book and then try and practice what he was learning he was in the Cecilius quick on the pick up at some people but he did his best so that he could hopefully carry-on at least minor conversation and get an idea he started with the basics the things that would help a tourist Maybe, so that’s what he spent the rest of their time together doing at least until it was time to eat then he would actually just order some pizza instead of actually making something. Sure to ask with the young man liked, And order one just for him just the way he liked it. He was around kids a lot I knew how to act with them.
((LOL no problem, I liked it too and it was good to leave them on somewhat good terms Adam is a good guy so. Also I figured. ;-) ))
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Shade didn’t exactly run that fast in fact he only trotted to make sure he was following the trail as accurately as possible. He took them through the zigzag of alleys, barely knowing where he was actually going since his nose was just to the ground he could have crashed into a wall if it had led him to one. Finally, the scent led up to a spot. And there laid several dropped bags of food. Shade halted abruptly as he came up to them, then shifted back into his human form. Frowning deeply he bent down to study them.
((Haha sorry! Also you said that the guy had taken the food and move the bags right? So with that mean they were just arrive in a spot that was pretty open and I’d have to look around for the bags?))
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((Lol okay))Spade hurried after him even though he was trotting it was still significantly faster than humans walked. Because dogs at a trotting pace were decently fast. When I stopped and he found bags he looked to see if they looked like the grocery store bags because he had seen what that grocery stores bags look like it’s distinct logo won’t be on them. “What’s inside?“ His heart was pounding but not because of the small jog, but 1 million terrible situations were going through his head now.
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Spade froze, bated breath struggled to surface. But he tried to push then down. maybe it’s a coincidence True they followed the sent here but lots of people were shopping at the grocery store. “A what?” He stepped closer and looked at it. “Does it mean something to you?”
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Spade clenched his hand. He lingered a few moments, digesting the words told him. However, that was it. He could hold still no longer. “The trail, does it end here? Surely it leads somewhere else.” It would lead to a curb if they took her in a car. At least that’s what he thought to himself.
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Spade despite himself did let a curse come under his breath. His creator won’t say what the curse was but it did end with the word ‘it’. He pulled out his cell phone and began rapidfire calling additional people making sure airport train stations in anyway of getting out of town like buses were being watched anything big enough to hide a human was being searched trucks and vans would be stopped at certain checkpoints. This was an abduction, they just wanted to kill her they would’ve left her here dying in the gutter was a Big insult. And look at the time two hours, that’s about roughly when he left her. The first several hours are crucial the first day more so chances survival went down significantly beyond that. Once he was done with his phone calls he turned to the boy with him. “I’m going to assume it was the people, the ones that got away. I think it’s going to start the trial to get her there wrong we have too much evidence, but maybe they’re desperate… Do you have any ideas, have any sort of place we can start looking?”
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((Wait what did he say after ‘the ones who got away?’))
((sorry it was supposed to say if they think they’re going to stop the trial by taking her there wrong*))Spade tensed. “ I think, maybe you heard something even something simple and passing someone mentioning something in code it could be something as obscure as a farmhouse or a safe place…“ He didn’t have much of a lead. They didn’t know who got away that was the thing they got away, but he could make sure they more aggressively interrogated the ones they had. “ our only other option is to fall the money. That could take hours to even get a direction we need to go...”
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And also actually I almost forgot I need to answer a question anyway. Do you want Spade to come to the place where Kim is too or ultimately have Shade rescue Kim alone?))
((Follow the money* I would prefer if it was just Shade, but at the same time it depends on how it goes down and spade could be working on taking the other people down in the meantime or something.
Are we about to pause this one and go back to Kim and see what’s happening there?))
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Yes definitely. I’m wondering actually because what I do with Shade at the end will give things away a bit... Let’s do this a little more and I’ll let you know when to switch.))
Shade suddenly gritted his teeth. “They didn’t exactly discuss their business in front of their slaves Spade.” He said in a bit of a growl but then instantly sucked in a breath and tried to calm down. He was getting angry but that was no excuse. “Sorry.” He murmured after a moment. He frowned. “What do you mean follow the money?”
((sounds good to me :-) I don’t mindOf course!))
Spade sighed. “I’m sorry, but there was a chance, a slip up, it happens, but...” He trailed off, however for the question he nodded. “I can look into the finances closer, see if there are subsidiaries, businesses that are fronts, places they might use to hide out...”
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Spade nodded. Sadly he had no words of hope to give. “Right. Lets get back. And... I’ll keep you updated. I’ll try and pull as many people as possible okay? We will find her!” Though there was a rising dread that either he was lying or... she would not be alive when they did find her. He shoved the thought away and hurried back to the car, though he forgot it was a bit of a ways back.
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((Duh-duh-duuuuh!))Spade didn’t take long to get them back to the flat. “You’ll forgive me if I don’t come up. I’ll keep you apprised.” And once the kid was out of the car I took the hairbrush with him, and pass the laptop to be returned to the home. Then took off, he didn’t say why he took the hairbrush but he had hoped they got closer and could use dogs to find her if they got a building her place to search because it was possible she was stashed somewhere. So he didn’t want to say the other reason, because they would be able to find a dead body easier if they have a scent.
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"Of course." Shade replied immediately. "Be as quick as you can." He took Kim's laptop to bring back up to the apartment though didn't much notice that Spade kept the brush. Farewelling Spade in a solemn manner, Shade turned and raced back up the stairs to the apartment. He rapped on the door as he arrived.
Adam, If his creator remembers correctly they named him. Get out up with a slight grown and bustled over to the door looking out the people seeing her it was an opening it. “Well that was quick!” He was looking into the hall as if expecting to see… Well, it would be obvious who he was expecting to see. He had hoped desperately that it was something simple and they’ve would find her quickly. “What happened?“ He asked gently as he would close the door presumably after a few moments when shade had entered.
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He looked eagerly to the door when the knock sounded.
Shade glanced up as Adam answered the door but rather wordlessly ducked inside and shut the door behind him. He checked to see if Hush was okay and upon seeing that he was and actually seemed quite happy too Shade softened a little and managed a trace of a smile. He turned back to Adam. “We found these... They’re Kim’s... I know it... Someone took her...” He sucked in a breath. “Spade’s gone to investigate further. I just need to... think. I’m sorry could... could you keep staying...?” He asked Adam hesitantly before spinning around and heading off to the bedroom where he would close Kim’s door somewhat forcefully and shut himself in there.
Adam would’ve told the kid after he ate the two pieces but it taste just as good reheated and to not forget if you wanted to be really like how it is when it’s fresh put it in the oven there’s also a truck with the crust if you get a wet paper towel and wrap it loosely around the pizza and a place you can cook it in the microwave and almost mimics the oven makes the bread nice and moist instead of hard. He knows this because his creator. This by her dad and she laughed at it but then did it and I actually worked it was pretty surprising.“However long you need. Don’t worry about it.“ He didn’t know what else to say, what else could he say? Though he wasn’t in a hurry to leave he just didn’t feel like he could do much. But at least Hush didn’t seem to hate him so that was something. He began putting up the remnants of the pizza and washing his hands as well as the plates and forks. “Hey Hush? You ever play chess?” He looked at him from over the bar.
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Hush was looking in Shade’s direction worriedly but when Adam asked him the question about chess Hush turned to him and shook his head slowly, and despite everything did look quite curious, if still a little wary.
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Adam finished drying his hands and walked over. “It’s a fun game. And though I don’t have a board and pieces, I do have this app.” He lifted his phone from a back pocket. It lets you ‘play yourself’ to train, but we can just take turns using it and play each-other. If ya want. I can explain how it works... though if you ever played checkers its like that but on steroids!” He laughed heartily.
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((Alright give me a bit of time to prepare a post for Kim’s situation I’ll do it a bit later tonight. I’m assuming you probably need to go bed too anyway ;) ))
Adam felt like he red Hush decently and began To explain the rules and show him have a little game weren’t letting him play around with it before he thought the kid was comfortable of Half to challenge him in which case they would play he wasn’t exactly the best player but it be fun to play against someone like above practice and see how good they could get.((Thanks, always so considerate. To true! Last post ^_^ ))
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It would be another couple of hours before Kim would awake. When she she opened her eyes, she would find herself in what appeared to be an abandoned and dingy warehouse. Whatever it had been used for before was unclear but there was a musty smell about the place, and the harsh artificial lighting from the roof was poor, keeping the place pretty dim. Kim would find she was sitting on a chair, and her hands were tied behind her back. Her feet were also secured to the legs of her chair, with ropes wrapped tightly around her ankles. They hadn’t exactly positioned her very well so she might be a little sore in the back and neck and arms when she awoke.
The two burly men sat at a small round table apparently playing cards with each other, in Kim’s line of sight when she lifted her head.
Kim groaned, the back of her head was shouting disapproval, her shoulder and lower back protested movement. And her neck. Oh her neck was screaming like an angry chimpanzee. However any pain she felt, lost her primary focus when she realized she couldn’t move her hands. She tugged,, but they were secure in an awkward way behind her. Eyes darting open, she took in the room, the men and her current state. She twisted her ankles, trying to pull them free. Heart pounding she didn’t dare speak. Where... why did they being me here? Are they... going to interrogate me? She shivered involuntarily, having her restrained to a chair, at least in books and movies. Usually meant they wanted to ‘talk’, but... She didn’t know much of anything that wasn’t public knowledge. She kept turning her wrists this way and that. Trying to set them free.
((Did they drug her. Cause being knocked out the way she was, you usually are not unconscious that long. Unless they hit her in the head again))
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One of the men noticed Kim’s movements as she tried to struggle free and his features shifted into a smirk, then he turned. “Hey Severin! Girly is awake.” He called in a sinister, sing-song tone.
Somewhere deeper in the shadows unable to be seen before, there was a small noise and then Severin would appear in Kim’s vision. He seemed to study her intently. But perhaps Kim would notice he looked quite out of place compared to the other two. Big and brutish and in their late thirties at best, the two other men, Maxon and Xander, looked like the literal manifestation of brawn over brains. Meanwhile, Severin looked no older than 25. Lithe and sleek with neatly groomed black hair and stark green eyes. He looked more like the manager of some office corporation. Slowly Severin cocked his head as he regarded Kim and approached her. “Well, well, finally. Kim wasn’t it?” His tone was soft and sickeningly pleasant, in a bad way. Kim would recognise it as the same voice she would have heard behind her when she had the knife to her throat.
There was a dizziness and the nausea mixing with her headache for a very unpleasant trio of discomfort. And that wasn’t even factoring in the pain she felt in her body. If there was anything about this man as he approached he commanded absolute stillness, very sinister sensation the way he just even looked at her and the tone he spoke. As if he were the devil incarnate, her breathing began to shake and heart continue to pound. And despite her terror she managed to speak. “What do you want?” She wished she could stop the trembling that seized her muscles from head to toe.((Other than the head injury she is exactly as she had been in the alley? No scrapes or injuries or clothing alterations like dirty from being dragged or torn from the same?))
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((Yes she's exactly the same, nothing has happened to her. Yet.))
Kim narrowed her eyes. “That man destroys the lives of children, sells them to be raped and needs to be stopped. He’s destroyed countless live. Do you think taking me away will stop anything?” Despite her predicament, and all that was happening. She let her emotions do the talking. Which truly was stupid. Yeah it was a very bad idea to aggravate someone who obviously already disliked her. But she could never understand how anyone could be so blind inside with family over what was right and wrong, she didn’t mean he had to like it but the fact was the man did evil, and made countless people suffer!
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Kim could careless about those peoples ruined lives. She then flinched violently as the knife was thrown. His words. She was dead, they were going to kill her. Tears burned and blurred her vision. Shade... Hush... Finding the culprits for who murdered her parents was important, but now, faced with the prospect of death... no, those two were who she thought about. Trembling, she still pulled courage from somewhere. “You’re a coward like them!” Her voice shook with emotion, fear, mixed with anger. “Kill me, but they ruined countless lives, they are just reaping what they sowed! And one day you will too!” She promised. It was not a great threat, but she knew. She had no doubt that justice would one day come to him as well! ((It’s fine, I actually over thought my little post before yours XD))
Hush looked up at Adam as he spoke and seemed to study him warily for a long moment, not exactly cracking a smile at Adam’s jokes. As he asked to sit though Hush gave a nod and shifted to move over a little on the couch. He was acting shy as in keeping slumped and his knees being tucked to his chest, but unlike how shy people usually liked to look about and avoid eye contact, Hush’s gaze practically never moved from Adam, constantly watching. It was probably the one thing that maybe helped one to realise Hush didn’t seem to have autism or anything, his silence was by choice.