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1x1 Kim and Shade RP (+Hush)
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Feb 03, 2019 07:57PM
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“Depends on what it is, for now we can definitely get them convicted on this there’s no way they’re going to be able to get out of it and I’ll put them in jail for a little while. If they won’t give me a good lawyer then I’ll represent myself I’ve been around the courts enough to know a few things to make it where they should not at all be allowed any sort of bail because they are a threat in a danger. But I need you to tell me everything you know about them, anything you know about them. And maybe we can get some evidence later but anything I can do to make them look on trustworthy and dangerous.”
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Hush cast them a timid look before he gave a little nod in response to Shade and then he went into the bedroom as shut the door. He already knew all this after all, Shade knew he didn’t need a reminder, he didn’t want the boy to have to listen.
Slowly Shade turned back to Kim, eyes dark and darting slightly. Then he inclined his head to the sofa. “You might want to sit.” He said and led the way over. Not only was the story going to be pretty long, but shocking.
Kim nodded. “It might, they could also say that I was being vigilante. However as long as I prepare my statement properly they should be more in favor of me and I need to make it sound more like a series of circumstances that got lucky.” I see fingers of dread scripted her heart the way he reacted in the waste hush left the room. When he said she needed to sit without question she put down what was in her hands whatever it was she had long forgotten and moved to sit down looking over at shade not inquisitively but more concerned. Not for herself but for him, what was he about to tell her? Whatever it was she knew it had been bad, but… The air in the room felt thinner than it had before, the tension was almost tangible. Whatever he was going to say was very, very bad.
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“That man owned and ran a brothel Kim. Deep in the underbelly of London. Human trafficking. They had a worldwide business.” Now he was clenching his fists with anger as he looked away, as if he could see back to it. “He has his lackeys snatch people from anywhere and then he sells them to whatever sick bastards pay to use them for their entertainment. And then he makes the profit.” Bitterness laced his tone. He raised a brow. “And me? I was his most popular sex slave.” His eyes darkened and he he glared into space. “They liked me because I was foreign. ‘Exotic’.” He said, actually doing the quotation marks. “I was a circus performer so I was in good shape. And I guess apparently my face wasn’t too bad as well.” He rolled his eyes. First time someone had ever likely been annoyed with their good looks. “I’m from Argentina. They snatched me from my home. My family.” He said and then he scoffed bitterly and shook his head. “Oh apparently I earned Brom a lot of money. He would even use me to bargain with other potential business partners, an extra ‘treat’ for them if they decided to work with him. If they were of that kind of course, he always made sure to check.” He gritted his teeth and finally returned his gaze to Kim. “That’s what we need to take down.”
He wondered what Kim would think of him now, if all that, not that he really cared. Of course if she had something to say about it he’d just leave. But he highly doubted she was that kind of person... The question was, now that she knew that was his past with Brom, one of the men she’d taken down, would she make the connection that even more horrifically... Hush had been subjected to that too...
Kim’s breath caught in her throat. As he spoke she listened, but it was quite possible the whole time she didn’t breathe. Not one breath as if the sound of her own breathing would interrupt what she was hearing, she had heard of things like this and she knew that there was a such thing as the sex trade even in America. There were certain places that were known for abducting children, women and what have you. However she had never met anyone who had experience this world. She knew of organizations that tried to help women who had been set free from the sex trade Rachel in life. Everything made sense now, the way he was so aggressive and untrusting of her.She exhaled sharply giving a shuddering intake of breath. Poor Hush... all of it made sense, how they acted. And even a little bit she’d heard the man say, her eyes burned as tears demand it to spring forth. People like that, the fact that there were people like that in the world! As a writer she had wrote some pretty bad things happening in her stories but in the realm of fiction, it never bothered her sure it was an emotional roller coaster but that was the point of a character in a story. But to meet someone who is having it in real life her heart begins to pound violently with in her chest. Her throat so tight it was a miracle she could breathe let alone try and convey any sort of words. Yet when he finished she looked at his face whether he was willing to make eye contact or not. She stood up, her lower lip quivering. “We need, to take, each. and every. One! Of those B@$$+¥%>$, down!” Her words laced with pure rage. Her arms were shaking with the effort of barely controlled anger.
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Kim was winded. What he said. It made her sick. No, that.. there were people that sick? That disgusting? Had she really been that naive? Tears flowed all the more fiercely now. She nodded, unable to speak. That was why, it was why... no it wasn’t enough to take this group down. No they needed to stop the whole ring, needed to take down their clients too! Shade had seen Kim traumatized, emotion, but never full of pure fury. It was rare, rare she got so upset about anything. “I...” She struggled to speak. “I need to know... everything... from beginning to end.” She pulled out her phone and opened the voice memo function. “C-can I record you? I won’t say who spoke to me, but I need to make sure ‘the full truth’ is in the open.” She also didn’t think she could do justice. “You see Shade, you are The evidence. Names, even fake ones have use, describe them, tell me...” She gulped. “Tell me everything. From the day they took you.”
((You can do a gloss over post, and say they spent hours talking about all of it if he is willing))
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“A testimony can be very damning.” Kim tried to reassure him, but at what he said she nodded. “Yes, but I would need as much ammunition as possible. Trust me, recording the truth... if the police won’t listen, Newspapers will, and that will force the police to do something.” She knew this world decently enough. If they wouldn’t do it from the good of their hearts, then for the good of politics.
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Kim reached out a hand to lay on his shoulder, but stopped letting it hang awkwardly a moment before clearing her throat. She needed to resist these instincts to comfort them physically. “I’m confident that it will. If for some insane reason the police don’t make it a priority, every parent in London will! No one will stand for allowing children to be abducted and...” She bit her tongue. “I will do whatever it takes to being them down. I swear.” She vowed, a promise she would die before breaking.
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Kim had pointed her outstretched hand towards the window. “There may be a lot of bad people in the world but I’m confident 90% of the people in this world are good.” She smiled at him. “ I know it’s a lot to ask of you and I know it’s not gonna be easy but, will you tell your story for the sake of you, hush and any other kids and people that they’ve destroyed the lives of?” Had she went to law school she might’ve made a decent lawyer, a plea to a jury like that might actually sway them.
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Kim nodded. Taking a seat I’m getting her phone ready. “Take your time. We can stop whenever you want to pick up later too.” He had agreed and if it got too difficult for him she would understand and gladly let him stop for the night so she hoped they could get through a good portion of his story just because it was better to get it over with like ripping off a Band-Aid then happens to call it out and make it more painful.
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Kim felt so inconsiderate. “Oh, you’re right. I’m sorry...” There she went apologizing again. “Um... is it alright with you two if I go take a walk? Before dinner? Like 15-30 minutes tops.” She promised giving a smile. Emotions, more emotions than she could hold down. She had to get them out, had to some how vent. Running, not walking, but she called running a walk. So she wasn’t lying. Maybe give you and Hush a moment too, he was really worried about you. She wished that she was a selfless enough person and so considerate that she would’ve thought of that first and not as an afterthought.
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Shade raised a brow and managed to smile faintly. “Why are you asking me? What am I going to say, no?” He said and snorted. “It’s not like you have to ask me for permission. Of course you can bloody go for a walk.” He said amusedly. Maybe he was releasing some of his own tension too as he chuckled a little, a cathartic effect. He nodded as she added in about Hush. “Yeah good point. I can try and set things up for dinner for when you come back. Though I’m afraid I’m hopeless at cooking so you’ll have to take care of the rest, I don’t want to burn the apartment down.” He said lightly.
((Lol, but she has a black belt in the art of self beat up XD)) Kim blushed, and shake her head. “ I know I don’t have to ask but, that’s the considerate thing you do when you share a house with people. Especially if it’s going to make them eat dinner later, you know?“ She couldn’t help finding a bit funny, she always ask her for permission for everything. At work she always asked for permission before doing practically anything unless she knew that she was allowed to do it. Back in the foster home she always asked which was one of the reasons they called her a model foster child, yet at the same time she still didn’t get adopted. She wondered if her foster parents had something to do with that. Wanted to check and a child it was easier to manage.
Kim chuckled. “OK I’ll be back.“ She gave a kind of silly wave and then moved and walked towards the door and unless he called out and stopped her she would head out.
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“Yeah but this is YOUR house, we’re just the squatters.” Shade replied back to her. He waved a hand at the comment about eating dinner late. “Really don’t worry about it. We’re glad to get any dinner at all you know that.” He said and then he waved to her and wished her well as she headed out. Meanwhile he went straight to Hush in the room, who to his dismay seemed a little upset. Shade came forward to comfort Hush, eventually admitting he’d told Kim about where they had come from, and how he was going to testify everything tonight, though he wouldn’t mention him by name, not even nickname. He reassured Hush that they needed to put a stop to it, so it didn’t happen to anyone else. And so they didn’t have to spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders, with close calls like today, to stop any chance that they could ever go back to that. Shade promised he’d never let Hush go back to that. And that was the reason he was doing this... He was likely still speaking softly to Hush and hugging him to himself when Kim returned from her short walk. He kept letting Hush know that it would be okay, that he’d make sure he was okay before anything else. “I’m not going to let anything else happen to you buddy...”
It started to rain practically the moment she stepped out the front door of the apartments. She smiled, unlike some people who would’ve been angry she was glad. She took off at a good sprint running getting exercise that she surely needed blowing steam getting rid of aggression and the pent-up emotions she felt. Able to cry. The rain would hide her tears, she was good at hiding. Even when there was no one to hide from. She continued to run a song came to her mind she found herself singing it.“She never slows down
She doesn't know why but she knows that when she's all alone,
feels like its all coming down
She won't turn around
The shadows are long and she fears if she cries that first tear,
the tears will not stop raining down
So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
You stand through the pain
You won't drown
And one day, whats lost can be found
You stand in the rain
She won't make a sound
Alone in this fight with herself and the fears whispering if she stands she'll fall down
She wants to be found
The only way out is through everything she's running from wants to give up and lie down.
So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
Stand through the pain
You won't drown
And one day, whats lost can be found”
Can probably sing to the song a few times before she returned from her 15 to 20 minute ‘walk’. She was soaking wet and she could tell they were both in the bedroom. She wasn’t going to disturb them she made a quick change in the bathroom putting her wet clothes over the tub so they would dry more and begin cooking the food. They would probably come out when I started smelling something delicious. This time she was gonna make a makeshift casserole, bread on the bottom vegetables and corn and I’ll kinds of stuff in the middle bread on top for a little bit of cheese. To give it a nice casserole taste.
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Kill him for a moment she didn’t understand that considered lying, and saying that she had gotten out of the shower. She stopped herself catching herself in the lie not sure why she had wanted to. But then he was looking and seeing the rain so there was no point in that anyway. “Yeah but it’s not the first time I’ve run in the rain.” So now she had said wrong instead of off, and being gone as long as she was that was some run. “ actually if you could get that chair the makeshift table and Paul the bricks up just right we should be able to line them in front of the sofa and make it kind of like a coffee table it might be a little tall but…“
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Kim kept working smiling to herself, the run really did help and let her process some thoughts for some reason staying active is what helped her mine move through things. She really hope that she might be able to build some kind of martial arts dummy so that she could keep her skills up but also continue to be able to get aggression and frustrations out. It was nice having people around, having a reason to talk to people. Even if she still felt awkward about things she did it was so nice not to be alone. The smell began to fill the room and even she was enjoying it.
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Hush finally emerged from the bedroom, padding over to the sofa with barely a sound and a timid glance at Kim and Shade. He sat looking a little uncertain but he didn’t look too afraid.
Kim nodded. “Yeah the casseroles about be done. When my phone goes off could you pull it out, are some potholders to protect your hands in that drawer there.” She laid out the plates silverware and cups so they can have food and drink. And then she pulled out the butter knife, to cut through the casserole fortunately I didn’t need to be a sharp knife the only sharp knife she had was dirty from yesterday.
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“ would you like to cut some pieces out?“ She offered him the butter knife and the spatula. “There’s no wrong way to do it, it takes practice to get good at it but… That way you can pick the size of pieces you want.“ She figured he would know better what hush would like to eat portion wise. Not that she would get mad if there was stuff left over on his plate, but just trying to find some reason to let him feel really included. Another meal of the three of them, all three of them could fit on the sofa but she wondered if she should sit on there or not. Maybe she should let the two boys have it plenty a room, considering what women have done to them in their lives… Maybe she should just eat in the kitchen.
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Kim smiled at shade and what he said but she cast a wary glance at hush. She and shade actually had been in pretty close proximity so as long as she wasn’t really touching him he seemed fine however hush didn’t like being near her at all so she carefully chose to get on the other side of shade so that hush had him in between them. Not that she wouldn’t like to be able to be friends with him, just that… She didn’t know where to start.She better head for a moment lifted it and then begin to eat. “Oh wow that turned out better than I thought!” She sounded genuinely surprised she was in no way praising herself. “I was thinking… Hush if you’re interested, we can learn sign language. I know a little bit but I can also check out some stuff from the library and I can be a way of communicating smoothly and quickly. If you’re interested.” She finish the last part in the slight her ancient food in her mouth wasn’t like he was going to say anything to her but she just didn’t know how it would come off. It wasn’t that he needed to learn it to be allowed to be here or something she just thought it might be nice but she wanted to stop yourself from saying too much like a she seem to all the time.
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Hush cast a glance at Kim but he didn’t seem too uncomfortable. Thankfully he was eating quite enthusiastically, Shade had been a little worried that he’d be feeling anxious again but apparently not. Then, when Kim made the suggestion about sign language Hush looked at her, really looked at her and not just a glance. Maybe it was too much to say that he smiled, but his mouth did seem to quirk the tiniest bit and he gave a shrug, but not a dismissive one, more like one a child might do when it definitely seemed like they wanted something but they just shrugged in that shy way instead of frankly saying yes.
Shade smiled. It definitely seemed like Hush was considering the idea. “That would be a good idea huh Hush? Maybe a bit quicker than writing stuff down all the time, and if you can’t write on something.” He added. Hush had finished his relatively small potion of the casserole.
((I so considered just giving him sign language anyway thinking he probably didn’t even talk much as a kid and maybe learned it when young, and I’m going to make it that he was shy and didn’t speak much and only quietly but I don’t think he would have quite gotten to sign language XD))
Kim was surprised though the only reaction hush would see would be a nice friendly smile. Maybe he was more comfortable around her now, that was good last thing she wanted to do was aggravate some past trauma because have a new he had enough of that.Kim nodded as they both seemed up for the idea. “All right on the way back from work tomorrow I’ll see what I can find at the library. Let me know if there something either of you two are interested in or if either if you wanted to come you could pick for yourself.“ She just said it offhandedly mostly because she was pretty certain hush wouldn’t want to go anywhere around people here and he seemed so hesitant. She love library’s though there’s just something about them so much knowledge within them information and potential she supposed.
((sign language can be hard to master but it’s not that difficult to learn, so I think they’ll do good with just library books :-) that would make sense if he was never really that vocal of a person. Shy and quiet))
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Shade nudged him gently. “Hey bud don’t squish up your stomach just after you eat you’ll get a stomach ache.” He said gently and Hush immediately shifted his position, letting his legs dangle from the sofa and clasping his hands a little uncertainly in his lap.
Shade glanced at Kim as she made the suggestion about going to the library. “I’m not much of a reader myself but I can come with you if you want, keep you company. Maybe see if I can find something for Hush, do you like reading?” He asked him. It wasn’t really something he knew after all, the prospect of reading had never yet come up for them.
Hush glanced over and gave another one of those little shrugs which Shade knew to interpret that he probably did indeed like to read a bit.
Kim smiled. “That sounds like fun. After work tomorrow then.” She nodded, she had finished half her food when her phone rang. She had left it in the kitchen. “Be right back...” She picked it up. “Hello? Yes this is her.” Her eyes widened. “Um... are you sure? No no I’m very interested, but I wanted to make sure, yes I’ll head that way now.” She hung up. “That was work...” she walked slowly back in there, not looking near as happy as last time. “I need to cover a shift... um, I’ll be back tomorrow...” She looked actually upset more than anything. “If you could try and make room in the fridge Shade, I should be able to come home with more tonight.” She managed a genuine smile at that as she moved for the door.
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Kim shook it off. “Just work drama.” She forced a smile that passed for genuine. “Well, I’ll end up rolling into my normal shift...” she walked over and held out her phone. “It’s fully charged. Just let any calls go to voice mail. You can record some of those voice memos tonight on it.” Her way of saying to do it without her. She wasn’t trying to be mean, but she didn’t want anything to stop him. “Sooner the better, you know?” She gave a kind smile. “It will be about 3 am, i’ll have to drop pff the food and hurry back.”
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“I’ll try.” Kim had tried to side step that question. She couldn’t possibly eat now. Maybe she shared that in common with Hush. When she was upset, like really upset the acid was so bad she felt nauseated if she tried to eat. Sleeping was the only thing that helped, sadly that wasn’t happening any time soon. “Ah, yeah. I’ll take it with me.” She grabbed a paper plate and scraped it off the other dish. “Sorry to leave the dishes like that. Bye!” Hopefully she was able to make it out before anyone could ask anything else. The fake smile lasted until she reached a nearby alleyway. She gave a soft whistle and sat the plate down. Walking away as a stray dog came bounding out along with a cat and bird. She had never heard of such a thing, but they would only do it if she walked away. Hopefully the meal got then a few more days.
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Kim close her eyes as she walk to work, it wasn’t a good thing to do but who’s the only way she could center herself enough to focus. She had a whole shift ahead of her and she needed to get her mind in the right frame. However it seems she got stressed over nothing. She worked her shift and it was fairly uneventful. She even got some tips nothing huge or anything but it certainly would help. And then she was able to go with some leftovers nowhere near as much as last time. Of course she found out that the chef had actually been putting food back that whole week for her, but only things that wouldn’t go bad quick. That’s why things like hamburgers and such.
And then she had noticed he had made extra that day, today he didn’t do all of that but he didn’t feel the need to he still smile that she took her leftovers and hurried on home. Unlocking the door and coming into the apartment to slide what she had into the fridge but Troy has probably about six meals worth for one person.
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When Kim came home though he’d already paused on a lull, trying to think of what else to say, so when she opened the door he just turned it off and watched as she put stuff in the fridge. “Can I quickly ask you a few things?”
Kim looked up. “Hmm? Yeah sure.” She walked over towards the sofa and leaned on the back looking at him. She was a little tired to say the least and she hadn’t even thought what he might have to ask her, in fact she hardly noticed someone was in there let alone registered who it was. She just knew she wasn’t endangers she had worried about it. She tilted her head to the side she waited to hear his question. He had been up all night… She realized before he could even speak again. And then she had took in the phone something she should’ve realized right away but Sleep deprivation had an affect on the brain and remembering things one should know anyway. She smiled apologetically as he began to speak.
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Kim sobered any sleepiness vanishing at least for the moment. She hadn’t even thought about that, he was from another country. So wishy which actually gave her an idea. “No you don’t have to give your identity, give all the information you can tell your story from start to finish and describe any of the people you think of. You may even need to make notes in the checkless there and check things off as you think of them all remember them or add them to that to record later.” She realize she was kind of talking rapidly and Grimaced. “Also, I’m from America, I know a little bit about the process of being able to be legal in the country. I’ll help you, that way you can choose when you leave. That may require you to actually get a job I work visa is the quickest way while you go through all the other processes.”
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Kim shook her head. She didn’t know if that last remark was supposed to be a joke or not but she was incapable of finding it funny. “ let me worry about that, where there is a will there is away.” She encouraged. “You just keep working on that and tomorrow, the library will be our great key to making it all work!” It wouldn’t be easy but she was gonna do what it took to make him a legal citizen.
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