"It's 10am, where the fuck is he?" Damien looks around angrily, his arms crossed. "Oh calm down, maybe Mulligan just had him longer than Elliot originally expected. Wouldn't be the first time." Jack puts his hand on Damiens shoulder but, Damien denies his friends comfort and throws the hand off his shoulder. "I hope you realize that somebody might be in danger?" Damien turns around and growls at Jack who just smiles at him. Bruce and Pierre just look from the back, both half asleep. "It's Mary that we're talking about." He shrugs "I don't think we need to worry that much." Damien just looks back at Jack, his angry stare turns to the wonderful, golden exit of the restaurant. Pierre closed it for today, so that he could help with the search.
"SORRY" the door suddenly kicks open. Elliot, out of breath and with a notebook in his hands, closes the door softly. "Finally, we were waiting for you for now" Damien looks concentrated at the clock, "almost an hour!". "I'm so sorry, Mulligan kept me 15 minutes too long and sent me to some kind of repairman, what also took me 15 minutes and then I had to walk through a creepy ally and there were these old, creepy guys and-" Elliot looks up at the others, who stare at him in confusion and worry. "But, no matter that, I'm here and I brought a notebook just in case." He smiles walking towards Pierre and Bruce while Jack and Damien follow. Elliot puts down the notebook and hands Bruce a pen, he just nods and puts it into his pockets.
"So, did you guys already find the diary?" Elliot looks into the round. "Well we did but..." Pierre looks at Jack with a nervous grin. "Yeah, we did but, we didn't take it because...." He looks down and turns red. "It's in her panty drawer and these pansies are afraid to get it" Suddenly all 3 heads turn to Damien with a stare that could kill. "What? It's the truth!" He stares back with his arms crossed even harder, both Bruce and Pierre walk back a few steps just in case. "Okayy" Elliot shrugs "then I'll get it. Just give me a minute, I'll be back as fast as I can. As long as I am, please don't hit each others heads in." He walks into the back area that Mary turned into some sort of bar.
Five minutes pass
"And I'm back. Sorry it took so long, the whole room was a mess. I can't believe that you guys even found something -" Elliot sighs at what lays before him. Damien and Jack standing in the middle of the restaurant, staring and growling at each other while Bruce and Pierre hide behind a table. He walks past them and puts the hot pink diary on the table. It looks very old and damaged. Inside is nothing but stickers and things that almost nobody could read besides a little list. "Well, I found the list." "Is this like, a rating system?" Bruce stares at the list nervously. It was very long and each name had something scribbled down below in glittery red. "It seems so" He jumps up as Jack looks over his shoulders and grabs the book from Elliot. "Mhmm" He sighes, "I can't read anything though. Is Mary's handwriting really that bad?" He looks back at Elliot and Pierre who just shrug. Jack stares at the writing, trying to figure out the letters. Suddenly Elliot grabs the book back and gives Jack a gentle smile.
"Just let me read it, okay?" He turns back to the list.
"Looks like it was made around 5 or 6 years ago." "How do you know that?" "It says: Mary's book of rich idiotic guys (made on 02/28/XXXX), and hey there's us.
> Bruce Tellmore ; A huge crybaby. I would but, he would just go on my nerves.
> Damien Gemminy ; He's strong but, he eats too much for my taste. Ew.
> Elliot Mouse ; First one <3
> Jack Smith ; Ew, kids
And, I think I found a suspect. Here, Pablo Robac. It also seems like she made little descriptions of each. She really put a lot of effort into this.... weird"
"Hmmm, can you find something about him. Like another diary entry?"
Pierre looks at Elliot and back to the book.
"Found one" "that fast?" "It's the newest page. She writes that after she romanced him enough, he invited her to dinner at the border from the city centre to Mont claring. It also says that he promised her to pay for everything... she also calls him a giant idiot with a big ego but, that's besides the point."
"Wait, Elliot, can you find out if she wrote down his species?" Damien looks over Elliots shoulder and Jack joins him.
"Let's see... yeah, here. Apparently he's a panther, it was the only reason why she picked him." Both Jack and Damien look up and nod.
"Good, so a panther. Shouldn't be hard to find such a rare one." Damien grins and runs over to their table to get his jacket.
"Bruce, you got that?" Elliot looks at him with a gentle smile, Bruce nodded back.
"Alrighty then" He looks into the now very confident looking group.
"Pierre, you'll stay here just incase she comes back. And we'll go and get ourselves a panther." The round nods and slowly makes it way to the blue car outside.
Meanwhile near Mont Claring in an ally
"Did we finally lose her?"
"Huff, yeah. Crazy bitch, I wish he would've told us that she's one of them"
"Let's just tell the boss, I'm sure he knows what to do... at least I hope"
"Alright guys, this should be it"
Elliot points towards a few container's. Between them, a light seems to break through. This is a very known place, often used for illegal transport for Alcohol, Drugs, Weapons, even immigrants or to dump a dead body. Since they left the restaurant, the sun already decided to go down. Considering that they first searched everywhere and wasted a lot of time not thinking of this place. The police doesn't come here often, despite it being criminal central. Mister Mulligan, the head of the police, doesn't allow them to investigate here anymore after the last shooting cost him a lot of officer's. The criminals here aren't a joke, giant families with a lot of money and gun's or smugglers with more gun's than your stereotypical American could dream of are very common around here.
They slowly go along the big container's, trying to be as quite as possible not to alert any of these possible unwanted guests. The light that Elliot saw came from two flashlights attached to two big and buff men with masks.
"I think they belong to Capone's family" "How do you know that?"
"Who cares, they smell like trouble."
The others sigh but, they couldn't even start to stop him because when they looked up, Damien had already put the two rats to sleep and is now looking for possible loot.
"Did you just kill them?"
"Don't worry sonny, they're fine. I think-"
A very judging stare glares at him while Elliot looks around thinking of something. After they put the two rats into an empty container, they silently run towards a bigger light. Suddenly, a car comes by and the four jump behind some crates. A big, bright and long car drives by and stops a few meters in front of the crates. Like the car, his owner was also a very bright and colourful being. Nitty, one of Capone's henchmen was a more violent but mostly calm person and is with Capone himself, the only member who doesn't wear a disguise.
"So you were right, Capone has something to do with Mary's disappearence."
"Alright, I think I have a plan"
They all turn to Elliot, who's silently watching the car.
"Jack and Damien, you two follow Nitty and see what he's up to. And for the love of everything holy, please be silent this time. We don't need to make every single encounter with them a fight."
Jack nods and takes away the angry looking Damien's gun, putting it into his sweaters pocket.
"Bruce and I go look around if we find Mary or atleast anything. Come on."
Following Jack, Damien silently runs between smaller and thinner containers until they come to a bigger spot surrounded by container's and crates, a big crowd of mask people with guns stand in the middle of it. In front of them, a good looking man with the fashion sense of the 50's and a gun that would never be able to shoot something.
"A black Puma, I think we have our guy"
"Yup, now remember Damien, we observe not shoot."
"Hmpf, alright." Damien comes a little bit closer. They decided to hind behind half of a container and look through the giant leaks, not trying to cut themselves on the rusty metal.
"Well, there he is. Mister Nitty, it's an honour to see you."
"Spare me and tell me: do you have the woman?"
"Of course, we had some trouble with her but, we cought her again."
"Good job, you did better than I thought. But let me see her for myself."
"Yes, yes, please follow me"
Meanwhile with Elliot and Bruce:
"I think I found her"
Bruce signals Elliot and points through a small gap into a very lit container which was guarded by another bigger man with mask.
"Alright let's get her out of here, silently"
They carefully climb through the gap and hide behind the container. Muffled screaming came from the other side and the guard started to shake because he the screaming slowly annoyed him.
"Now we just have to -"
A loud sigh and the throwing of something was heard and a few seconds the guard walks away, mumbling something angrily.
"Nevermind, let's get her out of there before he or another one comes back"
Bruce nods and they step into the lit container filled with chains and an electronic fence. In the middle of all that was Mary, stuck in a pile of chains and silenced through a napkin. She shakes around until her eye's fall on Bruce and Elliot who almost roasted themselves on the fence.
"That's a bit much isn't it? But whatever, Mary we were searching for you everywhere. Pierre's worried and I think your new boyfriend is working with Capone or atleast one of his henchmen"
The response he got seemed to be sarcastic but, it was to muffled to understand. With a silent bzz sound, the fence went out and Bruce signals Elliot with a thumbs up from one of the computers near the entrance. Fastly, Elliot takes the napkin out of her mouth and tries to get the chains off of her.
"You two are my heroes you know that?"
"Umm, thank you very m-"
"But you could have been faster. I've been stuck here since 5 hours and did nothing but trying to bribe the guard. You know how fucking boring this can be?"
"Sorry..."
"Just get me out of here"
After a minute of trying to puzzle the chains out, she finally had her freedom back. The red dress was a bit torn and her skin was full of bullet holes, making the chains around her bust black from all the phobia blood.
"Ugh, finally"
She rubs her blood soaked writs looking at herself to see the damage.
"Wow that's a lot of hole's. What even happened?
"I dunno. I was out on a date, we had some fun and I guess I got drugged. Stupid cunt, gave me a headache. When I tried to escape he let his men shoot at me and looked really stupid when I told him that phobias don't just die. I got knocked out and now we're here. I spent my time trying to bribe the guard to let me go for some paid action but he said no so-"
"Okay, sorry to interrupt but, we don't have all the time. Nitty's here and I'm sure he's not here to waste time".
Around the corner, Bruce spots a little way between more container's leading to the second harbor. But before he could say anything, another guard runs around the corner with a loaded gun not being aware of Mary, who also readied her guns.
With a silent "goodbye motherfucker" she wipes the whimpering dog's head of, causing Elliot to pass out.
"Ugh, come on let's go."
"Couldn't you have done that a long time ago?"
"I was a bit chained up"
She grabs the passed out Elliot at the rat tail and runs down the path, directly into Jack and Damien who follow them out.
"There you are, Pierre's-"
"Yeah, yeah don't repeat it. Let's just get home. I need time to restore my body."
Back to Nitty and Pablo:
Nitty and his men walk towards the container but Nitty stops as he sees the beheaded man from away. Pablo on the other hand runs as fast as he can towards the container and starts to shake.
"No, no, no, she was here in chains and everything. I swear Nitty I-"
"Shut it. You failed and you know what that means"
"Please don't-"
"The boss said that I could do anything with you if you fail" he holds a gun to the shaking panther's head.
"You, you wouldn't shoot such a rarity like me, rig-"
A loud bang could be heard and the table on which Pablo leaned on, gets covered in blood while the rest of his body falls to the floor.
"Seems like I just did." He sighs.
"Alright guys, do me a favour and clean up this mess and this time, not with fire"
He turns around, acting like he didn't see some of them pick out some fire starters, and walks back.
"I'm going to report to the boss".
-
"Ah madam, finally, I was worried"
Pierre jumps onto Mary hugging her but, quickly goes back into a formal pose looking at all the black bloody hole's in her body.
"I'm assuming that you would want to rest? And then we can finally get back to work, yes?"
"Sure, whatever"
She walks upstairs and a loud poof sound followed by something like a stone falling, could be heard.
"I'm so thankful that you brought her back. Finally, no more worrying about my pay and the restaurant. Oh what can I do for you as a gift. Ah I know"
With a finger snipping, he runs into the kitchen.
"Say, you two didn't find out anything, or?"
The four sit back at their table, with Elliot finally being awake and Bruce being half asleep as always.
"Not really, no. Or atleast, we weren't able to hear anything. It's a wonder that we didn't lose them.
"Well we did in the end but, they know that somebody was here to get Mary. And I'm sure that they won't just let this go considering that Nitty was there."
"I still don't understand why her of all people."
"That, my friends, is something that you can worry about tomorrow."
Pierre comes back with a big tray full of drinks.
"Today, you can play my taste testers, as a my graduate."
"Aww, thank you so much"
"No need to thank, just drink"
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