Emma Thompson (wipeoutqueen) wrote in blueridgeau,
@ 2012-07-27 15:35:00

Characters: Emma, Ruby, and Marney.
Setting: Summerland, California in 2010
Rating: NSFW
Content: Emma kills Ruby's dirtbag boyfriend and Mars takes the rap.

Emma wasn't really sure when she had lost Ruby in the crowd but she had been distributing on her own for at least a half hour now. It wasn't that Ruby couldn't handle her self on her own. Mars had made sure that both Emma and Ruby could operate alone if they needed to. The piece that Emma had tucked in the front of her shorts wasn't just for show. Neither was the knife she had in her shoe. It was all part of the game, and Emma was an eager player. Not that she had ever had to use any of it, not yet anyway. She knew the kind of things Mars got up to, and now that she had allowed them to join up, she knew that it was only a matter of time before something happened.

Emma finished up her current business transaction, stuffing the money in her already full pocket. She was beginning to get worried now. The last glimpse she had caught of her best friend was taking a line with her boyfriend. Even when Ruby went off at a party to spend time with him, she always joined back up with Emma after twenty minutes at the most. Emma hated the guy. He wasn't good enough for Ruby, not to mention he was a pig. She used to complain about him to Marney when Ruby was out until the older girl had begun accusing her of being in love. It was the most ridiculous thing she had ever heard, there was no way she was in love with Ruby. The girl was just her best friend, and Emma just had her best interest at heart. Plus, the guy was an asshole.

Fishing a joint out of her pocket, she lit it up before beginning her quest to track Ruby down. She found Mars standing near the beerpong table, chatting up a girl that Emma vaguely recognized. "Hey," she said, tilting her chin in greeting. "Have you seen Ru?"

"Last I saw she was heading up stairs with Rob," Mars told her, shrugging. "You two better not be fucking around and losing money."

Emma just grunted in response, scowling as she stalked away from Marney towards the stairs. It wasn't jealousy, it couldn't be. It was just unlike Ruby to disappear for so long when they had business to do. She wanted to be Marney's right hand woman one day, and she was very driven. Emma was just investigating because of business, she needed Ruby to help her move product. She climbed the stairs, blowing out a plume of smoke as she reached the top and snuffing out the roach on the wall.

There were five closed doors that stared back at her, and Emma hesitate as the smoke cleared. "Ru?" she called out loudly.

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therubixcube
2012-08-08 08:33 am UTC (link)

Ruby didn't know what Mars planned to do at first, she couldn't foresee a way for them to get out of this now that the sirens were coming closer and closer. Ruby was generally collected and cool, she had been working on hardening herself to most things, but this was a lot to handle, especially as she saw her sister getting her hands bloody and she realized what the older girl was actually going to do. "Marney, no-- I-I can't be in charge, I didn't.. I'll say I did it, like it w-was self defense!" she protested, though she had a feeling neither of them were going to listen to her and let her do that. This was literal overkill for self defense, but he had deserved it. Why did Mars have to pay the price for that? She clung to the front of Emma, looking up at her as Mars cupped her cheek. It didn't bring any of the usual comfort that the affectionate feature did. Usually when Mars touched their cheeks, it was to pinch them and call them little shits. But tonight was much more serious than that, and Ruby had a feeling that this could be the last contact between the two of them for a while.

Mars had done a couple of months in juvie before, but that had been a joke, just trivial. This was going to be a big deal, even if she was only sixteen. "You don't have to clean up our mess, just come with us!" Ruby protested, but Emma was already standing up with her in her arms, and Ruby wasn't sure she had the strength to fight it and stand on her own two feet, not after this. "I won't let you down, I promise, I'll take good care of everything-- I'm not gonna fuck up, I swear," she managed to get out before Emma was whisking her out of the room all together and the grisly sight of Rob's body was out of her view. But her sister was still in there. Ruby exhaled shakily, keeping her head down as they left through the back, shoving past several other kids trying to ditch the party now that things had turned sour on them.

Ruby couldn't even consider relaxing, just keeping her head down and telling herself not to cry as they crossed the beach. She was in charge now, of everything, and she couldn't go getting weepy. That wasnt very tough of her. She was just thirteen, her boyfriend was dead, her best friend had killed him, and her sister was going to pay for the crime. To say that she wanted to cry was an understatement, but she had promised Mars she wouldn't fuck up. She had responsibility now. She had vaguely had a feeling that she knew where they were headed to, and when she finally looked up from Emma's shoulder, they were there. Even being in their spot among the dunes didn't help though, knowing Marney was back at the house. She couldn't even see their house anyway, they were too far away now. She could only vaguely hear the music from the party floating along the shore, carried on the otherwise quiet night on the beach. Soft music and the waves hitting the shore. They wee safe for now, at least. Emma moved quickly. They had found this spot years ago, when they were all even younger, before all of this gang stuff, when they had first moved to Summerland after their parents died. They had been coming to this spot for years, and even though Mars had been too cool to join them out here in a long time, it was still their spot, and Ruby wished more than ever that she was there right then.

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