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zoe_torres ([info]zoe_torres) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-06-01 09:53:00


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Entry tags:gk, zoe torres

It isn't my birthday...
A brown paper package was just inside the door on a side table when Zoe returned home after an afternoon at the Star City library researching old newspaper archives. It bore her name and address, but no return address and no postage stamps.

Michelle wasn't home from the office yet, so she had no audience to ask her what it was or who had sent it. Suspicious nature taking over, Zoe hid it under her bed and ignored it until late that night. She carried it up to the roof and carefully opened it under the tiny beam of a penlight.

Inside she found a locked leather case. A plain white envelope contained a key on a chain. If this was Angie's idea of giving her more guns, it was too public. Zoe's condition was that none of the Suicide Squad dealings ever touch her mother or her home life. She didn't think Angela was so careless when she could have called Zoe to her office for a delivery.

All thought was gone when she opened the case and found a pair of wrist mounted guns. With the new weapons were boxes of ammo. Even in the low light, she could tell they were not an off-the-rack item. They were sized to fit her and she had an idea they would feel natural in her hands. Someone had gone to the trouble of arming her with a specially made item of the sort she wouldn't have thought to ask for, and provided ammunition to use them right away.

She'd talk to Angela about it tomorrow. Maybe.



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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-05 04:49 am UTC (link)
"I guess that's a good thing then, if I knew how Zachary Zatara was, but he'd do better giving you the job."

She shrugged. "Things are fine. Mom's acts like a teenager every time she gets an email from Jed."

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-05 05:54 am UTC (link)
"Thanks, Zoe. And he's a really talented stage magician turned second-string hero."


He giggles. "Mom says he's been pretty ridiculous, too. They'll back back soon."

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-06 03:15 pm UTC (link)
"Never been much for magic." In other words, she didn't trust anything she couldn't put her hands on. Especially when the H word was used.

She fell into step with GK. The Triangle had been pretty quiet for the last few nights, which either meant the weather was about to change or something big was in the works.

"What's up with the boyfriend? He still treating you right?"

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-06 04:51 pm UTC (link)
GK shrugs a little. "Mom says it's Weird Crap and anyone who thinks they've got it under control is kidding themselves."

GK looks down a bit. "He... hasn't been over much, and he's been kind of weird about talking. He says things have been really busy in San Francisco, and... I think it's the PTSD. But he's still really sweet."

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-06 05:41 pm UTC (link)
Was it her or did GK seem to be making excuses whenever she asked about the boyfriend. "As long as he's good to you. I'm not above stripping you down and checking for bruises."

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-06 06:07 pm UTC (link)
GK smiles. "No domestic violence, I promise. I just wish he'd let me help more, instead of just seeming shocked that I'm trying to."

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-06 07:09 pm UTC (link)
"I guess he'll stopped being shocked when you aren't running away." Street corner psychology at its best. "You like challenges, right? You even took me shopping."

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-06 07:13 pm UTC (link)
Countertenor giggles. "Good point. And that went very well. C'mon, you know you're gorgeous."

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-06 07:56 pm UTC (link)
She didn't roll her eyes as she would have if some guy on the street said it. "Thanks, but I think you're saying that so I don't try the Flamingo Red lipstick." She grinned and gently tagged his shoulder in a companionable way.

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-06 08:04 pm UTC (link)
"Hey, I trust you not to give me a heart attack like that!" He grins.

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-06 11:31 pm UTC (link)
"I can't promise that but I'll try. Really hard. After all, who'll keep me from making bad fashion choices if you're gone?"

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-07 12:29 am UTC (link)
More giggling. "And don't forget my scintillating evening conversation. Usually, the most interesting head-bashing discussion you can get in this town is a discussion of what crime family they're from and that he police have been called."

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-07 03:54 am UTC (link)
"Anything is better than 'yo bitch, I got somethin' for you right here...'" Zoe did a credible imitation of a local gang member. "He did, too. It was called a target."

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-07 10:41 am UTC (link)
GK can't help laughing again. "Nice one. I'd say you were meant for the stage, but let's face it. You were probably meant to kick ass."

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-07 03:54 pm UTC (link)
She smiled. "Probably. Maybe I'm supposed to die young 'cause you don't see a lot of old ass kickers around. I can count on you to make sure I'm not wearing a bad color, right?"

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-07 06:30 pm UTC (link)
"Mmmhmm. We'll go with a gorgeous bittersweet read, to bring out the golden tones in your skin and go well in case I can't get the bloodstains off your fingers from when you took them down with you. Of course, it'll go best with a crop of silver curls, so you really need to bring elderly asskicking back into fashion."

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-07 06:55 pm UTC (link)
"I'll work at it." With a lawyer for a mother, she should probably look into other things as well. Make sure that Mom got the money Zoe earned for the missions. She'd have to go outside the Triangle for it. Maybe outside of Star City altogether.

"Enough talk. We need action to work up an appetite. It's been pretty quiet the last few days, so we're do for some headbashing."

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-07 07:04 pm UTC (link)
GK nodded and looked towards a distant corner of the surroundings.

"...'Vipers' are thing around here, right?" The guy crouched over there doesn't have some desperate desire for snakes?"

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-07 07:09 pm UTC (link)
Zoe looked in the indicated direction. "Vipers are two things here. A sports car and a branch of one of the gangs. He must be wanting to steal one or shoot one."

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-07 07:12 pm UTC (link)
"Sounds right..." he says, trying to indicate clearer. The person appears to be alone and rather overdressed for the warm weather. "Any ideas?"

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-07 10:55 pm UTC (link)
She lowered her voice and gestured for GK to follow her into the shadows around the corner. "There's nobody else on the street, so we wait. If he wants to steal a car, it's a thing. If he's waiting for somebody, we'll wait too."

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-07 11:08 pm UTC (link)
He nods and follows her quietly.

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-08 01:16 am UTC (link)
They waited a bit while the car sitting at the curb was broken into and searched. The jacketed man collected a packet and slinked off into the shadows. Zoe watched with a great deal of patience on her part. She was very aware that a hand off was going down. There would be automatic weapons. Sticks and stones did no good against bullets.

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[info]veryperceptive
2011-06-08 03:38 am UTC (link)
GK waits with her in grouchy silence. This is an unhappy situation.

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[info]zoe_torres
2011-06-08 03:51 am UTC (link)
Zoe didn't like it much either, but she'd been doing this long enough to know it would come back around. They just had to wait for the right moment.

"C'mon," she mouthed at GK and headed after their quarry.

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