outfoxing (outfoxing) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-12-16 01:04:00

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We meet again
This wasn't really up to her standards when it came to heists. And it wasn't a real heist. It was just that her employer needed her to get some things to trade on the black market for the cold hard cash he needed to get his little war started soon. He wanted to get Gotham back to being so dirty Detroit would look like it was clean. The metaphor was lost on someone like her who had spent much of her life in Europe and the Middle East.

She misses the desert on nights like these. She had thirty minutes until the security came around to check the vault. She had just enough time to get in and out.

In ten minutes she had gotten her prize and was quickly sailing over roof tops and around ally ways tearing like mad away from a successful job. This haul should please her Boss because it yielded a high pay out for them.

And now she senses trouble.

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	outfoxing 2011-12-17 01:34 am UTC (link)
	Oh that has her surprised. He's good at this. "No." She's still going to try backing away even if he has her caught she's not admitting it just yet. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 01:40 am UTC (link)
	"Maybe you should've meant me then," he lunges after her, aiming to grab or immobilize her just so he can trap her. He's not looking to hurt her, just stop her. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 01:44 am UTC (link)
	They roll with the tackle. She knows to go loose a little stiff in case he really does get a hold of her and she somehow ends up on top of him as they've tolled. Except then she sees that they need to move as to not fall. She tries to get of of him but because she's trying to get away that may end up with him holding on tighter. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 01:52 am UTC (link)

That doesn't go entirely as planned...skylight in the way. He's got her in a tight grip but rolls so that he's on the bottom and will take the brunt of the impact when the hit.

Except he overestimated the building's standards. The skylight breaks to bits as they crash through, still locked onto each other, him trying to prevent her from getting away and getting hurt in the fall, and her trying to escape his grasp.

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	outfoxing 2011-12-17 01:57 am UTC (link)
	She yelps and digs her fingers in. She never liked crashing or falling if he would just let go everything would be fine. But there's no time. They land and she winces as shards of glass come down from where they crashed through. Again she tries to pull away because she doesn't like this at all. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 02:11 am UTC (link)
	If he let go then she'd get hurt more, at least this way he can control the fall. The landing is a little rough and he lifts his cape over both of them to protect them from the falling glass. But doing so means he only has one arm to keep her under the cape and from escaping. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 02:18 am UTC (link)
	She had clung to brace herself against the fall. Then marveled at how much bigger he was than her because that had kept her mostly safe. His cape protected her too. And now she pulls trying to get away. She had slipped out of his hold only to stumble and flop. Shit. Her belt had gotten caught on his uniform. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 02:24 am UTC (link)

His first thought is that the fall had somehow injured her enough to cause her to collapse.

Then he sees the real reason for her fall and tries not to laugh. And fails.

He takes the opportunity to pin her while she's on the ground and in between snickering he manages to get out, "You alright? Sorry can't let you go though I need your haul. Nothing personal, it's business."

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	outfoxing 2011-12-17 02:38 am UTC (link)
	She's frustrated and trying to get him off of her. The position she got stuck in has some of her gear on her belt digging into her side, especially with him pinning her. She also knows because of their size differences that there is no way she can escape him. "I'm not hurt just embarrassed." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 02:54 am UTC (link)
	He's got her pinned well, and she's not getting out that easily. "Well..." he swipes her haul away now and tucks it away, "you weren't going to get away even if that hadn't happened. Like I'd let you." The last part comes with a smug smirk. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 03:04 am UTC (link)
	Damn. She knows other places she can steal from though. Nothing as nice but.... beggars can't be choosers. She'll just have to wait another day or two to throw him off her trail. "If my belt hadn't gotten caught I could have gotten away," she growls. "You just got lucky." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 03:14 am UTC (link)

"That's what they all say. 'I could've gotten away if it weren't for that meddling crimefighter'," he rolls his eyes.

"It's not luck if this is the second time. 2-0 Foxy. 3-0 if we count me beating you to the zoo."

Now he's thinking of what to do with her. Does he tie her up and leave her for the police? Does he bring her to a nearby station himself? She'll get out of both and...it feels weird handing over a thief like her to the police.

It's not like he's never caught thieves, but most were the amateur kind that had to use explosives to get safes open. Explosives. Ugh that was depressing, they couldn't even open it they had to blow it. But none of them had been any good, none of them were actually talented thieves.

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	outfoxing 2011-12-17 03:21 am UTC (link)
	"'2-0', the zoo was just a game," she says stiffly. She shifts enough to get free just enough that she's not hurting her side from pressure and she can unhook herself from his uniform. She gets the impression though that he will pin her again if she really tries to escape. And nope she's never used explosives to crack a safe. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 03:29 am UTC (link)
	"It's still in my favour. So, I assumed someone hired you for this job tonight. Doesn't seem like something challenging enough that you'd do on your own." He's basing this off where he saw her leaving from and knowledge of the level of security around the city. That place wouldn't be worth her time. "So...want to give me a name?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 03:36 am UTC (link)
	"Cake walk, yeah," she agrees. "Very low risk for someone of my skill level.... It's like going to the corner store for some eggs." She smiles and shakes her head. "Sorry Boy Wonder, I can't do that. Part of my..... code." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 03:48 am UTC (link)

"I can imagine. But sorry, it's in my code that I don't let you go just like that." He takes out a pair of handcuffs and casually spins them around his index finger, now using his weight to keep her pinned.

"So name or handcuffs." He raises an eyebrow and waits for her to choose. Because he's still not sure what he's going to do with her but he needs to move this along.

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	outfoxing 2011-12-17 03:54 am UTC (link)
	Her face goes from amused to blank. She offers him a wrist without a word. In fact she doesn't say another word she just completely shuts down. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cantkeepmeout 2011-12-17 04:00 am UTC (link)
	That causes him to freeze and just blink. It wasn't supposed to go this way...she was supposed to struggle or give him a hint or flirt...not just give up. He gives her an odd look, "Just like that? You're not going to try and get out? At least offer me a hint?" He's very confused right now, this has never happened before. Why protect an employer that much? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	outfoxing 2011-12-17 04:21 am UTC (link)
	"No." That's all she will give him. Her expression is flat and stony. No motion to give away why she's protecting her employer. Just guarding the name more than she will guard herself. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 04:38 am UTC (link)

He throws his hands up in the air in frustration, "Oh for..."

She's protecting the employer's name too much. She's personally invested, this isn't professional. And he'll be damned if he's not going to find out who it is. If this guy can hire a thief like that and make them choose jail and potentially ending their career...then he's got something big he wants done and he knows what it takes to do it.

Robin cuffs her then gets up off her looking more annoyed and pissed than anything. "I'm not even going to call the police, you can get out of those on your own before they come anyway. I'm going to find out who you're working for because that right there is the most foolish attempt at disguising something under 'professionalism'."

He sounds mad, and he is pissed, but he's more disappointed than anything. He expected...more. She was good. Not mob thief good, freelance thief good. The type people hired for anything. He might not have seen her in action much but judging on their first encounter and how fast she opened that safe... This was just odd. His mother had said that you protected your employer because it was a job, but if it came down to you or them that you should get out of there because your employer wouldn't be protecting you.

This was just all wrong.

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outfoxing
2011-12-17 04:47 am UTC (link)

She's not giving anyone up. Se can't because she has to protect her mentor. She won't let anyone break her to get that from her.

Finally thought she slips a little because she doesn't want him hurt. "Robin. Stay out of it. Please."

She can't ask him to do any more than that. All ready she knows that this is going to get her into trouble. The kind of trouble she doesn't need.

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cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 04:53 am UTC (link)

Still pissed he glares at her, "If you think that whoever your employer is can hurt me...you're either overestimating him or underestimating me. Both of which are big mistakes Fox."

He's not going to hurt her, but he wants to make it clear that he's not getting off her tail about this either. Gotham's vigilantes were the only ones criminals should fear, not some trumped up employer. And certainly not enough to risk yourself like that. No, now he's even more interested in finding out who she works for.

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outfoxing
2011-12-17 05:06 am UTC (link)

She huffs at him. "I don't want people getting shot on my account Boy Wonder.... I can take care of myself."

She's done well for three years. No closer to what she wants in the end but she's stubborn. The fact that she's glaring at him and prepared to get away as quick as she can all at once says far too much about her drive.

The handcuffs get flung at him because as far as she's concerned she is done here. The swing line to get her out of this place goes off.

If he really wants to he can chase her some more.

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cantkeepmeout
2011-12-17 05:18 am UTC (link)

"As if I've never been shot before. And yet I'm still here so I guess that doesn't work does it?" He should keep that anger under control but this annoys him. The situation more than her really.

But throwing handcuffs at him? Now he's annoyed at her. He swings out too to chase her down. To find out why she's being like this and because you don't let criminals who throw handcuffs at you escape. At least he doesn't.

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	outfoxing 2011-12-17 05:25 am UTC (link)
	She's good at hiding when she wants to. She doesn't want to deal with him. He made her mad because he reminded her of all the things she couldn't fight against. That she was under someone's thumb and no one could change that. And she is staying very still under the water tower clinging to the tank hoping the shadows hide her well enough in the dark. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)