hungerstrike (hungerstrike) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2013-03-09 22:12:00

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Watching (for Robin)
She was just watching, for now. Iota flitted at superhuman speed from cover to cover as she followed the cartel operatives. Just... you now. To see how they were adjusting in wake of their recent unfortunately-minor losses. Poor Tomas. But it would get better. And she just wanted to make sure his information didn't fall behind when he was busy elsewhere.

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hungerstrike
2013-03-10 04:09 am UTC (link)

"...Stabbing you in the foot wouldn't be useful, so I won't. Of course he's not using me; that'd be a silly idea. And you know these people don't just work in Gotham, right? We've had to deal with them all over. Brasil. The Carribean. This is just one of the --" And just Thomas's luck, to confuse the issue, the word she uses trying to remember the word she wants isn't even from this planet, although it sounds... vaguely greek-sounding. "-- lynchpins or something."

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cantkeepmeout
2013-03-10 04:16 am UTC (link)

Fun. Threats of a sort. How original. Cue inward eye rolling.

Though the foot? Not exactly a target most picked, not to mention a hard one to get and not the smartest given his boots. At least it told him she didn't jump to lethal means right away. Though he wouldn't discount her actually using those means entirely, after all, she was hanging out with a son of Shiva. Cass had been a very different matter, more Cain-tied than anything, it wouldn't be a stretch to say this new guy was similar. Except he had no idea the father figure involved. Someone close to a Scandal was all he could say right now, and not with much certainty.

"Obviously I know that. Of course you do know that we'd be the ones who know the most about the local chapter here don't you?" This girl was so clearly not the mastermind behind everything, she seemed more like she was tagging along more than anything.

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	hungerstrike 2013-03-10 04:21 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah, well, I think it wouldn't hurt for them to work together, but that's up to him. And it's not like he got her number." Too bad, if she was pretty. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2013-03-10 04:27 am UTC (link)

Thomas was not in agreement with that at all. Maria's taste in men aside, it wasn't a good idea to work with likely-lethal unknowns. Not to mention this one was a metahuman of sorts, no guarantee the Skanda guy wasn't either. All of this was just a giant headache.

"He can't be killing anyone in the city, and most certainly not if he wants to work with her at all. But I didn't hear him giving out any numbers either." Which was a shame because tracking that would've been useful.

Ugh, first Great White off house arrest, a drug ring still up, and now...these two newcomers. Please let them not stay long.

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hungerstrike
2013-03-10 04:40 am UTC (link)

"He hasn't killed anybody in your city! He's perfectly capable of --" And then Iota's brain finally connects to the last time she discussed Tomas's being perfectly capable of doing the job without killing because he was awesome like that. And he'd mentioned not wanting the Bats' attention on the family. And she'd been... talking to Robin for the past five minutes...

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cantkeepmeout
2013-03-10 04:54 am UTC (link)

Thomas notes but doesn't correct the 'your city' bit. In his life he'd only said 'my city' in relation to Gotham once. Just once. And that had slipped out without him realizing the significance until much later. He didn't make a habit of using possessives with Gotham, it was too much like Dad and it was far too...Batman on top of it all. He wasn't Batman, not yet and maybe not ever given the whole new world and all.

Not so dazzling in this case.

"Yet." Robin tilts his head at the sudden stop, trying to read her expression. It looked like she'd finally just realized something. Heh. Not talking to the bat to much tended to be something most were good at. And here he didn't even need to shake her out to get her to be talkative. Well, it looked like she wouldn't be willing to talk much more now that she'd realized her mistake. Ah well, it was useful while it lasted.

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	hungerstrike 2013-03-15 01:11 pm UTC (link)
	Iota didn't invest nearly so much meaning in it. She just meant he lived here. "...But you're randomly deciding it's inevitable, so that makes bothering him more important than the people who /already are killing people?/" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cantkeepmeout
2013-03-15 11:37 pm UTC (link)

Thomas raised an eyebrow at that. "No. You're assuming this is both random and more important than the scum who kill people. Which is incorrect on both accounts." He tilts his head at her curiously. "So tell me, when I look into your cousin's work with this particular cartel, in Brazil and the Caribbean especially, do you really think I'll find all the people who were foiled nicely in jail with not a rumour of any death? None?" Yes, it was 'when' and not 'if' for a reason. This was not something one maybe looked into, you had to. Unknown likely killing element on the streets? Yeah, you had to.

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hungerstrike
2013-03-16 01:58 pm UTC (link)

"I didn't say that!" Of course Tomas probably killed people on some of those occasions when she wasn't taken along. But he avoided it with her because death -- as opposed to screaming, bleeding bad guys, which were fine -- spoiled everything and Tomas was sweet like that.

Even Iota's not stupid enough to realize that she's brought trouble on the family though.
"We don't have to be your problem. and it's none of your business anyway." And then she's gone.

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	cantkeepmeout 2013-03-16 10:51 pm UTC (link)
	Thomas watches her go, no point in following or starting a chase at the moment. Not enough info and she had the speed advantage. He rolls his eyes at her parting words once she's gone and mutters to himself. "They all think that huh?" (Reply to this)(Parent)

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