Chapter 8: Addictions

[Tuesday DeCastro]

Tuesday nods without hesitation. "Deffinately. She's an unaffliated rebel."

She notices Malak is being a little paranoid, but she can understand why. They've been through a lot in the past week or so. "She was telling me how a lot of the people in there are rebels of some sort or another. This is a kind of safe place for them to openly discuss matters."

"I actually want to talk to some of them before we leave if thats possible..."

[Malak Al-Dabaran]

"Well, we can go back inside. You can talk to Maeve about Tyler and the other rebels. I'll just keep an eye on the news and some of the shady people in there...like that Alexei or Tyler." Malak suggests. With nothing more to say, he heads back into the shop and takes a seat to watch the news again.

[Maeve Cullen]

Maeve chats with Lonnrot a bit as she finishes his tattoo, giving him the bandages and informational sheet. Walking out, she checks the time and glances around. Chewing her bottom lip, she walks over to Jeff. "Should we close up early? I'm not scared, but I'm not stupid either." He agrees. "We'll finish up with Tyler and Alexei and then close up. I'll take Tyler for you."

She glances around for Tuesday and Malak, but sees thay had left. "Okay ya'll! Time to start moving out, you know how it is. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Only one allowed to sleep here is me!" She moves over to Alexei after her statement, regulars beginning to groan and stretch. She knew that they'd figure why she was closing up.

"Looks like you're the last lucky man to get a tattoo from me today. Come on, I'll do you in the back room, Jeff's gonna take care of the last customer out here." As she speaks, Jeff heads over to Tyler. "What can I do for you?"

((Sorry, kind of rushing here now. I want to wrap this up. Post to Alexei with Maeve, post to Tyler with Jeff.))

[Alexei Nacharade]

Alexei chuckles and nods, standing.

"That's me. Mr. Lucky!" He says and smirks, "Lead the way."

[wyvernlord]

"Haha, I'll come back some other time," Tyler chuckles politely. "I'm quite eager to get a tattoo, but if you must close up, I'm in full understanding. I've some stories about hunting parties that had to stop hunting and what not, but I doubt you'd want to hear them." Tyler adds in. Tyler gets up and steps outside without waiting for a response. "Ciao Ciao for now!" He chips in as he leaves the shop.

Tyler turns invisible and begins his hunt to find Hocario. Maybe roughing him up a bit more will keep him extra quiet.

[Toolah "Tuvi" Renee]

"Then maybe we should send a message that says we still run things?" Tuvi replies coldly. She doesn't like what kind of situation this presents to the company.

"What's first? Do we find out who did this?"

[Maeve Cullen]

Maeve catches sight of the strange man leaving, and shrugs mentally before leading Alexei into the back room. Might as well still do it in there, then Jeff could clean up his area. "Really sorry for the wait, what can I do for you today?"

[Alexei Nacharade]

Alexei lifts up his pant leg, showing a line of delicate and ornate red roses going up his calf. There were eleven currently.

"I want you to add another one." Alexei says, gesturing at his exposed leg.

[Linnea Korpela]

Linnea sighed and hung her head, she still didn't want to talk about it especially with Keito, but once she had it would be over with and she wouldn't have to deal with it so much anymore.
"Someone came into the gallery and we talked a little bit. After a while we went to a cafe and apparently there were people waiting there to arrest me. Maybe I said something that made him think that I was a rebel or something," she lied a little, but she didn't want to tell him that she was basically an idiot. "So he was some sort of officer or something."

[Peter "Levitas" Barak]

"We find out and we hang them in the town square by their guts. I'm not having it declared open season on Allmart and it's employees." Peter stopped and checked his phone. "I sent a message to a... friend. I'm meeting with them about the Russian problem, maybe I can get some help with this as well. We'll see what happens.

In any case this needs to be checked out. I don't know anything about evidence so you'd better head that up. Get the security from the mart together, find any clues you can, and get some names. I'll do some foot work with a few of the interested parties and see if I can roll anyone over."

[Maeve Cullen]

Maeve studies the tattoo for a moment before nodding. She adjusts the chair properly, so that one leg was up. "You keeping your pants on or takin' them off?" She questions with a grin. In truth, she was polite enough to look away when ever someone took their clothes off, and once they did her mind could only focus on them from an artistic point of view. Mostly.

[Alexei Nacharade]

Alexei thought about it for a while, then stood and undid his belt, pulling his pants down around his ankles.

"Should I take something to dull the pain?" Alexei asks more to himself, then to Maeve, taking off his blazer as well, simply sliding both his pants and the blazer across the floor.

He eyes her, unsure, then reaches into his pocket and retrieves a pinch of cocaine, snorting it. She's a rebel, anyway. What was she gonna do?

"All right. Do it."

[wyvernlord]

Tyler stood in his own doorway. His men were drunk and asleep, he’d have to punish them later for such lack of self-control. He sat at his table and began to write a mission report to Li Violette. When he finished, he faxed it to her and asked her to meet him in Dublin.

[Maeve Cullen]

Maeve watches him snort the cocaine, mostly because if he had access to cocaine... She shakes her head and gets the area on his skin ready. "Be too much to ask what these roses mean? Most people get tattoos to symbolize something, and since this seems to be a continuing thing, it must be something like... Maybe girls? Step up from putting notches in your belt."

She chuckles slightly, though she seemed a bit distracted. She hadn't had a smoke in a good while, cigarettes were so hard to get. When Jeff or her did manage to get their hands on a pack, they often shared them. Taking a breath to clear her head, she picks up her inking gun and begins the rose. If anything was gonna get her mind off of it, it was tattooing.

[Alexei Nacharade]

Alexei eyes her and smirks when she brings up notches in his belt.

"No, I put the tattoos for my sexual conquests in a different spot." He jokes, then chuckles, leaning his head back and shaking it back and forth as his head starts to swim a little.

"The roses are something like that, yeah. They mark important things I do." He left it at that, neglecting to mention those roses represented the men he'd killed.

"you have anything like that?" He asks, taking control of the conversation and veering away from a potentially dangerous topic,"Tattoos that mark something important that has happened?"