Chapter 1: Hunger for Strawberries

[Toolah "Tuvi" Renee]

Tuvi finally picks up her PDA and answers it. She was hoping he would hang up and call Dinari's phone."Yes, Peter? How may I help you?"

[Peter "Levitas" Barak]

"You can help me by answering your f***ing phone," he hissed quietly into the mouth piece. "Tell Dollar the Cudan project is underway. I figure two or three days and this place is going to be going crazy, they'll be begging him to buy their homes."

He took a breath and paused to collect his thoughts. He needed to keep calm here. "I had a little difficulty with the last bit of the plan, nothing I couldn't handle, but I lost some blood and I need to rest for a few hours before I make sure I'm seen somewhere else. I'm coming to the manson as soon as I'm sure no one's seen me."

Peter glanced over his should again. No one anywhere around. Perfect. "I'll be there in a few minutes. Let Dinari know I'm on my way: he turned his phone off. Again." He started to close the phone but stops and quickly adds, "And if you could see if there's any gaze around the place I'd be greatful..."

[Toolah "Tuvi" Renee]

Tuvi hisses into the phone and feels her fangs prick her tounge. Attitude annoys her greatly. "Your gonna lose a lot more blood if you don't watch your tone." She replies coldly.

"Just get here. I'll let Dinari know." She abruptly hangs up the phone and tells Dinari what Peter said.

"Sorry Dinari. I don't like attitude or being cursed at." She says, trying to retract her fangs.

[Peter "Levitas" Barak]

Peter looks at the phone, stunned to silence. She'd freakin' hissed at him! What kind of chick hissed at people... well, one you shouldn't mess with mostly, he supposed. Still, he wasn't going to take crap off of anybody, especially a 'personal assistant'.

Pocketing the phone Peter made his way back to the Teleportation Booth he'd arrived by and moments later he was making his way into Dollar's manson, his ID card getting him in the door and past security. He'd put his white coat on again and it fit perfectly with his now white hair (the dye burned away if he used his field).

The first servent he stopped pointed him to the kitchen; said Dollar was making himself dinner, which forced Peter to repress a laugh. First time for everything.

Finally he walked into the kitchen, somewhere between clean and roughed up. He had a few small smears of partly cleaned blood on his face and neck but the dried stuff on his shirt was hidden by the coat.

"You really should leave your phone on, boss," he said, walking across the massive kitchen towards Dollar and Tuvi. He smiles at the man but when he gaze shifts to Tuvi his smile flickers on a grimace before he manages to fix it. She still looked hot but he was thinking of that hiss. Normal people couldn't make sounds like that, they couldn't really hiss. They could imitate the noise but it wasn't the same as when a cat or something like one did it. Acutally... in a way it made her that much hotter, in that dangerous way that gets guys into alot of trouble if their not careful.

He rubbed his eyes, and leaned against the counter, suppressing a groan as the damaged muscles in his back push against the polished surface. "Things are starting. You'll be able to cut the riddon on your new resort in no time, boss." He shifted his position and touched his size, unable to surpress the wince this time. "You got any gaze around? Or maybe just some paper towels?"

(I'm off for the night. I'll be back in like nine hours.)

[Jack Kruschev]

"Very well, be there as soon as I can," Anthony says into the hung-up telephone. "Better get packin'," Anthony said. He grabbed his laptop and some drawings along with his notebook.

Anthony grabbed his bag he kept for occasions like this. As he headed out, he stopped by his secretarie's desk and said, "I've got business to attend to that may send our companie, or me, spiraling into wealth and stuff. Tell everyone not to miss me," Anthony laughed.

He walked to a nearby teleporter and teleported.

[Dinari Dollar]

"Sorry Paul, I must have accidentally turned it off when that Genetech guy called. He'll be coming over soon! He wants to show me some new products. Why don't you guys sit in on our little meeting and you can give some imput of what you think All Mart needs right now." Dinari offers.

He thinks a moment about the Cuba stuff and feels happy. This is wonderful! "Tuvi, get Peter some gauze, we must have a first aid kit around here somewhere."


(you guys can move me around if needed. Just post around me, I might not be online today)

[Hilja Kukkanen/Sasha Pisarev]

I arrive back in Helsinki, but feel shaken by the events which transpired earlier today. I try not to think about it as I return to the house that I share with my roommates. I go upstairs and take a shower. I change dresses and am not sure what to do with the one that has two large holes in it now.

I am worn out and work again tomorrow. For now, I go to my tiny room to do a little reading before calling it a night.

[Jumala Keitoleinen]

(to Eun)

After a good night's sleep at his mansion, Keitoleinen decides to head to some of Sota's labs in Helsinki to see how work is going on some new designs. He tours a few labs, meeting his scientists and asking them questions about their work.

They are all happy that he actually took the time to talk to them. They inform him that some of the best work is being done by Eun Kiriyama, who used to work for Intelligent Design. He figures that maybe he should talk to her and find out a little about the mysterious scientist.

He heads over to her work station and starts looking around. "Is Miss Kiriyama in today?" He asks one of her colleagues.

[Toolah "Tuvi" Renee]

Tuvi shifts a lazy gaze towards Peter before sighing and hoping off the bar stool. Of course, the scent of blood is coming off of Peter and she can tell he is hurt. She silently goes to get one of the many first aid kits she keeps around the mansion.

She comes back a short time later, her heels making sharp clicking sounds on the floor and sets the first aid kit infront of Peter.

Picking up her burger, Tuvi takes another bite and ignores Peter's gaze.
She briefly considers asking Dinari if he knows when the Genetech guy is coming but alas, she already knows the answer.

[Peter "Levitas" Barak]

Peter considered thanking Tuvi but he didn't particularly feel like it at the moment. Wholy aside from the creepy thing she always had going she was really ticking him off at the moment. He wasn't in the best of moods.

So, largely ignoring the woman, he pulled off his coat and removed his v-neck so he could patch himself up. Blood has spread across his left side but not a great deal. The gun shot wound was visible, a small hole through his flesh level with his navel. It was bleeding but it was the slow, oozy bleeding of a lesser injury.

It took only a minute to applying the gaze and wrap a bandage around his stomach to hold it in place. He'd be fixed in a few days, thanks to Genetech's adjustments. That was one thing he really liked: faster healing.

Leaving his shirt off he replaced the medical supplies and leaned back again. He signed and smiled properly, the pain vastly eased and his spirits high again. Peter was many things but mood was not one of them. He ran his hands through his hair with his eyes closed, remembering his needed to redye the stuff.

"So... why's a Genetech guy coming out here?"

[Toolah "Tuvi" Renee]

"He has things to show Dinari to help improve All-Mart." Tuvi replies, ignoring how rude Peter was by not saying 'thank you.' See, being nice gets one no where.

She finishes her burger then puts her plate and Dinari's in the sink. The smell of blood from Peter's shirt is nagging her a bit but she ignores it by cleaning up the mess Dinari made.

[Peter "Levitas" Barak]

Peter pulled his coat on but kept it unbuttoned and left his shirt off (he'd have to toss it anyway, blood didn't come out properly), and straightened up. "He worked out how to grow retailer clerks in tubes? What's Genetech got that Allmart needs?" His mind wandered to Allmart selling little do-it-yourself genetic kits with a Genetech brand name, of kids giving their dog two heads, fish with legs. That would actually be pretty cool...

He turned to Tuvi properly, a friendly smile on his lips now that he wasn't in pain, "Anything I'm needed for in the next few days? This Cuba thing might need a few more pokes before it hops off properly and I could be busy."

[Toolah "Tuvi" Renee]

"Hmm I don't know. Dinari spoke to him. Just gonna have to stick around and see. He wants our opinions anyways." Tuvi replies. She won't smile at Peter since he thought it was okay to be rude to her. Instead, she has a neutral face.

"Cuba, huh? Should I be waiting for calls for something?"

[Peter "Levitas" Barak]

"Not likely. But their rebel groups are going to be having some trouble in the near future. The leader of one of the largest groups is going to be found dead tommorrow morning, along with five of his followers. Evidence at the scene will point, equaly, to Manalist enforcers and the second largest rebel group, leaving everyone to determine one set the other up or vic versa. In short, chaos will ensue, order will fade, and opportunity will arise. Like I said, it might need another poke or two before things really fall apart but not much." He smiled wider and put his hand to his chin, feeling extremely proud of his genius, "By the end of the month the whole island is going to be a resort underconstruction."

[Toolah "Tuvi" Renee]

"Hm... so in other words, I should look out for opportunities to buy land in Cuba for Dinari's ideal resort after chaos ensues?" Tuvi says, eyebrow raised. She is impressed with Peter's plan.

"How did you manage to get shot then?"