Din Cafe

[Pensive Dreamer]

A place for us to play while Raz is AWOL. X3

[midnightwhisper]

It just wasn’t a good day for Agent Kirkham, or even close to a good day. Lara Kirkham worked for the FBI as an Agent for DIN, a special division that dealt with the paranormal. It sounded like a fun, thrilling dream job to an outsider... if any outsider had known about people like Agent Kirkham and her division. Fact was that, although fun and thrilling, it also came hand in hand with an overwhelming load of work. This readily explained the young woman’s migraine.

It wasn’t a good date either. Most DIN Agents had had a close encounter with Demons, which had alerted them to the world of the occult and thus thrust them in the hurricane’s eyes. Lara Kirkham was no exception. She had been working for DIN for nearly three years now, making that very day her fianceè’s second death anniversary.

As a result, Lara had failed to go back home and catch some proper sleep. She had worked until she couldn’t think straight and had slept in one of the couches. The young woman was up, showered and ready to keep it up by seven thirty sharp. Thus, the migraine had come as something merely natural. It was also Friday, which meant she could lock herself in her apartment fro the next two days like the pitiful little thing she felt like.

Sebastian would spend the weekend at their parents’. She hadn’t failed to notice the boy didn’t whine and complain about it, which added to the uncomfortable feeling one gets when they find themselves in the receiving end of everyone’s pity. She couldn’t wait for Natalie to get there, she never made an effort, which was good.
She leaned back in her chair and waited patiently for her work to start printing. Long cases were always the hardest to transfer into a report… bloody reports.

[Pensive Dreamer]

Natalie Windshaw was up, showered and dressed in her DIN uniform, she loaded her twin .44 caliber Ruger Blackhawks into their holsters on either hip, put her .70 cali T/C pistol in her leg holster, slipped the Boker Giant Bowie Knife in one boot and tucked her tiny Boker Subcom up into the special pocket she'd sewn on the inside her sleave cuff and hung her Buck Mayo Kaala knife around her neck. Then making sure she'd gotten her NEW, new wristwatch she gave Charlie his morning scratch and grabbed up her keys and pass card and headed out the door.

No there were no missions today as far as she knew, the woman was always this heavily armed, going through airport security had always been a Bitch! Thank god DIN had their own privet transports...

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Shaine walked in to the office to find Lara in practically the same spot he'd left her last night, "Yo Tomb Raider! Working hard still? I doubt Mrs Jolie ever put in as much over time as you do... So you eat anything yet Shorty?"

He walked over and looked down at her criticly, "You're gonna get premature wrinkles if you keep this up."

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Jack grabbed up his keys then paused looking around, "That everything?"

"You forgot your Lunch Box Daddy!" Sing Sang the adorible six year old girl who was laying on belly down, head proped up on her ands and elbos kicking her feet in the air, she was still Dressed in her two piece pink Tinker Bell pajamas, her long curly black hair as always carefully pulled up in two pigtails adorned today with pink ribbons to match her pjs.

Jack clapped his hands, "Of course! That's it! Thank you Nina!"

The little girl slipped off the bed o go get something as Jack carefully pulled the large (Family sized) insolated freezer bag out filled the bottem with the frozen gell pack he'd placed in the freezer last night and then started filling it with things from the fridge and cupboards. He was just about to close it when Nina came back and held out a hand full of napkins.

"Don't forget to clean up!" she said matter of factly, Jack reached down taking the napkins, and set them in the top of the bag and zipped it up, he then turned squatting down and hugged and kissed his precious daughter, taking a monent to just stop and stroke her long hair.

"What would I ever do without you Nina? You always make sure I have just what I need!" he sighed.

Nina hugged him close, smiling and giggled, "Silly Daddy, Nina will always be here for you!"

Jack smiled and hugged her, then they kissed eachother on the cheeks and Jack got up.

"Well I've got to go now and make sure Lara hasn't colapsed... she over does it." Jack said watching as Nina drifted off towards the small living room.

She paused for a secound as he reached the door.

"Tell her Chis wouldn't want her to be sad. He said he always loved her best when she was smiling." The girl said calmly.

Jack felt an involentary shiver as a clear sign of Nina's Water elemental powers showed again.

"So he's around here somewhere?" Jack asked, trying not to show how much that thought bothered him.

"No, he visited last night, just for awhile to check on her, He said to tell her to get more sleep. he's back in the good place now, he's happy there." Nina said.

Jack smiled sadly, "Okay Nina. Thanks."

He left to get on the Tram thinking about the message, on one hand there was no doubt it was true, Nina never lied, she seemed incapible of such things... And if he had came all the way just to tell her... But would it upset Lara? He didn't want to upset her.

"Maybe I'll tell Cab, she'd know what to do..." Jack thought allowed setting down as the Tram started down the tunnel.

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Carmody Ann was not in the dark to the visit, when she came in she was drawn to a couch at the far side of the room, she looked at the imprint of where someone had laid, it was Lara she could tell just by the feel of it, but there had been another presence their, at the head of the couch as thou some one had knelt there.

Cab turned away and walked over towards David's office to check on things... she'd have to ask Lara some questions later...

[midnightwhisper]

“Good morning, Shaine.” Lara greeted sarcastically, pen in hand and signing some papers. “Nice to see you too and thank you for the encouraging words. I’m not really hungry, but thank you.”

She stapled some papers together and reached down to open a drawer, pulling some folders out. She was meticulous in the way she filed each paper. Once she was done, she looked up at the black haired man with a tiered smile.

“How’s Carrie doing? I haven’t seen her… or Nina for that matter.” She checked the hour on her lap top’s screen. She started to put her desk in order carefully.

[Pensive Dreamer]

"Carrie is fine, she's busy with Duke and Dutchess right now though... Those dogs could keep anyone busy... I haven't seen Nina actually. She's always so quiet, she usually stays in her and Jack's room... I think I just saw Cabby come through, wait a minute, I'll go get us some nice fattening Cab made junk food!"

he walked off just as Natalie came in, the woman gave him a cursorary glance and then headed for Lara, "You're STILL working Aqua? Do you realize you'll DIE if you keep working that hard? even Ivory knows when to call it quits and contray to popular beliefs Azure can actually use a computer... well atleast well enough to type a report... anything else might be beyound him..."

"Why THANK YOU Agent Windshaw, I'm so happy someone believes in my abilities!" Joshua Wade sneered skulking in, "Now all I need is to see that reject Turk and my day will be complete!"

He walked over to Lara glaring, "You up. NOW! I will not have my partner in such deplorable conditions! What if we have to go out on an emergency assignment huhn? You're a liabilty to the whole team in your current state! Get up, eat something and then go get some sleep! Mr. Sujan has a cot in his room you can use."

In his own arrogant selfcentered way he was trying to help her out... atleast it sorta sounded that way...

Shaine came back with several sugary foods and some coffee from Cab and the Boss's office, "Okay Shorty! A Cabby speacial all-you-can-eat, sure-to-induce-Diabetes delight! and fresh coffee, brought the cream and sugar with me so you can doctor it to your liking!"

"Agent Davis is right go eat over in the longue and then get some damn rest before I'm forced to have David remove you from active duty for a week to recover!" Wade said sturnly.

Shaine stood waiting to usher Lara over into the longue.

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Jack got to DIN just as Alexander Milo came down the lift carrying a box with NESCO labeled on the side in purple and yellow.

"Working on the new upgrades already Al?" Jack asked curiously.

"Nope. Were gonna download the current systems onto these blank disks and sell them to Russia after adding spying softwear." The teenager said completely straight faced.

"Wouldn't that be considered Espionage?" Jack asked.

"I dunno... Its Dev's idea." Milo shrugged still without the slightest hint of a smile.

Jack looked desturbed and Milo laughed.

"You big goof! Of course we're not doing that! This is the new Vert. Simulator for the Combat Room!" Milo laughed.

Jack relaxed, pouting, "Why do you always have to do that? You know I can't tell when you're joking when you always act so serious!"

Milo smiled, "Hey don't take it so hard Jackie. So what's up with you?"

"Nina talked to another ghost last night..." Jack said tensely.

"Annnd?" Milo asked sensing there was more.

"It was Lara's Fiance..." Jack sighed.

"Ouch..." Milo sympathized, "Yeah, Lara crashed on one of the couches in the longue last night..."

"Didn't sleep well though, Nina said he told her to tell Lara to get more rest. That and to be happy cause he is." Jack sighed.

"Sound advice. So how are ya gonna tell her?" Milo asked walking beside him as they walked down the hall to HQ.

"I was hoping to speak to Miss Cab about it, I'm sure she'd know." Jack said.

Milo blushed a bit, "Y-Yeah, Cab would deffinately be able to help..."

Jack smiled at the boy knowingly, but said nothing.

Milo didn't notice.

[midnightwhisper]

“It’s not that big a deal, Natalie.” Smiled the young woman, resisting the urge to roll her eyes. “I’m good actually, I just have a headache.”

Lara looked up at her partner, and her friendly demeanour changed as he spoke. By the end of his speech, Lara was glaring coldly at him, her fists clenched in anger.

“What bloody deplorable condition!?” Lara snapped back, quite energetically. “Don’t insult me, Joshua, I have NEVER been a hindrance to this team and you fucking know that!” standing up, she pushed away from her desk and slammed the chair back into place. “Get off your high horse, you can’t order anyone to remove me from active duty without a real reason!” She stopped there, no real insults uttered. She knew he wasn’t trying to upset her, she was just not in the mood to be understanding.

Grabbing the folders from her desk, Lara stormed past Joshua, resisting the urge to strike him with her shoulder.

“Come with me, Shaine? I’ll get this to Cab before breakfast.” She said tightly. “Mornin’ Natalie.”

And with that, she was out of the office and on her way to find Cab.

[Pensive Dreamer]

Natalie shrugged carelessly and wandered off to her office.

Wade sat down and looked at the files to see what he had to do and visably paled, "Dear god! She did most of MY work too!? I'LL KILL HER!! She's not to be allowed by so much as a PEN for the next two months!!"

Natalie blinked then ducked into her, Jack, Raul, and Rasmus's office snickering.

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Shaine followed dutifully behind Lara letting her cool off, Cab met them just inside the office and looked at the files Lara was carrying.

"Are those the La Boufe Case reveiws?" she asked disbelievingly, "You had two weeks to do those in you know... But thank you I'll make sure David looks them over when he comes in."

She took the files and walked over to set them on the desk, she decided now wasn't the time to question Lara about the secound aura she'd felt by the couch.

Shaine smiled, "Okay mission accomplished! Now comon, lets pig out!"

[midnightwhisper]

"Thank you, Cab." Lara smiled absently at the smaller woman, and dutifully followed Shaine out of the room, her mind all ready occupied with thoughts of coffee and wondering if Sebastian made it to school in time.

Probably not.

Sitting in the lounge with an assortment of sugary junk food laying before her and a very hot coffee in her hands, Lara rested back against the chair and allowed herself to relax. She nibbled on a cookie while stirring her coffee thoughtfully.

“It’s rather quiet today around here.” She commented conversationally. “That doesn’t happen too often, does it?”

[Pensive Dreamer]

"Nope! I didn't even run into any spooks on the way... which was kinda sad, the Tram gets lonely with no one else around... But besides that... Milo hasn't been around and Rasmus is eerily missing... So is Mr. Raul, mayhaps they all overslept? And then their's Jack being late... Lucas and Logan missing..." Shaine smiled, "Lots a folks missing today, and Natalie is behaving herself... its starting to scare me now that I think about it."

The way he said that last part was VERY Conspiritorial (in a playful way) He grinned and peeaked out one of the longue windows towards Natalie's office, "She seems realy happy this mornig no? You don't suposse she bumbed them all off and is now silently in there gloating about it? I know Lucas was pissing her off trying to hit on her, and Rasmus and Jack were never her favorite people... she could have jumped Raul in the parking gerage! And then its not too hard for her to get at Milo as the kid is always wandering around by himself!"

He actually seemed quiet excited at the prospect of Natalie having finally snapped and offed half the Agents in DIN.

Sadly for his theory Jack and Milo came into Lara veiw just then, walking side by side, chatting away calmly.

[midnightwhisper]

Sometimes people fail to notice something until it’s no longer there. For example, there had been no obvious signs of depression or sense of loss in Lara, physical or otherwise, until she burst out laughing. As her laughter died down –leaving her with a serious case of the giggles- she realized there was a painful knot in her throat that made it hard to swallow.

“Well, unless I’ve suddenly developed some sort of sixth sense.” She told her friend while motioning towards the pair with her head. “Your theory has just gone down the drain, Shay.”

She waved and smiled at Jack and Milo.

“Good morning, guys.” She greeted brightly. “Good to see you’re not dead.”

She said this in a casual tone, not a trace of laughter in her voice. She could only hope Natalie couldn’t hear them and get any ideas.

…………….

“Give me that!” Anne Marie shrieked, diving towards her son, who dodged skilfully.

“You know she doesn’t like those calls!” he shot back, jumping over his mother and dashing towards the door. Only to trip and fall when said woman took hold of his ankle.

“I’m trying to be a supporting mother, Sebastian!” she informed the child as she landed a merciless tickle attack on him. The boy shrieked and squirmed with laughter. “Give me the damned cell phone!”

“Never!”

“You’re grounded for a week!”

“Make it two!”


The maid sighed and shook her head. It was hard to tell which was the youngster sometimes. She watched the lady of the house and respectable ex wife of Zachariah Kirkham roll around in her underwear, trying to wrestle said item from her nine year old son. Neither seemed to notice the telephone on the nightstand beside them.

[Pensive Dreamer]

(Um... He'd be 9 in this, two years have passed remember? And I thought her mum was a bitch? Her parents are still together??)

Shaine turned and waved, "Oh my god my Aura's acting up again! I must have pulled those two from the Etherrealm."

Shaine had the unique and sometimes dangerous ability to actually transfer some of his aura into spirits that where on his wavelangth, giving them corperal form, He'd been working with Sandy Dublain to try and learn to control this power, and had made some progress, but from time to time he still slipped up, the fact that he possesed no concious 6th sense despite having this ability (A fact that had shocked those who knew about the condition as usually the subject needed to have espeacially strong ESP to Transfer Aura.), had made it all the more difficult to learn how to control.

Jack smiled, it was a little less bright than his usual smile however, and the telltale worryline had appeared between his brows as he looked Lara over.

Milo snatched a pastry and began eatting happily, seemingly without a care.

"Tell me Alexander, have you eatten anything besides junk food this week?" Shaine asked exsaperated, how was it this kid hadn't keeled over or developed Diabetes yet?

"Cab does not make junk food." retorted the young man.

"I'm gonna have to talk to her about starting to bring you in some normal food..." Shaine sighed.

"Stop being such a mother hen, I'm fine!" Milo scowled grabbing a donut.

Shaine shook his head in dissbelief.

"How about we get chinese for lunch today?" Shaine suggested. He eyed Jack.

"Fine by me! I need to talk to Miss Cab for a secound." Jack said excusing himself.

Milo watched him go and then looked around, "Where's Turk at?"

"We think Natalie did him, Mr. Raul and the Dunkins in. We had you and Jack on the list but you showed up... tho?" Shaine patted his head and then looked after Jack, "Not sure about Jack still."

"Jackie's fine." Milo snickered, and looked at Lara slyly, "So you think Natz did them all in too Mel??"

[midnightwhisper]

“Well, she is rather high spirited today, you know?” Lara said with a fake sombre expression in her face. “And honestly, have you ever seen Raul or Logan come in late before? Sad thing is I doubt we’ll ever find the bodies…”

She reached for a chocolate muffin and nibbled on it thoughtfully.

“Say, Shay.” She turned to her friend. “What do you reckon she could have done with them?”

[Pensive Dreamer]

"Hmm, good point... Yesh! that's creepy, cause you know she'd probably actually do that!!" Milo shivered laughing.

Shaine grabbed up an apple turnover, and looked genuinely thoughtful, "Well The Manor is only 8 miles from that Body Farm, she probably dumped them there... or maybe she took them and incinerated them in the furnace here, or went to Cabby's and dumped 'em in the lake!"

Milo sweatdropped, "You gave this some real thought didn't you?"

"Well yeah! After all we need to go find them and then bring her to justice!" Shaine smiled.

"Find who?" asked a familiar voice at the door. Logan walked in and "threw" his still full lunch bag away before turning to the others with a worn out sigh.

"We just had to go through a massacre... A strange "animal" showed up in downtown IN BROAD DAYLIGHT and killed nearly two dozen people on the street! Lucas is in reporting to the Boss right now."

Milo paled, looking suddenly ill and shakey.

Shaine's smile dissapeared, "How long ago? Any Idea where it went."

"The details where sketchy, most of the witnesses were in shock. EXTREME SHOCK, we're talking down on the ground paralized with fear, catatonic, shock." Logan scowled, "All we got was that it was BIG, and it prefures the taste of young women... Oh god but the carnage, Jack would have DIED!"

Milo looked about ready to colapse himself. Shaine got up and pushed the kid down, into a chair.

"Number of victems was around 24 you said?" Shaine asked.

"It's unconfirmed. supposedly it ate some of them whole, and ALIVE." Logan said.

Milo covered his mouth with both hands and bolted out towards the rest rooms.

Shaine turned to follow him, "I'll go make sure he's alright."

He started out the door.

[midnightwhisper]

“Hurry back!” Lara called after him, standing up and looking over at Logan. Let’s go find Cab, I’m not sure if the Boss is in yet.”

With that the young woman stood up and headed to the office. A big ‘animal’ who had wrecked havoc both in town and in the witnesses’ minds. Twenty four victims at least? It didn’t sound like it would be hard to find it… which probably meant it would take a while and her weekend.

[Pensive Dreamer]

As a matter of fact all Lucas had found was Cab and Jack in a very deep discussion about Nina and Lara's dead lover Chris.

"Yo! Where's the boss man at!" Lucas said a little annoyed that their great, fearless leader was AWOL again.

Cab looked up at him in surprise, "David is a bit under the weather this morning, he's at home right now."

"Brilliant! Just fucking brilliant! We have a crissis and he'd at home sobbing into his pillow!" spat Lucas and stormed back out nearly knocking Shaine over. He looked at the young man muttered a quick, "Sorry." then hurried on towards Raul's Office. Natalie looked up from the paper work she was growling over and arched an eyebrow.

"Where's Raul?" Lucas asked, already knowing the damn answer.

"Ebony still ain't in yet." Natalie said slowly eying the man like one eyes a cobra possing to strike them.

Lucas chuckled, than full out laughed and threw his arms up, "GREAT! I've got to ask WADE to help! This is wonderful! Disaster strikes and the boss and senior officer is on vaca!!"

"So what's the disaster?" Natalie asked.

"Demon attacked downtown earlier this morning, 24-35 dead, most of which were highschool or collage girls and the damn thing got away without leaving a trail." Lucas said.

"I'll call Ebony, I got his number." Natalie said calmly, "You should go get Azure and Jade and the others and brief them, have Jade call the boss and get Dev and the Runt to monitor all incoming 911 calls and Police scanners, then get everyone suited up incase theirs another attack."

She turned to dial Raul's Home phone and Lucas hurried back out.

Shaine nodded and hurried off to the longue, Wade by this point was on his feet and looking around suspiciously.

Lucas knocked on Dev's door and invited himself in, "Yo! Dev! You here?"

The only ones there were Shaine, and a pale and shakey Milo who looked up at him questioningly.

"You know how to hack into monitor 911 and Police Scanners?" Lucas asked looking Milo dead in the eyes.

"Not really, Dev's been teaching me some stuff but... He's out back right now, what do you need us to monitor for- th- that demon thing??" Milo asked nervously.

"Yeah, just have him do that and inform us the minute a call comes in." Lucas said and turned and hurried out.

Milo got up shakily and hobbled out back to find Dev.

And Shaine followed Lucas out.

Lucas looked back at him, "Go tell Cab, Jack, Lara and Logan to meet us at Wade's desk, I gotta go update him before he pisses himself. Oh! And tell Cab to call the boss!!"

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Raul's Phone started ringing after three rings the answering mechine came on.

/Ebony? This is Ruby. We got some major shit going on down here, we need you and Scarlet to come in ASAP. Over./

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Jack and Cab looked up again as Lara and Logan came in.

"What's going on? Lucas was just in here and he seemed really upset." Cab asked worriedly.

Jack was snacking on some cream puffs and seemed lost in deep thought.

Shaine poked his head in a secound later and sighed, "Oh good, you're all here, Miss Cab could you please call the boss and ask him to please hurry and come in, then all of us need to meet at Wade's desk for a team meeting."

Cab nodded and got up hurrying over to her desk to call David.

[midnightwhisper]

Lara eyed Jack worriedly, tilting her head to the side. He was distant today, there was something off about him. She frowned and shook her head, turning to look at Cab while they waited for David to answer the phone.

“There’s been a demonic attack downtown.” She informed them. “Two dozen victims at the least, mostly young girls; it left the scene without a trail, and we can rule out witnesses as they’re in severe shock according to Logan. Come on, we better kick it up while the Boss gets here.”

She turned to leave, her mind completely focused on the new case now. An attack that big in broad daylight was, to say the least, highly unusual; it was even more unusual that a demon of that kind made it’s way to this realm unaided. Someone could’ve summoned it, which made her groan mentally. That would be double the trouble for them.

[Pensive Dreamer]

(Taking on Raz's characters till she gets back.)

Rasmus Turk stood in the middle of the cordoned off street in downtown and stared down at the arm that had once been attached to somone before it had been violently twisted off.

"Whadda ya think Big Guy? ... Me personally, I'm just glad I forgot to have breakfast." muttered Raz, holding a sleeve up over his mouth and nose to block the horried smell of carnage cooking in the noon day heat.

"You need to start eatting more." Raul said stern faced from where he was a few paces back looking over a car that had been flatted.

"Mother, is this really the time?" Raz asked pointedly looking pointedly at Raul and then down at the steaming pile of entrails that lay between them.

"No, of course not... Forgive me." Raul said appologeticlly.

"Everytime, Big Guy." Raz smiled, he then looked towards Raul's car and quirked a brow at the blue light blinking on the dashboard. Until it clicked, "Hey Big Guy, you leave your cell in the car?"

Raul paused, and patted himself down, sighing he turned stepping over random other bits of carnage and walked back over to the car. Hearing the message he sighed and dailed into the bosses office, wipping some sweat from his brow, it was shaping up to be another blistering summer day, and the smell down here was attrocious.

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Cab and Jack had just been about to follow Lara out when the phone rang, Cab turned and picked it up looking surprised, "Oh, Ebony... I see, so you're both there right now? Yes... Yes... alright, thank you. Okay."

She turned back to Jack, "Let's go out with the others."

Jack nodded and followed her out to where everyone was gathered around Wade's desk.

"Mr. Raul just called. He and Rasmus are downtown looking the crime scene over. They'll be in soon to give their report." Cab informed them all.

[midnightwhisper]

“Ever seen anything like this, Detective?” the officer’s gruff voice inquired.

It had started as an average day for Angelique. She had to call Cab to let her know she’d be in late; Aussie, her Sun Conure, had an appointment at the vet’s and Uncle Charlie couldn’t make it.

Now Aussie was sitting quietly in his travel cage in the car while his owner crouched by what appeared to be someone’s lost leg. There was an arm not too far from there and what appeared to be a chewed-on torso right behind the detective. The amount of blood and carnage on the lane to her right had caught her eye, and the traffic was awful anyways…

“Never.” She said, straightening up.

“BRAT!” came Aussie’s indignant squawk as one of the other police officer’s peeked at him curiously. The poor man jumped back, startled, and glared at the bird.

Angelique pulled out a digital camera she had taken on her last vacation and kept in the car. She turned it on and sighed when it did work, still some battery left on the small item.

“Pretty!” Aussie squawked again, showing his feathers off for a picture.

“Not you this time, sweetie.” Mumbled Angie and turned around.

She took about twenty pictures of the scene and dislodged body, unblinking and apparently unfazed despite the nausea and cold sweat. Aussie chattered away in the car, blissfully oblivious as his owner’s tiny gloved hands felt tingly with the lingering violent energy about her.

[Pensive Dreamer]

"Well my my... Why didn't we think of taking pictures Raul?" sounded a teasing voice behind Angelique.

"No camera." came the solemn reply.

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Wade nodded and turned to Logan, "So Lets start from the top, what do we know?"

"Time of the attack starting is estimated to be around 6:00am and lasted about an hour, in which time its believed to have consmued atleast 24 people, though the actually number is unknown but assumed to be much higher. So far we have no leads to as where the creature came from or was headed, and No other clues other then it prefures young school age girls... All most all the survivors where in a state of sever shock and none of them could give very clear descriptions of what the creature looked, like, thought they all agree it was an animal and some even said it looked like a giant wolf."

Jack looked ill and sat down on the edge of Lara's desk.

Lucas just looked irritated, Natalie had that look she usually got when someone was about to get a bullet between their eyes.

Wade rubbed his temples, looking like the Boss for a moment. And Shaine looked like he wanted to run off somewhere.

Milo who had been listening from the doorway to Dev's Lab trembled and pressed closer to the doorframe.

Cab looked destressed, normally in these situations she'd be asking if someone wanted tea. But right now there was nothing the woman could say to bandage this wound.

[midnightwhisper]

“Tough luck, boys.” Muttered the small woman, lips pressed tightly, the smell was getting unbearable. “It seems I get the pretty souvenirs…”

“Handsome!” Chirped the bird.

“Should we get going then?” Angie sighed, just as a scrubby blonde man stepped out of a red Ford, looking entirely out of place with his ‘groovy surfer’ looks.

“You kids having fun?” The man’s accent was even thicker than his niece’s. He took a look around and paled under his tan.

“Tons.” Angie said sarcastically. “Agents Turk and Bane, this is Charles Bennet. Now, we should head back to the office, give a report.”

“I’ll just take my pal and leave then.”

“Handsome!” chirped the bird again, cheerfully.

“Fast learner, ain’t he?” grinned Charlie, earning himself a cold glance from his niece.

……………………………

“That leaves us with exactly nothing.” Lara said, scowling softly. “No leads, no witnesses, not anything.”

She leaned back against her desk. If Nina weren’t so young they could take her downtown, see if she could find a ghost or something… but somehow taking a hypersensitive little girl to a crime scene to look for traumatized ghosts sounded rather brutal to her. Until another idea formed in her head.

“Do we know where any of the witnesses are?” she asked suddenly.

[Pensive Dreamer]

"Hospital. Most probably in the morgue by now..." Lucas said coldly, "The few that escaped where in bad shape... If only we could figure out where the damn thing went..."

Logan sighed and stood up suddenly, then stoped, "I'll be back. I've got to call Leon..."

Lucas looked confussed, then suddenly paled down, "Oh shit... The Highschool!!"

He was talking about St. Augustine's Catholic School, located two miles from the attack zone. The same school Lucas and Logan's kid brother attended... The boy very well might have been caught up in the attack...

Lucas got up and started pacing anxiously, shooting looks at the door to his and Logan's office.

Milo was still clinging to the door frame, shaking like a leaf. Jack got up and walked over to check on the boy. Really, a 16 year old shouldn't be listening to stuff like this...

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Raz sighed, "Well as much as I'd just Love to stay here a bit longer. Last night's dinner is threatening to re-visit, so I think its deffinately time to go."

Raul coughed and nodded to Angelique before heading back to his car, Raz trailing behind.

The red head waved back over his shoulder at Angelique, "See ya on the flip-side babe!"

[midnightwhisper]

Angelique nodded without looking up and merely raised a hand up to wave at him when Raz’s voice reached her again. She had all ready pulled her work cell phone from her pocket, and her strange eyes fixed on the officer in front of her. To say the poor man looked queasy would have been a huge understatement, but Angie knew she couldn’t afford to be nice now. Her line of work didn’t do ‘queasy’.

“We have about half an hour before the press gets here.” She stated, all business. “I need you to get reinforcements; I don’t want those vultures messing my samples up.”

“I’m sorry, ma’am, but I’d need to get in touch with my superiors…” the man started. Angelique had stated she was with the Police too, but had immediately started on her peeking and offered no more real information.

“Sweetie, I am your superior.” Angelique smirked, showing him her FBI badge, her cell phone pressed against her ear all ready.

…………………

“We have a vague description.” Lara said suddenly. “The Demon’s… preference in feeding… and a little insight on his behaviour. We can narrow down the options, which at least would get us started in the identification of this thing. Research should tell us whether it has appeared before. We have to figure out what we’re dealing with before trying to determine anything else.”

“We don’t even know where the damn thing is.” Wade observed bitterly.

“No, but I have a horrible feeling that we will soon find out.” Lara managed through clenched teeth. “Which would mean we’re working against the clock here… we can’t just run out there and to fight against something we don’t even have a name for, it would be suicide. Lucas could get started on the research, and when Angelique gets here, she should lend a hand…”

“We need to get the Boss.” Wade observed gravely, turning his eyes to Cab. “We need someone to make a few calls… if this thing likes to feed on young kids, high schools are at a great risk.”

[Pensive Dreamer]

Logan came back out, "Leon's at school, everything sounds fine... But I don't like this..."

Lucas stopped pacing and litterally slumped with relief. Something that was heartwarming, seeing big tough Luke show emotion like that.

Jack had led Milo back in to Dev's lab, and by the sounds of it was now conversing with Dev about what was going on. (Being as non graphic as possible.)

Shaine sighed and got up, "I was just thinking, I think one or two of us should go out to the manor and bring the kids back here. Carrie and Nina are there all alone with only the three dogs..."

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"Raulie...Raulie buddy, you gotta pull over." Raz said suddenly. Sitting forward from where he'd been slumped back in his seat.

"You sick?" Raul asked, instantly slowing down.

"No... but we're both about to be." The young man growled, he pointed. Infront of them was the enterance to the subway transit system. Half the tunnle wall was caving in, and a far too familiar scene of carnage was replayed, twisted off limbs and splattered blood and guts everywhere.

"Fucking glutton... hasn't it gotten enough?"

The two got out and walked over grimacing at the sight, Raz looked around the eeriely silent street and suddenly felt a chill.

They were in the middle of down town, at almost noon on a work day. The streets should have been full of commuters.

There was a faint vibration from the earth, both men glanced at eachother... then looked down...

It was under the street. Inside the tunnels. Thats where this thing had went after the last massicare.

Raul paused beside a legless, headless corpse, he reached down and touched its exposed flesh... and frowned.

Raul stood up and Raz looked at him questioningly, "Its cold... old kill."

He walked over to another body closer to the tunnel, Raz followed, pulling his gun, eyes locked on the dark enterance.

"This ones still warm... and look." Raul held up something gold that flashed in the midday sun, Raz blinked and sheilded his eyes, then felt his stomach drop.

It was a Policemen's badge. Looking around he spotted several reminants of officers, scattered around.

"So... It... It came here earlier. Left and then, came back, and went in the tunnel?" the red head asked mystafied.

"No Rasmas. It came UP from the tunnel, went down town to Havana. And then CAME BACK and went BACK into the tunnels.

"Shiiiiit!!!!" Raz groaned, he walked away.

"We should go back and give our report... But." Raul paused.

"I hear ya, lets go back to the base..." He paused as several FBI cars and swat vans pulled up. "Well thanks. That makes our jobs easier... Comon big guy, lets go swap fishing stories, then we can head on back!"

Raul and Raz made there way over to several FBI agents who were currently moving into position...

(And that's the end from Raz and Raul for a while. They need some time to confure.)

[Kara Kaigara]

Few hours earlier...

"hn?" The man woke up on his bed and slowly sat up. He looked around , scratching his neck. The room looked messed up with all the boxes . It was their third day at Quinico , he spent all last night arranging the stuffs in the house and yet there're still many things he had to do . Madrid stretched his arms and turned to place his feet into the slippers . He walked toward the bathroom to brush his teeth but stopped as he saw the alarm clock lying in one of the opened boxes. " oh, it's 8:30 . " He slightly chuckled then blinked . " 8:30!? "

He just remembered . Today was his brother's first day going to the new school . Also, his first day at work, but it was still half an hour early so he didn't have to worry about losing his job on the first day . He ran out of his room and headed to his little brother's. " Kasir ! " He shouted, opening the door but his brother wasn't there. Madrid looked around, maybe Kashiru decided to go to school on his own... as usual . " GAH! I'm such a bad brother " He facepalmed with a sigh. He better be prepared for a lecture when Kasir came home . Anywho, he had a job to worry about . The man left the room and went to prepare for work.

Present ...

" Over 20 people... That's insane "

" Any call from them yet? "

" no, sir "

" what kind of animal could do that?! "

Madrid had been watching the rackets around him in the police department from where he was sitting at his desk . From what he heard , there was a serious wild-animal case . That mysterious animal had killed more than 20 people , they just sent a few cops there to investigate, but none of them had called back . This caught his interest so much, he always wanted to do this kind of case . Too bad he was a rookie in this department , there would be no way he could get in , maybe he should ask-...

" Yukimura ! "

Suddenly there was a call for him, he turned and saw the chief . " uh...yes sir? " He quickly stood up .

" you go with Robert to the scene , see what those guys have been up to . " The middle aged man said grumply , pointing at a policeman nearby with his thumb .

" Yes chief. " He replied and went with the other person. They soon reached the police car, by now Madrid could take sometime looking at his partner . It was a tall middle-aged guy and muscular , he had short blonde hair and a square face and stubbly beard around his mouth . The guy had a stern look on his face, which can make new guys like Madrid nervous . Thus, he decided to let Robert drive. He got into the passenger seat next to the driver's seat and put the seat belt on .

" you're the new guy right? Madrid huh? "

" uh..yes "

" I'm Robert Orgeon , hope we'll work more in the future . "

" me too " Madrid smiled a little, so this man wasn't that hard to talk to.

" This is your first time,so make sure your seat belt is tight, kid . " Robert said as he stuck the key in and started the car

" I'm sorry, what d- "

Before he could say the rest , the car wheel spun fast , making loud sounds and the car dashed ahead like a bullet came out from the gun.

" AAAH " Madrid yelled .

" YEAAAAAH! " Robert exclaimed in excitement .

==

The school's hall way became silent after all the teachers and students had gone to their own classes. Suddenly , a sound of steel door opening broke the silent. A blonde kid peeked out from a locker , he turned his head to look at the hall way then came out after he had made sure that no one was there nor was coming . He slowly closed his locker door so no loud sound could come out. He eyed around once more then stretched himself , it was so narrow in there , lucky he was small enough .

" Hey, come out , it's clear , hm " He whisperred to the other locker .

From the trash can nearby , another blonde boy made his appearance by emerging from under the hood . " I know , Dey. "

The first blonde, whose name was Devid Morel ( a.k.a Dey ) , startled, he turned to the trash can and just stared at the other boy , his lower-eyelid twitched . " What the hell are you doing there, Kei?! "

Kayden Morel , nicknamed Kei , grinned . " Couldn't find a better place, oldman Edogawa already knew my locker-hideout . " Then he climbed out and started dusting off, taking the trashes off him.

Dey sighed, rolling his eyes . " Anyway, lets go, you don't wanna get caught again right? " The boy reminded his cousin while walking away .

" of course not , eh, wait " Kei replied , running after him. " Where are we goin- hey, is this cheese puffs? " The boy touched the thing on his clothes and licked it.

" you're gross " Dey facepalmed .

[will post Dey and Robert's bio soon]