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Post by Anna K. on Feb 28, 2017 19:51:50 GMT -6
Anna was really lost, holding him against her as people start to walk around, "Rick, please..." her hand carring his face, then she slowly let him go as people start the procedures, Anna was half afraid, half shocked..."Do not hurt him", she says to the girl Mona as she gets a syringe, she looks over Anna making a face and then Anna Freezes as he grabs the girl's wrist...gently she os hoding Rick's other hand...she blinks and shakes her head, as his eyes moves to hers she smiles gently, "Rick...Thank God.." and she stops talking as he says those words to her....she has no idea what he means about the entire world, but she is happy he didn't give up on her. She smiles and nods.."Do not worry about it...please you must rest..." Gently she places a kiss on his cheek..and caresses his face..."I was really afraid of lose you..." she smiles again.."You won't lose me...never...I will as well stay by your side no matter what...now please, lets get out of here...let's start a new life..." her smile is sweet as well her voice...she helps him to stand and sit...the crew was really apprehensive, the girls were watching them with a weird look...she caresses his face again.."I want to sit beside you..can I?" She smiles afraid he is going to pass out again and she doesn't want as well to lose him.
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Post by Rick Holmes on Mar 2, 2017 21:16:35 GMT -6
Rick smiled at Anna, then took her hand in his, drawing her to the seat next to his and sitting down with her. "I'll be all right," he said softly, nodding to Mona and Hannah to reassure them that he really was okay, and in full command of his facilities. "I'm sorry I scared you," he said as he turned back to Anna. "Something....something has happened, something that I can't fully explain. At least, not yet. Just know that there are things...things that are not exactly of this world, things that most governments would kill to protect the secrets of."
He then frowned, realizing how that could be taken, then added, "Not that I'm threatening you or anything, please don't take it that way. What I mean is that the secrets are so tightly held that, no matter what government or agency, they are willing to go to any lengths to protect them. Those that are let in on those secrets are, of course, sworn to keep the secret tighter than they protect their PIN numbers for an ATM card. You will, of course, be witness to some of them, so long as you are with me. So, I must have you word, here and now, that whatever you witness, whatever you hear, it will stop between you and me. Otherwise, I can set up a safe-house when we land at King County International. Even then, there will need to be an understanding of discretion. I don't doubt that you would keep as much as is possible secret, but I do have to have your word."
He then looked at her, sincerity writ clear in his eyes, as well as open trust.
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Post by Anna K. on Mar 2, 2017 22:49:31 GMT -6
She smiles in return, when his hand grabs her and they move and sit together, she looks around at the crew and really shy she smiles as well to them. She rests her head on the back of her sit at same time he looks at her and start to talk, for a moment she frowns and then she bites her lower lip rising an eyebrow, Anna's head just move to looks into his eyes, she gives a deep blink and smiles at him again, she was feeling really weird, as he was talking to her, her eyes moving to his lips to his eyes, she was hearing but his voice from time to time was really far away..as she whispers.."I..Rick...Like Et's stuff?" she knows she was whispering something, but his eyes were so wraparound, was such a deep look, so bright...still she was understanding him, and she smiles again..."Rick...Yes...I promise you, I'll do anything ...since I do not have to be alone ....to be without you". She smiles again as she tries to keep herself awake..."Is..like...your eyes..." her little fingers slowly wrap his, really tightly, as she blinks , long and deeply blinks...her blues eyes bright and really blue..."What is it? what did you give me?..." she chuckles .."It is making me so sleepy"..she was really whispering..."What is...this... into your eyes??..." she sighs " I do...I promisse you I will keep my mouth shut..." more two long blinks and she smiles gently as she says very low .."You..have ...my word...." she blinks once again as her eyes close.."Rick"..as a whisper..his name comes from her lips..."Talk to me...."
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Post by Rick Holmes on Mar 2, 2017 23:14:12 GMT -6
Rick cleared his throat, a bit uncomfortably, as Anna speculated. "Well," he said, suddenly self-conscious about how he was about to sound, "something like that. To start, yes, aliens have visited the planet in the past. Whether they do now or not, it's something that even I am not cleared to know. My own work deals with the "supernatural". Ghosts, poltergeists, possessions, demonic manifestations, reincarnation, various cults that worship cosmic horrors, people with "powers"...Things like that. Many of which are usually looked upon as works of fiction, but that's because the world's governments have agreed to put such things into such a framework, to protect innocents that become involved as well as to just protect the general population from wandering into the crossfire."
He looked down at their joined hands, smiling a bit, "Innocents like you. I just don't want to take you into something that may turn violent. I am, after all, on a mission. One to take into custody a rogue agent from the C.I.A. If I can't take her in peacefully, I....I have orders to kill her."
He then looked up at her just in time to catch sight of how she was beginning to drift off. "I didn't give you anything. Mona?" he said as he motioned the woman over. He looked at Mona with concern and asked, "Exhaustion, do you think? She's been through a very stressful time up until now." Mona moved over and began to take Anna's vitals, wrapping a blood pressure cuff around her upper arm, then taking her pulse and attaching a sensor to her finger to measure her blood's oxygen content. Mona then looked up and shrugged, saying that Anna's vitals indicated that it was, indeed, stress-related. Without blood testing, it would be difficult to tell for sure. The best thing to do would be to let her simply sleep, but to keep an eye on her. At Rick's nod, she pulled out a blanket and pillow for Anna, helping to place the pillow behind her head and then covered her with the blanket.
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Post by Anna K. on Mar 4, 2017 12:25:55 GMT -6
Even being with her eyes closed, she feels Mona's hand taking her pulse, and hears she was stressed, she was too tired to open her eyes. She had listened all he said. Trying to open her eyes as she feels the blanket, trying not to sleep. As Rick talks to Mona for a moment, all he said was inside her mind now, she was thinking ...and then she moves her face to the side once again and smiles gently and sleeply, her eyes closed "Believe me I know violent...I have face it more than once, I won't say a word about your work..I believe as well all those things are real, as well the supernatural things. I read a lot ..."she sighs moving her body a little to be more comfortable, slowly her eyes open for a moment as she looks into his eyes...then she closes her eyes again. Her voice was low but understandable, "You must kill a rougue person, I won't judge your job..." a smile plays on her lips, she licks then.." You have no idea what kind of life I have, do you? I've lost my true parents, my adoptive parents, my brothers, all dead in front of me. I live packing and losing friends, I didn't go to a school, to college. I've studied at home with Paolo. I wasn't allowed to go to the parties, nightclubs, I could not be a regular girl, a teenager, I've never had boyfriends, I'd no first kiss or graduation , Paolo didn't let me go to the prom..." as she says those words she smiles and moves her head to the other side, her hand on his as she grabs it.."We will be fine Rick, we will be just fine.." still smiling she seems now really to fall asleep.
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Post by Rick Holmes on Mar 4, 2017 17:06:27 GMT -6
Rick silently sat through Anna's admissions, holding her hand as she fell asleep. Going by what the...vision? hallucination?...whatever it was said while he was out, he had his doubts as to whether or not the last thing she said would turn out to be true. That is, if what he'd experienced had been true, itself.
Glancing at the LED clock on the wall, he realized that there would be quite a few hours until they reached their destination. Deciding that the best thing to do would be to catch a little shut-eye of his own, he reclined the back of his seat a few inches. Settling himself quickly, being used to sleeping in odd positions and catching cat-naps whenever and wherever possible, as well as still holding Anna's hand in his own, he let his eyes drift closed.
He looked around himself, finding that he was standing upon a sprawling, featureless plain. Verdant grasses spread out as far as he could see, much of it at least waist-high. He was shirtless, wearing loosely-fitting, brown-colored leather pants. He felt a cool breeze wash across his long hair, whipping it around his face. He brushed the brown (brown? I have black hair...) strands from before his eyes, blinking them, suddenly realizing that his vision, while having always been 20/20, seemed to be sharper now more than ever. He looked around, realizing that he could, with a bit of concentration, focus upon the individual blades of grass, even at distances never before recorded as being possible for human eyes.
He took a step backwards, running into a spear that was sunk, point-first, into the ground just behind him. He grabbed it, keeping it from tipping over, pushing it further into the soil before letting it go. He then looked about again, watching the wind wave through the grasses. Moved by some inner impulse, he reached into his pants pocket, producing from it a small flute. He raised a brow, but brought the instrument to his pursed lips and blew through it. He didn't expect that anything beyond a feeble whistle would be produced, but was amazed as a set of recognizable notes began to skirl their way through the blowing of the wind past his ears. He never knew that he could play a flute like this...
The notes did not so much as cut through the volume of the wind and the grasses, as they merged with them, enhancing the other sounds and, through that enhancement, enhancing itself all the more. To say that the music merely 'complemented' the natural sounds would have been far too pale of a description for how completely it became a part of them.
Suddenly, the easy melding of music and wind was ripped away as the skies suddenly darkened, low black-grey clouds skidding at an alarming rate across the formerly clear sky, the winds now screaming through the nearly bent-double grasses. Thunder rumbled all around him, though not a single flash of lightning could be seen.
He put the flute away, then grabbed the spear from the ground, frowning in concern at the newest turn to what was happening. The sound of thunder seemed to swiftly grow closer toward him, always seeming to be just behind his back, despite the number of times or speed at which he spun about. He held the spear now in both hands, at the ready. He halted his spins and simply waited. He waited until the sounds of thunder became the most footstep-like in tempo, and seemed to be just behind him, then spun about, bringing the spear up and bracing for....impact.
He felt as in shock as the woman impaled on the end of the spear looked to be in herself. Shock was replaced by an accusing look of betrayal that he caught in her eyes, mingled with a quickly growing sense of loathing at the very sight of him. "You killed me..." she rasped as her life's blood seeped around the shaft of the spear shoved through her abdomen. Before he could make note of any more of her physical features than the fact that she had had heterochromia, one eye being green, the other a pale sky blue, she seemed to just fade and blow away like a cloud of smoke as the wind died and the skies began to clear. If it weren't for the blood on the spear and dripped into the grasses, he would have had trouble believing that the woman had even been there.
As the storm, or whatever it was, receded into the distance, he could swear that he could see a shape in the clouds, almost as if seeing a face with a triumphant, mocking expression, looking back at him. One final gust of wind carried the woman's words past his ear again, faintly...
"You killed me...."
He dropped the spear, the sound of it hitting the ground a louder clap than all the rumbles of thunder before, a sharp sound that...
...woke him suddenly from his sleep as Mona was fastening the seatbelt around his waist. "We're about to land, sir. We couldn't wake you," she said as Rick looked around wildly. He flicked his eyes closed for a moment, taking a calming breath through his nose, then clearing his throat and saying a "thank you" sotto voce.
Turning his attention to Anna, he looked down at their hands, still clasped. He frowned, wondering what the dream had meant, then decided that now wasn't the time to wonder about it. "Anna," he leaned in and said softly in her ear. "Anna, it's time to wake up. We're landing soon." The rising sun was just beginning to light up the sky outside the jet's windows, tinging the interior a light pink...
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Post by Anna K. on Mar 4, 2017 17:51:30 GMT -6
Anna hears her name being called, but was so hard to open her eyes, "No, Paolo, let me sleep a little more, we can continue the classes later"....was more a moan than words, but then she suddenly opens her eyes and stands quickly as she sits and looks around..."landing"....she blinks and abruptly takes her heand from Rick one to scratch her eyes with the back of her hand and try to hold her hair up in a bun, she must be a mess, swollen, she needs to brush her teeth, she blinks as Mona watches her , she frowns a little bit and looks at Rick.."Sorry...." covering her mouth "...I was dreaming, I guess....I...Good morning?!" she shakes her head as she put on the seat belt..."How long did I sleep? I do not even remember to fall asleep...." She looks at Rick and smiles really shy...as she covers her eyes again.."I remember the song thou, really nice, she looks at Mona and then Rick again.."Who was playing the flute?" she blinks and smiles..."Very softly, maybe that is why I fell asleep so fast..." she sighs watching as the inside of the plane was really orange now, a beautiful color, her eyes, so deep blue in the morning reflecting the orange right inside them, she leans back on her seat and looks into his eyes "Are we going to a hotel first? I really need a shower Rick and bathroom.." she blushes as she still cover her mouth as she speaks...Anna is really a young girl, living a regular life, she was pretty sure he knows that, even she was into a lot of trouble she used to live a normal life with Paolo. She sighs as she tinks about him, her eyes were now lost, as the thoughts of him are filling her head, she looks away wondering what is coming next and where he must be now...she blinks as some tears wet her eyes really afraid about which answears she is going to get as they leave the plane
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Post by Rick Holmes on Mar 4, 2017 18:10:09 GMT -6
Rick smiled to himself as she rambled on through her "good mornings", offering a return salutation at a murmur, also informing her that they'd slept about six hours.
It was only years of experience with the F.B.I. that kept his face from registering his reaction to her words about the flute. "Must have been something you dreamed," he said, carefully nonchalant about it. Inside, his thoughts were racing along various logical possibilities about a seemingly shared dream. After considering and discarding what were, admittedly, few options to explain what had happened, he was left with two possibilities: it was either a coincidence, or he had somehow telepathically projected his dream and had overridden hers.
"Once we land, you can go ahead and use the jet's bathroom. There's two fully equipped ones at the rear of the cabin. But, we'll both just have to wait until we get on the ground," he chuckled, a bit of his own discomfort in his eyes further hiding the calculating going on in his head.
The jet was obviously on its descent now, approaching the airport's private-ownership landing strip. Within a few minutes, they would be on the ground.
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Post by Anna K. on Mar 4, 2017 18:27:54 GMT -6
She smiles at Rick and realizes his eyes also talk.She nods, " Yes, sure, maybe I was dreaming, weird , if it was a guitar, drums, but flute? Well..." she chuckles. As he says they will land in minutes and she will finally go to the bathroom, she looks at Mona wondering how it was like to be always so polite and flying. She has no idea why she is thinking about this, she smiles gently at her and then she looks at Rick hand, she remember holding his hand and a little smile plays on her lips, she lifts her eyes , suddenly she feels a little cold runs around her stomach, they were landing for real now, she press her eyes as she feels the jet touching the floor, again she holds his hand, breathing as the wheel touches the floor, it was really a soft land but still she never will get used to it, as the jet starts to tax she releases her breath and looks at Rick...and their hand.."Sorry." blushing she lets his hand go, she waits as the jet slowly stops, she smiles..."Ah...thank God"...she takes away the seat belt and looks at Mona, "please lady, I need to go to the bathroom..." she chuckles and for a moment she thinks Mone is smiling as well...the girl nods and grabing her things both walk over to the bathroom, not before she looks at Rick smiling.."Be right back"...and she disappears.
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Post by Rick Holmes on Mar 4, 2017 18:35:14 GMT -6
Chuckling, Rick unbuckled his seatbelt and rose, stretching as much as a full bladder would allow. Tossing a wink at a similarly-laughing Mona, he headed to the back of the cabin as well. He looked at the closed door to the bathroom Anna had gone into, all amusement fading from his features. He dwelled on the implications of their shared dream for a moment, then shook his head and went into the other restroom.
He emerged some five minutes later, wearing a similar suit as before, having showered and changed, tending to his shaving and teeth brushing while inside the small shower cubicle, washing the rest of the trip's grime from his body. He then moved to sit beside the open door, waiting for Anna to finish her own freshening-up.
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Post by Anna K. on Mar 5, 2017 13:38:34 GMT -6
Anna smiles as the hot water touches her skin, it was really a nice feeling, she remains there under the water for a long moment not even thinking, then the song from the flute comes inside her mind over again, was a really nice melody, so soft, for a moment the bathroom goes darker but Anna is surrunded by a strong and white light, like a moonlight in a full moon night, she isn't scared, the scent of the soap fills the air as she inhales it and then suddenly as it started the song was gone, Anna turns around and eveything is normal, the lights, the sound of the shower, people talking outside. She closes the water, dries and dresses up and puts the dirty clothes inside the backpack she brought. She finishes brushing her hair, but she lets it down since she didn't bring the hair dryer, how to remember to get it anyway. She gets close to the blurry mirror and cleans it with her hand, she looks older, with a slightly dark cicles under her eyes, her eyes seem different, a mix of green and blue, maybe she was really tired and stressed , she didn't bring make up as well...she sighs and rubs her cheeks so they will be a little more colored. After all she is ready. She opens the door thinking if Rick is still there waiting for her, she wears a short black leather skirt and a black t-shirt. As she opens the door she smiles..."Sorry, I know , girls are not that fast, really sorry", she was not going to tell him about the light and the song over again in the bathroom, he would think she'd fallen asleep in the shower, perhaps she had, she watches him and raises an eyebrow blushing, he is really fancy dressed and she didn't bring nice clothes..."I , well...We didn't have time to bring my nice ones, right?" her voice was low, she smiles really shy and places the backpack's handle on her shoulder..she looks at Mona and gives a step forward she moves her face to look inside Rick's eyes, the bright of the sun coming right into her eyes from the little window behind him..For the first time he was able to see the real blue color of her eyes and she as well can watch his face, he is handsome, she smiles.."Are we going?" she breaks the moment disguising her thoughts as she waits for him to lead her.
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Post by Rick Holmes on Mar 5, 2017 15:09:36 GMT -6
Rick smiled as Anna appeared from the bathroom, rising to his feet. "No worries," he said. "I took the liberty of cleaning up as well. As for what you're wearing..." He examined her, then shrugged, his smile widening, "I see no problems. It actually might help, Our first contact will be with someone that I've dealt with before. I believe that he, himself, has recently arrived in the city a day or two ago, himself. He tends to be distracted by 'eye-candy', and I do believe that Joseph would definitely be distracted by what he's going to see soon."
Surrounded by chuckles from the crew, he led Anna to the stairs that the jet's door had folded down into, reaching up a hand to aid her descent. He then led her across the tarmac and into the terminal, skirting around the crowds and out the front door. One of his field runners then drove up in a large extended-cab pick-up. Taking the keys from the man as he exited the vehicle, Rick held the passenger door open for Anna, then closed it once she got in. Walking around to the other side, he got in himself and started the engine, familiarizing himself with the layout of this branch of the Agency's vehicle controls as he buckled himself in.
Satisfied, he shifted into drive and eased out into the traffic, heading west, then north, finally stopping at a restaurant with a sign in front that declared the establishment's proud name to be: "River's...Edge....Buffet". Though the sign on the door showed that the restaurant was "Open", there was but a single other car to be found in the spacious parking lot, though plenty more were parked at the casino nearby.
Shutting the truck off with a sigh, Rick said, "Okay, we're here. Anything you want to know before going in, or would you prefer to wait out here? The truck's windows are bulletproof, and the body's armored enough that if anyone wants to break in, they'd better use a tank."
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Post by Anna K. on Mar 5, 2017 15:27:08 GMT -6
Anna smiles and looks at Rick as they stop in front of what looks like a restaurant, she looks at the place and around and then back to Rick..."I, well...Is there something I need to know? Like, Why are we here? Are we going act as a regular couple going to eat or you have already someone expecting you here? " She looks at herself and thinks about what Rick said as they were leaving the jet..."I think I don't wanna stay alone here in the parking lot, sounds like an horror movie to me, and I do not want to wait them to use a tank.." she chuckles, most because she was really nervous, but she knows Rick is there and would do anything to protect her, she sighs and then folds her arms.."I think Rick you better explain me exactly what you want and how I should act and I will.." she nods as she says that as she waits for his next move.
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Post by Rick Holmes on Mar 5, 2017 15:48:42 GMT -6
Rick smiled comfortingly at Anna. "It's okay," he said. "We're going to have breakfast with someone, and I'm not surprised that he went ahead and just reserved the entire restaurant for private use. His name is Joseph Penfinici. As for what to do, just do what feels natural when you're in the presence of one of the country's most infamous heads of a criminal family." Then, pausing to think about what he'd just said, he amended with a dry chuckle, "Well, perhaps a normal breakfast, then."
He glanced up at the doors leading into the restaurant, then added, "Look, I'm sorry to just be throwing you in like this. I did, after all, run into you in the middle of an important mission I should have been more focused on. But, we're here now, and I suspect there must be a reason for it. Before you ask, no, he does not know who you are. No, he would not turn you in even if he did know. Yes, he owes the Agency a number of favors, so keeping this particular secret..." he pointed at her, "...will go far in our esteem. I had to make contact with him because he's actually here for the same thing we are, though for a different reason. We have reason to believe that his "business partner" has been abducted by the very same people I was sent to look for. We're having breakfast with him to see what he knows."
As the door to the restaurant was opened by a bald, black man with what looked to be so well-muscled that his own dark suit threatened to tear at every intaken breath, Rick looked at Anna and said, "Well, shall we? As far as they're concerned, you're my date. Watch, but don't be caught watching. Listen, but appear to not care. That's all I can ask."
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Post by Anna K. on Mar 5, 2017 16:04:48 GMT -6
She closes her eyes touching her arm as she hears criminal family and remais this way as he talks explaining her about his meeting, she thinks as she is absorbing all his words, she sighs and looks at him shaking her head.."Please, don't apologize, I know you had no choice, you are a good man and wouldn't let me abandoned there, after all what happened." She touches his face gently and smile "Watch, but don't be caught watching. Listen, but appear to not care, I can do that"..she nods and looks at the bald black man and back to Rick, her hand is cold but she wasn't shaking, taking a deep breath she closes her eyes as she tries to focus and then she opens it, "Alright, Rick, let's do this" she smiles again and looks herself quickly at the rear view mirror...she moves her hair from side to side and then she looks at Rick again..."Alright, here we go".
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