[d20 Modern] Gangs of Texas [PG-17] IC

[Jemal]

T-Bull's Mom's House
Fifth Ward
6:30pm

Mike stood there for a moment, checking the beauty out, thinking to himself 'not bad, not bad at all. Almost makes me wish I'ld stuck around if the chicks're that hot. Course, then again, that ng...' "huh?" He looked around as Carlos grabbed his shoulder, and led him upstairs. As he was led, Mike turned around and gave one of his smiles "Its'a Pleasure to meet you" He glanced over at Big Momma and added "Both of you", then turned around and followed Carlos.

 

[KitanaVorr]

Malcolm's Tenement Building
Fifth Ward
6:20pm

Rosa shook her head, throwing her hands up in the air. "I don-know! Its a feeling...visions, you know? I see it in my dream. Don-yo momma see things to? Ay, but maybe its Latin blood you see...you see...closer to nature we are. We don' ignore the signs."

Shoving herself up, she headed toward the kitchen. "I'm gonna need another beer...dis is stressing me out."

OOC: MALCOLM

 

[Keia]

Malcolm's Tenement Building
Fifth Ward
6:20pm

"I see signs, too," Malcolm offered, then added with a slight chuckle, "but usually they're just calls from the sidelines."

Wow, I just realized I've got the phone numbers of a lot of great looking girls in class. Sweet! Malcolm thought, his mind de-railing from the seriousness of the conversation to the easiest track in a male teenage's mind. 'Course, I've got to not be grounded for me to make use of them.

Malcolm stood and opened the frig for Rosa, checking the number of beers remaining. Man, I may have to get T-bull to restock the frig before momma gets wind of the beers missing.

"Unload some of that stress on me. I'll help wherever or however I can, Rosa." Malcolm said.

 

[KitanaVorr]

Malcolm's Tenement Building
Fifth Ward
6:20pm

Rosa looked at him through heavily kohl-lined eyes for a long moment when he said that. "You're a good guy, you know that? The only one who's ever been nice to me...treated me like an equal, you know? Not like a punching bag.

Taking a generous swing of beer, she swallowed then looked back at him. "Juan...the bastard." She took another swing and then set the beer down on the counter.

One of her hands reached up and he could feel her long fingernails lightly against the side of his face just before she grabbed the back of his neck. Bringing his head down, she gave him a through kiss before releasing the surprised young man.

"You got a bedroom? Cuz I know the best way to deal with stress."

OOC: MALCOLM

 

[KitanaVorr]

T-Bull's Mom's House - Upstairs
Fifth Ward
6:30pm

Carlos and Mike walked into T-Bull's room where he was talking with Lamar. Both of them glanced as the two entered. Spread out on the bed was a few things that looked like a security badge and a few computer disks.

"Glad you could make it," T-Bull spoke in his deep rather intimidating voice as he clasped one big beefy hand on Carlos good shoulder and gave it a squeeze. "You look more scrawny than ever." He glanced questioningly at Mike.

Gesturing at the stuff on the bed, T-Bull explained, "Jess left this stuff here and we were just picking up after her."

OOC: MIKE, CARLOS, T-BULL, LAMAR

 

[KitanaVorr]

Bourbon Street
Fifth Ward
6:30pm

Tom Swearingen's partner, Sergeant Jake Kramer sighed as he leaned back in the seat of his squad car. "Damn, you think we can get a slow night sometime?" he spoke before taking a sip of his coffee.

They were taking a break after yet another call, this last one a domestic violence one. Those were always the worst and the most dangerous. Tensions and emotions high, sometimes even the victim attacked them.

"I hate the night shift."

Just then a figure came tumbling out of an alleyway...a young boy and he looked extremely frightened. Glancing around, he saw the squad car but looked hesitant but then just took off down the road at breakneck speed.

"What the hell...?"

OOC: TOM

 

[Nuke261]

Tommy told himself not to panic as he saw the frightened young boy burst out of the alley. Their eyes met briefly, but Tommy could not decipher what was going through the boys thoughts as he hesitated. Tommy started to reach to open the door when the boy turned and ran. "No! Come back! Don't run!" But Tommy knew he might as well be yelling at a deaf man, no one in the fifth was going to stop running for the police.

Tommy fumbled to get his car door open and not spill his coffee all over himself, one time had been enough. He made sure his radio was on and stepped out of the car to chase the boy. Don't tunnel, he told himself. Remember to breath. Trying to clear his thought and stay calm, Tommy tried to make a mental note of what the boy looked like, clothes, size, physical characteristics. Why was he running? Who or what was he running from? Why did he hesitate when he saw us? "Just pay attention to what's going on now, Swearingen," Tommy muttered to himself. As he approached the alley it was his turn to hesitate. He spared a moment to make sure there was nothing coming after the boy that he could run into.

 

[Keia]

Malcolm's Tenement Building
Fifth Ward
6:20pm

Malcolm felt his body mold itself against Rosa as she kissed him. By the time the shock wore off and Malcolm started to wrap his arms around her, Rosa broke the kiss and spoke up.

"You got a bedroom? Cuz I know the best way to deal with stress."

Malcolm’s eyes betrayed him as they glanced in the direction of his bedroom. Yes!! This is excellent, Malcolm thought. Excuses were already coming to mind to tell his momma and his friends waiting for him at T-Bull’s. Malcolm tried to speak, stopped as his brain made a desperate plea with him, the started again on a completely different track.

“Rosa, is this you ‘seeing the signs’ or is this revenge against Juan?” Malcolm asked. He wasn’t really certain that he cared about the answer, and he was already starting to doubt whether he even asked the question. Man, you’ve liked her from even before that English project. Don’t screw anything up, here, another voice spoke within his mind.

Malcolm looked to the bedroom again and reached for Rosa’s hand.

 

[KitanaVorr]

Bourbon Street
Fifth Ward
6:30pm

Tom took in the curly blonde hair, grungy clothes, the typical teenage boy. Enough of a glance that if he saw him again he would recognize him right off. The boy was fast alright, his sneakered feet thudding on the floor, putting more and more distance between them.

Just as Tom reached the alleyway, he turned his head and saw a beautiful silver Mercedes coupe parked there at an odd angle. There didn't seem to be anyone visible around, but the door to the coupe was open and the top was down.

Behind him he could hear his rather out of shape partner huffing and puffing to catch up.

OOC: TOM

 

[KitanaVorr]

Malcolm's Tenement Building
Fifth Ward
6:20pm

"Do you give a sh#t?" was Rosa's response as she headed toward the bedroom ahead of him. Opening the door, she peered inside before flinging it further open. Two more steps and she was by his bed before turning to gaze at him.

"Are you gonna join me?" she asked him as she started to peel off her layers of trendy flashy clothes. When he did join her, she pulled him close and the next half hour remained flashes of heat, bare skin, and noise, plenty of noise.

7:00pm

A flick of a lighter and Rosa's cigarette was lit and a second later, she was puffing away at it while lying in a rather indecent position on Malcolm's bed. Her curly hair against his pillow, she stared up at the ceiling almost contemplatively...in a quieter mood than when their frenzied teenage sexual drives had driven them to the brink of exhaustion.

"I feel better now...you?"

OOC: MALCOLM - I'm assuming here that he didn't say no?