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|| Stand By Me|| Florence and the Machine ||
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|| Stand By Me|| Florence and the Machine ||
Miiko was not sorry that she had to do this in order to find out information. If she hadn't, no one would have told her anything about Project Topaz or Jaren. Now that they knew there was possibly a traitor in their midst, Miiko was well aware of their next target. "I can take them," Miiko grabbed the uniform and stuffed it into a hiding spot, then bound back over, locking herself inside of one of the old jail cells. There she sat, with Rose on the other side, the two of them trying to look defeated and hurt when really, their first mission had been a startling success. Miiko pinched one of her real bruises hard to evict tears from her tear ducts and kept her gaze on the ground, purposely breathing hard. It was with a bit of effort that Miiko made herself cry for real, thinking about what would happen if she lost Stella or her Mommy.
When the door exploded by way of bubble, Miiko's head jerked up in feigned surprise. "You came," the jail cell wall was torn from its position, rubble falling into the water below. Gavin and Jellyfish flocking to Miiko's side while she dried her fake tears, smearing dirt across her cheeks. "Of course we came!" Gavin took Miiko into his arms, holding her tight while Daisy and Callum worked to get Rose out of her cell. "It's alright, the important thing is that you're safe," Gavin said to Rose's admittance of being unable to protect Miiko. "Does it hurt anywhere? What did they do to you?" Gavin asked, raising Miiko to her feet. Miiko shook her head, her limp was one of the few things that she was not faking. Falling and hurting herself on that rock yesterday had bruised her tailbone nicely. "They mostly hit me a few times and um, tickled me." Gavin raised an eyebrow, "tickled?" That was one method of torture he had never hurt of.
"They hurt Rose a lot though!" Miiko pointed to her poor spirit who had slashed herself a few times with her sword. "Let's get them back up the tree, I'm sure Jace and Athena will know what to do." Daisy helped Rose out since Callum refused to go near her despite her injured state. Gavin insisted on carrying Miiko across the rugged landscape and to the little boat that Daisy and Jellyfish had taken to find them. Back up in the tree, Miiko felt a little bit guilty watching her Mommy and Daddy make a fuss over her and Rose, bandaging their wounds and offering the two of them hot food to warm up. "I'm sorry we couldn't fight them off and capture them," Miiko said with much regret. Athena hugged Miiko, giving her a kiss on the forehead. "The important part is that you're alive. Very few make it out of Republic hands as whole as you and Rose did."
Yui sat in the corner, trying to read. Any time a noise came from outside of her safe room, she would squeak. Whenever a door creaked or a wall thumped, Yui would jump. She kept expecting him to come back, to show up out of nowhere and take her away to one of those rooms where they would poke and prod her. It was never torture, but Yui was always waiting for it. The worst thing L did was take Yui's blood, or force her to do exercise so that her muscles wouldn't atrophy. Without warning, the door burst open. Yui cowered, throwing the book away from her body and curling up with her hands over her head in order to protect herself. "What are you doing?" L demanded, approaching the glass. With shaking limbs, Yui looked up, peaking out from behind her arms to brave a glance. "N-n-nothing," Yui stuttered, her voice hardly above a whisper. L shook his head, "is the list done?" Yui nodded, sliding the piece of paper over to the slot in the door. L reached through, taking the list from Yui. He read down it, his grin growing. "Good work and as for your reward, as promised, you get three new books." He reached into his side bag and pulled out three books, sticking them one by one through the slot.
"Th-that's n-no-not wha-what I w-w-wanted," Yui lifted up one of the books and clutched it to her chest. "I'm not letting you go upstairs," L replied with finality. With that he whirled around, cape swishing, and disappeared.