Chapter 1

Meet Tex

Bane was not pleased.

The sewers, though providing great discrete working areas, were not his first choice of residence. In fact, it reminded him more of the pit. But for all of its darkness and depressing atmosphere, there was one light to frighten away most of the shadows.

Meet Tex. So named for her amazingly good Texas hold'em skills. A master of deception, with an unfathomably painful past.

With cropped, shoulder-length black w/ blue streaked hair. Her complexion was fairly pale, but her most striking feature to other people were her eyes. Her left eye was a striking neon green. Whereas her right was the deepest ocean glacier blue.

Only Bane was allowed to call her "Husky". Anybody else had a serious death wish…

Bane and Tex had met a long time ago, in a casino actually. Tex, being so skilled in her abilities, was making a ton/ fair amount of money. But she started winning money from the wrong people; gangsters in the like.

Several men got mad at her, and jumped her in a back alley. She almost didn't make it. And that's when Bane had found her, broken & bleeding, and taken her to the doctor who had fixed him.

Back to the present though; Bane was upset.

He was very dangerous when he was mad. And that was when she always had to come across him.

"Yo, Bane!"

She walked down the tunnel towards him; black cargo pants held up by an overly large utility belt. They sat low on her hips, and a black t-shirt that showed skin between her pants and her navel. (Belly button!). Her backwards baseball cap was black and purple. And her black fingerless-fighting gloves coated her petite hands.

Her black combat-boots stomped against the floor, as she turned the corner to face him.

Craning her head to look up at him, she smirked.

"What did you do now Husky?"

She visibly bristled, but ignored her pet-name.

"Oh, nothing! ~ Just got a solid $100 off of Thomars!."

"Ugh" Bane sighed, "didn't I already instruct all of my men NOT to BET with you?!"

"Heh, yeah. New kid."

*groan*…

Bane kept walking down the sludgy sewers, the girl now taking-up her familiar place at his side. Although she only came up to-about his shoulder, she was a brutal yet stealthy assassin.

"So, what's got you so upset?" she said.

He looked down at her. "I'm not too eager about our new residence."

She cocked her head to the side.

"Why? You're the one who picked it?!"

He sighed. "We have to be underground now Tex. They can't see us just yet; not until we are ready." He put his large hand atop her head and ruffled her hair through her cap.

"Hey, hey! Cut it out Bane! Hey, stop it!" she growled as he let out a booming laugh.

"How do you even see out of those bangs?"

"Skills Bane."

He chuckled at her silly antics and kept walking.

"So, what's the next step Big Guy?"

Turning the corner, their temporary camp site came into view.

"We need to wait for Talia to give us the ok. Then, we pay John Daggett a visit."

She nodded and looked ahead.

They went towards his small 'office', and he sat down at the monitors. She lay down on his cot, starring up at the ceiling.

'What if it doesn't work?'

Yo! I'm back!

And I promise I have not given upon my other stories! I just needed a break, and school started up again.

Declaimer, only plot and my Oc's are MINE! Sadly Bane isn't.

And I have a bad case of bronchitis, so expect updates today!