Disclaimer: you guys know how this part goes...
Author's Note: just like I said, I made chapter 9 longer than the last two chapters! (I was tempted to cut it short, but I want to get to the planning part already and explain to you guys how they got a hold of this mission.)
I don't know why, but this part is mostly dialogue.
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Chapter 9
"What are you doing here?" Hale asked Luna.
Everyone was inside Hale's living room. Kat was sitting on the sofa with Gabrielle on the other end, filing her nails. Simon was sitting at the arm chair opposite of the two girls holding tightly to his laptop, as if it would disappear again, giving Luna mean yet awed looks; and the Bagshaw brothers sitting at the floor- Hamish's back against the wall, and Angus sitting cross legged, both gawking at Luna.
Hale was the only one standing, he was positioned in front of Luna- who was sitting quite lazily on the other arm chair next to Simon, looking bored yet slightly amused with the commotion she caused- a blank expression on his face.
"Your door was open." She answered.
"No it wasn't" Gabrielle told them.
"Well, it opened when I came in." Luna answered back in an innocent tone.
"Yeah, cause you screwed up my alarm system." Hale pointed out.
Luna shrugged. "Is that what that little white thing is?" she said teasingly.
"Yes Luna." Hale answered impatiently, "That's what it is."
Luna showing up here was a little bit surprising, but for some reason, Hale didn't feel that surprise. Maybe somewhere inside of him knew that she would help, but she hasn't said anything about that yet, better not to get too excited.
"But seriously speaking Luna," Kat interjected. "What are you doing here?"
Everyone was little bit puzzled about Luna's appearance. Well, except for Hamish, Angus and Simon- they just continue to stare at her like she was the hope diamond on display, the puzzlement will come probably a little later.
Luna shifted her gaze from Hale to Kat, "Those files," she said tilting her head towards Simon's direction, "please tell me that isn't all of it."
"Do you know how hard it is to follow an A-class mob boss?" Gabrielle answered instead, slightly annoyed. "He has like dozens of bodyguard who doesn't even try to hide the fact that they're bodyguards. I mean c'mon, shades at night? Puh-lease!"
Kat looked at Gabrielle with an expression that says "really Gabrielle?" on her face. Hale just rolled his eyes and sighed in exasperation.
"Yeeeah..." Luna said, prolonging the word slightly. "Thought so."
"Are you just here to insult us? Cause trust me, I already have a lot on my mind and I don't really need your I-told-you-sos." Hale told her, his voice sounded a little bit stressed.
"Well, I'm partly here for the insulting part." Luna said smiling mischievously, "but also cause I got kicked out of boarding school, again." Then she turned to Kat. "Next time you go to boarding school, try adding blue dye to the water supply. Classic!"
"Sure," Kat said giving Luna an odd look, it was either she didn't know that Kat wanted to be in boarding school or she just didn't care. Kat voted for the latter. "I'll keep that in mind."
"uh-huh." Hale said, giving Luna a strange look. "Does your grandpa know that you're here?"
"Do you have to be such a kill joy Hale?" Luna told him, an annoyed look on her face.
Hale just stared at her; he was never the one to be called a kill joy, but of course, with Luna, he didn't expect anything less.
"Anyway, those plans inside that laptop," Luna said, her tone now serious. "It isn't gonna get you anywhere."
"But it's the best we've got." Simon told her, finally breaking his long term silence, slightly unsure of his answer.
"Yeah, well, your best isn't good enough." Luna told him a matter of factly.
"Then tell us what you've got, little miss know it all." Gabrielle told her, a challenging look on her face.
Luna smiled and reached in her coat pocket and pulled out 2 cards that look awfully like invitations.
"This." She showed them. "I can't believe you guys missed the part about the party."
The whole room went quiet for a while; everyone was staring at Luna dumbfounded. Then Hale turned to Angus and Hamish.
"I thought you guys did some thorough research." Hale said through gritted teeth.
"Well..." Hamish stuttered.
"I... uh." Angus tried to continue.
"Don't be so hard on them Hale." Luna said laughing, "I mean these invitations are hard to get, and I mean REALLY hard."
"So how'd you get a hold of them?" Gabrielle asked her, a confused look all over her face.
"I'm the granddaughter of Alexio Argyros, Gabby." Luna said in her most adorable tone, "I've got connections you guys don't."
"You. Are. Impossible." Hale told Luna, now smiling. He would also have hugged her if not for the fact that he didn't want to look too grateful. I mean, this is it, they found a way to get into Sebastian's impenetrable mansion, now they just have to locate the vault and get the prototype of the universal key out. They're job just got a whole lot easier... or so Hale thought.
"You can thank me later." Luna told them, her tone once again dead serious. "Cause now, things just got a whole lot more complicated."
"What do you mean complicated?" Angus asked, smiling.
"We're in." Hamish stated. "It should be LESS complicated."
"Yeah, but how sure are you that that thing you're looking for isn't in a bank or another place?" Luna asked them, "or if it is in that mansion, which I'm not saying it is, where's the vault?"
"He hasn't been to anywhere suspicious ever since the robbery, Luna." Kat answered her.
"All right then," Luna answered, "but where's the vault?"
When it was clear that nobody would answer her, she stood up and started pacing the room.
"You guys have no blue prints, no ideas of what the security system is like, and the only thing you have is the outside view of the house, which is useful, but can't really get us that far." Then she turned to Hale. "We're not going to rob that place during the party Hale. And you know it."
a/n: Next chapter, I'm gonna start with the planning! I just hope I'll get it right. :|
It's hard to write dialogues when there are more than 3 people. I keep forgetting the others, I'll to give Kat and Simon more lines next time.
is it just me or do you guys think I'm going off topic or my writing style is turning from just right to a little bit boring?
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