I'm so sorry for not updating for a week! Life has been super hectic!
My little sister broke her wrist playing football, so if anyone is currently reading any of To This Day 77's work, don't expect a update for a while sorry.
My boyfriend's hamster died...RIP Chuckster
And - I found out my best friend got a tattoo of a butterfly landing on a rose on her hip...augh
So...enjoy!
Note: Italics is a flashback :)
"Zeb-go into that market and get whats on this list." Hera handed the Lasat a piece of paper with a very detailed list on it.
Zeb nodded, understanding.
"Sabine, you and me are going to the pharmacy by the city park. I'm gonna get the medical stuff we need and your gonna go in the back. They have a blood donation area, and your going to ask to donate blood. But, your going to tell the doctor there you don't know what blood type you are. They'll take a small sample of yours and go and test to find what type. While they're busy with that, your gonna sneak into their blood bank and steal two pints of B negative blood. I'm going to be in the main front of the store picking up other medicines and bandages."
Sabine nodded too.
"Okay go!" Hera said taking off, Sabine following closely behind.
Zeb looked down at his list and groaned.
"How come she sends me to go get the boring stuff?" Zeb whined, marching towards the market.
-0-
Hera entered the pharmacy first.
A sales woman immediately greeted her.
"Hi! Can I help you in anyway today ma'm?" The overly perky worker asked.
'Sell me a magic potion to heal Ezra immediately, and yeah, that would help me.' Hera thought to herself.
Hera put on a fake smile, "Oh i'm just grabbing some odds and ends for my home. But i'll let you know if I need help."
The woman grinned even wider and went behind the register, then pulled out a magazine.
-0-
Three minutes later Sabine walked in and went towards the donation tent.
'Perfect.' Sabine thought when she saw the one cashier worker at the main part of the store, where Hera was. Even more perfect was the one doctor who was talking about the side effects of blood giving she was zoning out.
"-dizzy. But otherwise, wait about 56 days before donating again and you'll be fine. How old are you miss?" The doctor raised a brow.
"Hm? Oh uh nineteen." Sabine said.
"And your over 110 pounds?"
"Yes."
"Alright. Your in very good physical health and you meet all of the aquirements. Do you know your blood type?" He asked.
"No, can you tell me now?" Sabine lied, swinging her feet in her chair.
The doctor nodded, putting his pen down form his clipboard and form.
"Certainly. I'm just gonna take a few drops and go test it in our private room. It'll only take a minute I promise." The man said, standing up. "In the mean time please fill out this form."
The doctor handed her a form before wiping a area of her arm clean with a cotton ball, then injecting a syringe into her artery, taking a small teaspoon of blood.
He took the vile into a back room and closed the door behind him.
As soon as he was gone Sabine shot up from her seat.
She quietly snuck across the room and to a large cooling machine. The fridge had several drawers, each labeled with a blood type.
"AB, A, -A, B...Yes! -B!" Sabine silently muttered to herself.
Much to her frustration, the drawer the locked.
Grinding her teeth, Sabine racked her brain on how to pick a lock.
She clawed at the memory of Ezra teaching her how.
-0-
"Some people think picking a lock is just jamming a clip in the keyhole and jiggling it around. But its really not."
"Oh really? Then show me 'oh lord of locks'." Sabine snickered.
"Fine. I'll teach you how to unlock the few basic locks people use. For a combination code, just put your ear to the wall and spin a full circle around the lock until you hear a slight click." Ezra said, crossing his arms.
"Seems easy enough." Sabine shrugged.
"Not easy when everything around you is loud and you don't have several minutes to fiddle with it." Ezra replied with a smirk.
"Okay fine what else?"
"Uh, theres the key lock. Basic put key in and turn. Inside that type of lock is a bunch of little pins that all have to be pushed up a certain amount by the ridges of the key. Unless you've got one of those fancy lock picking kits and about twenty minutes, your gonna need something faster. Only stupid people buy those heavy kits. All you need is either a paper clip or a hair pin. Just bend it a little at the end and put it in and push upwards until it goes no farther, then push it forward, and repeat. The lock should open in about ten second if your good." Ezra explained.
Sabine nodded thoughtfully. "How long did it take you to learn all of this?"
"Two years." Ezra answered immediately, becoming slightly stiff.
"Thats kinda specific...But, uh what other locks do you know about?" Sabine asked, drifting back to the topic.
"Uh...oh voice and finger print locks are kinda tricky. For a finger print one you have to pry off the top screen layer, without damaging the thermal senser. Without smudging the first layer, place it upside down on the thermal layer then put your thumb down hard on the screen. It will read it, but won't be able to tell the print apart from any other, and it will open accordingly to who's finger was there last."
"Woah..." Sabine raised her eyebrows.
"-And a voice activated system, you open the speaker up. There should be about a dozen wire. Cut the blue wire and yellow wire at the same time, then wait exactly six seconds, then cut the red wire. It will be reset. Immediately after you cut the red wire it will start recording whatever is going on to be its new activation voice. Say something clever and annoying, easy to remember, but don't give yourself away. Then reconnect half of the red wire to the blue, and the other half of the blue to the yellow. It should now be reset to whatever you said."
"Where did you learn this?!" Sabine asked.
"Experience." Ezra shrugged.
"So you went up to random locks and cut wire and connected them together?!"
"...Basically, yeah." Ezra rolled his eyes.
"Is that all the locks you can pick?"
"Pssh no. I know dozens more. Some really rich people will have a iris scanner, but you have to-"
Sabine shook her head. "Please...I've heard enough and i'll never remember all of this."
Ezra laughed.
-0-
Sabine studied the lock. It was a simple combo lock. Ezra taught her this one!
Sabine put her ear to the lock side and began spinning the numbers slowly to the right.
"...click" Sabine started turning it to the left.
"...click" She began turning it to the right again.
"...click-click." The lock opened with the final number.
Silently cheering, Sabine pried open the drawer.
A wave of cold air came out, giving the woman the chills.
Shivering, Sabine put two bags of the blood into her back pack and into a small thermal sack filled with ice. She then quickly shut the drawer and locked it. She flew back to her seat and filled out the forms the doctor gave her, as if she had never stolen anything.
With a smirk, she began filling out the papers.
Name: Devony Morgan (you see what I did there? Dev...Devony...eh? Eh?)
Age: 19
Weight: 130
Health state: Fit
The doctor came back in suddenly, still oblivious to what Sabine did.
"Turns out your AB positive. Not the most rare blood type, but a universal donor of plasma, which is always useful. I'm gonna clean your arm a little and then we're gonna start the process. Any questions before I begin?"
"Nope." Sabine said, holding out her arm.
-0-
Gauze?
In her cart.
Bandages?
In her cart.
Pain killers, sleeping medicine, rubbing alcohol, fever reducer, you name it, it was in Hera's cart.
After deciding she had double of medical supplies the crew needed, she began to check out.
"Find everything you were looking for today ma'm?" The perky cashier asked.
"Yup." Hera replied, handing the worker money.
Hera saw Sabine exit the pharmacy several minutes before, and knew the plan was working. Giving one last innocent smile to the worker, Hera Syndulla grabbed her bags and left, heading towards the city park, where she would meet Sabine.
Sabine was sitting on a bench staring at a partially ivy covered mural.
"Did you get it?" Hera asked sitting down next to the teen.
Sabine nodded. "Wha?...oh yeah. Did you get everything we needed?"
"Yeah, Zeb will meet us when hes done, so it could be another few minutes before-Hey, what are you staring at?" Hera raised a eye brow.
Sabine shook her head a little. "While I was waiting for you I started looking at this old art...this one mural...its about a lake outside the city of Lothal."
"...The lake we were at today?"
"I think so. Here, lemme just..." Sabine stood up and began picking away the over grown ivy covering the mural.
Once she had brushed away the weeds, both women could see the faded art clearer.
The painting wasn't bigger than a average size blanket, and the colors were faded from too much light. But they could both tell what the picture was. There was a huge beast painted, long body, huge sharp teeth. It was a monster.
"That-...Thats what attacked Ezra." Sabine breathed, eyes wide.
"What is it?" Hera asked, eyes wide.
Sorry for not really answering the last cliff hanger :/
ALSO - I COMPLETELY MADE UP HOW TO PICK THE LOCKS THAT IS ALL FALSE PLEASE DON'T TRY IT YOUR BREAKING THE LAW AND IT WON'T EVEN WORK - so locksmiths reviewers - I know i'm wrong!
Please review!
-Shelby
