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Chapter Nine

"Chairman? The two mercenaries are here." Jennifer said over the intercom.

"Thank you Jennifer. Please send them in." The Chairman said, leaning back in his chair. A minute later, the two mercenaries walked into the room. They were both young men with surprisingly fluffy looking brown hair, but aside from that, they were very different. The one on the left had his hair in an afro, and wore glasses. That, coupled with his very skinny build, made The Chairman very surprised that he was a mercenary. The other young man on the other hand, exuded calm confidence. His arms weren't exactly ripped, but he was obviously strong.

"You're Beck Oliver and Robbie Shapiro?" The Chairman asked. He'd learned to confirm and double check everything a long time ago.

"That's right." The man on the right said. "I'm Beck, and this is Robbie. Your messenger said you wanted to hire us for a special job?" The Chairman nodded.

"I've received reports that the two of you have fought for several years on the Deseret/Colorado border, and that the two of you are referred to as an 'army of two'. I've also been told that you specialize in tracking down and killing groups of enemies that specialize in hiding. Is that correct?"

"That's right." Beck said, nodding.

"Good. I have a little problem I want you two to take care of. Rest assured, you will be handsomely rewarded if you succeed." The Chairman said, leaning forward.

"Are you talking about the Stonehearts?" Beck asked curiously.

"That is correct. Are you willing to take the job?" Beck and Robbie exchanged a look, then Beck nodded.

"Yeah, we'll take it. We'll need more weapons than what we already have though." He told The Chairman, who nodded.

"Fine. Whatever weapons you need, whatever else you need, you can have. But I expect results, or I'll be forced to take away all of my support."

"Don't worry, we've got this covered." Beck said, turning around and walking out of the room, with Robbie close behind.

Five hours later

Jade and Tori were sitting on Jade's couch watching The Three Caballeros when the hotel's phone rang.

"Yeah?" Jade asked, picking it up.

"There's a man here to see you." Andre said. "He says he's with the Rebels and that his name is Lane. Apparently he wants to talk to you." Jade sighed.

"Fine, I'll be down in a minute." She said, hanging up. "Some idiot wants to talk to me." Jade told Tori, standing up and kissing her on the forehead.

"Do you want me to come with you?" Tori asked, starting to stand up. Jade shook her head and pushed her gently back down.

"Don't worry about it, this won't take long." She told Tori, smiling. Tori nodded, and Jade turned around and walked out of the suite.

Jade walked out of the elevator and headed to her office, where she found Andre waiting with a taller, kind looking black man. "Alright, let's get this over with." Jade said, walking past them both and sitting down in her office chair.

"Thank you for your time, I'm sure you must be very busy." Lane said. "I'll cut to the chase. The Rebellion is getting ready to launch our revolution and overthrow The Council. But we can't guarantee victory on our own. We would like to hire the Stonehearts as a mercenary army, which we believe would make our victory certain."

"No." Jade growled.

"If it's an issue of money, we're perfectly willing to give you a cut of The Council's treasury." Lane said quickly. Jade shook her head.

"It's not an issue of money. We can get money whenever we want. It's an issue of 'I don't care'. Simply put, I don't understand the Rebellion's cause. Yes, we can't vote for the leader of the country or any of the laws, but so what? I started the Stonehearts to get ahead in the world, not to try and change the country as a whole."

"But…" Lane started to say, but Jade cut him off.

"I'm done. We're not discussing this. The Stonehearts are not going to risk our lives so that you can have your ballets. Andre, show him out, will you." Andre nodded.

"C'mon man, she's not going to change her mind." He told Lane, placing his hand on the older man's shoulder. Lane sighed, gave Jade a sad look, and followed Andre out of the office.

Three hours later

"Jade?" Tori called out, walking into the suite. She'd gone out to help Cat with the restaurant, and was just now returning to the hotel.

"Here!" Jade called out from the direction of the bedroom. Tori frowned. Jade sounded…wrong. She was way too happy sounding, and her words were somewhat slurred. Tori headed straight for the bedroom, concerned. She found Jade lying on the bed, looking straight up at the ceiling, with a clear bottle of some kind of amber liquid in her hand.

"Jade, what's that?" Tori asked, pointing at the bottle.

"Hope said that it was called brandy." Jade said happily, taking a swig from the bottle.

"Where'd you get it?"

"Remember how we robbed that bank using the Humvee last week?" Jade asked. Tori nodded. "Well, we figured that since we had a big gun, we could rob a rich person bank. Not a really rich person bank mind you, but a rich person bank. And we found these bottles in one of the safety deposit boxes, and I wanted to leave them, but Hope said they were guaranteed fun times, so we took them, and then this rebel idiot came and pissed me off, and then when I went back upstairs you were gone and the projector wasn't working and I was bored, so I decided to drink some of the brandy. And then I drank more, and more, and more, and then you showed up and I'm not bored anymore!" Tori stared at her, wide eyed. One the one hand, Jade was incredibly adorable right now. On the other hand though, she was somewhat disturbed by how different Jade was acting from how she usually did.

"Okay, I think that's enough." Tori said gently, taking the bottle from Jade and putting the glass stopper that Jade had placed on the nightstand in the bottle. She resolved to berate Hope for not explaining exactly what the liquid did.

"But I like it." Jade whined, trying to take it back and utterly failing. Tori smiled.

"Well, you were drinking it because you got bored and upset, right?" She asked, using the tone reserved for small children. Jade nodded.

"Right."

"Well, think about this. You're not upset anymore, are you?" Jade shook her head. "And you're not bored anymore, are you?" Jade slowly shook her head again. "Then do you need this?" Jade frowned, then shook her head. Tori smiled. "Good. Now, let's go to bed." Jade nodded and obediently, if clumsily, began to take her boots off. Tori smiled and went to get changed into pajamas, leaving the drunk Jade to deal with the complexities of boot laces herself.

Author's Notes

I like writing 'drunk Jade' way too much.

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