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Chapter Ten
"Ugh!" Jade moaned, rolling over in bed and pulling the pillow over her head. Hope picked up the bottle of brandy and stared at in disbelief.
"This bottle was full when we found it! Why did you drink three thirds of it in one night?" Jade just groaned.
"Stop yelling, it hurts!" She protested.
"Yeah, that'd be the hangover." Hope said dryly. "That's what you get for drinking so much brandy in one night."
"Yes, mock the gang boss." Andre said dryly, walking into the room carrying a cup of a steaming black liquid.
"Andre, bring me my pistol." Jade growled, removing her head from under the pillow and glaring at Hope.
"Here, drink this." Andre said, holding out the cup and ignoring the order. Jade glared at him, but her head hurt too much to argue, so she took the cup. "You might want to wait for it to cool down a little…" He started to say, but Jade took a gulp before he could finish. Her eyes widened and she stared at the cup in wonder, and she quickly drank more, finishing off the cup.
"What is this?" She asked, her voice almost reverential in tone.
"The guy I got it from said that it's called coffee." Andre told her.
"Where'd he get it?" Jade demanded.
"He said it was from the Republica Del Sol."
"The Mexicans?" Jade said in surprise.
"Well, technically, they import it from the Kingdom of Hawaii." Andre said, shrugging.
"Which would explain why we don't get any." Jade said, nodding.
"You know, I bet there's a lot of stuff they have in Hawaii and the Republica that we don't have." Hope mused. Jade grinned.
"I have an idea. Andre, I want you to take twenty or so Stonehearts, a Humvee, and however many SUVs you need, and go to the Republica. Buy or steal whatever you think will be popular here, and then come back here. We'll start a black market."
"I assume you want me to get a lot of coffee too." Andre said dryly.
"Of course." Jade said. She frowned and looked around. "Where's Tori?"
"She and Mick went to go get some supplies for Cat's restaurant." Hope told her. Jade sighed and flopped back onto the bed.
"Alright then, fine. Now go away, I need to sleep." Andre rolled his eyes, and the two walked out.
At the same time
"Don't turn around." Mick whispered. Tori frowned up at him. The two were in Vicksburg, a town that had started out as a suburb of Las Vegas, then grown into a small town. It had been decided that, for the time being, the Stonehearts should stay out of Las Vegas proper if they weren't in groups of ten or more. The public had gotten the idea that the Stonehearts were invincible, and Jade didn't want to lose that image.
"Why would I turn around?" Tori asked, looking up a Mick.
"Just don't. We're being followed." Mick told her, casually slipping his hands into the pockets of his jeans.
"How many?" Tori asked, adjusting her grip on the grocery bags. Mick glanced out of the corner of his eye, checking the reflection in a nearby shop window.
"Two. Young looking guys, younger than me." He told her. "About your age actually." Tori frowned worriedly.
"We're two blocks away from the car." She said, reaching her hand into her inside jacket pocket and gripping the handle of her pistol.
"You want to fight them now?" Mick asked. Tori shook her head and removed her hand from the jacket.
"No, let's wait until we reach the car. It could be a trap." She said. Mick nodded, but kept his hands in his pockets. Behind them, Beck carefully drew his pistol from its holster.
"Get ready." He told Robbie, who nodded nervously and drew his own pistol.
"They're getting their pistols out." Mick warned.
"Then run!" Tori yelled, running off. Mick followed close behind, pulling the two ballistic knives from his pockets.
"Shit." Beck muttered, running after them. He'd barely cleared the corner when Mick, who'd stopped and turned around, fired the two blades at Beck and Robbie. "Shit." Beck repeated as one of the blades went into Robbie's left shoulder, while the other completely missed. Mick tossed the knives to the ground and ran off after Tori.
"Go!" Robbie yelled at Beck, pulling the blade out of his shoulder and tossing it to the ground. Beck nodded and ran after Mick and Tori, while Robbie followed behind at a slower pace.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?" Mick demanded. He'd managed to leave Beck behind, but when he reached the SUV, Tori was closing the trunk.
"We paid good money for that food, I'm not leaving it behind." Tori said, climbing into the driver's seat. Mick rolled his eyes and was about to open the shotgun door when a bullet smashed into the side of the car. Tori rolled down her window and returned fire with her sub machine gun, and Mick climbed into the car.
"Go!" Mick yelled, grabbing a machine gun from under the seat and rolling down his own window. Tori nodded and switched the car into drive, then sped out of the parking lot while Mick laid down cover fire. Beck fired at them, emptying his magazine, but the SUV's armor plating was too tough for his pistol from this far away.
"They got away?" Robbie asked, catching up to Beck. Beck gave him a dry look.
"No, I vaporized them. Now c'mon. We know where they live now."
"We do?" Robbie asked, confused, as they headed back to their car.
"Yes. The Stonehearts always drive green cars. The security cameras have shown that, and we just received proof of that now. Green cars aren't that common here. They're downright rare in fact. So, they can't be headquartered in Las Vegas, or they'd have been found by now. They came to Vicksburg for supplies, which means that they don't live north of Las Vegas, or they'd have gone somewhere closer. That leaves us with one logical option-New Washington." Beck said calmly.
"But New Washington is huge! It's almost as big as Las Vegas!" Robbie exclaimed.
"That just means we'll have to work harder to find them." Beck said calmly. "And considering how much we're getting paid, I think it'll be worth it." Robbie sighed. As much as he wanted to, he couldn't really disagree with Beck.
Author's Notes
Alright, I want to make something clear right now. My dislike for the recent episode "Tori fixes Beck and Jade" has nothing to do with this portrayal of Beck. I already had the whole storyline planned out in detail long before I saw that…episode.
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