Don't you plead me your case, don't bother to explain
Don't even show me your face,
Cause it's a crying shame
Just go back to the rock from under which you came
Take the sorrow you gave and all the stakes you claim -- and don't forget the blame
Don't sleep to dream, Fiona Apple
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Faye stabbed the buttered potato viciously, but her words and expression was cool. Jet, Ed and Ein who was still covering their ears by the way, stared warily at the potato that was being murdered.
" I don't want to talk to him, I don't even want to talk about him so fuck off." The last two words were accompanied by a nasty flip of the wrist that you often see in knife fights. Jet sat back, leaning away from the fork and raised his two hands in mock surrender.
" Okay, okay. I got your point, in more ways than one. But" Jet tried to make himself as harmless as he could when Faye glared at him, and proceed with caution. He chose his words carefully. " Just think, Faye. You're in his territory now, hell, Spike owns pretty much half of Mars, and the other half has various deals with him. There is no way you can ignore him besides, if you don't want to talk to him what the hell are you doing here anyway?"
Faye bit the butchered potato with a sharp snap of teeth that made Jet winced. She hunched her shoulders and mumbled something intelligable. Jet frowned, he would've leaned closer if he wasn't afraid that Faye would bite him. " What?" She pouted at him.
" I don't know." Jet stared. " What do you mean you don't know?
" I don't know, okay." She stuffed the remaining potato into her mouth. May it rest in peace." I was sick of people following me around and not knowing why. I know most of them are syndicate so I headed here, this place is always crawling with syndicates. I figured I'd get some answers."
" But now you know that the syndicate part was THE RED DRAGON." She nodded. " Now I just needed to figure out the other people who has been following me around."
" Ed, knows." Ed chirped with her hands still on her ears, so much for that. Ein lifted his head and panted. Faye and Jet snapped their heads towards Ed so fast they almost go whiplash." What?"
" Spike-person asked me to find out." She devoured a chicken, reached for another and tilted her head when Faye gritted her teeth.
" Oh, did he? You still chummy with ol' Spike, then?" Jet grimaced when Ed cheerfully said, " I work with him."
" WHAT?" She stopped herself and closed her eyes. Jet thought she was probably counting to ten, he watched with interest when Faye breathed in and out and felt pretty proud of her, she had gone a long way. And he knew by years of experience that having a hot temper is not the way to handle a guy like Spike. Your anger would only rolled off of him. Spike was kinda like those stupid dolls that kept bouncing up after you punch them and manages to hit you back in the process, the harder you hit it the faster it stands up. It was damn annoying.
" How did this happen?" The question slid out of clenched teeth and those glittering green eyes focused on him. Oh joy. " She's not doing anything dangerous, she merely upgrades the security and the comps at intelligence. She had nothing to do and she was moping around, we had to give her something to do so she wouldn't get into any trouble." Jet defended himself.
" She already is in trouble." She hissed but shut her mouth when a couple passed their table, she lean nearer to Jet. " She entered the syndicate for God sake. THE RED DRAGON no less." Jet sighed.
" Look, Faye, the syndicate is not what it was before. Spike's ventured to legalize the business, mostly it's just doing, well bussiness now. Casino's..hotels." She scoffed.
" Jet, I'm not stupid, okay. You don't believe that any more than I do. If you did, then why did you bared your teeth to the teenage kid there just because he's syndicate?" she jerked her thumb to Nathaniel who straightened in his seat. When Jet lifted an eyebrow at him, he sat back almost sullenly. The damn kid hasn't yet dried behind the ears yet. When he look back to Faye, she was frowning like she had just thought of something and that thought wasn't a happy thought.
" Hotels. Do you mean..? This is his hotel, isn't it?" She let out a sound of frustration. " Oh, this is too much."
" Look, can't we talk about this another time? We need to figure out who's been following you. Now Ed, who was it?"
" The bodyguards of the Alligieri family."
" The Alligieri Family? The Italian Mob? Shit, what the hell have you got yourself into Faye?" Faye looked as surprise as he was.
" I told you I have no idea. I don't know anyone in The Family." The Alligieri Family or more commonly known as The Family, was the Italian mob, syndicate, whatever, it was the head of all the Italian syndicate hence the name "The Family", it sounds like a very bad mafia movie but it isn't. It was one of the fastest rising mob besides THE RED DRAGON Syndicate and that was saying something.
" Has Poker Alice been assuming her role in the gambling world?" Faye shook his head, " I told you, I haven't done anything except bounty hunting." The Family was big on gambling and restaurants and night clubs. Oh, and drugs and weapons and spy technology. You know. The works. The both of them lapsed into silence.
" Well, atleast it was the bodyguards not the hitmen." Faye clinked the spoon she was holding on a plate.
" Thats what makes it even more weird. I can understand if somebody wanted to kill me, but why would anybody wanted to protect me?" Jet stared and thought how that one sentence summed up all their lives, well except Ed and Ein, that they would understand more if somebody wanted them killed than have them protected.