Throttle shook his head at Vinny's incredibly stupid move, yet said nothing to the youngest of his bros because he knew that the martian had a valid point about why Shay should stay with them since they could protect her. Still that was no excuse for what Vinny had done to the girl. Nor did it excuse him from going through her pockets until he found the key to her hotel room before handing her off to Modo.
"I'm going to go collect baby girl's things. Do me a favor and put sweetheart to bed so that she can sleep a little more comfortably." Vinny said as he pocketed the key. Modo had a slightly panicked look on his face as he held Shay up. Her body was so loose in her unconsious state that her spine bent back over his arm at an almost unnatural and painful looking angle. Her face was pale, her breathing was just a little bit too shallow to be deemed healthy.
And Throttle couldn't help but think that someone would be losing sleep tonight just to make sure that she didn't stop breathing. "Vinny, just how much of a shock did you give her?"
The white martian looked over at Shay and did a quick calculation in his head. He hadn't used a very big shock. In fact he had used the lowest that he could think of so that he wouldn't end up doing irreparable damage to Shay's organs and nervous system. The shock itself had only been meant to knock her out. Not jeopardize her health. "Not much."
"I can't tell if she's breathing-" Modo said in a worried tone as he tried to fix the awkward angle that her body was in so that she wouldn't wake up in pain.
Vinny gave him a dirty look, silently promising retaliation. "She's breathing. I can see the rise and fall of her chest from here. Just put her to bed and let her sleep off the effects. I'll be back in a little bit with her things."
Modo opened his mouth to snap at the younger alien but Vinny started walking, completely ignoring the fact that his elder had been about to say something to him as Throttle got up out of his seat and carefully took Shay from the older alien and told him to go chase Vinny down and keep him out of trouble. Modo nodded and ran out of the room, leaving Throttle alone with their late friends daughter.
He sighed and shifted his hold on her so that he had her cradled against his chest and walked down the hall to her mother's room and opened the door and walked inside and laid her on the bed and pulled her shoes off before walking over to the closet across the room and pulling out a thick blanket and using it to cover her before he walked back out of the room so that she could sleep in peace for the moment.
Yet made the mental note to come back to check on her later on. After he and his brothers talked about what they were going to do with her.
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Throttle was sitting at the dining room table eating a grilled ham and cheese sandwich and looking over Charlie's will when Vinny and Modo finally got back from their little errand. "I can't believe you ran me off of the road!" Vinny growled at Modo. His voice loud and tinged with outrage as they walked through the front door.
Modo laughed at the younger alien and took the small slate gray suit case from him. "I can't believe that you didn't expect me to run you off of the road." Modo said with a bemused smile on his face was they both walked through the door to the dining room and stopped when Throttle turned around in his seat to look at them for a second before Vinny pushed Modo slightly and said nervously.
"He started it." Modo elbowed him in the ribs then went still as Throttle's shades slipped down his nose a little bit, revealing unamused scarlet eyes.
"Did you get little-darlin's things?" Vinny and Modo both nodded their heads as Modo held up the suit case and frowned.
"She didn't bring much with her in the way of clothes. Just a pair of pants, two shirts, a pair of shorts and a dress." Throttle was quiet for a second before pushing his shades back up into place.
"What about her...under things?" He asked, hoping that the two hadn't forgotten to get all of Shayera's things, yet hadn't wanted to refer to the clothing she wore under her normal clothing in any embarrassing way out of respect for the girl herself.
Modo and Vinny were quiet for a second. Both frowning. They hadn't seen any under thing clothes. But then they hadn't really paid attention to anything aside from the unusual way some of the clothes had been laid out on the bed when they had entered the room.
"We didn't see any under things laying around so maybe their in the case already."
Throttle made a humming sound but didn't say anything. He couldn't really blame them for not noticing if they had those or not. They were gentlemen after all.
"Maybe. Come and sit down guys. We need to talk about what to do now." Throttle said as he turned back around in his seat so that he was facing the table again as his bros pulled up a couple of chairs.
"Okay. Whats on your mind?" Modo asked curiously as Throttle pushed the will to the middle of the table and leaned back in his seat and crossed his arms over his chest. He had been over the will nine times already and didn't really know what to make of it.
There were so many stipulations and scenarios that he was starting to think that Charlie hadn't been in her right mind when she had had this thing done. She came across as someone who was increadably paranoid about the 'what if's' in life among other things. But even so, Charlie had planned for everything. Down to the last little detail.
"First off, Vinny had a point earlier. We can't let little darlin' stay somewhere else. It just isn't safe for her to stay somewhere we can't reach her. Not while Charlie-girl's killer is still out and about."
"We're with you." Modo said sagely. Vinny nodded his head in agreement.
"That's why I think she should move in with us for the time being. I also think that we shouldn't let her run errands and do the grocery shopping along either. For all we know someone may be watching us, waiting for a chance to get close to her. We can't rule out our enemies either. Limberger, Greasepit, Karbuckle, exct. Because either way you look at things, they know what happened to Charlie and will see Shay as a weakness to be exploited."
"That's true."
"If they had been aware of how much we had cared about Charlie-girl they could have exploited her and made us do whatever they wanted." Vinny said as he propped his chin up on his hand. Throttle nodded. His expression grim. That was an understatement if he had ever heard one. They were in a lose-lose situation.
If they let her leave, they could lose her forever. But if they kept her with them, they might end up destroying themselves.
When he thought about any of their enemies getting their hands on Shayera, the last living link to Charlie-girl and hurting her or using her against them, he saw red. And when he thought of the danger he and his bros would place themselves in to protect her, he saw red again.
Either way they went, they would be weakened.
"Alright. She stays. Whats next?" Throttle blinked at them from behind his shades. His expression a little put out. Well, he hadn't expected them to be so completely dedicated to keeping Shayera there that they would completely ignore the things that they should talk about.
"Um...don't you think we should talk a little more about this and maybe take a vote before just up and deciding to keep her here?"
"No."
"I'd rather not. Thinking about the reasons from all angles is sort of depressing-" Vinny said in a bored tone as Modo pointed at him and nodded. Trying to silently say, "He has a point."
"Alright...if your sure that you guys don't want to talk about it anymore-"
"We're sure."
"Move on please."
