Chapter 13: Research and Development
Three days have pass and now Jacob and Alexandria ran long the roofs, seeing Pearl's carriage below them. They then jump down on top of the carriage, Jacob jumps over on one side and Alexandria jumps on the other side, opens the door and they sat inside and in front of Miss. Attaway, closing the doors behind them. "Mr. Frye, Ms. Dorian! I told you to make an appointment." Pearl reminds them, "My schedule was open." Jacob tells her, she nods at him. Alexandria rolls her eyes and cross her legs.
"You're fortunate I like you." Pearl smirks at Jacob, Alexandria mimics her under her breath. Then stops before anyone could notice. Pearl then pulls out a letter and hand it to Jacob. He takes it and reads the contacts inside it, Alexandria uncross her legs and looms over Jacob's shoulder, reading it as well. "Internal combustion engines?" Jacob asks her, as he handed the letter over to Alexandria who takes it and reads over the letter as well.
"Eight small syllables that mean a great deal of money. The engines will be delivered to Millner by train. Secure them for me and he will be devastated." she tells him, Alexandria looks up from the contacts of the letter and at her, then she and Jacob looks at each other. "We'll need a second train to pull this off… And I think I know just the man." Jacob states as Alexandria pockets the letter, they both go to leave, but Pearl place her hand on Jacob's arm, making both of them stop and look at her. "So we have a deal, Mr. Frye?" Pearl asks him. "You're fortunate I like you. Miss Attaway." Jacob tells her, Alexandria felt her heart clutch in angry, she then groans in disgust and jumps out of the carriage.
Then Jacob jumps out as well and they both ran through the back alleyways, making sharp turns until the make it out of the back alleys and saw a police carriage with Ned inside. "The Captain's been looking for you for quite a while, Wyent." the office tells Ned, who sat inside the police carriage. Alexandria ran up beside it and with one jump, she kicks both of the man out of the front and they land on the side as she on her back on the seat, she quickly gathers herself up and took the reins as Jacob sat up next to her.
"YA!" she shouts, cracking the reins and the horses take off, the police, start to use them and Alexandria makes a sharp turn dodging all of the turns and into the back roads. She then realizes that the police weren't going to give up, so she looks over at the horses that pull their carriage, she harden her eyes, making them flash a white golden, the horses that pulled the police cab, stop and started to neigh, pounding their feet to the ground, Alexandria smirks to herself and turns forward.
They came to a back road, "Whoa, whoa." she tells the horses gently pulling on their reins, they slowed down and stop, the two jump down and Jacob ran to the back as she walks up to one of the horses and pets them, calming them down. Ned slouches forward as Jacob breaks the lock and pulls it off, opening the doors. "So, what do you want, Frye?" Ned asks him, knowing Jacob wanted something. "What makes you so I want something? Perhaps I saved you out of the kindness of my own heart." Jacob tells him, Alexandria snickers as she walks up to him, "Really, you have kindness in the greedy heart of yours. That would be the day of you did save someone just because it felt right." Alexandria states, walking up to the carriage, "Oh, you wound me, Alexis." Jacob chuckles as he makes a fake whine, clutching his chest. She turns and looks at him, "If I wanted to wound you, Jacob, you would be bleeding out on the very floor you're standing on." she tells him and steps inside. "Ouch." Ned states as she stood a hold of his cuffs, picks that it then with a lock pick and the cuffs open.
Ned rubs his wrist, "Thank you kindly miss…" Ned pauses, she smiles at him, "Dorian. Alexandria Dorian." she states and held out her hand, Ned smirks at her and held her hand. "Ned Wyent, at your service." he states and kisses her knuckles, Jacob shot an evil glare at Ned, regretting letting him go. Then she pulls her hand back and they both jump out form the carriage, "Come on, let me tell you about the job." Jacob states and pulls Ned along, Alexandria shakes her head and follows at them.
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The three stood on a train as the sun was now out, "Millner's pulling a lot of cargo there!" Ned exclaims as the two look at him. "Just be sure to make the transfer!" Jacob tells him as Alexandria pulls up her hood, then they both start to walk. "Give 'em Hell!" Ned tells the two, Alexandria looks over at him, smirks and walks off. Jacob did his best not to strangle Ned and follows after Alexandria then jumps on top of the train box and jumps along them until she reaches the front of the train and jumps over, grips onto the edge of the other train's cargo box and pulls herself up. Jacob follows in pursuit, he follows her as she jumps down, quietly walks up to a Blighter, she covers his mouth and stabs him in the side, he fights a little and went limp in her arms, then she gently laid him down as Jacob uses his hidden blade and bust a crate open.
"Not this one!" he states and the two jump over, then Jacob slams his guarded fist into the hooks that connected the two boxes. "Get a move on, Frye!" Ned shouts out as Alexandria ran up to two Blighters and jerks her blades into their necks and jerks them out, the two Blighters drop and she jumps over into the neck cart. "What a woman!" Ned exclaims as he watches Alexandria, Jacob glares at him and follows Alexandria, but he stops as he breaks of the next set of hooks as Alexandria was now face off with three Blighters.
"Get him, get him! Watch out for the knife, on your left!" Ned shouts out. As Alexandria dodges them, she then kicks up her boot, delivering her blade into his neck. He drop as one grabs her by the waist, she growls, slamming her head into his face, he grunts as his grip loosens, she then reaches up, pulling her knees to her chest, then jerks them forwards, making the Blighter flip onto his back, as she was now kneeling, she then snaps his neck, stood up and looks at the last Blighter. He charges at her, but she steps to the side, trips him and he slams his face into the crates, Alexandria stood over him and jams her blade into his neck and pulls it out. Jacob ran pass her and jumps over, she does the same thing and he breaks off the hooks, the breaks open the next crate, but then closes it, "Not what I'm after." he states and they both jump over to the next wagon. Jacob break off the next on as Alexandria climbs over. Jacob follows after her and they face off the two Blighters, Alexandria jumps at one, wrapping her legs around the big man's waist, shifting her weight, making then twist. She throws a dagger at the woman in the wagon, it lands in her forehead and the drops the gun and hits the ground, she smirks to herself, then pulls out a dagger and jam it into the Blighters neck, he gags at her, then wraps to the ground. She stood on her feet and pulls her dagger out.
Jacob kills the last Blighter and breaks the last crate open, "Here we go!" Jacob states, Alexandria walks over to the hooks, kneels down and started beating at it with her guarded knuckles. The hooks breaks off and the wagon that they were standing on started to slow down, Jacob jumps off and ran over to the other train and stood guard as Alexandria stayed with the crate. "Alright boys and girls, you know what to do." Ned tells them and jumps into the seat, operating the crane.
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The crate was brought over and place onto their train, then Jacob pulls the top off and the thee look inside. "The internal combustion engine. The end of the horse-drawn transport. It's like gazing into the future." Jacob states as he leans against the crate, "And what is the going rate for the future, do you think?" Ned asks him, Alexandria stood up, reaches into her coat pocket and handed Ned the letter that Miss Attaway gave to Jacob, he takes it from her and read it.
"We're not selling them." Jacob states, "No, God forbid that your "contact" will disapprove." Alexandria states sourly. Jacob glares at her, "Okay, what is your deal, ever since we started this job, you've been nothing but sour." Jacob states, she glares at him. "I have every reason to be sour right now and beside, I work better when angry and my reasons are none of your business." she snaps back at him, "God, you're acting like a brat right now, you know that?" he tells her as Ned watches them. "So you don't like my attitude?" she states as she leans up, "No, I don't, it's annoying." he tells her, "Fine! I'll just take my attitude and leave!" she states and starts to walk off. "Good, go cry somewhere, for all the better!" he shouts at her, "Vai a farti fottere, Jacob cazzo Frye!" Alexandria shouts back at him in Italian and was gone.
Ned just looks at Jacob, "What?" he asks him, Ned just shook his head. "That was rather rude." Ned mumbles as he reads the contacts.
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Alexandria walks down the street fuming in anger, "Das undankbar, verdorbenes faules, unerträglich, Stichel." she grumbles in German. But as she pass an Alley, a big hand covers her mouth with a white cloth and the other arm wraps around her waist, she lets a muffled sound and struggles in her captives arms as she was pulled into the alley, everything started to blur.
She slowly cease in her struggles and went limp in their arms, they lowered her to the ground and cuffed her wrist, "Miss Attaway will be pleased…" one states and her vision went black.