Chapter 4
Christina moved toward the door but found that the man standing there was not making any motion to move out of the way. In fact he stood there as if he was intent on her staying there.
She stepped back, being more cautious now with his supposed 'hospitality'.
"May I pass?" She asked him, her blue-green eyes looking for a reason to fire up.
Aladdin chuckled and simply shook his head. "No, you may not. Not until you pay me for saving your life."
Christina's mouth dropped and she stepped back further. Was this man serious? She thought saving one's life was a service freely given. Looks like that was only in her world.
"Pay you? But, I don't have any money on me. I can't pay you now." She refused to break her eye contact with him but suddenly felt afraid.
Aladdin's grin left his face and his eyes grew cold and hard. He stepped toward her until they were inches apart. He looked down at her and gave a smirk.
"Looks like you're stuck here then. Until you pay me back that is, and don't worry, we'll work something out for you."
He was loving this. He knew she was broke, he had checked that earlier. Now he just needed to make sure she could earn up the money, the right way, and pay him back. In the end he'd be doing her a favor.
Christina's breath caught in her throat as she began to imagine what kinds of 'payment' he could b talking about. He may have saved her life but from the looks of him now he was just as much a criminal as those men who had jumped her in the first place.
"But I can't stay here! Look I'm rich and I can go out and get the money you want to pay you back. I promise I will. Please." She took a couple more steps back just to be safe. If all else failed, or he came up with something that she certainly never do then she'd just fight him, win, and run.
"Oh I'm sure you'd go all the way back to your rich family, ask them for money and then come all the way back into Thieves Court to pay it back to me. Hn, I don't think so. No, you're going to stay here, like I said, and pay me off the right way. I've already got something in mind." He moved to a chair nearby and sat down, leaning back relaxed.
"Now here's one thing you can do. Work in these streets right here in the Court, or…you can work outside the Court. Your choice. Oh and by the way you have to earn it my way."
Her eyes dropped and her face grew quiet. "And what, exactly, is your way?"
His voice laughed now. "Why, stealing of course." He smiled at her and stood up, moving to leave the room. "I'll be right back. Don't go anywhere." Then he walked out, shutting the door behind him.
Christina felt her body go weak and went to the floor. What had she gotten into? Mikey was going to be upset with her now. First she goes wandering into the worst parts of this city, then she gets attacked by some of it's local residents, and last she ends up in debt to the one man who saved her life. All this and she still didn't know where to find her mission objective.
"Good job CC. And for your finishing move lets just go jump out the window, head first just to make it more interesting." Her sarcasm bouncing off the walls and hitting back at her.
Now it was time to work on her thieving skills, with a man she didn't even know.
So ends day one.
