Emma spit into her hand and rubbed the dirt from her skinned knees. Wow, Sunshine, she thought, your in big trouble now.
"What are we gonna do wit her?" asked Smirks.
"Fiddle, Malice" yelled Spot.
"Yeah" said Fiddle.
"Go to Manhattan and tell Kelly we got his ray of Sunshine" said Spot "And we was jus wonderin how much she's worth"
Emma looked over at the group. So that's the infamous Spot Conlon, she thought to herself. He sat on top of a table, his dirty blond hair flopping in his eyes, his feet tucked under him. He reminded her of the tigers in the books she used to read in the orphanage, Beautiful, graceful and incredibly dangerous.
"Hey, anyone got a cigarette?" she asked.
"Here kid" said Smirks.
El Dorado paced the floor of the LH.
"El? Stop doin that!" yelled Chipper.
"Yeah, ya drivin me nuts" replied Hades.
"Sorry, I'se jus worried" said El Dorado "Ya shoah none of you goils have seen Sunshine?"
"Not since lunch" replied Spin "Ya should tell Jack"
El Dorado scuffed her toe on the dirty floor.
"Yeah, I guess"
Jack sat in the lobby of the LH counting his money from the days sale.
"Tell 'im" hissed Stress as she came up with El Dorado treading behind her.
"Tell me what?" he asked wrapping his arms around Stress.
"Sunshines missin" muttered El Dorado.
"What?!"
"Sunshine's missin"
Jack's heart sank to the pit of his stomach, and he was soon overcome by the memories of the day he had lost another girl who meant the world to him.
"Where's Rae?" asked Jack.
Rae Kelly was his best friend, the one he always knew he could count on for anything. Whether it be advice or a good swift kick in the ass when needed.
"I dunno" said Blink "Have'nt seen 'er since lunch"
Stress wrapped her arm around his shoulder.
"Don't worry Love" she whispered "I'm shoah Rae's all right"
But Rae hadn't been all right, her body had washed up on shore two days later. Malice Jackson had been the last to see her, the former couple had been seen fighting on the docks. Spot had defended Malice and it had caused a rift between the two bouroughs that had been unreperable. Since then Territory issues and problem with fights had kept the two leaders who had been friends once as mortal enemies.
"Howdy boys" said Fiddle as he and Malice walked up the LH steps "Kloppman"
"What da hell are you doin here?" asked Specs.
"Got a message for ya boss, from ours" said Malice.
"So da almighty Spot is to good ta deliver his own messages" asked Dutchy.
"Well, yeah" replied Malice grinning.
"Tell us da message, we'll make shoah he gits it" said Pie Eater.
"No, sorry" said Fiddle "Dis is one I'm shoah Kelly'll wanna hear 'im self"
"What is it O' Hare?" asked Jack coming out.
"We got ya Sunshine, and Spot was jus wonderin what she was worth to ya" said Fiddle.
Spot looked over at Emma, she was valiantly trying to stop her knees from bleeding. Smirks kicked her pretty hard he thought.
"Here" he said coming to sit next to her "Lemme see"
Emma looked at him, her eyes filling with suspscion. She then shrugged and laid a thin leg across Spot's lap.
"Yeah, ya got some splintas in ya knee" he said "Lemme git a needle an I'll git it out"
"Why are ya bein so nice to me?" she asked.
"I'm a newsy not a killer" he thought.
He turned around and looked at her.
"Why did ya come 'ere?" he asked.
"Curiosity" she replied blushing.
Emma smiled when she saw Spot's beautiful blue eyes sparkle with confusion.
"What do ya mean?" he asked.
"I Aint from around here" she said "Me and my brudda hadn't seen each udda since we were kids, When I turned 16 I ran away from the orphanage and came looking for him"