Like a hell family.
Chapter 2: In the street.
She made her way towards the common room, for see how many peoples were there, but actually she wasn't worried about the beds because nowadays there were less and less young people who came for sleep inside it. She heard somebody knocking on the door. She watched her watch:
- "They're lucky, ten minutes before the closing time!"
She walked to the door and opened it letting catch a glimpse of two young peoples, eighteen or nineteen years, a boy and a girl.
- "We're sorry Ann we come limit but we've waited Jimbo but he didn't come." said the boy.
- "Yeah, luckily it's not the closing time and I have free beds." retorted Ann.
She pushed herself for let them enter and shut the door in back of them. The two kids moved forward looking around when the girl said:
- "There are not much people tonight."
- "No, since two weeks, there are some regulars who misses" sighed Ann, "well, they probably left the city it's not like they can call here their house."
But that was her house, but Ann knew, all the teens who came in her shelter was just passing here, even if they stay, one week, one month, or one year, they can go away at any moment, it's for that she refused to attach to the people even if that was difficult and if that obliged her to be alone. Anyway, it's not like the life's given her the choice. No, here, she was the boss, she was obliged to be fair and harsh, and even if she knew that the life was hard for her kids and the thing that they really need was love, but she was not here for that. She was not their mom. But she listened to them and took them seriously.
When they coming in her refuge for take shelter from cold or rain, she watched through the window the shadows moving and she knew that outside there were more than cold or rain.
It's why she had established a curfew enough early. She didn't want that the young people who didn't have a family, a house, be used for be a "happy meal" for vampires or whoever other demons. The vampires, she could talk about, she wanted to be one of them, there is a long time, in an other life, and she's moved on since that.
- "It's weird, I mean, you know Jimbo, he's not the kind of guy who stands somebody up" said the boy worried.
- "Yeah, he's not the kind of guy whose we can entrust our soul or our wallet" told Ann to him realistic.
- "Come on! It's fishy! Everybody clears off. Dont know, there was this girl in the streets that I saw from time to time, even her scrammed, I said to ya this town gonna be an old people town" said the girl masticating her chewing gum and winding it up around her finger.
- "I think it's a good thing, I hope they came back home, 'cause when you have a family it's always better than the streets" said Ann looking at the boy.
- "That depends at which side you are" replied the boy, Glenn.
He was a boy tall, brown hair, slender but sturdy. Ann knew him since he was in town that made about ten months. Apparently he came from Seattle but Ann was sure that was not where his parents lived. He went away a day, like that and like a lot others. Ann discussed with him often, she liked him, she took the liberty to break the rules for him because he seemed different, more mature, more serious and when she tried to ask him why he leaved his house he didn't want answer, avoid the subject.
That could be everything, sexual abuse, ill- treatment, death in the family etc... Ann knew that all the kids who came in the hostel get stuck a bad childhood. Even her.
- "Come on! You can install yourself, you know the house, so do like usual" she said smiling to Glenn who sent back her smile.
- "Thanks Ann. What we could do without you?" he said.
- "I even don't dare imagined" Ann retorted amused.
Glenn kissed her in her cheek and went over the common room his friend following closely. Ann looked them moved away, laughing lowly but still concerned by Jimbo's absence and of the other too. It's right that they could be left that arrived often but with all she knew about the "obscure side" she couldn't stop herself to think about the worst.
- "Well, it's not all that but I have to plunge in the fabulous story of the accounts" she said jokingly for encourage herself when somebody knocked on the door again. She watched her watch.
- "Ah! No! It's too late." She opened the door with an icy face ready for send back the person who came for ask her help. She knew that every time that she sent back one in the night, she may sent him to his death but they have to respect the rules or they never gonna get out of their shit.
She opened the door. Her face passed to icy at happy in one minute when she saw who was here.
- "Gunn!!" She rushed into him and hugged him. "I'm happy to see you!"
- "Well, so let me go in, and I know it's a little too late but I'm just here for see a friend"
She looked at him and pulled him inside by his sweater. She shut the door again. Then she watched him suspiciously.
- "You, you have something to ask me" she said.
- "Yeah, I know I should have called before but I was on patrol around here..."
- "You have started to patrol here again, it's good! I mean it's reassuring. Come on sit down!"
He followed her in her office/bedroom and sat down on the bed; she took a chair and sat in front of him.
- "You don't look good." She said concerned.
- "Im a little tired, with the patrols and Angel Investigation...."
- "Ah! How is Angel?"
- "Alright. Actually he has some problems with his teen son, but it's not to you I gonna teach that the teenagers it's madcap."
- "Since when vampires can have kids? Since when vampires can have kids who grow up faster than the speed of son?" confused.
- "Well..recently" answered Gunn not very convinced
- "And this girl, Cordelia, with who you're in love, oh! And this guy who got shot?" she was curious and that wasn't her type.
- "Well, Cordelia's not my girl, she's ok and with Angel or almost, me I was with Fred. Wes is good but he didn't work with us anymore, he helps us to time to time, but he has his own cases now. So everybody work on his side..."
- "I was?" interrupted him.
- "I was what?"
- "You said you WERE with Fred, so it's over now?"
Gunn took a big breathe.
- "yeah, there was a bad stuff between us something I did, and then with the beast and the end of the world that didn't help for our reconciliation"
- "Ah! So I see why you start to patrol again, it's the only thing you never found for pass your frustrations, but it's not a little bit dangerous alone, isn't it?"
- "It's alright I've got experience and sometimes Angel's son comes with me"
- "The son of a vampire, I wonder how he is."
- "Well, he doesn't have an ugly face with big teeth, he's normal, small, thin, we never believe when we see him that he can break a vampire in half. Otherwise, how are you?" said Gunn touching her chin friendly.
- "Good, nothing had change, except some of my kids went away, it's hard and they're not the kind of people who would call you or send you a card"
- "Oh! It's precisely what I wanted to talk to you" said seriously Gunn, he took a picture in his jacket's pocket and gave it to Ann.
- "have you seen this boy hangs around? He disappeared there're two weeks ago. His parents think about a fugue but the police have nothing so they called us"
She took the picture and looked at it attentively.
- "No, that says nothing to me, and with the few people I have here since two weeks I would have seen him" she took up the picture, "I can keep it, I will show it to the kids, in case if they saw him in the streets."
- "Sure" nodded Gunn.
- "I'll call you if I have something"
- "you're the best" said Gunn smiling.
- "Yeah, and it's 'cause Im the best that I invite you for the dinner"
- "At this time."
- "It's just 10:30 and you must be hungry after your patrol"
- "Anyway I cant say no" said Gunn winking at her.
- "And me it's a good reason for don't do my accounts"
Gunn got up and sat at the table quickly rejoined by Ann with plates and all.....
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There were dark. That made two days he was here, in this fucking place. He was hungry and afraid. He wondered if his friends gonna search him but probably no. They gonna think that he gets smashed out of his mind and clear off with some junkie. He was not alone here, there was a girl probably a hooker 'cause of her clothes and a guy who had got withdrawal symptoms, probably at crack it was the STUFF in the streets nowadays. So, he wondered why this guys had kidnapped them, certainly not for ask a ransom, who would pay it? He laughed in his head when suddenly the door opened releasing the light of the neon tube in the corridor that burned his eyes. A man approached to him and caught the boy by his arm almost carrying him. Jimbo allowed himself to be pulled by the man outside paralysed by with fear.
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T.B.C...
Chapter 2: In the street.
She made her way towards the common room, for see how many peoples were there, but actually she wasn't worried about the beds because nowadays there were less and less young people who came for sleep inside it. She heard somebody knocking on the door. She watched her watch:
- "They're lucky, ten minutes before the closing time!"
She walked to the door and opened it letting catch a glimpse of two young peoples, eighteen or nineteen years, a boy and a girl.
- "We're sorry Ann we come limit but we've waited Jimbo but he didn't come." said the boy.
- "Yeah, luckily it's not the closing time and I have free beds." retorted Ann.
She pushed herself for let them enter and shut the door in back of them. The two kids moved forward looking around when the girl said:
- "There are not much people tonight."
- "No, since two weeks, there are some regulars who misses" sighed Ann, "well, they probably left the city it's not like they can call here their house."
But that was her house, but Ann knew, all the teens who came in her shelter was just passing here, even if they stay, one week, one month, or one year, they can go away at any moment, it's for that she refused to attach to the people even if that was difficult and if that obliged her to be alone. Anyway, it's not like the life's given her the choice. No, here, she was the boss, she was obliged to be fair and harsh, and even if she knew that the life was hard for her kids and the thing that they really need was love, but she was not here for that. She was not their mom. But she listened to them and took them seriously.
When they coming in her refuge for take shelter from cold or rain, she watched through the window the shadows moving and she knew that outside there were more than cold or rain.
It's why she had established a curfew enough early. She didn't want that the young people who didn't have a family, a house, be used for be a "happy meal" for vampires or whoever other demons. The vampires, she could talk about, she wanted to be one of them, there is a long time, in an other life, and she's moved on since that.
- "It's weird, I mean, you know Jimbo, he's not the kind of guy who stands somebody up" said the boy worried.
- "Yeah, he's not the kind of guy whose we can entrust our soul or our wallet" told Ann to him realistic.
- "Come on! It's fishy! Everybody clears off. Dont know, there was this girl in the streets that I saw from time to time, even her scrammed, I said to ya this town gonna be an old people town" said the girl masticating her chewing gum and winding it up around her finger.
- "I think it's a good thing, I hope they came back home, 'cause when you have a family it's always better than the streets" said Ann looking at the boy.
- "That depends at which side you are" replied the boy, Glenn.
He was a boy tall, brown hair, slender but sturdy. Ann knew him since he was in town that made about ten months. Apparently he came from Seattle but Ann was sure that was not where his parents lived. He went away a day, like that and like a lot others. Ann discussed with him often, she liked him, she took the liberty to break the rules for him because he seemed different, more mature, more serious and when she tried to ask him why he leaved his house he didn't want answer, avoid the subject.
That could be everything, sexual abuse, ill- treatment, death in the family etc... Ann knew that all the kids who came in the hostel get stuck a bad childhood. Even her.
- "Come on! You can install yourself, you know the house, so do like usual" she said smiling to Glenn who sent back her smile.
- "Thanks Ann. What we could do without you?" he said.
- "I even don't dare imagined" Ann retorted amused.
Glenn kissed her in her cheek and went over the common room his friend following closely. Ann looked them moved away, laughing lowly but still concerned by Jimbo's absence and of the other too. It's right that they could be left that arrived often but with all she knew about the "obscure side" she couldn't stop herself to think about the worst.
- "Well, it's not all that but I have to plunge in the fabulous story of the accounts" she said jokingly for encourage herself when somebody knocked on the door again. She watched her watch.
- "Ah! No! It's too late." She opened the door with an icy face ready for send back the person who came for ask her help. She knew that every time that she sent back one in the night, she may sent him to his death but they have to respect the rules or they never gonna get out of their shit.
She opened the door. Her face passed to icy at happy in one minute when she saw who was here.
- "Gunn!!" She rushed into him and hugged him. "I'm happy to see you!"
- "Well, so let me go in, and I know it's a little too late but I'm just here for see a friend"
She looked at him and pulled him inside by his sweater. She shut the door again. Then she watched him suspiciously.
- "You, you have something to ask me" she said.
- "Yeah, I know I should have called before but I was on patrol around here..."
- "You have started to patrol here again, it's good! I mean it's reassuring. Come on sit down!"
He followed her in her office/bedroom and sat down on the bed; she took a chair and sat in front of him.
- "You don't look good." She said concerned.
- "Im a little tired, with the patrols and Angel Investigation...."
- "Ah! How is Angel?"
- "Alright. Actually he has some problems with his teen son, but it's not to you I gonna teach that the teenagers it's madcap."
- "Since when vampires can have kids? Since when vampires can have kids who grow up faster than the speed of son?" confused.
- "Well..recently" answered Gunn not very convinced
- "And this girl, Cordelia, with who you're in love, oh! And this guy who got shot?" she was curious and that wasn't her type.
- "Well, Cordelia's not my girl, she's ok and with Angel or almost, me I was with Fred. Wes is good but he didn't work with us anymore, he helps us to time to time, but he has his own cases now. So everybody work on his side..."
- "I was?" interrupted him.
- "I was what?"
- "You said you WERE with Fred, so it's over now?"
Gunn took a big breathe.
- "yeah, there was a bad stuff between us something I did, and then with the beast and the end of the world that didn't help for our reconciliation"
- "Ah! So I see why you start to patrol again, it's the only thing you never found for pass your frustrations, but it's not a little bit dangerous alone, isn't it?"
- "It's alright I've got experience and sometimes Angel's son comes with me"
- "The son of a vampire, I wonder how he is."
- "Well, he doesn't have an ugly face with big teeth, he's normal, small, thin, we never believe when we see him that he can break a vampire in half. Otherwise, how are you?" said Gunn touching her chin friendly.
- "Good, nothing had change, except some of my kids went away, it's hard and they're not the kind of people who would call you or send you a card"
- "Oh! It's precisely what I wanted to talk to you" said seriously Gunn, he took a picture in his jacket's pocket and gave it to Ann.
- "have you seen this boy hangs around? He disappeared there're two weeks ago. His parents think about a fugue but the police have nothing so they called us"
She took the picture and looked at it attentively.
- "No, that says nothing to me, and with the few people I have here since two weeks I would have seen him" she took up the picture, "I can keep it, I will show it to the kids, in case if they saw him in the streets."
- "Sure" nodded Gunn.
- "I'll call you if I have something"
- "you're the best" said Gunn smiling.
- "Yeah, and it's 'cause Im the best that I invite you for the dinner"
- "At this time."
- "It's just 10:30 and you must be hungry after your patrol"
- "Anyway I cant say no" said Gunn winking at her.
- "And me it's a good reason for don't do my accounts"
Gunn got up and sat at the table quickly rejoined by Ann with plates and all.....
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There were dark. That made two days he was here, in this fucking place. He was hungry and afraid. He wondered if his friends gonna search him but probably no. They gonna think that he gets smashed out of his mind and clear off with some junkie. He was not alone here, there was a girl probably a hooker 'cause of her clothes and a guy who had got withdrawal symptoms, probably at crack it was the STUFF in the streets nowadays. So, he wondered why this guys had kidnapped them, certainly not for ask a ransom, who would pay it? He laughed in his head when suddenly the door opened releasing the light of the neon tube in the corridor that burned his eyes. A man approached to him and caught the boy by his arm almost carrying him. Jimbo allowed himself to be pulled by the man outside paralysed by with fear.
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T.B.C...