Chapter 12 – Collisions
Shadow looked herself over in the mirror of the new two-bed room she and Tyana had moved into within the hotel and laughed. "I look ridiculous" she called, still chuckling, "come out, I wanna see how you look"
Tyana called back through the bathroom door, "I'll be two seconds, these stockings are a nightmare"
Shadow chuckled at her new friend and then stared at her reflection for a while longer as she took herself in. Her legs were practically bare in a short black mini skirt with slits up each side but her navel was covered in a strapped, red, low cut top. She had a long black jacket to go on over the top but at this point in time it was lying lazily on her bed, where her thin black heels also lay. The pink haired beauty ambled back over to her bed and perched on it as she pulled on the heels, buckling them up delicately. Satisfied that she looked attractive enough she sat patiently waiting for Tyana to enter. A minute later Tyana threw one slender leg out of the bathroom room, kicking it and then leaning it up against the wall, causing Shadow to laugh as she watched the girl appear limb by limb. They both burst out laughing when Tyana finally appeared fully in front of the pink girl and ground her behind to the floor and back up.
"Think I'm gonna get him hot and bothered?" she asked, making Shadow laugh again.
"Most definitely. How's about me? Am I dressed the part?" Shadow got to her feet and struck a pose, grinning. Tyana giggled and nodded,
"You bet, we're gonna pull this off no problem!" Tyana gushed confidently as she pulled on a pair of black stilettos that matched the black wig she was wearing for sakes of misled identification. She noticed Shadow had forgotten her wig and so threw a blonde one at her, making the woman groan when she realized she'd have to go bleach for the evening. Shadow pulled it on while Tyana gazed quickly into the mirror. A turquoise mid-thigh skirt with two disgracefully large slits—in case they got into trouble and she needed to kick someone—and a black top that plunged right down to below her breasts in a triangle neckline. Topped off with shiny black stockings and she looked the perfect vision of sex on legs—without class.
Tyana laughed at her reflection then turned to Shadow shaking her head, "I can't believe men actually go for this shit."
Shadow agreed, "I know, I mean, come off it, we look like they say suck and we say how h—"
"—Shadow!" Tyana shrieked, laughing at the vulgarity of what she was about to say.
Shadow just grinned and shrugged, "Oh you know that's what he'll be thinking" Laughing, Tyana shook her head at the girl that was now blonde and grabbed the smallest communicator she had. She slipped it into the hand bag she had purchased especially for this mission and then closed the secret apartment in which she hid it in. Then she slipped in another device that she and Shadow had made that day; with the instructions of their Guiders. They were ready to leave.
"Ok, let's go" Tyana suggested, taking the lead in leaving the room. Shadow followed her closely, feeling the discomfort of having a knife tapped to her stomach carefully below her top. She sucked it up; what was a bit of discomfort for safety, ey? The girls hopped into the elevator then rode down in silence, thinking about what they had been instructed to do by both of their Guiders. They walked out into the lobby with unmistakable confidence in both of their strides and then headed to the desk to hand over their keys for the night, so not to lose them while they were out on this daily task. Just as they turned to leave the hotel Shadow slammed into a hard, toned chest. She didn't stumble back though, even though she was wearing a pair of atrociously high heels, and instead the person she slammed into reached out to make sure she didn't stagger backwards.
"I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going" the person in front of her apologized sweetly.
Shadow dismissed it with the wave of her hand, looking the tall, dark and handsome stranger up and down. She knew who this man was; it was hard not to when for so long he and his brother had been loved fanatically in her home realm while The Witnessing had been up and running. Matt Hardy. Under normal circumstances she would have stayed to flirt, being that flirting was in her nature, but she had somewhere to go and someone to see so she just accepted his apology and then glanced over her shoulder to look for Tyana who was bending over, re-buckling her stilettos. It was then that she noticed another familiar figure near by, standing a little ways away from Tyana in fact; staring intently as if he thought he knew her but couldn't place her face. Jeff Hardy. Now was not the time she decided, knowing Tyana had had a slight thing with the man that was studying her. So she called "Come on, we gotta go" Tyana looked up at the remark and her mouth dropped slack at the sight of Matt. Luckily Shadow pulled her out of the hotel before she could even notice her love standing just behind her.
"What did you do that for? If Matt's here then Jeff must be" Tyana asked, trying to find her pace as Shadow continued to pull her down the dark streets away from the hotel.
"Ty, we don't have time. I'm sorry but if you want to re-kindle anything then it's to be done later. As of now, we are on a mission" She let go of the black-wigged girl's arm and continued to walk on with purpose in her stride. Tyana silently agreed and then her stride took up the same form as her friend's as they sauntered down the pavement with a clear destination in mind. They were on their way.
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Jeff watched the girl with black hair get dragged out of the hotel with a creased brow. He swore he knew her, her body seemed so familiar. But where could he have met someone like that? She dressed so provocatively, walked so confidently. He voiced his concerns to his brother who was standing a few paces in front of him, watching the girls disappear also.
"Is it me or do I know the chick with the dark hair?"
Matt looked away from the now swinging hotel doors and at his brother who looked serious, "It's you." He dismissed his brother's curious glances back at the door as strange behavior, possibly linked to his oddly unexplained ill-health, and walked over to the desk to hand in his keys for the night.
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Tyana and Shadow straightened out their skirts and then looked up at the house in front of them.
"You're certain this is the place?" Shadow whispered to Tyana who had now taken back all control since she had forced her mind off the subject of Jeff.
"This is the address Bret gave us. This is the place alright. Now come on, before R.J shows up" Tyana knocked on the door and waited for the answer. It creaked open a crack to reveal eyes peeking at them. Then, obviously intrigued by what they saw, the person behind the wooden door opened it wider and there in front of the women stood a tall, blonde man of an acceptable age, around 30. Tyana smiled with charm and batted her eyelashes,
"Clem Rogers I presume?"
He looked her up and down and then did the same with Shadow, and with a smile answered her, "Who're you?"
"Felicia Griffin, R.J sent us"
"He never told me he was sending anyone over"
"It's an emergency; he didn't have time to contact you, had some business to see to; it seems someone betrayed this mission to the 'good' scum from the other side. He sent us to take care of some new details he came across"
Clem seemed to be thinking it over, unsure as to whether the women were genuine. After all he had never before seen or heard of a Felicia Griffin, of whom he would be sure to know if she was indeed tied up with R.J in some way or another. But she seemed to know her stuff. He tested her. "Who was the traitor?" If she got the name of the most suspicious person of the group wrong then he would know she wasn't on his side. And not only would Felicia, but her little silent friend too, would be dead in a second.
The woman of black hair smiled smugly, "Jackson Flail. But you have to admit, we've know he's a dodgy bastard ever since it was decided to re-vamp our little project" Clem looked at her calmly, all traces of suspicion gone as it was apparent she was in fact one of them. "You gonna invite us in or what?"
He opened the door dutifully and then watched both girls sway inside, checking out the view as they went. If they were involved with R.J then they were nothing but forbidden fruit; but he always found that things you weren't supposed to have gave you such a thrill. He grinned at them and closed the door behind them all "Who's the chick without the voice then?"
Shadow snorted a little and took up a very confident and demanding position, "Lilly fields, no joke, laugh and I'll break your face." She glared.
He only smiled, "Cute, fiery, I like that" Shadow, or Lilly as she was now known, glared. Clem decided Felicia was far easier to deal with; less attitude. So he turned to her and addressed his inquiries only to her. "So what's this emergency all about? I thought everything was going smoothly" He gestured for them to follow him into the lounge and they did so casually while subtly taking a good look around to keep an eye out for any possible volts, desk or cubby holes in which there could be documents of vital information.
"Like I said, Jackson squealed on the project. So we're checking out all our other, well, members. That and I got a vital message to rely."
"Which is?" he settled on a leather couch and threw his arms back across it, stretched out and relaxed.
Felicia/Tyana snorted, "No way, first, we double check your ass, then, and only then, do you get information"
"Sounds fair. How're you gonna check me though?" Both girls broke into a grin.
"I need to see your license. Then we quiz you. Then…well" Tyana's grin broadened, making him shudder in anticipated pleasure when she lowered her voice so that it was husky, "you'll just have to wait and see"
"Right, no problem" He got up and walked over to a painting. He stuck two fingers behind it and probed about until he pulled out a small card and a document. He crossed back over the room and handed them to Tyana, only then realizing Shadow was glancing at him with shining eyes, biting her lip. He could hardly blame her, he was frailing gorgeous; and he knew it. He stared back at the pretty blonde for a moment, watching her closely as she licked her lips while she drank him in, unaware that Tyana was committing every detail of his license to memory. When she was done she handed it back to him with a smile,
"All fine there. Show me your documentation,"
"What documentation?"
"For the mission, as well as computer info, I need to check nothing has been copied"
"How can you tell?"
She grinned, "It's a skill, that's why I'm here. Come on, I don't got all night, I still got other people to check ya know"
He nodded and led her into the study where all the info was kept and then removed papers and disks from a volt. Tyana took the disks from him and got out a device from her handbag. "What's that?" he asked protectively as she began to run it over the disks, copying their contents. She was beginning to get sick of all his damn questions. If he was gonna keep getting worried about who they were then he shouldn't have let them in to begin with. It was too damn late now.
"Its new technology, checks to see if it's been copied or downloaded more than the permitted amount of times" she lied, noticing that Shadow was smiling from behind him at how stupid this man was. She did the same to the documents. He seemed satisfied that the device was doing what she said it was. Loser.
They had all the information they wanted so Tyana told him she was satisfied that he was in the project for good and told 'Lilly' that they should move on to the next member on the list. Clem followed them to the door, asking if they couldn't stay awhile, obviously enjoying their company—or more so their outfits. Shadow pouted for him,
"Sorry Clem, R.J is man enough for us both. See ya" she patted his face cheekily and then they left. When they were an approving distance down the street they burst out laughing. "I cannot believe he fell for that crock, what an idiot. And he didn't even ask what the vital info was! If everyone on the Project is as gullible and hormone driven as that fool then it'll be a synch putting a stop to the re-boost" They laughed all the way back to the hotel where they collected their room key and jumped into an elevator. Tyana pulled her wig off on the ride up then bounced out of the elevator.
"There's something you should know about me" she exclaimed at the still blonde woman.
Shadow began to walk down the hall, "what's that?"
"When I come back from a mission, if I'm not exhausted I'm hyper"
Shadow laughed, "Consider me warned" and then unlocked the door to their room and walked inside. Tyana pulled off her heels and did a few flips in the hallway to burn off some of her excited energy, feeling that it had been so long since she had been on a mini mission. She loved the sense of accomplishment. She dropped her wig as she flipped though and so when she was done trying to tire herself out she dashed back to it to pick it up, hearing the ting of the elevator doors opening as she straightened up with the wig in her hand. And there down the hallway a known man strolled out of the lift alone, but stopped dead in his tracks when he saw the girl with turquoise hair standing in front of him.
Tyana's jaw dropped, "Jeff"
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*A/N* Ok, I like these next two chapters *squeal* but I won't post them just yet. A chapter a day sweetie, lol. Shadow, thank you for reviewing honey, you're the only one that does now days! And you're fantastic. *sings 1000 miles before laughing evilly*
