Unexpected Visitors
Jade had just gotten out of the shower, wearing a terry cloth robe as she rushed to answer the door. Her dyed brown hair hung down over her shoulders, making her cold in the slight draft of the apartment. She looked through the peep hole and flattened her back to it, turning around.
Jesus Christ! She swore silently, looking around her apartment in an attempt to find some fesible escape. There wasn't one. After all, she was wearing a bathrobe. The Punisher was knocking on her door, and she was wearing nothing but a bathrobe. Of all the shitty luck... Make i' work, Jade, she told herself, smoothing her hair back and clutching the robe tightly at a spot just above her chest.
"Just a second," she called, nimbly unlocking the door and opening it, leaving only the chain across. "Can I help you?" She inquired, innocently enough, batting her eyelashes. "Hey, you're the guy from the street..." She let a pink smile play on her generous mouth. "How can I help ya?"
"Have you seen an older woman, about 40, with white or gray hair?" Frank asked coldly. His ice blue eyes bore into her, and Jade got the feeling he hadn't bought her Barbara act.
"Uh, no... Wait, there was this one woman, I went down to get my mail and she was standing in the foyer... I didn't recognize her. She was wearing all black with a hat and really ugly sun glasses," she furrowed her brow as she described the "old woman".
"Have you seen her before?"
"Nope... well, she was down there when I came back from class too, after you helped me with my books. Is she alright?" feigning compassion Jade looked at the man, hoping that she could get some sort of glimmer from Frank, after all, when he looked at her he was supposed to be seeing his daughter resurrected.
"Thanks for your help," Frank said looking at her, something reflecting in his eyes besides a general hate for the world and all the filth that it created.
"Hey, wait, is this woman in trouble?" Jade cried after him, trying to catch the large man's attention as he turned around, going to check the other three tenement dwellers.
"Not yet." His only response.