A quiet buzzing noise awoke Robin the next morning. She rolled around under her black covers then poped her head out and pulled the convers up to her neck. Her hair was down and her eyes half open. She reached foward and grabed her phone off the night stand next to her bed. She pushed the talk button and before she could put it up to her ear a screen flashed on and Micheal Lee's face flashed on it. "Robin? G'Morning. we need you in work. Lets see its...5:15am, be here in 20 minutes. You remember how to get here? Amon's not picking you up. Make haste." Michael clicked off the phone and Robin fell back into her bed. Never in her life had she ever been up that early.
"G'Morning Robin." A gilr with long brown hair said as she siped coffee from the couch in the small appartment livingroom. "G'morning Touko." Robin said as she pulled on her black jumper over her black dress. "Your up early. Usually I'm the only one in Tokyo up at this hour. Me and my co-workers." Touko joked. "Yeah, I wish I was still sleeping." Robin smiled as she jumped around on one foor trying to put her boots on. "Oh, Robin, your copy of the appartment key is on the table next to the door. Don't lose it okay? Also when you get home tonight, tell the doorman you need your picture taken for the appartment ID. It's the appartment rules. You'll recieve an ID card on a keychain, you attach your key to that and any other keys you may have." Touko finished her coffee and turned off the TV. Robin grabed her key and put it inside her trench coat pocket. She stood next to the door and looked into the small mirror hanging on the wall. With quick hand motions, she hand her hair up in the handel bar pig tails. She grabed her coat, said good bye to Touko and ran out the door.
She said good morning to the morning doorman and ran down the street. "Espresso. I need espresso. I can't function without it." Robin laughed to herself as she rounded the corner. She looked at the cell phone and the time on the phone face said she had a good ten minutes to kill. "I'm so not in the mood for making good impressions on my first official day." robin smiled and walked down the street casually. The sun was just starting to come up and it was casting a beautiful rainbow sunrise reflection on all the windows that lined the street. Nothing was opened yet, it was only 5:30am. As Robin got closer to Raven's flat, she noticed a small dinner across the street from Raven's flat that had it's lights on and some people inside. She crossed the street and walked over to it. On the window was the name 'Harry's'. Robin figured this must be the place Kosaka was teling her about. It was quite small and only had a few customers. She desided to try it out.
Inside, was a long counter with a few stationary stools. Against the larg windows were about a total of five booths. The man behind the counter was cleaning a glass and was wearing all black. He looked to be in his late 40's and had a sweet smile on his face. There was another man sitting at the counter and he had his back to the door. He too, was in all black. The other coustomers sat in booths. Three of them were her co-workers Karasuma, Sakaki and Dojima whom sat together left of the door, eating a small breakfest and drinking coffee. To the right, Robin saw a man, about 30, with brown hair gelled back and he had a very gotty fur coat leaning over the back of his booth. He had his back to Robin also. "G'morning Robin. see you've heard of Harry's too?" Came Dojima's voice. Robin nodded and smiled. She was still tired and in need of a caffeine fix. Behind the counter, Robin saw a menu. As she apporched the counter, she read quickly and found under hot beveraged 'espresso'. She smiled slightly and sat down two stools away from the other man. "Hello dear. Welcome to my diner. I'm Harry. Can I get you something?" The man smiled and continued to clean the glass. "Hi, um...I'd like a plain espresso please." Robin smiled and Harry turned his back to start making the espresso. "Here you are. It's on the house to new coustomers." Harry smiled politly and. "Thank you." Robin sipped her espresso quietly and smiled to herself. It had been almost 24 hours since she'd had a good cup of hot espresso. The stuff on the plan just didn't cut it. The man next to her checked his watch and stood up. "Thank you Harry." The man put down some money then turned to leave. As he turned, Robin saw that it was none other then Amon. "Good day Amon. Till tomorrow." Harry picked up the money and smiled and amon exited the diner and walked across the street to Raven's flat.
"Hey, Robin," Dojima said as she approched her. "Don't be late, got two minutes to get to work." Dojima started to leave. "Like you should talk Dojima. your always late." Karasuma pointed out. robin finished her espresso, savoring every drop. "Thank you Harry." Robin put the cup down and followed Sakaki and Karasuma out of the diner. "Good day. Till tomorrow." Harry smiled and cleaned up the plates and cups.
"G'morning Michael." Dojima said as she walked into the office. "Wow. Your here on time." Michael smiled and bit down on a donut. Robin turned from Michael and smiled, he looked so much like her friend, and now he acted it too. "G'morning." Robin said as she walked past michael and over to her station. "Morning." Micheal replied.
The day went quietly. When Zaizen came in, he called Amon back into his office. After five m inutes of quite listening, Amon emerged and the others went quickly back to work. "Understood sir." Amon said as he put what looked like a credit card into his pocket. He headed twoards the exit. "Robin, lets go." Amon headed down to his car. Robin obayed and quickly followed. "Whats wrong?" She asked as they drove down the street. "Zaizen had contacted Solomon o your preformance yesturday and Solomon thinks he knows why your aim was off. He's having your eyes checked." Amon said nothing the rest of the way. They pulled up to a building and went inside. Amon told Robin to sit and he went up to the window. He handed the lady the card Zaizen gave him and imedietly, Robin was called into the office before others that were there before her. After waiting 30 minutes, Robin exited the room and walked back over to where Amon was sitting in the corner. "Well?" Amon asked coldly. "I need to wait." Robin replied and sat down, one seat down from him. "Sena, Robin." The nurse called 30 minutes later and Robin went to her. "The doctor says you need glasses, the frame selections are over here." The nurse led Robin behind the desk and into a small room where there were a bunch of different frames of different sizes. The frames were acculy basically the same. All black frames and they were about 1/4 inch thick. Robin looked at the womans frames and found a pair that was small and arched. she pointed at them and the nurse picked them up and fitted the lenses to the frames. "Instructions are to use these when looking at something far away or when trying to focus on something more then five feet in front of you." The nurse handed Robin the glasses and Robin looked into the mirror provided. She didn't like wearing glasses, but at least she managed to pick a one-of-a-kind pair that fit her new look.
On the way back to Raven's flat, Robin kept fiddling with the glasses in her lap. "You need to wear them. If you lose them, you'll have to replace them with your own money. Solomon Hedquarters paid for the first pair, and should your eye sight change SHQ will pay for the next appointment and new lenses." Amon spoke coldly and drove swiftly to Raven's flat.
At Raven's flat, Robin got out and was greated by Kosaka. "Robin-chan," Kosaka came walking out holding a paper. Amon rolled his eyes, like he did every time Kosaka called Robin that. "You got a delivery." He handed her the paper. After a quick readover of the paper, Robin ran inside where she found a Vespa with a red bow on it. The paper said it was a delivery from Italy and her best friends sent it to her so she can still have fun. It was white and on the bow was a letter.
'Hey Robin. Enjoy your new Vespa. It was gonna be a birthday gift but it didn't arrive until after you left, a little late for your birthday, but thats the company's fault. It was backordered. So enjoy it and don't forget to write. Send pictures! your friends, Kat, Val and Mikey'
Amon stood behind Robin as she took the bow off the Vespa and put it into her pocket, the same one with the photograph. The key was in the ignition and she put that in the pocket with her appartment key. She smiled and rolled the Vespa outside. "You can park it down the alley, it's a deadend alley, so just park it infront of the other's cars." Kosaka said. "Oh, this also came." He handed her a white helmet. Robin thanked him and wheeled her Vespa out to the alley.
Up in the office, Robin sat at her computer typing away doing...nothing. It was a boring day. When she thought no one was looking, she logged onto her fan sight and looked up fotage from her so called 'Farewell Concert'. There was no footage, as she expected, but there was a picture. A colored picture of ther stage she weas suppost to sing on with all the lights lit and fireworks going. A small briefing as to why Robin didn't sing that night was writting my Mikey. Robin read it and felt a little depressed. She logged onto the message boards on her site and read some of the messages. She knew better then to type, so she just read. Her fans were all saddened by her dissappearence. They wished her well and hoped to see her preform again soon. As she was about to scan the gallery, Michael tapped her on the shoulder. "I wouldn't do that if I wee you. If Amon or Zaizen caught you. You'll be in a big trouble. I like to surf the web too, but I save it until after hours. If you want, you can chill out after hours andsurf, I don't mind." Michael smiled and robin smiled back, quickly closing the internet down.
That night, Robin left with everyone else, but returned with box of donuts. "Ah, she returns. and she brings gifts." Michael laughed as Robin but the donuts on the desk next to Michael. Michael and Robin ate the donuts and surffed the web quietly. Michael wen and got some coffee around 9pm from the break room and Robin phoned Touko, just to tell her shed be running late. "Not to pry, but whats with the necklace." Robin asked Michael around 10:30pm. Michael and Robin were both taking a break from surfing and Michael was hanging near the window. "It's a dog collar. I'm like a prisoner of the STN-J." Michael replied. "A prisoner?" Robin asked curiously. "I was always good with computers, ever since I was young. I loved hacking into programs just for the fun. Not to steal stuff, but just fo the thrill of entering someplace I wasn't supost to belong." Michael looked out the window at the streetlights and took a sip of his coffee.
"Well one day I hacked into a system and couldn't backout. Before I knew it, people with high priced guns were at my door. They gave me a choice. Join them, or die. So I guess you could say, I traded my freedom for my life." Michael streched and threw his cup away. "I'm sorry. I didn't..." Robin started. "It's okay, everyone here knows, it was only a matter of time before you found out. I rather I tell you then someone else. That way I know your getting the truth." Michael smiled. "It's getting late, I better go." Robin logged off her computer and grabbed her jacket. "See you tomorrow Michael. Good night." Robin left the room. "Good night Robin." Michael replied as the door closed. He watched her walk down the dark street, from the window. When she turned the corner three blocks down, he shut off the lights, turned on the mandatory nightlight in the breakroom and main room, used his computer to automaticaly lock all doors and windows, did one last security scan of the building then went downstairs to the bedroom that was now his home.
