...New member Aqueiered Sasha...
"Perfect, from here on out she's your problem now."
"Now believe it or not bet I do have some jobs I had lined up for you two after you did what I wanted you to do, but considering that you don't have to do it anymore, it would be a shame to waste them." the doctor says to us.
I stare at the small sheets of paper that he picks up from a nearby table before handing them to me.
"Waite this doesn't make sense, why do you have to those already, we're not in the human trafficking business.' I say to him.
I watch as he smiles before reaching into his pants pocket and taking out a small mint candy.
"Simple, believe it not but people are talking about the two of you."
"The guy that's always wearing the green tracksuit and the girl that's always wearing the blue." he says to me.
I watch as he bites into the hard candy and judging by how loud the sound was when he finally manages to break it so that he could chew it, I'm surprised that he didn't break his jaw.
"The two of you are known for taking almost any job, no matter how lousy the pay is." he says to me, as he hands me the sheets of paper.
"I've gotta say the rumors were true."
"Neither of you have any chrome augmentations or firearms, and yet the two of you have been able to make a living." he says to me as he walks up to Gloria.
"I'm not gonna lie to you, but your friend is in bad shape. I'm going to have to operate."
"So the money I would have given you is going to be used for the medicine that I'll use on her."
"And no I'm not charging you, otherwise the two of you would owe me for my work."
A small thump catches my attention and as I turn around to see what's going on I see Aqua helping the woman out of the crate that she was in.
"So does she have a name?" I ask the doctor.
"Ask her yourself." the doctor answers me, but before I can say anything.
"It's Sasha." the woman says to me.
"Good with that out of the way, I need all of you to leave, this place has to be clean if I'm going to operate."
"Oh and Kazuma, word of advice the two...the three of you can't keep avoiding the fixers, sooner or later you are going to have to meet with one."
"I mean it, the only reason that the two of you haven't been in contact or forced to meet with one is that you aren't worth their time, but your names are growing." The doctor says to me as he stops talking and points at the door.
As we left the doctor's theater\ office we immediately felt the hot sun on our faces and smelled the unclean air.
"So Sasha since you're going to be with us for a while I'm Kazuma and the one next to you is"
"I'm the Goddess Aqua." Aqua interrupted me and introduced herself to Sasha as she grabbed Sasha's hand and eagerly shook it.
I watched as Sasha smiled at Aqua and returned Aqua's handshake just as eagerly.
"So do you have a place to stay?" I ask her.
"No, I 've been staying with the doctor, so I guess I need to find a place to live." she answers me.
"Greate you can stay with us until you find a place, but I'll tell you now."
"You can either sleep on the couch or sleep in the same bed with me and Aqua." say her and I listen to what I imagine are Sasha's footsteps briefly stop, before they quickly move again until they are right behind me again.
None of us say anything after that, right now the right thing to do is tell Gloria's son where his mom is, then either bring him back or go do one of the jobs that the doctor prepared for us.
I can feel a tingling sensation on the back of my head and it's because no one is targeting us yet that I can't tell where the people that are spying on us are.
The feeling started the moment that we left the doctor's office \ theater so maybe it's the same people that attacked Gloria or they're part of the group that the doctor told us about are after Sasha.
I reach into my pocket and take out my tablet before I begin to type in the addresses of each job until I find the closest one.
"Aqua, we are going to do some of the jobs the doc gave us." I say to Aqua while hoping that she doesn't say anything about my decision.
"Okay." she happily answers me before she stops walking and hands a water bottle to a homeless man that looks sick.
The work that the doctor gave us was nothing but a bunch of errands that people normally don't want to do.
Move trash out of an alley so that the door can finally be opened, clean the balcony of the twelve-floor ceiling, find kids lost\ stolen toys and bring it back to the kid's parents, and so on.
None of the jobs paid a lot but in the end, we had enough to pay the bills and our rent, but not for the week's grocery bill.
As we finally make it back home the first thing that we do is knocked on Gloria's door but no one answers, David is probably out looking for her.
Neither Aqua nor I have the guy's number so we don't have a way of calling him, so we have no choice but to give up for now and try and see him tomorrow.
As we enter our apartment I get an alert telling me that the rent is due, so I reluctantly pay it and I watch as our hard days' pay just goes away.
I don't want to do it but I pay the bills and I can't help but raise my eyebrows when I see that there just enough left to buy some food.
