"Rikku? Rikku where are you?" I couldn't see. Where was I? Who was calling my name? It sounded so close and familiar. A boy. "Rik…" the voice cried out before being cut short. I heard a loud thud and incoming footsteps.

"Hello Rikku." Another voice.

"Aaaaaah!"

"What the hell Rikku?" I heard Paine say in an exasperated voice. "Why are you screaming at… 5:55 in the morning! Oh damn, we completely overslept. Get up, get up, get up! We have to go! Rikku why are you just lying there? Get up! Damn it!"

"Paine," I moaned stretching, "why?"

"We're meeting and old friend, come on. We don't have time, I'll explain later."

"Who is this person and why wasn't I told we were meeting him? Or is it a girl?"

"Neither," she pulled her boot on and started heading for the door.

"Neither? Hey, wait, give me a second." I dressed as quickly as I could and caught up with Paine who had started trekking off. "Damn Paine, why don't you ever wait?"

"Because, this is more important than you. And yes, neither. You'll see when we get there."

"So what you have a plan?"

"Why do you think I didn't come down here with you? I was making plans. I think ahead unlike some of us. If I wasn't here, you'd be screwed."

"Yeah, yeah, whatever. So c'mon who we gonna get?" I was skipping with glee now.

"Stop that, and I'll tell you."

"Hmph… fine."

"Well right now we are going to get some nice guns. You know, Leblanc is risking her life to deliver them today?"

"Really, why?"

"Oh some prostitution and murder scam, I'm not too sure of the details. But, after we meet her here in Moonflow, we head for Luca. Why you ask. Because I got a little tip that someone is proposing to little miss Shelinda tonight. And well, we can't let that happen can we?"

"Ok, sounds good. So when is Leblanc supposed to be…"

"Well," I heard that bitch tone, "it is about time. Do you have any idea just how long I've been waiting?"

"Oh shut up Leblanc," chimed Paine as if they were the best of friends. Wonder where that came from.

"Paine dear, you kept me in this heat for too long. Now my hair is frizzy from all this… blech… humidity. And I'm sweating, ew."

"Sorry, sorry. So do you have the guns?"

"Would I be standing here if I didn't?"

"Guess not."

"Give them to me!" I cried.

"Well, first I expect my payment."

"Payment?" Paine and I asked together.

"What, you think I've stood out here for a quarter of an hour and then not be paid for my services? Yeah right, like hell. So I was thinking around, hmm, 99,999 gil."

"WHAT! YOU WANT THAT MUCH?" I thought Paine would have a heart attack.

"But of course dear. Don't you know what I had to go through to get these babies?"

"Well, can we pay you in something else?" I suggested.

"Something else like what? Like… oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not into that with women."

"What? No, no not like that. That's just gross. Like, maybe favors?"

"So, a murder?"

"Or two."

"Ok, ok, that would be good. Ok look, over in Luca there are three people who saw me kill that guy for…"

"Why'd you kill that guy?"

"As I was saying, I kind of you know, slept with him and he didn't give me the full pay so, I shot him…twice…in the head. But anyway, I'll give you some pictures and you can take them out too."

"Ok, sounds fun," I guess Paine calmed down knowing we didn't have to pay in cash.

"Ok, well then I'll go get them," Leblanc said as she strode away. She came back a minute later pulling a wagon with the must absurd looking guns I had ever seen. They looked like a shotgun only on the back was a giant sphere full of something blue that was apparently speeding around very quickly. I guessed it was something unstable, oh well Paine knew what they were. "Oh right, here are those profiles you owe me."

"I see," said Paine reaching out and taking the pictures from Leblanc, "so we just kill them?" Leblanc nodded. "Sounds easy."

"Let me see them," I said as Paine was just keeping the pictures to herself. "No fair, I wanna see."

"Just hold on." She finally handed them over.

I made close observations of each of them. A girl, another girl, and… "No," I whispered more to myself.

"What?"

"Huh? Oh, nothing. Its nothing," I said this with a shiver as I let the picture of my angel drift to the ground.