Chapter Three
The Appointment
Riven woke with a start and sat up quickly, sweat running down her beautiful face. She brought her arm to her forehead and wiped it slowly. She looked out the dirty glass of the window and saw the sun just beginning to rise over the horizon, revealing the city as it came to life. Men and women dressed in various types of clothes heading off to do their daily chores or to head to work. She stood up and slid her shirt down her chest and pulled her skirt back into place. Metal clinked as she grabbed her gauntlets from off of the bed side table and slid them over her small but strong hands. She walked towards the door and threw her cloak about her shoulders as she opened the door, walked out and shut it.
The tavern was a little busy, a few men and women were dispersed among an equal number of tables as they slowly ate their breakfasts. Riven caught a wiff of the pleasant smell of eggs and bacon being fried as she walked down the creaky old steps. John was standing at the bar, wiping down the leather arm rest along its length, when he saw her coming down.
"Riven! Good morning!" he exclaimed and tossed his rag to the side. He took a plate of eggs and bacon and put it on the table. "I made this just for you." he smiled and went back to cleaning. Riven smiled faintly and sat at the bar once again. She grabbed a piece of bacon and bit down on it. It was not half bad. She ate the piece quickly. She picked up another and turned to face the other patrons at the inn. Most of them were hairy old men who had just gotten off the night shift at the nearby mine, many of them still had their safety gear on and were too tired to take it off. A few were women who were just as tired as the men for they had also spent the night working. A single woman stood out though, she was wearing a brown jacket and trousers with a patchwork beret atop a head of beautiful red hair. She had a thin, long scar over her left eye. She was drinking ale from a small glass, her eyes shifted down when Riven looked at her. She turned back to her plate.
It took her a few minutes to finish, she tapped her thumb on the table and stood and walked out, John admired her as she went. "Is she a piece of work or not?" he said but he realized that there was no one at the bar and chuckled to himself as he washed her plate. Once his back was turned the mysterious red haired woman also walked out.
Riven pushed her way past the busy streets as she hurried into town. She was here for a reason. She reached downtown and saw looked upon the sheriff's office, a shiny and clean marble building. There was a quite ornate balcony and a woman could be seen drinking from a small, ornate ceramic cup. Riven pushed her way past more people as she made her way inside.
It was bright inside, lit by the mysterious power of electricity. The floors were made of rich tile and the walls were solid granite. She walked forward slowly as she admired the fine potted plants that adorned the hallway. She bumped her foot against a mahogany counter as her mind was adrift and grimaced in pain. A rather unremarkable woman stood at the counter, her name tag said "Helga". Riven shuttered for she had despised the name.
"I uh..." Riven stuttered. The woman was exceptionally unappealing to the eye. "I have an appointment?" The woman looked at her with a lazy eye then looked down at a list written on paper.
"Do ya have an appointment?" she spoke with a thick Piltover accent.
"Yes." she said and looked down.
"Name?" her voice was nasally and almost as ugly as her face which, accompanied with her lazy eye, was very poorly built, her bones stuck out at strange angles around her jaw line and her nose was crooked.
"Riven." Helga looked down at the list.
"No Riven here." she said. Riven swore under her breath.
"Try Bianca Rive." she mumbled. Helga looked into Riven's eyes and then back to the list.
"Room three hundred and seven. That's the third floor, stairs are that-a-way." she pointed to a spiral staircase in an alcove in the wall. Riven, relieved, made way for them. She was still a little simmered up that the appointment had been made in her Noxian name. She climbed up the stairs slowly, watching as the building turned from a luxury hall to a business as she climbed up floors. The third floor was rather empty, only a chair in front of an unoccupied desk in the corner lied in here. Riven looked around cautiously and heard two sets of foot steps coming from a door to her right.
She glanced and saw two women, one small and thin and the other tall and strong, much like Riven herself. Both were heart-stoppingly attractive. The first one, was petite but perfectly proportioned, her curves fitting nicely to her size. She had long brown hair that curled towards the bottom, she wore a dress with a purple bodice and skirt that ended halfway to her knees. Her legs were long, tanned and drew the eyes of men to them like insects to a light. She had small brown eyes, a small nose and a tiny mouth. The other, stood a foot higher than the smaller one, her hair was short and pink, with a few strands that hung stylishly long from the back, the front left side of her hair was dyed white and cropped short. She wore a simple sleeveless white shirt and tight pants made of denim, showing her wide hips and large rear quite easily. She had a tattoo under her left eye that said "Vi". Her eyes were violet. The smaller one had a more elegant type of beauty while the other had a very lustful beauty.
Riven stood and bowed as they approached. "Sheriff Caitlyn, I have come because I received your summons." The smaller one, Caitlyn, smiled.
"Hiya deary," she said "Sit down please! Vi, honey, care to pull up a chair?" She spoke with a strange accent but she radiated happiness. Vi walked back into the room the two had come from a momentarily came back with a small stool. Riven watched as she walked. She heard Caitlyn snap her fingers and she turned back to her, she was grinning.
"That's Vi, isn't she quite a looker?" she said as she herself turned her eyes to watch her walk. Vi simply scoffed and threw down the stool next to Caitlyn and sat.
"Why am I here, Caitlyn?" Riven asked, not impatiently but curiously. Caitlyn leaned back in her reclining chair.
"Ah yes, Bianca I-"
"Riven." she interjected.
"Dear, until you prove otherwise, how do I not know you are still bound to Noxus?" Riven shifted uneasily in her seat.
"I may have a bit of information, but it is only speculation." Riven whispered. Caitlyn leaned in close.
"I love speculation." her voice was suddenly grim.
"I was approached by Darius of Noxus last night, he... he hinted that there may be another war coming soon." Caitlyn began to nervously drummed her fingers against her desk. Suddenly she turned quickly to her left as a blur of red passed by the window.
"Bullocks!" she shouted and ran to the window, she opened it and peered outside but she saw nothing but people going about their business. She closed it.
"It looks like you were tailed, cupcake." Vi said to Riven as she lustily watched Caitlyn at the window. Riven smiled.
"That is a good sign for us." she said. And Vi smiled. Caitlyn was still looking out the window. She stood on her toes causing her skirt to rise a couple of inches and Vi sucked her teeth. Caitlyn giggled.
"You are too easy deary." she said as she came back to her desk. She looked back to Riven and put her long legs on her desk, her heels pointing up in the air. "I sent you here for two reasons, Bia- Riven." she paused a moment and looked at Vi who had put her hand on her thigh, Vi pouted and put her hand back down. "One. Just as you have told me I had a hunch that something was amiss. I was hoping that you'd flush out something, and you did... but it is a little larger than I anticipated..." she trailed off and began drumming her fingers on the desk, Vi looked at her and placed her hand reassuringly on her shoulder.
"It's okay cupcake, we all knew it would happen again sooner or later." Vi whispered as a tear ran down her companions face.
"I-I just want the killing to stop." she whimpered a little, Riven leaned forward.
"So do I. I need you to be strong, right now we are the only three who know of this plot outside of Noxus." She looked towards the window, but it was empty. "Now, please go on." she patted her hand down on Caitlyn's leg softly.
"I also had something to ask you." Caitlyn resumed, "you have indeed broken your connections with Noxus, correct?" Riven nodded "Good, I wanted you to... I would like it if you stayed in Piltover." she looked straight into Riven's shining red eyes.
"Where do I stay?" Riven said and Caitlyn beamed.
"Oh you'll be staying in my home of course! With me and..." she paused and blushed for a moment, Vi too blushed slightly but she cleared her throat and quickly the redness in her face faded away. "Vi and I are lovers. I just want you to know that ahead of time." she whispered. Riven smiled faintly.
"You are not very good at hiding it." she said. Caitlyn scoffed and Vi smiled.
"I am plenty good at it," Caitlyn boasted, "it's just this one who has trouble hiding it." she rammed her elbow softly into Vi's thick thighs. She shrugged.
"I don't see why I've gotta hide it, cupcake." She smiled and lowered her and a little further down from her shoulder. Caitlyn gasped and smacked her hand and Vi laughed.
"If anyone finds out they could use it against me, I could not stand if someone tried to take you from me." She kissed Vi on the cheek softly.
"No one is gonna take me." she cracked her knuckles. Riven stood up and Caitlyn and Vi looked towards her.
"Ah yes, one more thing." Caitlyn pulled a slip of paper from her desk. "this is a voucher to stay at that Tavern for free, Vi and I need to find a place for you to sleep." She smiled. Riven denied the voucher.
"I would not cheat a man of his money, but thank you for the offer. I have some belongings to pack up anyways and I would like to get a drink." she stood and walked back.
"Cheerio!" Caitlyn called out and Vi scoffed.
"You sound so stupid when you say things like that." she jested. Caitlyn shot a quick glare at her and then looked back at Riven who had simply raised her hand in response. She stepped down the stairs and was about halfway down to the second floor when she heard a loud thud. She crept back up the stairs and almost gasped when she saw that Caitlyn was lying flat on her desk and Vi was on top of her, sharing a long hard kiss that seemed to glow with passion. Vi started to slid her hand up Caitlyn's skirt and Riven quickly went back down the stairs.