Chapter twelve: Tricks of the trade
Eve walked into her home smiling to herself as she set her prize carefully on the table. She made her way to the kitchen grabbing the business card off the counter. She had back a fit of joy as she picked up her phone and dialed the number.
"William, I have some good news for you. I have the necklace right here…yes I did get it tonight…yes I'm sure…what do you mean?...That's impossible…no, no that's impossible I have it right here. I held it in my hands, I saw it with my own eyes…this is real…no William I would never…you can trust me. How long have I been selling to you?...And everything has been real I would never try to sell you a fake William…I…But William…no please just…"
A dial tone could be heard over the phone. Eve slammed the phone on the counter and ran to the table where the necklace lay. She retched off the cloth and held the necklace in her hands. Everything looked to be in order, she looked at it closely. Her eyes combed over every inch and over the pendant dangling at the end. She held the pendant in her hand and examined it closer, her face contorted with anger and she threw the necklace into the wall.
"Some of a bitch!"
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"Mr. Murex it was a pleasure doing business with you." Kim said cheerfully. After the man in front of her ended his phone call.
"Please call me William." The man said shaking Kim's hand. Shego sat patiently next to Kim eyeing the duffle bag on the table in front of them. Kim and William stood.
"I'm sure I will be doing business with you very soon miss Possible." William said staring down Shego as she remained seated. She hadn't said a word throughout the entire transaction. Suddenly she stood up and grabbed the bag off the table.
"She certainly will." Shego said with a wicked smile before walking out of the room with Kim in tow.
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Scotland…
"Good new Ron, I got the name of our mystery woman. Anastasia Lardo." Wade said with a triumphant smile as he dropped a file on the desk.
"All right Wade!" Ron proclaimed snatching up the file and flipping through it excitedly.
"She is twenty six years old, born in a small town in Greece. Her criminal history is like a book up until five years ago."
"What happened five years ago?"
"I don't know it's like she disappeared off the face of the earth. There's no criminal history, no known jobs, credit card use, no activity what so ever."
"So what your saying is we hit a dead end."
"No, no, no. I didn't saw a thing about a dead end, there's no record of her death. No missing persons report, this one is wide open."
"So what do we do now?"
"We go to London."
"Okay…why London?"
"That's where her last known address."
"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go."
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Kim and Shego sat atop the roof of the building overlooking Eve's pent house. Shego sat in the gravel against the edge flipping through a magazine. Kim sat straddling the edge looking down at Eve's window. She could see the woman moving around her home; it looked as though she was planning her next move.
"How can you read that when it's so dark out here?" Kim asked as she pulled out her camera and began to change the lens.
"That comet gave me more than green skin and plasma Kimmie." Shego replied in an airy tone.
"So what you're nocturnal?" Kim asked as she aimed the camera at Eve's window.
"No I'm not nocturnal. I just have very good nocturnal eye sight." Shego said turning another page and scoffing at Kim's assumption.
"Oh Eve you were always such a dumb girl." Kim said to herself as she began to snap pictures.
"Why do you say that?" Shego asked pulling herself from her reading and looking over the edge at the window.
"She always left important things out in the open." Kim said in an exhausted tone.
"I guess this is the only time you'll ever benefit from her stupidity." Shego said returning to her reading.
"You're right." Kim replied snapping the last photo. "We have what we need. Let's go."
"What are we beat her ass in this time?" Shego asked rolling up her magazine and shoving it in her back pocket. Kim was already at the door to the stairwell.
"Would you get the door please?"
Shego placed a plasma lit hand on the door knob, a liquid white heat slipped between her fingers and onto the gravel roof top. Moments later Shego pushed the door open and gestured for Kim to go through.
"Such a gentlemen."
(AN: OK people last chapter for a while I'm going on vacation be back and writing in a week or two depeneding on my mood and if the surf is any good.)