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Summer vacation elapses, and sees their storefront doing one heck of a business in the Avalon with the help of their griffin employee. There is a suggestion box for new spells they should invent, some of which have to be long-term projects but others of which are converted into new product fairly promptly.
School starts up again. Darren and Bella are both skipping straight into twelfth grade. (Bella looked into just starting college early, but while she does technically have the sort of resume that can lead to that kind of thing, she can't exactly write an essay about how she saved the life of another person and this caused her to have Moral Character, let alone about how she started a small business - so skipping one grade it is.)
They apply to colleges. They both get into University of Washington and get sufficient scholarships to accommodate both going there.
Summer ensues again.
One afternoon, Bella is over at Darren's, and has fallen asleep - in purring fullform - across his lap on the couch.
School starts up again. Darren and Bella are both skipping straight into twelfth grade. (Bella looked into just starting college early, but while she does technically have the sort of resume that can lead to that kind of thing, she can't exactly write an essay about how she saved the life of another person and this caused her to have Moral Character, let alone about how she started a small business - so skipping one grade it is.)
They apply to colleges. They both get into University of Washington and get sufficient scholarships to accommodate both going there.
Summer ensues again.
One afternoon, Bella is over at Darren's, and has fallen asleep - in purring fullform - across his lap on the couch.
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Date: 2014-07-12 06:40 am (UTC)"I DON'T KNOW - I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING - AAAAAAAAUNGH -"
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Date: 2014-07-12 06:45 am (UTC)The people that took her want to keep Bella alive, if they want to know things from her. The twins can do more good if they get a good grasp of the situation instead of going in proverbial guns blazing. Savannah's aware of this. She hisses her explanation of it to Darren, under her breath.
"And then," she finishes, still in a murmur, "once we have a good position, we kill them all."
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Date: 2014-07-12 06:50 am (UTC)"Fine," growls Darren, after a pause, sounding like he hates the word.
Back to investigating. Someone in charge, they need someone in charge. Someone to stop Bella's torture.
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Date: 2014-07-12 06:52 am (UTC)Here is a whistling fellow in a business suit with a coffee mug approaching the coffee machine.
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Date: 2014-07-12 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-12 06:55 am (UTC)"I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING! WHAT DO YOU WANT?!"
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Date: 2014-07-12 06:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-12 06:58 am (UTC)The spell's so no one will hear the fellow scream.
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:00 am (UTC)Savannah releases their held hand, waits for Darren to be finished with the spell, and then, after it goes - the fellow is tackled to the ground.
"Hello," purrs Savannah, into his ear. "We have some questions for you."
She's invisible, but he gets to feel the knife, at his neck. Look at it, so sharp. So insistently at his neck.
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:01 am (UTC)"Wh-what? Who's...?"
Meanwhile: loud jagged sobbing.
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-12 07:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-12 07:06 am (UTC)"M- no, I can't -" the gentleman in the suit says, struggling, trying to feel around for the invisible knife and pull it away from his neck.
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:11 am (UTC)"You can't? Are you sure? Because I can always ask your, hmmmm..." She slams the offending hand into the ground with her palm, knife threatening the pinky finger. "Talkative pinky finger, here. Look at it, pretty, isn't it?"
Does she draw blood? Oh yes, oh yes she does.
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:12 am (UTC)And screaming and screaming and screaming -
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-07-12 07:17 am (UTC)(But not as loudly as the sphinx.)
He doesn't talk.
She starts a panicked gabble through what sounds like it has to be the hundredth time of saying she thinks it was her mom, she thinks her mom didn't know, she doesn't have any aunts or uncles or live grandparents, she thinks that side of the family is some combination of English and possibly Swiss but not for generations and she doesn't know she doesn't know she doesn't know.
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:20 am (UTC)"This is taking too long," growls Darren. "Invisibility's about up. She's in pain, we can't just -"
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:21 am (UTC)"I have another idea," says Savannah, quietly. "Hey, man in suit. Last chance to squeal, or bad things happen."
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:21 am (UTC)"No," Bella sobs. "No no no please -"
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:23 am (UTC)And then she slices his throat wide open.
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:24 am (UTC)She turns the man over, to be face up, probably still spluttering. Good thing Savannah's not squeamish.
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:25 am (UTC)And now Bella's howling again.
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Date: 2014-07-12 07:26 am (UTC)They both turn visible.
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