the capture
Sep. 12th, 2013 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Bella is, uncharacteristically, home alone; Andi is over at Robin's, and Renée is visiting a friend of hers in the hospital, though she could be home relatively soon depending on how much the two get caught up in conversation.
Bella is memorizing the map of Phoenix.
Bella is memorizing the map of Phoenix.
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:07 pm (UTC)Twice.
Three times.
Four five six—
Then it stops.
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:14 pm (UTC)He thrusts the box in her general direction and croaks, "Caaa...aaaaake..."
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:15 pm (UTC)Bella takes the box. She puts it on the kitchen table.
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:21 pm (UTC)The hammer is over there, next to the scissors and the batteries. Behind him. Near the fridge. Bella picks up something that could conceivably need refrigeration. She goes in that direction. She opens the fridge to cover the noise of -
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:22 pm (UTC)She hefts the hammer.
She gives Trouble one double-checking glance.
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:25 pm (UTC)She brings the hammer down on his spine, just below the neck, as hard as she can.
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:31 pm (UTC)Trouble yelps and drops his tart. And slowly slumps forward onto the table.
"What the—the hell!"
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:33 pm (UTC)"I'll give you two minutes to crawl out of there or I crack his skull, peel you out myself, and have a new test subject for my interesting notions of chemical warfare. They won't be pleasant minutes; feel free to get out quicker. Start morphing and I'll kill you both if I have to."
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:36 pm (UTC)He whimpers.
Not in the way that Trouble might whimper, if confronted with Bella offering to give him two very unpleasant minutes with a hammer.
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:38 pm (UTC)She's seen Ethan do this. She knows Trouble can take it.
She just doesn't think this is Trouble.
She brings the hammer down on his shoulder.
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:40 pm (UTC)"Don't, Bella, please—"
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:41 pm (UTC)Other shoulder.
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:51 pm (UTC)And then his whole face twitches, and relaxes abruptly.
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:56 pm (UTC)And indeed, there is something greenish-grey and slimy starting to emerge from his left ear.
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Date: 2013-09-12 08:57 pm (UTC)When the slug has emerged, she picks it up, puts it in a mixing bowl, and fills it with water.
Only when she has done this does she slump against the counter and -
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