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Post by dakota on Dec 17, 2009 6:38:04 GMT -5
" Friend? Oh, you're with the big guy? Sorry, second cabin on the left." The guard wasn't looking at Alice, more back towards ringside. He opened the door to let Alice through. When she went into the room indicated, she found Ryne lying on a couch, staring at the wall.
" Uh tink deys drug ged meh."
The young oriental finally settled on Tom when he smiled back. Tom could see he was trying to make a connection between the two. Behind Tom he could hear the same heckler as before. " Come on lady, get over here with your four wheel drive buddy and stop pestering the fighters for autographs!" He could see it came from five guys all wearing FLorida State University football jackets, who were all laughing now.
Sasha heard the same jeers from the crowd. Mario ignored them. " We made a deal when I can to work for you. I stay out of your business and you stay out of mine. This is what I do, Sasha, I just work at the bar between fights to help pay off some bills." He grinned," You didn't think I bought that Porsche out of my tips, did you?"
He glanced over at Avi, who's expression clearly foretold he didn't understand Sasha talking to Mario. " So this is the guy that defended your honor against Jones? I'll try not to hurt him too bad. Nothing you can't take home to nurse back to health." He grinned as he put his mouthguard back in.
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Post by doc on Dec 17, 2009 10:10:05 GMT -5
Tom ignores the comments and focuses on the other man.
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Post by jeflint on Dec 17, 2009 20:12:49 GMT -5
Sasha heard the same jeers from the crowd. Mario ignored them. " We made a deal when I can to work for you. I stay out of your business and you stay out of mine. This is what I do, Sasha, I just work at the bar between fights to help pay off some bills." He grinned," You didn't think I bought that Porsche out of my tips, did you?" He glanced over at Avi, who's expression clearly foretold he didn't understand Sasha talking to Mario. " So this is the guy that defended your honor against Jones? I'll try not to hurt him too bad. Nothing you can't take home to nurse back to health." He grinned as he put his mouthguard back in. “Sorry, Mario,” Sasha says. “I seem to have broken that rule tonight. And for your information I assumed you did it smarter by selling drugs than being beaten on in your off time.” She crosses her arms and fixes Mario with an unfriendly stare. “Remember, Greed may pay your bills but you never want to tick off a Latino Cop with regeneration and flight, Mario.” She looks to Avi and waves moving away from the fighters and back towards the table. “Go Avi,”she yells. “Don’t let Mario scare you.” |
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Post by Mierin on Dec 18, 2009 0:47:27 GMT -5
Alice shakes her head as she walks toward Ryne and asks gently "Are you going to be able to keep fighting? I'm really not sure if it's a good idea."
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Post by dakota on Dec 18, 2009 4:48:19 GMT -5
Ryne forced himself to sit up, the act of moving clearly not easy. " Iv you need me, u'll be reddy." He replied, blinking hard. " Muzd hav ben inn dat wadure dey gave meh."
Avi gave Sasha a wink and a thumbs up as he got ready for the bell to ring. Mario looked at his boss, " You pay the bills. Fighting is putting my kids through college." As she returned to her seat by Tom, the heckler continued, much to the delight of his friends," About time lady. We paid to see a fight, not some sob story from a soap opera."
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Post by doc on Dec 18, 2009 9:34:19 GMT -5
Tom looks at Sasha. "So...how bad a mess are we in exactly?"
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Post by Mierin on Dec 19, 2009 18:22:36 GMT -5
Alice looks uneasy as she shakes her head at Ryne. "I really don't think that's a good idea. You can barely stand up, might less put up much of a fight." She pauses for a second before asking gently, "Why didn't you tell us that your powers get diminished when you aren't on solid ground?"
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Post by dakota on Dec 19, 2009 19:53:31 GMT -5
" Yuh nedded muh hulp." Ryne replied, bracing himself. " Avdur whut I did to muh frienz, I'm gunna doo whutevur id take to redeem muhselv." He nodded exaggeradly.
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Post by jeflint on Dec 20, 2009 9:12:12 GMT -5
Tom looks at Sasha. "So...how bad a mess are we in exactly?" "Do you want a sardonic answer?" She asks looking at him with a straight face. "Or the truth?" |
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Post by doc on Dec 20, 2009 9:51:58 GMT -5
"Either works." Tom replies evenly.
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Post by Mierin on Dec 21, 2009 10:39:15 GMT -5
Alice shakes her head and gently pushes him, knocking him back down to the couch. "I understand that you want to redeem yourself after what happened, but if I can knock you off your feat so easily, how do you expect to be able to give much of a fight? Getting yourself killed won't help anything."
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Post by dakota on Dec 21, 2009 15:37:02 GMT -5
The bell rang, and Avi and Mario began to pound the living hell out of one another, much to the crowd's glee.
Ryne sat back up. " drugz keep muh powurz frum healing meh. I nevur shuld ave felt anythin. wha doo yoo wan meh too doo, hide?" He held his arms wide, wobbly.
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Post by jeflint on Dec 22, 2009 20:45:02 GMT -5
"Well I gather Avi is far to young to realize the situtation he is," Sasha stated evenly. "Mario is a professional fighter, he works at my bar to paid his pay check." She fixed Tom with a steely gaze. "I asked Mario not to kill Avi for I have no doubts that is where this fight is going to go. Sadly this now means if we close this bar I am depriving of a good man and his family the income he needs to survive."
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Post by Mierin on Dec 23, 2009 11:28:37 GMT -5
Alice shakes her head quietly at Ryne as she replies "I'm not saying hide, but can you really fight effectively in the condition that you are in? Obviously they drugged you on purpose so you would lose the fight."
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Post by dakota on Dec 26, 2009 23:20:03 GMT -5
Avi was holding his own in the ring until Mario managed to get him off his feet. It didn't take long before Mario had him in a choke hold, but Avi was refusing to give in. The crowd was erupting into excitement.
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" I'm steel moor than mozt culd handul, Aliz." Ryne replied with a grin. " Yoo ned me, call." He tapped the band-adio behind his ear
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