Los Angeles, Tuesday
Feb. 24th, 2015 07:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spin_kick_snapAfter a week of pollen and then finding out that Minako was Sailor V and Mara Jade was some kind of...knife-wielding badass, Kathy had decided that spending a week with her classmates on a ship was not in the cards. She needed a little time and space to put her confused thoughts into order, to figure out how she felt about who and what, if anything, she wanted to do about it.
Rather than hang around an empty (and frigid) island while everyone else was enjoying Mexico (so much that no one had returned any of herhandwavy texts!), Kathy had decided to head back to LA. Rather than going back to her parents' apartment for the week, Kathy'd rented a tiny motel room where she wouldn't have to worry about rules, curfew, or her family finding out about her late night hobbies. During the day, she could work on her homework and brood be pensive and at night she could be Banzai, too busy leaping over rooftops and chasing down criminals to live inside her own head.
You relax your way, she'd relax hers, all right?
Not that tonight was anything like relaxing. LA was so much bigger than Baltimore, with more crime and, specifically, more violent crime. She'd just finished taking down a mugger when she'd heard gunshots coming from the north. Giving the mugger's collar one last shake, she let him go and ran off as fast as she could towards the guns.
It might be kinda sick, but she loved this.
[And the link to the thread that begins after LJ breaks the page]
Rather than hang around an empty (and frigid) island while everyone else was enjoying Mexico (so much that no one had returned any of her
You relax your way, she'd relax hers, all right?
Not that tonight was anything like relaxing. LA was so much bigger than Baltimore, with more crime and, specifically, more violent crime. She'd just finished taking down a mugger when she'd heard gunshots coming from the north. Giving the mugger's collar one last shake, she let him go and ran off as fast as she could towards the guns.
It might be kinda sick, but she loved this.
[And the link to the thread that begins after LJ breaks the page]
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Date: 2015-02-27 01:58 am (UTC)Getting into the drugstore and getting what she needed turned out to be a lot easier than Kathy had been anticipating, which, conversely, just made her feel worse about the whole thing. She'd caught sight of how ghoulish she looked, liberally covered in Gorgon's blood, and, remembering her classes with Reno and Parker and Eliot, had known what to do.
"Help!" she cried, stumbling into the store. "Please help me!"
The one late-night clerk on duty had done exactly as she'd figured--taken one look at her and immediately focused on the blood. He probably wouldn't be able to pick her face out of a lineup if his life was on the line. It took her seconds to convince him to lead her to the small employee breakroom and to loan her his cellphone. As soon as he did, she dashed out, shutting the door behind her and wedging it shut. "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I swear it's important!" she yelled over her shoulder.
And then proceeded to loot the store thoroughly, careful to keep her face turned away from the cameras, taking everything that she thought might even look useful. She swept through the store within moments, including a quick leap over the pharmacy counter to grab for the penicillin and a bunch of Percosets.
She unwedged the door before she left, adding one more, "I'm really sorry!" for good measure. She also tossed all the cash she had on her onto the corner next to the cash register. Whether the kid would put it in the till or take it as his due for getting robbed by a blood-streaked teenager, she didn't actually care.
God, she was the worst.