Kundiman had made it back into the client's yacht with little effort considering the hot guy in the jetty was generous enough to help her back onto the deck. She smiled, blew him a kiss and gave him Noelle's number instead of hers to make him stop asking questions. Of course, she was used to men's brains short circuiting when she smiled at them so this was not a surprise. She waved one last time before turning to find Nick nose to nose with another man.

She tilted her head and walked towards them. "Nick? Whatever this man said, I swear I didn't sleep with him so you don't have to fight him for me. And Mister, I understand your need to own me but now just isn't the time. We're in the middle of sushi gathering." she smiled at both of them then shoved the bottled mermaid flesh towards Nick. "I don't want to carry raw anything around anymore so you hold on to this while I call and see what's up with my entourage. I was gonna ask Ri to find out what kind of fish is that but then I realized what would she compare it with? It's not as if we have a sushi databank or whatever they call records now." she sashayed away with that and was headed straight to her room, to wash mermaid flesh essence off her hands when the faint sound of a gunshot caught her attention. She paused halfway down, her hand closing on the wooden railing of the stairs.

She frowned at the sound and then shrugged and went to her room. She went straight to the sink and washed her hands clean. She reapplied sunscreen, her skin didn't like the sun too much and there was nothing more horrible than being red and peeling. She shuddered before whipping up her phone and dialling Ri's number. It wasn't connecting. She walked out of the room and dialled Seth's number instead. It began ringing. She would ask him why on Earth they were making such a racket--

"You! There's been a security breech! You're agency is as inefficient as it seemed!" Donna Morgan was bearing down on her. Kundiman's eyes rounded. The woman seemed extremely agitated. Self preservation took over and she backed away from the crazed woman.

"I'm not part of the security!" she said. "I'm just the girlfriend!" she cried then began starting up the stairs towards the deck, with more people, more saviors and more people to block her from the crazy woman. "It's their job to protect you from outside threats, not inside ones!" she said then breathed a sigh of relief when they cleared the stairs. Where the hell was everybody? It wasn't nice to knock out the client but she would do it if it meant saving herself.

"Do you know what we lost? Those vials are promised to important people! We're missing one and it's all your fault!" the woman launged at her. Kundiman squealed. Client or not, she wouldn't let herself be injured by anyone. She moved out of the way and would have run if the woman didn't grab her hair and pull.

She acted on instinct. No one can just yank her hair and get away with it. She reached around with her right hand then grabbed a fist full of hair and yanked harder. She grabbed the woman's pinky and pried manicured hands off her hair. She turned around, pushed the woman away and added a kick for good measure. Her flip flop clad foot didn't do as much damage as a stilhetto would but perhaps that was a good thing. She assumed another fighting stance and wondered at why the woman wasn't attacking anymore.

"Nick! Croix! Izumi!" she called out. She looked around and noticed that it was almost past sunset. "Nick!" She began again and walked gingerly back towards the stairs where the client might have fallen. She bit her lips at the sight of blood on the railing, almost where her hand had been earlier.

She hear familiar footsteps behind her. "Oh God... I think I killed the client!" she whispered, thinking of the pay she had lost... then thinking it was almost worth it considering the damage the woman almost caused. She patted her hair as she peered around to see how badly the woman looked. The woman was lying on her back, her left shoulder angled rather awkwardly. There was also an ugly gash on her forehead. She looked really dead to Kundiman.

Kundiman gave a startled gasp when she saw the woman on the foot of the stairs... sit up jerkily and then look up at her. "You bitch!" she cried angrily then the gash on her forehead began healing.

"I guess that is proof that they did eat Ariel." someone behind her said.

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...some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill them...