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Saturday, August 18th, 2018
New York City, New York

@rivaan The man looked over his shoulder as Claire suddenly went in for the chase after him, the elderly lady was helped up to her feet by Claire's partner. "I'll be right with you boss." He said over the radio to help out his partner, he escorted the woman into the car so that she wouldn't be able to leave and would let her out the moment that they got back. The man was running as fast as he could turning down an intersection and then down an alleyway he had just made it to the other end as the lights turned green. Leaving Claire in the dust, it would be a few seconds before the lights turned red he was a lot further from Claire now at this point.

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Saturday, August 18th, 2018
Seattle, Washington

@BlueSky44@FantasyChic Quinn would easily get the response from Olivia right away from her text, and she would be fine with it. Quinn would end up disappearing again, leaving the siblings alone by themselves once more. Quinn would find herself back where she had been seated as well.

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Olivia rolled her eyes and shook her head a bit, she really did not like Scott now either. "Well I have no clue how to fight or anything like that. I've never killed anyone either as well, but think what you will of me." She said crossing her arms over her chest letting out an annoyed sigh. She then felt her phone vibrate once more as she looked down at it was a text from Quinn, it was surprising to actually find out that she found two more. Olivia then looked up at Scott, raising an eyebrow towards his statement which was a little bit unsettling for her.

"Now that makes me trust you even less." Olivia said, just as she had said that she disappeared again out of Scott's apartment and back into her own. Olivia looked down at her phone once more and started to send in a rather quick text to Quinn as well, she leaned herself up against the counter of her kitchen. 'I just met a guy like us as well, I didn't give him my number it felt like he was an asshole.' Olivia hit send.

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"Sure thing." Riley said towards Amelia as she let her go and do her own shopping, as she followed her for a little bit Riley watched as her friend Fumiko turned and headed over to the register to talk with the cashier there. Seeing her flirting with the guy as the two of them talked. Riley turned and headed down another small aisle that was there, and looked up at some of the stuff that they had on display were some paints and brushes as well. Riley thought about buying something for Amelia as well, but decided not to Amelia knew what she would need anyway.

"I'll be over by the checkout once your done Amelia." Riley said towards her as she turned and headed over towards the front desk as she leaned herself up against the counter watching her flirt with the guy. He did feel a little bit awkward as the flirting happened and Riley smiled a little bit. "Having fun there?" Riley asked Fumiko.

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Emmie looked at Adalene and gave her a bit of a smile and nodded. "I certainly don't mind." Emmie said as she finished eating the small bag of M&Ms she had stolen and threw them out in the trashcan nearby. She then would hold out her hand towards Adalene once she took her hand Emmie closed her eyes again as they were transported to Central Park. Both of them landing on a bench overlooking one of the ponds that were in the park.

Emmie looked around and smiled a little bit as she felt more relaxed now that she was in the park. "What now?" Emmie asked, she was happy to just be at the park now she didn't mind doing something that she wanted. "Your probably hungry or something after vomiting, we could get some food or something if you'd like." Emmie suggested.

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As the twins bickered about whatever it was they were talking about, Quinn felt herself transport back. As soon as she opened her eyes, she was back in the restaurant, seated where she had been previously. No one around her seemed to freak out at her appearing. So Quinn took notes. It seemed that whenever she was transported, she was invisible to others besides those like herself with powers. She also didn't seem to physically disappear. It was more like her essense left. Her spirit? Her mind? Either way, her physical body remained. What it did, she did not know, but no one was giving her funny looks.

She read the text from Olivia and texted back. "I teleported back. Deduced some information about how these teleportations work. Wanna meet to compare notes?" Quinn was eager to share the information she learned from the twins. Plus, she realized she never gave them her own number.

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From the many things Claire dislike, one was a stupid person trying to escape from being arrested. Resisting arrest was like admitting that you have a crime of some sort. He tried to run away for crying out loud and this was clear he had reasons to not be caught. A person who didn't have what to hide and be worried about, wouldn't be running with all his might as this stupid guy. What's more, did he expect they wouldn't catch him? Where can he go hide? Even if he did give her the slip right now, they will put a bolo on his stupid ass and he'd be found eventually.

Still as he ran through the intersection, Claire threw a glance at the traffic lights and just as she reached the intersection they turned green and the flood of cars rushed in. She silently cursed and sighed before turning around and running back to where they started from." Lost him... bastard was lucky." She sighed as she told her partner what exactly had happened. She then quickly pulled hte radio and called dispatch to inform them of the situation. That she had tried to attempt an arrest and that the man fled the scene after she told him his rights and that he escaped on that intersection. She hten told them the adress to dispatch someone to keep an eye here just in case he returns later." Hey does he have any family or friends or a place of his own in town?" She asked the girlfriend. Chances were good he'd try to go at one of such places to lay low or grab money to flee the city or something.

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Amelia was feeling both happy and not happy at the same god damned time. As everone else she liked gifts and recieving a gift from a friend was a good thing, but she also didn't like the fact that she was relying on Riley for this. She was already living with Riley and truth be told, Amelia was quite sure that even if she gave all her salary to her roommate, she wouldn't be able to cover her part of the rent and then there was the part with the living expenses. It was not fun for her...knowing she was being a weight.' Maybe I should try to find a better job...?' She asked herself as she browsed the different types of art supplies.

'But what sort of work can I do? I haven't finished my studies quite yet...' She wasn't sure what to do. The job at cleaning the motel wasn't really paying too well and going around town in the dead of night for her night shifts was scary now. Then again she wasn't good when it came to interacting with people so that limited a lot of the possible jobs. While she was trying to think of something, she found a good sketchbook she could use, one that wasn't overly pricey and also chose a new pencil to go along with it. With that in hand she moved back to the cashregister where Riley and Fumiko were." I'm done." Amelia said quietly as she put the two things she decided on the counter.

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Adalene stumbled for a second after being teleported, stepping down from the bench before she could fall over. She sat down, next to Emmie and asked, a bit of surprise in her voice, "Is it really safe to teleport in public like this?" She knew it was New York, and people have probably seen apparently weirder things, but somewhere like Central Park was bounded to be crawling with tourists. Tourists who, if they saw, would almost certainly ask questions, or draw more attention to them than they wanted.

Adalene, however, did nod vigorously at Emmie's question of food. "Food. For sure." She said. After that, the paranoid part of her thought it wouldn't be a good idea to stick around in the same place. It was still a very reasonable line of thinking to her, that if there was apparently an FBI agent connected to this, the bureau as a whole might know. Popping into existence in very public places would not be a good way to keep on the low. "I'm in the mood for Mexican, you?" She pulled out her phone, and started looking for nearby places to eat.

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Scott continued to stare at Olivia, wishing that she'd just disappear - and then she did. He was alone again in his apartment and he let out a huffy breath. He didn't care that Olivia didn't trust him and he grabbed his glass of water, the glass shattering in his hand as he gripped it too tightly. As much as he didn't want to give a fuck about any of this, he didn't want that little girl to get hurt. "God fucking damn it..." Scott muttered. He ran some hot water over his hand and grabbed a towel, before he grabbed his phone and dialed Janelle's number.

He hoped that she answered and not her annoying brother. But at any rate, the least he could do is tell the blind sweetheart that someone was apparently trying to kill their kind. He hated think of that - their kind. It felt incredibly othering and contrary to the truth - that the universe was getting bored and decided to spice things up a bit in their lives. His telekinesis wasn't a gift or a curse - it just was. "Janelle? It's Scott. You're in danger, kiddo," he said into the phone.

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Fumiko seemed to have the cashier right where she wanted him. She could tell by his glances and the clearly interested way he spoke to her. Whenever Riley walked up, Fumiko turned towards her friends and gave a slight smile. "Always." She said in response before turning her attention back to the cashier and continuing to chat him up. This continued until Amelia arrived, when Fumiko decided it was time to cut it off and bid farewell to her new friend. "I'll be outside, ladies. See ya." She said before blowing a kiss to the cashier and heading outside.

Standing in the sunlight, Fumiko pushed down her sunglasses and leaned on the wall next to the door. Pulling out her phone she started scrolling through her calendar to figure out what she was supposed to be doing next. It seemed she had a couple of days before her next scheduled event. Maybe Jimmy had thought of her enough to give her time with Riley? He was always such a sweetheart that way. As she quietly waited, Fumiko also then started look up what stores were around. Deciding where she wanted to go shop, and hopefully later drag her two friends out the bars.

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Jason wasn't too surprised when Quinn just disappeared randomly, though it was a little weird. He figured that might have been what it looked like to Cynthia when they had disappeared randomly after popping up at her office. Well, at least they had some sort of an idea of what was going on. He knew that they needed to talk to the woman who Quinn had given them the number for, she probably could tell them more.

Not hearing Quinn's voice anymore was the proof that she was no longer there. It was times like these where she really wished that she could see, since it made it difficult for her to tell if someone was even still in the room. "So, guessing she's gone then," she said when she heard her phone ring. She did have an older phone that was designed to allow her to use it without any sort of help, and she walked over and answered it, "Hello?" she said.

"Whose on the phone?" Jason asked, walking over to stand by her. Janelle held up her hand to stop him from talking while she listened to whoever it was and he let out a sigh. He wasn't really too thrilled to be silenced so quickly like that, and rolled his eyes slightly at her, knowing perfectly well that she couldn't see him. Mainly, he was just curious as to who would be calling them right now.

Janelle's facial expression changed slightly, to a more concerned one as she listened to Scott's words. She already knew that they were in trouble, but she didn't know what else to do about it, so she decided to be honest with him about it. "...Does this have to do with that murderer whose running around killing people who have powers? We just watched the news... Someone just died in a very similar way here in the Seattle area..." she said softly.

"Whose on the phone?"

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Saturday, August 18th, 2018
New York City, New York

@rivaan The guy ended up giving Claire the finger, before running further away and out of sight for now he managed to get away for the time being. Claire's partner was about halfway to her when she gave up and headed back towards their car, rubbing the back of his neck and sighed slightly. The dispatcher on the radio acknowledged it and would send a few people to keep an eye out from time to time, and put an APB on him as well. "Better luck next time I guess?" He asked awkwardly as he followed Claire back to their squad car, as Claire's partner opened up the car the woman stepped out, looking over at Claire for a moment and shook her head. "He has some family and friends outside of the city as far as I know." She answered Claire, she would also receive a text from Olivia.

@FantasyChic "Is there anything else we can get you ma'am?" As one of the employees walked over towards her, the shop seemed to have gotten a little bit more busy as they enjoyed their meal and coffee for a bit. She would be able to receive Olivia's text, rather quickly as well. There was a rather loud kid throwing a temper tantrum in the middle of the restaurant as well, no older than five maybe a bit younger than that in the table next to her. The mother was a bit stressed trying her best to calm the kid down, but other than that the restaurant was pretty calm for now.

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Seattle, Washington

@BlueSky44 There still hasn't much been going on at their house right now it is still fairly quiet as well, the phone connection is a little bit choppy but they would still be able to hear clearly.

@Morose Scott would recive a text on the phone from one of his buddies, seeing if he was interested in doing a job, he would also recive the same amount of static as well on his end but they were able to talk easily.

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Olivia walked over once she had finished putting away her groceries and sat down on the couch just as she felt her phone going off Olivia pulled out her phone again looking down at it seeing it was a text from Quinn. 'Sure, sounds like a plan. Also had the same experience as well just now. Did you want my address to my apartment? Or meet back at the lab if you'd prefer?' Olivia hit send as she turned on the TV and leaned back looking up the news to see what was going on in the news as well.

She started to think about Claire, she really hadn't talked to her at all yet today as she took her phone again and started to send a text to her cop buddy as well. 'Hey, whats up? I had the weird experience thing again like how we met.' Olivia hit send, as she started to feel a little bit hungry and got out of her couch, making her way over towards the fridge again pulling out a pizza she had ordered a few days ago. She set it down and started to cook it up in the microwave while occasionally watching the TV as well.

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Riley looked over towards Amelia and gave her a friendly smile seeing that she got what she needed seeing the two things she had bought wondering why she didn't get some more things. But Riley didn't think to much on it as Riley quickly took out her wallet and handed over her credit card. "Wont take that long." Riley said towards Fumiko as she watched her friend heading outside, as Riley turned to look back at Amelia. She took the bag and handed it over towards her friend, as she slipped the credit card back into her pocket. "Shall we go outside?" Riley asked.

While Fumiko stood there outside she would see a few rather expensive clothing stores that were just across from the street they were very high end stuff and nice looking clothes as well. And there was also a pizza place just next to the store as well, then Fumiko would hear the door as Riley came out looking over at her friend. "So where to now?" Riley asked Fumiko since it was her turn to look now for whatever shopping she wanted to.

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"Sometimes I can control where I land, while others not so much." Emmie said giving a slight shrug, she had teleported out of stores before but there weren't people around. Maybe it was caught on camera somewhere she didn't really know as Emmie leaned forward slightly looking over at the park. Emmie adjusted her shirt a little bit as she looked at some of the food stands that were there, biting her bottom lip and then looked over at Adalene when she answered her question.

"Mexican works well for me." Emmie said as she stood up and offered a hand to help Adalene up to her feet once more. Adalene would be able to get a hit on her phone there was a Mexican restaurant not to far from them. "So, do you think there are other people like us out there?" Emmie asked, she had met a few but she wasn't sure how many more there were exactly.

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Adalene gave a look of surprise over to Emmie. "I'm sure of it." She said, nodding. "No idea why this is happening in the first place, but I know we aren't unique." She set up her phone to direct her to where she needed to go. "I told you that somebody else had shown up randomly in my apartment before you, right?" She thought she had, but honestly she wouldn't be surprised if she had kept that to herself. It'd been an insane couple of weeks, and that was probably the most normal things to have happened to her so far. "I'm a bit surprised we haven't seen anybody else, almost makes me think it was caused by something." She said quietly.

She didn't know how to fit the pieces together, and that pissed her off more than anything really. Detective work wasn't her strong suit, and she didn't want that to be the thing to royally screw her over in the end. She kept close to Emmie as they walked, not wanting to get separated from her in the city for many reasons, not the least of which was the fact that she was her ride back home. Right now though, she looked forward to getting out of Central Park. While it sounded nice to start, tourists were not her favorite thing in the world.

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“Bah... don't talk to me about luck. Traffic light changed to red just after he passed the street. Like the moment I was about to step on it and the bastard actually gave me the finger...” She growled in mild irritation. She was not a happy cop right now. She quickly then proceeded to contact dispatch with the additional info about the man and that he had family outside town so the cops at the exits of the city should be on the look. It was matter of time before they found him really. It was bound to happen. He had to show up somewhere, friends... family... a workplace. It was all fine anywhere he poped up if a cop was near her was going to be arrested. What's more he should be praying that it wasn't Claire that arrests him, because he was going to have troubles moving his hands after she was finished dislocating all his fingers.

“Alright, you stay here and protect the place while the proper look out arrives.” Claire stated to her servant... ahmm partner.” I will come pick you up in a little bit after I drop the lovely lady at the police station so she can file her case against that man.” She stated and quickly got into the car preparing to start driving when a message arrived. She pulled her phone and read it. Ahh Olivia remembered her. She smiled and quickly typed a reply.' Can't really talk right now. Busy day, a perp just got away. Got to escort a victim/witness to the station. What do you say I drop by in about an hour after I get off work? We can talk all we need then, when I'm not behind the wheel. -C' She typed in haste and started driving off. There was much to be done.

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Amelia watched Fumiko leave as she arrived at the counter. Was the girl angry with her or something? She didn't think she should be... she hadn't done anything to anger Fumiko. Or was she overthinking this? She wasn't sure how to take it, but decided to think of it as them just finishing their work here and Fumiko just waiting outside as to not crowd the place. She nodded at Fumiko's statement that she was waiting for them outside.” Alright.”

After Riley was done paying for the stuff and handed her the bag, Amelia smiled shyly and blushed a little.” Thank you, Riley. Yeah we should follow her.” She added with a nod, still smiling and holding the bag with the stuff tightly. This was a gift from her friend after all. She didn't have many friends and the only gifts she really usually received was something from her uncle at Christmas or her birthday.

She followed outside with her roomie to Fumiko. Amelia vaguely wondered where the other girl would drag them to shop and rather to shop what. Amelia herself didn't overly enjoy shopping to the extreme. Then again she rarely had the money to go on a shopping spree proper. Maybe she'd enjoy it someday in the future if she gets a proper job that pays well.

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Quinn shook her head as she was, more or less, brought back to reality. She looked up at the employee. "Oh no, I'm good. Sorry. I'll be out quickly." She finished her visit and got up and left. Once out on the street, she checked her phone. It seemed Olivia teleported also. Good, it made sharing her new information easier.

"We can meet at your place. I don't want more people to be around that don't need to know." As she waited for the address, Quinn checked around. For all she knew, she was being targeted or followed. She had always considered herself safe and protective of herself, but now more than ever, she felt she was being watched.

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Scott heard her brother on the other end distantly and couldn't help but be happy and irritated - happy that Janelle had someone there with functioning vision, irritated that it was Jace - or Twink Number Two as he thought of him lately. Everyone in this goddamn mess made Scott want to just put a piece of lead between someone's eyes - hell, it could even be his own at this rate since at least that would get him out of all of this nonsense. "Yeah kid, it is - it's fucking nationwide," Scott told Janelle. "I got a visit from some batshit coroner - she seemed pretty guilty if you ask me - so I want you to come to my place. I have all the guns we need."

He then felt his phone buzz and he took it away from his ear for a moment, seeing a text from one of his buddies with a potential job. He'd get back to them after the phone call. If it couldn't wait five minutes for a confirmation, then it wasn't a job that he wanted to get involved with anyways. "I mean it, it ain't safe for a thing like you out there. And I guess you can bring Twink Number Two with ya as well if you insist." He figured that she would, since he was her brother.

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"Why the hell is he calling? Thought the idiot wanted nothing to do with anyone else," Jason said, glancing over at his sister. He was a little bit annoyed that Scott was calling right then when they had a major problem with a serial killer on the loose and all, but the guy also just bugged him to no end. He literally had no idea how to shut up.

"Uh, okay... If you say so... Where exactly is your house?" she asked. There was one thing that she noticed though, and it was kind of bugging her, it was the static on the line. It was strange, and she knew that usually that wasn't exactly common, but she didn't generally use the phone, so she didn't really know if it was a really bad thing or something.

"Wait, he wants us to go to where he is?"

"Yeah..." she said to her brother.

"Well this should be fun don't you think. Us having to deal with so many issues and this guy wanting to help out randomly, I mean really, it wouldn't surprise me if the guy was responsible," he muttered under his breath so that his sister couldn't hear him. It was true, it wouldn't surprise him at all if Scott was the one killing people.

Janelle shook her head slightly at her brother's reaction to things, it was a little weird, but unlike him, she actually trusted Scott somewhat. He seemed to actually care a little bit in her mind, so she didn't see why they couldn't trust him. "Tell me the address and we'll head right over."

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The girl looked up from her phone with a brilliant smile towards the two that came out of the store. Giving a friendly wave she tilted her head slightly to look at the bag Amelia had. "Get some things you like?" She asked the girl with a small smile, then turned her attention towards Riley after Amelia had responded. She put a single finger to her lips, thinking for a few moments before pulling it away and giving a small shrug. "Well... I don't know what's around here. What's good for shopping? Ya know what I like, clothes and such." She said with a small smile once more.

Slipping her phone into her bag she moved to stand between the two. Making sure to keep her sunglasses and hat on, hoping to stay hidden from the paparazzi or her fans. So far she had yet to be recognized, which seemed pretty lucky to her. The last thing she particularly wanted was some surprise like that ruining a day out with her friends. That or some freaky thing like drifting out of her own damn body again, that was really scary in particular.

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Saturday, August 18th, 2018
New York City, New York

@rivaan Claire's partner looked at her for a moment, and grumbled slightly but nodded towards her since she was his partner and she knew better anyway. "Alright then boss." He said as he waved goodbye to her, the woman climbed into the back of the car again as Claire started the car up and drove away. The precinct that Claire worked out of wasn't that far, it was a few blocks away, but the traffic being New York and all was busy in the streets like always. "So how long have you been a cop?" The woman asked as she leaned back in the seat, she would receive another text from Olivia.

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Seattle, Washington

@BlueSky44 They house was still pretty quiet and the static on the phone stopped as well and they would be able to hear one another as they spoke clearly. Once Scott sent out the text to the address of where he was, it would take a few minutes unless they wanted him to pick them up, or they could walk there or take an Uber or some kind of taxi service over as well.

@Morose Scott wouldn't get another text from his friend, he was a little bit impatient when it came to not getting replies back, he always did end up finding someone else willing to do it quickly. There wasn't anything else going on the apartment at the moment, no unwanted visitors or the like just yet either.

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'Sounds good, here's my address once your there let me know and i'll let you into the building.'

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'Alright, you know where I live just text me whenever your at the building and i'll let you in Quinn is on her was as well.'

Olivia hit send on her phone to both Claire and Quinn looking up at the TV as Olivia watched the TV, there wasn't anything new really and she decided to change the channel and started to watch some crappy Soap Opera show that was on the TV. Olivia ran a hand through her hair as she got up letting the TV play, since she was having some guests over Olivia pulled out some bottles of beer for them. She looked at the clock she wasn't sure if they ate yet or not.

Olivia headed over and grabbed her laptop and started to type away looking up on any news that was going on looking around she didn't really find anything of interest either yet as Olivia rubbed the back of her neck looking back up at the TV while watching her show. Olivia also looked out the window the weather seemed to be clearing up now as well.

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Riley looked towards Fumiko when she asked where they would like to go next for shopping and thought about it for a little bit looking over at Amelia. Knowing that her friend didn't really have the money to go out and splurge on money like she and Fumiko could, Riley thought for a moment. Then she pointed over towards the store that was across the street, it had some nice clothes there and they weren't all that expensive either as well.

"Theres a clothing store over there." Riley pointed out and looked over towards her car and unlocked it as well, she figured that Amelia didn't want to be lugging around her bag the whole entire time. "You can put your stuff in the car if you'd like." Riley said towards Amelia as she started to make her way over towards her car.

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"So you thinking aliens or something?" Emmie asked looking over at Adalene as they walked through some of Central Park, Emmie looked at a few of the tourists as they went on about their day as well as their fellow New Yorkers. She then looked over towards Adalene and then nodded a little bit. "I think you did mention something like that." Emmie said, wondering who the person was that Adalene did mention but shrugged slightly as they got closer to the restaurant that they wanted to go to.

It was on the other side of the street, just across from the park itself Emmie started to walk ahead of her and managed to cross the street rather quickly. There were a few cars in the road before Adalene would be able to cross again, there were a few people just leaving the restaurant as she felt her stomach growling a little bit as she waited for her to come over.

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Not long after entering, Fumiko already found a crop top and short skirt that seemed to match beautifully together. Both a light purple in color as she held them up to the other two. "Whatta you guys think?" She asked happily, wanting to hear their opinions on how cute she would look in the clothes. After all, Fumiko knew that she was a beautiful woman offhand. However, hearing it from others never really hurt. Especially when it was coming from somebody she trusted to give her honest opinions on such subjects with her.

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Adalene gave her a quizzical look, "While what's going on has certainly made me doubt what's possible, and what isn't, Aliens sounds a little far stretched." She said with a chuckle. If aliens were somehow behind this, she couldn't think of why on earth they'd give ungodly powers to humans, unless they were like lab rats, and humans weren't even advanced enough to understand they power they held. She didn't like how that made her feel, and cleared her head of that kind of cosmic existential dread. She was about to continue, as Emmie crossed the street without her. She sighed, and leaned against the crossing sign, waiting for traffic to clear up. Even if they did get separated, she trusted Emmie to boop herself back to the apartment at some point.

As she waiting, she took a look at how she'd gotten here. A few weeks ago, she was a regular person, and now she was having slice of life adventures with a formerly homeless Nightcrawler. Not to even mention her new status at the Human Torch, and on top of all of this, they were talking about actively going out to look for more people like them. She had to know what she was going to do once that happened. She wouldn't be able to hold more people in her apartment, but hopefully the next person had their own place to call home. Hopefully the next person would know more than they did.

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Claire was smiling brightly as she was reading the following text from Olivia and quickly wrote a brief confirmation.' Alrighty. See you in about 2 hours.' Was what she wrote and put the phone away given the fact that traffic was really a chore in the city. She then threw glances at the woman in the back seat of the police car, whom she was more or less escorting actually. She was nice enough young woman and Claire had learned to use opportunities as they presented themselves.

"Ohh about 7 or so years I think." She replied with a smile." It's a decent gig, you get to help people every now and then." She added with a grin. She looked at the rear view mirror to check on the young woman." Though I'm also a writer, truth be told the writing is really what takes care of the bills. The cop thing is mostly for the enjoyment of it." She added another explanation with slightly sultry voice. They didn't really have too much of a time till they arrived even with the hellsing traffic in NY." What about you? You from town?" Claire asked casually. She was going to invite the younger woman for a coffee one of these days before she drops her at the police station! Test the grounds so to speak.

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"Mhm." Amelia quietly replied with a nod to Fumiko's question if she bought stuff she liked. Granted she only bought 2 things, but those were enough! Proper coloring markers costed a bloody lot! Like 15 bucks per one, she wasn't going to put that on Riley's bill. She had cheaper ones already back home, what she lacked was a good sketchbook which she now had thanks to her friend. And then there was also the really good pencil she was going to use for sketching form now on! First thing she sketches on this thing was going to be a superhero costume for Riley! Granted she might never get to see the musician into it, but it was nice to imagine... right? Though she wasn't going to show it to her friend... that would be embarassing! She blushed just at the thought of it. Most people considered superhero stuff just for kids and Amelia was already an adult so... She wasn't really sure how Riley would react, would she think it childish or not. Her opinion mattered for Amelia a lot since she was one of her very few friends.

"Thanks!" Amelia replied as Riley unlocked the car so she could drop off her bag. She then quickly hopped off to the car and threw the bag on the back seat before moving back to her two roomies, one of which was a little bit of an enigma to her. Fumiko was a new person to Amelia and it was going to take a little bit of time to properly open up to her.

By the time she dropped the bag, Fumiko had already moved to the clothing store. Amelia slightly rubbed the back of her neck nervous. How long was it since she last went clothign shopping? A bloody while. Her coat was the last thing she bought and it was like last year. Since then she'd order discount clothing online. Turned out cheaper usually." It looks pretty on you..." She had to admit when Fumiko asked for their opinions. The woman was beautiful and Amelia had to agree on that. She also suspected that more or less most clothing would suit the asian woman.

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Scott heard Jason call him an idiot and he frowned, glaring at the wall as if his glare would be telepathically communicated to Jason across space and time. He was beginning to regret telling Janelle that she could bring her brother to hole up at his place too. He figured Jason would be a dumbass and decide to play with one of his guns - and if Jason touched any of his guns, realistically, he'd be dead. But still. Worst case scenario thoughts were coming to mind.

"...I'll meet ya two at Golden Age," Scott told them. He was feeling a bit paranoid and uneasy. Golden Age was a comic book store beloved by the locals and located in the underground levels of Pikes Place Market - not too far away from his apartment. He didn't think the kids would be able to both fit on his bike, but he'd figure something out. "Oh and tell ya brother that if I was the one responsible, I wouldn't be dragging kids into this. No kids. That's my fucking line in the sand."

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Quinn read the address off and decided to make haste. There wasn't much time anymore in waiting around with a serial killer or more on the loose. As a taxi pulled up and let a couple out, she quickly waved to get the driver's attention, scooting past the couple and getting into the car. "Sorry, I'd like to go here please." Quinn quickly rattled off the address and sat back in the seat.

"Quick as you can." Quinn knew it was futile asking, since taxi driver's wanted to bump up the fare as much as possible, but it was more of a thing one said anyway, hoping for that one driver that would be all right with getting there quickly and losing out on some money.