Narcotic Dollie

The Match Mark (Miakardia x Dollie)

Lilith finally gets to her feet and takes off towards the mouth of the alley, eyes darting around to see that no one was on the street at this time of night. ’Crap,’ she thinks, cursing her bad luck and turning in time to see her assailant leaping from her window and hitting the other wall with a hard thud. As he hangs there Lilith begins to realize that there is a small tendril of smoke escaping from her window and she has to stop herself from running over and banging on her father’s window. ’It’s just the candle. He’ll notice before the whole house catches fire.’ All she can think about is getting this man away from her father and the only sure fire way she knows how to do that is to get him to chase her.

The assassin falls into a crouch just as Lilith grabs a rock and pelts him with it, the pebble bouncing off his mask with a metallic clang. The blue eyed girl waits for him to turn and look at her before she rounds the corner and begins to flee down the main street, turning down another alley almost instantly. The girl had been living in Murkwell since she was ten years old and knew the streets like the back of her hand, so she thought she had a fairly decent shot at losing him in the labyrinth of alleys that ran throughout most of the city. The ginger had been at it for almost five minutes and was panting heavily, when she stepped on the remnants of a broken bottle and sliced her foot open. Wincing, Lilith stopped and fished it out before jogging slowly and turning down a backstreet with a dead-end. As the girl crouched down behind some empty crates and tried to silence her shuddering gasps, she hoped that she had been successful in her attempt to shake him and settled in to wait this whole thing out.

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What are you going to do about it? It's not like you can murder Nori's whole famil---WAIT, OH DEAR GOD NO!!!

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Hey @Bozo, I @ed you in that post because I mentioned both of your characters. ^.^

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Nori, seated on the closed toilet seat, watched in amusement as Kyle fussed over the band-aid as if he was creating a master painting instead of patching up a small cut on her finger. The whole scene was made even funnier by the fact that Kyle was the one that looked like he had just gone five rounds for the UFC championship and yet here they were bandaging her boo-boo. “Am I gonna make it, doc?” Nori asked a little facetiously, flashing the American a small little half smile. With him kneeling in front of her they were finally the same size, which was a bit of a novelty, considering he was a giant and she was a dwarf.

"Sorry again...for all that...Are you going to be alright? I didn't get you fired did I?" Kyle asks, remorse easily heard in his voice. He was still holding the hand that he’d just doctored, so Nori gives it a little squeeze. After all, he’d already apologized, there was no need to make him feel bad about it again.

“Yeah, it’s okay. I was really worried about this stupid, crazy expensive tulip that we were cultivating for a buyer that I accidently butchered when I heard you guys fighting. I thought I was going to have to pay for it, but the owners were really sweet about it,” Nori explains, tucking a stray piece of hair behind her ear. “I didn’t tell them about the fight, and I don’t plan to. They’re nice people, but I don’t want to push my luck,” she admits with a little shrug.

“…there is something else going on that you should know about,” Nori says in a more serious tone after a bit of a pause. “There might be…erm, what I mean to say is….I…um, there could be a mu-murderer stalking me,” the DJ finally spits out and it sounds ludicrous to even her. “When I came out this morning, the word, ‘Tomorrow’ was written across my door and it sort of looked like blood. And there’s a huge chunk of the wall that got bashed in by something, we’re not 100% sure what. I’ve got a picture, actually,” Nori pauses to fish her smart phone out of her coat pocket and unlocks the home screen to show Kyle said picture so he doesn’t think she’s a lunatic and run screaming for the hills.

“I called the police, but they didn’t take it very seriously. I had a bad feeling about it, so I looked up the private detective Nick mentioned on the radio yesterday. He seems to think that this might be the work of, don’t you dare laugh at me Kyle Parker, some guy called, 'The Weatherman'. He’s a serial killer who only kills on rainy days,” Nori elaborates, her face flushing at how outlandish it sounds now that she’s said it out loud. “Anyways, Detective Holland is gonna stay at my apartment tonight and try and ambush him. He told me I should let people that I’ve been hanging around with a lot know what’s up, so they can be prepared if something weird happens," she finally finishes, before quickly adding, "So, um, yeah, just don't die or anything, alright?"

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The Match Mark (Miakardia x Dollie)

Lilith waits, but the blow never comes.

The assassin takes a seemingly hesitant step back and remains motionless, his hands still poised to draw his weapons. "No," he says, and she draws her hand back to her chest, furrowing her eyebrows. "You cannot die... Not tonight...," the black clad man tells her, his voice's timbre changing into something much less sinister.

"Oh," Lilith breathes, taking another step back towards the window, to put even more distance between them. Was this some sort of trick? Why would he break in here if he wasn't going to kill her? "I thought that's the only sort of business your order dealt in," the ginger fretted, blue eyes darting across the room and looking for something she could use to get herself out of this situation. She didn't trust this man, not for a second.

Lilith takes a third step back and jumps when she bumps into the edge of her writing desk, the abrupt action causing the old bit of furniture to shake, liquid sloshing over the side of a forgotten teacup in the commotion. Lilith's eyes narrowed in on the tiny teacup as she snatched it up and hurled it at the intruder's face. Not waiting to see if the cup makes contact she bolts to the window, undoing the lock and throwing it open with little fumbling, despite the adrenaline now coursing through her veins.

Lilith climbs through it and hangs herself over the edge of the window, holding on to the windowsill with a white knuckle grip. The night chill is harsh and there is still about two meters between her and the brick alleyway below, but she's gone too far to give up now, so she steels herself for the impact and lets go. Her bare feet hit the ground first, but she loses her balance and falls hard on her butt. 'Get up, get up!' Lilith urges herself as she begins to scramble to her feet.

The Match Mark (Miakardia x Dollie)

It's cool, I know how life gets sometimes! I'll try and have one up by tonight, but it might not be until tomorrow. My sister is visiting from out of state. ^.^

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Hello my darlings! I have family coming in tomorrow, so my posts are gonna be a little wonky until they leave on Friday. I should be able to get at least one short IC post up a night though, just not as much OOC lurking!

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Nori stared at Kyle in shock as he apologized while bent over in a traditional bow on the floor. She watched him unblinkingly for a moment, clutching her bleeding finger to her chest as she tried to digest everything he'd just told her. Nick had started the fight? Why would he do something like that? It was hard to believe the bubble gum chewing radio host was capable of any violence, given the fact that he always seemed so laid back.

The guilt Nori felt for yelling at Kyle had increased five times now that she knew he hadn't started the fight, so she reached out with her uninjured hand and brought it down to ruffle his hair, just like he'd done that first time at the park. "Get up here, you big dork," she chuckled, pulling him up so that she could give him a quick hug.

"Just don't have any more fight clubs outside my work, alright?" Nori murmured as she buried her head in his neck. "I really like you, Kyle. I don't want something stupid like that to come between what ever is going on between us," the blonde admitted. "And I'm sorry for earlier, about what I said on the street. I could have been gentler," the florist admitted. "...I also probably shouldn't have sprayed you with the garden hose, but I'm not sorry about that one. It was pretty fun," Nori giggled, before pulling back to inspect the damage on Kyle's face.

"Jesus, he really did a number on you," she whispered, tracing her fingers over the fresh cuts that were scattered across his nose. "You should probably rinse those. There's a first aid kit in the bathroom, if you need to use it."

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The Match Mark (Miakardia x Dollie)

Lilith shudders visibly as he whispers to her, closing her eyes against the low rumbling of his voice. It may have been a lovely sound, if weren't currently filling the room with such ominous words. 'I hope it's quick,' she thought to herself, opening her eyes in time to see the assassin advancing on her. The ginger girl had meant to accept her fate and stand to face her death with dignity, but seeing the dark figure closing in so quickly, his eyes boring into hers as he pulled both daggers free caused a new wave of fear to wash over her.

"Please, don't!" She pleaded, still barely above a whisper. Even with death eminent, Lilith still thought of her father asleep downstairs and didn't want any harm to come to him. In her panic the blue eyed girl threw both of her hands up, as if that would be able to ward him off. Belatedly, she realized that the sleeve of her nightgown had rolled back so her match mark was on diaplay. She jerked her hand back as quickly as possible and fisted her hand into the fabric of her nightgown.

Lilith didn't want this man to see the tiny fox. He was going to murder her, after all, and maybe her dad was going to die as well, but the redhead at least had a chance to keep one person safe. The girl thought of her fox, wherever he was, and how in the morning when he woke up his match mark would become pale and scarred over, his body's way of showing him his mate was dead. 'I'm sorry. Be safe, fox,' she prayed, her right hand still extended to try to keep the assassin at bay.

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Nori had been doing an excellent job of keeping the tears at bay until she texted the owners, Mr. and Mrs. Clayburn, about the death of their prized tulip and read their quick reply. The couple was nothing but kind and understanding, saying that as long as she was okay it would be fine and that she didn’t have to worry about paying for the blossom. This was the straw that broke the camel’s back and the blonde broke down, covering her mouth to muffle the sound of a sob.

’I don’t have time for this right now, I have to get this place cleaned up so I can get out of here on time. You know, so I don’t get my face bashed in by a sledgehammer,’ the short girl reminded herself, scrubbing her hands angrily over her eyes to dry away the tears. Composure slightly regained, Nori grabbed the garbage can and dragged it to the back, crouching down to scoop up the sharp edges of the shattered clay pot.

The doorbell chimed as someone entered the store and Nori started to steel herself for an interesting interaction with a customer, but stopped short when she heard Kyle’s familiar voice calling her name. ’Just go away,’ Nori willed, wiping her face furiously again to hopefully clear any evidence that she had been crying. The blonde looked like a hideous, drowned raccoon, with her hair still dripping wet and her mascara smeared in every direction. She had stripped her flannel shirt off when she had first come in, but had at least had the foresight to put her coat back on and zip it closed, concealing the white tank top had become translucent and obscene from the rain. Nori heard Kyle’s footsteps as he drew closer and she screwed her eyes shut grinding her teeth in frustration. “Nori…,” the tall boy started and Nori cringed at how gently he said it, causing a shard of the ruined flower pot to slice one of her fingers. "Can we talk...please?"

“What Kyle, what do you want?” She hissed angrily before flicking her eyes up at him. He looked awful too, still soaking from the rain and his handsome face all cut up and swelling in some places. Nori began to feel the beginnings of guilt claw its way through her mind and she said again, softer this time. “What do you want, Kyle?”

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