Thursday, November 3rd
Harriet’s Orphanage; Hamlet
Mentions: Detective Kingsley @Estylwen
”Mamma!” Calem said as Harriet re-entered the Orphanage, she had to take a phone call from Nyk before she could see the kids again. The Feathered Woman scooped up her son happily and nuzzled her face into his gently, getting a wild fit of giggles from Calem as she did so.
”How is my little chick doing?” She said lovingly, even though she dropped him off merely 3 hours beforehand. She had to take care of some
business before seeing the kids, having Von take Calem to the Orphanage instead.
Not that the little kid cared, he enjoyed time with ‘uncle’ Von!
”We finger painted!” The little one spoke softly,
”I drew dinosaurs! ROAAAAR!” Calem roared in his mothers ear, causing the woman to wince slightly; grimacing for a moment as she tried to regain hearing in her ear before she looked to her Son and smiled.
”Yeah? Which one did you draw? Maybe a Dikotaraptor? Or an Ankylosaurus? Oh what about a Plesiosaur?” He cooed as she carried him to a table, getting ready to look over everything he had been doing without her.
”Ma’am.” Dale stopped her, Harriet tensed and stared angrily at the man before Von stepped over to gently take Calem from her. Harriet instinctively protested, giving a glare towards her own workers before Dale spoke again,
”Work matters, it’s important.”Harriet relaxed on her grip on Calem and looked to her son softly, she was hurt to leave him again so soon.
”Mamma’s just got to do some paperwork, okay?” She said, feigning a smile before she followed Dale up the stairway towards her office.
Once the door was closed behind them, Harriet put a claw against Dale’s throat as her eye glimmered with anger.
”What’s so important that you interrupt time with my boy? Someone better be dead or missing-” She snarled before Dale motioned to the window.
The glass was cut.
Fuck.
”Did they take anything?” She asked as she stepped towards the window, looking around the room to see if she could see anything out of place.
”Negative, Everything seems fine.” Dale said calmly,
”But someone had intruded here.”Harriets’ ears twitched before she looked at her computer for a moment, she hesitated before she turned it on.
”Aabaria,” She spoke, her computer screen lighting up bright green before a small glimmering blue orb spun in the center of the screen.
”Good morning Ms Talon;
I hope you are doing well? You did not speak to me last night when you logged in.” Said the AI assistant.
Harriets’ blood ran cold and she narrowed her eyes, gripping her nice wooden desk to the point her sharp nails almost broke through the lacquer finish.
”That bastard.” She hissed under her breath.
She knew he was after her, so of course he’d try something devious; gods, why was he so cowardly as to not try and take her on, head to head? Was he gathering information to try and pull her further down?
Information on her physical abilities? Her past? On Calem?
”You left open the email to T.Rex, were you planning on emailing them back, Ma’am?””The email from-” She moved to read the email herself, her eyes narrowing before widening slightly and she leaned back in her chair.
”Ms Talon?” Dale’s voice cut into her mind, Harriet looked at him for a moment before she breathed out slowly, closing her eyes as she tried to pull herself together. She was a rush of emotions; mainly anger and grief
why did he have to bring that up again? Why was he bothering to annoy her, why now of all things!
”Ms Talon. You’re needed downstairs.” Vons’ voice came through a walkie talkie on her desk, he sounded scared.
Shit, What now?
Harriet almost shot up from her chair, heading downstairs and moved to a side room where Von was waiting outside of, motioning for her to come inside.
Calem sat there, snivelling to himself as tears streamed down his face.
”Baby!” She spoke as she moved to scoop him out of the plush chair he was in and moved to sit down to have him against her, rubbing his head softly before she shot a glare towards Von.
”Speak, now.”Von shuffled slightly, looking around to try and find the words.
”I broke da toy.” Calem said with a sniffle,
”Da train that Unkle emoo gave me.”Harriet looked puzzled, the train was made of solid metal, how did Calem break it?
”Another boy tried to take it from him, they played tug of war over it and then Calem just… Bent it in half; like it was butter.” Von spoke.
Harriets’ breathing hitched, she looked to Calem, cradled in her arms and sobbing into her shirt.
How would he-
Did he have-
No. Surely not.
No, please no.
Safe House, Elysium Heights
We should get a cat.
Since when did you want a cat?
I feel like you need company in your sad, boring life.
My life isn’t sad or Boring! I’m a rockstar, I have shit cut out for me!
You’re currently hiding from one of the many mafia of this lovely city.
Sometimes famous people get into bad spots. We’ll be fine.He was finished with talking to Bard while lying upside down in his bed. Of course, an armed guard was there, watching the door mainly; but he could feel the eyes on him still.
Yes, as a rockstar he’d be used to having eyes on him; but not like
this.
“Right. Breakfast.” He said as he pulled himself from the bed, wearing a singlet and long boxes - his usual sleepwear was nude, but he wasn’t going to do that
here. Who knew if there were camera’s everywhere?
And admittedly Glade didn’t really trust Ezra to not hold onto that footage in case he needed to blackmail him.
He sighed as he stepped into the kitchen, the heavy booted footsteps still following him. Of course.
Maybe if he thought of them more as a buddy bodyguard he’d feel less anxious about it, but they were almost emotionless; no emotion or humour to them.
He had tried to make a joke with them last night, when they gave no response Glade replied with “I guess the Midnight Man doesn’t pay for humor.” with rolled eyes.
Ezra was right, there was left over Noc Noc Burger for breakfast; and Glade still wasn’t going to complain over free food. He reheated it before sitting back on the couch and stared at the wall before his phone buzzed.
Hey, dis u? A text read before a link came through to a video, it was Nickle’s News. Asterion himself was talking about the events of the night before. “Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.” Asterion let out, he texted back the other number.
Don’t you fucking dare. You owe me so much shit man.What Glade didn’t notice was a small Raven sitting outside the windows, watching him quietly. It tilted its head before fanning its wings out and flew back over the city.
Webbs House, Xavier Tower, Jeweled Bank
Webb barely acknowledged Ezra’s text when it came through, he had fallen asleep in his cozy bed-nest once he managed to get up and get some food before settling down again.
The spiderling slowly stirred from within the blankets before he poked his head out; his eyes adjusting to the light as he gave a small hiss before moving to yawn; his mandibles stretching out of his widened mouth before flexing back to their place before he accidentally bit at them or anything.
Ezra said Bugs. He thought to himself, moving to untangled himself from the blankets before tumbling off the bed and onto the ground with a grunt. That hurt his tailbone; hopefully his spinnerets weren’t damaged at all. He didn’t want to have to
wait for that to heal over.
Webb listened as he laid on the ground, he focused on the smallest movements, trying to see if he could hear any movement from anything tiny.
Mm, too clean here. He thought to himself as he pulled himself up off the ground finally.
Where notebook, need call number friend. Webb spoke as he moved to find his old clothes, he was never good at writing; but he had gotten people to write numbers down for if he needed to contact them.
And he had
one friend in mind. He typed in the number carefully, Webb didn’t want to call a
stranger after all.
”Hello, This is Viv; who am I speaking to?” A femme voice came from over the phone.
“It Webb! Have Phone, Save numbers.” Webb said quickly, there was a crash on the other side of the phone before the voice swore for a moment and swore in a language that Webb didn’t understand.
The Spiderling waited for a response before saying anything else.
”You have a phone? Shit that’s big news. What’s up? Are you in trouble?” Viv replied.
“Have job. Need bugs for mo… Watching.” Webb couldn’t think of the word ‘monitoring’ currently.
Again, Viv was quiet, but only for a moment.
”Please swing by, we’ll talk it out at mind, alright?” She asked, Webb nodded before pausing; remembering she couldn’t see him.
“Will swing, be soon.”
He hung up the phone before moving to put clothes on.
Viv made sure to keep one of her screen doors open, she knew that when she said ‘swing around’ the spiderling would take that literally.
She couldn’t expect too much from the guy, he
is mostly just a humanoid spider with less grotesque features; but he still mentally seemed to function like a spider deep down.
Webb flicked through her window and slammed into the comfy couch she had, Viv let out a squeak as he did so but relaxed as she got the calculations correct.
”You have to be careful!” Viv spoke in a language that Webb could use fluently, it helped mitigate any misinterpretations.
”You’re lucky I thought about this.”Webb mumbled a curse in the language before he pulled himself from the couch and shook his body.
”You said swing by! I swung!” Webb argued at her, Viv gave a pause and breathed out slowly as to not get angry with her friend.
To be fair, he had a cute face so he was hard to stay angry at.
Well; if you thought the look of a little peacock spider was cute - Which luckily for Webb, Viv did.
”Right, what did you need?” Viv asked as she helped him settle into the couch properly and made sure he wasn’t injured in any way.
”Bugs!”Viv gave a sigh,
”yes, but what bugs?” She elaborated gently.
”I need Bugs to Monitor the Silver Canary for Ezra - The Midnight Man. He’s paying me to do this; and the Canaries said they’ll give me a job!” Webb practically beamed, he was very proud of himself, getting two new friends like this.
Viv stared at Webb before she moved to stand up slowly,
”I need coffee before I can properly take this in. Can I get you a drink?””Warm water and a straw?”Viv smiled,
”Of course.”
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