Dead.
That was the condition of the crew. The whole crew. Dead.
And they'd barely made it out. Things were always lookin' down on them. People was always lookin' down on them.
But one day. One day. He just had a real low feeling it wouldn't be today
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She looked from one to the other.
"You boys been fightin' again?"
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"Idn't worth the trouble," he muttered. It was, perhaps, an answer. He pushed back from the table, scraped the chair on carpet to thin to scrape over, and dropped his hands into his lap.
"You're late," he reminded her fruitlessly.
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"Got here quick as I could," she said instead. "It wasn't easy." As if they didn't know.
"Little Jimmy's got all his goons out looking for you."
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If he made out like he wasn't concerned, then he wasn't concerned.
"You brought 'em," answering instead of asking. She was a good girl, smart; wouldn'ta come if she didn't have the plans with her. "The Lassiter."
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She wouldn't let herself worry about A. He'd be fine, he always was. Instead, she mostly tried to figure out just how she'd managed to catch herself up in this mess in the first place. Gettin A and Babyface what they needed to pull a job was one thing, but they'd barely started and already they'd had one close call.
And the worst part was she couldn't quite remember ever sayin yes.
Babyface shut the door behind them, and she dropped into a chair and finally let herself relax.
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He tossed his new fedora on the table, unloaded his coat beside it. Least he'd gotten some half decent coffee out of the mix, and a good look at the security team.
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So she jumped a bit, maybe, when his voice came from right behind her, clear as day.
Babyface looked up all casual, like whether A'd made it back or not made no difference to him atall, but she was too relieved to even think of acting like she hadn't been worried.
She was sayin his name, was outta her chair and clingin to him, just like she were his gal, before she had time to remember that things weren't like that anymore and backed off.
"Took yer sweet time," she said, lookin him over. "You run into trouble?"
She stopped, staring, and reached up to wipe his lower lip. Her finger came back red.
"Sure looks like it."
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