[Locked] You're messing around with other people's lives. Not everyone who plays that game survives.

[bigtimebackwash]

There's really no delicate way to take hostages. Half the time, it's going to involve some public place and someone's always gonna get shot in the kneecaps and no one really wants to clean that up. Sometimes it's necessary though and mostly this whole scenario involves a hell of a lot of stalking, because you can't just lure people out into the

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[mademeaweapon]

It's been a long day for Sydney. Not as long as some, but you try spending all day worrying about a friend who insists he doesn't need to be worried about, and still trying to deal with the fact of your father's existence, on top of Chicago being Chicago without getting a little stressed out. The answer to this, obviously, is vodka and ice cream with Will, which Sydney has left the Tower to get. Because what you want to do when it's twenty degrees outside is get cold things to eat and drink. Her logic is best not questioned.

She's acquired a shadow too, in the form of a certain young woman who used to be a certain teenage girl of Sydney's acquaintance. ...Sydney's still trying to get over how weird that is. Hearing about it is one thing, seeing it another entirely, but actually seeing that April's alive does make Sydney feel a little better

[bigtimebackwash]

It's apparently Cole's lucky night, if clearly not Sydney and April's. He's sprawled in the aforementioned backseat when he receives the buzz of static from one of his men indicating that the targets are headed for his position, which... Well, he thought it might be a possibility. Hell, that's why he's here, but very few people in this business are lucky.

He makes a vague gesture to the two guys in the front seat to go in through the back and makes another call to the guys on surveillance to make it a point to gather at the convenience store just in case either of them put up a fight before he fights dirty and gets them both unconscious... Given what he knows of both of them, it's not an unlikely prospect.

Waiting game is officially over. Now it's time for the main event.

[girlorgun]

"No one ever wants to let me drink," April says absently as they near the convenience store, "even though I'm certainly of legal age to do so. It's somewhat frustrat...ing." She stops walking, about twenty feet short of the convenience store. Their tail was far enough back she wasn't really paying attention to his thoughts but there are other people now, and...

Her eyes widen. "We have to go," she says. Whirls around to face one seemingly innocuous man who's moving towards them. :: STOP :: She puts all the force of her training behind the command, and the man does, much to his own surprise.

This... this is not good. "Ō, zhè zhēn shì gè kuàilè de jìnzhăn..." she mutters as she sees them close in. "We're humped."

[mademeaweapon]

"Well, you are- What?" Sydney stops when April does, because it's Chicago, and because you don't doubt the psychic when she does something that could point to trouble. She follows April's gaze to the man closing in on them... and then there's more than one man, and Sydney winces a little. "As if I didn't have enough to deal with today..."

She's looking at this a little less fatalistically than April. She's not exactly helpless herself, and she's seen April fight, so if the two of them can just disable then long enough to get away... "You want to tell me what they want?" she asks April softly, because this looks a lot more organized than some random gang or... whatever.