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[holly_gonightly]

One nice thing about coffee is that when it's brewing it makes the entire kitchen smell like coffee. It's a nice, safe sort of smell, which is welcome, given the sort of things that are on Holly's mind lately

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[femme_du_chat]

Coffee.

There is a lot of coffee in Selina's life recently. Let's add some more, shall we?

"What did you find out?" No, she didn't knock this time. She's gettign tired of the reporters and has stopped playing the game for the moment. Sneaking in and out is much faster and makes her want to scream much less.

[holly_gonightly]

"Allejandro had been saving up money," Holly tells her, completely unphased by the fact that Selina is in her appartment all of a sudden, "so he could skip town with a girl he was seeing, a hooker whose name starts with a K or a C - that was all his cousin could remember."

[femme_du_chat]

"Huh."

Selina's getting a bad feeling about this one of a sudden. It sounds a little too familiar in some ways to be a good thing.

"You have any idea of where she works?"

[holly_gonightly]

Holly nods. "Near the diner where the cousin works, actually - but she hasn't been seen in a while. I asked around a bit. Her pimp's name is Marc, and even he's been around less frequently than usual lately."

[jla_extras]

The room they're in is surprisingly immaculate and well-furnished. There doesn't seem to be much out of place here. But appearances, Selina will well know, can be highly deceptive.

[holly_gonightly]

"Down," Holly says. Nine times out of ten ominous things will be kept in the basement - basements are easier to secure, easier to soundproof, etc. "But after we finish checking this floor. Might still find something."

She says this last part as she heads into the hallway, probably, she thinks, towards the kitchen.

[jla_extras]

As she gets to the hallway, she can hear noises coming from upstairs. Muffled, but human in origin.

[femme_du_chat]

As Holly moves toward the hallway, Selina looks around to make sure that she can't see any places, other than the door they came in, that they can be surprised with. As she gets closer to Holly, she glances up and there is a faint tightness in her features as she does so.

"Up, I think."

[jla_extras]

Some time later, the GCPD are at the scene, along with a paramedic unit. The girl is wrapped in a blanket and hustled away by a social worker, and the suspect is being taken to hospital under guard.

It's an ending - not a happy one. But it's an ending nonetheless.

[femme_du_chat]

Selina, from a distance away from the paramedics and the girl, looks at Holly. "That turned out better than it could have."