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Post by Parker on Feb 20, 2015 20:20:12 GMT
Parker had caught briefly the sour look Kali had slipped his direction, his own thoughts hilariously never once going to the newlyweds cover like Kali's did. He hadn't even had a clue what it was she was scowling at really but considering she never voiced her reasons why he decided to shrug it off. Girls were fickle creatures, though somehow Parker was wondering if it had to do with him just speaking up and out for them. In a way that also made him feel pretty good, maybe he'd do it more often then. He wasn't entirely sure what Dauzi's skillset was as 'a killer' but maybe for that reason it was the best (and scariest) choice for Parker to initially insist he stay with them. If Dauzi was a good guy he'd at least kill for them and not kill them himself, right?
With the others taking their leave as directed Parker followed along, eager to get back down to the car and then out on the road. With a step to the side and again the well-trained habit of his of opening the passenger door for her, Parker motioned for Kali to climb inside.
"Do you need us to stop anywhere else before we hit the road?" he only asked once alone with the other two, and even then he was really asking Kali.
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Post by Dauzi Tavalon on Feb 20, 2015 20:31:10 GMT
Dauzi got ready as he took the ID and followed them. He was actually glad to be in the car with Parker, as it would give him some to learn who this new shot caller was. He picked up a bag he put in the apartment earlier with some extra supplies, mostly arrows and such. As he sat in the car, he had toss the bag to the side, and then his stomach made an audible gurgling sound. He put his hand on his stomach and then answered to Parker who he knew he wasn't really asking, but might as well take this chance.
"Is there anyway we can stop at a McJordan to get a quick bite to eat?" He ask sincerely.
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Post by Demetrios on Feb 20, 2015 20:48:57 GMT
"Ohhhhh, can we?" Kali asked after she had slipped into the passenger side, having realized how empty her stomach was and how long of a trip they had ahead of them. "I'm STARVING! Thanks for reminding me Dauzi, you big jerk!" Kali stuck her tongue out at Dauzi before glancing over at Parker again, "We have to go now. Really, we can't leave with my stomach like this... I'll cry!"
She was basically leaning into Parker's face now and glaring at him. Determined to eat now, she wasn't going to take no for an answer.
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Post by Parker on Feb 20, 2015 21:32:54 GMT
Parker blinked and looked between the two. Oh...they were...they were serious. And as much as Parker really, really hated when women cried he noted that he kind of had a bit of a curiosity to see Kali shed some tears. Not that he wanted to be the one who did it but you know, the curiosity was there. At the same time it was going to be a very, very long trip with her crying. And putting her feet on the dash. Probably especially if he told her no and he wouldn't put it past her that she was the type to kick and whine like a little kid on top of that.
Though in a twisted kind of way Parker also couldn't help but give Kali a bit of a teasing grin as he said, "Well that'd be mean if I made you cry, wouldn't it? Though wasn't it you yesterday telling me I should be mean?"
He started the car but kept his eyes on her the whole time as he watched for a reaction out of her, adding in after a few moments, "Though I guess you have to spend the whole drive in my car and follow my rules, so I'll give you this one. I'll buy for you, even. But you!" Parker pointed then into the rear-view mirror at Dauzi.
"You gotta pay for your own, man. And the rules of this ride go like this: Seatbelts on, don't kick the seat, don't touch the driver ever especially when we're in the shit, and the windows are only allowed to be rolled down no more than halfway. Kali, keep your feet off the dash. You wanna sleep you're gonna have to recline the seat and Dauzi's just gonna have to deal. You gonna be cool with that, bro?"
Between all of his bossy rule-laying Parker had already set forth into the streets to find them food, knowing not really where to exactly find one of what had to be hundreds of McJordan's restaurants in the city but more than positive at least three had to be along the main streets that lead out into the highway they needed so he followed that. They were pretty much near city limits when he rolled into what must have been the last one in the entire city but as promised, Parker did stop.
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Post by Dauzi Tavalon on Feb 20, 2015 23:44:43 GMT
"I can follow those rules." Dauzi said as he put his feet on the seat so he was laying in the back. He reached in his pocket, and felt around for his wallet. He pulled it out and opened it to find that he had barely any cash on him... His time out, he barely left his apartment, including the bank. He then realized that he only had enough to purchase a kid's meal. "Can I get the Children's chicken nugget meal with extra barbeque sauce?" Dauzi asked as he handed 4 Thelos for the meal. While it was odd for a man to order it, but in the situation, he had to do it with pride.
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Post by Demetrios on Feb 21, 2015 0:36:36 GMT
"Yeaaaah, mean to other people... not me..." Kali whined as she folded back into her chair and pushed her bottom lip out in a pout. "Your rules suck. You know I'm going to get back at you after we get out of this car, you know that right?" She'd relent to Parker's commands, with this being his car and all but as soon as they were out she was going to pay him back for every stupid rule he made. He was too much like Demetrios and that annoyed the shit out of her.
Still desperately hungry her whines went silent as they reached the restaurant. However she couldn't hold back a laugh at Dauzi's miserable order, why would a man ordered such a small amount of food!? It was just sad. "Alright, alright. I'll take TWO Giant-Jordan hamburgers - I'm ordering for you, Parker - and two large fries with small waters along with that!" Looking proud of her order her eyes quickly narrowed before she added, "And if any of you put pickles on those hamburgers I'm gonna buy this restaurant and bury you in it! NO FUCKING PICKLES."
Looking back innocently at Parker she gave a sweet smile, "I hate pickles."
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Post by Parker on Feb 21, 2015 1:26:42 GMT
'Ohhh noo, wahh look she's whining. Big surprise and I've only known her for what, two days? Ha ha ha!' Parker only grinned as Kali started whining about his rules and vowing revenge on him. He was actually amused by this and he couldn't figure out why, though it tickled him so! Like really, Dauzi was the scarier-looking one here and even he agreed to the rules of the car no problem.
...Which also at the thought of it made him give a wary glance back at the man. He was relaxed and lounging in the back seat and a man of his height actually wanted a kid's meal. Whatever, man was simple. Scary, but simple. Parker could deal with that.
"A wise man once told me that rules exist for a reason: if you all don't follow 'em, the whole system goes to shit," Parker recited almost proudly, words he typically heard from Currie but several others had varied ways of saying essentially the same thing, "you don't follow the rules of the car we could end up in a fiery ball of fire dying in a ditch." Sadly it was true when he thought of it. He didn't follow the Tyrants rules at all and look where they were headed!
"Also? I'm pretty sure most people like pickles on their hamburgers," Parker spoke quickly as an afterthought, realizing of course a bit after Kali had ordered that she'd totally missed that. He took his and Dauzi's pooled money and passed it over, though he looked to Kali as though she should have admitted to her mistake. They wanted to leave Thelotia and enter Gefyra City without being noticed or seeming out of place, forgetting something like that and in the way she behaved not only screamed 'wow this lady is insane' but if anyone were to recognize them...
He'd only just gotten the last of that out when food showed up. Parker handed everything over to Kali and Dauzi - Dauzi's was very colourful and came with crayons and a maze puzzle to solve on the side and inside he got a little plastic car that was Kali's favourite colour, hot pink. Parker, however surprised and a bit flattered that Kali had thought of him at all made several glances back to the window where the staff grinned widely and waved them good day. It...really, really bugged him. He used to look at that as just people being friendly but recently he'd begun to see things like that as almost a slight, especially when he had no idea what they were doing behind that counter to all the food they'd touched. And to Parker, it did show up awfully fast...maybe a trip to the grocery store for bread and cheese would have been better?!
Was he the only one seeing the problem here?
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Post by Demetrios on Feb 21, 2015 18:06:32 GMT
"Rules are just things placed by the strong to control the weak." Kali said with a shake of her head, "You'd be surprised to know the amount of rules and laws that I wrote back in To Chameno. Ohhh as an example, I had a law passed that limited the amount of time manufactures were allowed to stay open when they refused to pay tribute to the Agency. I bled dozens of them into submission without ever firing a bullet! THAT'S what true power is."
Kali had no paranoid thoughts as they handed the food over, in fact she was far more infatuated with the toy Dauzi was given with his meal. "Ohhhhhh, DauziDauziDauzi, that toy looks sweet as shit! Can I have it!?" The car was hot pink and everyone knew hot pink cars were super fast. "I'll trade you some of Parker's fries!"
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Post by Parker on Feb 22, 2015 3:00:12 GMT
Parker really couldn't argue with Kali's tactics in that regard, it seemed like something smart and impressive enough to work. He didn't really like how she spoke of rules and power, though.
'Rules keep order, it shouldn't be solely about control though...' Parker really didn't know what thoughts were good and bad on that, honestly. He was a man who only understood the rules existed but not why, and now that he was understanding why he didn't feel it should be to deliberately keep weaker people down. When he thought about it, it might have been naive of a thought but he thought rules should have been a thing that kept order in a society - in their case an organization. It was about making it work, keeping it intact, which of course sure meant that someone had to be in charge and ideally someone strong... Maybe he wasn't fully seeing it afterall yet. He had bigger things to worry about right now, though.
"He can have all of them if he really wants, I'm not going to eat this stuff," Parker shook his own head. Truthfully he was hungry himself but he was also more willing to wait until they had to make a pit stop several hours into the drive than to brave the food sitting in the car with them, "I mean if you guys trust it enough that's fine but I'm not gonna."
He'd already pulled out of the parking lot and hit the road, thankfully just leaving city limits.
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Post by Dauzi Tavalon on Feb 22, 2015 3:05:50 GMT
Dauzi looked at the car, and then gave a slight grin as he placed it into his pocket. "The first rule of negotiations is to not take the first deal." He said as he dipped the chicken nuggets in the sauce. "Now that I know you want this, I am going to milk it for all that it's worth, until I get something great out of it." He then got comfortable in the back, and started to do the maze with the crayons as a way to past the time.
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Post by Demetrios on Feb 22, 2015 3:15:42 GMT
"Fuck you. Both of you are on my shit list." Kali hissed at Dauzi as he pocketed the cool car. Turning back in her chair she dug her hand into the bag and pulled out the larger burger, remembering how hungry she was, Kali quickly took a large bite out of it. Muttering out a muffled 'YUMMY' as she devoured the large burger not two minutes into the feasting. Finished with the burger she dug into the fries, shoving the delicious golden food into her mouth. "This is the best fries EVER. Seriously Parker, you gotta try some."
She said waving some of the fries in his direction. "You really gonna drive all this way on an empty stomach?! Have some, Parker!"
Kali may have seemed content with trying to shove some of the fries into Parker's mouth but really her thoughts were focused on that awesome car Dauzi had in his pocket. She wanted it. She needed it. It infuriated her knowing such a sweet toy was getting properly played with!
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Post by Parker on Feb 22, 2015 3:25:40 GMT
Parker stifled a chuckle as Dauzi denied her whining for the toy car. Really, why did she want it? She was such a kid, whining for toys and talking with her mouth full.
She could wave the fries at him all she wanted but he wasn't going to do it. In fact the more she did it made him despise the idea even more somehow and his lip curled into that grumpy scowl he had earlier as he tried to keep his eyes on the road before them now that he was allowed to just start getting up to highway speed and falling in line with several cars before him to avoid testing the speed limit. Normally he'd blitz past but for now, for right now and for a little ways outside of Thelotia he thought it best to play nice and slow like the other drivers on the road with him.
"Yes, I am going to drive all this way on an empty stomach. It's better than like, being poisoned or some shit - you ever see those movies where they do that?" Parker grumbled.
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Post by Demetrios on Mar 8, 2015 2:02:40 GMT
"I usually only watch adult films so probably not..." Kali shrugged as she leaned back and started to shove fries in her mouth, "Besides, you only have to worry about being poisoned if your eating habits become predictable! I bet you've never been to that restaurant before hand? Getting poison into somebody's food takes a lot of time and planning..."
She paused as if to think about her own experience poisoning people, "I mean... well there was once a guy who we really want dead so we went around to restaurants and gave them pictures of the guy we wanted dead and that DID work. And you're pretty well known too..." She hummed a bit in thought, "Yeah, maybe it's best you avoid eating out for a bit, huh? You are like on every Overwatcher's grab list..."
Kali had to debate if the food they had was poisoned or not, but considering the amount of food she had already eaten it was probably a done deal. She shrugged and continued eating, "Life is full of risks!"
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Post by Parker on Mar 8, 2015 3:08:05 GMT
"Yeah? Well, good for you and I wish you luck with that," Parker sighed frustratedly as he steadied his speed and did a quick check in his mirrors, "but I'm done with stupidly throwing caution to the wind like that. That shit does nothing good, that gets people killed..."
He hated the idea that the Overwatch was probably looking for him. His thoughts immediately went back to Demetrios advising he 'disappear' soon, somehow he felt like the slowly growing bout of anxiety he was experiencing was only going to go away the moment he had that sorted out.
Parker remembered the 'good old days' when the Thelotian Police would just drop by hassle him instead, threaten to take his modified car if he didn't rat out people he'd worked with or places he'd bought parts from. To him that was minor compared to being hunted by bigger organizations and the consequences being death rather than just a really long, awful time in jail.
"Just remember my face was there when you ordered that, so I hope you don't keel over if it was poisoned. Don't know what the hell I'm supposed to do with Dauzi and a dead body in Gefyra City...don't know how we take control of a city without you...
Okay, dammit Kali, we're not stopping at random joints like that anymore. We go to the grocery store from now on. And you're not allowed to die."
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Post by Demetrios on Mar 8, 2015 16:15:47 GMT
Between shoving fries in her mouth and eating the last of the hamburger Kali was barely listening to Parker's rant about avoiding awesome restaurants like McJordan's but what she did hear was Parker express a great deal of worry about her health. She wasn't used to such expressions of worry and she found it almost sweet... but mostly funny, really rather hilarious actually. 'Awww, the kid is falling for me! Couldn't blame him of course, I look good even when I've got a mouth full of fries!'
Swallowing down the large amount of fries she glanced over at Parker and gave a sly smile, "Oh I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. Thelotia's-Most-Wanted has his sly and sexy partner for as long as it's needed." She said lightly patting Parker's shoulder. "Now put on some sick tunes because I'm almost finished eating here and I like to take a nap after I eat... music and napping is awesome."
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