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Post by kikistrike20 on Mar 23, 2010 6:22:04 GMT -5
There was a shooting here yesterday. There were three injured and one killed. This is a tradgedy, sure, but what makes it weird is that witnessess have described the shooter as an extremly pale, short girl that looks exactly like Kiki. What's going on?
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Post by shadeofgray on Mar 24, 2010 19:36:45 GMT -5
Poppy trudged slowly through the weary New York March day. Her eyes were on the ground, and her head was filled with some stranger's playlist, blaring from the iPod she'd pickpocketed. All of a sudden a shoulder brushed past her. Then another. Then another. Quite suddenly she was alone on the sidewalk, still thumbing through the iPod. Then she wrestled off her headphones and the shrieks of a terrified crowd assaulted her. Poppy heard a gun being cocked, and a realization came screaming towards her. She made a u-turn, which felt like it was about as fast as a Matrix actor in slo-mo.
CRACK.
Poppy crumpled.
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Post by kikistrike20 on Mar 25, 2010 19:09:33 GMT -5
Emma pulled her coat closer to her to block out the winter chill as she walked down the street. She saw Poppy and was about to go over there and say hi when she saw someone pull out a gun. She fell short in her steps, fighting off the intitial wave of nausea that first hit hrt when seeing the weapon. Emma didn't have time to notice who was holding the gun becuase now they shot Poppy. She saw Poppy's form collapse and ran towards her. But now she was fighting against the crowd, trying to make her way through the sea of people. She finally made her way to Poppy. She had a pulse, but it was weak. "911!" she yelled to no one in perticular. "someone call 911!" As someone took out a phone and started dialing, Emma finally looked up at the shooter. She could feel her mouth dropping open in suprise. Staring at her with cold, hard eyes was Kiki Strike.
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Post by Holly on Mar 30, 2010 23:04:03 GMT -5
"Emma!" cried Indigo rushing into the ER waiting room "I got here as quick as I could! how is she? do they think she'll live?" a nurse shushed her but she babbled on headless of the dirty look "what happened? where was she? were you guys together? do you know who did it? did the police get him? is he in jail?" the nurse came over and guided her firmly into a chair and places a cup of water in her hands "quiet, please" she commanded. Indigo gulped the water and tried to suppress the sob welling up in her chest.
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Post by kikistrike20 on Mar 31, 2010 6:21:48 GMT -5
"Shh..." soothed emma. "They're not sure how she's going to do. It hit her pretty good, but she should live. Right now she's in surgery. There was a shooting three other people were injured. One of them looks really bad. I just saw her before the shooting. And the person who did it..." she paused for a moment and lowered her voice. "You can't tell anyone, not even the other irregulars, got it? The person who did it was Kiki.
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Post by shadeofgray on Mar 31, 2010 20:19:53 GMT -5
Poppy was floating somewhere. It was a fuzzy, endless place, that had a sort of womb-like quality to it. 'Soon,' she thought. 'Soon, Mom will come to tuck me in. And tonight she'll be sober. How wonderful...how wonderful...' She smiled eerily, and began floating back into sleep. Then, like a tsunami, the real world came crashing down on her and shoved her violently back into reality, where Emma and Indigo were sitting In her hospital room, along with someone from her group home.
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Post by kikistrike20 on Apr 1, 2010 6:22:09 GMT -5
"Are you alright?" asked Emma. Images brought up by the gun from her past distant threatened to come to the surface and she tried desperatly to push them down again. But no matter how hard seh tried, she couldn't forget that night...
"Emma, what are you doing in here? I told you to stay out of my office."
"What is thisstuff dad? What are these papers? Who are these girls? Are you hurting them?"
"It's not like that. You'll understand when you're older.'
"People always say that and it's not true. These girls are my age and you're selling them. i've got to tell the cops."
"I'm sorry, Emma, but I can't let you do that." (Pulls gun)
"Are you going to shoot me, Dad?"
"If that's what it takes."
Emma forced her self back to the present and tried to drown the memories, pushing them under. Now was not the time. Poppy needed her to be strong.
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Post by shadeofgray on Apr 7, 2010 15:35:10 GMT -5
A cheery nurse strode in the room. "Ah, good morning, Miss Montcliff! I see you slept well?" Poppy groaned.
"It's all right, if you still feel groggy don't try to talk. Just wait til the anesthesia wears off. Also, I wouldn't reccomend moving around a lot. You don't want to pull one of your stitches, do you?" She laughed.
"Now, if you need anything, the call button's right on that desk over there. Visiting hours start at seven a.m. and end at eight p.m. Have a nice day!" As soon as the nurse left the room, the woman from Poppy group home walked to her bedside.
"Oh Poppy, poor girl, are you feeling alright? I had to come here to make sure you hadn't...you know," She leaned over and whispered, "Overdosed. But I see your OK, and, um, you probably want to be alone with your friends...so you know my cell phone number, and you can call if anything goes wrong. Be strong, sweetie." She waltzed out of the room.
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Post by Holly on Apr 7, 2010 23:36:09 GMT -5
"Poppy?" Emma and Indigo entered the hospital room "They just let us in, are you all right? what happened? and, um, who was that lady? i mean you don't have to tell us if you don't want, um yeah anyway, can you sit up or are they making you lay down?"
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Post by kikistrike20 on Apr 8, 2010 14:02:21 GMT -5
"Hey," said Emma. "Is there anything I should do for you?" gun, her mind was whispering to her, there was a gun. She shrugged it off as best she could and squeezed Poppy's hand.
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Post by shadeofgray on Apr 17, 2010 10:58:27 GMT -5
"No," Poppy grunted. Everything felt sore, as if someone had taken her arms and legs and yanked them in opposite directions. And why...why was she here? In a hospital?
"Emma," she said. "What happened to me?"
Emma looked grim. "You were shot...in the stomach." Poppy face went pale.
"Really...cause I have this weird, stupid idea that uh..." She laughed at herself. "Kiki did it."
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Post by Holly on Apr 19, 2010 19:19:18 GMT -5
Indigo and Emma traded a glance "yeah, about that" Emma began "but we don't know for sure right?" interrupted Indigo "I mean there were a lot of people maybe, maybe?" she trailed off unable to come up for a good explanation that would explain what the other two had seen
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Post by kikistrike20 on Apr 20, 2010 6:21:03 GMT -5
"It probably wasn't her," said Emma, smiling and trying to exume more confidence than she felt. "We'll find whoever it was. I promise." Emma didn't know who that was, but looking down at Poppy, she knew one thing; whoever did this, even if it was Kiki Strike, was going to have a reckoning to deal with. She'd make sure of that.
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Post by shadeofgray on Apr 20, 2010 20:22:45 GMT -5
"Yeah," muttered Poppy, massaging her temples. "You're probably right." She rubbed her eyes and yawned. "Ahhh...when I get better, I'll help you with this, but until then..." Poppy surpressed an even bigger yawn. "Here's my number," she said, scribbling it down on a scrap of paper. "Maybe...until then, you guys should...try to investigate Kiki...maybe she'll know something." She slouched down in her bed.
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Post by kikistrike20 on Apr 23, 2010 7:29:55 GMT -5
"We will," promised Emma. She went out and went to a pay phone, typing in Kiki's #. Kiki's voice answered and Emma almost spoke, but the voice message recording kept talking. "I'm not going to tell you who I am, don't leave your name, number and a message, and i won't call you back." Emma sighed and hung up the phone and went back to where Indigo was waiting.
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