OOC-Everythign has been summarized in a new thread as requested. And now without further ado, my final story before the event stars tommorow.
IC.
11/02/2005 - I feeling good about Saturday's meeting, as I leave the club. We decided to get together before the meeting and layout an agenda, so we can all bring the propper information to the meeting. Until we elect the chair person, we voted and decided I should lead the meetings, take notes, and keep things moving. It's the story of my life, extra responsability, no extra pay.
I'm walking down a near empty ally way, I can hear my heels echoing all around me. Up ahead I see the person I'm looking for. I don't know his real name, but i call him Stan, anytime I need something "special" I go and see Stan. Stan called me yesterday to say my order was in.
"How ya doing Stan?"
"Ahh, Ms. Flux, I'm doing well, thank you for asking, I have your order right here."
I give him a quick hug, and slip 20K into his pocket. In return he hands me a good sized package. He's looking at me, waiting for me to open the package. As I'm about to undo the twine holding the paper on, I feel the small hairs on the back of my neck stand on end, and get the feeling there is someone watching me. I drop the package, draw my gun and turn around.
"HELLO?" I call out. It's getting dark, and I squint as I look around for someone that might answer me back. The only response I get to my call is a lightning flash in the distance. I look at my arms, I have goose bumps. I turn back around, but I still have my gun out. Stan looks pale.
"Are you ok Ms. Flux?"
"No I'm not, Stan, someone, or something is watching us, can't you feel it?"
"Ofcourse not Ms. Flux, you know I wasn't programmed for anything so complicated, I was however programmed for curiosity, so tell me, what do you feel."
He was looking at me quizically now, i thought about just picking up the package and leaving. I didn't usually talk to Stan beyond pleasantries, and how much I enjoyed getting special orders from him. There was something different about him tonight though. I can't explain what was different, but it didn't feel wrong, so i told him. I told him about Invelesco, I told him how Invelesco had once shown me how powerful he was, I told him when Invelesco looked at you, it was like someone was watching you sleep. I told him how helpless I always felt when I knew someone was watching me sleep. Then I told him the feeling I had right now, was ten times worse, and ten times stronger.
The entire time I was talking the look in his eyes never changed. And when I was done talking he asked me why I came out of the club tonite.
"Business." I told him, after all, he didn't need to know about the council, about the truce.
"Oh." He responded.
"You **bleep**." I said to him as the smile wiped off his face. He had changed while I was talking to him, he's the reason the hairs on the back of my neck were standing on end. He's the presence I felt just a moment ago.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!" I screamed into the night.
Smack. Stand just slapped me.
"You!" I glared at Stan.
"I'm sorry if I have done something to offend Ms. Flux." He seemed back to his normal self again.
"What just happened to you Stan, you changed their for a minute." I said in response to his apology.
"I'm not sure what you mean Ms. Flux, just a minute ago I asked you to tell me about the feeling you had, and then you looked at me for a couple minutes and just startd screaming. When you didn't respond to me saying your name, I Slapped you." He explained to me in a very calm voice, a very Stan like voice.
I didn't know what to say, had I just imagined the change in Stan, or had he really been different? I didn't know the answer, but I was not going to stick around and find out. I still had goosebumps, and I didn't want to be alone anymore.
"I think i should head back to my ship now Stan, Thank you for the new boots, I'll see you next week." as said as I walked down the near empty alley with my new shoes still in their twine wrapped package. As I turned the corner towards Appolyon Square I knew I had to let the other Coucil members know about the feeling I just had.
"Operator, get a hold of NewNeo01, Bonopi, Trucidos, and Viscidos, I have some information for them."
"Sure thing DF."
It's amazing how quickly things can go from good to bad, I think to myself as I head to the southeast hardline.