Characters: Remy "Gambit" LeBeau Tagging: Clarice "Blink" Fergerson, Deah "Hack" Cooper Location: Hack's lab Timeline: Present. Description: The chase is over, time for the final reward. Gambit brings Blink to Hack.
It had been a few days since Remy had captured Clarice, and he had unfortunately had to keep her drugged and tied up, wrists behind her back and ankles bound, whilst they journeyed back across the country to return to New York, him having been lead on a merry chase by the young woman. Normally he would have enjoyed it but this time? This time it was different. He felt that he was doing her wrong by handing her over, but a deal was a deal. Business was business no matter how foul it may seem at the time. Once he was paid that was it, he was cutting and leaving. He wanted no ties to the business, to Deah or Sinister. He was never going to work for them again. Not if he could help it.
The drive back had been uncomfortable, mostly him talking to the unconscious mutant in the back, or talking at her and feeling her glaring at the side of his face or the back of his head. Talk about uncomfortable.
When they finally reached the meeting point, Remy grabbed his key card and let himself in - not that he needed it really, he was sure he would have been able to break in anyway if he had wanted to. He had untied Clarice's ankles so she could walk, sparing her the indignity of being carried around ass forward, but he knew she would try and escape and had tied a piece of rope around her neck, linking it to the one around her wrists so that any kind of movement above the give of the rope would cut off her air supply. He hated it, and resolved to untie it as soon as they were inside. They headed into the lab, Remy hushing her every time she tried to speak, glad he had given her another dose of the talent-suppressing drug earlier that day. It would mean he could clear off without her coming after him, and he would have held up his end of the bargain.
"Come out, come out wherever y' are." he called quietly as they entered the main lab. "'s Gambit, an' I got de girl. Now can we finish dis so I c'n get outta here and shower in bleach?" he asked, tightening his fingers around Blink's arm just in case she tried to escape, or in case something went wrong and he had to pull her away.
The door hissed shut behind them and he reached into his pocket, pulling out a flick-knife. He cut the rope around Clarice's neck and then took a firm hold of her arm again as he waited for Deah to show herself.
"I ain't got all day, Hack, so c'mon, showers don' wait for no man."