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Charlie Crews (i_zen) wrote in we_coexist,
@ 2011-09-20 20:00:00

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charlie crews, jennifer government, zatanna zatara

Woman locked in house, send assistance (Zatanna, Jennifer)
The storm had turned everything topsy-turvy. With some of his fellow police officers, Charlie was out canvasing streets in hopes of preventing looting, what there could be of it. He didn't even understand how the City wasn't cleaning things up; hadn't there been a Godzilla attack once? He was pretty certain someone had said that that had happened. He like those other police officers, who knew he was a detective but let him help out anyway, weren't worried about what the City wasn't doing; they had to worry about the citizen's of the City.

The detective had left a message with Ted, telling him that the damage to their mansion was minimal, not that they really had to worry about up keep. Ted had a large some of money after all, and Charlie wasn't that concerned with what happened to what he possessed. Possessions were nothing in the end. He had called someone to come look after the trees though; the orchard needed to be tended.

Charlie then called his partner. He hadn't talked to her in a while, at least socially. They'd had a few brushes at work, but nothing that had them working together which was a little odd seeing as they were partners. He missed her. He thought he might have scared her after their last big discussion. In fact, he missed her enough to call her back after he got a report that some woman was locked in her house. While it wasn't murder, Charlie felt they could try to figure this out together anyway. He got her on the phone the second time he called, and while he headed over, he gave her the address and the situation.

It seemed that neighbors had noticed that some woman was screaming bloody murder, or just yelling really loudly depending on who was asked. She wasn't coming out, and she might be locked in. Being locked in a house was odd, seeing as most of the buildings on the street had lost windows and some doors to the storm. Yet, the house seemed to have weathered things rather well. That was a small mystery in itself.

The detective headed up slowly to the front door. If he were one to put much faith in movies, he'd say this was one of those places horror movies happened. It was rife with the mystique and creep necessary to pull of a good horror movie. Thankfully, Charlie chalked it all up to this being a house recovering from a storm, a very lucky house.

"Unless it's not." He stood a few steps from the door. "Could have monsters inside, but what self-respecting monster would be inside when there is murder and mayhem to be had? Unless it's not one of those monsters." He had to give this one a small think through. Eventually he would get to the door.

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i_rebel
2011-09-21 01:49 am UTC (link)

Jennifer had rushed over when she'd gotten the call. Not really with the focus on helping, but she wanted to see her partner. So much had gone on and they'd not had any chance to speak. And they hadn't seen one another at all since the were-things.

She had no idea what he was talking about. Where he had come up with monsters was anyone's guess. Despite being zen for a day, Jennifer had not quite gotten the hang of Charlie's brain. She could handle most of it, but when he started talking in the middle of a thought, that was when she had the trouble. Though, to be fair to herself, she thought anybody would.

"I'm going to guess that you got bitten." She said, ignoring his monster spiel. "Considering that I didn't hear a goddamned thing from you. So what did you become?"

Jennifer rubbed her eyes and looked at the house. She'd never heard of anybody being locked inside before. And she had no idea why that somebody would be screaming like that unless they were being killed in some really horrible way. Yet, the yelling continued uninterrupted by silly things like death.

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i_kaeps
2011-09-21 01:56 am UTC (link)

To say Zee was pissed off would be applying a new definition to the phrase. Upon waking this morning she noticed something was different. While not entirely unusual for Shadowcrest typically the Gotham skyline didn't change. The house had apparently moved in the middle of the night without her being aware of it.

However, when she had padded downstairs to go out the front door and investigate the house got stubborn. The door wouldn't open. Neither would any of the windows. She tried breaking them magically and physically. Nope. Zilch. Now she'd been locked OUT of Shadowcrest before, but never locked IN Shadowcrest and the damn house wasn't explaining anything. Which was usual.

So there she was. Pulled on the front door and shouting at her house. "YOU STUPID PIECE OF JUNK I'M GOING TO TURN YOU INTO A SPLIT LEVEL IF YOU DON'T OPEN THIS DOOR!" Which opened just as the two got to the porch, pretty much leaving her to shouting in their faces.

	Re: (ooc: Sorry! Notif fail!) i_rebel 2011-10-04 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	How did Charlie know Batman was here? Jennifer was definitely going to have a chat with him now. "Dean Winchester." She shrugged. "I don't know. I met him when I got here, and saw him again on the ship with Spock." She may not have told Charlie about that, she realized. "Anyway, Ms Zatara, welcome to The City." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)