Adelaide Hawkins WILL say the wrong thing. (gracelessheart) wrote in immune_ic, @ 2012-02-28 18:18:00 |
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Entry tags: | # 2012 [02] february, brandon |
WHO: Adelaide and Brandon
WHAT: Explanation
WHERE: Charlie's record store
WHEN: 2pm, February 28, 2019
Adelaide stood in front of the record store, one arm crossed over herself, the other hand pressed against her mouth, eyes on the ground. It was an utterly terrible way to stand on a New York sidewalk in the middle of a zombie apocalypse, but her dog paced the space in front of her, and her back was pressed to the solid brick wall of the shop. There were throwing knives held in a band above her knee under the blue linen skirt she wore, and her snub-nosed hand gun was tucked into the waist, but she wasn’t really thinking of the weapons.
She was going to just go ahead and tell Stone goddamn everything. Not because she wanted to, getting it off of her chest wouldn’t be a relief so much as a humbling experience, at least at first. It was for Rodeo that she thought she had to – if there weren’t any surprises, she couldn’t get him in trouble any more, couldn’t get him kicked out of his own life simply by stepping into it.
The thing that had her so shaken up was that she hadn’t even been trying to cause any trouble with Lilah Stone. It had never occurred to her that the reaction would be so sudden and complete. And she’d never, never expected her brother to talk to her the way he had, and it only served to make her know just how completely she needed to avoid anything like this anywhere in the future. So she would spill it all to Brandon Stone, who though he didn’t agree with her ringleader assessment, undeniably had a place at the center of a whole shitload of spokes that connected back to Rodeo.
She had to make it perfectly clear that just because she had bad ties, just because she fucked up a lot, didn’t mean that they had to look askance at the man who had raised her. She would explain herself, her ties and why she kept them, and they could goddamn do what they liked with her after that.
Jims still had to be protected, though, and she had thought through that probably more so than the rest.