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jason cantley ( werewolf ) . (wildinside) wrote in light_of_may, @ 2014-12-23 17:11:00

Who: Jason and Anastasia.
Where: The streets of Scarlet Oak.
When: Late night.

There were some tricks that were so much easier to pull off with more of the pack present but this sort of thing required some degree of discretion, just enough finesse and quiet to keep people from looking your way until it was absolutely too late. In the time he had been active in the circuit Jason knew the kinds of tricks that would keep him from turning heads -- at least those that would cause a fuss and make noise he would much rather avoid, the sort that would draw attention and bring the whole thing crashing down around his ears -- and so he always took the lead on things like this and only ever brought one person with him. Maybe two if he thought that was absolutely necessary.

Anastasia had joined the pack after he had but she had been with them a long time by now, longer than the others, and as difficult as it was for Jason to bond with anyone the girl to his side had managed to form one with him anyway. She didn’t cower when he snapped, she called him on his bullshit, and she could stand up for herself. Bernhard through and through. Devon would have been proud of her. She knew how to keep her head down and she could watch his back for him while he worked.

“Put these on,” he had said to her as he’d drawn the gloves from his back pocket, “just in case.” After donning his own gloves the tool had come out next, the long thin shaft narrow enough to slot down the inside of a car’s door and pop the lock. That was the easy part. It was what came next that would take time and care. Getting the bloody thing started without drawing too much attention was always the tricky part of stealing a car.

Halfway through sliding the tool down the narrow gap between the panel and the window Jason paused, turning his head to look at Ana, keeping his body language casual, as though he belonged there next to the car he was intending to steal. “You want to have a go?” he asked her, just a hint of a smile on his face. No time like the present to learn, right?