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Well, it's you and me baby no one else we can trust / We'll say nothin' to no one no how or we bust

WHO: Bakura, Alastair, Jono and Cole
WHERE: Hell Towers, 10th floor
WHEN: Right after this
WARNINGS: IDEK.
SUMMARY: Cops are coming to look for Saitou and find he's flown the coup
FORMAT: Paragraph? Quick? SOmething? Let's just start wiht para and see what happens!

Bakura ran down the hall to his friends' apartment, banging on the door. "Alastair-oniichan! Kiryuu-kun! Saitou-san! Are you in there?!"

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Bakura leaned in to the half embrace, seeming to almost be half hiding against his brother as he let himself be guided. "He's-- he's not--" he broke off, as if he just couldn't finish his sentance.

Jono followed Alistair inside, but didn't sit down: regardless, he tried not to loom too much.

"You might want to have a seat for this," he told the boys, then looked over at Cole and back.

"D'you mind if Officer MacGrath takes a look around?"

Jono wanted out of there. He was no good in these situations.

Cole followed in, taking his hands out of his pockets this time and rubbing his hands idly.

He gave Jono a brief 'wait, what' look before simply shrugging and nodding. These things weren't much of his forte either, especially having never been a police officer in his life. He never had to question anybody like this, much less search somebody's house. Was there some kind of 'right way' to do it, besides shuffling around...?

He looked at the others expectantly.

Best he kept his mouth shut in case he said something stupid.

Alastair looked from Jono to Cole with a slight sense of suspicion, but there wasn't anything he was hiding. Kiryu and Saitou hadn't even been back to grab clothes or bags or anything, they were just gone as if out for the day. "Yeah, I guess," he said without hesitating too long. "Just don't let the cat get out, she's around here somewhere."

He made Bakura go back and sit on the couch again. "Now. What's so big and important? What the hell's going on?"

Bakura was shaking a little as he went to sit, looking to be barely keeping himself together as he expected to hear the worst possible outcome.

"Last night, about the time we were handling the case in Central Park, Saitou Hajime assaulted Assistant Commissioner Maza," Jono said neutrally, then paused. "She is in the hospital as we speak. He was resisting arrest on grounds of murder. Saitou fled the scene, and we've not been able to trace him. Maza is in the hospital, currently."

He sighed. Bakura looked like he was about to fall apart.

"I don't think I have to tell you how bad this is."

"I'll... keep it in mind." Cole simply said with a raised eyebrow.

He watched them for a minute, eying Bakura especially. Poor kid. He tried to give the most reassuring look he could before he got to work. Figured he might as well start in this room, even if it was kind of awkward having some guy toss your stuff around in the middle of your conversation. The logic was that they could at least see what he was doing, but...

For now, he went around opening the drawers, cabinets, whatever was around to open as he carefully inspected the open surroundings.

He would have added something, but Jono pretty much summed up his feelings too.

Even though he knew what Saitou did months ago, having it stated like that even took Alastair aback enough that he didn't have to feign surprise. "What? He...did? Wait, murder - whose murder, what are you talking about?"

Bakura stared, utterly stunned. "He-- Saitou-san wouldn't-- he wouldn't do something like that!" he protested, voice shaking.

He also didn't have to fake any surprise, having utterly no idea of what had gone on at all.

"One John Cavil," Jono said; Hajime'd already broadcast it to the comm long ago, apparently, so there was no point in being discreet now.

"I'd not thought he could attack another officer, but he did at that," Jono said, voice slightly bitter; he tried to level out his tone. "We've evidence he did it, and not just from community posts."

"It's important that we catch up with him, and fast."

"... You never know, people suprise you sometimes." Cole murmured very quietly to himself at Bakura's comment as he kept poking around. Realized he said that outloud, he covered it up by adding to what Jono said.

"Before anything else happens."

He never talked to their 'suspect' much, so he didn't have much of an opinion on the guy or much of an idea what was 100% happening. But he knew what had to be done NOW.

Alastair allowed himself a moment's anger. "Cavil," he spat. "I already gave the police everything I have on that bastard, and what he did to Saitou. I don't know anything about any other murder, just what Cavil did to Kiryu and then Saitou."

In truth, he knew vaguely of it, but it had happened before he moved in with Kiryu, so it had never been his business. Besides, he wasn't one to talk about vengeance motives.

"I'm sorry to hear about the commissioner. She's a nice woman. But if Saitou had really wanted to hurt her she'd be dead by now. I don't know where he is, so I can't tell you anything."

"The-- the one that--"

What had happened to Saitou, Kiryuu's death he couldn't stop, the mass of fire and destruction--

Bakura's brain short circuited, stopping any further thoughts on the horrible things that had happened and he slowly slumped in his seat.

He couldn't deal with thinking about any of that now, so the only thing he could do was stop thinking and zone out, thinking of absolutely nothing.

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"And Saitou, instead of acting lawfully and using that evidence, took the law into his own hands and made a bad situation worse," Jono said tightly, trying not to lose his temper. Everything was falling apart right now.

"'The commissioner' is my friend," he continued carefully. "And friend to many others in the City. Saitou needs to be found, if only for his own safety." All the vengeance killing of the past week had sucked the City into a never-ending spiral, it seemed.

"Is he -" Jono looked with alarm over at Bakura. "Is he alright?"

Edited 2010-02-07 06:13 (UTC)

Cole had his back turned for most of those pieces of the conversation, just listened as he worked. So far, nothing. Nothing in this room. He was about to move over to another room, before Jono pointed out what Bakura was doing.

"...?"

His frowned deepened when he saw it, but he tried to soften his expression a bit before walking over and lightly nudging Bakura's shoulder.

"Hey."

"Hey, leave him alone!" Alastair put himself quickly between Bakura and the two cops, squeezing his shoulder gently. "He's been through a lot. After last night...this is probably just worse news on top of everything else."

He frowned at the two bigger men. "I told you Saitou's not here, and I don't know where he is. If you're not looking for something specific, then I think maybe you should leave pretty soon before Bakura completely shuts down. He's freaked out."

Bakura leaned in slightly at the squeeze, but didn't seem to react to the poke, almost as if, to him, Alastair was the only person in the room.

[[OoC: At this point, his brain is just filtering out anyone but Alastair and he's not gonna respond to anything in English, so he's pretty skipable]]

"Let's search the apartment quick and get out of here," Jono said to Cole under his breath, stepping back to give the boys some room. They really weren't giving any indications of harbouring Saitou, much less fully comprehending what was going on, and he really didn't feel like arguing any more with Alastair.

"Look, is he going to need any help?" Jono addressed Alastair, looking with concern over at Bakura. "We can get him to the hospital right quick; he doesn't look so good."

Edited 2010-02-07 18:53 (UTC)

"..." Okay, bad idea on his part. Cole gave Bakura one last concerned look before holding a hand up in mock defeat.

"I will." Cole took a hint and went off quick to continue his searching.

"It's all right," Alastair grumbled. "He's...just traumatized or something. I'll take care of him." His anger was ebbing, so he just gave Jono a look over his shoulder. But he didn't tell them which room was his and which belonged to Saitou and Kiryu - he decided to let them figure that out for themselves. Nothing in his room violated any laws anyway, and aside from some socks on the floor, wasn't all that embarrassing either.

Edited 2010-02-07 18:59 (UTC)

"Just traumatized?" Jono lifted an eyebrow. "Look, d'you still have those references for grief counselling I gave last night? It might be a good idea to contact one of them."

With that, Jono took off to help Cole with searching; the kitchen and bathroom yielded nothing and he joined Cole in searching the last bedroom, with similar results.

To be honest, he wasn't quite sure what they were looking for; either Saitou himself, or corroborating evidence of the erstwhile Lieutenant's planned subordination, or any pieces of paper saying "Dear Journal, today I murdered Cavil." No such incriminating documents appeared to be present, at any rate.

"Waste of time." Cole murmured quietly to himself, now that those kids weren't within an earshot. He glanced over at Jono. "Lassiter wants me to report to him when we get back. I'll let him know."

Alastair, meanwhile, moved the comms aside and sat down next to Bakura, rubbing his knee in encouragement. There wasn't anything he could say until the cops left, but he wanted to make sure his "little brother" knew he was there and not leaving.

Bakura reached out, putting a hand on Alastair's and clinging to it. "Oniichan..." he said in a very soft and almost distant voice.

"Right," Jono said to Cole. "There's not much else we can do here, mate. We'd be best off going back."

He hoped they would catch Saitou soon; he owed the bloke a punch in the teeth after all of this.

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Bakura can be skipped for a while, he's not gonna acknowledge the outside world a little bit

Nyrah crashing now - Cole can take over if you don't wanna put it on hold

That's okay, I might crash soon too just so you guys know.

no worries. just tag when you tag, but we'll skip Baku for IC reasons

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whoops, sorry! I just woke up.

is all good :D

no worries 8D

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Blargh sorry for the delay