((Leona Van Kamp continued from Arcadia )) The crack of Rebecca's knee reverberated, replayed, echoed in Leona's ears, even as she fled from the suburbs.  She could still feel the pressure of her friend's knee on the sole of her foot. But the interesting part, really, was how it seemed like the corr...

((Sorry guys, I gotta get Katy dead.)) Yaz went right and Katy didn't catch the hint that she was supposed to follow.  The place was empty.  Katy was sure Yaz would be fine by herself.  Katy turned and went the opposite way.  There were a couple classrooms she wanted to check out. She slipped across...

"Easy there, Daphne."  Katy said, a little nonplussed by Janie's apparent exuberance at stepping into what, for all they know was an imminent pile of shit.  "We're in a life-threatening situation, not solving a groovy goddamn mystery." Katy kicked an eraser that had fallen on the...

She was a wolf in the midst of sheep.  The conversation they were all having let Katy know that right now.  They all wanted to hunker down, hide like scared little kittens and hope nothing happened. Katy almost went with her initial inclination to just leave all of them, but something Rebecca said c...

Katy had one of her own unsatisfying granola bars.  She took a bite of it between her jaws and chewed, using the moment to think about what she was going to say.  Her mom always told her that was one of her problems, that she didn't like to think before she said anything.  She just thought it was be...

((Katy Warren continued from Start it with a Positive Jam )) Sleep was something to be grateful for, though Katy barely did it through the night.  Non-threats or not, she wasn't about to be ready to trust any of these girls completely.  So Katy had drifted in and out of a sort of half-doze throughou...

Katy stuck the grenade back into her bag before she followed Yaz out.  She had wanted to throw it, of course.  But the first time it hadn't worked out.  Well, it had "incapacitated her target" as the weapons manual had explained it was supposed to do.  But the target really hadn't needed i...

Yaz went in.  Katy yanked another grenade out of her pack.  If she caught wind of bullshit then all three of the girls were catching an eye and an earful.  She doubted it would come to that, but still; this was a delicate situation they all found themselves in. Yaz said hi, and Katy smirked at how l...

"Rebecca Kiesling."  Katy worked her mouth around the name, as if she didn't like the taste of it.  Another one of the low-hanging fruit.  Dancer who fucked up her knee or something and now all she did was dance around in her underwear for her shitty magician friend.  In all, probably not ...

(( Katy Warren continued from   Hajime )) Katy was amused as she watched her companion as they entered the elementary school.  Bitch was so tiny she might as well have been 8 or something, and she fit right in. Then she was asking Katy what she thought they should do? "Fuck should I know?  Last...

Where Jenna went down with some semblance of a fight, Timothy just seemed to wilt, as if Leona had simply poked a hole in an inflatable pool.  She almost laughed at the image before he cried for his mother.  She stifled the laugh; seemed altogether disrespectful. The glass knife disapeared with a fl...

Leona might have been able to muse on the fact that doing all of this got easier with each one.  But then, it would have been difficult to do in the first place.  When she had decided to take Jenna out of the game, it had been a binary choice, with little gray to muddle the proceedings.  Jenna repre...

Leona gave Tim a nod.

"Good to hear.  It's hard to stay intact around here.  You go ahead.  I'll see you around."

Her eyes flicked again to the pack on Tim's back.  The hand in her jacket gripped the shard of glass tighter.

A strand of hair fell into Leona's eye, and she flipped her head to move it back.  Her lips curled up at the ends, a slight smile.  By now her eyes were boring into Tim.   She shrugged at the question. "Why anyone does anything, I guess."  She leaned forward, starting to rock her weight fr...

The steadiness of the clip of the perishing was simply astounding.  Leona wondered at the stamina of her classmates to be able to sustain it for so long. She guessed it helped that she was a contributor. Maybe would be a little longer, by the way Timothy looked.  He was staring, unwavering.  He look...