Meeting the First

[Tybalt]

Tybalt waved a dismissive hand. "Ladies, ladies. I am establishing a hit list, and unless I say otherwise-as in the case of the Lexemes-they will be hits, understand." Tybalt retrieved a paper that was from a set of personalized stationary from England. He cleared his throat. "So far, Killer and I have put our heads together and come up with some possiblities for hits. People who are dangerous to us and so on..." Tybalt looked at them. "Yes, so... I have Mush Meyers, Levi Akecheta, Ace and Kitten, Hunter, Hawkeye, Jack Kelly, Spot Conlon, Liam O'Reilly, Poet, Goldie Freeman, a girl named Snoop, Spade, and Chase Neumann." Tybalt looked up from the list. "I doubt we'll touch Jack, Spot, or Hawkeye, seeing as they are the type to expect this. If you take them on, make sure you do not miss. You miss and everything is blown. Do you have any add-ons?"

Killer raised his hand. "The fairies." He growled.

"From what you have told me, neither are threatening. We leave them off unless they change considerably. Also, I forgot, Malleus and Justin Larson." Tybalt nodded. "And for captures, Mercutio Lexeme, Ophelia Lexeme, Rosie Lexeme, Abby, Hope, and let us see..." He tapped his chin. "Any child you come across, so long as we know they are important to the so-called 'leaders'."

[Dani California]

Dani listened to all the names, remembering each name, "Snoop? Sounds like a sneak to me. And a couple of those are the leaders right? I say we get some of them on our side, and then kill them after we kill the rest." She got a bit amused when Killer mentioned, 'the fairies.' Obviously he didn't like the 'fairies.' Seeing as he had the name Killer, she decided to not tease him about it. She had learned it is far better to keep your mouth shut rather than tease him about it.

Most didn't lead a criminal life, but she liked it. Dani didn't bother with knifes, she just kept to her guns. "So King," she asked, "Who's first target? Are they a kill or just bring 'em back to ya?" Hopefully she got first kill. Most liked being first, first place, first to do a bunch of other stuff, but for some reason, to Dani having first kill was an honor. Didn't know why, it just was to her, maybe because she felt she had to prove herself to this side of the country that she could kill.

[Ryder]

Fashionably late would be an understatement but at least he came, that was more than some would expect. Ryder walked in, his eyes immediately falling on the blond girl, he had been quite amused with her before, he had expected her to show up in a gang like this. He cleared his throat as he walked up, leaning against the wall beside Mischief and he looked over at Tybalt,sizing the leader up,"I'd actualleh like to add to yer list if ya don't mind King," he spoke up right off the bat, having heard the list on his way in. "The Lucky girl...she's been causin' alot of trouble around these parts actually, flirting with the Mercury fellow, he is married is he not? That is rather suspicious,"he commented.

Mischief's eyes shot up at the sound of Ryder's voice and when he leaned next to her on the wall she felt chills run down her spine ever so slightly, their last encounter had not been pretty. "Ryder..."she greeted softly nodding to him. Ryder smirked at the sound of her voice and let his eyes fall back to her,"Yes?"he asked her as if she had asked him a question. She glared at him running her left hand over the blade she held in her right,"It was a greeting not a question..."she seethed under her breath at him. He laughed softly and brought his hand to the side of her face,"Of course it was sweetheart, yet your eyes tell me differently,"he commented for only her to hear as he watched her react to him, not pulling away, he could sense the slight fear emmitting from her, but he dare not point it out to the rest of the group, he may be merciless but he was not one to throw one of his own under the bridge like that. He brushed his hand against her cheek and met her eyes,"I see I'll have to be careful around you...you have the blade this time around,"he said. She scoffed,"Hands off,"she growled as she looked over at Tybalt, she couldn't believe he'd let such filth into his gang.

[Peep]

Tybalt nodded to Ryder. It had been Killer's suggestion to let him in. Tybalt thought they almost had the same air about them... Deadly. But he was paying Killer not only to kill, but protect. As in protect him. Tybalt thought about it. "Sure... We can include Lucky. I guess are first target will be someone small, so I can see what you're all made of. Let's make our first target..." He looked around the room.

"I have a suggestion." Peep said, emerging from the tunnels. He flashed a bright and almost clueless smile around the cave. He looked like he didn't know what was going on, but he did. He always knew what was going on. And he remembered everything, the list, the names, the criminals. He always remembered. The only way to shut him up was to kill him. "How about you start with Georgia Rae Freeman. As I hear it, she's usually by herself, right? 'Cause that one over there killed her cousin, so she doesn't want to deal with any white people, right?" Peep asked innocently, dancing away from anyone who had weapons.

Killer stood and pulled out his knife, but Tybalt held out his hand. "And you are?"

"Peep. I'm an imformant. That information was for free. For anything else, you have to pay me. A grand for each piece. No matter what I say." Peep nodded. "Even seemingly inconsequential pieces of information can be vastly important. Like that Rosalind Lexeme's favorite food is cinnamon buns? Or that Mischief is sleeping with Chase Neumann? Or that Ophelia Lexeme will do anything to get Mush Meyers back?" He winked at Tybalt. "As their fearless leader, you should know this stuff."

[Ryder]

Mischief's eyes went wide at the boy who had spoken and she swiftly stepped away from Ryder and she approached the man, forcing him against he wall, she did not like it when people knew her business,"How did you know that?"she growled her hand pressed forcefully against the boy's chest as she glared into his eyes. She was not going to be kicked out because this boy had a smart mouth and knew things about her nobody should know. She was about ready to use her blade if she had to but when she moved to do so, Ryder grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her back. "Leave him be Mischief..."he told her sternly as he forced her back to her spot,"Watch your tongue and who you associate yerself with,"he told her as he grabbed the blade from her. Mischief looked up into Ryder's eyes, she didn't understand why he was seemingly protecting her, but she would not argue.

Ryder had her up against the wall away from Peep and he looked over his shoulder at Tybalt, wondering if with what Peep had just revealed, this would ruin Mischief? He cleared his throat slightly, keeping his hand against Mischief's shoulder making sure she did not move, he knew if she really wanted out she would try but she wasn't so he knew she'd stay put. "That gonna be put against her King? I mean the kid is on yer list....or..." he put his gaze back on Mischief, bringing the blade he had taken from her to her pale cheek and smirking,"We could use her as bait...she can easily kill yer Chase boy.."he suggested. He could see the anger in her eyes and she watched the blade as he pressed it lightly against her skin, not enough to break through yet though.

"That's how you became part of their crowd isn't it Mischief?"he questioned. Mischief looked him in the eyes and nodded simply,"I have my ways as do you..."she replied simply.

[Dani California]

Dani listened, and watched all of them. There were two new guys now, and apparently one of them, the new informant, knew way to much. She took out the pistol, "Listen Peep, I want ta know a little bit 'bout these targets, tell me 'bout them. I wanna know which one will be the funnest to kill." Hopefully that would distract everyone. Even though she found it completely ironic that Mischief and a target would be together. But then again it was kind.... romantic, cause then she'd have to have the choice to kill or not.

But then again, she knew no one here. She aimed the pistol around the room, lingering on things for a while, she let her aim linger at Peep, the gun held lazily in her hand, "Because if I dont know about targets, then I dont know how I want to kill them, short range or long range ya know?" she moved her aim over to the cracks in the walls, moving the pistol with her aim. If the guy honestly thought Dani was gonna shoot him, she would have laughed, but she didnt.

[Shadow]

"Jesus Ryder, you make it seem like yer the one sleepin' wit her...." this comment came out of his mouth as he almost seemed to emerge from the shadows and his eyes gazed upon the scene, he'd worked with Ryder a few times, actually found him to be quite a decent guy for the most part. Shadow smirked as he looked over at the other members, the girl that questioned Peep, he could tell easily by the way she was holding her gun she was not intending on hurting anybody right then and there, even if she did have it aimed at the informant man. He smiled to himself, he wondered if she thought it was not obvious. He sat down on a crate not far from where Ryder had Mischief and he looked over at King,"I realleh could careless about the money, I do the job fer sheer pleasure to be honest, the money is jus' a bonus, but whateveh ya tell me to do I'll do it,"he said simply.

Mischief's eyes followed the newcomer boy when he had made his first comment, it made her want to laugh but she kept quiet, Ryder's hand was too close to her neck for comfort, if she laughed at it, she feared he'd grab her throat. She heard Ryder chuckle slightly,"Shadow...." he muttered in amusement and she felt Ryder's hand drop from her shoulder to rest in the middle of her chest, securing her against the wall better as he looked over his shoulder at his "friend". "What makes you think I haven't slept with her?" Ryder commented, this pissed Mischief off but she was in no position to retalliate. Shadow scoffed from his crate and looked the two up and down,"the look she's giving you right now, says it all....she down right thinks you shouldn't be here...thinks yer worthless, don't ya doll?"Shadow's eyes shot to Mischief and he expected a response.

Mischief looked between everyone in the room for a moment, this jerk Peep just had to walk in and turn this into an interrogation on her. She took in a breath and let her eyes go blank in a stare as she looked over at Shadow,"It could be so, but it is not my place to choose who is here and who is not so if he is here he is here fer a reason,"she stated. Ryder looked at her catching her eye,"Good response, keep it that way,"he muttered to her in an agrivated tone, he still needed to know if Tybalt was going to hold this Chase business over the girl's head or not.

[Tybalt]

Peep grinned. "Oh, I see... You'll use force right? You know the old rule don't you? So long as there's breath in my lungs, I can send my message." Peep looked at the girl with the gun. "You act like you're actually gonna hurt me. C'mon, I have something you want, and you have something I want..." He held out his hand. Tybalt exchanged a glance with Killer then passed the boy a roll of bills. This boy was smart. Peep counted it lazily. "The funnest, eh? I think if you want noise, go with Goldie, she'll put up a fight. Want it quiet but with lots of begging? Ophelia... Want someone who will just swear you to death? Ace of Lucky. Kitten will curse you, but not in a language you can understand. Ace will make sure you understand."

Tybalt blinked. "How do you know this?" He asked quietly.

"You've got to listen? Like I heard some pretty interesting things in the Lodging House. Something like... bed springs..." Peep looked at Mischief with his bright eyes. "That boy really cannot go very long, can he?" He asked innocently, smartly stepping away from her and Ryder, the Shadow man to make sure.

Tybalt held up his hands. "Everyone, be quiet. I could care less about Mischief or anyone's personal affairs. Neumann will remain on the list unless she can provide decent evidence that he will not cause us problems." Tybalt said quietly. Killer nodded, rubbing his leg.

"But if you kill Ace, he will want retribution. He's a hot head, that one." Peep murmured.

[Ryder]

"Vous dont le fils d'une chienne je vous suggère met la main de moi avant que je vous castre," Mischief spoke through gritted teeth as she glared at Ryder who still held her blade to her cheek. Ryder's eyes shot back to Mischief,"my my, is that really lady like Mischief?"he purred as he dropped his hand from her chest and twirled the blade in his hand before handing it back to her. Shadow chuckled and smirked,"I like her...she's quite spunky if you ask me, Ryder you have good taste in who you torment,"he said before quieting down when Tybalt said to. Mischief took the blade from Ryder and flipped it closed shoving it into her pocket as she folded her arms over her chest and looked over at Peep when he opened his mouth again.

"You do not know him as I do...wait? The lodging house, when was this? Tell me, unlike Dani, I will hurt you,"she told him, she was not willing to believe that Chase would be sleeping around with Ace behind her back, the boy was too nice to do such a thing....but then again he thought she was innoccent he could fool her just as she did him. She eyed Peep before pulling her gaze away to Tybalt,"Either way they are both on the list, he and Ace so no matter what depending on who you strike at first depends on who retalliates for revenge,"she said. Ryder leaned his shoulder against the wall, brushing it lightly against Mischief's as he too looked at their fearless leader,"which one is less likely to go down without much trouble?"he asked in curiousity before he looked over to Killer and smirked slightly, he was being rather quiet, normally he knew Killer to have some kind of smart allick remark.

Shadow ran a hand through his hair as he lit up a cigarette and listened nodding in thought to everyone's input,"Can i ask you something King?"he asked looking over at Tybalt, it was probably a question that everyone would be curious to hear the answer to.

((translation: Vous dont le fils d'une chienne je vous suggère met la main de moi avant que je vous castre : You S.O.B I suggest you get your hands off of me before I castrate you))

[Dani California]

Dani shrugged, "Hm... I like a challenge, but if Goldie's not white can't hurt her, made a deal with a couple of color's about hurtin' them. They got my back and I dont feel like killin' them... Ophelia... I could work with that. Oh, and Peep, if I was you I'd actually listen to Mischief, cause she probably would. I wouldn't, your... too valuable at the moment." she lowered the gun, and saw the cards again. It was always fun to have targets like cards, cause you set a goal for what you shot, and you tried to stick with it.

She got quiet when Tylbalt said so, and couldn't help but wonder what the guy's question was. It could affect all of them... sure, she probably looked more like the kind of girl you'd see around the water, and not out shooting, but that's what helped her. Dani might have an edge in getting information, since she probably was one of the youngest there. Peep was definitely younger, how she could tell? He just acted younger. Looking around, she wished she could go grab her stuff, that way she wouldn't have to wait till dawn. As soon as Dani knew what she had to do, she was getting her stuff.

As long as no one took her stuff, that is. That board was one of her prized possessions, besides her gun. Any California kid knew that. That's why she kept them hidden. Dani probably wouldn't have any time for riding, well, that and from she could see not that big of a surf in New York, which crushed her a little. Oh well, at least she wouldn't have to teach any of these guys how to ride waves, because she'd rather not go steal a paddle just to use the board. If there was a good tide coming in then she'd probably drop what she was doing and go out and ride the waves.

[Peep]

Peep rolled his eyes at Mischief. "I was talking about you and him. And your little, er, rendevouz." He sighed. "But yes, if you must know, Neumann is sleeping around with Ace too. He's a little devi, ain't he? And to top it off, he was no stamina... Bada bing, bada boom. Over and done with in thirty seconds flat." Peep whistled. "You sure know how to pick 'em? First Killer, then these two idiots, and now Neumann?" Peep said, pointing at Killer, Ryder, and Shadow.

Tybalt slammed his fist on the table. "Enough!" He glared at all of them, his grey eyes stormy. His relation to Mercury, Ophelia, and Street was suddenly apparent. He looked at Killer. The man nodded and stood, grabbing Peep by the front of his shirt and slamming him into a wall.

"Look, little Peeper, shut your mouth unless we ask you a question." Killer pulled the boy to his feet, then off the floor, he searched the informant's pockets and pulled out the roll of bills, tossing them to Tybalt, who caught them flawlessly. "Now, got anything else to say?"

"How's your mum, Al?" Peep asked, rather cheekily. Tybalt shook his head. Killer roared and threw Peep into the wall, where the boy slid down it, and lay there without moving.

"Anyone else got somethin' to say?" Killer asked. He glared at them all angrily.

Tybalt cleared his throat. "You wanted to ask something, Ryder?" Tybalt asked politely, like Killer had just not slammed Peep against a wall, knocking him out. He pointedly ignored the younger boy.

[Ryder]

"That was me actually," Shadow said when Tybalt got back to being calm. Shadow hopped off his crate and walked over to stand on Mischief's other side casually and leaned his back against the wall as she was doing. "I was wondering what happens if any of us do not obey orders, stray, betray you? But I gues it is rather clear now,"he said gesturing toward the motionless boy on the floor. "Good show by the way Killer...."he added with a nod, he was rather impressed by the entire lot of them and the Peep boy had been getting on his nerves since he showed up.

Mischief looked over at Killer wondering to herself if he was truely aggrivated with the boy for simply what he had said or if there were other reasons behind it. She fell silent and looked down, her blond waves of hair draping into her pale face as she began to feel out of place for once. Ryder looked over at Killer and grinned before turning to Mischief, something was wrong with the girl, if she could stand there and look so out of place and not move, not say another word, she obviously had more on her mind than he had thought. He tilted his head before turning back to Tybalt,"I am sure the punishment is deeper than being thrown to unconciousness,"he corrected Shadow.

Shadow nodded,"Of course, but that was a taste of it pretty much so,"he explained. Mischief looked up finally and her gaze went back to Killer, how did Peep know? Was it really that obvious? It couldn't be...and Ryder, she had nothing to do with him emotionally, he had just tormented her, taunted her and tried to get a rise out of her as he had always done.

[Dani California]

Dani watched Peep get hurt, and shrugged it off, leaning against a wall with her arms crossed, trying to watch what she could. She still couldn't help but wince a little, "You got it chief, I definitely wont get on your nerves." Looking around she scanned the faces of the rest of the Cartel, there was Mischief, Ryder, Tybalt, Killer, Peep, wait... wasn't there another one, Shadow or something? She tensed up a bit, cause when one criminal goes missing, they were bound to try and hurt the others. That's just how she thought.

Keeping on a look of calm, she tried to figure out who was gonna die first, and she kind of hoped it would be her who killed them. Again, Dani was just one of those kids who just had to do something first, she guessed it was a side affect of being the middle child in a literal sense. She was the eighth kid out of fifteen, she had to work hard back then to just get noticed, but not anymore. Now, if her parents ever tried to find her, they'd have a lot to answer too, with a gun pointed to their heads.

[Tybalt]

Tybalt nodded. "Yes, as you can tell, Killer will be handing all punishments. They'll be decided by me, of course." He sighed and turned to Killer. "No more for now." He looked at Mischief and the others. "Mischief, can you be ready by the wedding? You will kill Chase Neumann there. Once you do that, you will officially be a member of the King's Cartel. After that, I will have you and..." He looked around the room. "Yes, I will have you and Killer scouting out Mercutio. He will be our first victim." He wanted to panic his sisters, see the fear in their eyes when they finally gazed upon him and his Cartel.

[Mischief]

Mischief pushed herself away from the wall she was leaning against and looked over at Tybalt,"After what the snitch boy just said, gives me perfect reason to be ready, I'll see to it that you will not be disappointed,"she assurred him. She walked over and sat near where Killer was and she looked at him then back to Tybalt and nodded at his second request of her,"As you wish,"she commented and she looked back at Killer wondering what he must be thinking now that he was pretty much being forced to work with her on close terms.

Ryder looked at Tybalt,"If you don't mind King, Shadow and I will oversee that Mischief does not mess things up...."he stated as he looked over at the girl that just left his side. He knew unless she was covered in some way, there was a small chance she would not come through. He ran a hand through his hair before shoving his hands into his pockets. "I am quite certain if she has any hesitations we will fix that,"he said. Shadow nodded in agreement with Ryder's statements, he partially wanted to go just to see how Mischief worked anyway, after the brutal torment he had witnessed Ryder give her a few nights ago, he was urging to see if she could really handle herself. He figured she simply let Ryder torment her because she didn't feel it to be worth her time to retalliate to him.