ROAD TRIP!!!

[iamawizzard]

  The ROAD TRIP meme

 

It's time to hit the road.


For whatever reason, you are on a road trip. For ANY reason, you are on a road trip. Who knows? Up to you. One thing is certain--there is someone driving and someone is riding with him/her (whether it's legal or not). Sometimes, the destination is not the point--the road there is where all the fun is to be had!

1: Bla bla bla post your character's name, canon/OC or whatever--setting up preferences? Go ahead
2: Dribble blah post replies
4: You're wondering where the three went
5: Have oodles of fun (if you're not having fun, you are f*cking up)

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[peculate]

"Diamonds," she drawls. Yeah, right. Diamonds. She's grabbing the diamonds so she can fool herself into thinking this is good for her, that this is her idea. Grabbing the diamonds so it looks like the work of a thief and not a hired thief.

"No," she says, leaning forward. "Left here." Country roads don't have traffic cameras.

[servedhiscountry]

He takes the left then pulls over and stops the car. He's still looking straight ahead. "Walk away, now," he says in a stern voice.

[peculate]

"I can't." Equally serious, this time. She has no choice here. It's dead ends, either way.

[servedhiscountry]

"Then what are you really after and why?"

He puts the car in park and turns it off.

[peculate]

She palms the gun.

"Get it moving again," she tells him, flatly. "I'm not waiting here for a Division team to corner us."

[servedhiscountry]

He stays put. "It would be quicker."

[peculate]

"I beg to differ." Division's not going to kill her cleanly. They're going to try and recruit her. Best cat burglar on the continent, and he thinks they'd gun her down? Not likely.

[servedhiscountry]

He's still not starting the car back up. He might if he sees some obviously Division SUVs turn the corner.

"You want me to create a distraction," he concludes, "For what?"

[peculate]

"For none of your business."

She's fully ready to plant a bullet in his heart. And she will. If he doesn't start moving or start impressing her.

[servedhiscountry]

"Okay." Michael still shows no signs of starting the car or wanting to go anywhere.

He taps the side of his head with two fingers. "Cleaner kill through the temple. You can't dump a body here."

[peculate]

"At this angle, it'll go through your cheekbone, and I'm not bringing the gun any closer to your reach."

Her teeth grit.

"Get going," she says, "and we'll talk along the way."

[servedhiscountry]

He turns the keys at least. He's very slow to get the car moving at all.

[peculate]

Fine, she'll encourage him a little.

"There's a group of people who got the drop on me," she says. "It's either dying or doing this, and since doing this has a greater than zero chance of me surviving, I'll take it." She just has to hold on a little longer, until she can find someone to wipe her record. Until she can disappear.

[servedhiscountry]

Well, it does get him moving at a more reasonable pace. "If Division gets a hold of you, you'd be better off dead."

[peculate]

"If you're alive, there's always a way out." She lives by that rule.

[servedhiscountry]

"You won't like what you come out as," he says distantly.

[peculate]

"Too late for that," she shoots back. "Now, behave, and I'll get my diamonds, and certain people will get their certain items, and we can all go home after."

[servedhiscountry]

Michael goes quiet for now. Of course, he has no intention to behave. He's already looking for a spot to crash the car and make it undriveable.

If he were Nikita he'd say something or offer help or whatever it is Nikita says to make people change sides. But he's not her and this situation just irritates him.

"A car bomb," he says seemingly out of the blue. "It was meant for me. My wife and daughter were in the car."

[peculate]

She gives him a long look. She knows the tension that comes with a plan. She's not safe.

"So you left them in the crossfire, and you decided to take it out on the world."

[servedhiscountry]

"No, I didn't."

He goes back to being quiet. He notes a few loose rocks on the dirt road ahead. Just need a big enough one at a high enough speed.

[peculate]

"Denial, huh? That's a long time to stay in the first stage of grief."

Enough. She can see the way his eyes are moving, and she's done.

She draws the gun and shoots him in the thigh. She probably missed the femoral. If she didn't, big loss. This guy is set to ruin her day.

[servedhiscountry]

His steering doesn't suffer much for being shot in the leg. He didn't make much of sound when it happened either. Of course, now he decides to gun it at full speed. Nothing to lose, if he's going to bleed out.

Then he hits the breaks abruptly. Sure, the car will probably go into a spin.

[peculate]

Her door's already open, and she casts herself out, flinging herself off the road and down the shoulder. Tall grass takes most of the impact, and the rest on her shoulder and then again when her thigh slams into a tree stump and brings her rolling to a halt.

She picks herself up, goes for the gun (dropped it, in the rapid movement - no surprise there) and points it at the crashed car.

[servedhiscountry]

Probably not the best thing to do after he's been shot but hey, he's having a bad day. It's not like he's going to run. He stays in the car so he can work on some first aid. This mostly involves using his belt and part of his shirt.

C'mon, Nikita, you can show up at any time. Really, not too manly to admit a rescue would be excellent right about now.