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11.

"We have a problem," Nagi told them, when the two groups met in the Koneko, "the people who attacked Omi were Jitterburgh´s people."

"Jitterburgh?" Omi asked, "Does he belong to SZ?"

"Yes, they call him the soul butcher," Crawford explained. "SZ will have sent him to hunt us down. I think it's time to leave the flower shop. We need another ( Read more... )

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10.

When the others were gone, Schuldig and Nagi looked anxiously up to Crawford.

"So, Schuldig, you really managed to surprise me here." Crawford looked down on him.

"He has done the right thing," Nagi defended his friend immediately.

"And you would have stopped me, stopping him. That at least I could foresee. You two don´t seem to agree with my ( Read more... )

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9.

Nagi and Omi worked long that evening to make sure that all their information was right. Omi noticed that Nagi often looked to him, as if he wanted to ask something.

"Everything all right?" he asked finally.

"I just thought about your team. How do you interact with them? With Ken for example, or Yohji?"

Omi answered, a bit surprised: "They are ( Read more... )

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8.

"Brad?" Very carefully, as if he could break, Nagi touched him.

Brown eyes flew open: "Nagi?"

Crawford was for a moment not sure, if it was just a dream or his brain was playing a sick joke again, but then he felt a hand touch his check. Real, could that be real? He couldn't dare to hope, that this was really Nagi, but then felt himself ( Read more... )

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7.

Omi´s mind was swirling with thoughts about Weiss´ new houseguests. Finally deciding that he might as well give up on sleep he decided to get up and went down to the kitchen discovering that Nagi had already made coffee.

"You look very thoughtful, Omikun, " Nagi said, offering him a cup.

"Yeah, I have been thinking a lot about this situation ( Read more... )

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6.

The next morning Omi found that his mind kept wandering while he was trying to work. It clear to him that last night's restful sleep was Schuldig´s work. Since the two members of Schwarz began staying with Weiss, he had developed some surprising opinions regarding their personalities. Schuldig had been behaving like the bastard he knew… ( Read more... )

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5.

Omi couldn't sleep well again that night. Nightmares of his own kidnapping reoccurring in a resonant play-by-play, with no beginning and no end. One of those horrible, non-lucid dreams, where a person knows they are dreaming, but can't force themselves to awaken...

Omi was in that dirty little room, where they waited for him, ready to ( Read more... )

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4.

It was a long wait for Schuldig. Despite the exterior coolness he portrayed, he really couldn't bring himself to pay attention to the book in front of him. He spent most of his time up and about, perusing the various objects in Yohji's room. His body protested prolonged movement forcing him to rest often, but his mind was too on-edge to ( Read more... )

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3.

Schuldig glanced up as the members of Weiss strode single file back in to Yohji's bedroom the next morning. He could sense from their body language that they had come to an agreement regarding what he had propossed the night before.

"We've decided to go along with your idea," Ken told Schuldig, "but if you try to betray us, make no mistake, ( Read more... )

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Early the next morning, Omi entered the room to check on Yohji and Schuldig. Yohji looked up as he heard the door opening. Finding himself relieved from his position of watching over the redhead, he left his own room, and fell with a thankful sigh onto Ken's unoccupied bed for a much needed nap.

It was now Omi's turn to keep watch over ( Read more... )