Return to the Scene of the Crime

## Chew I Venus I Cole I Dee Dee08/14/2018

Venus jumped back onto her feet with excitement at her and Ana’s combined success in getting Leo to lend them his car “thank you! I owe you one!” She exclaimed, turning to head upstairs but pausing for a moment “wait– two. I owe you two!”
Her bare feet padded against the stairs as she rushed to find the keys and gun, leaving behind the sound of Leo picking up a phone call. The man had said they were upstairs but he didn’t say where upstairs so it took her a couple erred attempts before she found the clothes on the floor of the bathroom. They smelled. In fact, this whole room smelled and Venus was forced to hold her breath as she jiggled the garment until the keys dropped to the tile and then the firearm followed, clanking down. She flinched as the gun hit the floor, immediately realizing she should not be handling it, and picked it up pinched between her thumb and mixed finger.
Venus walked out of the bathroom holding the gun away from her body and made her way back downstairs towards Ana. “Okay, here you go” she said offering Mimic the weapon (with the assumption she would actually know how to shoot it) and the keys (given that her drivers license was at the crime scene.) “Ready?”

## Vodka Aunt08/14/2018

Eleanor's pale cheeks flush with colour and she simply shrugs helplessly at Leo's question. She leaves the room once more, and by the sound of running water coming from the kitchen she had begun to wash some dishes. If she wasn't reading she was doing housework it seemed.
Anastasia leaps to her feet, punching the air triumphantly."I knew you were a good guy deep down!" It's always nice when a plan starts to come together. While Venus was upstairs retrieving Leo's belongings, the green-eyed woman grins at his back as he retreats into the hall for his phone call. "Don't worry about us getting arrested. You're talking about a walking puddle and the world's best disguise artist, we're probably best team to avoid the authorities in my opinion," she calls after him playfully.
The taller woman walks up to Venus and retrieves the gun, weighing it in her hands. She had only ever fired a gun a few times and none of those times had she been sober. She tucks the weapon into the waistband of her borrowed pants after double-checking to make sure the safety was on. "My hero. Do you think he'd mind if I borrowed his face too? I don't necessarily have a license." She spins the keys around on one finger with a mischievous grin dancing on her lips.

August 15, 2018

## Chew I Venus I Cole I Dee Dee08/15/2018

Venus gave Mimic a one-shouldered shrug “I think he’d prefer it over us getting stopped in his car with a loaded gun.” She took the girl by the wrist and pulled her towards the front door “let’s go, we need to get there before they do a sweep of the place.” The hall was swarming with police activity and ambulance right now, which left only a slim chance for her things to be where she’d left them at the table. The purse had been hanging on the back of her chair with her cellphone and wallet, and the dress she’d been wearing was left behind on the bathroom floor. The dress was less important, but the pressure was on for the purse.
When they stepped outside Venus glanced around and spotted the car, going straight for the passenger’s seat. “Just focus on not hitting anything” she asked of Annie “I’m more afraid of what Leo will do to us if we wreck his car than- oh, oh god” Venus brought her hand to cover her face “it smells.” No wonder Leo was done with letting them into his car– their escape had left it reeking of vomit. “We’re stopping at the car wash on the way back” the blonde stated with a nasal voice resulting from her plugged nose.(edited)

August 16, 2018

## Mob Boss Peggy08/16/2018

Leo returned the phone to its receiver just in time to see that the girls had already left. He sighed deeply, closing his eyes to try and quell the constant turning of his stomach. He lumbered over to the cushion-covered couch and splayed himself on top of it, grabbing his cell phone from the table to take a look at it and check out the news try to perhaps gain some clues as to where Kyle might have gone.
There were some messages from the forum. Out of habit, Leo checked them. What he read in those two little messages caused him to spring back up in his seat.
"Shit!" He cursed aloud. He didn't have his car. The timing of this was absurd, and he couldn't take the fucking *bus*. He would never make it in time.
Quickly, he banged out a message.

August 18, 2018

## Vodka Aunt08/18/2018

Anastasia turned the one-armed hug into a full one, giving the shorter girl a squeeze and lifting her feet off of the ground. "Okay okay let's go. I'm sure plenty of people forgot their stuff when they ran, unlike me."
The shape shifter slides into the driver's seat, wincing and rolling down all the windows despite the chill.
"I already promised him a full wash, and I'm going to be careful- duh."
She takes a good minute or two just getting herself adjusted to the levers and wheel, shirt pulled up over her mouth and nose to block out the smell. She made sure they were both buckled in before finally starting up the engine and rolling carefully out of the drive way.

Anastasia's driving skills left much to be desired. It was a miracle she didn't destroy Leo's car or get them pulled over. She had to give the car a once over as she stepped out to make sure she hadn't screwed up the paint job. "Wow. That's impressive. I should do this, like, professionally. Did you want me to come in with you?"

Central Social Hall

## Chew I Venus I Cole I Dee Dee08/18/2018

Ana’s driving was... an experience. Venus had locked her in this position and therefore knew she had no room to complain, so she channeled all her tension towards her grip on the door handle. The tips of her fingers were white and her joints were stiff by the time they made it back to the Social Hall. The blonde exhaled all the breath she’d been holding in and thanked the heavens they’d made it back in one piece. “Maybe focus on pursuing the arts” he shaded, looking at he from of the establishment and taking in all the police activity buzzing around.

“Um...” Venus tried to think whether it would be better to have Annie’s help inside or have her ready behind the wheel in case they needed a quick getaway. All in all, only she would know where her own stuff was so maybe it would just be added risk to have Annie join her inside. “I’ll go in alone. Keep the engine running just in case, I’ll be quick.”

August 21, 2018

## Chew I Venus I Cole I Dee Dee08/21/2018

Venus scurried around the building behind the police tape stretched around the scene like a fence, sinking into a puddle only when he was sure no one was looking in her direction and used the rain drainpipe to get up and around to the nearest window.
Inside the hall the detectives scrutinized the floor with gloves protecting their hands and the buzz of their radios emitting staticky messages and codes. Venus was careful to go slowly as she trickled herself down to the ground and collected at the bottom in a growing wet spot on the floor until she was whole again. The puddle dragged across the stone floors of the hall until she reached her table, where their chairs were topple over but the damned salad still sat atop the tablecloth. Venus moved around in a slower until she found her purse and held back a celebratory squeal... until she noticed her phone wasn’t inside. She must’ve left it on the table.
The girl moved up the table’s legs and peered over the surface, but found nothing. She sank back to the ground and looked around until her eye caught sight of the familiar light blue glittering case wrapped in a zip locked bag in the hands of a uniformed man. *Shit*.
Fifteen minutes later Venus yanked open the car door urging “drivedrivedrive” as she fumbled to put on her seatbelt and erase all recent events from her memory. The purse and phone lay on her lap as she exhaled and fixed her hair in the rear view mirror.

## Vodka Aunt08/21/2018

By the grim set of her mouth and lack of snarky banter, it had been obvious that Anastasia had been doing her best to keep them on the road.
"Y'know, after all this I think I should consider a career in stunt driver." She grins, appreciating her passenger's quip.
She seemed disappointed when Venus said she was going in alone and *harumph*s, folding her arms. "Better be fast, I don't do well whem questioned by authorities." She waves out the open window after the young woman, leaning back in her seat to rearrange everything Leo had left in the car. If she couldn't go with Venus she might as well occupy herself with a little chaos.
"ну ты вообще!" She exclaims in surprise as Venus throws herself into the car, slamming her foot down to follow the panicked command. She then has to take a moment to put the vehicle in drive and *not* press on the brakes."What did you do? I hope it's more interesting than linking all of Leo's paperclips." She fastens her seatbelt as they drive, brow furrowed in concentration as she tries to avoid the curb.

August 22, 2018

## Chew I Venus I Cole I Dee Dee08/22/2018

Venus grasped the handle of the door with a vice grip as the vehicle swerved back into traffic, looking over her shoulder to see the scene of the crime grow distant from the rearview window. Just this once she felt lucky Annie drove recklessly. "I uh..." the blonde grimaced at the memory– after seeing her phone was being taken in as evidence she's followed the man out to a van. He'd reached for a bottle of water and sipped from it while he arranged all other evidence into bins, and while he wasn't paying attention she'd dripped some of her liquid form into his drink. She expected her molecules would obey her as they always did, but as she purposefully moved her droplets to cause the uniformed man to choke she hadn't expected to be able to *feel* it.
Venus was left cringing the whole time she pulled out the bagged phone out of the bin and her liquid body straight up shivered when the man finally coughed up her droplets and went on with his day. "You know, like, just dripped into this guy's throat..." she said with a nervous laugh. She picked up the rope of paperclips from the dashboard and connected the last two to loop them over her head like a necklace, fidgeting with them "totes unsettling... but I have my wallet now so we should pick up a few things and take this back to headquarters so we can give it a wash."

## Vodka Aunt08/22/2018

Anastasia did her best to keep the vehivle steady, frequently overdoing turns and overcorrecting herself. She truly was a hazard on the roads. Green eyes dart between the road and Venus as she speaks, as if trying to determine its validity.
"Holy fuck girl that's *badass*!" She exclaims, holding her hand up to high five the woman,"I didn't know you could do that. Do you use that for, like, sex stuff too?" She asks, only half-joking.
She pulls into the first carwash she sees, parking crookedly and strutting confidently into the shop portion. "I want to order the deluxe everything-- that includes an interior wash right?" She was already pulling twenties from her duct tape wallet before the cashier could give her a price. It looked like she had several hundred dollars only in twenties in her wallet. She shoots Venus a thumbs up through the storefront's large glass windows.

## Chew I Venus I Cole I Dee Dee08/22/2018

"I guess? I don't see why anyone would want to be choked during sex though" she answered with a straight face, oblivious to the fact that there was a large percentage of the population that would like just that. Years of associating with bland straight men had left her high and dry in that department. "Do you really think so?" She said with a small proud smile playing on her lips at being called 'badass' as he looked over at Annie "I thought it was just gross. That guy had coffee breath."
The blonde yelped when the car came to a stop but didn't comment on the shit-poor parking job Annie had done as she sat back in the passenger's seat and waited for her to get the carwash at the counter. While she waited she collected all of the valuables she could find into a stray plastic bag to keep them out of trouble while the staff washed the car. It was cold without the heat on and the car smelled like puke so she decided it was safe to leave the vehicle unattended as long as Annie had the keys and she locked the doors before exiting.
Using her power again made her thirsty so she entered the shop where Annie discussed with the people at the counter and went straight for the vending machine in the corner. Her plastic bag full of odd items and frumpy clothes, dusty from being left aside while she snuck around the social hall , completing her "I sleep on a park bench" look wonderfully. The blonde moved to the vending machine and slipped in coins and singles one after the other to buy cans of water and soda and a few snacks just to reward themselves for a long day.
"Cookies or gummies?" She asked Annie with a few drinks tucked under one arm while holding out the snacks she'd purchased in the other.(edited)

August 23, 2018

## Vodka Aunt08/23/2018

Anastasia suppresses a snicker, she was so vanilla it was kind of cute."Well it's-- you know what? I'll let you figure it out on your own and then get back to me on that." She shoots the blonde a wink. Annie had always been comfortable with her sexuality and experimentation was just in her nature.
She nods."Totally! I'm kind of useless in a fight and you were all *nope not gonna get me today*. They should make a movie about you. I'll be in it as your plucky yet charming sidekick."
Anastasia was dutifully paying the admittedly exorbitant price of the full detail when Venus joins her. Her face splits into a grin and she slaps Leo's keys down and pushes herself off of the counter to join her by the vending machine. She places her hands on her thighs and bends slightly to examine her options before saying,"gummies." She had already made up her mind but enjoyed the theatrics. The stout car wash attendant asks the woman to take a seat while he washed the vehicle, to which Annie responds with a double thumbs up and stays standing.

August 24, 2018

## Chew I Venus I Cole I Dee Dee08/24/2018

Venus handed off the gummies and placed her drinks on the counter, "have you even had a meal today? I feel like we haven't caught a break" he sighed, opening up the first bottle of water with a crackle of the cap and drinking down the contents in one go. Coming back into her own flesh was always a thirsty affair, and today had been especially strenuous. The empty bottle went in the garbage and next up were the cookies Annie decided against. Venus tugged open one end neatly and put one in her mouth careful not to spill crumbs everywhere like the world's politest little hobo.
Her graze drifted towards the window of the shop and watched the stout man open the doors to the car and immediately take a step back from the pungent smell of it. "Oh my god, look. It's *that* bad" he said with a laugh, pointing at the professional car washer wave his hand in front of his face as he got down to cleaning the interior.

March 11, 2019