CoR Julienne & Ragenard

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Tiko

Draconic Administrator/Mentor
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Julienne was lounging atop a stack of wooden crates and metal beams out behind one of the storage buildings at the railyard. This particular building was being used for building supplies as the pack had turned its attention to construction in the wake of Rowan’s death.

From the growing pile of cigarette butts on the ground next to the pile, she had been making use of the spot for some time. It was both close to the pack and offered her some element of privacy from being disturbed.

She took a long drag of her cigarette before stubbing out what was left of it and flicking it off the side of the pile to join the rest on the ground. She folded her arms behind her head and simply lay there watching the sky overhead. It was already lightening and would be dawn soon.

A great deal had come to pass over the past several weeks, and Julienne had been struggling to adjust to the upheaval. It wasn’t the violence or the crime that had unsettled her. It was the losses that had hit her hard. Young as she was, she hadn’t yet become hardened to such things.

When it came to managing her emotions, Julienne was greatly lacking. So she had largely handled it as she did most things that she was not comfortable with. By lashing out at everyone around her. She had always had a reputation for being irritable, but as of late she had been in spats with half the pack and was beginning to fray at everyone’s nerves.

Her recent argument with Desmond was only one of several. She was still simmering over that one. Ragenard’s decision to name Desmond as pack Second hadn’t sat well with her, and she had made little effort to be subtle about it. She never seemed to miss a chance to try and rub him the wrong way. It was petty and she knew it.

Maybe if the development hadn’t meant that Chloe was hanging around the place more, some peace could have developed between the two. But as it stood, Julienne had shown no inclination towards letting go of her grudge with Chloe, or her squabbles and spats with Desmond and the rest of the pack.
Despite her recent erratic behaviors, she was fairly predictable though. And it was here that Ragenard would find her easily enough.
 
The sound of Ragenard’s zippo snapping open and flaring to life broke the early morning silence. They weren’t the only sounds intruding upon the morning—despite knowing how to tread lightly and having done so, he had no doubt Julienne would have heard his approach—but they were the only ones loud enough for him to have felt they broke the silence.

Ragenard exhaled deeply and pretended—

’Enough of that shit, Guiscard. I told you I wasn’t going to sleep. So I think that your dumbass footsteps aren’t poetic enough to open the morning with? Fucking sue me as they say nowadays’, expressed Manánnan Mac Lir. The ancient Iverian Vampire turned ghost within Ragenard’s machinery. Because that was a thing that Ragenard now had to contend with. The thought brought the echoes of Manny’s sick amusement intruding upon his thoughts.

Ragenard took a long drag of his smoke and put his problems aside (as much as one could put a mental roommate aside anyhow) as he regarded Julienne.

“Am I supposed to find it badass that you remained nonchalantly lounging until I talked first, Juls?” Ragenard asked, his exhale measured and smoke filled.
 
Julienne let out a snort at Ragenard's words. "I figured you would tell me what you want eventually."

"Besides, I was waiting to see which one of us ran out of cigarette's first and had to bum one off the other," she replied. "How many you got?"

She looked in her nearly empty pack, only two left.

"If it's about Desmond, he can go fuck himself," she added.
 
"Sitting pretty at seventeen, with the rest of the carton it came from upstairs," Ragenard replied, jerking his chin in the general direction of the warehouse. "One of the perks of being the boss." He took another long drag before replying.

"It's about you, touchy-groutchy," Ragenard said in a faux baby voice. "Besides, I get the feeling it's less about Desmond going to fuck himself, and more about who he goes to fuck with now. What I don't get is why you give a shit?" he queried in a normal tone, expelling another smoke cloud to darken the nascent morning sunlight.
 
"Oh fuck off, I don't give a shit who he fucks," Julienne snapped irritably at Ragenard's jab. "I just give a fuck about who he brings around here. It's only a matter of time until the stupid bitch hurts someone. She had a go at Liam just the other day and the cage barely held her. That train cart won't do shit if she loses it out on the streets."
 
"I hear you, I just think you're overreacting," Ragenard replied seriously. "For one, Liam was being an idiot. For another, if I limited membership to whoever wouldn't be a possible risk in the streets then not only would we be full of pansies, but I'd have to fire half the pack including myself." He took another drag of his smoke, his eyes focusing on the burning ember at the end to avoid from glancing at Julienne. He worried he'd say something funny or horny to defuse the situation, and then where would he be with the balancing of—

Ragenard's phone buzzed four times in quick succession, and a tinny nearly inaudible low-frequency ringtone rang clearly to Ragenard's ears. His urgent ringer set up:

[! URGENT !][From: Xandre] Trouble at pup's place. She's gone, reeks of blood. Wolfing out, will track. Will inform when I know more.
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Ragenard frowned and Julienne disappeared from his peripheral vision as he focused intently on his phone screen. Manny's laughter at Ragenard's remembrance was still annoying, but no longer distracting now that he understood its source. He recalled his meeting with the Morrigan, and her augury that one of his most defenseless would...'Suffer the price of your distraction as they languish right before your gaze' were the battle crow's exact words, supplied the cackling phantom within Ragenard's mind helpfully. He gave himself a mental fuck-you as he waved to Julienne with seriousness in his posture and gestured to the parking lot in the distance and their bikes in particular.

"Shit-show never ends. Let's go, you're coming with me. Aimee is missing, blood in her apartment. We start there and meet up with Xandre," Ragenard said rapidly, tersely, but in a mostly decipherable tone. His fingers began a blur of movement over his smartphone screen as he slow walked towards the parking lot.

[Priority Group Chat Message] Wake the fuck up, Bloodstones. Find a buddy, and stay with them. I don't care whose house; the Rail-yard is open for any (so help me god, Liam you better not be alone at that gate). I want everyone accounted for within 15 minutes. I'm sharing a text from Xandre below. I'm taking Julienne and going there myself, everyone else stay cool and wait to hear more.


[Priority Group Chat Message][FWD][From: Xandre] Trouble at pup's place. She's gone, reeks of blood. Wolfing out, will track. Will inform when I know more.


[To: Rhetta] Not you. I want you on the Railyard no matter what. No matter what, Rhetta. You're in charge if you don't hear from me in 15 minutes, I'm headed to Luskonios to back up Xandre.


[To: Baron] I'm off to Aim's Luski Apt. Specifically ordered Rhetta to mind the railyard; If this is more of Jacques' and Rowan's shit, I trust her to not be involved and manage security. Rowan's reach was shit in her cell block anyhow. Do me a favor and check on Desmond personally, he's been too distracted with that Chloe chick since things calmed down.


[To: Desmond] I set Baron as your buddy. You get to be the princess tonight. Look pretty. Expect someone else to kick your ass this evening if I don't get back. I'll reply back in 15 minutes.
 
Julienne stiffened reflexively at the abrupt pause in Ragenard's words and the subtle change in his posture. She sat up quickly in anticipation of troubling news and dropped down to the ground next to where she had been lounging moments ago. For all her bitching and erratic behavior, Julienne was quicker than many to pick up on such things.

Sure enough, Ragenard's words verified her suspicions about what had drawn his attention away.

"Fucking kid. Baron never should have let her move out to Luskonios by herself," Julienne growled as she kept pace with him. "Any police response yet?"

And just like that, Julienne was all business and fire mixed up with just the right amount of crazy.
 
"Nothing on Yoinkwatch," Ragenard said as he walked on, referring to the police short wave radio snooping app on his phone as he tapped around the device after sending the message.

The LPD transmitted nearly all of their chatter unencrypted, and they had a hook up to help with the encrypted bursts provided they didn't mind being five minutes behind or so. Wonders of the present, he didn't even need to listen with text transcription.

"And I fucking said it too," he agreed regarding Aimée's move. "But she had to have her independence or whatever and after the whole Jacques thing it felt fucked up to deny her."

He reached the spot where their bikes were parked in a row in the parking lot. "We're gonna go through the old Lupaix-PQ road instead of the highway. Less traffic at this hour and nothing worth it between here and Lusk's welcome sign for police to be a problem."
 
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