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[...He's not even sure if he can fully trust her, and now she wants to help him? but what if she gets hurt or gives them false information or-

he keeps quiet; his poker face begins to melt away. Looks like he can't keep a straight face if other people are involved]

[it's not like she can force him to trust her, and trying to do that would just make him more uncertain. it's not like she's given him any reason to trust her either

she stretches out, todit hanging off of her arm in the heated water and raab still quiet on her lap, and shrugs

"If not, it's no skin off my nose. I won't even tell a soul about where you're from or who you worked for before you came here. You can still use the hotel as you please too, no charge, because that part is for people I think deserve it. There's not many reserved spots in this joint. If someone comes asking about it I'll just feign innocence and say you won it from my mom."

she really would like to help, though even if silver doesn't take her up on it and all she'll end up doing solo investigations and dropping information when she can]

[...Time to test her.]

It's not about where I'm from or who I worked for, Andy.

["You must've been pretty high ranking, if you had to escape through such rough terrain one might think you would've died in."

is all she says]

In fact, I didn't work for anyone.

[...Well, except his dad. Kind of.] Everyone worked for me.

[uh huh

"So, you're the same as me then? Heir to a... family business?"]

[Nailed it. He nods his head and fidgets a little as he waits for her response.]

[scuse her

andy's getting out of the tub, shivering a little at the sudden chill, but otherwise heading to her belongings and drying herself off a little so she can write things down

in his plain view okay

"Then you need a base of operations away from New Bark for sure. It'd be a shame if a town like that got caught up in the whole fiasco. I hear it's pleasant. A steady flow of information from different sources across Johto to keep track of their possible movements, maybe the permission of Gym Leaders to do as you please should you need to, disguises and false leads, dead ends and... What else?"]

[Ex...cuse me?

What?

But--]

You don't care?

["If I did, do you think I'd be sitting here asking you? If you're out, you're out. And you've been clean for months now, right? So there's not a problem in my eyes."

now

tapping her pen on her pad

anything else you need?]

...There's no point in having a base of operations if I have no one to lead. I'm not going to interact with the gym leaders; they've got no reason to trust me. I'm not good with disguises or too concerned about my own well-being. I can defend myself.

[...] I do need information on their movements. There's only so much I can predict and learn on my own.

[crossing things off her list

"Okay. Where have to seen them around? Besides here."]

[...He hops out of the water and goes to grab a towel.]

It's late. I don't want to get into this until I've rested.

[a loud and long sigh

"And here I thought I could get into the action tonight... But it is pretty late, you're right about that. Come on, Raab."

the abra floats out of the water and andy towels him off, though despite her sighing she still seems pretty chill and light-hearted]

Thanks. [Oh man, it's pretty cold now that he's out of the hot tub...] ...Thanks for a lot, actually.

["Hey, it's no problem. I can't say I'm the cleanest person on the block either. And you're someone I can respect! From a card point of view to a person too."

being the heiress of a fortune and also a gambler gives one plenty of issues to chew through

... she may not have been as honest as she could've been with some details of her life too but hey fudging the details here and there ain't too bad right she didn't get sworn to a truth oath or anything like that]

[...Someone she can respect...

But can he respect her? -He does, but--]

...What did you mean when you said we're the same? [The heir to a family business? -And winning this place from her mom? Andy gurl whatchu talkin bout]

["It's a long story and I'd rather tell it someplace warm than out here. Short version is exactly what I said: We're pretty similar. What do you think that could mean?"

but she'll tell him the long version too, as long as he follows her back inside

c'mon silver]

Last time I checked, there wasn't some Team Rocket knock off running around.

[Don't leave him guessing just tell him already

but yes they can head in and have this conversation

this is a good plan]

[andy laughs, and nods as she sits inside with raab on her lap and todit sprawled across her shoulders thinly. almost like a comfort jelly blanket

"Good thing too. We're both heirs, sure, and our family business differs... but they're more connected than you think. In recent history anyway. We've both run from 'the law' of Kanto and had to leave family behind. And we're used to luxurious things, but that doesn't matter much. Now, where do I begin...

"I used to live in Kanto. Saffron City, to be exact. Goldenrod reminds me a lot of it... Anyway, my mom had retired from being a high stake gambler so she could take care of her husband's financial affairs - Dad was always giving away money - and taught me a few things on the side. So I'm a little younger than you are, maybe, and these shady fellows in black come to ask about my mom needing to pay up on the debt she had forced some of these guys to accumulate in her past years. She's always been a good hustler. Naturally, she didn't have the amount they were asking for, so instead they gave her a job that appealed to her: Running and rigging Celadon's Game Corner. She couldn't resist.

"A few months later and she calls home and asks if I'd like to help. I loved the thrill of gambling as much as she did, so I said yes. Dad was in Cerulean at the time, I think, my younger sister was with him so she could see what he did and my older sister was in Sinnoh. Still is actually. So my mom and I hustled wages out of the customer's pockets faster than you could've ever thought... And then Raab came along." she smiles. "The punk I won him from wasn't just any old guy, it was a Rocket who thought he owned the world just because he'd gotten lucky. I hustled him so good he didn't know what hit him and soon I was walking out the door and to the café down the way with a new friend. That's when I decided to hustle hustlers. It was fun."

man this is getting long. she's doing her best to keep her cool too, since she's usually so composed, but there's nervousness in the way she wraps her arms around raab and sighs

"So my dad ends up finding out and he and mom have a fight, split up, and mom and I moved to Johto so we could continue doing what we'd been doing in Celadon in Goldenrod. My little sister's still with him in Kanto, learning to be a good police officer even if it's... you know, so corrupt there now. Your boyfriend shut off our internal money supply pretty nicely and Mom ended up selling the Game Corner to an older man and decided to just renovate a building into this big hotel. The casino downstairs is the biggest one here, I think. My family isn't as bad as yours, even though I think Mom's longing for the high stake life again, but it's still not something I'd wave around."]

[...Celadon's Game Corner used to be run by her mother? Oh man, she's really given them some good revenue...

...If it's something she doesn't want to wave around, it's leverage. She's trusting him with it.]

At least you aren't doing poorly anymore. The hotel seems pretty busy. [Is her father even alive? That would be a miracle in of itself...]

[she waits every month to find out if her poppa's dead or if he's still alive

but she hasn't found out this month

so who knows

"Oh, it's doing wonderfully! Especially since there's always business where greed's made its home. The hotel's five stars, the casino is in easy reach to any passerby, and the lights draw them in like moths. I spend the days lounging in the lobby and picking out my prey of the night."

it sounds like a good life but she wants more adventure and helping]

[You're a little too old for your Pokémon journey there Andy]

What else do you do?

Edited 2013-08-19 04:55 (UTC)

[ONE IS NEVER TOO OLD TO GO ON A POKEMON JOURNEY, SILVER!!!

"I'm a cat burglar."

but is she serious]

...Really?

[Stop it Andy he's going to want to make you one of his admins

well

upper grunts

-or the friend equivalent how even people--]