"Really?" Sofia thought she knew Nancy well enough to see that while she wasn't a complete neat freak the mess inside was something the ex Marine would not allow to happen, and after her years in the United States hoped the bemused sceptism didn't come through in her voice but the Russian suspected it did. "You know where she is?" she asked Charlie.

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"Hey bitch, hand over your money." Reiko's first instinct was to just kill the thug, she needed to get to the airport and find a weapon of some description. Instead she just stood there for a moment. "You think this is a game?" Bringing the baseball bat he held over his head, the thug stepped towards Reiko. "Hand it over or I'll..."

"You'll what?" Reiko quickly closed the distance between them, seeing this rattled him. She feinted with her left hand, which was enough for the thug to take a swing at her. Reiko caught it however with her right hand and pushed against the force of the blow for a second, before pulling with it sending the thug to the ground. "Guess you better hand over your money now." Reiko palmed the baseball at for emphesis.

"Please, don't hurt me." Reiko contemplated putting the poor fuck out of his misery when something stopped her. She didn't know what, an attack of concience perhaps.

"You work for yourself or you run with somebody?" When the thug didn't answer Reiko pressed the issue. "You're too pathetic to be part of some gang. What you be needing to rob people for? Drug money?" She tapped the bat against the ground, seeing the thug nod his head.

"You think it's that easy? Just go out and get a job? You probably have some rich family to look after you." Reiko brought the bat over her shoulder, before aiming it to drop on the thug's knee.

"No, I don't." She shook her head. This was wrong, she was no amatuer psychologist. Deciding she was through Reiko offered a last piece of parting advice. "You'll be dead in months if you keep this up." Walking up to his head Reiko scuffed her boot across his face. "And I'll kill you right now if you don't fuck off out of here." Not bothering to reply or even look back Reiko began to walk away, examing the hand she caught the bat with.

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"Thought you might want to," Mina said to Vega. "I'll have a team on the ground for you." She went and found a photograph, a survailence shot that was taken from San Chakata. "This lovely man here is Jurad Vezjuzade. You should look for him for information on what is happening there." Looking Vega in the eye the Marine thought it might help appealing to the matador's good nature. "You're doing the right thing here."

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"Who is at the door? Someone take me to the door." As soon as Sakura heard a voice talking to Charlie outside she wanted to see who it was so she looks at Ken and the people in Nancy's house that was doing a lousy job cooking and cleaning to wheel her to the front door because she couldn't do so herself.

"Sure, anything to get away from the stove." Ken grabs the back handles of Sakura's wheel chair and pushes her to the door. But he was careless and knocks a bottle of oil on the stove and sets the stove on fire. "Shit. Where is the fire extinguisher."

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Sephiroth continues walking back home with Sailor Pluto. He manages to finally reach the base and just goes inside the building and sits and waits to hear what Charlie will say next. He wasn't quite sure where Charlie was but he just knew that Charlie will not be happy for a failed mission especially one of this importance. Sailor Pluto sits quietly inside Charlie's office with her partner trying to think of what excuses she could say to Charlie that would convince him not to fire them. "I had no idea that now Lucian is in even more danger than before."

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Being a firefighter Sofia knew exactly what to do. She found a blanket and ran it under water, before throwing it onto the stove. After taking a moment to see that everyone was all right she set her focus on Ken.

"The next time you feel like cooking," Sofia told him, her voice ice, "don't." To everyone else she added, cooly, "you should probably straighten the place out and leave before Nancy gets back."

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"What was that about?" Albert said when Vega left. Mina didn't even bother to look at him.

"A series of murders occuring in Mexico. I sent Vega in to deal with it." She busied herself checking on the team she was going to send for him.

"Do we know if they're religiously motivated?" Albert asked, a hint of desperation in his voice.

"Well if you look hard enough you might be able to find some way of blaming religion." Mina sounded bored.

"I don't like your attitude." Albert was taken aback by the way the Marine was acting. "I demand to be treated with respect."

"Then earn it." Before Albert could reply Mima directed the conversation back to Vega. "Don't worry about our friend here. He will think all the more for us because of this."