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Post by Keith Alabaster on Jan 27, 2014 21:59:15 GMT -5
The door of the house was slammed open as Keith came inside. "Gabe?!" He called out, no answer. He ran upstairs and called again. "Gabriel Chase Alabaster!!" He yelled at the top of his lungs, voice filled with both increasing anger and worry as he threw the door open to the blond's bedroom. No one was there.
Ooh this wasn't good, this wasn't good at all.
He'd gotten a call from the high school that Gabe hadn't shown up to his classes all day. That wasn't like him, his son didn't just skip for no reason, and he ALWAYS answered his phone when Keith called him. He even went through the trouble of getting ahold of Gabe's roommate, only to hear that he hadn't seen his son all day. Hell, Frankie even texted Adriana to see if she'd heard from him, once again she hadn't heard from him. That was not like Gabe. Gabe was responsible, he was a good kid. Something had to be wrong, he could feel it in his stomach and it was making him sick and hell bent on figuring out what in the HELL was going on.
Satoru better show up soon, the distance from the house and the Range wasn't THAT far.
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Post by Satoru Alabaster on Jan 27, 2014 22:26:08 GMT -5
Satoru had gotten Keith's (frankly panicked) call and rushed back home as soon as he could. Gabe was missing. Gabe, who Satoru had only just gotten back onto vaguely friendly terms with, was gone. Vanished. Poof. No trace at the dorms or school... God he hoped the boy was home and just had passed out for the whole day. Teenagers did that sort of thing, right? Gabe didn't that he knew of but he was grasping at straws here.
He opened the door almost violently, "Keith!? He here!?" He called out, hoping beyond all hope that Gabe had just pulled some stupid stunt or something. Anything. He knew deep down that wasn't it, that the kid was too responsible, but he was still hoping.
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Post by Keith Alabaster on Jan 27, 2014 22:47:24 GMT -5
Keith ran back downstairs when he heard the door open again. "No, no he's not." He replied, arms shaking as he tried calming himself. He needed to think, think think where could he have GONE? He started pacing, holding his head with both hands as if that would do something for him. "Oh dio, oh dio…" He muttered to himself. Oh god, please let him be okay PLEASE.
Something had to be wrong though, there had to be he KNEW it otherwise this wouldn't be happening. "What're we gonna do, how're we gonna FIND HIM?!" The inked man was normally so calm and relaxed, even under pressure. This though, he hadn't felt like this since Satoru had been taken all those years ago--
His heart stopped for a second. No, no, no that COULDN'T be it, anything but THAT, PLEASE just let that be him being paranoid!
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Post by Satoru Alabaster on Jan 27, 2014 23:09:30 GMT -5
Satoru stilled, oh no... Ooooh no... If Gabe wasn't here, then where? "We start looking," he said, voice steely and tense but even. "We check the route from here to the dorms, and we find out if anyone's seen him in the past twenty-four hours. We do it now, before the trail gets cold." He spun around, there wasn't any time to waste. Thank god the russet-haired gunslinger could be counted on in a crisis. "We don't have time to waste, so come on, the police are incompetent and would just slow us down."
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Post by Keith Alabaster on Jan 27, 2014 23:16:51 GMT -5
Keith nodded, running his hands through his hair. Calm down, calm down, you wouldn't be doing him any good if you were a wreck. He took a quick breath and turned back to Satoru. "Right, let's-" He was cut off by the sound of Satoru's phone ringing. Who in the FUCKING HELL would be calling him right now!? They had more important things to worry about!
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Post by Satoru Alabaster on Jan 28, 2014 0:06:43 GMT -5
Satoru's hand made it to the handle of Balthazar before he realized it was just his cell, he dug into his pocket for the phone and pulled it out. "....It's Gabe," he breathed out, answering it and holding it up to his ear. "Gabe? Kid where the HELL are you, your dad and I are worried si-"
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Post by Keith Alabaster on Jan 28, 2014 0:37:58 GMT -5
"Satoru," Started a rough voice on the other end. "Don't get too mad at the kid, we picked him up last night. Sure was a smart ass when we brought 'im in, but we fixed that, didn't we?" There was a sound of either punching or kicking before you could hear Gabe holler out.
The man laughed a little before going back to the phone. "Probably don't remember me, do ya? See we sorta worked together a while back before you stopped with those deals." There was a quick pause. "How 'bout we start talkin' business again, yeah? Wouldn't wanna lose your boy now would ya?"
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Post by Satoru Alabaster on Jan 28, 2014 0:59:07 GMT -5
Satoru's grip on his phone tightened and his free hand balled into a fist. Who... who waited thirteen years to make their move?! It had caught him off-guard though, so that might have been the point. A power-struggle was probably bringing the need for weapons. And if they remembered him...
Well... Shit.
He was silent for a moment, weighing his options. "...If you know me you know I don't discuss business on unprotected lines," he settled for saying. If they had Gabe he couldn't threaten them. They needed Gabe alive to bargain with, sure, but there was plenty you could do to a person without killing them. Satoru knew that for a fact.
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Post by Keith Alabaster on Jan 28, 2014 2:16:38 GMT -5
Keith's eyes widen as he heard Satoru's side of the conversation. Oh god it was what he'd been afraid of…
"There's a run down warehouse just outside Ookami territory." The man on the other line replied with. "Ya got an hour, come alone. If I catch anyone else around I'm blowin' his head off."
The next voice to be heard was Gabe's, as weak as it was. "Dammit Satoru don't- GAAH!!"
"I'll get back to you in a second." His voice was directed at Gabe before coming back to the ex-Tora. "Don't keep me waiting." He said just before hanging up.
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Post by Satoru Alabaster on Jan 28, 2014 20:09:35 GMT -5
"You son of a BITCH!" Satoru howled at the phone, doubtless that he got cut off midway through it, and hurled the small device down. The screen cracked, a big fault in the plastic, but it had taken worse abuse in its life. He snarled under his breath, whole body tensed up. "Someone's got him," he choked out to Keith, the taller ex-tora was probably going to die if he didn't get information soon. "We've-" He paused, then rephrased. "I've got an hour to get to a warehouse outside Ookami territory or they'll kill him."
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Post by Keith Alabaster on Jan 28, 2014 20:31:11 GMT -5
Keith's jaw clenched and his hands balled into fists as tight as they could. "I have to go too." He finally found it in him to speak. "He's my SON I HAVE to!" He couldn't just sit there at home at hope that Satoru would be able to bring him back. "What about back up?! Egil and Mina and Eva, when you got taken it didn't take them long!" Of course he'd been there too, but looking back he didn't really do that much compared to the other three, they had been more skilled from the beginning. And- and if Gabe was HURT-
He needed to stop panicking, he needed to breathe but DAMMIT THIS WAS HIS SON!
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Post by Satoru Alabaster on Jan 28, 2014 21:08:31 GMT -5
Satoru rubbed his temples, he needed to THINK, find a solution. "Keith they will KILL HIM if they see anyone other than me there," he said. "When you came to save me they couldn't kill me, they needed to bargain, they can still kill Gabe if they're dumb enough." And he was banking on them being that stupid, everyone seemed to be when the stakes were high.
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Post by Keith Alabaster on Jan 28, 2014 21:30:35 GMT -5
Keith ran his hands down his face as he tried to get himself together. "How're you gonna get him out then?" If that piece of shit on the other end was trying to make one of those deals with Satoru(which judging by the one sentence he heard from the shorter man he was willing to bet it was), he couldn't just give them what they wanted! Was there any other way to get Gabe back?
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Post by Satoru Alabaster on Jan 28, 2014 22:02:00 GMT -5
Satoru's hands wandered down to his guns. "Go in, make a deal, and break it after Gabe's safe." He replied. "You get Mina, Egil, Eva, ANYONE that you can, and bring them to the warehouse and wait." He said, trying to even his breaths so he could keep himself calm and relatively level-headed. "As soon as Gabe's in the clear we're gonna wipe these motherfuckers off the face of the earth, maybe save one to spread the word of what happens when you fuck with the Alabasters."
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Post by Keith Alabaster on Jan 28, 2014 22:21:07 GMT -5
Keith nodded quickly. "Yeah, yeah of course… but what if they spot one of use before you get him back?" He wasn't going to take a chance, not with Gabe on the line, but there wasn't any other way he could see of this working. He couldn't lose Gabe, he didn't know what he'd do if he lost him...
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