Roger is sitting on the hill where Zach last saw him, streched out in the grass. Roger says, "well lying on the hill :)" Zach comes ambling along the path and spots someone lying on top of the hill. He pads along up and is delighted to find Roger. "Hey Roge! You ok?" He smilesfrom ear to ear. Roger blinks and sits up "Huh? I;m great man. I just took the day off work." He stretches his arms and grins at Zach "Still getting used to it you know." Zach's eyes sparkle bright and green. "Yeah, I suppose you are. You had a good time since yesterday morning?" Roger chuckles "Yep Roger grins up at the angel "So, what have you been up too? You say, "Oh you know.. Flitting around, smelling the flowers, happying and playing my harp..." Zach grins! You say, "One of those is actually true! I have been extremely happy since the ritual." Roger chuckles "Somehow I can't see you playing a harp." His face darkens slightly "Have you seen Traci?" Zach shakes his head and plops down onto the ground next to Roger. "No, I haven't. Have you?" You paged Roger with 'resonate (it'll have to work someday:)'. AutoJudge: Zach rolls: 1 + 6 = 7 . Check die: 3 Zach says, "But not this day...." Roger grins Roger shakes his head "Nope, I haven't, not since...well you know.: Zach purses his lips somewhat. "Good. You need to stay well away from that.... from her." Roger makes a face "Yeah, tell me about it. It's like I have no self control when I'm around her." He shudders "She offered me a three way you know." Zach scowls. "Really. Not very surprising, though." Roger sighs "I wonder if she would have used that school friend that she took the frat party. Zach scowls even deeper and his jaws tighten in disgust. "She didn't tell you who, then?" Roger shakes his head "Named no names unfortently." Zach pulls some grass up and grinds it in his hand. "I need to catch her alone. Not with lots of people around. Then we can stop all the bullshitting and keeping up appearancessing. Just find out if she wants to repent, and slay her if she doesn't. This whole business is /really/ starting to grate on my nerves, as it were." Roger nods "Yeah me too." He taps his fingers on the ground thoughtfuly "I could call her up and arange for her to meet me somewhere private." Zach inclines his head and looks at Roger thoughtfully. "That's a plan. But there is one danger: If you are seen with her just before she disappears. That would be bad." Roger shrugs "Hence the private place, where no one will see us and you can question her." Zach smiles a little half-smile. "I'd just hate to get our newest Soldier into trouble with the Law, is all. But on the other hand - as far as the Man's concerned you already are. For bonking a 15 year old schoolgirl." He pauses a bit, then: "How do you think you will react when it comes to blows?" Roger shrugs "I've been a few gun battles before and haven't frozen yet." He pauses and then admits "Still she looks like a 15 year old girl, I might find it a little hard to punch her in the face." Zach is very serious now. "I'll try to make it quick, but ut really depends on how tough she is. And what kinds of nasty tricks she can pull on us. Lemme tell you something: If I hurt her physically and she turns out to be human, you will hear it. Hurting a human makes a horrible disturbance in the symphony. If she ain't human, and I don't think she is, then there will be no noise." Roger nods "Yeah." He sighs "For a demon she sure hides it well you know. She didn't want me to sell my soul or sign anything in blood." Zach quirks an eyebrow. "They rarely do. That's extremely oldfashioned and was rare even in the dark ages. In fact - I've never heard about any who do that. I think it's a fiction thing. Maybe with a grain or two of truth in it..." Roger chuckles "Well that's good to know I suppose." He looks away for a moment "So, how are you planing on killing her?" You say, "As quick as I can with whatever's at hand. If I can just break her neck it would be the best. Leaves little or no spillage." Roger winces slightly "Does shooting demons do any good? Zach nods. "Hell yeah. It kills 'em eventually. Sometimes even quite quickly." Roger chuckles "Good to know. Of course that could be both loud and messy." Zach sighs. "There is that. Usually I don't mind fireworks at all, but usually I don't plan on staying around afterwards. And we do not want ferensics to find traces from /your/ gun anywhere near her last whereabouts." Roger shrugs "We can always hide the body. Weight it down and drop it in the river." Zach nods. "Yes, every trace of her must vanish." Zach frowns. "By the way - do you have much familiy and close kin?" Roger nods "Abner asked me the same thing. My parents live here in the city. I have two sisters, one lives in St Louis, the other in Boston." Zach nods. "Ok. I have to stress that you cannot tell them about your work for Heaven. I know you've heard this before, but it'll be harder as time passes and you...experience things. The very first 'job' will be quite tough. We normally try to avoid exposing Soldiers directly to demons, but in your case..." Zach sighs and shakes his head ruefully. Roger makes a face and nods "Lucky I can pass most things off as, "on the job stress." He glances at Zach "What sort of things do soliders normal experance?" Zach smiles. "Oh lots of stuff. You do all sorts of things for us really. Support jobs mainly, legal work, financial stuff, fix stuff, spying on and removeing Hellsworn. That sort of thing. All kinds of people become Soldiers, and they do whatever they are good at. You are a community cop - it gices Heaven a very valuable pair of eyes and ears on street level. And you can also assist angels on missions if they need contacts within the police here." Roger nods "Sounds fair enough. And I can see why you don't want Soliders going up against Demons." He smiles slightly "Still, no reason I can't make their life hard." Zach gazes solemnly at Roger. "Oh we expect you to. It's War." Roger grins "Should be fun. Zach grins back. "It is!" Roger says, "So, tell me something about yourself Zach."" Zach smiles and shifts to sit cross-legged on the grass. "What do you want to know?" Roger says, "Wel how old are you?" Zach chuckles. "I'm about 200 years old. Why?" Ada enters the park. Roger raises an eyebrow "Wow, that's pretty impressive." He shrugs, "Just curious. What do you do for your boss?" Zach mutters to Roger, "I... planes,... and stuff... other angels... am, and... been,... a lot... 1800s... demons... help..." You whisper "I fix cars, bikes, planes, boats and stuff for other angels of the Wind. I am, and have always been, support. I used to hand around factories and trains a lot back in the 1800s to fight demons of Technology and help out talented mechanics and inventors." to Roger. Ada meanders in, taking her time and exploring the scenery. Roger nods "I got it." He glances over towards movment "Hey it's Ada." Zach follows Roger's glance and grins from ear to ear. "Oho! My girlfriend!" He waves to Ada from the top of the small hill where he and Roger are lazing around. The two men look incredibly relaxed and comfortable in the late evening sun. The current time in Kansas City is 7:11 PM, Fri Aug 02, 2002. Roger blinks at Zach "Girlfriend?" Ada waves back and smiles up at Zach. You say, "Oy, Ada baby! Come on up!" Roger leans over and whispers to Zach Roger whispers "so are you sleeping with her?"" Ada trudges up the hill. Roger senses "Zach grins to Roger. "She's a girl, a friend and I love her. Girlfriend. And yes."" Roger waves to Ada "Hey there, hows it going?" Ada says, "Not badly. You guys?" Zach gets is butt off the ground and rises to embrace Ada as she comes up to him. Roger grins "I'm having a great day as as a matter of fact. Come sit with us." Zach hugs her tightly and gives her a kiss. "I'm good and it just got even better!" She's wearing a grey T-shirt tucked into black jeans, along with black sneakers and a silver wristwatch. The image on the T-shirt is that of a typical yellow smiley-face with Xes for eyes and a dot in the center of the forehead; the slogan over the image reads "ov3rclocked". (Dig it: http://images.cafepress.com/zoom/555100_zoom.jpg) Ada purrs and kisses back, flopping into Zach's lap. Zach cuddles Ada. "Whatcha been up to, beautiful?" Roger grins at Ada "Hey I'm suddenly reminded that I haven't seen Roxanne in a while." Ada wrinkles her nose. "Not much. Is Roxy vanishing on us?" Roger shrugs "I haven't seen her. Have you?" Zach kisses the cute wrinkles on Ada's nosie. Ada shakes her head. "Zach, cut it out!" But she's laughing as she says it. Zach makes noises of protest and zrbtts her neck. Roger chuckles as he watches them "You two make a cute couple. Ada mock-glares at Zach. "We'd make a better one if he didn't keep going off on dates with people." Roger waggles a finger at Zach "Shame shame, who'd you go off with?" Zach squeezes Ada lovingly and grins his most charming and innocent grin. "I got invited to dinner by mine and Ada's Leather Lady." Roger grins "Oh ho, how did it turn out?" Zach chuckles. "It went swell. Only I got yelled at in the kitchen. She's a bit conservative with food. Didn't let me make the sauce interesting even though I found lots of neat stuff in her cupboards. Ada's a lot more fun and less inhibited in that department. Right, hon?" Ada laughs. "Didn't want you messing with her kitchen? 'sokay, love, you can cook at my place anytime." Ada turns serious. "Speaking of... I don't think I ever apologized for that night in my apartment, Roger." Zach pouts at Ada's statement about messing, but his eyes twinkle merrily. Roger shrugs at Ada "Bygones, don't worry youself about it. We all have bad days." Ada nods. "Thank you for understanding." Roger turns to Zach and teases "Well as long as she wasn't inhibited in other ways, Im sure you could forgive her not wanting you to season the food." Ada sticks her tongue out at Roger. "Don't tease. Zach is a virtuous and chaste man." Roger grins at her "Chaste is he?" Zach blinks. "I'm a What?!" You say, "Okay I'm virtuos, but /chaste/?? Honestly Ada, you hurt my manly pride here..." Ada sets her jaw. "Unless he's with me, he's perfectly chaste and respectful of others' chastity." Ada turns to Zach. "*Right*?" Zach grins warily at Ada. "Sure. I'm as respectful as they come!" Ada grins back. "Roger, will you excuse me for a moment?" Zach is beginning to wonder if he's in trouble of some kind. And if so, why wasn't he warned? :) Roger nods and gets to his feet "I'll just go wander the park for a bit." He heads off down the hill Ada says, "Oh, no, Roger - just for a moment. It won't be thirty seconds, I promise." From afar, Roger chants "Zach's in trouble, Zachs in trouble :)" Long distance to Roger: Zach throws jellyfish in large quantities at Roger!!:) From afar, Roger runs away laughing at him Zach cuddles Ada and tries to sneak a kiss onto her neck. You paged Roger with 'I will get you! Just You Wait! :)'. Roger pages: hey you're the one that choose to sleep with Sarah :) Ada turns her head and catches Zach on the lips, pushing him down and kissing the daylights out of him. When she finally comes back up for air, she smiles at Roger and beckons him back up the hill. "See? Twenty-nine seconds." Roger chuckles and wanders back up the hill returning to his former seat "Well I'm glad it wasn't you yelling at him." Zach gasps and laughs out loud. "Oh /baby/!" Ada says, "Oh, no... just haven't had any time with him lately." Ada slings an arm around Zach's neck. "So what are you two up to tonight? Roger grins "Should I leave you two alone? Ada says, "Oh, only if you have somewhere else to be." Zach smiles at Roger. "Noo, no need to. We'll get to the hanky-panky bit later tonight. At home." Ada coughs. "'The hanky-panky bit' indeed." Zach hugs Ada again. "Roge and me were just bumming around up here. Being a coupla lazy goofs." Zach whispers something in Ada's ear. Roger nods "Yeah, I don't really have anywhere to be tonight. Took the day off." You whisper "The hot, passionate, steaming, never-ending lovemaking bit, then." to Ada. Ada blushes furiously. Ada whispers "I'm glad you didn't say that out loud, O my Virtue, or I'd have melted!" Roger grins "Not even going to ask." Zach chuckles softly and says in a low voice to Ada: "Well, we can't have that now, can we.." He grins. "So Roger - how's your community holding up? Any happenings on the street?" Roger thinks for a minute "Well saddly this heatwave has been pretty hard on somepeople, especialy the poor." With that he stands grins at them "Well I'll leave you two alone. Have a good evening." Roger waves and needs to scram. Zach says, "Aww..:)" Ada blinks. "If you're sure, Rog... don't let me chase you off!" Ada hugs! Zach smiles to Roger. "Okay, bud. Take care now, and I'll see you later." Roger simply waves at them as he heads down the hill." Zach smiles lovingly to Ada. "Did we scare him off, you think?" Ada says, "Probably." Zach kisses Ada. Ada kisses Zach softly. "If it means I get to be alone with you, though..." Zach smiles and fondles her hair. "Wicked, wicked. How have you been, dear?" Ada says, "Do you judge me, my sweet?" Zach grins. "Of course not, hon. That's for the Cloakies to do." Ada smiles and lays comfortably in Zach's arms. "I love you. You know that, right? I love you more than life itself." Zach smiles brightly down at Ada. "You have so much love in you to share. I love you too, beautiful." He kisses a random bit of Ada. Ada purrs and shivers. Ada says, "Did I tell you I bought a bathing suit?" Ada says, "Just for you. I have it on now, underneath. Very comfortable." Zach inclines his head and smiles even brighter. "No you didn't tell me. Not until just now. Wow... We'll have to elope to Florida!" Ada giggles softly. "Not warm enough here? Ada tugs idly at her shirt. Zach cuddles Ada some more, 'cause it's good to cuddle Ada. "More than warm enough, but not very many decent beaches." Ada says, "Oh, true." You say, "So, have you seen Hachilah lately?" Ada shakes her head sadly. "Not but once, a few days ago." Zach hmms. "I miss her. And I worry. Hope she's all right." Ada says, "I'm sure she is." Ada kisses Zach softly. "I'm sure she is." Zach nudges the side of Ada's head with his lips. "Yeah, I'll wager. For one so young and seraphically she manages incredibly well." Ada smiles. "She does." You say, "Have you had any contact with your folks lately? Or are you completely incognito?" Ada says, "Completely incognito. I bet Grandpa and Dad know I'm here, but..." Zach nods slowly. "I bet they'll be just /delighted/ to find that you have shacked up with two angels of the Creative persuation..." A wicked grins spreads all over his face. Ada kisses Zach's neck gently. "If only they'd shack up with *me*..." Ada gets up suddenly, looking around at the totally empty park. Zach lets some fingers gently slide through Ada's hair. "Yeah, we are a bit on the restless side me and her...what?" You say, "What's wrong?" Ada says, "Nothing." Zach gets up too, alarmed. Ada quickly slides off her t-shirt and skirt. Zach blinks Ada says, "I wanted to show you..." She's dressed for a day at the pool or the beach, in a white two-piece bathing suit that clings to her body as though it's afraid of the water. Although it has a bit more fabric than fashion dictates, it still rides low over her chest and high over her hips, exposing as much skin as it can while still leaving her decent. Ada blushes faintly, from head to toe. "Do you like it?" Zach smiles from ear to ear as he takes in the lovely view. His eyes grow soft and loving as he reaches out to touch her. "Yes, I like it a lot. You're beautiful Ada." Ada blushes harder. "Thank you." Zach says, "I need to go to bed soon. I'm almost falling asleep here. Sorry if I'm incoherent... :P" Ada pouts. Zach slides his hands up her arms and down her sides, then drags her gently close to him. "Lovely. Just lovely." Ada slides her arms around Zach. "I don't suppose you have a water bottle? Zach shakes his head. "But I'm pretty sure we can find a spot with a water spreader somewhere..." He looks hopeful. Ada takes her shirt and skirt from the ground and slings them over her shoulder, and then grins and runs down the hill toward a nearby sprinkler, watching Zach over her shoulder. Zach grins and follows more than willingly to watch. Ada drops her clothes on the still-dry grass and chases the spray from the sprinkler around, deliberately getting thoroughly wet. When Ada has gotten completely soaked, Zach wades in and grabs her and kisses her for a long, long time. Ada kisses back hungrily. They stand locked in each other's arms for quite some time, until Zach decides to look for a secluded spot where they can have som privacy... Zach is now quite wet too... Ada says, "Have to get those wet clothes off you..." Zach will sign off now, leaving the lovebirds to their *ahem* tryst.. :) I'm zonked! :) Zach willingly gets undressed. He even tries to help some, but Ada is very distracting, and he has to fondle and kiss random bits of her all the time. And so, the evening passes into night. Eventually they end up in Ada's appartment. Eventually.... The End..