Walking For Information

The day itself goes by while the three of you hang out in the room you were given waiting for Shade to eventually show up and share the information with you. Lexie was her normal awesome self and you could easily just talk, play or sit around in silence with her all day and you would be happy. Zoe is still going through the little bit of withdrawal from the snuff as she's not her normal chipper self at all and instead has been resting in the bed most of the day. It actually made you a little sad because she's always been such an upbeat and happy go lucky girl but seeing her like this actually did make you feel pretty devastated.

"That stuff really did something on Zoe..." Lexie looks over at the bed, watching the resting Sunrider.

"Yeah, I feel bad for her." you reply "It's tough to see her so beaten and out of it. Although..." you shrug at Lexie "With as much energy as that **** gave her yesterday it does feel good to not have her talking my ear off every two seconds." you release a chuckle at the girls expense.

"Oh Darien..." Lexie shakes her head at you "The girl is hurting and you're going to kick her while she's down. Very nice of you." she bites her lower lip and almost playfully glares at you.

"As I said last night, I have no clue how you did it. After just a few hours of her I was done, I couldn't handle it anymore." you laugh "Then I leave the two of you together and in less than an hour or so you somehow get her to sleep. That's...impressive."

"You think she's bad?" Lexie raises an eyebrow "Just wait until..." her hands go to her stomach "He or she is born. Then you'll really have your hands full!"

"Hah! But just like with Zoe, at least when I get annoyed with our kid I'll just pawn them off to you and just go back to training." you laugh at the expense of your fiance.

"You're a piece of work, you know that right?" she shoots back.

"And that piece of work got you to fall madly in love with me, so I obviously did something right!" you shrug.

"Or I truly fucked up." her tongue sticks out, taunting you, causing both of you to softly laugh out at each other. "You are right though, I do madly love you." her hands reach over and grip your own.

"I think I do..." you tease her "I mean, you're not a Queen or anything so I dunno..." you trail off.

"Ass!" she snarks out and pulls her hands back "Maybe I'll go find myself a King then. Maybe on the way back north we can stop by Rathkin again, go find me some Edmin!"

"Not like he could fuck you anyway..." you grumble out under your breath

"What was that?"

"N-Nothing...if you want to find a King, then so be it!" you roll your eyes at your beautiful fiance "But there's no way any King is going to fuck as good as I can."

"Cocky, cocky, cocky!" she shakes her head at you with a giant grin.

A knock on the door interrupts your banter which is followed by that jet black haired, blue eyed leader of Loner's Reach, "Good Afternoon," he says as he comes inside walking over to the table that you are Lexie and sitting around. "Darien, take a walk with me." he doesn't really ask but more so orders.

You look at Lexie and give her a nod before pushing yourself up and moving next to Shade. At the same time his hand reaches into his pocket and pulls out two pouches of his product and tosses them on the table next to Lexie "Enjoy." he gives her a friendly wink "Let's go, Darien." he turns around and makes his way to leave.

Just watching him casually give out that **** to keep people sated, to keep people addicted, it really was starting to piss you off. With his back at you walking to the door you reach down and grab the two pouches of snuff he threw down and quickly shove them into your pocket, the same pocket the other four pouches are in. You knew Lexie wouldn't take the snuff but you didn't want to leave them here especially with Zoe. Lexie gave you a questioning look as why you quickly snatched up the snuff but she didn't say a word.

"Be back soon!" you lean forward, giving your girl a kiss on the top of her head before making your way to the exit, following Shade out into the hallway. "So, got the information?" you ask as soon as the door shuts behind you.

"Nope." Shade looks over his shoulder and shrugs at you "Not yet."

"Then, what are we doing?" you ask, stepping up to his side as you follow him through the hallway.

"Going to get that information." he looks to his left and gives you a grin causing you to be a little confused by his words. "Follow along, you'll see soon enough."

"Yeah, sure sure." you stay with his stride "Wanted to say thank you one more time, just for helping me out with all of this."

"No need, Darien. It's what friends are for, help each other out when they need something." the tone of his voice almost sent a tingle down your spine. "Care for a hit?" he's just so fast and sneaky with his hands as suddenly he's holding another pouch of snuff, bringing it over towards your body, offering it to you.

"No, no thanks." you politely decline "I'm not here to party, do **** or honestly have fun, I'm here to get this information, Shade."

"Too bad." he shrugs as suddenly the pouch is gone "Loner's Reach is quite the city to relax and let loose."

"Yeah, I'm surprised you're not constantly on your ****, making the best of the situation and enjoying it every single day. It's not like you have to worry about much I'm guessing with all the power in this city you have?" you ask.

"I don't dally with my product," he gives a deep exhale " but that doesn't mean I still can't enjoy the benefits it brings..."

It actually surprised you a little bit. Apparently Shade doesn't use his product at all, you can see why he wouldn't because just watching around and seeing the addiction that it brings people that should be the main reason not to even want to attempt it. But for this man, this evil man, this guy who apparently produces this ****, for him to never dally in it at all is rather impressive. "Figured you'd at least indulge yourself in Snuff here or there, at least every once in awhile?" you ask.

"As you said Darien, got to keep a clear head. I've got a lot of people behind my back so I can't afford to dull my senses." suddenly that tiny little dagger he loves so much is spinning in his left hand where the pouch of snuff was just a few seconds ago. He's twirling it around masterful like he always does as the two of you walk stride after stride down the corridors. "Whelp, here we go." Shade stops as his head turns to the right, looking at a closed wooden door.

"Huh? What's behind that?" you ask, looking at the door as well.

"The information you seek..." his voice goes deep as he steps forward, pulling the door open and stepping inside with you right behind him.