The Gig [Finished]

[yamikuronue]

The weapons are delivered, unloaded into a warehouse, and the pair are able to head home to get sleep... if they can. Flipping the schedule for a day is always awkward, and there's the nervous jitters about the next day to consider. Vic spends a good chunk of the night writing a letter, which he clings to nervously as he heads down to breakfast the next morning around ten thirty, looking pale, bags under his eyes.

[accalia]

Tony's up already, looking even worse than Vic, if that's possible. "Coffee?"

[yamikuronue]

"Yeah," he says, moving to sit at the table. "Rough night?"

[accalia]

"Got a visit from the reaper." Tony says, a phrase that Vic's heard several times at the precinct, but no one has yet volunteered an explanation of what it meant. "So, no. I'll survive."

[yamikuronue]

Vic rubs at his eyes. "I don't really know what that means," he mumbles.

[accalia]

"We walk with him daily. Every time we go out on beat he walks with us, keeps us company. Sometimes he's there to take us, some times he's there to take those we're there to stop. Most of the time he's simply there. And sometimes he likes to visit us in the night, remind us about who he's taken, and who he has yet to take. Doesn't make for good sleeping."

Well, that's bleak. Explains why most of the cops don't seem too big on church, though it was a sure thing that they'd attend every funeral they could, doubly so if it was one of their own.

[yamikuronue]

Vic nods, slowly. "Oh. Yeah. That makes sense." He glances down at the folded pages in his lap, lapsing into silent thought.

[accalia]

"Looks like you didn't sleep either." Tony comments "Reaper visited you too?"

[yamikuronue]

"Something like that." he says, with a shrug.

[accalia]

"Sorry for that. I'll see if i can have a word with him." Tony says, he might be tired, but at least his sense of humor is intact.

[yamikuronue]

Vic doesn't smile. He just watches the coffeepot, waiting. There won't be time for breakfast, he tells himself, distantly aware he should be upset at that fact. We still have to stop at home to get the album.

[accalia]

"So. Where you want to wait?" Tony asks, pouring two cups of coffee. "Deal says you can't come in with me, but i have a feeling you'd rather not wear a hole in my front carpet."

[yamikuronue]

"Aren't you meeting him somewhere? I'll just wait in the car I guess?"

[accalia]

"Back room of Big Tony's" is the confirmation "And yeah, but if i don't walk out, you sure you want to be that close? He doesn't accept what i say i don't think he'll be subtle."

[yamikuronue]

"Why wouldn't you?" he says, bleakly. "Worst he'll do is order you to turn me over. Then you will, and that's that."