part 36

(continuing from iku and Anna hanging out with Jimmy.)

It’s late at night, Tuesday. Jimmy is asleep and so is iku, suddenly her phone buzzes. It’s the receptionist calling.

Receptionist: (“Uh, hey boss, you’ve got someone important here?”)

iku: “tired groan-y voice” (“What?“)

Receptionist: (“He is definitely looking for your services, I’ll uh, send him to the meeting room.”)

iku: (“Yeah… uh.. yeah.. tell them I’ll be there soon…“)

Receptionist: (“Alright, bye!”)

iku: (“.. Bye.“)

The receptionist puts her phone down.

Receptionist: (“Right, She’s on her way, if you please, follow me to the waiting room.”)

iku gets dressed in a rushed way, she’s clearly messy and doesn’t have her contacts in, shades are a must though.

Note: the meeting rooms, there are 4, they’re isolated rooms that block all wireless connections and have cameras in them, a 0 trust place for meetings with iku.

The receptionist lets the man in the room, as iku makes her way down the receptionist tell her that the client is in room 2.

iku is super confused at who would want to meet with her at 2 am unarranged. She enters the meeting room, it’s the city’s mayor.

iku: (“Hey.“)

Mayor: (“Hello miss.”)

iku: (“Now usually I have a feeling what a client wants before I even hear their problem, Eurozone square right?“)

Mayor: (“That would be the it…”)

iku: (“And you are fully aware that working with me is going to be a pr nightmare for you?“)

Mayor: (“My legal ways of dealing with this problem is starting to run low miss. You are legally a private security contractor right?”)

iku: (“It’s your carrier on the line, not mine, if you excuse me I need to make a phone call, get someone here who can help me out with planning.“)

Mayor: (“Right.”)

iku walks out of the room, with a giant smirk on her face she dials Anna.

Anna: (“What the fuck do you want? It’s 3 am.”)

iku: (“You owe me 200 bucks.“)

Anna: (“What?… No the fuck I don’t.”)

iku: (“He is right here in one of my rooms. Asked for me specifically.“)

Anna: “annoyed groan”.

iku: (“I’ll be waiting for you in room 2, bring my money.“)

Anna: (“Fuuuck youuu.”)

iku goes back to the meeting room with a giant smile on her face.

Mayor: (“If I may ask, who is it that you’ve called?”)

iku: (“I told you already, someone very important. You’re talking about a job where I have to risk my life pretty bad.”)

iku: (“It’s not that I’m unwilling to do your dirty work, it’s just making sure I can hold you accountable just in case you might try to do something after I’m finished.”)

iku: (“Couple minutes, and they’re here.“)

A couple minutes go by and Anna enters the room. She doesn’t look at the mayor she just gives iku a really dirty look. She hands the $200 dollars to her in front of the mayor.

Anna: “hungarian” (“Fucking raisin.“)

The mayor is incredibly confused.

Anna: (“Alright. You are speaking of a job that is so fucking dangerous that we need to take every measure to make sure iku doesn’t get hurt too bad. Direct sightlines on her from all directions with barely any cover. Could account for them being wanna be gangsters tough, probably not that experienced with shooting things far away, say, do you know what weapons these thugs carry around?“)

Mayor: (“I don’t know, handguns for sure, some said something about small automatic guns.“)

Anna: (“So no ARs?“)

Mayor: (“I assume not?“)

Anna: (“Great, totally, doesn’t even fuckin’…“)

Anna: (“We’ll need to scout out the place today, day time.”)

iku: (“I have to pick up Jimmy.“)

Anna: (“Cool, great, we’ll take him for some ice cream then.“)