Back to find the wife and kid

[Sly Cooper]

Damon had been walking for a fair share of hours to find Noah and his wife Rebekah. Hemingford was more lit up than Gatlin has ever been. There were people coming out of the bar, because it was just that time of night. First things first. He had to find Esau to get his Daughter back, and find Rebekah, but where to look. There wasn't any indication that either one of them were there. On the other hand, he hadn't run into them on the way there.

He was exasperated, and his head hurt from all the blows to it during that night. Damon was very much looking forward to going home. Occasionally he would ask a stranger "Have you seen a tall girl with long dark hair about this long, and a sort of plain cotton dress running around recently?" But no one had seen her since the disaster earlier.

With his hope running low, he sat himself down on a yellow curb on one of the calmer streets, and rested his head on his hands. He sighed heavily. "Where are they?"

[Bunny]

Rebekah hadn't expected to find Damon. When she had rose from her protective fortress earlier, still searing in pain, her main objective had been to rescue her daughter from wherever she had been, and to avoid being killed by that frightening Outlander who had threatened her. She had wandered back into the house, more careful this time, and, besides seeing the place shot up and the door busted in, she had found nothing of note. (Truly, even the bullet holes in the walls didn't strike Rebekah as too odd. Outlanders were barbaric. These things happened.)

Or rather, she foun nothing of note but this: Noah, her daughter, couldn't be found. Discouraged, she had fled back into the center of Hemingford.

And, later, had found Damon.

"I'm right here," she said to him, her voice light and chipper despite the agonizing pain still burning from her shoulder. "Hiya. Do you have Noah?"

[Sly Cooper]

Damon perked up when he heard Rebekah's voice, but when he saw that she didn't have Noah he slouched back down. "I can't fine Esau. I gave her over to him so I could come back for the rest of my family." He got up and hugged her.

"I don't know what he did with our daughter." He squeezed her, not sure if he was more upset or angry. "I'm about ready to kill him myself. All this, and my head is killing me!"

[Bunny]

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Rebekah leaned forward, a darker shadow encasing her face at each exclamation of shock. She felt her body pulsate with rage, and she had to take a gulp of air to steady herself before she managed to snarl: "You gave our only child to Esau? An unbeliever? A bastardization of all that is Holy?!" She curled her hands into fists, and considered digging one of them into her husband's face, but, remembering her goal of Best-Gatlin-Wife, she instead shoved it into the air as though K.Oing her guardian angel. "What if Esau taints our child? What if we never see Esau again?! Oh, no no no no no..."

[Sly Cooper]

"I didn't know what else to do, to save you. I couldn't bring the child back. So I handed her over." Damon sighed heavier. He slouched down and threw himself back on the curb, then rubbed his head where it had been hit so many times the skin split. As if my day wasn't already a terrible one, but Rebekah is being her usual, hard to handle. Not that you put much thought into your actions, so I guess everything that has happened was your own fault. "Look Rebekah, I'm really tired, can we not argue right now and just try to find Noah."

[Bunny]

At first, Rebekah didn't seem to hear her husband. "Save me?" she gushed. "I didn't need saved, thank you. I had just killed the outlander woman! I could've killed the two men," she snapped her fingers, "just like that. I was once the best Outlander-Killer in Gatlin," she revealed pridefully. The girl did not deign to mention that she had merely tried to be the best outlander-killer. For one day. And on that day, Gatlin had not been invaded by any interlopers. But, she had reasoned, the outlanders had been so frightened of her they stayed away. Flawless logic.

But the name 'Noah' was like magic: instantly, her rage subsided. "You're right," she vowed. "We should find Esau, and Noah, and ---- " Her eyes rounded with realization. "I got it!" she declared.

"I remember when my mother used to take me to Hemingford for the Farmer's Market, she'd always tell me that if I got lost I should find an officer. We should go to the police station! Maybe Noah's there!" She clapped her hands with delight at her own genius, not seeing the gaping hole in that logic at all. The gaping hole being, of course, that she had just killed a woman. And tried to kidnap Noah.

[Sly Cooper]

"But cops are bad. The blue man was a cop. And I really don't think they would help us find a kidnapped child that wasn't ours." Damon groaned. "But I suppose once you have your mind set on something, you have it set. lets go find Noah."

[Bunny]

"Of course they're bad!" Rebekah snapped with an eyeroll. 'But that's not the point, here. The point is Noah thinks they're good, so she might go to the blue-men to get help! We can just go in, pick her up, and leave. Outlanders are stupid," she pointed out, already forgetting how one of them had spoken in a flawlessly intelligent tongue, and had nearly killed them both. She also did not bother to ask if Damon was alright from his own encounter with him, or apologize for leaving him.

"So..." she paused and shifted from foot to foot awkwardly. "D'you know where the police station is?"

[Sly Cooper]

"I think, from what i remember as a kid, that it's a few blocks down that way--" Feeling more and more miserable as the seconds went on, "You go in and ask. I'm not doing it this time."

[Bunny]

So, Rebekah led them down the streets of Hemingford. She carried herself with arrogance and self-assurance. She would have Noah, have her husband, and go home to take her rightful position as Gatlin's best Wife-Mother.

But, upon coming to the police station - a little dinky thing, to be honest - her knees grew weak. Her shoulder burned, and her memory conjured up the image of the barrel glaring down at her, promising death, promising that it was all about to end - and it was going to end, because she wasn't in the holy Land and who knew if He Who Walks Behind the Rows was even watching her and she was going to die and die and die and Noah would go to hell and she would go to hell and everything would end and --- she didn't want to die!

"You go in," she ordered.

[Sly Cooper]

"No!" Damon cupped his mouth after snapping at Rebekah. "I've had enough run-ins with death, and I refuse to do it again." He closed his eyes and grabbed his head as a sharp pain struck him again. I really should've let Jacob patch it up He was slightly dizzy, "I can't do it. I just can't"

[Bunny]

Rebekah was about to remind Damon that he was her husband, and as such he had to protect her -- but she left her jaw hanging in the air when she heard it. It was undeniable. The cry of a baby. She reluctantly allowed herself to inch towards the police station.

Then she saw it. Her face contorted to one of pure pleasure.

"Damon!" she called over her shoulder. "C'mere! C'mere, look! Look!"

[Sly Cooper]

Damon walked over to look over Rebekah to see what it was that caught her attention. His eyes filled with excitement. "That's Noah! I can tell!" He ran up to the front steps of the police station ready to pick up the child.

[Bunny]

Rebekah wanted to rush over and seize the child from Damon's hands, but, for once, restrained herself. Her normally jovial eyes grew hard. "We have to get back," she pointed out. "We have to take Noah and leave, before somethnig else happens." Even as she spoke these words, she turned, ready to start the long walk back.

ooc: >.> Rebekah has a lot of energy, I guess.

[Sly Cooper]

"You're right, let's get going." He turned to walk next to Rebekah, on another journey he was sure would make him even more tired than he already was. "If we hurry, maybe we can get back before dawn."