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The limp body ragdolled from the second story window off a clothesline, almost catching on a fire escape, and finally landing on a bag or two of scattered trash. It lay there, bleeding and battered, and still.

2016-02-24 09:18:18

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Marcellio watched, then slipped out the front door.

2016-02-24 09:20:55

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Tassek was on the way to Terezi's when he noticed something off in an alleyway next to a nearby apartment building. He'd learned at one point or another to keep an eye on the shadows, since he still didn't know just how many vampires that he wasn't friends with were lurking around here. He paused and squinted. It looked like there was someone huddled back there. No...not huddled. Lying down on his stomach. He put one hand to the switchknife in his pocket, the other to his phone, and stepped hesitantly towards the body. It was a man with brown hair over his face and a nose ring, barefoot, eyes closed, wrist staining the ground with blood. Was he a janitor? Tassek kneeled down when he was sure the man wasn't going to leap up and grab him, and turned over his wrist to take a pulse. It looked like a suici.....oh. That was a vampire bite. On his /wrist/? This was bad. He hadn't even been drained yet, just put on the verge of death and...dumped? Thrown out of something? He was bruised, too, like he'd fallen. And why would he be barefoot? He must be from one of the apartments in this building. Was there a vampire around who'd be so brazen as to waltz into apartments and bite people? He was...probably obligated to do something about this. But he looked like he might die before Tassek could actually drag him anywhere. He closed his hand on his phone, pulled it out, and dialed Nick's number. "....hey? I need help getting a dying guy off the street. I'll explain when you get here, but it's relevant to my job, I swear."

2016-02-24 09:27:39

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Nick was doing fuck all when he got a phine call. For once Tassek called him. Hmm? Dying guy. "Sure, sure. Bring him by. Just don't trigger Ren or Lance's hunger."

2016-02-24 09:34:33

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"No, as in, can you get a car or something here? I can't drag him that far."

2016-02-24 09:34:51

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"...I'll bring my motorcycle. Be lucky you're small twiggy." He grabbed his car keys and hung up the phone.

2016-02-25 00:39:09

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"Fuck--" Off. He put pressure on the guy's wrist to keep him from bleeding out while he waited.

2016-02-25 00:39:39

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Within a few minutes, Nick zoomed by on his motorcycle, then pulled up a few feet away from Tassek.

2016-02-25 00:42:05

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He'd already made a makeshift tourniquet out of a piece of a trash bag, so he lifted the man by his armpits and pulled him toward the motorcycle, stumbling a bit over the scattered debris. He hefted him on.

2016-02-25 00:43:29

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Nick stared at the man for a moment. "He's a devil." Nick informed Tassek.

2016-02-25 00:44:19

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"What? Really? Well, he got thrown out a window after being fed on, I figured a vampire breaking into apartments might be a /little/ important."

2016-02-25 00:44:59

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"Yeah. Maybe Lance knows him. Better hold onto him tight then, shortie."

2016-02-25 00:45:58

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"Call me that again and I'll drop him."

2016-02-25 00:46:52

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"....SHORTIE SHORTIE SHORTIE SHORTIE."

2016-02-25 00:47:35

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He kicked him in the kneecap and climbed on the back of the motorcycle.

2016-02-25 00:48:53

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"Ow!" He grabbed his knee. "Do that again and you'll be the one dying." He revved the motorcycle and sped off.

2016-02-25 00:51:30

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When they got to Ivory's place, he checked the tourniquet again and picked him up by the arms. "You get the other end."

2016-02-25 00:56:31

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"Yeah, yeah." He turned the motorcycle off, grabbed the feet, and moved him inside.

2016-02-25 00:57:59

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Once he was inside, Tassek set him on the couch. Madison came down to see who the new devil was and froze. "No. /NO/. GET HIM OUT OF HERE NOW."

2016-02-25 00:59:51

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Nick looked and turned. "Fuck off, blondie."

2016-02-25 01:05:14

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"This isn't the time, asshole, that's /Beckett/! The one who set the vampire on Ivory!"

2016-02-25 01:20:22

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"...." Nick pulled out his gun and immediately cocked it.

2016-02-25 01:22:29

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"WAIT HOLD ON--" Tassek moved between them quickly. "We need to at least ask who the vampire was, or we won't know for sure who did this!"

2016-02-25 01:24:01

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"If he tells Marcellio that he was here, it won't matter. He'll kill us all!"

2016-02-25 01:27:50

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"So we don't let him go, it's that easy, put the freaking gun away!"

2016-02-25 01:28:10