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Post by Jordanna on Feb 12, 2007 21:50:46 GMT -5
"Well, you'll know where to find us," Henry remarked. "If I can do anything else, let me know."
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Post by skybright on Feb 13, 2007 23:17:39 GMT -5
"Will do." Father Rick replied, shaking Henry's hand.
Daws smiled faintly at Vance, who had just hung up the phone. "You take care of yourself, okay? I'll see you later."
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Post by Jordanna on Feb 13, 2007 23:57:39 GMT -5
Vance nodded. "You watch yourself out there, Regina. I'll be back out there annoying--" He twitched a grin. "I mean, helping you as soon as I can."
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Post by skybright on Feb 14, 2007 0:07:28 GMT -5
"You better be." Daws grinned fondly and turned to Father Rick with a shrug.
"Okay then -- let's see what we can do to sort this mess out."
The Padre nodded. "All right." He glanced at Vance. "If you need to contact either of us, Boyo, just call down to the Parish -- I'll be out and about, but I'll have Mike or one of the others watching the phone, and they can come after us if needs be."
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Post by Jordanna on Feb 14, 2007 0:14:41 GMT -5
"I sent Rog down to Our Lady," Vance replied. "You can coordinate with him on the relief efforts. To be honest..." Vance shrugged slightly. "The more of 'em your people can take off our hands, the better. My little band of cutthroats don't eat too well themselves some days, if you know what I mean."
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Post by skybright on Feb 14, 2007 0:29:57 GMT -5
"We'll do everything we can." Father Rick replied sincerely. "See you later."
With that, he and Daws left Henry's and headed for Our Lady of Refuge.
***
The church building was much busier than was normal for a weekday morning, and Daws raised a questioning eyebrow at the number of people who were busily passing in and out.
"I've got a group of folks out rounding up donations -- clothes and the like." Father Rick explained as he parked the battered parish car along the curb, "And I set some others to setting up a temporary shelter in the gym building. Don't know if any Spooks have taken advantage of it, though."
The pair made their way inside the church building, where several locals were milling about in various stages of activity. Daws spotted Roger Latimore, and waved in greeting.
"Hey, Rog. What's our status?"
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Post by Jordanna on Feb 14, 2007 0:38:26 GMT -5
Roger winced. "If I knew, I'd tell ya. We've managed to collect a few Spooks here--mostly some families with kids who can't afford to turn us down. I've moved four of 'em into my building myself. A few of the looser cannons we found had some choice words for us and our charity. I don't think anybody's ratted us out to Tiernan yet, though."
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Post by skybright on Feb 14, 2007 0:45:56 GMT -5
"Thank God for small favors." Father Rick ran one hand over his bald head. "All right, I'm going to get busy trying to keep this bunch organized." He waved vaguely at the group of Parish volunteers.
Daws nodded. "And I'm going to see about tracking down Proteus." She grimaced. "If I can find him."
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Post by Jordanna on Feb 14, 2007 21:40:08 GMT -5
Roger nodded. "Yeah. I gotta check in with Handy--he's out seeing about the rounding-up of these people personally." He frowned. "You going to check in with Tiernan again sometime today?"
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Post by skybright on Feb 14, 2007 23:24:54 GMT -5
Daws shrugged. "I told my assistant to keep an eye out at Tiernan's place and let me know if anythin' unusual came up -- and Tiernan said he might call me in later to do . . . identification. But I guess it might not hurt to drop by and take a look around there myself."
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Post by Jordanna on Feb 14, 2007 23:57:20 GMT -5
"Just be careful," Roger said concernedly. "We don't know what any Spooks might have dropped in to tell him."
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Post by skybright on Feb 15, 2007 0:09:07 GMT -5
"Yeah." Daws grimaced and pushed her fedora back.
"I guess maybe the first thing I should do is swing by the office, check and see if Joey or Cole have tried to get back to me. I can go from there."
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Post by Jordanna on Feb 15, 2007 22:26:58 GMT -5
Roger nodded. "Say, can you give me the address to Casselton's house? If I can get away for a few minutes later on, I wanna stop in and see the Major. Don't write it down--just tell me." He grinned lopsidedly. "In our line, you learn not to carry around any tipoffs about your pals."
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Post by skybright on Feb 15, 2007 22:36:52 GMT -5
"Sure." Daws rattled off Henry's address, then shrugged.
"I guess I'll be seeing you boys around. Good luck."
"Thanks." Father Rick shook his head. "We'll need it. You be careful out there."
"Always am." Daws grinned and left the church, heading for her office.
Daws checked her voicemail as soon as she arrived there. There was no news from Joey or from Cole -- but there was a message from Tiernan's secretary.
Oh, boy. Here's hoping one of the Spooks didn't rat us out, or today's gonna go downhill real quick. With a sigh, Daws locked up the office once again and made her way to Tiernan Enterprises.
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