09-21-2015, 09:34 AM
Nox joked at Ayden and Connor's heart went out to him. It was pure deflection. The kid would bottle it up and let it eat at him from the inside out. it would come out.
He could taste rum on the back of his tongue. He touched his eyebrow. The scar had healed over nicely. Ayden said it was only faintly visible, her delicate fingers gently touching the area that had been bruised and split. Yes, it would come out, even in self destructive ways.
But Connor would be there for him. There it is again, he thought. Another suppressed feeling worming its way out. No, this was different. I'm not suppressing my loss. I just miss it. It's who I am.
Aria's voice came over the head-set. She was in the building with the dead body. He tried not think of how that happened. He couldn't say she was wrong. He had killed for something similar. Evil men who took their pleasure in other's pain.
"Yeah I'm here Aria."
He tried to clear his head and think. So the apartment was in lock-down. Very likely that meant it was to protect someone inside. Which probably meant that getting in from outside was supposed to be the hard part. Course, emergency services would have a master override. But that stuff was kept really secret. No sense in having a security system when there was a master key that could over ride it that was freely available on the web.
"Look around for some kind of room control panel. It'll have AC control, security, lights. Whatever. There's probably a way to shut it down there."
A thought occurred to him. "Look at his phone. I bet he has a control app."
Now to hope that the securiyt didn't require a deactivation password.
He could taste rum on the back of his tongue. He touched his eyebrow. The scar had healed over nicely. Ayden said it was only faintly visible, her delicate fingers gently touching the area that had been bruised and split. Yes, it would come out, even in self destructive ways.
But Connor would be there for him. There it is again, he thought. Another suppressed feeling worming its way out. No, this was different. I'm not suppressing my loss. I just miss it. It's who I am.
Aria's voice came over the head-set. She was in the building with the dead body. He tried not think of how that happened. He couldn't say she was wrong. He had killed for something similar. Evil men who took their pleasure in other's pain.
"Yeah I'm here Aria."
He tried to clear his head and think. So the apartment was in lock-down. Very likely that meant it was to protect someone inside. Which probably meant that getting in from outside was supposed to be the hard part. Course, emergency services would have a master override. But that stuff was kept really secret. No sense in having a security system when there was a master key that could over ride it that was freely available on the web.
"Look around for some kind of room control panel. It'll have AC control, security, lights. Whatever. There's probably a way to shut it down there."
A thought occurred to him. "Look at his phone. I bet he has a control app."
Now to hope that the securiyt didn't require a deactivation password.