Amelia noticed his shaky breath and started to rub his back. She also fought against dozing off so she could think of something comforting to say.
“Alright, but I want you to know that you can tell me anything, at any time. I won’t judge. We all have our demons…”she chuckled helplessly, Maxim coming to mind as she said the last bit.
“… I just want to make sure you’re okay.”
“ I promise, I'll tell you at some point love. “ he said softly
Kera sat in her room, pulling up an alarming amount of information about the team.
“Alright,”she replied.
Amelia started dozing off again, and didn’t fight it this time.
Jonathan, who had seen everything that had happened with Kera via the security system of the ship, and who had also been continuing his research on Big Bitch, noticed a lot of activity on Kera’s pad.
He narrowed his eyes and tapped into her pad, observing her activities without making himself known. He then sighed irritably, shaking his head.
“Rude bitch, isn’t she? Has to look us up even when we’re sitting right fucking here, willing to answer any questions,”Jonathan sighed.
“Rude bitch,”Edgar chirped.
Jonathan snickered at that, then messaged Keigo.
‘Sorry if I’m interrupting anything, but I figured I’d keep ya in the loop. Kera’s doing a lot of research on the lot of us right now, and I mean a shit ton. It’s confusing the shit out of me honestly. Wouldn’t it be simpler to just ask us? We’re not mutes, after all. But, anyways, I also wanted to ask for your input on whether I should stop her or just keep an eye on her.’
“ kay, see how a far she gets. Don't let her get into the plans though. “ He texted back after a slow minute
‘Alright.’
Jonathan then looked back at the monitor showing Kera’s pad. He wasn’t fond of the fact that she didn’t even have the couth to speak with the people she was researching, but it was whatever.
He glanced over at all the plans on Big Bitch. He had downloaded everything from the file into a hard drive to keep any agents from finding him, and he was once again glad he had done that. And he kept all of his passwords written down in a small notebook that he kept hidden, which meant that there was no actual way to get through all the firewalls and other protective whatnot without Jonathan.
“Rude bitch,”Edgar chirped.
Jonathan laughed, agreeing wholeheartedly.
Keigo laid his head down and curled around Amelia. He gave a soft sigh and slowly but surely drifted back to sleep
Amelia barely stirred as Keigo shifted, snuggling up against him. She then quickly fell back asleep, content in his arms.
Kera shut her tablet off, coming out her room to go outside. She planned on buying shit she needed.
Once she got into the crowds she threw on a cloak, keeping the hood up. She met up with someone and talked about something serious, the look on her face was pure betrayal.
“Shit,”Jonathan burst when Kera’s pad went offline.
On impulse, he checked the security cameras and saw Kera leave the ship. His eyes narrowed and he looked at Edgar.
“That’s a big red flag there, don’t ya agree? Going from heavy research to abruptly leaving. Something’s up,”Jonathan said.
“Red flag. Red flag,”Edgar said, bobbing and fluffing his feathers.
“Yeah. Shit,”Jonathan sighed.
He stood and quickly dressed for going outside, then turned to Edgar, who was perched on his chair, watching him.
“Alright. I’m going to go stalk her. If she gets back before me, let Keigo know something’s up. Got that?”Jonathan asked.
Edgar chirped.
“Alright,”Jonathan said, petting Edgar a bit before heading out.
He quickly made his way to the markets, acting casual and buying something to snack on while he searched for anything suspicious.
Kera kept to the shadows. Though she had a bag full of stuff her profile wasn't easily seen. Kera walked behind Jonathan at least a good six times, running into different stores.
Jonathan finished his snack and wandered into a store, buying a couple things, wires and other stuff he could use later. He then decided to hide out for a moment, staying in a shadowy spot and watching his surroundings closely.
Kera stopped to talk for a second to someone in the same cloak as her. She lowered her hood, he looked at her neck for something and nodded. He handed her something small, and she began heading back to the ship and her last time passing Jonathan she didn't dare look at him but spoke instead “ I see you.” she said tonelessly and walked on.
Jonathan walked the exchange closely, but froze when Kera passed by and spoke. Fuck. Jonathan sighed and waited a few minutes before heading back to the ship.
“Note to self, women are better spies than men,”Jonathan mumbled to himself.
He stopped near Amelia’s ship and pulled out his pad, pulling up the security cameras in Keigo’s ship and watching for Kera.
Kera sat at the table in her room wrapping presents, she was a bit pissed she was following d but that was fine
Jonathan watched her. He knew something was off. The fact that she was researching him and the others, that she was sneaking around, her comment that she had seen him. Kera was up to no good, period.
However, she had made herself an alibi. ‘Sneaking around to buy presents, and Jonathan had rudely followed her.’ Jonathan didn’t like it one bit, but he didn’t know many things about espionage, and had already gotten himself caught.
Edgar had seen Kera enter the ship and waited for Jonathan. When he didn’t appear, the bird flew to Keigo’s room, tapping the door urgently.
“Open! Open!”
Keigo got up drowsily, opening his door damn near half-dressed. “ what is it bud..” he asked softly and held out his hand for Edgar to rest.
Edgar hopped onto Keigo’s hand.
“Beta! Rude bitch!”
He bobbed and chirped, his feathers ruffled. He was clearly agitated.
Amelia stirred somewhat and watched, confused.
“ rude bitch?” he asked slightly confused “ kera.. Do you mean kera!?” he asked hesitently
Edgar squawks.
“Kera, Rude bitch! Beta!”
He’s still quite agitated.
Amelia sat up on her elbows, growing concerned.
Keigo went out almost immediately to see what the hell was going on. He was pissed for a fact that Jonathan's bird had to come get him but the fact that kera was mentioned to already starting shit only agged him on more.
Jonathan watched and sighed. He hadn’t intended for Keigo to be pissed off by Edgar’s summons. He had intended to warn him of something bad about to happen.
“Well, just shows that the kid of the group needs some training on this shit,”Jonathan mumbled.
He glanced around him, making sure that he was alone.
Edgar flew to the ship’s main door, squawking.
“Beta! Beta!”he called.
Amelia saw Keigo leave and got up, fully dressing and heading to figure out what was going on.
Keigo walked up behind kera “ mind explaining why the hell I'm getting notices of you being a rude bitch?” he said bluntly. The Mark of the bloody bandits rested brightly now on his exposed chest.
Kera looked up “ rude bitch? Mind explaining why you had me followed?!” she spat out. Her words were tainted with anger and distrust
Jonathan sighed,”And there she goes. Fuck, hindsight is a bitch.”
Amelia noticed Edgar and looked at the door. She kneeled down next to the bird.
“Is Beta outside?”
Edgar squawked, then flew to Jonathan’s room. Amelia followed and opened the door, following the bird to the computers. She saw the monitors watching Kera’s pad.
Edgar moved to the keyboard and eyed it for a moment, then hopped onto a few keys. Some of the security cameras replayed, showing Kera leave and Jonathan following afterward, then Kera returning.
“What is going on?”Amelia mumbled.
“ I never told them to fucking follow you” Leigh said angrily.
Kera raised her voice at keigo standing up, she noticed how it made keigo cower down and she seemed to enjoy that bit. “ I'm sorry for just trying to be fucking nice! It's not like I can walk right up to them and say oh hey I'm buying your fucking Christmas tell me whatcha want!” she mocked.
Jonathan’s eyes narrowed when he saw Keigo shrink back. That Keigo had been practically trained by this woman to be submissive bothered him. It truly bothered him.
“Rude bitch doesn’t cut it. Royal bitch is more fitting. And I already know this is going to bite me in the ass. Shit,”Jonathan mumbled.
“And you can be sneaky about buying presents while talking to people,”he added sourly.
“Beta!”Edgar chirped, agitated.
Amelia grimaced, then turned to one of the other cameras and noticed the confrontation between Keigo and Kera. She saw how Keigo reacted, and her eyes glared at Kera.
“You will not control him again!”she hissed through gritted teeth.
She turned to Edgar.
“Be patient, Edgar. I’m sure he’s fine. Keep an eye on everything,”she said softly, petting him a bit.
Amelia then headed away, trying to come up with any reason to not kill Kera the moment she stepped into her room.