Weapons locker, Wednesday afternoon

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia knew her friends were worried about her. She knew they thought she was losing it over the whole Sloane thing. She'd heard them talking about it in the workshop that morning.

And maybe they were right. She had been panicking and she hadn't been in anyway useful the last two days. But talking to Alfred and then getting the message from Jamie and finding him on the floor had changed that.

She headed down to the weapons locker and opened it up, quickly putting on her shoulder holster under her loose jacket and tucking her glock inside. She looked it over quickly for anything else she could use and grabbed a few knives as well. Like she'd told River: she wasn't planning much. Just getting rid of Sloane once and for all.

She'd even called Walter to let him know. See? She was all better, now. . . .

[ooc: open to anyone who might be around to see her at the weapons closet looking rather pissed.]

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[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

The weapons locker was a logical place to expect to find Nadia after their brief phone conversation.

"What happened to Jamie?" he asked without preamble.

[nadiathesaint]

"Chloroform. Apparently he got back from talking to Willow and found a flower and a card on my bed. Guess from who. He was in the middle of calling me when he must have gotten grabbed from behind. I found him on the floor with the handkerchief next to him."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter frowned. "Sloppy. I didn't think you- Sloane was that sloppy." Did he have accomplices?

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia caught the slip, but wasn't sure what to make of it. "I wouldn't have thought so either. But I'm not going to let him do anything else."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"What did the card say?"

[ooc: Speaking of sloppy, "you-" was supposed to be "your-"]

[nadiathesaint]

"'See you tomorrow'." Nadia checked her gun to make sure it was loaded and scanned the locker one more time. "You want a weapon?"

[ooc: and now that suddenly makes much more sense.]

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter shook his head. "Already armed, remember?"

See you tomorrow. "That just doesn't sound right. Do you know of anyone who knows of your connection to Sloane who would want to have you jumping at his name while they come at you from another side?"

Someone from Argentina, maybe?

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia shook her head. "I'm still officially listed as an orphan. The only people who know are on the island, unless Sloane has been talking to other people about it."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"And that would lead back to him again."

Walter frowned, turning over in his head what he'd observed upon meeting Sloane, what Nadia had told him, what he'd read in the note she'd had from Sloane, and what was happening now, and trying to see how they could fit together.

"What am I missing here? This just doesn't make sense."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia paused in checking the fit of her shoulder holster to look at Walter.

"Even if it isn't Sloane, someone is trying to hurt me and my friends. And I'm not going to put up with it."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter shook his head. "I'm not arguing that. What happened with Jamie is proof enough. I'd just feel better if I knew who the enemy was and why."

[nadiathesaint]

She pulled her jacket closed and shut the locker. "So what do you want to do? You've been thinking better about this whole thing for longer than I have."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"If you're being targeted, the dorms are generally a safe place to be, despite what happened to Jamie. People need to be aware to be on the lookout for strangers. It's not as though this is a large school. I think I've at least seen all the other students, even if I don't know them."

He gave her a tight smile and shook her head. "We're lucky whoever this is didn't decide to act next week when the new students arrive."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia nodded. "Right. I guess I could hole up in the room and wait for someone to show up, but. . . . That's not the most appealing idea in the world."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Give the Arms Hotel a call and find out if there are any guests at the moment? It's a start. I don't think you should be exposing yourself in town, but other people can go ask questions for you."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia nodded slowly, then paused. "What if--no. No, I'm just getting paranoid again."

It couldn't be someone who's actually supposed to be in Fandom, could it?

"I'm still keeping my gun with me, even if I'm not going out into town."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I won't be reporting you, but be careful not to be spotted."

If nothing else, she seemed to be done panicking. "Who knows about this now?"

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia thought about that, even as in the back of her mind she hoped it was Sloane and that he would show up, and she'd show him not to disrespect her the same way she'd shown Roberto. . . .

"You, Pip, Pippi, Jamie, Piper, Al, Cally, Alfred, the Mountie, the sherrif. . . . River knows something is up. . . . I think that's it. They're the only one's I've told. But Angela did say I was being paranoid yesterday."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Right. Those are some good people to know." He frowned, remembering something. "What about the security cameras? Or the pirate? The pirate seems to see almost everything on the island."

[nadiathesaint]

"We could check with him, but I'm not sure how to access the security feeds. And a lot of the pirate's information isn't exactly accurate."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I know. Something about squirrels, I hear, but there's usually some twisted truth to it. It would give us somewhere to start, if he has anything."

He ran a hand through his hair to move it out of his face. "I wish Togusa were still here. He might have been able to help."

[nadiathesaint]

"Togusa? Who the hell is Togusa?"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Togusa was Pip's roommate when we first got here. He has a computer in his head," Walter said. "He helped us get into the computer system and make the speakers in the principal's office play 'It's a Small World' over and over again."

[nadiathesaint]

"Well, damn, he'd have been perfect. We could have flushed the enemy out with obnoxious, repetitive music."

Yeah, she's being sarcastic. But she's had a really stressful couple of days.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter made a face at her. "Right. And right after that, he might have been able to get to the stored video information, was my point. Either way, it doesn't matter, since he isn't still here."

Lucky Pippi.

Bad Walter. Bad.

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia might have asked why Walter brought him up, then, but tact made itself known first. "Right. So we've got to get another plan, first."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"The pirate?" Walter reminded her.

[nadiathesaint]

"I don't know. I kind of . . . wrote all over his wall. He might not be in the mood to help us without offers of rum."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Rum isn't that hard to come by. Do you have any other ideas?"

[nadiathesaint]

"Yeah. Jamie's out of the room. We hole up there an wait. Or hit up the gun range and practice. Or I do those things and you find the pirate, and we meet back up in my room."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"I'm not leaving you alone, and the gun range at least provides you with an excuse to be armed for a while."

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia let out a breath. She'd been a little afraid he'd shoot down the gun range idea. . . . no pun intended.

She just thought if she shot at things she might feel better without beating any body up.

These violent urges were really bothersome, sometimes.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter knew from violent urges. He'd be clearing the junkyard again if he didn't get to hurt someone soon.

"Come on. You can shoot things for a while. I'll play with guns." In a non-shooting manner.

[nadiathesaint]

"That sounds like the best thing I've heard in days."