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Heraklion · 01-15-2011, 12:23 AM,

Joanna opens the hatch of her ship and steps into the Gran Canarian sunshine, after her eyes got used to the bright light she sees Concordia wave at her. She adjusts her hood a bit and meets up with Connie, who didn't even notice the weird way in which Joanna was behaving, she looked around all the time, observing her surroundings and her hand constantly rested on the gun hanging from her belt. Connie takes her comm. Unit and calls the friend she had to meet here 'Uuh Gary?' Joanna heard a male voice reply and figured it must be Gary. 'Oh hello honey' '¦ 'Hi! Where is it again?' '¦ 'Erm'¦ The same street as Sophie'¦ number 74, you remember, the pink-ish house!' '¦ 'Oh right!' She puts away the comm. Unit again and both girls start walking towards the elevator that will take them to solid ground, when they were almost there Connie hides behind Joanna, who had no clue what was going on. An arm appears next to her and Connie points at the elevator 'Elevator'¦' '¦ 'Nothing to be afraid for' She grabs Connie's arm and forces her into the elevator, before she could press any buttons her companion had already pressed a couple of random buttons 'Why did you do that!' '¦ 'I don't know' Joanna presses the right button and as soon as she moved her hand away from the panel, Connie presses some random buttons 'Will you stop that?!' After an exhausting elevator ride they set foot on solid ground and Connie just started to walk in a random direction 'Do you even know where you're going? It's a pink house, right?" '¦ 'Yes, pink like your panties!' She laughs and some random people curiously look at Joanna, who was not amused at all. She grabs the back of Connie's jeans and almost lifts her off the ground, she moves a bit closer and the tip of her nose runs from Connie's neck up to her ear, she heard a slightly irritated voice whispering in her ear 'If you behave I might give you something'¦ Extra' '¦ 'Really?' she tilts her head curiously but Joanna already started walking again.

Just when Joanna started to think about going back to her ship and leave, a pink house appeared on the end of the street 'There it is!' Connie practically ran to the front door and rang the bell. After a while a man in his mid twenties opens the door, he has green eyes and short black hair he's only wearing black trousers and he looks like he's drunk, Connie jumps around his neck and he catches her with a confused look on his face 'What's this about?' '¦ 'A while I didn't see you, you know!' She laughs and they go into the living room, Joanna invites herself in and closes the door behind her, by the time she arrives in the living room the two were already sitting in a couch, Joanna walks to the window and leans against the frame, gazing outside. She barely listens to the conversation he two other people in the room are having, after a while she vaguely hears Gary ask them if they need a drink 'I only have scotch though'¦' he left to the kitchen and Joanna sits down next to Connie. Only a couple of seconds later Gary walks in again with two glasses and a bottle of scotch, he fills them up and hands them to the two girls while he kept the bottle to himself. Connie bottoms up her glass at once but Joanna only smelled the liquid inside hers and places the glass on the salon table. Again her thoughts wander off and after a while she picks up a couple of words from Gary 'I tried to explain things to you so often Concordia but it's so hard!' '¦ 'What do you mean?' Joanna clears her throat and speaks without looking at the other people 'He's saying you're too stupid to comprehend' Connie moves a little closer to Joanna and whispers 'Really?' '¦ 'If he believes you aren't capable to comprehend what he is telling you, then that is equal to calling someone stupid.' While she was saying this she barely noticed that Connie picked up her glass of scotch and also bottomed it up. The conversation continues and again her thoughts wander off, until she hears Connie yell that she would be right back, she looks up and sees the two disappear into the kitchen. She remains in the couch but eventually her curiosity took over and she walks towards the kitchen door on her toes, she can hear them talk, well actually Gary was doing most of the talking. 'I don't care, she's just mean to you!' '¦ 'But she's my sister!' '¦ 'Do you have any proof of that?' '¦ 'She says she is! You just don't like her, she's just a shy girl with no friends!' '¦ 'Shy? Last time she nearly broke your arm!' Joanna had heard enough and walks back to the window, as she stares outside she wipes her eyes, mad at herself that she could still cry.

Almost 10 minutes later the two enter the living room again and they sit down, Connie stares at Joanna's back, who was still standing in front of the window and wonders if something was wrong with her, but before she could ask Joanna wiped her eyes one last time and sat down again. She felt Connie's curious gaze trying to peek in the shadow of her hood to see her eyes so she looked away. She hears their voices, but they sound like they're coming out of a badly tuned radio until she heard words that cut through her heart 'I couldn't care less about your so called sister' she rests her hand on her pistol again and now is listening intently to the conversation. They were talking about Gary's drinking, how he promised not to do it any more'¦ 'You promised, come on, my sister heard you!' She laughs'¦ 'I don't care one bit about your so called sister'. Something snapped'¦ Joanna jumped up and aimed her pistol at Gary 'Uhoh'¦ what are you doing?!' '¦ 'Relax dear'¦' '¦ 'Going to shoot me? Go ahead!' Connie jumps up and blocks Joanna's range, Gary who sees his chance jumps up and pushes Connie against Joanna, by the time she recovered her position he had already drawn a blaster and is aiming at her. 'So, are you going to shoot me?!' Joanna smirks and spins a small wheel on the side of her laser pistol until the word on the display changed to 'paralyze' 'No I'm not going to kill you'¦ this gun has multiple tricks at hand'¦ kill'¦ electrocute'¦ and 'paralyze-' saying this last part she fires one shot at Gary's knee, his knee muscles paralyze and he collapses, then she fires another one at his gun arm and his blaster slips out of his hand. 'Don't worry, everything will be alright in an hour or so'¦' she nods at Connie 'be a good girl and grab his blaster'¦' As Joanna looks at Connie, Gary jumps to his blaster and grabs it with his other hand, he aims and puts a hole in Joanna's leg, she collapses and her pistol slides under the couch 'You shot me?!' The two of them start arguing, yelling threats at each other and neither of them notices Connie reaching underneath the couch.

'Stop it both of you! I'll shoot myself!' She was standing next to the couch with Joanna's pistol against her head. Gary looks startled but Joanna only sighs 'Put that down dear, take a close look at the trigger'¦ it'll only fire when I'm the one holding it' Connie looks at the pistol and fires at the ceiling, nothing happened 'What the?' '¦ 'Yes, now give me her gun honey.' She throws the pistol in Gary's face and yells when she runs to another room 'I'm leaving! You happy now?!' As she slams the door she starts crying. Joanna who was keeping pressure on her gunshot wound looks at Gary from underneath her hood 'Have we met before? Wouldn't be the first time I get shot at here on Gran Canaria'¦' '¦ 'Could be'¦ If you would take of your hood I can tell for sure' Joanna laughs 'Considering you just shot me and are still aiming a gun at me'¦ unlikely' They just sit there for a while, Joanna with her wounded leg and Gary with his paralyzed knee and arm. 'You might not like the way I treat her'¦ But at least I make progress with her.' '¦ 'Do you actually think I believe you're her sister'¦' Joanna sighs and looks at him again 'I am every ones sister'¦ Or do you think I wear this hood to keep my head warm?' '¦ 'No I think you wear it to hide your face!' '¦ 'That's also one of the reasons'¦' '¦ 'I am every ones sister, for we are all children of the great goddess' '¦ 'Ah a religious type'¦ then we aren't so different after all.' Joanna laughs, almost mocking the man in front of her 'A religious man would not shoot another human being'¦ then again a 'man- would face me with his problems'¦ instead of going to the kitchen to talk behind my back.' Gary lowers his gun and rests his back against the couch 'You did shoot me first you know'¦ I just snapped'¦' '¦ 'I use none lethal force and to be honest, you 'did- tell me to shoot you' '¦ 'Did not!" '¦ 'Did to!' '¦ 'Did not!' '¦ 'We can do this all day you know'¦' She rips a piece of the table cloth and wraps it around her legs to keep pressure on the wound, once done she gets up 'You really want to know why I wear this hood?' '¦ 'Of course'¦' Without saying anything further Joanna turns her back at him and slowly lowers her hood, Gary couldn't believe what he saw and by the time Joanna puts her hood back on and turns around, his lower jaw had dropped 'You have to promise me not to tell anyone'¦ especially not to Connie'¦' Gary only nods and Joanna limbs towards the door of the room where Connie is hiding. Gary lifts himself in the couch and looks what she's doing, she's talking to the girl inside but she doesn't get any answers'¦ What is she doing now? She reaches into her pocket and takes out two small pins which she puts into the lock of the door, only 9 seconds later the door opens and he could swear he heard Joanna mumble 'new record'¦' He keeps a watchful eye on the two girls in the other room, they're whispering to each other and then suddenly Joanna gives Connie a long tender kiss on the lips, he pretends he doesn't see it, but a couple of seconds later it was hard to ignore Connie's yelling 'Whoa! You are a really good kisser!' '¦ 'I promised you a little extra if you behaved right?' Gary took out another bottle of scotch, but he had only just opened it when it shattered, confused he looks at the two girls and sees Joanna put away her gun again 'You promised not to drink!' Joanna gets up and limbs back to the door, but halfway through the black screen unfolds in front of her eyes and she collapses. Connie panics 'A medic, a medic!' '¦ 'You expect one to jump out of the closet? Use your comm. Unit'¦ ooh shi-' he looks down at a couple of glass shards that were lodged in his skin. Not more than 10 minutes later the medics arrive and after giving both Joanna and Gary a quick check-up they were taken to the hospital.

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