The Masquerade The Hunt For Answers (Ixis&Vitaly&Sasha plotline - subjekt to change, if more chars are added to it)

Natalija

Queen of LaLa Land, state of Capital Bulshit :P
// continuetion from Club Bastille //

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With-in a dozen minutes, they reached Allen Street, and the pharmacy at the far end of it. This late evening, it vas closed. After parking out front, Ixis left Vitaly in the car (vhile taking the keys, of corse), and circled the area, looking for any back-alleys that may reveal another way in-to the building. Even with her shroud abilitys, it wuld be a little to obvius to any passer-by, if she tryed to break in from the front. A sudden area of complete darkness is prety hard to miss, even at night.

Back in the car, Vitaly had a chance to look around a bit, and he culd see a small, faded black/white photograf, sidled-in betwen the front seats. It depicted a young, raven-haired girl, vith eyes like Ixis's, only lacking that reddish overtone, of a vampire, dresed in a very cute dress, standing in-betwen a man and a woman, her parents, a back-drop of a village home in the background. They looked happy.

On the old photo's back, vas a date.

14. 8. 1933.

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Meantime, Ixis managed to find a service-akcess to the pharmacy building. It vas a metal door, locked vith a security lock. Old-style, mechanical, but sturdy. She wuldnt be able to force it, not even vith her strength, she needed something to help her pry it open. She culd go back to her car, and get a crow-bar from the trunk, but that wuld look suspicius to any passer-by.

Or she culd try the front entrance, locked vith a much simpler lock, glass-doors vhich wuld be easy to break down, but that wuld mean atracting attention. And probably set off alarms. She shaked her head at that idea.

"No... I like it subtle. I'l find something to pry this thing open."
 
Vitaly flipped the photograph back over, and examined the front again. "So the vamps about hundred years old, huh? This must have been before someone decided to take a chomp out of her. Maybe. Maybe not. Shame its blurred though. Might have been able to figure the place out by the plants." He carefully slid the photograph back the way he found it. If teddy bears were any indication, there was an unhinged side of Ixis that Vitaly wasn't particularly interested in seeing. He took a quick look around the car, opened up the glove box, and pulled out a few bobby pins lying inside. He wasn't sure how Ixis planned to get in, but he was sure he might be able to manage a quieter way.

Opening the door and using the whatever he could find to brace himself against, he managed to stagger his way back around the pharmacy to Ixis at the back door. He took a quick glance at the lock, bending down to it on his one good knee, before flashing Ixis the pins. "Hope you don't mind." He remarked, bending the pin, and stripping the rubber end off of one with his teeth. He quickly mangled the other as well, before pushing both pins into the lock, feeling around at the inside with the stripped pin.

"There should be a breaker box somewhere back here. It should be locked, but given your strength," Vitaly slurred, shifting his jaw slightly, "I don't think it'll be a problem. Should kill most alarms, and any cameras that might be inside. You guys don't happen to be invisible on cameras and mirrors, do you?" He asked, jiggling the lock, and hearing a soft click, before prodding slightly deeper with the stripped pin, prodding at the other tumblers. Another soft click.

"Perks of having a criminal brother. Tricks like these are practically family bonding. Shame Pyotr doesn't appreciate them..." He said, tilting his head as he moved his ear closer to the tumbler. There was another click, and the lock shifted slightly. "Hopefully they've got some aspirin. Don't know what kind of pharmacy wouldn't, but I'd rather not touch Sasha's morphine." He continued to mutter. The lock clicked again, and another one came quickly. The lock turned freely, and Vitaly put the pins in his back pocket. The door swung open, accompanied by a cacophony of squeaks.

"Ladies first." He said, mocking a half bow, and gesturing inside the dark backroom of the pharmacy.
 
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