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Valentina D'Angeli
Valentina D'Angeli

May-10-2009 02:22

Place: Docks
Time: 11:30 p.m.
Weather: Freezing cold

"What the heck am I doing here?", the woman muttered under her breath. She let out a deep sigh, seeing something similar to fog coming out of her lips. It was a very cold night, indeed. The dark-haired, Italian-looking woman looked at her pocket watch.

"Late, as usual", she stated to herself, since she was alone. She had the habit of talking to herself. It helped her put ideas on the right places. And, as a bonus, helped her feel less lonely.

"You know, girl, you should never have agreed to meet him. But yet you did. Why? Because you're stupid."

She shook her head. No. It had nothing to do with stupidity. Or the feelings she had to admit she still had, partially. It was the box. The box with some of her things he still held with him. He had it, she needed it. That sounds like a pretty good reason for an encounter. An encounter, not a date, by the way. Dating time was over.

"You should be resting, Tina", she told herself. She usually gave herself pretty good advice. She never followed it, though. Another look at the watch. It reminded her. It had been a gift from him. She'd better return it. She let out a tired sigh. "I'll be here by ten. Yeah, right. When hell freezes over."

She was considering the idea of leaving when she heard footsteps. HIS footsteps, unmistakeable. She had to fight the temptation to jump on his neck with a tight hug, like before. She simply held out her hand and nodded. She didn't trust herself to speak right at the moment.

[P.S.: I don't have a big plan, and I know it's not perfect, but I'd love if someone joined. I promise I won't forget to check it out. lol]

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Valentina D'Angeli
Valentina D'Angeli

Aug-2-2009 15:42

(Sorry it took me so long, kids. I'll post right know, with something that gives me a chance to keep my character away for a few days.)

Valentina D'Angeli
Valentina D'Angeli

Aug-2-2009 16:00

As they made their way to Costa Rica, Valentina had spent most of the time around Joseph and Vulkie, though she spoke very little. She could feel her heart pounding in anger every time she thought of Domino, and bleeding in pain whenever she remembered her dear Fiorella.

If any of her two friends asked what was the matter, Tina would answer with a sigh and her usual way of shaking her head meaning nothing was wrong. Which was a lie. There were a lot of wrong things going on with Tina, both her body and her mind.

It wasn't hard to immagine what was going on inside Tina's head. All those things happening on the same time - Domino, Fiore, Vulkie, Joseph... - made a complete mess on her mind, and it was now starting to affect her physically.

In the last two days of the trip, it wasn't only rage and sadness that flooded Tina's chest. It was pain, too. Physical pain. A sharp pain that sometimes spread quickly across her body and went away as suddenly as it had started.

But not this time. This time, as they went up the hills to Domino's mansion, the pain just got bigger, taking more room and spreading to her arm. She wasn't breathing properly either, which made her slow down. She had the vague impression of hearing a "What's wrong?", but wasn't sure who had said it.

"Nothing", she answered, as she sat down. "Just... keep going. I'll catch up with you soon".

Joseph Zeo
Joseph Zeo
Tale Spinner

Aug-3-2009 17:52

Her sweat was the size of blood drops, and Zeo knew it wasn't just the heat. "Tina, let Camille stay with you. Vulkie and I can handle it." Zeo said, worried. He thought that perhaps they should do this another day, but it was too late to turn back now.

"We can rest in the quiet restaurant down a hill, you know the one we past by few minutes ago." Camille suggested.

"That's a good idea." Vulkie said. "Joseph, let's go. Let's kill Domino and get this over with!"

The group parted company. Zeo and Vulkie continued up the hill.


"Tell me again why we're not taking the car?" Vulkie said as they approached the mansion, breathing heavily.

"They will hear us miles away." Zeo said, then he smiled "Don't worry, Vulkie, we can take one of their car when they're all gone."

The two hid behind some trees to examine the surroundings, and spotted four guards at the front gate. There were barb wires on top of the wall surrounding the mansion.

"Sh*t, this place is like a fortress!" Zeo said.

"Let's get around to the back. May be the backdoor is not as heavily guarded.

The two went around, and saw instead of man, there were two Dobermans. "Excellent! Vulkie said as she took out some steaks she prepared last night.

"You sure this will work?" Zeo frowned.

"These babies here are drugged with elephant tranquilizers. Those two will be sleeping in no time!" Vulkie approached the two large canine, swinging the steaks in front of her. The dogs did not bark upon seeing the steaks, as Vulkie has planned. Carefully Vulkie threw the meat towards the dogs; they were munch them in no time.

Minutes later, the two beasts were sleeping like puppies. "Let's get inside!" Vulkie said. Zeo cocked his tommy gun and the two approached the backdoor.



Vulkie3
Vulkie3
Haynes

Aug-5-2009 07:37

"Joseph,you still want to go through with this?" Vulkie asked Joseph.

"Sure,why not Vulkie. We're already going through with this. Now let's get this pig for Valentina. Come on!" Joseph said and bursted through the backdoor.

We surprised the cook,who was busy with dinner. As he saw Vulkie and Joseph,he grabbed some knifes and started to threw them towards Vulkie and Joseph.

Vulkie and Joseph slided to cover and negotiated who would distract the cook. Vulkie would distract the cook,while Joseph rushed towards him. The plan was succesfull and soon,the cook was all nice and neatly tied up.

"Where is Domino" Joseph asked nicely.

"Don't know you talking about. Don't know Domino" he replied and Vulkie slapped him in the face.

"Your boss,idiot. The person you are working for. Now,we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Easy way is,you tell us he's upstairs or downstairs. Hard way,we carve you up nicely and you won't survive another day with your wife." Vulkie said,angered and pulled a knife out of the drawer.

"Alright,alright. He's downstairs. He's downstairs" the cook replied. "You better not be lying or you won't survive the next day" Joseph said and we readied our tommyguns,just in case something happened.

And so,we went to the basement. Seems the cook wasn't lying,since Domino had his big wobbly *ss turned towards us,searching for a nice vino.

"Well well well,if it isn't the fat Domino" Joseph taunted and Domino turned around.

"Well,if it ain't my dear old friends. The rat and the copper. Well,seems you found me,that's for sure. How you know I was here?" Domino asked.

"None of your business. The most important thing is,you're going to pay a visit to our friend Valentina D'Angeli. She's looking forward to seeing you once more." Joseph said.

By then,the guards started storming in the basement and Domino tried to escape through a secret door. Joseph and Vulkie started shooting guards and went after Domino,chasing him....

Vulkie3
Vulkie3
Haynes

Aug-5-2009 07:55

"Vulkie,we need to split up" Joseph said,as we stood still at a two-way possibility. "I'll take right,you take left" Vulkie said and so they departed. There were no guards left,so that was good. Vulkie started to run,shouting "I'm coming to get you Domino. Don't you try to run!" and it echoed back.

"You won't find me Vulkie,that's for sure." Domino taunted back.

The way ended as a dead end and at the end,there stood Domino. Vulkie shot him in the kneecap,so he couldn't run.

"Well,finish me then. You can do it,come one. You know you can do it,you rat!" Domino yelled. He was trying to convince Vulkie to shoot him.

Soon,Joseph joined Vulkie and behind them,Valentina D'Angeli and Camille.

"So it all ends here,huh.." Vulkie said.

"It seems so..." Valentina replied and she took her weapon out,her pistol engraved with rubies.

And so,Vulkie,Joseph and Camille left Valentina behind,so she could get her revenge.

The last thing the three of them heard was a shot.....

Joseph Zeo
Joseph Zeo
Tale Spinner

Aug-5-2009 09:19

Five minutes past, but the three still didn't see D'Angeli returning. Something was wrong. Zeo lead the two ladies back to where they left Valentina, only to see D'Angeli laying on the ground with a gunshot wound in her stomach.

"Tina!" Zeo was frantic. How could Domino had hidden a gun without them knowing it?

Vulkie ran towards the dead end, only to find that it was not a dead end after all. Only then did they realized that Domino would not have ran into a dead end in his own secret passage of his own cottage. Vulkie noticed a secret compartment, where Domino must have hidden a pistol and retrieved it when they were not paying attention. The blood trail Domino left with his injured kneecap stopped abruptly into a wall. Vulkie called for Zeo's help, but his attention was totally focused on the badly bleeding lady in his arms.

"You are not helping, Joseph. Let me, I know how to stop the bleeding." Camille said with a strong Spanish accent. Reluctantly Zeo release D'Angeli to Camille, and went to Vulkie to study the wall. They finally found a switch inside the secret compartment, and the wall slid open. The blood trail continued.

"Fat Domino shouldn't have crawled too far from here with his serious wound." Vulkie said and was about to run after Domino.

"Wait!" Zeo returned to D'Angeli and retrieved her ruby pistol. The two then ran into the secret passage inside the secret passage. In less then a minute, they saw an injured fatso crawling on the floor.

Upon hearing their footsteps Domino fired towards the two. Vulkie and Zeo dodged the raging bullets easily. Vulkie shot Domino in his other leg. The fat man screamed in anguish.

"This is for Tina," Zeo aimed with Tina's pistol and shot Domino in the chest, "and this is for her sister." Zeo fired another shot right into the fat man's skull. Domino went down without a sound.

Camille carried the unconscious Valentina into the secret passage. "I've stopped the bleeding. Tina will live."

Joseph Zeo
Joseph Zeo
Tale Spinner

Aug-5-2009 09:23

"There are guards all over the cottage. We cannot resurface after killing their boss." Zeo said. "This secret passage should take us somewhere. I just hope it's somewhere safe... for us."

The four where left with very little choice. They continued down the secret passage, hoping that it will take them down to the foot of the hill.

Vulkie3
Vulkie3
Haynes

Aug-7-2009 21:50

As the four descended downwars,they heard Valentina murmering her sister's name. "It's all right Val. She has been revenged. Here's your gun" Joseph said and gave the gun to Valentina. Camille was dragging her,together with Vulkie and Joseph was leading the way.

And the four of them saw a small bit of light,shining at the end of the tunnel.

"Finally,a way out" Camille replied and Joseph made sure the exit was secured.

Guess where it ended? That's right,at the little taverna. Seems that it was an old smuggling route for gangsters. The taverna kept the booze for them and the gangsters went out in the night,smuggling the booze towards the mansion.

And a few days later,Valentina was all feeling better and well and so the three friends,Joseph,Vulkie and Valentina departed once more towards New York,as Camille waved them goodbye.

Joseph was taking a smoke on the deck,I stood by his side and Valentina was in a relaxing bedchair thingie (don't know the name).

"Joseph,we finally solved it. Domino's dead. The secret is well kept safe in New York and we don't have any trouble anymore" I said. Just then,Valentina came running towards Joseph,hugging him,which caused Joseph to drop his pack of cigarettes in the ocean.

"VALENTINA,THOSE WERE MY ONLY CIGARETTES FOR THIS WHOLE TRIP" Joseph shouted and began chasing Valentina around the boat. Vulkie sighed,sat in "Valentina's" chair and watched the 2 of them enjoy chasing each other.

As Vulkie thought there wouldn't be anymore trouble,she enjoyed the sun and smiled towards fellow passengers.

And she thought of a quote,of a famous person. "This is the life we've chosen for". Indeed,this was the life the three of them had chosen for.

All seemed well and the three of them soon arrived in New York. Valentina went immediately back towards her home and Joseph and Vulkie went to the liquor store,bought a nice bottle of whiskey,went to Joseph's place and celebrated the good end of this case.

(Cont)

Vulkie3
Vulkie3
Haynes

Aug-7-2009 21:52

"Joseph,I just wanted to know something" Vulkie asked to Joseph. "What you want to know Vulkie?" Joseph replied,taking a sip from his whiskey.

"I noticed how the two of you,Valentina and you,were getting really close together. Do you have the same feelings you got for Anais,for her..." I asked

Joseph just took a sip from his whiskey,smiled towards me and tapped me on the shoulder.

"That's for another story. For now,it will remain for my own good" Joseph replied.


************The End****************

Vulkie3
Vulkie3
Haynes

Aug-7-2009 21:54

(People,I hope you really enjoyed this story. My special thanks goes to Valentina D'Angeli and Joseph Zeo,2 of my best friends here on sleuth,for participating in this story. May we all hope that many stories will continue.
For those who are interested in a new story,see Heimlich VonVictor's Frame-up,which is now being written by Heimlich VonVictor,Joseph Zeo and moi,Vulkie3. If you have comments,do send them by mail or post them here. We're always happy with comments/improvements)

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