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that_costChina had been home for almost a year, if Charlie'd done her math right. It had been a blur getting here and their first apartment had been a shitfilled shithole with demon bugs from hell. But their new place? Their new place was spacious and...okay, yeah...it was just one huge room with a bathroom, but even the bathroom was big.
And it wasn't like they needed a ton of space. If Charlie were going to be honest with the people that kept putting them up in different places around China? They didn't need anything fancy. Just not the bug infested shithole.
So she was happy with their loft apartment. It was close to everything, but still far enough away where Andrew and Charlie had their privacy. And there was skylight access which made their two-AM heroics that much easier.
Especially tonight.
They'd spent weeks tracking a group of people that had become a nuisance in town, their passion for violence ruining what would otherwise be a very nice neighborhood, and their love of mugging the elderly something that just wasn't okay by Charlie's standards. Deep down she suspected this was why they were put here because after they stopped a group of kidnappers in their old neighborhood and reunited families with missing relatives, it was suddenly time to move. They'd made a name for themselves as benevolent demons, though the people they went after often called them Yaoguai and once she'd told Andrew what it meant (strange ghost, but essentially they were being called demons), they decided to roll with it and terrorize the group of muggers and thugs.
This started off simply enough. Isolate the smaller idiots, scare them off and work their way towards the bigger people who were in charge using their powers to make it seem like the world just went Fucking Nuts. Shaking doors, random bursts of fire, moving objects everywhere. The usual Stupid Teen With Powers shit, complete with disguises that only left their eyes showing.
When they got to the head idiot in charge? That hadn't been as easy. He had a gun, and Charlie disliked those. Passionately. They reminded her of dying. He seemed less cocky, however, when the gun was removed from his hand and more willing to comply with Andrew and Charlie's demands once Andrew made a show of crushing the gun in his hands (through amazing and clever use of TK.)
Turn yourself in.
Turn your friends in.
We will know if you do and we will come after you again if you don't.
So now, Charlie was flopped on their bed in their apartment, dressed in a tank top and pajama bottoms and freshly showered. It was about twenty minutes after returning home and she was picking at the container of flavored beef and noodles she'd retrieved from the fridge and decided to eat cold. Her eyes were on the skylight and she was kinda smirking.
"Any time I look at that skylight, I'm reminded of the skylight I had at home and the many times it was basically a door. I'm pretty sure my door got used twice. Grand total. For the entire time that I've known you."
And it wasn't like they needed a ton of space. If Charlie were going to be honest with the people that kept putting them up in different places around China? They didn't need anything fancy. Just not the bug infested shithole.
So she was happy with their loft apartment. It was close to everything, but still far enough away where Andrew and Charlie had their privacy. And there was skylight access which made their two-AM heroics that much easier.
Especially tonight.
They'd spent weeks tracking a group of people that had become a nuisance in town, their passion for violence ruining what would otherwise be a very nice neighborhood, and their love of mugging the elderly something that just wasn't okay by Charlie's standards. Deep down she suspected this was why they were put here because after they stopped a group of kidnappers in their old neighborhood and reunited families with missing relatives, it was suddenly time to move. They'd made a name for themselves as benevolent demons, though the people they went after often called them Yaoguai and once she'd told Andrew what it meant (strange ghost, but essentially they were being called demons), they decided to roll with it and terrorize the group of muggers and thugs.
This started off simply enough. Isolate the smaller idiots, scare them off and work their way towards the bigger people who were in charge using their powers to make it seem like the world just went Fucking Nuts. Shaking doors, random bursts of fire, moving objects everywhere. The usual Stupid Teen With Powers shit, complete with disguises that only left their eyes showing.
When they got to the head idiot in charge? That hadn't been as easy. He had a gun, and Charlie disliked those. Passionately. They reminded her of dying. He seemed less cocky, however, when the gun was removed from his hand and more willing to comply with Andrew and Charlie's demands once Andrew made a show of crushing the gun in his hands (through amazing and clever use of TK.)
Turn yourself in.
Turn your friends in.
We will know if you do and we will come after you again if you don't.
So now, Charlie was flopped on their bed in their apartment, dressed in a tank top and pajama bottoms and freshly showered. It was about twenty minutes after returning home and she was picking at the container of flavored beef and noodles she'd retrieved from the fridge and decided to eat cold. Her eyes were on the skylight and she was kinda smirking.
"Any time I look at that skylight, I'm reminded of the skylight I had at home and the many times it was basically a door. I'm pretty sure my door got used twice. Grand total. For the entire time that I've known you."
