(but public holiday today for me. Yay!!!!!!!!)
"Of course I'm still part of the team... it's just... difficult to explain." Caldwell looked around, paranoid that someone might be listening. "Besides, it's good to be suspicious," he said morosely, but he thought he owed it to Amaya to give her some advice. "You never know who's gonna stab you in the back." He stared at the ground silently and fiddled with his scarf.
Eventually he came out of his dazed state. "Anyway, we should probably find the others now... even though we don't have any food to bring back," he added, hoping it would make his lie sound a tiny bit more legitimate.

((XD At least it's a pub hol for you on the 10th!))

"...Alright, then..." Amaya said, as she turned her back to him, jumping up a tree. Kneeling on a branch - she made sure her weight was spread out amongst it, since she wouldn't want it to snap - she glanced back. "Ready to go?" She asked, an eyebrow raised. Caldwell was mysterious, alright, but she guessed everyone had secrets they kept, good or bad, so she shouldn't pry them out of him. Not yet, anyway... She though, smirking. "Let's not worry the others any longer."

Just pinging to see if you guys are still going before I reply to Soltra... want to make sure I can keep everyone involved XD

It wasn't long before Jake caught up with Dmitri. He violently jerked Dmitri away from shane and growled. "You." He spat. "You have dragged Shade into too much 5hit already. You will NOT be hurting her again." Dmitri frowned in confusion. "What? What do you mean? I didn't drag her into anything. She got into it herself." Jake shoved him to the floor and yelled at him. "YEAH? ALL HER FAULT WAS IT? THEN HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THE FACT THAT ALL THE ARRESTS AND CHARGES THAT HAVE EVER BEEN PRESSED, HAVE ONLY BEEN PUT ON HER RECORD, HUH? HOW COME ALL THE TIMES YOU'VE GOT IN IT DEEP, SHE PULLED YOU OUT? WHY IS IT?" Dmitri's eyes turned blood red as he slowly rose to his feet. "You, my friend, have been spending too much time in your little underground hole, THAT YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA!" He lunged for Jake and they started viciously fighting...

Shade arrived a few minutes later, eyes still glowing orange from her little incident. "NOOOOOOOO!" She screamed. She sprinted forward and grabbed her brother by the collar and threw him to the ground. When he tried to get up again she punched him. "NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO BE PLAYING HERO! ALL THE THINGS THAT WE DID WAS A JOINT EFFORT." She shook her head and looked between the two. "Right. From now on I'm Switzerland." Finally realising how much they'd hurt Shade, they got up and started to speak. "Don't talk to me." Shade snapped. "And if you go at each other again, I'm gonna go and do something stupid, and you'll regret it."

Shane was waiting on the branches of a tree nearby knowing if he pulled the two apart that it would simply make the fighting worse, finally Shade broke up the fighting and when it was appriote to speak. Shane "so what's the plan from here?".

"I dunno. You clearly want to be in charge here, so think of something." She growled without turning around. Dmitri and Jake kept stealing glares at each other until Shade turned around and punched Dmitri in the face, causing Jake to laugh. She then kicked him in the balls. He stopped laughing.

Shane "well we are in the clear for now but i'm not used to hiding from the police, so I thought you would know the right thing for now". He said uncomfortably as he saw Shade beat up Jake and Dmitri.

Eventually after a few minutes of walking they sat down, finally giving themselves time to recover from their escape. Shade sat on a log and stared at nothing. Dmitri slid over to her. "Hey." He murmured. "Whatcha thinking about?" Shade didn't even blink. "Contemplating suicide." Dmitri gulped and looked forward again. "Ah."

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Jake sat in a tree and watched his sister. "Boy, you haven't half changed." He muttered to himself. He reminded himself of the times when she was cute and innocent, and would never hurt a fly, now look at her. If you'd called her cute and innocent now, she'd probably hit you...hard

^u^ pinging *(^u^)*

Shane "after we break for a bit are we heading back to base?". He said awkwardly since he felt like he was the odd one in the group. Shane "or do you plan on doing some other criminal act today?". He said realizing what people he was with right now.