The Streets Near The Warehouse District | Tuesday Evening

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Okay. So.

Getting shot at was, as any sane person would fairly assume, really, really horrible. And having to limp your way to hiding right after being shot? Even more horrible. Seriously.

So now Alec had no bow, there was an arrow stuck in his shoulder that he knew better than to yank out but he really really really wanted out of there, and he had quite a bit of ground to cover, in the dark, before he could get to the warehouse where he'd stashed his stuff -- and most importantly, his stele, which was the thing that could actually heal his bloody mess of a shoulder.

That would be a lot easier to do if he wasn't stopping every so often to lean on a wall, shut his eyes, and pep-talk himself in suspiciously melodic murmurs.

By the Angel. Really? Now?

Wonderful.

[[open! 'specially for resistance folks who might wanna help him out, 'cause, you know. bleeding and all. FB-resistance-only, please!]]

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Most of her powers Sia didn't use much, since Umbridge had at least one person on her side who could tell when she used some of them. She did tend to search for people nearby in the Force, though, which was why she was headed towards Alec.

And once she saw the arrow, she said, "Let me guess who you ran into."

Was it just a particularly violent day here?

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"Oh, don't tell me," Alec groaned. "This guy's famous."

Getting shot was almost understandable on the island at this point. Getting shot by someone he should've known to look out for was just embarrassing.

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"You must be new," she said, trying to get a better look at the wound. "You learn who to avoid. Did the arrow go straight through?"

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Yeah, hiding as much as possible hadn't done a whole lot for Alec's ability to pick out threats. "I don't think so," Alec said, craning his neck to look and mostly just causing himself another spark of pain. "Do you -- know about this kind of thing? I didn't want to just assume..."

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"A little," she said. "I need to do something that's probably going to hurt a bit, all right?"

She wasn't going to pull it out, but walking around with an arrow sticking out of him was going to do more harm than good.

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Alec shut his eyes. "Yeah, okay," he said, sucking in a breath.

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Trying to be as gentle as possible, she fisted the end of the arrow sticking out and used her other hand to break off the excess. Which probably moved the arrow around a bit in his shoulder, but at least he didn't have a whole arrow sticking out anymore.

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And that breath was getting let out again, very shakily. "Thanks," Alec said once he could trust his voice. "Getting that caught on something would've been horrible."

Thanks, Captain Obvious.

"I'm Alec, by the way."

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"Marasiah," she said, discarding the rest of the arrow- a stick now, basically- behind something just in case anyone tried following him. "Where are you headed?"

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"Just a few warehouses down," Alec said with a nod forward. "I've got something there that'll help me heal enough for it to come out, unless there's demon poison on the arrowhead or something." God, he hoped there wasn't demon poison on it. "If you have things to do, you don't have to come," he added.

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"Of course, you've been doing so well on your own," she said dryly. "I can make sure you get there."

And if the guy did come back for him, Sia could manage that without a problem.

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Alec gave her a grateful look. "Thanks." He took a careful step forward, using the wall of the building nearest him as support. "He shouldn't follow us; I think I heard him take my bow and head the other way, so we might even make it without being attacked."

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"I like to err on the side of caution," she said, always glad for the danger sense that she couldn't turn off. "He got your weapon?"

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"You might be the first person I've ever met who does," Alec commented wryly. Because seriously, Jace and Isabelle. "And yes. After he shot me, I got out of the way for long enough for him to be sure I was gone and take my stuff, and then leave."

If it had been Alec on the other side of the bow, he would've looked a little more thoroughly, but, you know. Gift horse.

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"Probably smart," she said. From a certain point of view. She personally wouldn't be so willing to give up her weapon, but it did allow him to get away. "I don't suppose you have a spare somewhere?"

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"Yeah, a few," Alec confirmed. "And I'm trying not think about the use my old one is going to go to now, since that guy's clearly a good shot, but. If you need a weapon, you can borrow one of my extras?"

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"I'm covered," Sia assured him. "I just wanted to make sure you were too."

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"Oh. Well, then, yes." Yes, Alec, thank you. "Are you... what's your story?"

Huh. Making conversation wasn't so hard. He wondered why he'd been so scared of it all these years.

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She was very careful not to let her actual story get out, or Umbridge's people would probably watch her a lot closer. A Force user who was distantly related to Anakin Skywalker and had just come from a resistance back home? Yeah.

"Not much of a story. I'm just a girl who though she was going to a normal school and might get to do so if Umbridge would just go away," she replied evenly.

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"Wouldn't that be nice." Not altogether likely, if you asked Alec, but, you know. Nice. "I guess there's always Saturday."

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"You know once we're safely inside I'll be asking for any details if you have them," Sia said. Not out here, of course.

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"About Saturday?" Alec asked, startled. "I just meant -- it was in the paper, wasn't it?"

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"Yes, but details get around somehow, and that's usually from person to person," she explained. "I take it to mean you haven't heard anything new."

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Alec turned a little sheepish at that. "Oh," he said. "No. I don't... really talk to people much, actually. You probably know more than I do."

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"Start talking to people," she advised. "Be careful about it, but you're safer with like-minded people at your back."

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"I don't know about that," Alec said quietly. "It seems like it would just put the like-minded people in more danger."

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"That's why you have to be careful about it," Sia said, keeping her voice down as well. "No one's going to succeed on their own, but as a group, with people sharing expertise and information, we stand a much better chance."

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"But we also inherit everyone else's enemies." They weren't far from the warehouse in question now, so Alec waited until they actually made it inside to add, "I think it's different for people who have loyalists with grudges against them. Then it's probably preferable to avoid letting those spread."

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"It shouldn't be different. The loyalists are friends to none of us, not really. We inherit nothing we don't already have," Sia insisted. "At any rate, we're stronger together than any of us are apart. Just think about it."

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"Well, I'm talking to you," Alec said, leaning heavily against the wall most of his stuff. "That's a change."