No Saints Here (Open)

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Characters: Open
Location: Rough Side of Jasper
Content Warnings: N/A
Plot Summary: Jeff takes the long way home to reflect on things after his new “friends” nearly get him in deep trouble.

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Not for the first time, the town of Jasper was asleep - Jeffrey Devlim was not.

A single, old red moped made its way along the near deserted streets. It’s driver? Looking sweaty and nervous as he he rubbed the handlebars. He had done it now, he’d really done it now. Dimitri and the gang of friends he rolled with had stolen a car! And he’d been a damn look-out. Sure, at the time he hadn’t known what they were doing, but they’d almost gotten caught by the cops too! He shook his head silently. God he had to breathe, they hadn’t seen him he told himself.

He pressed his prosthetic leg on the gas silently, moving a little faster even if he had taken the long way home on purpose. He wondered if the Reiner’s has gotten concerned yet? They barely spoke English, or talked, but they still seemed to look out for him a little so he often tried not to worry them. But he couldn’t really help it at the same time.

When you lived a life like Jeff’s, you lived dangerously. And if he kept this up, he almost worried where it was heading himself.

“Just breathe, Jeff. Don’t look suspicious.” He muttered to himself as he came to a stop at a red light. Taking the time to try to relax.

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Didi clutched her bag tightly as she hurried down the sidewalk. Something must've been going on because there have been a couple of squad cars littering the area lately. A couple of officers had even asked if she had seen anything unusually lately. And she had. All see saw were a bunch of young boys doing who knows what. She tried not to pay to much attention to the other kids on the street, and it was frankly none of her business.

I never should've stayed out so late! Didi internally scolded herself. She had been out at night stargazing but had stayed out way passed what she had planned. Normally she wouldn't have thought much of it, she always stayed out late, but with police officers running around and those boys she saw acting oddly earlier she couldn't help but feel a little afraid.

For the third time since in the mast five minutes she once again opened her bag to check that all the contents were still inside. Telescope? Check. Phone? Check. Notebook? Check. Pepper spray? Check.

Sighing once more she looked ahead of her once more. She gingerly stepped onto the road and began to cross the street. Her mind wandered off to the stars that she had been observing earlier and made a mental note to check if the chart she had made in her notebook was correct. Still lost in thought her gaze fell on the face of a young driver of an old looking moped.

Didi's eyes widened. That was on of the boys she had seen. She stared for a few moment before she snapped her head in the other direction and went from a calm walk to a light jog praying that the boy would just continue on his drive.

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Jeff immediately noticed the girl looking at him.

Aw crap.

He clutched the handlebar slightly - really just not wanting to get himself in trouble. He hadn’t even touched the car himself, so if this girl lumped him in with the others... Well, Jeff wasn’t going back to juvie, he’d put that hell hole behind him two years ago and like hell he was spending the rest of his already totally stolen childhood behind bars.

He sped it up a little as the girl started to pick up her pace. Coming alongside the girl he tried not to scare her too bad. But he also wanted to make it perfectly clear that he didn’t want any word getting out to the cops. Since he already had a feeling she was thinking that way the way she had looked at him. “Hey,” he began with an attempt at sounding - well, not intimidating, but serious enough. “Whatever you think you saw me doing it wasn’t what it looked like.”

That was lame, Jeff. Very lame.

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Didi's heart nearly leaped from her chest when the car pulled up along side her. She desperately tried to ignore his presence, she should've minded her own business. If she had then she wouldn't be in this mess. But then this turned from one of the most heart-pounding experiences in her life to the most awkward encounter of the century. She stopped in her tracks and listened to the boy's words carefully. So, maybe she had it wrong? Maybe he wasn't one of them? Unless he was lying that is. 

Her short brown hair swished as she turned to face the boy. Her dark brown eyes analyzed his face. He didn't look dangerous, then again one could never truly be sure. She guessed that he was probably a year or so older than her. She opened her mouth to respond when she noticed a cop care patrolling down the street.

"Squad car twelve o' clock," Didi warned as she turned attention back to the boy trying her best to act natural. She didn't know why she was helping him, but his words stuck with her. Maybe he was right, perhaps she had it all wrong. But she couldn't worry about that know. For now all she had to worry about was that cop car.

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Jeff lowered his head when the girl mentioned the squad car.

Luckily they passed them by pretty easily. So he was able to breathe easier as it passed them. He didn’t want to be caught by the cops, if he was that meant trouble - and Jeff was in enough of it already just for being around those guys. God how could he be so stupid to think that these guys weren’t bad news? But at the same time he couldn’t just turn them away, they had been goo to him l, even helped him out...

“Thanks,” He looked over at Didi quetly a moment and then spoke again. “I didn’t know they were gonna steal a car. I thought... I thought we were just going to go out, go to a movie or something. I mean I’ve done it before but that was way different, they were just in it for the thrill...” and that’s what did scare him. What other things did they do for the thrill? Would he be in danger?

Jeff didn’t want to know - but he looked at her with honest eyes. “To be honest, if really freaked me out. I ran after I saw what was going on.” Gods hoped that didn’t make him sound like a chicken.

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The breath Didi didn't know she was holding finally came out as the cop car passed. She turned attention back to the boy, he seemed tense. It obvious that he didn't want to get in trouble, and it was obvious he was just simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.

"Sounds to me like you need to hang around a better crowd," Didi replied after listening closely to the boy's words. Her brown eyes studied the boy's face in an attempt to identify him. He wasn't that much older than her, so surely she had seen before tonight.

Didi raised her arm and pushed back her sleeves to look at her watch. It was a small silvery grey watch that her father had given her. A gift from his company apparently, M.E.C.H. It wasn't exactly subtle either, the logo was clear as day right on the strap too. The small girl sighed it was getting late, and it was starting to get cold too. A shiver went up Didi's spine as the cold air nipped at her.

"I should probably get going. My father will soon notice my absence. It was - uh - interesting meeting you," with a small wave Didi once gain began the long trek home.