01[16:27] <Allistir> Leaving Verity in his room for the time being, the Alchemist heads in the direction of downstairs, intending to grab a bottle of vodka as the healer had requested. Out of the girl's sight now, the cat is visibly fuming again, dark thoughts turning over and over in his head as he thinks back over what had happened that day, back before then when he'd found out and then the incident that had occured without his knowing until far too late. By the time he's halfway there the cat is boiling over with anger, but he needs answers, dammit, and there was only one other source that he knew of besides an apathetic bartender. Allistir pauses in front of Fenny's door, giving it a side-long glance and then slowly turning toward it, brow furrowed heavily. He raises his fist and knocks, not in the mood for hesitation or anything else, really.
06[16:30] * Fenny seems to open the door slowly, revealing a certain Persian in a pitch black room, eyes half-squinted and a hand on her head. She peeks out, recognizing Allistir. "Al?"  She seems to visibly wince at her own words, a heavy headache burdening her for now. "Why're you here? Did you get Nat yet?"
01[16:36] <Allistir> "No, we haven't." The Alchemist's words lack their usual cheerfulness or even friendliness. His tone is rather harsh, in fact, though he keeps a lid on his anger, perhaps feeling some duty not to drive a spike through the Persian's head, figuratively speaking of course. "And I need you to tell me exactly what you remember about that night. The guards, where they headed, any little detail no matter /how minute/." By the time the cat is done, his teeth are clenched together, tail swishing violently behind him.
06[16:39] * Fenny kind of crunches up and squeezes herself tight to drive off the pain. "Wh... what's wrong, Allistir? gh... ow..."
01[16:40] <Allistir> "Never mind that right now," Allistir nearly snaps, though it's clear that he's having trouble keeping himself in check right now. "Just tell me what you know."
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06[16:45] * Fenny frowns quite clearly at Allistir's tone, perhaps sounding a little bit sore about it. "Well.. we went out to the amber dragon for drinks at Nat's own sudden request.. egh... and about two glasses of honey-mead in, these two goons, some mutt-like dog and a heron, in darkened guard armor bust in and start bickering and rolling about looking for Natasha in the bar." She rubs her head, trying to...
06[16:45] * Fenny ...concentrate right now. "Eventually they find us, and try to take in Nat for a bunch of charges that... well... she's done." Fen pauses. "Of course, it's nat... so she gives em a little lip and I had to step in a bit to keep her from getting roughed up immediately. Heron tried to keep the dog on his leash."
06[16:46] * Fenny continues slowly recounting the night. "Eventually after they let her finish a mead, she tells me that she'll be back either last night or today with you two, and she takes off with them, still being as contrarian as she could be."
01[16:47] <Allistir> "And did you see where they went?" Allistir growls, though not necessarily only at the Persian in front of him. He kneels down a bit so that he's at eye level with her. "What direction did they head? Toward the jail, or somewhere else? And have you ever, /ever/ seen either of them before. I want you to think hard on that, understand?"
[16:48] <Fenny> "There was a loud little whalloping sound after they left, and I decide it'd be a good idea to peek out after them, cause she refused to put on shackles and all..." She shakes her head. "They bonked her unconscious in one blow." At allistir's question, she does have to think for a moment.
[16:48] <Fenny> "They... they took off towards the jail... but, now that you mention it." She frowns. "I don't think I've seen them before, and I've been in trouble quite a few times with the guard."
[16:49] <Fenny> "I figured it was some... special unit or something after how many times nat's slipped away from 'em."
06[16:54] * Allistir stares at her for a while. "So, another dead end." He rises, slowly, continuing to glare down at the girl. Then Allistir looses it. His eyes going wide, pupils shrinking to pinpricks as he feels all the frustration and anger boil up in one great geyser of pent up rage. He grabs Fenny by the shoulders and screams in right in her face "WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU FOLLOW THEM?!" His visage screws up into one of utter derangement as he starts shaking the girl. "YOU COULDN'T SEE HER TO THE JAILHOUSE?! WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"
06[16:58] * Fenny physically recoils, bringing up her arms to guard her face as spittle flies out of the tabby's mouth. The cat, thoroughly confused and worried, face clearly showing a heavy font of pain welling up, and she tries to back into her room a little, slouching and looking about as pitiful as ever. "wh... what's wrong?"
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01[17:02] <Allistir> "SHE'S GONE!" Allistir lets go of the girl and shoves her back a little, if only to get her out of his grasp. He seems to realize on some basic level that this wasn't the way to be doing things, but right now he was less in affable nice guy mode than enraged mad alchemist overdrive. "They took her and now she's gone! We don't have a clue where she is now, and it's all because you DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO FOLLOW THEM!" He points an accusatory finger, eyes molten with rage. "Those weren't guards at all. They were kidnappers. And we don't even know who the hell they are!" He throws down his arms and fumes, looking royally pissed. "THAT'S what's wrong."
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06[17:11] * Fenny seems to fall back to her tush at this, looking, well... hurt and unbelieving. "G... gone-... Kidnappers?"Her face goes full out flushed, going from half-squinted to a, well, wide, scared understanding. A moment passes, and the cat, on the floor of her room, starts to cry. Everything was wrong right now. She mouths a few words, before, yielding to all and curling up in a little ball, crying...
06[17:11] * Fenny ...her little heart out.
06[17:20] * Allistir glares down at the girl at first, the poor unfortunate target for his seething wrath. But as she starts to break down, his expression slowly begins to change from utterly raging to something a bit less harsh, then progresses further into simple despondancy, shoulder's slumping even as a look of realization dawns on his face. It grows steadily more pained as he watches Fenny curl up on the floor. His mind finally gets a good grip on itself, and he slowly puts one foot in front of the other, a hand reacing out toward the fallen feline. Allistir now stands in front of Fenny, ears drooped, and he kneels down and carefully gathers her into his arms, touch gentle and kind. The Alchemist hugs her, trying to be of some comfort. "...We're going to find her, though," he murmurs over her crying. "We'll find her."
06[17:26] * Fenny shoots her arms around the cat, large tears still pouring from her face. She buries it in the tabby's shoulder immediately, save her mouth. "no... and it's all my fault." She shakes violently in the cat's arms. "i just... i just stood there and let my best friend be taken away from everything she loved. i didn't even raise a finger. oh... oh god Allistir." The persian seems pretty far gone...
06[17:26] * Fenny ...at this point, the sudden realization and the angered barking of the alchemist driving her most likely past the point of return for now.
01[17:30] <Allistir> "You didn't know," he whispers, hugging her all the tighter, guilt finding its way into his voice. "You thought it would be a short stay in the jailhouse, maybe a day at most. Everyone would have thought the same." Tears come to his eyes as well as he holds the back of Fenny's head and rubs it gently. "It's not you're fault," he says over and over again. "It's not your fault. I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry...."
06[17:32] * Fenny simply rubs her head into Allistir's shoulder, making it all the more damp from her tears. The tabby can feel her still mouthing out words, but no sound comes from her. Seems he broke the cat.
06[17:37] * Allistir holds her like that for a while, not daring to move her. Finally, after some time he does lift her up as he rises, carrying her over to her bed and laying her upon it. He sits behind her and puts a hand to her forhead, rubbing it gently. "We're going to find out who did this," he murmurs softly, amber eyes looking down into Fenny's own. "We'll get the whole guild to help out if we have to. And Natasha's strong. She'll handle herself well until we get there and bring her back. I promise."
06[17:45] * Fenny nods lightly, curling up a bit the moment she's placed on her bed, and bringing her hands up to grasp at her head, not able to properly deal with the pain swirling around her being. "p.... please Allistir.... She's my best friend. I can't... she shakes her head. "i can't believe I let her go off like that. She's off and getting hurt because of me.... and she's gonna blame me for not helping her."
01[17:51] <Allistir> "I don't think she will," Allistir says softly, moving to rub the top of her head, between the ears. "I think...we'll get her back. And then she'll laugh it off...make a joke about dancing." He smiles gently. "Then she'll probably take you out to celebrate. And you'll both end up wasted and end up together in the bath again. And everything will be okay again. You'll see." For a while he falls silent after that. Then the Alchemist lets his hand slide down to Fenny's cheek, holding it. And he leans down and kisses her on the forhead.
06[17:54] * Fenny grabs ahold of Allistir yet again, tears still rolling, but she doesn't seem to really be in the mood to speak anymore.
01[17:58] <Allistir> "...Will you be alright coming with us when we go to get her, Fenny?" Allistir asks, rubbing his forhead against hers as he hovers over her, still in the Persian's grasp. He smiles warmly, trying to get her spirts up. "She's going to want to see you again right quick, I just know it. She's waiting for us."
06[17:59] * Fenny nods lightly. "I want her back.."
01[18:01] <Allistir> "We'll get her back," Allistir assures, giving her another little kiss, this time on the cheek before he pulls back aways, only just being held onto by the distraught Persian. "Now...for now, I'm not sure what to do. I can't leave you like this...."
06[18:03] * Fenny looks up to Allistir, definitely looking a bit confused as to what he meant by that. "Al... Where do we even start?"
01[18:07] <Allistir> "I don't know," he admits, sounding both lost and hopeful. "We get the guild to back us, maybe do some asking around. Someone has to have seen those two leave. Maybe some of the shadier characters know something. Or we'll get a ransom note. Her dad's rich. It would make sense."
06[18:09] * Fenny shakes her head. "When we were together... They said..." Fen gulps. "They said her daddy's money had run out."
[18:09] <Fenny> "Maybe it will be a ransom note.
[18:09] <Fenny> "
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06[18:13] * Allistir frowns. "I heard that. I think it was a ruse." He sighs and leans back. "I was just up there. Seemed plenty financially stable to me. Excessively so."
06[18:14] * Fenny frowns. "I suppose." She shivers a bit. "Allistir those guys that came for her. They were the real deal. Real tough guys."
[18:14] <Fenny> "I don't think even deitrich could take a wallop from one of 'em. Or anything from that spear-wielding heron..."
[18:14] <Fenny> "I'm worried."
01[18:17] <Allistir> "We've dealt with worse," Allistir assures her. "Remember...remember the time when she came back all messed up, the time we ran across those bandits?" He averts his eyes. "It...well, it's hard to imagine anyone tougher than the leader. Besides." He gives her a little smile, then mimes letting a little spark jump between his fingers. "If worst comes to worst, I can just break them apart."
06[18:18] * Fenny frowns. "Well... don't let them go and break you first, Al." She sniffles a bit. "You're precious to plenty of people, you know."