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yespolkadotkitty · 5 years ago

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Tinderbox, pt 17

Amazing art by @raspberrydreamclouds

Masterlist of all chapters

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At his desk, Marshall shoved his hands through the mess of his hair, irritated. The parcel sat in front of him in a clear evidence bag, not yet opened. He couldn’t decide what to do with it. It hadn’t exploded. It made a soft sound when gently shaken. All the worst possibilities had skated through his mind when he’d seen it.

A body part.

A dead animal.

A bomb.

Rosie had gone, with some hesitation, to the deli. She’d decided to start her shift a little early and be around people. Marshall didn’t blame her. He wanted to pick her up, but tonight was his night with Faye, so he planned to ask Rachael if she’d stay with Rosie, make sure she was okay.

He’d already been in touch with the super of Rosie’s building to ask for any cctv tapes from the entrance and the hallway. It was 50/50 between whether he’d get the tapes and whether they actually existed. Many companies installed fake cameras, or never bothered to fix busted ones.

He growled in annoyance and shoved out of his chair, then finally snapped on evidence gloves and eased the prettily wrapped box from its bag, then tore the ribbon off. The lid lifted off easily, and Marshall felt himself wince before looking inside to find-

A sterling silver bracelet sat looped on a soft pad of silk. His pulse raced as he shucked off the gloves and slid open his file cabinet, snatching out the Whiskers file, flipping through it, to find-

This was the missing silver bracelet from one of the classy NYC homes that the cat burglar had hit.

He lay the case file down next to the box Rosie had received, to double check. Yep. The same fucking bracelet.

His phone chirped and he dug it from his pocket, absently flicking the screen on.

FAYE: Can I still come over tonight?

DAD: Sure, sweetheart. What do you want for dinner?

FAYE: You cook now?

He smiled at himself. She had her mother’s smart mouth, all right.

DAD: Not if you keep that up, I won’t. How about lasagne?

FAYE: With garlic bread?

FAYE: Mom says I can have garlic bread.

He smirked. No way even his daughter could have asked and gotten an answer that quickly.

FAYE: When will I meet your girlfriend?

His throat went dry just as Rachael poked her head around the door of his cupboard-sized office.

“Marshall, cctv tapes just got dropped off.”

He was out of his chair like a rocket, locking the door behind him.

Rachael led him down the corridor towards the cybercrimes unit - well, unit was a generous word for a large room full of servers where their tech guys, Quinn and Glasgow - and sometimes Glasgow’s baby, when his wife had to work, a situation that everyone pretended not to know about - could be found.

“Oh, forgot. Rach, are you free tonight?”

She glanced up to him as they walked. “Oh, I - no, shoot, I have a date. But I can cancel. What do you need?”

He thought about the hope on her face when she’d spoken about the date. Rachel needed some happiness. Who was he to piss on her cornflakes? “Ah, nothing. I’ll sort it.”

If she was curious, she didn’t have time to question him, because Quinn, all floppy hair and soft eyes, opened the door; he had obviously been waiting.

“Got ‘em queued up ready.”

Quinn dropped back into his chair, motioning at Glasgow who hit play on the tapes. “We’ve both been working on them, forwarding through. A lot of nothing,” Quinn narrated as the static flashed past, but then…”

He hit play and Marshall leaned over his shoulder, mouth in a thin line as he concentrated. “I know him. How do I know him?”

Rachael moved over. “Rewind ten seconds. Wait. He’s the kid who works at the deli.”

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After an hour at work, Rosie had just about managed to stop her hands from shaking. She made herself think only of her favourite things as she built sandwiches for a buffet order from the office across the street. The work was comforting, kept her from wringing her hands and screaming her frustration.

Worrying was about as useful as a chocolate sunshade, after all.

Her colleagues, especially Christie, were concerned, kept asking if she needed to go home. She did not, wasn’t even sure if she would feel safe there alone. Christ knew what she’d do this evening.

One problem at a time.

Marshall had been the consummate professional after the box was found. He sat her down, got her sweet tea, called the station. Two officers arrived within minutes and took the box in an evidence bag to the station while Marshall double checked her locks and escorted her to the door of the deli.

Christie said nothing but raised an eyebrow, smiling, when Marshall dropped a kiss on her forehead.

She looked up as the door bell tinkled, amazed to see the object of her thoughts headed inside, that swagger making her mouth dry. Even though he had more than satisfied her, she was beginning to think she’d never get enough of this particular flavour of tall, dark and handsome.

“Rosie,” he started, as she put down the batch of roast chicken baguettes she’d been slicing.

Christie looked up from her paperwork in the corner, but didn’t say anything.

“Is everything okay?” He looked tired. She wanted to reach up and cup his cheek, feel the gentle tickle of his beard on her palm, but he looked like he was on official business, and besides, she still wore chicken covered hygiene gloves.

“It’s probably best if I speak to your manager. She in?” His gaze held hers, and in his eyes she read a million things he wasn’t telling her.

“Ah, sure.” She swallowed back the wave of anxiety threatening to bring up her coffee, and called Christie over.

Marshall touched her shoulder. “See you later?”

Some of the anxiety waned. “You bet.”

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After posting all this I realised I haven’t sent it to my brilliant beta, @ly--canthrope , so all the errors are my own!!!

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dramallamadingdang · 7 years ago

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I’m taking the night off from sky-making because I’m actually ahead of “schedule” and because I’m getting sort of disturbingly obsessed and playing my game for a bit instead, so while it loads, I write a bunch of replies. :)

These are for *deep breath* @penig, @holleyberry, @esotheria-sims, @acquiresimoleons, @kayleigh-83, @didilysims, @tamtam-go92, @dunne-ias, @strangetomato, and @eulaliasims. (Which doesn’t look like a long list, but there are multiple replies for pretty much all of the above, so....Yeah. :) )

penig replied to your photo “Dear Diary, Like wow! I got my first kiss and lost my virginity in...”

Bang it out...I see what you did there...

SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS ME! *heart* :)

holleyberry replied to your photo “And here’s the other one I really wanted: Just a grassy, flat horizon...”

Maxis neighborhood specific ones would be great too.

How do you mean? Like, made from panoramic pictures of specific neighborhoods? It’s an interesting idea, actually. I’d have to reinstall those neighborhoods to do it, though. Unless someone wants to volunteer to take pics for me. ;) Even so, I’m not sure I could get the scale right. Scale is a definite issue with these things. It will never be right, actually, but the most noticeably out-of-scale things on them are definitely buildings, when compared to the size of an actual, in-neighborhood building.

Speaking of Maxis, though... I’ve been fooling around with making some flat horizons to actually match the Maxis terrains, but it’s proving difficult. The scale issues are pretty bad. :\ I mean, like I said, these things are always going to be out of scale with the actual in-game houses and whatnot just because it’s the nature of the beast, but I’m trying to minimize that as much as I can. For some reason, it’s just not working very well with the Maxis terrain textures. I’m hoping to be able to make it work, but right now it’s not looking good. :\

esotheria-sims replied to your photo “Man, I’ve put a lot of work into this one. :) Like *checks time* about...”

Wow, just wow. This has got to be one of the coolest and most realistic skybox recolors I've seen around (though the 'realistic' part doesn't really come as a surprise, considering the source material :D) I'm extremely tempted to turn Strangetown into a miniature pseudo-Arizona town now.

:D That’s pretty much what I’m doing for retro-Strangetown. Because it amuses me to make the town Roswell-esque. Roswell’s in New Mexico, not Arizona, but the terrains in the two states are pretty similar. About the only difference, overall, is that (southern) Arizona has saguaro cacti and New Mexico doesn’t. I think NM is not quite as dry as AZ, but they’re both part of the same big desert, really, so...yeah.

In any case, that sky is one specifically meant for retro-Strangetown, for my own purposes. I also separated the horizon from the sky and put the horizon-only version on a lower layer so that the horizon can be used with any sky. So, the place can have different skies at different times but always have the same surrounding terrain, for continuity’s sake.

acquiresimoleons replied to your photo “Sharon still had that flirt want, and I figure the only way she’s...”

I guess her time with the aliens was fun and she wanted to try it with an earthling

Hah! Yeah, maybe...although in my mind the alien thing isn’t sexual at all. Just a “bit” of genetic engineering. But it might’ve put crazy ideas in her head, nevertheless. :)

kayleigh-83 replied to your photoset “Will, attempting and failing at yoga. But hey! At least he was doing...”

Like juggling, Sims have a remarkable natural aptitude for yoga!

That, and the fact that if you’re a Sim who’s really good at playing the piano, you can also paint like Picasso. Wish it was like that in real life because I’d really like to be able to paint. I mean, I can do all right with digital painting so long as I can use custom Photoshop brushes so that I can just “paint” a shape with a single click. But with actual physical art tools and supplies on an actual canvas or piece of paper? Completely hopeless. *sigh* Although I do plan to take some art classes at the local community college when we go home to CO. I’m hoping to be able to learn something. :)

didilysims replied to your post “I’m having a bit of a dilemma. Need some input. :)”

Some download sites have an option to have individual files in a folder and you can download the entire folder, so maybe that's an option? But honestly whatever's easiest for you is fine. I want 'em no matter what! :D

On SFS you can upload stuff in folders, and then downloaders can choose to download individual files from within the folder. That’s how Lowedeus uploaded his recent batch of skies. I’m thinking that might be better for folks with slower internet connections or those who know they don’t want every sky and want to pick and choose. I’m going to make a photo album on my Livejournal space with at least one pic of every sky, that such folks can reference in order to decide what they want. I’m thinking I’ll do a folder as well as a single file with everything in one, for people who just want everything and who have the internet bandwidth to download it all within a reasonable amount of time. That ought to cover all the bases, I think.

didilysims replied to your post “You used to use a bite neck mod for vampires. Do you still use it?...”

Cool ideas! I definitely want to steal the no food for vamps plan! Part of me also wants to steal the turn/kill randomization too, but I know I would be so sad if someone had to die. :(

Yeah, I can understand that. I’m just not overly-sentimental about my pixel people. Actually, I get far more attached to the pets than I do to the human Sims. So, I don’t have problems with killing Sims when the random number generator says to kill them and/or to have them die of illness thanks to RealSickness. And sometimes...Well, sometimes a population just NEEDS culling, especially because I let Sims breed as they will. In such neighborhoods, when I’ve got vamp residents, I’ll usually bump up the chance of bitten Sims being killed as population control. BUT! If you wanted to try it out, you could say they can only bite/turn/kill townies that you don’t really care about. :)

tamtam-go92 replied to your photo “Will decided to skip class, so I sent him off to the park that I...”

Lol, I have a sim that has three bolts with a guy with the same face template too xD

There’s always that one gorilla-faced dormie! :D I actually don’t mind that template at all. If you breed ‘em with a Sim with the right features to sort of soften the gorilla-ness, the kids are actually pretty darn cute. Usually chubby-cheeked and full-lipped but not as extreme as the gorilla-face. I have a weakness for chubby cheeks, myself. :)

tamtam-go92 replied to your photo “As if spending most of his time yakking with dormies wasn’t enough...”

I LOVE the tiles!

Yeah, they’re pretty cool. Maxis, too, since those made-over Academie Le Tour buildings I use are all CC-free, and I see no reason to make them otherwise, for the (relatively) short time that Sims live there. I think those tiles came with Nightlife, IIRC...

penig replied to your photo “Alien pregnancy doesn’t stop Sharon from being a complete nerd. It...”

You say "complete nerd" like it's a bad thing.

Nah, not bad, per se. Just reminds me too much of me when I was young and way too serious and not-fun for my own good. Being a complete anything can be a bad thing, after all. There was so much I missed out on when I was young because I was so focused on being a superior student and then on my career. The former actually didn’t have that huge of a positive impact on the latter. And I sort of gave up the career path I’d planned on to focus on raising my kids -- which I hadn’t planned on having -- anyway. So, in the end, all that seriousness and nerdy and sort of arrogant scholasticism had no real net gain and, like I said, made me miss out on experiences that probably would’ve been greatly enriching both personally and professionally. So...moderation in all things is my philosophy now. Which isn’t to say that I’m not a nerd at all. I mean, an encyclopedic knowledge of Star Trek as well as a nerdy fascination with arthropods kind of clinches that. But I don’t strive to be a complete nerd anymore.

dunne-ias replied to your photoset “So. I made skies. Like, *cough* 30 of them. So far! Above is a...”

I find it hilarious that you "need to get your butt in bed now" when you live where you live compared to where I live and it's actually approaching MY bedtime.

:D Yeah, being nocturnal and living on the US west coast and going to bed around noonish my time does sort of put me on the same sleep schedule as normal diurnal people in especially the more eastern parts of Europe that are 9 or 10 hours or so ahead of where I am. Like you, for instance. :)

penig replied to your photo “Oh God, not you, too, Will! Just sitting there, not playing chess,...”

Replace the chairs. They're too comfy.

See, that’s the thing. Those same chairs are used in other places in the dorm, not just at the chess table. Yet they choose the ones at the chess table, even if they have to walk past other iterations of the same chair to get to it. It’s weird. I can’t figure it out.

didilysims replied to your photo “The cow mascot was wandering around, doing her thing. Must hurt to get...”

Eh, they're just cheap plastic. Look at the tacky shine on 'em.

Well, yeah, but cheap plastic can still hurt if it pokes you hard enough!

...OK, that sounded vaguely dirty somehow. :)

kayleigh-83 replied to your photo “The cow mascot was wandering around, doing her thing. Must hurt to get...”

I love those mascots, such shit disturbers!

Y��know, I’m actually not a huge fan of the mascots in general. I find them more annoying than anything, same as I do Crumplebottom. Usually, I ban them with the Visitor Controller. For some reason I decided to let them torment dorms (they’re still banned in private on-campus residences, where it seems less appropriate for strangers to be barging in to do strange things) for now. I’m sure they will become annoying enough to ban them again, but for now...Yeah, they’re amusing me. And hey! The cow mascot’s sprinkler prank gives the germophobes something to do, with all the mopping. *eye roll*

strangetomato replied to your post “Later that night...”

I will never be tired of the silly date gifts.

It’s actually one of my favorite things about the whole dating thing. They make me laugh and/or they can sometimes be really useful. In fact, if they didn’t exist, I might not send any of my Sims on any actual, official timed dates at all. But since timed dates/outings are the only way to get the silly pressies, I do...

eulaliasims replied to your photo “Oh, God, it’s time to finish this thing. :P It’s campus housing, to...”

Apartment lots *are* a pain to furnish. Shift-key and dump identical bare necessities in each apartment is my method. At least the building looks gorgeous! I like the mix of windows. :D

Thank you! See, part of my problem with apartments is that I really can’t bear to furnish/decorate them identically. I really don’t know why. I mean, if I download an apartment lot with identically-furnished units, I’m perfectly OK with using them as-is. But, if I’m building the building, I just...can’t. I have to do them all differently. So, it’s like committing to decorating four (or more!) entire houses for one lot, and since furnishing/decorating is pretty much my least-favorite aspect of building...Yeah, apartment lots sort of intimidate me. Love building them. They’re fun to design/build. But the rest of it? Ugh, such a burden. :)

#penig #holleyberry #esotheria-sims #acquiresimoleons #kayleigh-83 #didilysims #tamtam-go92 #dunne-ias #strangetomato #eulaliasims

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