So Fast so Far (open)

Instead of welcoming bells, it would be a bone rattling crack as the push-door flew open and slammed against the wall that held it, the force that opened it nothing short of a flying and bloodied body which promptly hit the opposite wall. The boy lifted his head towards david and was only able to get a few unintelligable syllables out of his mouth before a thick steeltoe boot planted itself firmly in his chest, sending him into multiple coughing and wheezing fits as he doubled over. The boot, of course, belonged to no other than Delilah Black.

Taking a fistful of hair in her hands, Delilah also grabbed his left arm and twisted it in a painful shoulder-elbow and wrist lock thatw as braced with her knee against the back of his shoulder, his fingers facing behind him. He gasped with pain and dropped to the ground stomach first. She dropped a knee onto his locked elbow and held him against the ground, reefing back on his head with nothing but his hair. He made little gasping noises as his eyes watered. His nose appeared to be three different kinds of busted and one tooth was definitely missing.

Delilah glanced up breifly at the guy sitting in teh alley not too far was where she was. She gave him a cheery wave, accompanied by a grim smile before she started searching the kids pockets, throwing whatever contents she came across over her shoulder. She frowned, obviously unable to find what she was looking for and leaned in close.

"Where is it?" her voice was sickly sweet, her eyes glimmering with the kind of bloodlust only the very volatile could ever accumulate.

"I-I don't know what you're talking abOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!!!" he screamed with pain as she slipped her other knee between his shoulder blades and pressed down as she pulled back harder on his hair. His legs thrashed uselessly behind him.

"I've given you seven chances to tell me. This is the eigth. I'm not a big believer in the number nine. So. Either you tell me, or I start making it really painful."

His eyes widened at the prospect of more pain and he began to figdet violently in an attempt to escape Delilah's hold. The kid beneath her outweighed her by a considerable amount and was getting close to throwing her off, despite her position of dominance and her balance training. She quickly moved both her knes down to his kidneys and dug them in, while her two hands went onto either sides of his neck and pulled back on the skin into his jugular vein and corodid arteries, lifting his upper body almost completely off the ground as she pulled. He gasped and floundered with pain for a few seconds before falling completely limp. Delilah released him without mercy, letting his head smack into the ground below. Without so much as a word, she continued searching the kid for whatever it was he stole, checking under his shirt, the backs of his legs, even his more 'delicate areas'. That mattered little to her at the moment and was of course, none to gentle. Finally,she came across his shoes, which she ripped off and shook. Twin packets of white powder fell out of his right shoe and onto the ground. Her lips twisted into an ironic smile and she pocketed both of these before heaving the kid up with strong arms and throwing him unceremoniously back through the door, closing it sgently behind him. Sighing, she slumped against the opposite wall and leaned her head against the cool brick. She turned her head to look at the boy sitting a few feet away. "Tell me you're not a pillar."

"No, i'm not."

"Good."

"I suspect if i was i would have stopped you while you were beating on him, no?"

She had to grin at that and she nodded her head lightly. True enough. Though she'd been stopped by lesser people for lesser things, or not stopped by 'greater' people because she ended up doing their dirty work and so on. You knever knew just how corrupt people could be.

"So, tell me, what did he steal that caused you to break his spine?"

Her grin spread and she chuckled darkly. She raised both her hands and opened and closed her fists rapidly. "It sure looked that way, didn't it? What I actually did was close off the veins in his neck ans stopped the blood flow to the brain for a few seconds. What I did to his back was nothing short of just for the pain of it. He'll be pissing blood for a few days. As to what he took..." she looked down at her own pocket and considered not telling him. After all, it didn't really involve him. And what she had taken back was contraband after all, even if she didn't intent to use or sell it, she would still go to prision for years on end if caught.

But then again, he wasn't a pillar. She shrugged and pulled one of the packets out of her pocket and wiggled it at him, the white powder dancing behind the clear blastic. "Meth."s he said simply and honestly. She tucked it back in to her pants and knitted her hands together and placed them on her lap. "Fucker took it out of the dash in my car and keyed it in the process. That was the broekn teeth and nose...I think I fractured his cheekbone too, but I can't be sure." she blew her bangs out of her eyes. "I'm not a user or a dealer, if you're wondering...but I am useing it for other purposes thata re still slightly less immoral." she wriggled both her eyebrows daringly and smiled reassuringly. Despite her nonchalance, she was a little on edge. She could sense the power this guy held and the fact that he was a stranger set her on edge a little. She didn't expect him to be discreet, but it would be hard for her to act against him if he wasn't. Not impossible, but sure as hell hard.

"I'm Delilah Black, in case you needed a name for the face." She nodded politely in his directon.

"I hate to pry but curiosity is one of my downfalls. Besides using it or selling it, what other reason could you have for having that?" Delilah's eyes moved to David's hand and he gestured his honesty. "I promise i won't tell."

I've heard that before, she thought mildly, but she surprised herself by considering telling him everything. Who did she have to confide in these days? She'd left Rem a while back, and while Stu, Em and Ryuu were trustworthy enough (she wasn't entirely sure about Gabriel at the moment) there was so much she couldn't say because she had given her 'scouts honor'. Not to mention Winter's wasn't there to simply look at her, know what she was thinking, and nod his understanding. She didn't have that here in San Francisco. Maybe it was time to open a few doors?

Delilah smiled wickedly at David. "Tell you what. I'll let you guess. I'll tell you if that guess is right, wrong or close. You get three. But first..." she moved her legs up to her chest, puiushed her body off the wall and sat in a deep crouch her feet flat on the ground. She put her elbows over her knees as she looked at him, her eyebrows drawing together curiously. "...I'm rather curious by nature myself. That said, what's got a nice guy like you lurking around all by his lonesome, mm?" She lifted her chin and her smile spread slightly. "You can answer that or not. But it might help you if you showed me how specific you can be so I can reciprocate."

She grinned at his conditions and put more weight on her calves, deepening her crouch a little more. She waved a flippant hand and nodded her head, interested inspite of herself. "Very well. Ask away."