(I've had this post drafted forever so we're just going to get right into it)
Luce and MinnowIf you remember where we last left off it was a slap slap kiss *and then some* between Luce and Minnow. When I say I've been writing the tension in their relationship for a while I really mean it. This is from early in Vice when Minnow and Jean take Alan out after surviving the nuclear warning.
“Have fun spending the night with mommy,” Minnie coos in a baby voice, bending her finger at Luce.
I noticed him for the first time in the room. He was sitting on the floor in the corner, surrounded by a series Holoscreens.
“I’ll go too.” He says quietly and stands up to join us.
I barely recognize his voice because it is the first time I’ve heard him speak when he isn’t screaming or yelling.
“Yeah, right. Isn’t it past your bedtime ? ” Minnie laughs as she jerks his arm and messes up his mass of hair.
“Shut up, I’m only 3 years younger than you.” He retorts, harmlessly pushing her hand away.
Luce turns to Jean who is standing up by the door.
“Let me come , Jean.” He says
“Eh, maybe sit this one out little brother,” Jean replies with a weak smile .
“Don’t be ma-aaa-d.” Minnie teases in a sing song voice. “C’mere I’ll give you a goodnight kiss !”
She put her arms around him and holding him tight, leans in to kiss his neck.
“Stop. Get away from me!” Luce screams trying to squeeze out of her grasp.
“Is the little baby having a tantrum ? It must be way past your bedtime ,” she baby-talks again and starts to go for his lips.
“Stop it !” Luce continue as he finally wrestles himself of her arms.
“Aww,” she coos, grazing her fingernails over his face.” Are you going to cr-“
Before she can finish the back of his hands flies across her face. Hard.
.....
“Crazy bastard.” She mumbles when we hit the main street and I can feel the upcoming buzz of people.
“You know, baby , you need to just leave him alone, sometimes.” Jean sighs
“Oh, sure take his side,” she mumbles. “ He is such a spoiled brat.”
“It’s pasta ala vodka ala moi !,” Minnow shrieks to me holding out a spoon.
“Shut.Up.” Luce grumbles at her from the corner of the room where he is sitting and staring.
“C’mon Alan ! Try it ! I don’t know why it doesn’t have actual vodka in it, so I put some in!,” she continues even louder.
I take the spoon and taste it, it’s good and I can still taste the remnants of the alcohol.
“I like it.” I say quietly.
“Yay!” She giggles. “I just NEVER know, so I’m glad you give me your opinion instead of being a little bitch.”
And that does it.
Luce storms over to Minnie and before she can react, grabs her little gun off her hip and goes for she and Jean's bedroom....Luce ignores everyone else in the room and puts three shots into Minnie's vanity mirror before Sara pins him to the ground and takes the gun. Minnie's vanity mirror cracks until it falls off in three disjointed pieces.
- Vice Chapter 5
“You are going to leave this house and you’re going to walk around, I don’t care if it kills you,” Sara Grace shouts as she opens the door. She waits for Minnow and I to walk out before pushing Luce behind us and slamming the door shut.
Luce throws a closed fist at the door.
“Are you going to cry ?,” Minnie teases him and pinches his cheek.
He tries to hit her , but she ducks under his hand and kisses his cheek. He shoves her into the concrete wall and she kicks his fake leg and even though she changed out of the stilettos the kick causes him to buckle down. He raises his fist to hit her face and I grab it.
“Let’s just go and get this over with,” I say, releasing him.
He flips me off.
This is from Sweet Prince:
Aunt Minnie approaches where I am standing awkwardly beside Luce...She has a tray of sparkling shots in her hand, but her eyes look haunted. She’d been Rayne’s assistant for 17 years. She’d been by his side until they very end.
Aunt Minnie makes a really crude joke about Rayne as she approached us; Luce laughs and take a shot. I take one too.
“Rayne Washington would want everyone to be wasted off their fucking asses by now,” Aunt Minnie says throwing back her shot.
“Hell, he’d be standing on the table beating his chest if he was here,” Luce adds taking another shot from her tray.
“This is our time,” Aunt Minnie says in a mimic of Rayne’s roar. “THIS IS OUR TIME!”
Luce laughs.
It was odd watching them get along, normally they were snipping back and forth like little kids.
There are a few more but you get the gist.
WIP UpdateTwo years ago I wouldn't have thought I'd have any more WIPs but here we are. I'm all done with Pulse. My next Secret!Vice project is sitting at
17 19k. I also have about 6,000 words of flash fictions that go with it. It's odd...it feels like something I'm writing just for me and the weird way my brain works but I am excited to share it...but first we need to wrap this up.
I'm also trying to close the loop on this UL and Sentinel thing....It's just not clicking ):
RecapIt's been a while so I'm going to recap what you need to know for this chapter
. Isla Haley has been accused of murdering former Control bartender and current Virtue escort Linz Sharpe aka Lindsay Schofield. Luce and Haley start looking for answers against the cartel's orders and along the way Luce realizes Linz was a school friend of Charlotte Dory's and she had a crush on him when they were young.
At first Haley thinks Luce is responsible for the murder because he was there and missing on the footage. But when he discovers Luce was out buying him a gift during the murder they have makeup sex that is promptly interrupted by Minnow Dory. Also, Luce's cybernetics have started acting up...
Oh, Also, Gaige, a dominant at Control sets Haley up with on a new mystery client who specifically requested Haley.....Pulse 5 -1- Baer by Laminate Pet Animal-2- MMXV by Jonas Hain-3- In The Waiting by Kina Grannis
" Minnow unzips her purse and hands me a little old fashioned key that looked like it was from a storybook.“That hideous cabinet behind the desk is a liquor cabinet.” She says. “Let’s have some real fun, boys.” "
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