Barry's Warehouse | Wednesday Morning

Annie had texted ahead to Barry to let him know she was coming by, and her text had included the perhaps-ominous question of whether he had anything lying around that might feature a blade sharp enough to cut a diamond.

She needed to get that tracker out. Today. Before they even thought about leaving Fandom.

She'd been texting Hughie from the burner phone he'd given her as well, being as vague as she could.

coming to see you soon.

bringing a friend.

staying off the grid.

Hopefully he knew what to do with these cryptic little bites of information -- he was the one who had made Annie paranoid, after all, so she was hoping he had the sense not to reply with something stupid like, Who is your friend? Here is my address.

"You're sure you're up for this?" she asked Diego in an undertone as they approached Barry's warehouse. "It's probably gonna be pretty gross."

Not like, needle-gross. Probably.

( good thing there were definitely no needles here! )

[preplayed with the ever-wonderful knife_bender and the fabulous badassprodigy, who graciously allowed me to mod his warehouse! Warning for a lil' gore and oh my god TOTALLY FOR BROADCAST but not for interaction. OOC welcome!]

A Pawn Shop in East Flatbush | Wednesday afternoon

Annie followed the directions Hughie had sent to her burner phone, which were confusing as all get out because of course the address he gave her was down the street, and of course the actual pawn shop was two blocks down.

Eventually, Annie saw the familiar, gangly figure of Hughie Campbell standing outside, alongside a shorter man with goggles pushed up on his forehead. "That's them. I think that must be HQ, then."

Sure looked like quite an operation. Annie had to remind herself that she'd gotten a little spoiled by all the cool gadgets that the bad guys had. The good guys, it looked like, were working on a bit more of a shoestring.

( The Boys are back in town )

[parts of this are adapted from The Boys 2.06, "The Bloody Doors Off." Preplayed with knife_bender! NFB/NFI/OOC welcome as aaaaaaaaaaaalways]