The Commission

[Armalite_]

Spike laughed. "Your car really does have all the options. Yes, thank you. Terrible weather out there wouldn't you say?" He groaned, his leg acting up again. "Anyway, I'm glad you picked me up, I needed to talk to you about some business that needs to be taken care of." He smiled. He reached into his pocket on the inside of his coat.

[KittKat chunky~]

"all the options... just a fact that most of them dont work... slovakian equipment isnot known for being reliable..." turning the heating as high as it would go he put a paw to the small vent to feel a thin stream of hot air... "better than nothing i suppose.... weather? well..." he looked out the window at the lashing rain and sea spray... "well yes actually... even a dock hand like me dont like the rain THAT much..." turning off the windcreen wipers... the sound of the sheeting rain even louder now and turned in his seat so he could talk to spike more easily.... "busines taken care of? you came to the right feline..."

[JellyMuffins]

The rabbit sat in his apartment, going over his pistols, cleaning them mindlessly as he goes over what he needed to ask Kistrev that night at the theater. Harry, the owner of the theater, hadn't been too happy to close it down for the night, but the FBI badge did wonders...

[Armalite_]

Spike pulled out a hankercheif from his pocket, wiping his wet fur dry on his face. "I just need to know...what you're doing talking to Agent Kaelin." Spike said to Kristrev, completely calm. "Because you see, he's kinda really onto me and the only way I can wonder how that's happening is that if someone was telling him leaking information."

[KittKat chunky~]

Kistrev sighed as he watched Spike... "that would be the rabbit i suppose... didnt know he was an Agent.... Spike, what information do i know about you?... I'm a dock hand, that's leaking info on the Romano's ta you... what do i know?!" Turning away for a second he sighed... "Spike, in all honesty... i know nothing, about you... this agent guy... anything...."

[Armalite_]

Spike stared at Kristrev expressionless. He sighed and scratched his chin. "You know, Kristrev...I don't like it when someones not entirely truthful..." Spike slid the 44. magnum from the inside of the coat and pulled back the hammer, holding it to Kristrev's head. "Now. Tell me what's really going on. You seeing him again!? You're telling him everything aren't you!?" Spike was getting agitated, the gun shaking in his paw.

[KittKat chunky~]

Kistrev looked from the barrel, to spike... Moving one paw slowly, he slid the end of the magnum from his temple, to directly between his eyes... "shoot... im tellin you shoot me if i lie.... i'm gonna say everything now... and... if i lie... shoot me..." Kistrev stopped for a second, sighing he looked back to the agitated Spike...

"i aint gonna lie spike... m'seein him again... you aint the only one who's holding a gun to my head here... im gonna see him... i dont know what im gonna tell him...." Slowly Kistrev held up both paws, sliding them behind his head.... "i saw him that day.... in the cafe... that much you saw.... we talked... and metahporically, he also has a gun pointed right here...." Kistrev put a finger to his head watching spike...

[Armalite_]

The gun in Spike's hand slowly began to stop shaking. He looked at Kristrev again in the eyes and bit pressed his lips together. Spike moved his thumb to the back of the weapon and uncocked the hammer. He lowered the 44. away from Kristrev's face and it dangled in his right paw over the seat. "Okay, Kris, okay. That's all I wanted to know." Spike continued to look Kristrev in the eye. "Any man who dares me to shoot them in the face is either a fool or they got a lot of faith in me believing them...and you sure ain't lying to me." He put the gun back in his coat. "Where and when?"

[KittKat chunky~]

"maybe im just the fool spike..." Kistrev watched spike stow the weapon away... "today as it so happens... a small cinema... i been told it'l be closed for the two of us... and im taking this..." Kistrev showed spike the small pistol the fox had given him at his last meeting... " sliding the gun onto the dashboard he turned back to Spike... "why? you want me to pull out?"

[JellyMuffins]

Jay went downstairs to the lobby of his apartment complex, exiting into the brisk morning air. He was walking around to clear his head when he passed by a newspaper stand and he froze, backing up to see the headline;

PROMINENT CITIZEN ANGELO LOMBARDI
SUFFERS A NEAR FATAL HEART ATTACK

The rabbit quickly buys a copy of the paper and head back to his apartment, reading as he goes.

[Armalite_]

The last thing Kristrev said made Spike stop to think. "Actually...If you're willing to shoot the guy, by all means go ahead. But if you'd like to hear what he has to say, then I would suggest listening in first to see what he wants. I can't go with you since its for the two of you. But I'd appreiciate it if you report back to me with the outcome, alright?" He tapped Kristrev on the shoulder before leaning over to get out of the car. He opened the door halfway to look out at the miserable weather and closed the door again. He looked back at the cat. "Would you be kind enough to help a lone fox get home?" He smiled.

[KittKat chunky~]

Kistrev smiled already turning the keys in the ignition.. "sure i would" The engine rumbled into life as the wheels crunched over the soaked concrete and gravel. "well of course i'l report back to you... and as for shooting him... i dont know. I reckon, if he drove me far enough into a hole i couldnt get out of. I'd shoot him. Other than that ive never killed someone, i dont know if id want to start now..." Swinging the wheel round as he drove onto the main road the windscreen whipers put up a pathetic struggle against the lashing rain. The rain was winning...

[Armalite_]

Spike smirked from the backseat. "Trust me. Listening to him long enough?...Shooting him would be easy as breathing." Spike pulled out a pack of cigarettes from the inside of his jacket. "Mind if I smoke?" Spike asked, holding up the pack.

[KittKat chunky~]

Kistrev glanced back to Spike and nodded. "sure... dang this rain... cant see a thing..." The slashing water lessened as the Skoda rolled off the pierside and onto a main road.... picking up speed he turned to Spike in the back seat... "well maybe it would be easy for you.... but i aint never even pointed a gun to someone... ive had em pointed at ME.. as you saw yerself... but never the other way round...  err, left here right?"

[JellyMuffins]

As Jay read through the article, he felt a knot tighten in his stomach. If Spike was Angelo's right hand man then anything could happen now. Hopefully the fox would be upset and confused as to how to continue running the Lombardi family... or possibly he might get angry and try to use the new resources at his disposal to eliminate all of his enemies in a single stroke - a group the Jay now considered himself a part of. The rabbit threw the paper across the apartment, holstering both his pistols and heading for the precinct, he needed to find something to do before the meeting with Kistrev that night.