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orderbeforepeace) wrote2018-01-04 08:44 pm
orderbeforepeace) wrote2018-01-04 08:44 pm
VOICE TESTING THIS BASTARD
OPEN to texts, memes, weird AU shit. Just throw it this way
OPEN to texts, memes, weird AU shit. Just throw it this way
OPEN to texts, memes, weird AU shit. Just throw it this way
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Somebody less prepared might be startled when the nondescript figure suddenly slid into the chair opposite them, but Evie was certainly not as relaxed as she appeared - she had scanned every person in the bar from the moment she walked in, and already spotted Haytham as she passed him, but there was a ritual to these proceedings and it wouldn't do to disrupt things.
She nodded politely at his enquiry, the agreed upon response forming almost automatically upon her lips. "As uneventful as can be, I hope business this week has been good for you?"
The opposite of the truth, technically, but they didn't say these things because they meant them.
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Haytham settled himself, relaxing a little. Not utterly, but this was not the sort of place the Brotherhood would use for an assassination, there were too many innocent bystanders for any of their normal terrorist actions. They preferred to only damage the Order and the Empire it protected. Besides, Evelyn was better than that.
"I suppose," He begins, now the formalities were over, "Your brother is still alive and well? Not yet managed to blow himself up?"
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Evie would never be so rude as to arrange a meeting like this only to stab Haytham in the back, or the front for that matter. One day the command might come from the higher ups that Haytham needed to be taken down, but until that day she would stay her blade - besides, that was the kind of job that would likely be given to Edward or Connor, given the circumstances.
"Not for lack of trying," Evie replied dryly, shaking her head slightly. Jacob really did have a gift for getting himself into trouble - he just luckily was also good at getting out of it "But so far, so good."
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He won't ask after Connor. It is too sore a subject, best left alone. She would have told him, in their correspondence, if something was wrong with the son Haytham had on;y recently discovered. This meeting was about something else entirely.
The Order and the Brotherhood are enemies, but there are some groups that neither of them can allow to exist. Bringing down the organisations that threaten the Empire's people is not something that the Brotherhood normally help with, but in this instance a shared enemy means Haytham can at least reach out to Evelyn.
If only because he has pertinent information.
With a sigh, he reaches into his jacket, and pulls out the data chip, handing it over. "I hope you are able to do something more with this than we have managed to achieve."
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Evie can sense the hesitation, and she can guess it's out of a desire to ask about Connor, but she knows it's a touchy subject and she won't bring it up if he doesn't, not just now anyway. Perhaps she'll find some way of assuring him Connor is doing well if they engage in any other small talk, but it's clear he intends to get down to business right now so she holds off.
"I hope so," she agrees, taking the offered chip "these people do not bode well for any of us."
The others would likely balk at taking any sort of help from the empire, even to take down a mutual enemy, but Evie doesn't have to tell them where this information came from, or how she got hold of it, they would see the logic of taking out the organisation even if they were at similar purposes to the empire for once.