Rarity

[petal_storm]

Who: Orchid, Any
When: Several years in the future in a baaaad dystopia but not quite as bad as some.
What: Medical debt is a killer.

Some days living was a pain.

Hell, most days honestly, especially when you were delicate. She was in hospitals more than out as far back as she could remember and eventually, like most longer term need people, debt got to a point there was no way for her family to pay it back. Her father had been lost when his plane went down on a mission out of states, and the nannies she'd been left with, well...

...they found employment elsewhere when the 'care' fund was drained due to medical.

She hit eighteen somehow which meant her debt officially went on the market, and, well, a lot of businesses ran on debt contracts.

Luckily she was...interesting. Visual appeal, much less textural, meant higher end places were willing to take on her whole debt instead of several having to group together, and that was how she ended up a headliner at 'Rarity', one of the more exclusive gentlemen's clubs. They didn't ave a cover charge, they didn't sell nickel peeps, no. Rarity had a yearly membership fee that was terrifyingly high and tips were more in the high end jewelry and vehicles range than bills in stockings.

She was lucky she supposed; it was high end enough her rooms met her needs and she spent less time in the hospital but...

...just like those in lower clubs they had a high drug use and burn out rate. How not?

Drugs were cheaper than medical care honestly.

"Ilya I told you not to let anyone slip you things," Orchid sighed, petting the poor girl's hair as she rested her head on the bar. They were were a twenty four hour business but they closed every six hours for a few hours to let people rest and the like.

"Didn't..." Ilya whimpered softly. "I don't know when, or how..." But she was drugged, her friend Orchid was like a living drug test, if she wasn't drugged Orchid would be touching her skin instead of her hair.

"Water," Orchid winced, "I'm sorry. I'll check your clothing and makeup, that's the last things that were delivered to you right? How close are you to debt free?"

"Two weeks," she sobbed softly. "I was doing so well..."

Damn it all. Orchid patted her hair again, "I'm sorry. I won't send you to the hospital, nor will the bartenders okay? You just have to fake it if the boss comes in while I'm gone okay?"Please?

"Try," she agreed, shivering. God she felt nauseous and numb now...

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Re: Rarity

[code_jaeger]

"We talk to him about the drugging first."

Re: Rarity

[petal_storm]

"....right, right, sedatives cost," she grumbled, risking a peek from under the hood.

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[code_jaeger]

"Yeah..."

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[petal_storm]

"Thiiink my eyes are focusing right now..."

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[code_jaeger]

"Looks like." he nodded.

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[petal_storm]

"...should take your shirt back. It's nice." Yes.

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[code_jaeger]

"Yeah probably." he nodded taking it and put it on.

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[petal_storm]

"You need Orchid more," than she needed imaginary dad yeah. "....annnnd now I have a headache. Can't win," she snickered tiredly.

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[code_jaeger]

"I'm sorry." He noted opening the office door and glaring. "So I found out why this is happening and YOU could have stopped it long before now."

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[petal_storm]

"Do tell," he sighed, glancing up from holos of the front room where their prime dancers were back on.

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[code_jaeger]

"She's been being habitually drugged by that woman's son when he comes in. It makes it impossible for her to think rationally."

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[petal_storm]

He leaned back in his chair, considering that. That wasn't...outside the realm of possibility. And it was hurting his bottom line to pull Elora out of circulation for punishments, and oddly to pull Jaeger off bar tending.

"You have twenty-four hours, Jaeger, as this is still your problem. Get me proof and I'll grant you both a recovery period."

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[code_jaeger]

He pulled one of her hair's by the root and handed it to him. "Test it." He had a tester in that desk of his. Yes. He was confident.

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[petal_storm]

She yelped softly, not quite feather pain that but it still hurt! Hmmmph. "A single positive isn't a compilation of data, Jaeger. you get to access their purchase records in the like, limited access," he snorted.

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[code_jaeger]

"And if they brought it with them?" He asked. "And honestly testing the hair and running a search on their purchases with the drug compound would be far quicker than a manual search through the years. Its like you want me to fail."

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[petal_storm]

"I want a clear timeline showing rentals, Jaeger. A base to actually get approval to pull their purchase records via Council. You're not a detective, you're convincing me, and handing me enough to ban them legally without wiggle room if they've been angling to get my assets at low cost. Am I Clear?" he growled.

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[code_jaeger]

"And I cannot do that in 24 hours manually searching."

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[petal_storm]

"With access to the rental system database you can," he snorted. "You're not hand sorting receipts like some clerk of old. Do you want this chance or not?"

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[code_jaeger]

"Yes." He nodded. "She's tried to tell you this before now!"

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[petal_storm]

"She needs to communicate better," he snorted. "Get her to the baths, you can start your hunt."

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[code_jaeger]

"She couldn't with the bitch screaming all the goddamn time!" he growled but took her to go get a bath.

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[petal_storm]

"He doesn't like you pushing dominance," Elora sighed. "He sees it as a challenge when you get aggressive."

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[code_jaeger]

"I dont' fucking care anymore!" He growled.

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[petal_storm]

"Last time you got too in his face he took Orchid for a month," she reminded. "Don't."

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[code_jaeger]

"I"m going to snap Elora… I"m going to fucking snap."