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| prompted by ▶︎ They waited at the train station. Not that the young couple had anywhere to go. Still if you have a rail pass, why not make the most of it? It was the height of Season. All the summer folk with ridiculous money and no attention span would be milling on and off the subway. All an opportunistic scavenger had to do was wait. The train pulled up. Its hydraulics whirred as it decelerated. The passengers milled towards the cars or the escalators. Penny and Tom moved through them; making sure to bump into as many people as they could. "Sorry, you dropped this," Penny pretended to hand a man back a comb. She pocketed her real prize as he mumbled his thanks. Someone yelled obscenities as Tom faked checking to make sure they were okay. The victim rolled their eyes as Tom dodged around them. Once the doors closed, the couple found seats in an isolated part of the car. Tom looked around making sure the other passengers weren't looking their way. Together they inventoried their take. "Nice," he said. "So between the fancy Rolex, diamond jewelry and the fifty bucks, I'd say we've got something. Just gotta find a fence. Babe, what you think?" "Let's go find Vinny," Penny decided. "He gave a real good deal last time. We managed to pay rent and have enough left over for pizza. That was just from a gold chain!" Tom scrunched his eyebrows inward and his mouth pouted. "Dunno," he said. "Vinny's a little too good. He didn't even haggle or try to argue. Nobody's that big an idiot." Slapping her other half on the shoulder, Penny countered. "So? Maybe he's like the Robin Hood of middle men," she argued. "Besides, we don't got many contacts that haven't been locked up." The two thieves got off the train in the most urban part of Juneport. Monolithic buildings cast shadows from every angle. There weren't any alleyways but the underworld found its space all the same. Vinny got up from the brick wall he'd propped himself on. "Well, well;" he said. "The King and Queen of the Keep!" Penny blushed and giggled a bit. "Stop," she said. "We're just a couple of kids from the Projects. Not like the nobs from Dolphin Hills." "Ah, whatever," he said. "The size of that place might as well be a castle. Anyways how can this nobody help you?" Tom lunged forward and pulled a coiled wire and earpiece off Vinny's head. "What's this?" Tom yelled "You a Narc?!" Vinny snatched it back from him. "Easy my man," Vinny cajoled. "Just listening to some tunes while I get my hustle on. That ain't no problem is it?" Penny rubbed Tony's back trying to soothe her boyfriend. "Bae," she said. "You gotta trust people more. Now why don't you show Vinny our loot?" Her partner took deep, shoulder heaving breaths and then pulled out the diamond bracelet and Rolex. "Picked these up in the subway," he said. "You gonna give me a good deal on these, homey? You better be straight with me!" Vinny let out a whistle. "Sell these to me and y'all will be living like royals." Seconds after the words were out of his mouth, sirens fired up. Squad cars drifted in from all the connecting streets. Penny and Tom were slammed against the wall. Cuffs were tightened on wrists. "Hope you like silver bracelets your majesties," one of the officers punned. |
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