#w4ntd

he's always attracted an audience, whether he realizes it or not. it's how she recognizes him now. how long has it been? it's like seeing a ghost. flynn walks smoothly through the crowd and acts as if he belongs there. he makes small talk here and there then he's pickpocketing someone's watch the next moment. from where she's standing off to the side, she can watch him openly without drawing any attention to herself. odette knows she should look away and pretend like she hasn't seen him. the last thing she needs is for someone from her past to see her in her present. but she is finding that no matter how long it's been, she's like a moth drawn to a flame when it comes to him. she wonders if he feels the same in some way, because his eyes lock on hers from across the room. she almost forgot how brown his eyes are. they almost crack her open right there. instead, odette excuses herself from the woman who has come up to her to make small talk about her father's company (when? she does not know) when she sees him weaving his way through the crowd towards her. she meets him in the middle. "some things never change i see." she watches as he pockets someone's ring. "just here to steal from wealthy people? i doubt any of them will notice anyway." the contents of his pocket must be over 10k by now. "all things considering..."

in no particular order:

- soggy teddy

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out of all the other people that could have taken this contract, it had to be one of the hunters jyn's worked with previously. when she'd heard she wouldn't be working alone, she hadn't been surprised -- not with a bounty this high -- though she hadn't expected flynn rider to be her partner on this one. ( perhaps she should have, she muses darkly, considering the shit luck she's had for the past few years. ) having gone off the grid since her untimely death -- undeath ? -- this is the first time she's seen anyone from her prior life ; and while she doesn't expect him to stake her on sight, it's only a matter of time before he figures out what she's . . . become.

new priority : get the hell out of here as quickly as possible, money be damned.

at this point, there's no escaping without looking suspicious, so she steps out of the shadows and into the pale glow of the moonlight. " seems fitting that i run into you out here, rider, " she says wryly, her corner of her mouth turning up slightly. " what's it been -- two, three years ? "

As the spent magic dissipates around him, he reaches for the first object on his desk as a means to cover up his oversight. He'd closed his office door, hadn't he? "You should know better than to barge into someone's office like that! You're lucky this faerie stone is only capable of creating a portal in a mirror and not, I don't know, turning the second closest person to it into an oak tree."

@w4ntd sent can't be everywhere at once.