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[color=9e0b0f][h1]Close your eyes and think of Atlas.[/h1][/color][/center]

[color=9e0b0f][i]Uh huh.[/i][/color]

This was a textbook honey pot. Get in there, be alluring until you think you have a hook on the target, then leave. Demand that you be chased. And then...

[i]crunch[/i]

As a kid, there were always spy movies in the Piper house. One of the first ones he had been allowed to watch in its entirety was GoldenEye. That god damned movie...Jericho could still remember the abject terror he had felt watching Xenia Onatopp crush that poor bastard to death right in the middle of the deed, and how much she reveled in his death throes beneath her. It made his hair want to stand up on end just thinking about that...that god damned movie.

It was the one they loved to put on most back in the dorm, too. Always quipping and making Sean Bean jokes, always trying to get a rise out of him...

Unbidden, the crimson rune on his hair began to [i]glow.[/i]

He hated GoldenEye almost as much as he hated [i]Moonraker.[/i] 

...[i]blugh.[/i] 

But enough about Moonraker.

Treating the neon red, levitating ends of hair floating between him and Bianca like they weren't even there, Jer responded with a casual: [color=9e0b0f]"The penthouse. Well, that should be easy to remember, at least."[/color]

[color=9e0b0f][i]Check the pool.[/i]

...!

[i]They're gone.[/i][/color]

They were making their move. Probably already [i]at[/i] the penthouse. Ready to crush him, garrote him with an otter tail, smother him with a musty hoodie by the kid with the hair...the hedgehog Faunus.

This was so messed up.

[color=9e0b0f]"I'll be sure to buzz your order up later, at least. The cruise food here hasn't made anyone sick. Lately."[/color]

[color=9e0b0f][i]But the cruise doesn't have access to my super-secret family recipe for ricin gravy.[/i][/color]

...Then again, she seemed ditzy enough to avoid eating it somehow. The hedgehog would be a better mark for the ricin gravy. He looked like he rarely got a decent meal.

[color=9e0b0f][i]Perfect planning, Piper.[/i][/color]

Now if only he could do something about this rune...