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Wip TSA / The scarred angel
Chp 8 / A bit of context : Ashley and Amy are on a dangerous journey, Amy asks about drug cartels and Ashley declares she fears them.
"I find this hard to believe." Amy scowls, an edge in her voice, not appreciating the irony she's picking up from that statement.
Seriously, how can one be scared and talk with such an aplomb at the same time?
Amy would call it a contradiction at least.
Shoulders shrug : "That's up to you, really." is the matter-of-factly answer.
Ashley's voice is even, as if she's really unconcerned about convincing Amy about that.
The words get almost drown out by the motor's roaring and Amy has to sharp her hearing to grasp them.
Then, after a pause, like she's having a second thought, Ashley adds with a firmer and more audible tone :
"I would be insane not to be."
"What would they do?" Amy prompts her to develop further.
Not sure of the best way to ask for specifics or if an answer would help to release the tension caused by the thought of what might wait for them at the end of that road trip.
As if dissecting a subject had ever helped to dissolve deepest fears.
"You don't need details right now."
Despite the dry answer Amy senses the presence of some dark power lingering between mere words, of course she can't put her finger on but it's definitely there and it has been so for a while.
Of course Ashley wouldn't add anything because, really, what's the point?
Amy thinks otherwise though, she decides that she rather prefers for her to keep talking, even if it's about horrors.
Amy will take it and let herself be lulled by her voice.
"No details huh?" she pulls a different string : "So....what's the best behavior when you deal with those people ?"
A few days before she did want to interview this girl but she never got the chance to prepare the questions so that now she jumps in headfirst.
"You must be kind of brave to face them...." she suggests.
In her innermost self Amy truly believes so, there is no question about that girl being brave.
Somehow she's kind of talking to herself there, rolling ideas as she does just before actually write an article.
But her words fall in no abyss this time.
Ashley snaps her head, brow furrowed and Amy's greeted not with a laugh this time but with a look that one could define as 'outraged up to shocked'.
"Nobody's fucking brave here!" she spits out the words, and this time definitely there is a heat in her voice.
Taken aback Amy instinctively rises hands, palms forwards, in a 'calm down' gesture.
Deep down she'll even think she's the one with reasons to be upset but clearly common conventions don't apply here so that she disregards the thought.
Still too self conscious of the heat invading her nape and the apologetic tone in her own words.
"It's just.....You must be brave to be able to deal with them".
Isn't that fucking obvious?
Amy scans through her souvenirs of what chief Herrera said a few days before, as he'd never knew who had scarred Ashley since she never came clean on that.
Morales's words echo in her head too.
"The day someone from the cartels gets her she's doomed. They don't go easy on fucking snitches."
With the little she saw in the last days and, even more, hours, Amy has a more precise idea how the drug lords would 'take care' of Ashley for tipping the cops.
The thought sends another cold shiver running along her spine but Ashley's following words don't leave her the time to wonder further : "If they catch you generally shut the fuck up, that's what you do!"
She shakes her head in disapproval and tsks : "Or you can pray, if you want. I'll suggest you do it silently though !"
Normally Ashley would either add even more sarcasm to the point of being cruel or grant a silent contempt at most.
But in the long silent minute that follows she finds herself too aware of Amy's eyes upon her instead.
Brow deep in furrow, lips pressed and knuckles getting white around the wheel as she tightens the grip she reconsiders about what to say next and takes a deep breath before quickly glancing back at her.
"That's bullshit Amy. We'll be lucky if they put a bullet in our head right away!"
She pauses then adds gloomy : "If we aren't …."
The blood from Amy's face seems to have drained off, gives her complexion a greenish hue.
Reading fear and anxiety in her look has the power to unexpectedly clutch Ashley's stomach so that she brings her gaze back on the road ahead to avert that sight while abusing her lower lips.
Frowning at her own reaction.
What she knows and consequentially would tell doesn't click with what she's feeling and it's unsettling.
Amy saying - 'Sorry' -, in her small voice, has the power to unsettle her even more.
Ashley sucks the air in then forcibly huffs it out to release the tension in hands and jaw.
When talking again she puts the effort in for her voice being even : "Do you know what you do if they catch you? You scream, loudest as you possibly can. You scream your guts out....."
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