(She's tough.)Megumi: You're going to use the Futae Whatever? Seriously? Do you know what condition your hand's in right now? It's about to fall apart...! If you use it now, it's the last time. It's over!Sanosuke: Is that right. Then this is my last attack.Kaoru: Sanosuke... Megumi: Idiot. This is the stupidest thing I've ever seen.Sanosuke: I hate to waste all your work patching me up.Megumi: I don't care.Sanosuke: There's just no way I can back down in front of this so-called ultimate fighter.. It was Friday and I'd parked there two days ago, so that choice was out.I walked the couple of blocks to the shop on the west end of Main Street, passing banks and clothing stores as well as bars who's doors were locked until lunch, stopping in front of one store with specially dressed mannequins. The male dummy was made up like a samurai, armor and all, on one side of the door, the female dummy looked like a true southern belle straight from Georgia on the other. The sign above the purple. I sat up in my bed and narrowed my eyes trying to see who it was in the dark “hello?” I called out.“Sshhh Hi Jacob, it's me Audrey” my mom whispered loudly back as she made her way over to my bed.“Mom? What the hell you doing” “Just wanted to see my baby boy” she hiccuped “I've missed him.”“I've missed you too mom, but your drunk. Let me get you to bed.”“I'm not drunk!!” She slurred, “I perfectly fine” as she collapsed at the side of my bed. I turned the bed side light on “mom are you ok!”“Nooo. The slab had been scooped clean. Next door, where the house had had a basement, everything had fallen into it. Nothing had been done to that house yet. If the clean slab looked like progress, the house next door was a reminder of all they'd lost. There was no evidence of Dean having done anything beyond get rid of a lot of debris and I wondered if he was having a harder time getting together a crew than he thought he would.To get them past the visual downer of the charred slab, I took them.
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