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A. action; closed to rikku
[ Emerald's first choice wouldn't have been Everglade. It was dreary and, while the fog and general yay-murder attitude provided quite the cover, she much preferred the sun. But there was one thing she could do without drawing attention to herself and it was already in the city- get help from an old friend. Said old friend didn't.. exactly need to know the details of why she was laying low, but she was certain she'd played her cards well enough that Rikku would give her the benefit of doubt.

Most people did until it was too late.

It was shortly before sunset when Emerald knocked on the door, keeping her eyes around her instead of at the door, so the first thing Rikku would likely see was her backside. Practically a show of trust. ]

B. action; openish
[ Once she's got what she needs from Rikku, the next stop was checking her previous spots in Genessia: Demyx's old apartment, the hotel. Which meant both Genessia and Nova City. It was definitely risky moving around that much in the open, but it was the evening- she had the cover of darkness, she was fairly certain unless someone was looking for her, she'd be okay. And she knew she could get away from any specific individual if she got cornered. No one had found out yet, even if they knew whose side her piece rested on.

Emerald walked down the street cautiously, stretching her arms above her head. At least it wasn't freezing this time around. She was glad to have missed the winter, even if she was in much more dire straights with her only real ally here being Torchwick. She had no doubt the truth would crush any of the other relationships she built with how prominent the brats were here. ]

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[There's a deadly kind of silence that falls over Blake as she moves in just as close, not faltering a bit as she looks into Emerald's eyes. Their faces could almost touch. Her gaze stays solemn and she doesn't flinch.]

Now who's deluded? You don't know a thing about Adam, Emerald. Whatever Cinder might have on him now to keep him cooperative won't last. He wants to see your kind burn. I didn't leave a life I was born into on a whim. A long time I even lived in denial that anything had changed. That Adam could change. [Blake swallows and clenches her fists.]

But I wasn't going to help them him rain violence down on innocent people anymore, human or faunus. And if I'm a traitor for that, so be it. He can punish me as long as he leaves my friends and other people that did nothing to him out of it.

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[She looks away when Emerald points out that she is, in fact, alone. A part of her is afraid to face them after running away. But it's nothing compared to her fear of what Adam will do to them just for being near her.]My reasons for being on my own right now are my own. I...can't be around them right now.

[And that's all the other girl is going to get on that. But Emerald's hesitation at the end doesn't go unnoticed either. She looks at her uncertainly.]

Just because you felt what?

She has power. Before she got what she needed at Beacon, she had enough power to take out his entire camp. That's what she has on Adam. An offer that benefits both of us, that's all. I know he'd try to kill us if he actually could, but he can't. You do what you can for your cause, but you don't betray the people who gave you everything, Blake.

[ She rolls her eyes at Blake's admission. ] A word of advice: Not being around them is going to get you killed if the right people show up and Adam doesn't to protect you for his own plans.

[ A shake of the head and Emerald's looking around. It's probably time to go. ] It doesn't matter.

[The dark haired girl's eyes show genuine shock. Of course, seeing what Cinder did to Beacon...if she had even a fraction of that power, then Adam would have to have done what he did to protect his people.

She clenches her fists. She's not White Fang anymore and never will be, but they are still Faunus no matter how Adam has brainwashed them. And the thought of that evil woman manipulating her people makes her furious.

Not that Adam was a saint before Cinder showed up, but it never made sense where he fit in with them.]

So she's just going to murder everyone that doesn't go along with her? [Blake is seething.]

[She shook here head.] If I'd wanted to betray him, I'd have gone to the authorities. Instead, I stopped aiding a group who's cause had changed. It wasn't small changes, either. We were a peaceful group and the people who were in it wanted to be there. No one was ever meant to be trapped into it or too scared to leave because of what might happen to them. That's not loyalty. That's coercion and fear. It's no different than a cult. [She looks truly disgusted at what Adam had done to them.]

I know that. [Said flatly. She can care less about herself. She's training with Dante for a reason, but she knows if Adam shows up and comes after her now, she'll most likely die. But she can't let anyone else get caught in the crossfire again.]

If it doesn't matter, then why not say it?

We asked nicely first to help them. On our knees, even. Then we asked nicely again and said it would either benefit both of us, or one of us. He could've said no. We didn't kill them. We offered them what they needed, they just took a little persuasion that we could give it to them. Adam chose to work with us because we had the power to actually make change.

[ Except it would've been very much not good for them. ]

Just because it doesn't matter doesn't make it your business.

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I don't believe you. [She might be in denial. She might be foolish to try to defend anything the current White Fang has done, but she knew Adam for years. He might be ruthless towards humans and people that he felt betrayed the cause. But...]

He's a lot of things. But selling out his people to some human because she has a little bit of power instead of obtaining it on his own terms is not his way. I wonder just what form of 'persuasion' Cinder used on him.

If it didn't matter you wouldn't care if I knew it. [Blake recognizes evasion too well for that, Emerald.She knows when someone's running away.]

I was there. He refused, we got more power and came back. We beat his men, and he agreed to a mutually beneficial relationship. They help us, we help them. Given the right circumstances, anyone will agree to something like that.

[ Emerald glances down Blake's form quickly. She's not sure if she wants to go for Blake's wallet or not. Pissing off cats didn't bode well for laying low. ]

What makes you think I'd tell you if it did matter to me?

Not Adam. [Though her resolve wavers a bit; he's become someone so far removed from who she knew. No. Emerald's a liar.Cinder must have threatened to wipe the whole organization out. That was the only way he'd go along with someone like her. She grits her teeth feeling conflicted. Even with what he's become she doesn't want to believe he could fall further.]

I don't think you will. But you wouldn't have let it slip in the first place unless it was really bothering you.

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Well he did, so you don't know him as well as you think you do. [ Fall further than a mopey revenge-seeking boy in love whose organization that stands for revolution is mostly just an agent of chaos now? How could he? ]

Right. Why does it matter to you is what I should be asking.

[Blake can't say anything to that. She can say that Emerald is lying all day and then Ermerald would just...keep lying. And if it's true, what can she do about it? Why would anything he could or would do shock her now? Still, she thought he had more pride.]

We'll see. [Said quietly. That much she knows is true. She can't avoid him forever.]

Because if it bothered you enough that you'd bring it up to me, then I think, at least about whatever you were going to say, it would be the truth.

I will seriously bet you money on it.

[ She's that confident, apparently. ]

You wouldn't be able to tell if it was or wasn't. You think I can't purposely let something slip and backtrack on it? I thought we were better friends than that, Blake. [ Aww, it's that sweet caring smile she put on for team RWBY. It may just be a cover up this time, but she's going to make her point. ]

[The words sting a lot more than she expected them to. Adam was fanatical, but power hungry? She doesn't know what to believe. Or why it bothered her. He was clearly capable of murder. He had the White Fang setting Grimm loose on a school full of students, not to mention the civilians that got caught up in the crossfire. She should be numb to anything that he could do by now.]

I don't personally care what you'd bet on. I'm sure you didn't bet on your boss going out the way she did. [No one really knew what happened to Cinder, she might be frozen up on that tower with that huge Grimm. But Blake would be totally fine if Ruby's powers had actually blasted her to dust. It would still be too kind a fate after Penny and Pyrrha.]

You don't know the meaning of the word.[She's angry enough to claw Emerald's face off, but there are so many reasons why it would be a bad idea. She's facing an enemy that could make not only her but anyone nearby see anything. Anyone would say it was foolish.

It still didn't make her feel any less worthless.]

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You abandoned the White Fang because you disagreed and didn't want to bother to fix the problems yourself, you abandoned your friends, your team, and your boyfriend because you're scared of the repercussions of your own actions.

[ Emerald slowly turns her back to Blake, walking away at a lazy saunter. ]

Sounds like someone shouldn't be lecturing anyone about the meaning of friendship.

Yes, Emerald, I know I'm a crap friend. I don't need you to tell me. [Blake sounds bitter. She knows it's the truth. She may as well own it. It's the only proactive thing she can do. She feels like shit about it and she deserves to. ]

Could I have fixed things if I stayed? It's too late for me to find out. But I'm not sorry I left. I'm not going to apologize for not allowing Adam turn me into a murderer, the way Cinder has done with you. Because if you think you didn't kill Penny with what you did, think again! [It was a harsh thing to say, but she meant it. She was not about to forgive it any time soon.]

You're the one who said I don't know the meaning of friendship. I'm just saying, that's rich coming from you.

[ Emerald clenched her fists a little, then finally turned back in her saunter, her eyes narrowed. She pointed at Blake. There was one thing she wanted to make very clear- because she could say whatever she wanted about Emerald. Emerald wasn't the type of person who had a high enough self-worth to argue against much other than refusing to be called a worthless street rat. But blaming Cinder for her own actions? ]

Cinder didn't turn me into a murderer. She offered me a life. I took it, everything I did from there was better than the one I had before. You said you grew up with the White Fang, so maybe you don't understand what it is to truly have no one and nothing. At most you spent a month without someone watching over you during the application process for Beacon, right? So I know you couldn't possibly understand what it's like to have becoming a murderer still be the better option. I didn't get picked up for picking a fight with a crime lord after my family spent time training me and be miraculously handed everything I've ever asked for, I didn't get someone to watch my back as I was growing up even if they didn't turn out to be who I'd hoped, I sure as hell didn't have everything handed to me on a silver platter and still not think it's enough because my father cares about what I do with my life, and I definitely didn't just decide to learn how to fight because it sounded like a fun adventure. You're forcing yourself to be "alone" and you still aren't because you have people who worry for you. Becoming a murderer isn't what she did to me, it's the price I decided to pay to change my life so that someone would be there. Cinder and Mercury are the only ones who have ever been there for me and they're the only ones who ever will! I may not have directly killed the robot this time, but if they wanted me to I'd take it apart with my bare hands. Call me a murderer all you want, but she hasn't done that to me. People like you did.

[ Emerald doesn't leave much room for conversation at that point. She's pissed off, and said way more than she intended to. She's done here. She uses her semblance to make herself invisible to Blake's eyes. Some of that might've been her working herself up. The anger made it easier to face what she'd become, to justify it, to reinforce that she can't blame Cinder for her actions. To reinforce that the only ones who could accept her as she was anymore were Cinder and Mercury. She was definitely done talking to Blake. ]

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