Email to Manuel

[xp_daytripper]

To: [kobaro]
From: [sorgin]



Pete and Dom staged a kidnapping. I'm in Istanbul. With Marie-Ange and Sarah. Apparently we needed a break (well, Angie and I did - Pete just reckons Sarah needed out of the basement) and this is it. There's some other stuff, some kind of job Domino has on, but she's not giving us details until we've have a full day to de-stress, as she puts it. No danger, since Pete wouldn't have a bar of it if it was, but something to 'work the kinks out', as Dom puts it.

Sorry I didn't get a chance to tell you before I left. It was pretty much a snatch and grab Tuesday morning, and we've been in planes and stuff since. It sounds like a Pink Flloyd song, but I wish you were here. Lots of space to play in this hotel room of mine. *grins* The bath alone...

Gotta go - someone's knocking on the door and I need to grab soem clothes before I open it. Love you. Lots. Miss you as much, too. Take care, all right? We should be back in a few days.

Love,

Amanda.

Comments

Oh, fuck.

[x-empath.livejournal.com]

He wasn't joking, was he?

This is ... unexpected. And ill-timed. I wish someone would take _me_ to Istanbul when life gets to be too much. I'll talk to you when I get back.

Manuel

Sorry...

[xp_daytripper]

Pete was kind of insistent, almost as much as Dom. And you have to admit, I had to get out of there for a while - the nightmares alone were driving us both mental.

Maybe one day when I'm fabulously wealthy (hah!) I'll stage my own kidnapping of you. Sound good? And is everything all right? This distance... I can't get much off the link, but you _sound_ stressed. Was Emma ticked about me destroying those files and papers of yours?

I never thought I'd say this, but if you need company, go find Lee. She always cheers you up.

Amanda.

Lee.

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Yeah, I think I will go see Lee. She can help me out. I think. I hope.

Good idea. And you don't want to be in my head right now.

Manuel de la Rocha

You're being cryptic and that worries me.

[xp_daytripper]

Help out with what, exactly? And since we're linked and all, I tend to be in your head most of the time any way. Anything you want to talk about?

A.

PS: Since when do I rate surnames? You're worrying me more now...

Nothing that need concern you.

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Just a little assignment I've been given to complete. I can't really talk about it - not like this. When you come back, perhaps then we'll talk.

And I _am_ a de la Rocha. It's past time I remembered that.

Manuel de la Rocha.

Gah.

[xp_daytripper]

You know if you tell me there's something that doesn't concern me, I _will_ be concerned, right? You're being all formal at me and it feels... off. Did I do something?

And yes, you are a de la Rocha. But I would have figured you'd understand I know your name by now. No need for the formal shite. You'll be calling me "Miss Sefton" next, like Strange does sometimes...

Maybe I should try and find where Pete stashed my passport...

A.