paving a new path [APHRODITE CREW!]

[Viper]

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i am a frame of a beautiful picture that can be won
yet i grace a wall in a world of none
still you stumble by, my beauty catches your eye
then you stare and become lost in my glare
and the rule of one goes back to none
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Here she was, Aphrodite. The Greek goddess of love and a perfect name for a ship full of ex-doxy women. It was poetic justice, if justice was actually served out in the border worlds. No, Viper didn't see justice where she looked, just saw an attempt to cover things up or protect the rich. Those filthy rich bastards. Lately her crew of five has grown, but not by much. There was still room for growth, but this growth meant the crew had more people to get comfortable with. That was a task that was difficult for some, but Viper was the one in charge of making sure everyone got along. Maybe that is why she was the captain, always willing to make people comprise in the name of the crew and Aphrodite. Sitting on the edge of her bed, Viper ran her fingers through her blond locks as she stared at her end table. A bag of pills was sitting on top and she knew full well she was going to need some of those before she officially started the day. Snatching a few in her hand, Viper swallowed them without any assistance then stuffed them back into the drawer. Getting dressed, she adorned her normal attire of a black cloth dress that split around her waist into two lengths of fabric that ran down either leg which offered her plenty of agile movement. After that, she put on her leather corset that had a hood attached to it. Tightening the strings, she tired them off and tucked them into the corset. Then she began to put on her black stockings and knee long boots. Once those were firmly in place, she slipped her hands into long fingerless gloves and strapped on her metal pauldron on her left shoulder. The metal of the pauldron was connected to some leather that she laced up to her corset with her delicate fingers and also tightened around her bicep to make sure the pauldron didn't jiggle with any movement. When everything was set, she put some black mascara around her blue eyes and soon trotted out of her room, leaving behind Bertha and James since they were not needed.

Making her way into the common room, she took a seat upon a chair and waited for the others to wake from their slumber. 'Course, she figured there were already a few people awake since someone had to be flying the ship and others who may not have been able to actually fall asleep. One thing she knew, her sister wasn't in bed or else Viper simply didn't notice her sister's body on the floor. Shrugging that thought off, Viper soon decided that sitting and waiting was not going to be for her as she pushed out of her chair, stood up, then fell to the floor. Catching herself with the palms of her hand, Viper began to do her routine work out as she did some push ups, waiting for someone to come in before she would think about stopping.

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[Gypsy]

A new day and another sleepless night for Aveil. Of course only a few people on the ship knew her real name and beyond that well everyone called her Gypsy for various reasons. One of them being that fact that it didn't matter how much or how little sleep she got. She was still a vixen of the upmost deadliest accord. Of course most people knew not to piss her off when she hadn't been sleeping. Those that didn't would soon learn. You keep the Mercenary and the Captain happy you have a happy ship. The two hardly ever butted heads but that was because they had respect for each other. No one ever wanted to see the two of them fight and it never really happened anyways. A raised voice here or there but that was usually when Gyps was in a bad mood to begin with. She was quiet most of the time letting Roxie do the talking.

She shook her head as she looked at herself in the mirror. She was in the bathroom having decided it was about time to take a shower. She liked to smell nice and look nice no matter how she felt. A master of deception when she needed to be. Deadly ever single girl on this vessel was well trained and deadly. All were living for themselves and the good of the crew. Respect was earned and everyone had it. The new ones would soon get it. She hopped into the shower and hopped directly out again. She shook her head like a cat or some sort of elegant feline that had just gotten its fir wet. Not as hap haphazardly as a dog would. She got dressed applying no make up to her face. She was in a short black dress with flats and skulls on her tights. The typical attire when on the ship. The dress looked like it should have been laced up like a corset would but it wasn't.

She headed off to the common room with nothing in her mind but figuring out what there was to do and food. Food was always a good thing. She bounded through the common and into the galley and grabbed a granny smith apple and headed back into the common. It didn't take her long to realize that her Captain was doing her usual morning exercises. She leaned on an arm of a chair just across from her Captain. "So morning to you. How's it going Cap?"

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(will make pretty later)

[Viper]

(______________________________________________)
i am a frame of a beautiful picture that can be won
yet i grace a wall in a world of none
still you stumble by, my beauty catches your eye
then you stare and become lost in my glare
and the rule of one goes back to none
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Time seemed to move rather quickly as she counted her push ups in silent breath. Reaching a good fifty before a voice entered the air and Viper paused in her work. Lifting her head, she stared at Gypsy while a soft smile crossed her lips. Bringing her feet up to her hands, Viper stood up and stretched out her muscles while she responded, "Oh, you know. Another day, another way to find pay." That's how Viper always saw any day. Always thinking about the next job and what they would do next, like sitting still would be the death of her. "Couldn't sleep then?" she queried with interest showing in her voice, "Maybe you need a good tumble. May tire you out enough to put you to sleep," she stated idly. Yeah, Viper spoke about sex like it was normal table talk, but she didn't see anything wrong with talking about sex. Maybe that was because she happily cleaned James in front of everyone and that is like sex to her. Plus, sex was a normal occurrence on the ship, but mostly when they were planet side. Very little happened out in the black, but Viper made sure to give her girls plenty of time on a planet. If they could spare the time, Viper gave it to them and always cut it close to the required before leaving. After all, Viper knew that keeping her crew happy was the best way to operate her ship. For without a happy crew, nothing would get done.

"What's bothering you tonight anyways?" she asked as she finally sat down after her nice stretch. Her muscles now felt a lot more limber than they did when she woke up. Settling upon the chair, Viper tossed her boots onto the ottoman that was in front of her chair. Yeah, this chair was officially the captains and everyone knew it, but anyone could sit here, just not in the morning. Why? Because it was the captain's chair and where she sat for the morning meetings they almost always had. Only reason they wouldn't have a morning meeting is if everyone knew what was going on already. Such as they were on a job and everyone knew their job or if they were planet side and they didn't need to all talk about what was next. So, any other time than morning, the chair was open for all and they wouldn't have to move if the captain came in. But, if it was morning, you best move out of her chair. And yes, the captain's chair was the most comfortable of them all and whoever got to it first (if it wasn't morning) claimed it. Viper didn't let people argue over who would sit there and made two simple rules, if your butt is on the chair, it is yours until you move your butt and you couldn't ask people to get stuff for you. That made it fair to everyone, but her crew seemed quite civil over the chair most days, at least what Viper always saw when she came in. Yet, her focus drifted from that and focused once again on Gypsy to see what was bothering the poor girl.

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[Gypsy]

Gypsy watched her Captain do her last few pushups. A smile to match her captains crossed her lips. The girls respected eachother all of them did. And while sometimes they had a thing or two to say about missions and such and things could get heated at the end of the day they were all sisters. Even those that had blood related sisters with them. Gypsy's sister was the first mate and the Captains well she fixed them up when things got a little rough planetside on missions and such. She nodded at her Captain's words and laughed as she pretty much didn't ask but said that she'd been not sleeping and then threw in the fact that a tumble would do her some good. "Ain't no reason to have a tumble when no one you fancy is around dear. I'll take to cleaning my babies and be just as fine." Sex was a common topic with this crew. It was used every so often to get well information oh and distract others while you robbed them blind. After all when you had the appeal why not use it. Sure they weren't legal companions but Gypsy could at like she was when she wanted too if she wanted too. Dressed elegantly or like she was out of the Doxy house to which she was. She always looked elegant no matter what she was wearing really.

She did like spending time planetside ever once in a while. She liked it out in the deep dark black 'verse but sometimes she got a little stir crazy and wanted to stretch her legs. Honestly that was what was bothering her. They hadn't had a job in a bit. She was pulled from her thoughts as Viper asked her what was up. She had sat down in her chair which in another second Gypsy was leaning against glancing to the side at her captain. She never sat in the Captain's chair actually she never really sat in any chair. She always needed to be moving or something to the likes and she liked the arm's of chairs better that was usually how she sat down in the first place. "Oh nothin much. Just going a bit stir crazy. Need to stretch you know." Viper would know what she meant about stretching. It was about time they went planetside for some fun and games.

Work never seemed like work to Gypsy. It was something to do to save off the boredom really. Plus if she was keeping the other's safe she was all for it. "So tell me Capt. We got another place to go and so some business?"

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[Roxanne]

I 'V E. B E E N. C O L L E C T I N G. Y O U R. W O R D S.

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Roxanne scratched at her head as she came from the bridge. She was checking on things after having troubles sleeping. She had ran out of her pills days ago so she was having her nightmares. Most nights she twisted the blankets or her pillow close enough to her that she could muffle it until she woke up. Last night was one of those nights. Tonight, probably not so much. And she really didn’t want to wake up her sister. She always felt guilty when that happened. Then she just took the anger she felt towards the dreams and narrowed it back into finding new jobs. All that anger was redirected to whomever their target was. First they needed to find someplace to land then they could find someone.

Coming to the common room she heard voices. Tightening the tie on her robe, she walked through the doorway. A smile formed seeing her sister and captain there. Moving her body, Roxanne curled up next to her sister. Despite being the first mate, when with her sister she was affectionate. Laying her head on Aveil, she watched their fearless leader. Uppers this morning it seemed. The girls were aware of the pills that Viper took but tried to let it go. They all had their quirks. Her sister, usually going by Gypsy, preferred her guns to men. Viper had her pills. And Roxanne’s vice was sex along with boxing. She used her body to get what she wanted still. While the others had pretty much left their doxy ways behind, hers stuck and she used them to land jobs. Of course she was very careful so as not to contract anything.

”I say we should land someplace and feel out the events. A play or some kind of ball. Cortex shows some business likes hosting dinners. We could see what works best.” Wasn’t much as Viper was kind of the brains behind things. Only after they had a target could Roxanne contribute better.

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[Viper]

(______________________________________________)
i am a frame of a beautiful picture that can be won
yet i grace a wall in a world of none
still you stumble by, my beauty catches your eye
then you stare and become lost in my glare
and the rule of one goes back to none
(______________________________________________)

Her crew were always curious about what was going on in Viper's head since it often involved them rather intimately. So, when Gypsy asked her little question about business, Viper just smiled for a moment. Yet, before she could respond, another wonderful face wandered into the room to join them. It was in fact Gypsy's sister, Roxanne. It was rather nice that people were already starting to gather in the common room, but Viper also knew that most of the crew were still sleeping. The main question in her head was when would they get up. Either way, Viper thought it would be a good idea to get business rolling since three people were here. The others would have to play catch up since Viper was not feeling to overly patient right now. "Well, got word from Santo about some high rollers, so we could always visit these people and take some of that cash off their hands," she stated bluntly before turning her attention to Roxanne, "Or we could do that, but you do realize that not everyone would be happy with a fancy party." Viper was mostly talking about herself. Those fancy parties always made her think of her time as a doxy, prancing around in a pretty dress and attempting to be someone else. Ever since they left that life behind, Viper could never really handle fancy parties since someone always got hurt, and Viper was often kicked out shortly after. But, Viper never turned down anyone's suggestions, no matter how much she didn't like them. Turning her gaze towards Gypsy, Viper let a query pass her lips, "Have you heard anything you may be interested in or do we only have two choices at the moment?"

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[Gypsy]

Gypsy stiffled a yawn. It was known well that the mercanery was not a morning person. However when she was awake it wasn’t really morning then was it. She was worried about her sister. Roxie had trouble sleeping Gypsy knew that. She also knew that her sister took pills for it, and with that knew that the other was out of them. Her sister waking her up because of her nightmares was not something that Aveil cared about. She wanted to make sure she could be comfort to her sister that was all. Even when she wasn’t one of the best people to wake up at night and sometimes she didn’t even wake up when her sister tossed and turned. However she’s wake up if the ship was under attack. She shook her head stiffling another yawn. She was gonna need to get sleep here at some point. She instantly noticed her sister walking in the room even though she’s been looking at Viper in the first place.

She started to use her hand almost like petting her sister. Brushing her hair back from her face like a mother would do to their daughter if they couldn’t sleep or where scared. It was one of the only times that the ship saw Gypsy doing anything loving or tender. She usually wasn’t the one to do so. ”Mornin’ Roxie” That was all that came out of her mouth as she looked at the Captain after Roxie had put out her idea. Santo sounded like a wonderful idea. Messing with highrollers down there were rather entertaining and after all Gypsy had a feeling that that planets crime was run by someone that stuck in the shadows and she wanted to know who exactly. Doing a crime down there would make for some fun she was very sure of it. The comment about her sister’s idea just made Gypsy sigh. ”Fancy Party or no we usually get a nice pillow of cash. Course such things don’t allow me to bring very many of my toys. Not to say that the body doesn’t kill.” Gypsy usually killed a person without them even knowing what hit them and sometimes she didn’t use her toys unless she was covering up. Sometimes she just made it look like that had collapsed from some heart attack or something. Yea she could be ninja like that though boxing was Roxie’s thing. Other sorts of marital arts least in the way to kill someone with one touch was Gypsy.

She thought on the capt’s question. ”I’ve not heard much. Persephone seems to be buzzing with jobs and fun but I heard that Ariel has some new weapons and other things coming in that might be something we want to check out.” Supplies were always needed and if they could steal them and not buy them they could sit on their money pillow.

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[Roxanne]

I 'V E. B E E N. C O L L E C T I N G. Y O U R. W O R D S.

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Roxanne felt bad because she knew the Gypsy got the brunt of her nightmares. When she could help it, sometimes she passed out on the couch or got up afterwards so the slightly older girl could get more sleep. If only she was physical able to talk about things more then the terrors may stop. But since watching their parents die, things had been hard for her. Though she showed her sister affection with hugs or curling up next to her, mostly she didn’t show anything else. There was never any connections of love with a man as she simply use her body and mind to get what she wanted. It was hard discussing things concerning feelings for her. One day Roxie would open up but not yet.

When it came down to things, Roxanne wasn’t too concerned with how they got their jobs or what they did. She helped to keep them running smoothly and worked out some finer details once Viper had thought of something. Usually it was hard unless something popped up on the cortex or old friends from the doxy house sent an idea their way. ”Morning there Gypsy dear.” Hopefully the two were working out things a bit more then her. Later she’d go through the ship and make sure all was in order. Sometimes it felt like that was all Roxanne could really do.

Roxanne furrowed her brows together as she looked over at Viper. ”Aren’t there some sort of sisters runnin the place now? We’ll have to stay under the radar so as not to piss off too many people.” Pulling away from her sister’s shoulder she stressed. ”Still might be fun. Card game or something els?” Things had been hard with the Fox empire taking over most every planet. They had to be twice as quiet about the things they did. They had to grace to go fairly unnoticed but if these people got tipped off they’d have to steer clear of that planet until things blew over. There were time Roxie found it annoying they just sort of sought out things on their own instead of being hired. But a good thing about their unique set of seduction skills was they blind sided people without their strings being pulled. Plus they never had to give a cut of the share with anyone which kept them going longer between jobs.

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