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[guy-lantern.livejournal.com]

Bea's apartment. Well... Bea and Tora's apartment.
Okay, to the point..Bea's apartment-where-Tora-is-couch-surfing-until-Guy-wears-her-resolve-down-enough-to-move-in-with-him.

It's all about perspective.

Anyhow, that's where they've just arrived.

Standing in the living room, Guy looks around.
"So, you wanna be scan boy?" he says to his fellow green-cop and partner.
"I'm good with being ready to stomp on anything that tries ta jump us while yer lookin."

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[toraolafsdotter.livejournal.com]

Tora's automatically started to pick things up, keeping herself busy by gathering up clothing that's been strewn across backs of chairs and the couch.

Focusing on that, rather than on the person who should be here.

[last-lantern.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Kyle replies without looking over at the other Lantern. The three of them had arrived together, and Tora had let them in through the front door. Rayner hadn't been certain what to expect, but the apartment was exactly as it looked before - small, cluttered with various odds and ends, stray bits of clothing laying around. But there is nothing that looks like a disturbance of any kind.

"I don't even know what I'm looking for," he says after a moment, glancing down at his ring. He is calmer now than when he was on the Watchtower - it's just the three of them - so the painfully serious look has relaxed somewhat.

Making a fist, Kyle lifts his hand and casts a wide arc of green energy across the room, sweeping slowly from side to side. It's scanning for everything - infrared, radiation, the whole spectrum.

[jla-futures.livejournal.com]

The scan is clean for suspicious levels of radiation. His ring can verify that Bea has been in this apartment, but there is nothing to indicate she was abducted from this place.

[guy-lantern.livejournal.com]

Tora's keeping herself busy for obvious reasons. Guy figures he should keep it all business right now to help her keep her game face on. Kyle's doing his impersonation of a one-man crime lab with his ring. Sadly, no badguys show up for Guy to put the beat down on. Oh well.

Despite his earlier 'decision' he sneaks in a kiss on Tora's cheek when she isn't looking.

Then to Kyle, "Anythin?"

[last-lantern.livejournal.com]

He doesn't need his ring to tell that Beatriz has been here as recently as yesterday - there are a couple of Chinese takeout boxes on the kitchen counter, and Tora and Bea don't seem like the sort to leave that sort of thing out for days at a time.

The beam quickly fades away, and Kyle shakes his head. "No. Not a damn thing," he mutters, running a gloved hand through his hair.

"She went to work today, right, Tora?" he asks, looking at the white-haired woman.

[toraolafsdotter.livejournal.com]

One hand to her cheek and a smile focused on Guy, she turns to Kyle.

"I heard her leave, and just assumed it was for work." Placing the shirts draped over her arm on the bed, she nods.

"So that's got to be the next place we check -- her office."

[last-lantern.livejournal.com]

Kyle looks at her again, watching the way that she carefully picks up clothes from the floor and lays them gently down on the large bed that dominates the small apartment. "Alright," he says, allowing some of the "Green space cop" tone to drain from his voice, his expression relaxing slightly.

"We'll head over there, do another sweep, see what we can find," he says, his tone even, though not completely calm. He is, after all, still rather worried. "Report back our findings, if any, and see what the League wants us to do next."

A pause, then he looks back and forth between the two heroes. "Deal?"

[guy-lantern.livejournal.com]

"Sound good ta me, but I call dibs on beating up badguys if it comes up."

Which, when you look past the bravado, reads: We're gonna beat this, and I've got your back.

[toraolafsdotter.livejournal.com]

"Leave some for the rest of us, sweetie." This is said in a teasing tone and with a wink at Guy.

Stepping up on the windowsill of the living room window, Tora takes off into the air, heading off in the direction of Bea's office.

[last-lantern.livejournal.com]

Covert approach? We're three super heroes flying over the streets of New York City toward the branch headquarters of one of the biggest companies in the world! Kyle thinks.

His mind races as they spy the people moving in an orderly fashion from the various exits of the skyscraper. Nothing stealthy about a sonic boom, but it's worth a shot...

"Fire the afterburners, Guy, and hold onto Tora's hand!" Kyle calls out, hurtling forward through the air at supersonic speed, stopping inches above the building's roof. With any luck, the people at street level would just assume it was a passing jet... or something.

[guy-lantern.livejournal.com]

ZOOM!

"Nice moves partner." He looks around the roof and spies the access door.

"Hey your Oracleness, kin ya help out wit the cameras and door locks?"

A skilled hacker could do some mind blowing things to the computer systems handling building security with a GL ring. Guy?...not so much. He'd just blow out the system, or wipe it, or maybe play Dead or Alive IV on it.

[oracle-watching.livejournal.com]

The cameras, or at least those he can see, appear to all be pointing in another direction. The keypad by the door has a small green light on it. "The way is clear," says the synthesized voice. "Please do not dawdle. A fire drill is only believable for approximately 14.3 minutes."

[toraolafsdotter.livejournal.com]

Quick as lightning Tora's got the door open and is heading downstairs.

"I know where her office is. Follow me." She's having to almost yell over the sound of the shrieking fire alarm.

[guy-lantern.livejournal.com]

Follow the hottie.

[last-lantern.livejournal.com]

Kyle is hot on Tora's heels as she makes her way down the stairs and into the access stairway. A strange thought occurs to him then - he's never asked Beatriz which floor she works on.

The noise is incredibly loud, almost piercing, and a pair of appear over Kyle's ears. "Just lead the way, Ice," he says, barely able to hear himself.

[oracle-watching.livejournal.com]

The din abruptly dampens, and while they can still hear the fire alarms on other floors, the system for this section of the building seems to have been shut down. Somehow.

[toraolafsdotter.livejournal.com]

A sigh of relief as she exits out into the hallways surrounding Beatriz's office.

"Thank you, Oracle."

Tora's running down the hallway and slows in front of a closed door, a wide expanse of smoky glass on one side with the words, Beatriz da Costa, Senior Vice President, International Marketing and Finance.

A quick shot of ice through the lock and the door opens to reveal a spacious office, picture windows looking out over downtown New York City.

Bea's purse is still sitting next to the desk, papers scattered over the desktop along with her cell phone.

At this evidence of her disappearance, Tora's mouth tightens and her fingers spark briefly with blue.

"Please, start searching. We don't have much time."

[anaturalgreen.livejournal.com]

The line rings twice before a pick up, the sounds of traffic and conversation coming online almost immediately.

"Hey, it's Jennie -- what's up?"

[last-lantern.livejournal.com]

"Jade," Kyle says, very quickly establishing the tone of this conversation. All business. Keep things straight.

"It's Kyle," he continues, tone even, a little lower than his normal voice. "I need a favor."

[anaturalgreen.livejournal.com]

There's a brief moment of silence, laughter from someone nearby filtering through.

As she speaks, the background noise fades away as she walks to a quieter spot.

"Sure, Kyle, what do you need?" All business, as she switches from a light tone to hero mode.

[last-lantern.livejournal.com]

"Look," Kyle begins, walking through the office, trying to ignore Guy and Tora's presence.

"Something's happened. We've gotten reports of heroes disappearing," he explains. "Fire was one of them. We've been over her apartment and her office with a fine-toothed comb, but we can only do so much. There's some kind of... weird after image or something in the outline of her body, but... the rings show magic is involved."

A pause from his end of the line. "I need your help, Jen."

[anaturalgreen.livejournal.com]

"Hold on a sec..." She covers up the phone with a hand and Kyle can hear, muffled with a quick laugh, "sorry, gotta run -- my other job is calling."

Then back, clear:

"Where are you at? I'll be there as soon as I can."

[last-lantern.livejournal.com]

"Wayne Enterprises Tower in Midtown. 40th floor. Oracle can only guarantee our distraction for another few minutes," Kyle says, an edge of desperation creeping into his voice.

[anaturalgreen.livejournal.com]

"Right-o. I'm on my way."

The line disconnects, and she immediately switches over to the Watchtower line.

"Watchtower, one to transport to Green Lantern Kyle Rayner's position."

Seconds later she's shimmering into existence in the office, looking around to see who's there.

[last-lantern.livejournal.com]

Jade's unexpected teleportation into the office causes Kyle to take a step back. He hasn't seen much of her at all since the break-up, not that there hadn't been opportunities to make small talk with her - like at the Christmas party.

"Thanks," he says, lifting a hand in a weak sign of greeting.

"The, ah... the after-image is there, 'sitting' at her office chair," Kyle explains. "Anything, any clue you can find - it'd help, Jen."