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Post by kia on Feb 1, 2009 17:51:09 GMT -5
10th January 2009
Kia and Ando had been in America for well over a month now and already he had proved himself in many ways as a Manager. Her first single had reached the top five, that was a good achievement for somebody just trying to break America in the music charts, and Kia felt it was all thanks to Ando and his wonderful work. Today she had agreed to do another record signing. Already some of her fans from Japan and Australia had managed to follow her to America which touched Kia's heart as she knew it was a long distance to travel just to support your favourite singer.
Kia was due to go to the recording studio in the next week to record her first album and a new song she had written for Ando called All Because Of You. Kia lost in her thoughts, almost hadn't heard voice in her ear tell her the doors were about to open.
"Very well" she said back, as she sat up, cleared her throat, and put in the brightest smile, as the doors were opened, and she saw a crowd of people waiting to enter. She thought she had done well for people at her first signing last month, but this was outstanding. The amount of people waiting was more than she could ever have hoped for.
She smiled as the first young girl approached her. "Hi, and what's your name?" Kia asked politely. The girl said her name was Candy. "Oh, that's a pretty name" Kia said, as she signed the CD 'To Candy, with love Kia' and handed it to her with a smile. The girl then asked if she could have a photograph taken. "Sure you can, come here" Kia said, as she beckoned with the girl to come around and the girl's mother took the photo. The young girl thanked her. "Oh, you're very welcome" Kia said as she smiled when the girl walked off with her mom.
An hour later, the crowd didn't seem to be going down any and Kia was by this time surrounded by lots of flowers, chocolates and soft toys.
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Post by anders on Feb 5, 2009 8:57:17 GMT -5
It was the tenth of January and Evan had been assigned to work in the United States as a diplomat to the President for relations with Canada. Of course, Anders wasn’t a political person and was glad to be assigned to the Secret Service. It was something he thought he would never accomplish. Today Evan was supposed to be gathering the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
However, the crazy Indian man told him that he needed to do something at a company called Primatech and to wait for him. He hoped that this idiot would run for him. He really didn’t want to lose a high level official on his second week of being an Agent. Anders wasn’t a newbie at being an agent.
He had just been assigned to the Secret Service which the Director of the Secret Service approved seeing how the agency he worked for always had a few people in various departments within the United States. Anders sighed as he walked around New York and randomly came across a line that was long. He wondered what the line was and was surprised to see that it was his favorite singer from Japan: Kia Matsunaga.
Anders stood in line for an hour, just to get Kia’s autograph he fingered that this could take time away and he wanted to kill him. It was the best solution besides finding Starbucks. The line started to wind down a bit. He was the third in line. All of sudden men in black ski masks came into the store and demanded everyone get down on the ground. Anders did as he was told. Thank god – he wasn’t wearing his normal suite.
He slowly crawled to where Kia was and whispered in her ear. “I’m a Federal Agent for the United States Government and just fair warning, I’m going to start shooting, so if you can stay down that would be awesome”
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Post by kia on Feb 5, 2009 23:03:45 GMT -5
Kia had been working through autographs for about two hours now, and would be calling it time within the next hour. She had only agreed to do a three hour signing. She had seen a lot of fans, and was completely surrounded by lots of gifts. The next time Kia looked up, the line was almost finished. Then there was a sudden burst of people coming into the shop wearing black masks.
They shouted that everybody was to get down, and Kia did exactly that, now wondering where Ando was. He should have been there by now, he always turned up when the signing sessions were almost over, but there was no sign of him yet. Then she saw somebody crawling toward her and he told her that he was going to start shooting and that she should stay down.
She looked at him with a worried face, but nodded her head, he wasn't going to get any argument from her. "Suits me fine sir" Kia said, as she kept lying on the ground with her head down on her hands. Just at the moment Kia's body guards came crashing through the shop as well, with their own guns pointed in the direction of the guys with the black masks.
"Don't come any closer" the big burly one shouted.
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Post by anders on Feb 6, 2009 22:36:45 GMT -5
“Good” Anders said with a slight nod as he pointed his gun at the people with the guns. The people in the black ski masks than began to shoot randomly at them. Oh just great He thought to himself as he the men in the ski masks started to come closer.
“Put the guns down” said the men in black masks. Anders just nodded and decided to give in. He smirked and threw down his gun. The body guards seemed a bit hesitate, but they seemed to cooperate with the thugs. The thugs then started to come near Anders and the body guards. They were going to pat them down.
However, as they started to come towards Anders, he grabbed two knives from his pocket and threw the knives at the two men that were coming near him. The knives hit the men in the chest killing one of the people while the other was just bleeding out. He then started to use Martial Arts on the remaining members as he grabbed tranquillizers from his back pocket stabbing/throwing each of them into the men he came in contact with.
All the men he came in contact with feel to the ground. He then got his cell phone, calling the field office. “Special Agent Evan Anders here, we have a situation and we are going to need some medical attention at the local record shop at 1200 in Lower Manhattan” he said into the phone as he turned around and face Kia and her body guards. “Sorry, I got out of hand, don’t know what came over me” He said as he rubbed the back of his head, turning bright site. He was kind of embarrassed about his actions.
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Post by pucus on Feb 7, 2009 0:14:25 GMT -5
Ando was running towards the building that Kia was in. To say that he was late was sort of an understatement, more that he had somehow managed to forget. He couldn’t ever realise why he had forgot which was weird, it wasn’t like him to forget anything at all really, especially not something that would let him spend more time with Kia.
Anyway he was here now, and just about to walk through the door. When he did he was shocked, as he saw the bodies lying on the ground. “Wha, what happened here?” he asked quickly, looking for some kind of answer. He wanted to know what had happened.
Then his attention turned to Kia, he looked around for her, and ran over to her. “Are you OK?” he asked, concerned for her safety.
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Post by kia on Feb 7, 2009 0:49:28 GMT -5
Kia just nodded her head at the guy, when he said good when she said she'd stay down. She may have been a singer, but she wasn't stupid, so standing up when something like this was going on, wasn't in her plans at all. She wished Ando was here though, he always knew how to take care of her and Kia was prone to acting a little irrationally when under pressure like this.
Kia just lay there on the ground and let everybody get on with what they were planning to do, there was a lot of shouts, and then she watched the guy who had told her to stay down begin to throw knives and from what she could see actually killed one of them.
Then she heard him speak, and say his name, it was Evan Anders. She was actually quite thankful to him for handling the situation along with her bodyguards.
"It's quite alright, thank you for helping to take care of the situation" the burly bodyguard said to Evan with a nod of his head. Kia also nodded her head in acknowledgment, "Yes thank you" she then picked up one of the CD's and signed it, and handed it to Evan. "A thank you" she said. On the CD she wrote 'Thank you for saving my life, love Kia'.
Just at that point, Ando came running into the store, Kia was glad to see him. "I don't know what happened really, it was all so fast" she said when Ando asked what had happened. Then she smiled warmly at him, and actually threw her arms around him hugging him close to her when he asked if she was alright. "I'm fine, just a little shaken" she replied, as she held onto him.
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Post by anders on Feb 7, 2009 9:29:51 GMT -5
“No problem, sir” He said to the burley body guard “That what they taught you in Secret Service school” He said with a slight chuckle. Evan then watched Kia as she handed him a CD. The thing that he came for which was good. He bowed his head, “You’re welcome” he said as he lifted his head. It was part of the Japanese culture to bow when you have done something to either save them or any other polite form of jester.
As Ando showed up, the people that Evan phoned and started to come. He stepped away from the couple and went to speak with the people that he had phoned. He was just glad that he didn’t have to wait a long time. He hated when they took their sweet ass time. A white guy in a suit then started to talk with Evan, “So where is Dr. Suresh”
“Across the street gathering his belongings from Primatech” He said as the white guy just shook his head.
“You’re supposed to stay with them all the time” the man said shaking his head.
Evan rolled his eyes, “Yeah, yeah, I know, but he said that he would be rather quick” He said as he saw Dr. Suresh standing in the background. “Look the Indian is here” He said as he pointed and the white guy turned around and nodded.
“Okay, now we need to get everyone’s statements it’s protocol” the body guard told Anders.
“Already on that, Terry” He said with a smile as he headed away from Terry and went to the couple. He didn’t want to interrupt the couple, but he had to do this. He then placed the CD in his bag that he was carrying and took out a notepad, “I’m going to need statements from your body guards and yourself Ms. Matsunaga.
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Post by pucus on Feb 7, 2009 14:06:59 GMT -5
Ando breathed a sigh of relief when Kia said that she was OK. He felt angry at himself for not getting there quicker, if he had he could have been able to make sure that she was safe, not that she had gotten injured anyway, but he would have preferred to be able to protect her himself.
Then people kept coming in, police or something, Ando didn’t really care. Whoever they where they where talking to the person who had been standing next to Kia when he had arrived. They where talking in a group for a minute before returning to take a statement from Kia and her bodyguards. Ando still didn’t completely understand what had happened yet, but maybe this would let him find out something about it.
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Post by kia on Feb 10, 2009 0:23:00 GMT -5
The burly bodyguard just grumbled at Evan's joke about that being what he was taught at Secret Service School, "Something like that" and then when Evan turned to Kia he bowed and said she was welcome. Kia nodded again before she turned her attention back to Ando who had arrived by this point, and the guy had went away to speak to some of his people and left Kia and Ando alone.
Once Ando made sure Kia was safe he didn't really say anything else, but Kia hadn't let go of him. But only a few moments later the man who had told her to stay down had returned with a notepad saying he had to take statements from Kia and her bodyguards. She looked at Ando with a worried expression, because everything had happened so fast she wasn't sure she'd be able to remember everything.
"Of course" Kia began a little unsure, she just hoped she could remember everything, because it had all happened so fast. "What do you need to know?" she asked, "Because it all happened rather fast, all I remember is seeing some men in black masks and then chaos" she added, as she looked at Ando, standing very close beside him and put her arm around his waist pulling him to her so she could lean into him.
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Post by anders on Feb 10, 2009 0:41:46 GMT -5
Anders nodded at Kia as she spoke about the ordeal. She was right, it did happen fairly quickly. He hated when things happened fairly quickly. It just was different and the mind thought very fast about things and it took quite a while for the mind to catch up with reality in retaining the memory of what seemed like something that quick.
He wrote down what she had said. “Yeah, that was kind of odd, I wonder if they wanted something in this store, or they thought of something of yours, now I’m not jumping to conclusions, but I’m thinking that just wanted to rob the store and they kind of picked an awful day, dumbass pigs” He said shaking his head.
Evan sighed as he turned to Ando. “Hm…you kind of look familiar” Evan said in a curious tone. It seemed that Evan had seen Ando around before, but couldn’t pick it up where he saw the man before. Then it hit him. “Were you at Kirby Plaza like two years ago, when Sylar was going to blow up New York, or am I thinking of someone totally different?”
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Post by pucus on Feb 10, 2009 12:15:56 GMT -5
Ando put his arm round Kia when she put her arm round him. “It must have been horrible for you.” He said to her, trying to comfort her in some way or another. He listened carefully to the recollections that he could get of what had happened. In his mind it seemed to appear rather simple, someone had just wanted to rob the store, and had been stopped. That didn’t really explain how when he had arrived the robbers had then been lying on the floor, and looking quite badly injured. Surely it wouldn’t have been necessary to hurt them that much, had it?
He didn’t know, but really didn’t care considering that Kia was safe anyway. The Evan asked him about Kirby Plaza, and Sylar. Ando hadn’t been present that night but. “Hiro.” He said accidently, Hiro had made sure that he hadn’t been there, since in that future Ando was meant to be dead. Part of him hated Hiro for not letting him help, but another different part of him was glad, since Hiro had let him live.
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Post by kia on Feb 11, 2009 19:01:47 GMT -5
As Kia put her arm around Ando, he did likewise to her, and immediately she felt better, more protected. Sure it was okay having bodyguards around and this detective guy, but having Ando there made all the difference to her. She nodded her head when he said that it must have been horrible for her, "I was really scared, I wish you had been there" she said, as she bit down on her bottom lip slightly to stop the tears from falling.
After Kia had explained to the best of her memory and knowledge what she saw, the detective type guy, took down notes and agreed that it had indeed happened really fast. Kia nodded her head as the detective guy said that it was strange, and when he mentioned that they probably wanted to rob the place and picked the wrong day, Kia figured that was a strong possibility.
"I believe you could be right, but it was very strange indeed" she said looking at the chaos of the guys with the mask lying on the ground. Kia was still very shaken by it all.
Then he began to talk to Ando saying he thought he recognised him and was he had Kirby Plaza. Ando didn't say much other than mention Hiro's name, oh sweet Hiro. By the sounds of it Hiro had been there, but not Ando, she wondered why, from the stories Ando previously told her, Hiro and he had hardly been apart from each other.
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Post by anders on Feb 11, 2009 23:03:45 GMT -5
Anders then placed his notepad into his pocket and nodded at the couple. He noticed that Kia was kind of very shaken by it as he noticed that the rest of people that he had kicked their asses was still around. He sighed and gave a smile, “Yeah, it could always be that” He said as he changed the subject “Don’t worry, we will take them with us soon” He said with a slight nod referring to the guys that he had hurt.
“You don’t look like Hiro Nakamura, but I’m not going to argue with you” He said in Japanese as he then looked at his colleagues. “Well, I guess I better go, got a report to type up” He said with still in Japanese as he bowed his head. “Thank you for the CD and autograph” He said again in Japanese. He then lifted up his head and walked off.
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Post by pucus on Feb 12, 2009 11:24:01 GMT -5
Ando felt guilty when Kia had mentioned that she wished that he had been there. How could he have forgotten? Now he just wished even more that he had been got there sooner. “I should have got here sooner.” He said, a slight amount of anger evident in his voice. He was feeling like he had let Kia down, by not being able to protect her.
Then Evan said that he didn’t look like Hiro, which didn’t really mean much too him. He didn’t mean to say something like that, since it was meant to be a secret about what had happened on Kirby Plaza that night. Hiro had told him, but other than him, and those who had been there, and a few others no-one was meant to have know.
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Post by kia on Feb 14, 2009 23:09:45 GMT -5
Kia gave Evan a slight nod of the head when he said that they would take the injured men out of the way soon enough. Kia just wished she knew what had happened, it was supposed to be a peaceful signing session, and it turned into chaos. Some of the fans were still outside and they looked very shaken. "Very well, thank you" she said in perfect English to him with a weak smile. Kia wasn't hurt, but she hated to think of her fans being hurt or upset by anything they may have seen.
When Ando said he should have got there sooner with slight anger in his voice, Kia felt guilty for saying she wished he had been there. She gently squeezed his arm, "It's alright, I was just scared, but I'm not hurt, I'm fine" she said assuring Ando that everything was fine.
Then Evan started going on about Ando not looking like Hiro, well he wouldn't since he wasn't Hiro. But Kia decided not to say anything, and then he said he had to go and thanked her for the CD and autograph. She smiled at him warmly even though she was still very shaken "You're welcome" she replied as she watched him take his leave and she saw the fans still standing outside.
She turned to Ando, "I was thinking in giving them a small spontaneous song to cheer them up after what they've just witnessed, would that be alright?" she asked him, after all Ando was her manager if he had something else planned for her to do, then he would be able to say whether she could or not.
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