Estella stories - episode 004 - The beginning of Estella

part 14 Settling in

About an hour later.
Quinn knocked on the door however no one answered, so she opened the door however she couldn't see anyone, but she could have sworn this was the room Salvador said she was inside, "where is Tif?" she went inside closing the door behind her and started looking around "Tif!" she started searching the room knowing she hadn't left "hey Tif?! Where did you go? I'm in the room next to you, I was told to come here and check on you and then get stuff for you. Where did you go? How do you do these weird disappearing acts?" she went into the bedroom to see her laying on her giant bed cuddled up to her thick blanket, surrounded by Pringles the can having rolled away from her "aw, she actually looks quite cute sleeping like that... who knew a demon would sleep like that?" she turned "I'm not asleep, I was almost asleep... who dares disturb my tomb?" she said as she stretched yawning and pushing the Pringles out of her way.
Tif slowly sat up.
Her hair fell on the side of her head a little messy from her trying to sleep "are you okay?" asked Quinn because she looked a little weirdly stressed or in pain. She nodded "yeah, I'm fine, just a little tired it's been a long day" "and it will be a longer day tomorrow" she frowned "why? What is it we're doing tomorrow? Robbing another Bank? I usually like to do my research and create my own plans, is that a thing I'm able to do here? Or do you have people to go out and get the research for you because I don't think I would trust them to do it right" Quinn shook her head "no, we're not robbing a bank. And the way it works is by Salvador giving you a job, and then he doesn't mind how you do it, as long as it gets done" "good, okay are we blowing up a building?" "No" Tif paused "well I'm all out of ideas, what are we doing?" "Tomorrow you'll be given the test, unless robbing the gang was the test" she shook her head "no, that had nothing to do with Salvador. What is the test?" "Salvador will want to test what you will do for him, he wants to know that if he asks you to do something, even if it conflicts with your personal beliefs you'll do it, you'll also be given loyalty tests" "I think the gang job was enough don't you think?" "You never know with Salvador, he didn't ask you to do that job, he doesn't know your killing ability, that will be part of the test, another part will be loyalty and skills they are very important" Tif nodded "okay, what does this test involve" "it's different for everyone" "what was your test?" "If I could rob a bank by myself, the bank I worked at before I started doing all of this. It took me a while to work out how to do it, but I did it. Now I'm one of his main bank robbers, but you're the youngest we've ever had by a long shot, so I think he wants to promote you higher than anyone to annoy them, so this isn't going to be easy" Tif nodded "I'm willing to do anything to get into this gang, there isn't anything better than this, this is where I belong"
Quinn nodded a little worried.
"Well alright then it's good that you are prepared, I just think I should warn you; some tests people have been through are extremely fucked up, they push the mental and physical limits of people and some people do break, I almost broke from it" "what do you do with the broken ones?" "Well it depends, get sent to Salvador's drug farms to be forcibly worked and others are killed, you're a child so it will be so much harder" "that's what she said, but I don't care, I've been through mental and physical tests before, and I've beaten all of them" "I would just prepare yourself, because sometimes even when you think the test is over you're still inside it" "what do you mean?" "Well Salvador likes to tell you it's over then surprise you"
Quinn frowned at her.
Tif kept moving around and Quinn could tell she was itching herself "are you okay? What's wrong?" "Nothing" "I know when something is wrong, what is it?" Tif paused then said "close the door" Quinn closed the door "what's the problem?" "You tell anyone, I will destroy you in ways you can't understand" "okay?" Tif pulled her blanket back to reveal an enormous red rash running up her leg covered in horrible bumps "how did that happen to you?" Tif paused then put the blanket back "remember when I told you 'I'm not overly fond of what follows' this is what followed" Quinn nodded in understanding "oh, you're allergic to cats" "yes, it's my one weakness, and I hate it, that's one of the reasons I couldn't stand living in that house with my foster parents because they had a fucking cat running around spreading hairs everywhere" Quinn nodded "alright, I have to go to Big Dave's now to... do a favour, while I'm there I'll get some stuff out of your room" Tif nodded "should I tell you what stuff to get or do you get everything?" "What is it you want me to get?" Tif started listing off "okay, I want my tattoo kit, all the photos and books on my desk, I want my clothes out the wardrobe, I want the stereo system that is very important to me please don't break it under any circumstances. Now this is part is very important, you know the sofa I sleep on, push it out the way when it's out the way you'll see a piece of floorboard that's a different colour to the others, what you want to do is lift it up and under it is a box, bring that box to me and treat it like it's gold, do not break it, do not let anyone steal it" "what's inside it?" "Never mind what's inside it, just bring it to me and don't bother trying to look in it, it's got a lock" Quinn who had been writing down everything she said nodded "is that it?" "Yes" "good, I'll also get you some cream for that leg" "thank you" "I won't be long I swear, don't itch the leg because it will only make it worse" "I know"
Quinn left the room.
Quinn started driving across the city, she eventually arrived at Big Dave's and again discovered why he was known as big Dave. When she was finished, she went into Tif's room she started by grabbing her all clothes putting her into her van, she grabbed stereo system and took it down to the van like it was made of pure gold, then took everything off her desk making sure not to leave anything. The last step was her pushing the sofa out the way and beginning to feel the floorboards because they weren't different colours but managed to find a loose one lifting it to discover a blue box, she lifted it out seeing it was about to size of a laptop case, the top had a drawing of blue butterflies surrounding a doe. Quinn thought it was a little weird, she looked at the lock and tried to pick it open however noticed when she attempted to get her picks inside a cover went down, so she couldn't unlock it "Jesus, she buys some good lock picks, and to be fair she probably planned for someone to break in and has some insane booby trap" she picked it up and took it to the van placing it carefully inside making sure it wouldn't move around and get damaged in any way as she drove along. Quinn started driving on the way, she went into a TESCO grabbing some cream for her leg hiding them within her stuff so no one knew she had got it inside to keep her secret thee way it should be; kept.
Quinn quickly arrived back.
She got all the stuff past security and took it to Tiff who looked even worse than before, before she was able to at least look like she could stop herself from itching it however in the hour Quinn had left she now looked like she was almost in pain. Quinn dropped off her stuff for her to go through later, then Quinn put the cream on Tiffs leg explaining where her stuff was and that everything got back in good condition. Quinn then left and Tif went in the shower hoping it would get better. When Tif got out she put some more cream on her leg hoping the itchiness would stop. When it didn't, she decided to go to sleep because then the pain from her leg might just go away in the night and amazingly that started to work, and she was able to get a good nights sleep.