Finished You're Either With Me or You're Against Me

His boss changed his power set right before it could be useful to her. Incredible. "Boo. I'm going to complain to your manager." This was a joke, of course.

But Jackal seemed like he had something else to take care of. "Okay, thanks for checking in, Jackal. Appreciate you." The call would end, and she would go back outside to see if the detective was here yet. Chloe wanted to go up there with them.


When Jackal went around the corner in his apartment, he would find an open window, which usually wasn't open. Uzza was nowhere to be found.

Chloe had barely made it to the stairs when Jackal called her again. She gave her phone a confused look. When he said he would call again 'in a bit,' she expected... Well, certainly more than a minute. Had it even been a minute?

"Hey Jackal, it's been a bit." Deadpan.

Chloe stopped where she was, then slowly walked back up to her room. The last thing she needed was to be interrupted by a detective right now.

"Alright... a lot to unpack, there. Give me a second."

She closed the door behind her, sat down on her bed, and took a deep breath.

"So... First off. She says she's me, but, that doesn't make sense. I should know I wouldn't just run in and try to kill a part of myself. So she has to be hiding something." She could think of several possible things, but there was no sense getting into them now.

"Okay. What was she like? I mean, did she look like me? Did she do anything weird?"

Chloe got pen and paper and noted the details Jackal brought up.

Purple eyes. Pointy ears. Disheveled (?)

Jackal mentioned that she 'came through the panties,' and Chloe did a mental doubletake. "Wait, she did what?" Pure confusion. It took her a moment to figure out. "Oh. I forgot something could crawl out of those... shit."

She had just thought of those panties as a toy. "Well, I guess that explains the panty raid we thought happened. I hope Malara doesn't want to get rid of them..." The possibility really seemed to bum Chloe out.

"Either way though. If she was really scared of me killing her, then I really don't think she's part of me. She's probably something else that just took that part of my soul..." Something like that running around with her face could cause some serious trouble. "Why did she come to you?"

Jackal didn't see it, but Chloe was nodding. It made sense to her that not-Chloe would try to turn people against her.

"She had part of my soul, so it makes sense she could pass as me. But... I mean, she jumped out of the window when you called. If she really had honest intentions, why would she run just because you wanted to talk to me?"