<strong>The waiting game.</strong>

The night outside was chill, crisp. The kind of night newspapers called "Bracing" and hobos called "Bloody freezing". The winter was starting to cement its hold on Chicago, temperatures dropping below freezing every night, and not much better in the day. A lonely figure, Geo-Lorano, stamps his feet and rub his hands together to keep out the cold. Taking another swig from his hip flask of whiskey, he repeated his mantra himself. The same one he had repeated every evening on this god-forsaken job.

"Tonight's gonna be the night. I can feeeel it. It's gotta' be. She'll come."

The sounds emenating from the tavern across the road didn't help his mood.it was turning eleven o'clock, and the party was just getting started in "The Darkside Tavern". And as it was run by the man who set him this task, his boss, his leader, his god as far as he was concered, there was absolutely no chance of shirking. What he wouldn't do for the famous lobster right now though..

"Tonight's the night. I can feel it. It's gotta' be. It's gonna be. She'll come."

"she" was no ordinary woman. "she" was Pearl Deveré. She was a widower many times over, married to eccentric old men, who all, to a man, died mysteriously almost directly after writing her into their will. She was sophisticated. She was powerful. She held the Police of Chicago in the palm of her hand.

She was a threat.

Geo's train of thought was broken as a large car rolled up.The headlights dimmed and ceased to blind him. As they did, a woman stepped out, tall, thin, and wearing a thick fur ruff on her coat.

Bingo.

Geo pawed at his twin .45's longingly, wishing it were that simple, but it was Sidious' orders.. She wasn't to be killed.. Not that way, not yet.

Pearl walked towards the most thriving tavern on the highstreet, the Darkside. A whole business built specifically to lure her in. If she had known she would have been honoured.

The moment Pearl was out of the light she felt a gun pressed against her spine, and a low growl in her ear, emenating from Geo.

"Ok Doll, this is what's gonna' happen..."

Merely days after having met in the Darkside Tavern Sidious and Pearl fell madly in love, and married within the week. It was not to last however, shortly after they were written into each others wills Pearl tragically died, in mysterious circumstances.

Tragic, 'eh?