The Good Samaritan: Help is on the way

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Luckily for Sharon, some help is on its way.

Rapid City might not have been New York, it was considerably less built up and crowded, but that wasn't to say it would give up anything to its larger brethren when it came to the basic amenities. The dream if a coffee shop on every corner was still very much alive in Rapid City, and they had found a Starbucks overlooking the charred remnants of a building. There was still a police presence in teh area so they hadn't been able to get too close to it, but it was clearly recognizable from the video footage they had seen online. At least it would have if Sue had given it more than a cursory glance before settling down at a table and pulling out her laptop, between the coffees and the keen focus on their laptop, she and Rogue could easily have been taken for a pair of writers. "You'd think a place like this would be littered with Camera's," Sue commented quietly to her friend. as her fingers sped across the keyboard searching out first one then another view of hte street from nearby cameras.

Rogue shrugged and happily continued consuming her cinnamon bun.‎ You could always tell the quality of a cafe by its baked goods. She was giving this one an 8.  Appropriately flaky, but the icing wasn't giving its all.

‎"Well, maybe they ain't as image conscious heah as they are in New York?" She licked her index finger and thought. "Ah guess ya can't go all CSI and like find an image reflected on someone's eyeball?"

"I wish, I could put the entire detective agency out of a job that way," Sue noted with a grin, "though I guess it'd put us out of a job since it'd be easier to solve crime too. So it'd be a mixed bag, though it would mean more time for pastry," she told Rogue with a grin as she stole a piece of the cinnamon bun.

"There's always time for pastry,"  Rogue announced seriously.   Wiping her hand on a napkin, she opened her own laptop. "Y'all are gonna link us up right? I mean. We are looking for someone special, and us special people are good at hidin'."

"Pastries are important," Sue agreed as she entered a few commands on her laptop to link Rogue's to her's, "knock yourself out, somewhere in this footage we're gonna find a recording of our mystery lady heading into the fire."

Picking up her mocha, Rogue took a sip as the connection went live. "Not jus' entering, but leavin' too, right?"‎ She tried to remember the specifics. "Cause she left the people she helped an' took off?"

"Yup, we need the whole timeline to show she wasn't involved," If there was one good thing about hanging out with X-Factor Investigations, she understood how investigations work now. That's something the blonde never thought she'd ever know, but was a surprisingly useful piece of knowledge, even if she wasn't directly involved in most of hte agency's fieldwork.

Settling into her chair, Rogue leaned her cheek down to her raised knee and watched the security feeds. Sue had managed to find a few -- how, Rogue had no idea. Some things were better not asked.  

Another mocha later, she sighed heavily. "Maybe this woman was disguised. All ah'm findin' are shocked bystanders at the fire, the occasional police officer and at some point, off to the corner, Ah see the man she saved but that's it. How bout you?"

"Kids, on lookers, the press, pretty much what you'd expect," Sue answered with a sigh as she took a sip of her coffee, "Wait, perhaps we're doing this wrong, where did you see the man she saved? lets backtrack him till we see them together, we can follow her from there backwards till we find what we need."

Rogue nodded in agreement and rewound her film. "There, ya see it?". She tilted her laptop more towards the younger woman.  "Hard to see the other woman cause she's kinda hidden by a tree. Does this help?"

"Some," Sue nodded, her fingers flying across her keyboard, "I just need to find a camera with another view of the area like...this one" the blonde nodded at her screen, there she is. Now we just need to follow her backwards."

Rogue watched in fascination as Sue did her‎ thing, followed by astonishment as she watched the camera.  "Looks like it's good thing we're involved," she said in awe. "Now that is one finely tuned athletic ‎prowess. I think I have a girl crush."

"Well," Sue leaned back and took a sip of her coffee, "Looks like you're gonna get the chance to meet your new crush in the flash," she told her friend, "She got taken in by the cops and we can't be sure tehy'll see this so." the Blonde grinned wickedly, "I've always thought you'd look good with black hair."

"Ah look good in anything," Rogue pointed out. "Don't forget to upload that video. We gotta get public outcry. Ya can fix it so it don't look TOO amazin', right?"

The blonde grinned, "Oh, I dunno, I'm not sure I could bring myself to make it look worse, what kind of artist messes with a masterpiece?" she asked with a laugh as she set up some filters, "most of this was cctv footage so I can leave it as it is, we just need to make sure that it can't be traced back to us but stays believable."