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The killer was moving around the country. Malcolm Bright could see the pattern, but he wasn't working for the FBI these days and they weren't exactly taking his calls. Short sighted of them, but they did fire him on suspicion of being crazy. The NYPD's jurisdiction was New York. With the killer beyond its borders, they handed it upwards and left it at that.

Let it go, Bright, had been Gil's sage advice. You can't catch every killer in America single-handedly.

Challenge accepted, some part of him retorted, though he'd only nodded mutely and forced a smile. Gil knew he hadn't simply let it go, but he wasn't going to have him followed to stop him doing anything stupid, either. He didn't have the will or the resources to keep tabs on Malcolm Bright 24/7 and Malcolm Bright knew it.

His mother, on the other hand, had extensive resources, so he simply didn't tell her he was leaving town. He did arrange for Ainsley to feed his bird, so the truth would come out eventually, but he'd be several states away by then.

He rode the bus. There was something oddly comforting about the anonymity of being in a crowd of strangers who had no interest in him whatsoever. He stared out the window and watched the country go by. When he stepped off the Greyhound in Lexington, Kentucky, he walked to a nearby hotel and checked in, then headed straight to the US Marshals office. There was no point in trying to talk to the FBI. If he was going to stop a killer from killing again, he needed someone in law enforcement to listen to him. The pattern suggested the next murder would happen in one of the rural communities around Lexington and it would be precipitated by a young woman's disappearance. He needed law enforcement with local knowledge, specifically.

He wandered into the Marshals' offices in a tidy three piece suit, charcoal grey with a burgundy tie perfectly knotted at his collar. He got a few suspicious sidelong glances but nobody asked if they could help him. He cleared his throat.

"Um, hello? I'm wondering if there's anyone here I can talk to about murder." He held up his hands. "Stopping murder, specifically, not... like... smalltalk."

Date: 16 Apr 2020 02:24 (UTC)
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"That's nice of ya. Supportive," he said, scrolling through the channels and clicking onto a few before scrolling again.

"I don't watch any TV. No drive or incline to." Why was he sitting on Malcolm's couch anyway, testing it out? Science. He sighed and clicked the TV off, pushing back up into his feet. "Never anything on.." He gestured towards Sunshine. "Since that's the case, wanna tell me about your bird?"

They passed the time amazingly well, and Raylan couldn't quite recall which one of them noted the time, sending them both into a stepping pace. Raylan had to shower but got dressed in the bathroom and stepped out dressed but untied, hair slicked back as he went to hunt for socks.
Edited Date: 16 Apr 2020 02:25 (UTC)

Date: 16 Apr 2020 03:12 (UTC)
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He nodded. "Only experience I have with ties is regular ones. So yes." It wasn't a hard admission- he needed the help. Once he slid the shoes on and tied them, he stood up, chin lifting a little as Malcolm stepped close to attend his tie.

Raylan felt.. fidgety. "This the kind of party that has 3 forks? I don't know the layout," he admitted, glancing at the ceiling before glancing down at Malcolm's strikingly close face. All the urges that he'd suppressed since that first night he'd had to straddle Malcolm to prevent him from tumbling down the stairs was raised to the surface, leaving Raylan to swallow tightly and find another place for his eyes to be.

Date: 16 Apr 2020 13:52 (UTC)
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"I'll try to be extra secure, in that case." Fiddling with the horseshoe ring on his right hand, Raylan fished his gun and badge from his jean's belt, tucking the gun and it's holster into the back of his pants (trousers?) and storing the badge in his inside jacket pocket before walking over to the door side mirror to look himself over.

"Think I'll pass?" Despite him feeling like his redneck was crawling out from under his collar, even he had to admit he looked half decent. If he could keep his hands out of his hair that was.

Date: 16 Apr 2020 14:00 (UTC)
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He scoffed a half laugh of a sound and adjusted his jacket again before the honking came. "Ready as I'll ever be, I suppose." Though his hat got a long look before Raylan stepped through the door so that Malcolm could lock up behind them.

He had a feeling this was gonna be a long dinner.

Date: 16 Apr 2020 15:30 (UTC)
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It was only a slightly overwhelming hall with all it's glamour and silk-wrapped bodies and the only thing Raylan really worried about was someone pointing him out as a fraud that shouldn't be there. But Malcolm's question made him smile, albeit crookedly as he took his seat.

"I feel like rooms this large is why everyone's in such good shape. Lotta walking." Once he was seated, he glanced around. "I can see why people drink at these things."

Date: 16 Apr 2020 19:54 (UTC)
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Malcolm didn't need one of each either. "That's true, I have not seen a lot of fat rich people."

The Marshal glanced at the empty chairs as he got comfortable, scoffing a grin. "Ain't that the best kind? Scotch for me as well please," he said, directing the last politely at the waiter.

"I can't tell if we're early or everyone else is late. What is this thing for again? A.. fundraiser? I suppose I should just wait for the show to start instead of asking but.." The words were already out there now.

Date: 16 Apr 2020 21:17 (UTC)
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He lifted his eyebrows with an approving bob of his head as he took to people watching those that had already gathered. He couldn't help it, really. The Marshal in him was already running down the list of White collar crimes that some of those collected had already done and it wasn't small. As much as he tried to see the best of people, the statistics alone were in his favor.

"Always fashionably late?" Raylan smirked. "Your family likes to be showstopper, don't they?" If Malcolm was included in that, it was purely a compliment.

"That's her day job, huh? Charities?" He couldn't imagine how that worked but he was sure that it had, flawlessly by any outsiders estimation.

Date: 16 Apr 2020 21:29 (UTC)
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He shook his head slightly. "It's not like she was part of it.." Dark eyes returned to Malcolm with an unspoken question. Was she?

"Nice that she's still doing good works despite of it." And he did really mean it - he might not have money or know rich people, outside of Malcolm, it went against the idea that was largely presented to the world and that he could appreciate.

"Does she drag you to these kind of things often?"

Date: 16 Apr 2020 22:53 (UTC)
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Something in Raylan's face settled at the reassurance. He liked Jessica from what he'd seen of her and she was clearly smart as a whip; he didn't like having those doubts around those kind of people.

"Clearly tonight it's both of you," he sounded softly in warning with a facial bob of thanks towards the waiter as he took his drink, stealing a sip before abandoning it to stand and shake Jessica's and Ainsley's hands with a polite bob of his head. There was another impulse to help them into their chairs but that one got wrestled into the back and gagged.

"Ma'am." There was almost a tip of a hat, but no hat to be found and miraculously, Raylan kept his hand where it should be for each shake. Ainsley got a "Nice to meet you," before he sat back down. "The suit fits perfectly by the way," he started towards Jessica, glass finding his hand again. "You'll have to send me the bill so that I've got at least one thing in my closet that isn't cotton or denim."

Oh, he saw the smirks and the looks, but what they meant was a little beyond his understanding just yet but they meant something, he knew that much.

Date: 16 Apr 2020 23:55 (UTC)
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Raylan couldn't do anything other than take that with an accepting lift of his eyebrows. "Well in that case, thank you. Much appreciated." He wouldn't be here without it, that was for sure. His attention turned to Ainsley at her question and he glanced down with his soft chuckle.

"I am not 'here' in such a sense. As a Marshal, we've kinda got jurisdiction anywhere, within reason." His head tilted a little, chin lifting slightly. "Malcolm watches your reports on TV. You sound like a solid journalist."

He knew that Ainsley would likely search his name the first chance she got, but this wasn't the kinda place where one admitted that there were be a bloody file to be found on him.

"So it won't take you long to find out that I'm currently assigned to Lexington, Kentucky. We're due to be leaving tomorrow, which is the other reason that I can afford to be here without a work conflict."

Date: 17 Apr 2020 00:17 (UTC)
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There was no helping the glance back at Malcolm just in time to catch his warning look, and somewhere, in the back of the Marshal's head, a light bulb flickered to life.

"Trust me, there's not much of anything to see, unless you've got a pension for dead trees and a lotta open land." It was subtle, but Raylan was making sure to mind his accent to stop it from lapsing too far. He knew full well how a good accent could build up some very incorrect assumptions. "But they do, yes. We're currently looking to stop some domestic terrorism that's rooted in a nearby county. An outlying connection and problem of it's own is why we're up here and the NYPD was kind enough to loan Malcolm to us."

He wasn't going to ask about or use last names here; that felt like a whole can of worms.

Date: 17 Apr 2020 00:50 (UTC)
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While Raylan wasn't visibly relieved, he completely was. The last thing he wanted to talk about was work but he'd also talked to a journalist or two and Ainsley was clearly hungry in the best way for one to be in that kind of business. He chose the easier, wiser path and sat back with a little nod of concession and a friendly enough curl of his lips before his attention was pulled by Jessica again.

"It's quite a city," he praised, giving her his most charming Good ol' boy smile. "Shiny and rough in all the promised places. I'm a little disappointed that I don't have time to go to Ellis Island, but maybe the US Marshal's service will find another case that I might be in these parts for, get the time to go sight seeing properly. I understand you and your family have been here for a long time, if you've got some suggestions on what I ought to see, as a native yourself.."

He understood the kind of woman Jessica was. There was a certain amount of attention to be paid for her to feel as shiny as she was and while it bordered on small-talk, Raylan was genuinely interested what the first thing to come to one who was used to living the way the Whitly's were would come to mind. He also understood that he was something of a buffer for her sharp eyed attentions on Malcolm and considering he knew roughly how much a suit like the one he was wearing was worth, he could occupy Jessica with a little charm while working that glass of scotch.

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