"Where you headed Valentine?"
"Looking to cop something mean."
Valentine quickly hurries past him down the subway stairs only to be followed by Legend, who spins Valentine around like a top with the butt end of his umbrella.
"You owe me ten bucks."
"I ain't got it right now man."
"Don't make no difference. You still owe me ten solid,"
Legend said, pointing his umbrella like a sword at Valentines chest.
"What's with the fucking umbrella man, there's not even a cloud in the sky."
Legend's ostrich eyes grew even larger.
"Not Yet!"
"I ain't got time for this shit Legend."
"I got nothing, but time. How the fuck you gonna cop with no money anyway?"
Valentine flashes his ring .
"Shit thats enough for two. What do you say you cut me in on whatever it is you're getting and we call it even?"
Valentine twists his ring around one full rotation to think.
"Fine."
Valentine walks away.
"Hey, what you thinking bout getting? Wait up!"
Hearing the metal screams of the train Valentine runs. He bursts out onto the platform only to see the ass end of the train being eclipsed by darkness.
"Fuck!"
Valentine turns to see Legend slumped over huffing and puffing.
"You made me miss the fucking train!"
Still slumped over with his hands on his knees, Legend looks up, his hair dangling in his face.
"The good thing about the subway is there's always another train behind it."
"Ya, 3o minutes behind it at this hour. Jesus Christ, now I'm stuck here with you."
Legend regains his composure.
"Hey man, that's...that's not very nice."
"Don't talk to me."
"Why not? It will go by faster if we talk."
"Do you ever wake up, look in the mirror and think...retard?"
"No."
"I'm surprised."
Valentine pears down the platform hoping to see the dim glow of subway lights, nothing. Legend begins to tell Valentine about the graveyard beneath Washington Square park.
With arms folded Valentine looks at Legend and listens only hoping to hear the deafening metal screams of the next train.
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