020 | Action
Jul. 17th, 2011 01:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
second_first[Rei is working the late late shift at a seedy diner all by herself. And by seedy diner, I mean the dining room. That somehow employs people for the duration of the event but really isn't that much different, except all gritty and film noir-y.
SHUT UP IT WORKS SOMEHOW.
She'll be closing up in an hour or so, and in the meantime, she's wiping things down and getting ready. Her inner monologue is pretty quiet for the moment, focused on the mundane tasks of work.]
[ooc: Rei's monologue will appear in italics following her normal speech. But um you probably shouldn't expect her to be thinking much more than she actually says most of the time. :||||]
SHUT UP IT WORKS SOMEHOW.
She'll be closing up in an hour or so, and in the meantime, she's wiping things down and getting ready. Her inner monologue is pretty quiet for the moment, focused on the mundane tasks of work.]
[ooc: Rei's monologue will appear in italics following her normal speech. But um you probably shouldn't expect her to be thinking much more than she actually says most of the time. :||||]
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Date: 2011-07-17 04:35 pm (UTC)It was dark. Covered in the shadows of the room was another woman who I recognized. I slipped down onto a chair and sighed heavily, the kind of sigh that spoke of long nights with too much of nothing to do- too much chasing around after ghosts of crimes, always on the heels of the real detectives. It was the kind of sigh that measured tiredness in its breath, that talked about all the things a young woman wanted to do but never could. It was the sigh of the downtrodden and hopeless. It was the most heartfelt sigh the world had ever heard, and it lasted all of one second. It was profound. Deep. Inscrutable. Even worth an entire paragraph of study.
Hi. Are you still open?
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Date: 2011-07-17 05:53 pm (UTC)[action]
Date: 2011-07-17 07:25 pm (UTC)As I take a seat near another table she's wiping down, I don't think about how she ended up working here. It's not my job. No one's paying me to find out either. The girl working here's also the quiet type. You can see my taste in friends. Another one who I wouldn't want to see upset.]
You're still here.
Rei's internal monologue is so fail
Date: 2011-07-17 11:41 pm (UTC)She looked unhappy.
[Rei comes closer to where Elaine's sitting with a nod.]
Yes.
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Date: 2011-07-17 11:43 pm (UTC)But I'm supposed to close soon.
[Rei draws closer, nodding to Kura.]
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Date: 2011-07-17 11:45 pm (UTC)For another hour. [She puts aside the rag and comes closer.]
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Date: 2011-07-17 11:51 pm (UTC)Just coffee.
There was just something about this dame that drew him back here. Not the way his girls did, frankly, she was too young to rank interest on that score, but something about her quiet intelligence was intriguing.
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:09 am (UTC)No one's caused you trouble?
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:17 am (UTC)No one.
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:19 am (UTC)That's not it.
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:24 am (UTC)[He pours a little cream in his coffee, fixing her with hs usual arrogant stare.]
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:27 am (UTC)But he'll stay as long as he likes.
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:36 am (UTC)Isn't that a bit late for such a young woman?
He could trust her to say exactly what she had to say and no more; although he strongly suspected that she was thinking less than charitable things. Perhaps it was that lack of fear that made her so interesting. He'd been ear by almost everyone since he'd first learned to make people fear him.
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:38 am (UTC)He knows about things that are necessary.
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:42 am (UTC)[action]
Date: 2011-07-18 12:53 am (UTC)Good.
[I'll take her word for it. This diner had a way of making whatever I wanted just show up unannounced. Because suddenly there's tea on the table. My colleagues probably have a slug or two in them by the name of bourbon, whiskey, or some other booze. But that's not my style. Besides, I'm underage anyway.]
Did you want to join me if no one else shows?
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Date: 2011-07-18 12:59 am (UTC)Like him. But it's okay.
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:01 am (UTC)Okay.
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:01 am (UTC)He can see her judgement in her eyes, but chooses to ignore it.
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:07 am (UTC)The same as always.
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:10 am (UTC)And some of them he wasn't even responsible for.
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:13 am (UTC)But not me. Not yet.
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:16 am (UTC)For once, I don't even mean it as a threat, although she might take it that way.
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:18 am (UTC)So this beats being cooped up in the office. The food's decent, the atmosphere never changes, and the company's great. So I give her a smile too, something I don't do all that often, but she's an exception.]
All right. When your shift's over, I'll walk you home too.
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Date: 2011-07-18 01:39 am (UTC)[She nods and moves to wipe more stuff off.]