| Bad Place for a Flat; [Atsuko, Harkens, Hayate] | |
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| Czernobog | Dec 5 2013, 09:09 AM Post #1 |
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[Takes place a few days after After Dark.] It was sometime around eleven in the evening. Atsuko had gone to the store for a case of cheap beer and some lottery tickets -- no winners -- and taken a roundabout way back home. This had been to give her parents time to get back to sleep so she could go in through the front door instead of slipping through the basement window to avoid career-related discussions with one or the other of her parents. She was grateful that they never came at her, together. Their inability to cooperate hadn't yet been overcome by their mutual frustration in their daughter's apparent contentment with working a half-dozen shitty part-time jobs that barely added up enough to pay her expenses. She totally hadn't been taking the long way home to listen to Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy. That would have been ridiculous. Of course, this meant that when her rear driver side tire had burst, she had apparently been very far from home in a somewhat rough part of town. So Atsuko was rather wary as she tried to jack up the rear of her van, looking this way and that to determine if someone was coming and she needed to defend herself with her tire iron. She had briefly debated just sleeping in her van, but that would simply defer the problem to the morning, and she had the early shift at the sketchy cigarette place in the strip mall. She didn't want to have to scramble to replace the tire, go and shower at home after her parents had left for work, and then run to work. That would have required a lot more effort. So she simply grumbled and worked, trying to get the spare tire in place so she could head home. |
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| Vect | Dec 5 2013, 11:20 AM Post #2 |
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"~I take a couple uppers, I take a couple downers, but nothing compares to these blue and yellow purple pills~" Harkens meanwhile was simply shuffling through the streets wearing a simple grey hoodie as he stuffed his hands in his pockets. He liked getting a good scope of the land as well as potential territory, and preferred to do it personally. Soon enough however, he came across a woman fixing up her van. With a shrug, he sauntered up and asked her, "So erm... Late night stroll turned bad?" |
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| Czernobog | Dec 5 2013, 12:06 PM Post #3 |
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Atsuko turned and began to raise the tire iron, preparing to strike the source of the voice. However, the foreign boy responsible was outside of swinging range and didn't seem to be preparing to attack. She sighed and lowered the metal bar -- looked like she wasn't going to be sharing her Gordon Freeman impression with anyone just yet. "Nah. I think I hit a curb or something," she admitted. She then frowned down at the lifting device under the car, before muttering. "And it seems like there's gum or something in the jack, because it isn't really cooperating." |
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| Vect | Dec 6 2013, 03:33 AM Post #4 |
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Raising an eyebrow at the tire iron, Harkens grinned and told her, "You know, if I wanted to mug you, we probably wouldn't be having this conversation. Instead..." Getting down to his knees, he took a peak under the van to see what was up. As he did this, he asked the girl, "So how are you? Haven't seen you before." |
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| Czernobog | Dec 7 2013, 12:45 PM Post #5 |
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Atsuko stepped back, allowing the boy to look at the flat tire, and leaned against the side of the van for a moment. "Well, I mostly keep to myself," Atsuko said. "And there's the issue that I don't normally hang around this area. I wouldn't still be, but the jack seems to be stuck or something. I think there's some gum in there or something. That's what it looks like, at least, but I don't know anything about this mechanical shit." After a pause, she said: "My name's Atsuko. Who are you?" |
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| Vect | Dec 9 2013, 01:14 AM Post #6 |
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"Well then..." Harkens got back up to his feet and gave the girl a bow. "You get to call me Harkens. Now..." Going back to looking under the car, Harkens asked, "I'm curious as to how gum could get stuck here. Barely passed the writing part of my driving license." |
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| Czernobog | Dec 12 2013, 01:36 PM Post #7 |
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Atsuko shrugged. "Shit, man, I don't know...how does gum get any place? I'm barely better at this than you are, apparently -- passed with a seventy percent." She crouched down next to him, using the tire iron to steady herself. The jack seemed to be stuck, and there was some sort of grayish mass stuck to the mechanism, though whether or not it was gum was unclear. She paused. "What kind of name is 'Harkens,' anyway?" |
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| Vect | Dec 13 2013, 12:20 PM Post #8 |
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"The best kind! Why did you ask?" Harkens was largely aware that his name was more than a little unconventional. As in, clearly fake. "Anyways, it's a family name. An honorable one that's been passed down by generations." Edited by Vect, Dec 16 2013, 01:21 AM.
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| Czernobog | Dec 16 2013, 12:33 AM Post #9 |
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"Nothing. It's just that you look Mexican or Ukranian or something, and the name doesn't sound that way," Atsuko said. Then she blinked. "I don't mean any offense by that." She blinked again. Then she said: "Maybe Indian? I don't know." She crouched again, and said: "Well, I think we've got to figure out a way to get it raised up, but I don't think the jack will work. I don't suppose you've got any ideas there?" |
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| Vect | Dec 16 2013, 02:43 AM Post #10 |
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"Erm..." Harkens tapped his chin a bit after hearing that comment. He's rarely heard much about his ethnicity other than "vaguely European", but that's an interesting way to see it. "Well, I've got family from all around. And... I can't say I have an idea right now." |
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