{Ist Collar} What the....?

[junior_cop]

[A very young looking cop wakes up in a start and yanks off the covers wearing his complete gear and pulls his head back

Comments

[In Person] [I had to. Saguru needs the shots at his dignity later.]

[im_in_ur_exit]

[He was basically exploring and checking the place over, when he stopped and stared at the door - that nameplate wasn't there yesterday.]

[So he's pulling out the journal and scribbling it onto the map; his older self could just deal with the eight-year-old handwriting. :| It'd be fair revenge for the stupid mutilingual code.]

[In Person] [It's cool. XD Tom's gotta get his feet wet in the wierd.]

[junior_cop]

[Looks over his shoulder and lowers his chin, turning the rest of his body around to face the little boy. His steps are slow and his face later changes to concern.]

Hi. I'm Officer Hanson. It's okay. I'm a friend.

[He kneels down to look at Saguru eye to eye with a friendly smile.]

Are you lost?

[In person] [I'm so sorry, I think he's getting his feet under him again...]

[im_in_ur_exit]

[Saguru looks up - he knows this routine and it's probably obvious he knows it.]

[He usually gets it about ten seconds before he gets bundled into a squad car and sent home.]

My name's Saguru Hakuba.

And I'm not lost any more than anyone ELSE that got kidnapped here.

[In person] [He's being curious. It's cool.]

[junior_cop]

[That little nip made him nod his head slowly.]

Hey, it's okay to be scared but taking it out on those that are just as scared and confused doesn't help anyone. Okay? [holds out his hand] It's nice to meet you, Saguru Hakuba. Sorry, I'm not very good with my Japanese pronunciations so forgive me if it sounds a little funny.

[In person] [As long as he doesn't get the "sit quiet and stay out of things" bit...]

[im_in_ur_exit]

[He almost says something annoyed - he's not SCARED, it's not like anyone's tried to duct-tape him to shut him up here or anything - but he's got a point and he's not being completely annoying.]

[So he takes the handshake and is trying not to be too much of a pain.] It's alright. I know my English is still bad. [And he tilts his head.] Are you from America? [Because so far he's only been exposed to British English and that certainly isn't it.]

[In person] [Nah, Tom's not that way. He's pretty good with kids.]

[junior_cop]

[The young officer nods his head and tries to listen closely.] It's okay. I can understand you fine. Yes. I'm from America. Chicago, in fact. What part of the world are you from?

[In person] [It's a good thing. Granted he's an odd kid.]

[im_in_ur_exit]

I'm from Japan, but my mother's from England and I'm moving there soon.

When I get home from here. [He makes a face at the walls; getting kidnapped is getting REALLY old.]

[In person] [Oh sure. Tom's used to odd. He worked with a guy named Blowfish.]

[junior_cop]

Ah. Well, I'll see if there's some way to get you home, okay?

[He stands up and looks around with his hands on his hips.]

Kinda hard to know where to start though. Any ideas?

[In person] [He's going to be adding new categories around here.]

[im_in_ur_exit]

[The kid manages a deadpan expression that really belongs on someone about ten years older. You may be getting humored by an eight year old.]

[He's also squinting a little at the notebook.]

Well... none of the adults I've found know how they got here either. People just kind-of wake up here instead of wherever they were. I've heard there's a wall around the place, and nobody knows exactly where this is.
And I've been here a week, but there's people here who say they met me here, older, before that.

So no... no ideas yet. [...he's a slightly smug kid.]

[In person] [Woohoo! Nice. XD]

[junior_cop]

Yeah, that's kinda how it happened with me but hey, nothing wrong with a little exploring, right?

[He's hiding his own fear and pushing it aside to help someone else. It's what he's best at. That last sentence he logs away for later. It could be fair warning not to let anything go by without consideration.]

I'll keep that in mind. Okay, so we're in this huge house called the Manor, brought here by someone called the Author who's suspected to be a teenage girl. The population is more male than female which is indicative to....alright, that's not where I want to go right now.

[In person] [At least he's gotten "alien" out of the way?]

[im_in_ur_exit]

[Part of that just went sailing right over his head, but he nods, and hey, you passed the "the kid can actually keep up with some things" test.] I've been trying to do that, too, and the journals I found in my room have maps... [Granted, he frowns at the notebook.]

I think there's more here, but I can't read it right now. [ :( ] It just snowed, so it's not real cold here, and I guess if someone can identify the trees we could guess where we are in the world...
But the Author might mess with that, too.

[In person] [Surprisingly, he handled it very well.]

[junior_cop]

I wouldn't be surprised. [He glances off to the side and takes note of everything.] Sounds like this Author has a thing for the holidays too. [Tom also notes the mention of the notebooks and nods.] Would you mind if I took a look at them?

[In person] [Now we wait to see how he handles magic. :| ]

[im_in_ur_exit]

Probably? I guess there's going to be something for Christmas. [He frowns, thinking; he knows there's things his older self didn't want people seeing, but he's not sure how much of it's in this notebook, and he's pretty sure the pages by the map are mostly on the manor from what little bits he could pick out...] Mmm, for a minute - I don't know what's in it exactly, so it might not be safe. [And some of it seems to be Very Secret.]

[He's going to hand it to Tom with the code-pages right after the map open; a lot of it dates to Paris.]

[Have fun with the multilingual code. There's a small despairing "See what I'm dealing with?" chibiface.]

[In person] [Yikes. He's encountered one situation before and that didn't end well. XD]

[junior_cop]

[He takes the notebook, turns a few pages, turns one to it's side with a screwed face and tilts his head to the side.]

Yikes.

[He flips to the previous page and tries to make it out only to be even more confused than initially, closing it and returning it to Saguru.]

I couldn't understand it. I'll need more than a few minutes to look at it but codes aren't my thing. My partner...now he was better with that sort of thing even though he was complete doofus most of the time. Maybe you might have seen him around.

Big guy, built like a football player, talks like he's some sort of comedian, hair like Bon Jovi and likes hot dogs with his mustard?

[In person] [At least -most- of the mages here aren't total loons?]

[im_in_ur_exit]

[He takes the notebook back with a sigh. You should see how long it's taken him to get what little he has out of this.]

[The hair thing is lost on him, but he hasn't seen anyone like the rest of it here anyway; he shakes his head.] I haven't. He might be here, though... [He trails off for a moment.]
A lot of people don't have anyone else from their world here. There's a few from mine, but I don't remember any of them from before I came here.

[Sigh, frown at the journal.] I had to have a reason to hide it like that.

Re: [In person] [At least -most- of the mages here aren't total loons?]

[junior_cop]

Well, if it's that highly encrypted, I would think it's important.

[He looks almost hurt that he doesn't have his partner here. He's always worked with Doug and now that he's by himself and alone here, he's almost feeling like he was left behind at the mall and forced to find another way home.

He slowly shakes his head.]

I highly doubt it. He would have been running around her either praising that it's great or would be yelling that there's no pizza and beer by now.