Lie down in the park and watch the satellites

Mar 21, 2009 17:33

Somewhere near the Conrad, Four is trying to buy a hot dog.  She's been getting better at finding food since coming to Chicago--there's a restaurant she's found that will give her their leftovers in exchange for help cleaning up in the kitchen after they close.  Unfortunately, she hasn't found anything reliable for breakfast or lunch yet.  But she ( Read more... )

gabe seagram, chance adams, csp-04, babel

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teenytinyteme March 22 2009, 03:20:08 UTC
Chance has been watching this girl with the newspaper for a while. She's a little disgusted at this point--really, how dumb can you be?

"Hey!" she calls to the girl. "Hey! Hey! What are you doing? Like, seriously."

She shakes her head, beckoning her. "Come here. Come here." She's not the best person to learn from, but hey, it's worth a shot, right?

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designed2kill March 22 2009, 08:49:43 UTC
In Four's case, the answer is really, really dumb. It's not her fault though, honest--she's only had contact with normal human society for about a month and a half.

Four turns around at the sound of Chance's voice. She may not be at the Laboratory anymore, but following orders is second nature to her, so she obediently walks over to Chance and waits for Chance to give her further instructions.

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teenytinyteme March 23 2009, 01:00:23 UTC
Chance shakes her head. "What were you doing?" she asks. "'Cause... dude. That guy's about to smack you, if you try to give him that paper again. And I bet I'm not the only one thinking you're kind of a idiot around here. Seriously. And I don't think, from the looks of that guy, he's gonna pity you and just hand over a hotdog."

Yes, she has a plan. But it is sort of secretive at this point. She might get to it in a bit, if she knows she has an ally.

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designed2kill March 23 2009, 23:33:38 UTC
"I was trying to buy hot dogs," Four says. It was better not to try to make too many excuses, since although Chance looks like she could have been a fellow CSP, she talked a bit like a trainer (although the trainers usually called her much worse things than idiot). It was best just to answer the question simply and then accept whatever punishment she was going to give out rather than digging a deeper hole for herself. So she just stands there and braces for the worst.

It's too bad that Four is too dense to pick up on the fact that Chance has a plan, because she would go along with pretty much anything Chance says.

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teenytinyteme March 24 2009, 04:43:23 UTC
Chance just shakes her head and claps Four on the shoulder. "Okay. So there's this thing called money. It's obvious you don't have it--those are newspapers. I don't have it either. But we want those hot dogs, right? Right?"

Her plan is becoming blatently obvious. No one ever said she was a bad person.

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designed2kill March 25 2009, 21:58:03 UTC
Four is a bit surprised when Chance only claps her on the shoulder. But not getting punished is good, so she'll just go with it for now. And apparently, not any kind of paper was money. This was important information. Maybe what she had was too big? The money she had seen others using was smaller than this.

"Yes, I want hot dogs," she tells Chance very seriously.

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teenytinyteme March 26 2009, 16:13:10 UTC
"Of course you do," Chance grins. "Okay then, here's the plan. You walk up to the guy again, with your newspapers. Just keeping doing what you were doing. Distract him any way you can, right? Get him a little bit away from his cart. Then I'll go in and get our hot dogs, and on my signal, RUN AWAY AS FAST AS YOU CAN. Got it?"

Yeah, she's talking about stealing. What? She's a demon, she can do what she wants! Or something.

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designed2kill March 28 2009, 20:25:54 UTC
"Yes! I understand," says Four.

Four walks back over to the hot dog vendor. She looks really sad. "That girl says this is not money. If this is not money, how can I get some?" Four pouts, inching sideways all the time in order to try to move him away from the hot dog part of his cart. "I want to get some money so I can buy a hot dog."

"Look, honey, why don't you try asking your parents for some money," the hot dog vendor says.

"I don't have any parents," Four says, making a sad face.

This should be a suitable distraction for Chance to go in and grab some hot dogs for the both of them.

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teenytinyteme March 29 2009, 01:16:22 UTC
Chance is kind of impressed with how quickly this girl's caught on. She doesn't give it more than a few seconds notice though, because then she's preparing hot dogs (two chili dogs and two regular hot dogs, just in case,) and then she has to run run run.

Oh. Yeah. The signal.

"RUUUUUUUUUUN!" she hollers as loud as she can, pushing through people. "RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN!!!"

No, she doesn't really do subtle.

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designed2kill March 29 2009, 03:08:47 UTC
Four runs. Not as fast she could if there weren't people around, but she runs pretty damn fast nonetheless. She's making a vague attempt to follow Chance, since Chance is the one with the hot dogs, but she skirts around and through crowds, in a parallel path to Chance's rather than trying to join up with her immediately. It would be too obvious that they were working together that way. Since Chance didn't specify any particular meeting spot, Four bobs and weaves through the crowds, always keeping Chance on the edge of her vision, waiting until Chance picks a place to stop and split their ill-gotten gains.

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teenytinyteme March 29 2009, 03:32:33 UTC
Chance is really, really impressed with this girl now. Because she wouldn't have thought to do that. She probably would have messed the whole operation up but this girl... wow.

So as soon as she decides they're far enough away, she pauses, ducking into an alley, trusting Four to follow her.

"That was amazing!" she says in between gasps (she's not that much of a runner.) "Where did you learn how to do that?"

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designed2kill March 29 2009, 04:11:23 UTC
Four slows down well before the entrance to the alleyway and purposefully turns down it, like she was meaning to go that direction all along. Thanks to her physiology, she's not even out of breath. "It was part of my training," Four tells Chance nonchalantly. Thankfully she has enough sense not to say that her training was training in ASSASSINATION. Because that's just not the kind of thing you tell random strangers, even if they did just help you steal some hot dogs.

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teenytinyteme April 3 2009, 01:32:59 UTC
"Seriously?" Chance asks. "What kind of school did you go to?"

Because yes, she assumes 'training' means 'schooling'. She can't help it She's a little naive.

"So. Uh." She exhales heavily, holding out the hot dogs for Four to see. "I brought, uh... two regular, and two chili dogs. What do you want?"

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designed2kill April 4 2009, 08:07:35 UTC
"School?" Four asks. "You learn things there, right? I guess the Laboratory is sort of like a school, but it's not quite the same because we spent a lot of time being poked and zapped at too, not just learning things." And the things they learned were definitely not the type if things you would learn in school.

"Never had a chili dog before," Four says. "I'll try that one first."

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teenytinyteme April 10 2009, 00:47:01 UTC
Chance nods. "Yeah, school's where you learn. It SUCKS." She takes a bite out of one of the hot dogs for emphasis.

And then the bite falls from her mouth as she hears about poking and zapping. "Like... SERIOUSLY?" she demands. "What the FUCK kind of school did you go to? Seriously? That's... that's against the fucking law, you know? We could totally sue!"

She hands over the chili dog with a grin. "They're tasty," she says.

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designed2kill April 10 2009, 09:28:42 UTC
Four shakes her head. "I told you, I didn't go to a school, I lived at the Laboratory--I'm an experimental specimen. And what do you mean by sue?"

Four takes the chili dog from Chance and begins to eat. She's quite hungry, so it gets finished quite quickly. "It is tasty," she says.

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