Day Sixteen - Where Now?

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Who: Tonks, Hammer, Ice, Laurel

When: Early Afternoon

Where: Beach

Invasion: Plz.

Summary: Tonks apparates in and is greeted by Hammer who is initially going to hit on her until she weirds him out with her presto chango hair.  So instead he takes her to the town hall where she checks in with Ice.  Timeline discrepancies notwithstanding, she's pretty

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Hammer had been roaming. He didn't get that whole maze business, so he hadn't bothered with that. Disinclined to hang around the dorms, and thinking that this was the kind of day where girls sunbathed on the beach - scantily-clad girls at that - he thought it would be the best place to go.

But ... pink hair and fully dressed? Not his usual. Not even close.

Still ... he could do the polite and cordial thing. "Afternoon," he called as he swaggered cockily toward the pink-haired woman. "New here?"

So what if he'd seen her just then pop into existence? It was a polite question to ask.

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Tonks looked over. And then she looked up. And then she looked up a little more. There sure was a lot of this bloke with the American accent. Huh. Beaches and barbarians was it then?

"Yes?" she hazarded, hands on her hips, "Might be, anyways. I've never been here before, so I guess that's about the same as being new."

Her hair turned an interesting shade of blue as she spoke, and she tilted her head as she regarded him.

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His reply was momentarily delayed as he watched her hair turn color, brow furrowing. "What?"

He caught himself. "Oh, er, right. Well, you're in DauphinMare. I'm sure that's why you've never been here before. Because you haven't ... been here before."

He thought that was a pretty good explanation, and he beamed to her. "You can call me Captain Hammer."

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She raised an eyebrow. Alright, so not exactly the brightest bulb in the socket.

"Right," she said, "Well in that case, you can call me Princess Sparkles."

Grinning a little, she slipped her wand from her sleeve and twirled it a little between two fingers.

"DauphinMare," she continued, "So ... that's not in London then?"

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He beamed. A princess? Really? "You must have lost your tiara in the ... er. In the shift. When you came here. And it isn't in London. Or on Earth, as far as anyone else knows. It's a world between worlds," he quoted.

"So Princess," he said as he swaggered a little closer, close enough to slide an arm around her shoulders - which he did - "what brings you here?"

As if he didn't know - and as if she'd have a clue.

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Tonks looked to the arm that seemed to have materialized around her shoulders, gazing in particular at his hand. Flicking her wand and murmuring an incantation, she charmed it to be light enough for her to lift and, with the use of her index finger and thumb, removed the offending appendage, slipping easily from beneath it.

"So far as I can tell, an apparating accident," she replied, "Other than that, I really couldn't tell you, captain."

She tried to suppress a giggle at the whole title ordeal, and failed, covering her mouth to mask the laughter.

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Hammer looked at his hand, frowning. That had felt ... odd. Shaking his gloved hand, he glanced over to Princess. "Apparating," he repeated, nodding slowly.

He'd heard that word before, he thought. And she had one of those sticks. "You're a witch!" he decided, rather proud of himself for having discerned that. "Well, that explains why you're here then."

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She smirked a bit.

"Does it?" she asked, "Well then, glad we cleared that up. I'd hate there to be any confusion. I mean, it's good to know why you're here, right?"

Starting to look around, she wondered if there was someone less ... thick to assist with what exactly was going on. Because Mr. wears gloves in the sun wasn't exactly doing it for her. Her hair turned a rather distressed shade of purple as she thought on that.

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"Right," he agreed with a nod. "Right, exactly." He glanced to the sand beside her, then lifted a gloved hand to point. "I think those are your explanation papers," he said. "They'll have your room assignment on them."

He felt clever for remembering that.

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Attention momentarily diverted, Tonks stooped to pick up the papers, leafing through them and skimming each quickly.

"Sounds like absolute rubbish," she said dismissively.

Which wasn't to say she didn't believe it, just that it sounded like absolute rubbish to her. Then again, a great many things sounded like rubbish that weren't, and wasn't going to bin it out of hand. Leafing through the papers further, she came across her room number.

"Ah, there it is," she murmured, "411, looks like."

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Hammer nodded, beaming. "It isn't rubbish. It's a war. We're in a giant bubble, and ... er ... outside of time."

Which he thought was an admirable explanation.

"I can show you to your room if you want," he offered - though it wasn't as though it would be hard to find. At all. "Or to the town hall. They want you to check in first."

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"Town hall sounds like a good place to start," she decided, mostly because somewhere between point A and point B, she'd ascertained she didn't want him anywhere near her room, rubbish or not. "Tonks, checking in for duty," she added, mostly to herself.

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He could handle the town hall thing. He'd been there a few times. "This way then," he said as he turned back toward the lawn. Starting to walk, assuming she'd follow, Captain Hammer swaggered his way toward the town hall.

Wondering if this would mean an end to their time together, he slowed his steps a little as he tried to find a conversation topic.

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Tucking her wand neatly back in her sleeve, Tonks started out after Hammer. Well, tripped over some ... what was that exactly? She didn't see anything ... and then started out after Hammer. She could have tried to make small talk, but she decided to give that a miss since she wasn't particularly keen on trying to have a conversation with the equivalent of the broad side of a barn.

So she simply kept walking, robes swirling behind her a bit, revealing a Weird Sisters shirt and ripped jeans beneath them. She hadn't really bothered with the entire get up that day, really.

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He glanced over to her a time or two, smiling. He thought about hitting on her - really he did - and he shook his head instead. No, between the hair and the stick, he really didn't think it would be worth it.

So he made quick work of getting her to the town hall.

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Tonks took little notice of his glancing over to her and practically skipped up to the town hall.

"Cheers, mate," she offered when they'd arrived, "I'd never have found it without your help."

Right, well, that was a lie, but not the point. Flashing a bit of a cheeky grin, she popped into the town hall.