"'Scool, man. My friends say I help them feel better, and I don't mind helping. So if I'm being nosy, tell me to take a walk and I'll get back to this." He displays a copy of 'The Old Man And The Sea'. "But I will take any opportunity to stop reading it," he finishes with a grin.
"OK. Can I sit, or do you want me to run a comedy routine doing real stand-up?" A quick grin flashes again. "Oh, and I'm Jaime. Jaime Reyes. Good to meet you." He reaches out one hand to shake.
"Nice to meet you. Hey, cocoa!" He flags a waitrat down for some himself. "We don't get that much where I'm from - El Paso, Texas. Too hot most of the year, but I went outside for a little bit and it's really nice out there. So, I better tell you I'm from a place where we have real superheroes and stuff like that, so if I get a little weird, tell me, OK? My weird-o-meter broke and sometimes I forget." He's got a smile the whole time he's saying that. "I'm a high school student with a little side job. What do you do?"
"That's gotta be interesting. You guys do demons too? I ran into someone who claimed to be the PREVIOUS Wrath of God - I mean, you'd think you wouldn't need to replace THAT job - but yeah, I got turned into," and here he uses a spooky voice, "'the manifestation of the darkest desires of the souls'. Uh, my soul." He looks around shiftily. "Turns out my darkest desires? Being a dentist. So I can make money to help my family. Now, with that, I want you to think about something that's, like, the Wrath of God staring at you with no idea what the heck is going on."
He makes this face that says, "....wait, what, no, no, this is just wrooooong'.
"Seems that way. 'I will unleash the darkest desires that live in the back of his mind!' she said, and, well... I was Dr. Reyes, D.D.S. Then my friend Paco hit me with a stick." He shrugs. "This Wrath wanted another body to live in, was gonna go into a baby, and, well, I wasn't gonna let a baby get that, so I ended up as Eclipso - that's what she called herself - her champion, against Paco. While I was talking, wham inna back o' the head, I lose, he wins, Eclipso loses, we got the baby back." Jaime grins. "Like I said, the weird-o-meter broke."
"Hey. I'm not trying to be nosy, but, man, you look like someone ran over your dog, twice, with a big truck. You okay?"
He looks genuinely concerned, for someone who doesn't know this guy from Adam.
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Oh. Yeah, I ... I guess I'm okay. Long day, is all.
Thanks.
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Make a deal with you: you distract me from my long day, and I'll distract you from the Hemingway boredom?
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*He pauses for a split second, and then shakes the offered hand, smiling.*
Andrew Wells. Uh, is me. Hi.
-- and yeah, sure, feel free. *He nods at the empty chair opposite him.*
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"Nice to meet you. Hey, cocoa!" He flags a waitrat down for some himself. "We don't get that much where I'm from - El Paso, Texas. Too hot most of the year, but I went outside for a little bit and it's really nice out there. So, I better tell you I'm from a place where we have real superheroes and stuff like that, so if I get a little weird, tell me, OK? My weird-o-meter broke and sometimes I forget." He's got a smile the whole time he's saying that. "I'm a high school student with a little side job. What do you do?"
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I'm support staff for a small army of Vampire Slayers. ...he says, by way of illustration.
*Yes, he says that last part out loud.*
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He makes this face that says, "....wait, what, no, no, this is just wrooooong'.
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*Andrew's face is actually not too unlike Jaime's, at the moment.*
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*Andrew's pondering now.*
I'm pretty sure we've had stuff as weird as that before ...
*Think, Andrew! The honor of Sunnydale is at stake!*
*No pun intended.*
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