[it's rare any call goes to VOICEMAIL on Badou's Guide, because it's always with him; tucked into a coat pocket or lying next to a smoking ashtray]
[but today, he knew, was unavoidable - he hadn't tried busying himself with idle bullshit and less idle rumours, hadn't had a camera to waste film with, hadn't hit the network for a stray's job]
[the Undergrounder had switched the Guide off, left it face down beside the tub as he'd climbed in]
[he would have left it in his cramped foxden bedroom, what with most Guide's penchants for turning themselves on, but by the time he'd thought of it the door to the communal bathroom had already been jammed shut]
[it's a handful of hours and countless smokes later (much to Urameshi's shit-screaming, door-banging dismay) that Badou bothers resurfacing from a watery grave that ain't his to lie in]
[more than waterlogged, his hair is so saturated it releases two small waterfalls over his shoulder and down along a notched spine as he shifts up into a sit]
[ -- the scar on his hand is all his eye wants to look at, still, so he sets it to use out of sight, grabbing aimlessly over the side of the tub for his next fix]
[but today, he knew, was unavoidable - he hadn't tried busying himself with idle bullshit and less idle rumours, hadn't had a camera to waste film with, hadn't hit the network for a stray's job]
[the Undergrounder had switched the Guide off, left it face down beside the tub as he'd climbed in]
[he would have left it in his cramped foxden bedroom, what with most Guide's penchants for turning themselves on, but by the time he'd thought of it the door to the communal bathroom had already been jammed shut]
[it's a handful of hours and countless smokes later (much to Urameshi's shit-screaming, door-banging dismay) that Badou bothers resurfacing from a watery grave that ain't his to lie in]
[more than waterlogged, his hair is so saturated it releases two small waterfalls over his shoulder and down along a notched spine as he shifts up into a sit]
[ -- the scar on his hand is all his eye wants to look at, still, so he sets it to use out of sight, grabbing aimlessly over the side of the tub for his next fix]
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