Explanation Time. Or... how to hopefully not end up dead.

[goodgenes]

Who: break_onthru & goodgenes
When: Not long after this thread.
Where: Outside the Outlander Community Block near the Dismas stairs
Format: Action
What: Eugene has some things to tell Break.
Warnings: Well, Break doesn't like Eugene, so... I dunno. Probably some violence. XD

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[break_onthru]

[And so Break appears. He's here because Eugene asked him to be, and he still hasn't completely recovered from the news that Rapunzel was apparently gone again. He's been wracking up a list of those he's cared about who have come and gone from Anatole... some of them twice now. And now Eugene wants to talk. So. Fine. He'll talk, although he doubts it will bring Rapunzel back.

He arrives with a cautious hand on his cane, in case the young man - for whom Rapunzel'd had mixed reviews - did have a fight in mind.]

Eugene?

[Although he's in plain sight, Break doesn't seem to notice him.]

[goodgenes]

Break.

[Pushes away from the building he was leaning against to look at the man, blinking in surprise at the cane. He doesn't mention it, however, out of respect for Rapunzel and the fact that he knew that the other man was a friend of her's.]

[There's a pause, because he's not entirely sure how to start this conversation. He sucks at this part.]

How much about Rapunzel do you know?

[break_onthru]

[Hey now, this cane comes in more handy than you'd think. Particularly since he can pull a sword out of it. But he turns in the direction of Eugene's voice and approaches. Not entirely menacingly, either. Just... wary.]

A good bit, I'd like to think.

[He pauses, and his voice gets more solemn.]

You're sure that she's gone again?

[goodgenes]

She didn't come home. I looked all over Anatole and even talked to my contacts in Dismas, but no one's seen her. If she was planning on going somewhere, I like to think that she would have told me.

[He sighs, running a hand through his hair.]

She worries me sometimes, because she's not really naive when it comes to the world, you know? She's got a good head on her shoulders though and I know from first hand experience that she's really good at making friends with just about anyone.

[break_onthru]

[Break leans against the wall beside the boy, taking in his words. What he describes is an occurrence that's become all too common for Break, someone just vanishing like that. As easy as i'd be to hold Eugene responsible, he does sound sincere.

Or he could just be a very good liar.]

You know, there's some things Rapunzel told me about you. That made it sound like you weren't to be trusted. I'd like to think it was just a lover's quarrel - or whatever you were to each other - and that you aren't as bad as she made you sound. But you're her primary contact, and now she's disappeared twice. You can't blame me for being suspicious, not when I know less about you than I do about her.

[goodgenes]

[He gives a half hearted shrug.]

To be honest, I think I would be more surprised if you did trust me.

What do you want to know?

[It's not like he really had secrets anymore, Rapunzel was calling him Eugene in public after all, and 'Flynn Rider' didn't have the same meaning in Anatole that it did back home.]

[break_onthru]

[All right. That's refreshing. Break folds his arms, kicks at the wall lightly with the heel of his boot.]

She said that you left her after you'd gotten what you were looking for.

[Those were her words, not his. But you can imagine how they sound.]

Did you?

[goodgenes]

[There's a long silence from him.]

Is THAT what she thought?!

[Now what she was saying made more sense to him. Not that he could blame her, since as far as she knew, that had been what he wanted. He never got to tell her how much his dream had changed.]

Not in the sense that she was thinking I bet. When I agreed to escort her into the town, the deal was I'd escort her to and back and in return, she'd give me back something of mine. But... it turns out that what she had, I found wasn't important to me after all.

So, no, I didn't get what I was looking for. What I did find was some former associates of mine having something they weren't supposed to. Oh, and the hangman's noose. THAT was fun to get away from.

[break_onthru]

[Okay, he's with you so far. Kinda. Apparently - if the boy's to be trusted - the terms weren't quite what Break thought. Which is good, because he can handle the sound of the kid's voice better when it isn't being implied he stole Rapunzel's virtue and then dumped her.

-Although the train of thought is certainly derailed by mention of the hangman's noose.]

Oh really? Were you falsely accused of a crime?

[Or even rightly accused. Break doesn't sound judgmental, for once. Because really, that would make him the biggest hypocrite ever.]

[goodgenes]

Ahahahah. No, not really.

[Not that you can see it, of course, but he does look awfully embarrassed.]

Turns out that they don't particularly like sticky fingers apparently.

[break_onthru]

Execution for theft?

[Now he's a bit outraged on your behalf.]

That seems a bit like overkill. [Haha, get it?] What exactly made you turn to stealing?

[He's less perturbed by this confession than one might expect from a pseudo-paternal figure. But stealing is so ridiculously low on the transgression scale for him, it's as if the kid confessed to jaywalking.]

[goodgenes]

[That's... rather touching, really. He's not entirely sure what to make of it.]

I grew up in an orphanage. When I got old enough, I decided to leave, go on a grand adventure and make something of myself.

[break_onthru]

[Dammit, kid, you're being very easy to warm up to. Break tries to rein that in.]

Ah, yes, I can see how a life of crime was just calling your name. There's easier ways to make money, I would think.