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what makes the water holy she says is that it's the closest thing to rain

Jun 29, 2007 19:52

When Charlie was fifteen, she used to cut school with her friends and they'd go to the lake, swim in their underwear, drink stolen beers. She'd left school at sixteen, started working all the time at the diner but she'd remembered, when the weather was sticky and close...the days that she hadn't gone to school ( Read more... )

hiro nakamura, charlie jones, jo harvelle, ianto jones

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smilelikesteel June 29 2007, 20:10:43 UTC

Walking between the small houses, her shoes abandoned a while ago in favor of the fine sand on the beach and the soft grass in the jungle, Jo wasn't paying much attention to where she was going. Just walking. In the sun, it was peaceful, away from the Compound and most of the people. She wasn't really one for reflection - too many negative thoughts came up, bad memories - but she could be alone and not think at all and she enjoyed that.

As she came upon the waterfall, she was so busy not thinking, she didn't even notice the girl standing under the stream. Jo just sat down, rolled up her jeans and dangled her feet in the cool water, watching the surface ripple.

1000_cranes June 29 2007, 20:13:42 UTC

Charlie saw the girl come up, but, for a minute, she didn't move. The water felt too good pouring over her shoulders.

Eventually, though, she ducked under the water, coming up a few feet into the pool, her red hair slicked back from her face.

"Heya..."

smilelikesteel June 29 2007, 20:31:19 UTC

At the voice, Jo jumped slightly, her leg making a small splash in the pool. She was seriously going to have to take some time off before hunting again when she went home... if she went home. Her reflexes were seriously lacking.

"Hi," she said brightly, raising her hand in a sheepish half-wave. "Sorry, am I disturbing you?"

1000_cranes June 29 2007, 20:34:20 UTC

"It's a free island, honey," sad Charlie, swimming slowly towards her. "I was just taking a swim. It's so hot."

She squeezed the water out of her hair.

smilelikesteel June 29 2007, 21:10:27 UTC

"You just looked so... peaceful."

Jo wasn't used to being called 'honey' - only in passing, as a joke at the Roadhouse by hunters whose ass she'd promptly hand to them over a shooting game or pool. She shrugged it off. This was a different life now.

"I'm Jo," she said with a smile. "I don't think we've met yet."

1000_cranes June 29 2007, 21:26:14 UTC

"I was," said Charlie, with a little smile. "I was a million miles away, sugar. I was fifteen."

Charle swam over to the edge of the pool and offered her hand.

"Heya, Jo...I'm Charlie. I live right over there, in the house on stilts."

smilelikesteel June 30 2007, 05:33:29 UTC

Reaching out to clasp Charlie's hand firmly, Jo smiled. It was surprising how easy it was to meet people on this island. People who were, for the most part, friendly and open. She guessed that everyone just wanted to make friends, not enemies, but she'd also thought that tempers would be running high on such a small island. Luckily, she'd managed to avoid getting caught up in anything. Actually, she'd managed to avoid people in general altogether.

"Nice place," she said, glancing over to the house. "They've just built me a little house too. God, it's great to get out of the compound. The island's so beautiful, who wants to sleep underground?"

1000_cranes June 30 2007, 11:20:21 UTC

"I love it." Charlie beamed. "My friend Duck, he built it for me, and me and Hiro did all the cranes. It's the first time I ever had anythin' that's just mine, y'know?"

Charlie's nose wrinkled.

"I know, right? All my friends live out here, pretty much. Except Alex, but we go runnin' together, anyhow."

smilelikesteel July 1 2007, 06:08:40 UTC

Jo nodded. She supposed that this was the first time that she had anything that was just hers, too. The Roadhouse was Ellen's, and Ellen never belonged to her either, she belonged to the hunters and the memory of Bill. And hunting, that was never hers alone. But she saw now how people would perceive this not as a catastrophe but a fresh start. She could be anybody here.

"I love the cranes," she said, gesturing towards them with her chin. "You said Hiro, right? I met him a while back. He seems sweet."

1000_cranes July 1 2007, 14:08:52 UTC

"Thankyou," said Charlie, practically glowing with pride. "In Japan, where Hiro's from, they say if you make a thousand of those, you get your wish. I didn't get to a thousand, but I got him anyway."

Her nose wrinkled.

"He is, sugar. He's the sweetest man I ever met."

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