In which her little deuce coup doesn't quite make it.

[hel_hathnofury]

She had been on the highway coming back into the city when it happened. A slow clunk-clunk-clunk that she knew came with her car sliding down that hill to a slow death. She'd been seeing the signs for weeks now, but she managed to plead her way through it and get to her gig in upstate New York that weekend. She figured that after the gig she

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[mini_dean]

"Yeah, I got it." Ben leaned back and grabbed the phone, holding it to his ear as he worked to untangle the cord.

"Garage. Ben speaking."

[hel_hathnofury]

Haley kind of froze for a minute, as it wasn't the voice she was expecting. She didn't know this Ben. Ben was not a name she was familiar with. She didn't exactly know how to respond to Ben, but she knew she had to eventually say something, and once she opened her mouth, she had a tendency to ramble a bit.

"Hi. Is Mitch there?" Then, panic, because if he had left the office already she was screwed when it came to finding someone who would drive all the way out from the city to her. "Oh, God, don't tell me I missed him."

[mini_dean]

"Nah, he's here. Just stepped out for a second. Who's this?"

Ben was back to working on his order forms for stuff that one of Miranda's uncle needed, lifting his eyes to watch out for when Mitch would be walking back his way.

[hel_hathnofury]

"Oh. I'm Haley, I'm a friend of his. I, uh -- " she sighed a bit, running her hand through her hair as she looked down at the steaming engine in front of her. Odds are the guy picking up was a mechanic. And he worked there, and it could be the chance that he would be the one coming out to help her. " -- my baby died. And by baby I mean my Corvette."