41st Inning

Jan. 1st, 2011 11:27 am
freakinblur: (y hallo thar)
[personal profile] freakinblur
[Phone:]

So, this whole ballot thing? Talk about a load. Personally? I ain't doin' it. But I gotta sinkin' feelin' that we're all screwed whether ya vote either way, 'r not at all. That's what Mayfield does, man!

[Action:

So now that whole Christmas debacle was over, it was time for things to proceed as normal. As normal as Scout walking down the street with a small, hyper beagle puppy on a leash seems normal. Now that everyone's done getting tortured for the holidays, Scout's picked up his Christmas present for Ai at the pet store. He's trying to keep it in line, but it's not like he can't keep up with it. It just wants to get into everyone's business. Also maybe it will entice cute girls to come over to say hello to them, so hopes Scout! Better look out for that puppy running about your feet, or these two speeding down the sidewalk, Scout laughing all the while.

Eventually he makes it to his home on Mitchell Road.]

Hey Ai! C'mere! I gotcha somethin'!

Date: 2011-01-01 04:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com
[Ai actually walks over for once instead of just appearing.]

Date: 2011-01-01 04:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
Check it out! Merry Christmas, kiddo!

{He's got the puppy off the leash now, in the kitchen. It's just a big bundle of energy. It runs over to Ai when she enters the room.]

Date: 2011-01-01 04:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com
[She looks down as the dog jumps at her legs. Well someone looks happy. There will a long long pause before Ai reaches down and pats its head.]

Date: 2011-01-01 04:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
So, whatcha think? He's gonna need a name, ya know! An' we're gonna have ta train 'im. I've had dogs before, so I know what I'm doin'.

Date: 2011-01-01 04:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com
[Looks up, still patting doggy.]

What should we call him?

Date: 2011-01-01 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
That's upta you, kiddo! He's yer Christmas present.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
Yep! Like I said, merry Christmas. I wanted ta wait till everythin' quieted down before I got ya somethin'. Considerin' everythin' that happened, I'm glad I waited.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
...yer cool with 'im, right? [He's never quite sure how to read you.]

Date: 2011-01-01 08:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com
Yes.

[There's a pause.]

Just a moment.

[And she disappears.]

Date: 2011-01-01 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
O...kay?

[Scout blinks. Also, puppy is confused.]

Date: 2011-01-01 09:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com
[She'll be a moment but then she appears back and holds out a piece of paper. There is a drawing on it.

It's good. If you don't mind children's drawings. It's a picture of Scout with a baseball bat. She made sure to add lots of blue. Because she figures he like that colour.]

She said I should draw something.

Date: 2011-01-01 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
[He holds it up, and laughs delightedly.] Wow, nice! Not bad at all! Thanks. [TOTALLY HANGING IT ON THE FRIDGE LIKE A PROUD PAPA.]

Wait, who told ya that?

Date: 2011-01-01 10:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com
[Yay, he likes it.]

Rangiku did....before she was droned.

Date: 2011-01-01 10:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
Ah. Yeah. Too bad 'bout that. Seems like it's always you 'n' me here, huh? Well, an' the pets now. Got any names in mind yet?

Date: 2011-01-01 10:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com
That cat is named Wanyūdō.


........Ren?

Date: 2011-01-01 11:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
[He would never remember your cat's name. Ever.]

"Ren"? Sure, sounds good ta me.

Date: 2011-01-02 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] miss-enma-ai.livejournal.com
[Just nods. Soon she will have pets named after all her companions.]

Date: 2011-01-01 07:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glowing-science.livejournal.com
I'm sure this could blow up in my face, but I voted.

I don't trust this, but at least my statement is out there. I want to go home.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
Me too, but I seriously doubt this is tha way it's gonna happen.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glowing-science.livejournal.com
I doubt it, too. But I don't think they'll allow for take-backs.

Besides, investigation wise... it might be better to have one of us vote and one not, so that we get multiple perspectives on what happens. So my mistake might be to our advantage.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
I guess that ain't a bad idea, I guess. We'll have ta find someone who wants ta stay, then.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glowing-science.livejournal.com
That's a good idea! I hadn't really thought of that.

It's hard to imagine that anyone would, though.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
I've met some people... I might know someone who does wanna stay. I'll have ta ask her, but I ain't sure. I bet there's more than ya think, sad as it is.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glowing-science.livejournal.com
Why, though?

When we get out of here, I know I'll miss people--life just won't be the same without your unique charm, for example. But I have my own life to get back to. Family. Friends. Obligations. Science.

That matters more.

Date: 2011-01-01 09:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
I totally agree. But there are some people here who come from places so shitty that this is a better option.

Date: 2011-01-02 09:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] glowing-science.livejournal.com
That's... a good point. I suppose this isn't the worst place possible, compared to other possibilities.

Let me know what this person says so we know whether we can compare notes or not.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tsundorapettan.livejournal.com
Che... do ya really think they can do something with those votes to screw us over...?

Date: 2011-01-01 08:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
When don't they take tha chance ta screw us over? I mean, c'mon, this thing is as suspicious as hell.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hispalette.livejournal.com
If they're giving us a choice, it can't be as bad as we think. Do you know anything about this Postman guy?

Date: 2011-01-01 08:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
Do ya really think it's gonna be as easy as this? Ya gotta be crazy!

Yeah. He showed up not all that long ago outta nowhere, same with tha post office. If ya walk in there ta collect any packages he says yer owed, ya'll get somethin' back but lose, like, a limb 'r an organ. Some people even lost memories. I don't know how anyone thinks this guy is fer real.

Date: 2011-01-01 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hispalette.livejournal.com
I didn't say that. Compared to being forced to decide something against our will, it seems pretty tame.

This voting thing makes me believe that he isn't working for the Mayor; at least not in an ordinary way.

Date: 2011-01-01 09:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
Good, cuz otherwise I'd have ta worry about ya. It seems tame now, but I bet shit'll get ugly once all the votes 'r collected.

Oh yeah, we've been gettin' that idea lately. Sounds like Grady an' tha Mayor are against somma the other weirdos in charge 'a this place. The stuff Kay had heard in City Hall definitely made it sound like that.

Date: 2011-01-01 09:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hispalette.livejournal.com
Maybe. We're between a rock and a hard place. I'm worried about what will happen to the people who elect to stay in Mayfield.

Do you think it's the Postman?

Date: 2011-01-01 09:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
I feel bad fer anyone who thinks Mayfield is a better place than where they're from. But I know there's some out there. Ta think there are some places that are worse than Mayfield... there's also people here who are dead back where they're from. Mayfield may suck but at least they're alive here, ya know?

Date: 2011-01-01 09:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hispalette.livejournal.com
[dryly] Some afterlife. What's worth fighting for a future where all you have to look forward to is being held prisoner, being lied to?

Date: 2011-01-01 09:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
Tell me about it. But I guess it's better 'n bein' dead. I guess ya'd have ya ask one 'a them.

Date: 2011-01-01 09:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hispalette.livejournal.com
I feel awful for anyone who's that hopeless.

[then again, his own situation isn't that much better.]

We should do something. I don't know what, but there can't be another day like Christmas. So many people were hurt.

Date: 2011-01-01 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
That's tha way it goes here, pally. Either yer bored outta yer mind or yer gettin' driven crazy by this town. We're always tryin' ta do somethin' ta stop it, but so many people come 'n' go here, or start disagreein' with each other that we never get much done. It's frustratin'. Trust me, I know. I been here almost a year now.

Date: 2011-01-01 10:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hispalette.livejournal.com
A little organization would go a long way, but if it hasn't happened already, it won't happen anytime soon.

Date: 2011-01-01 10:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
Seems like it. We're still tryin' though. I mean, if we give up fightin this place, we might as well just become drones, right?

So, what's yer name, kid? I'm Scout.

Date: 2011-01-01 11:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hispalette.livejournal.com
I'd be a terrible drone. I hate baseball and I'd rather be home watching TV than at school pretending to be learning.

Red.

Date: 2011-01-02 01:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
Ya hate baseball? ...Why? [Why do you speak such blasphemy]

Eh, no one makes fer a good drone. Pretty much anyone has more personality than those cardboard cutouts! I'm glad that despite all my time here, I've only been droned like twice.

Date: 2011-01-03 03:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hispalette.livejournal.com
[it's obvious he's shrugging on his end.] Just never got into it. I don't even really know how to swing a bat, to be honest.

Twice? You're pretty brave.

Date: 2011-01-03 03:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakinblur.livejournal.com
Then it sounds like ya just need ta learn from someone who knows what he's doin'!

I thought in all the time I been here, I'd get droned more often. I think I'm just lucky.

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