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 Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:07 pm
Rikki stood by her, hands in his pockets, and strained his neck looking up the building.
"...If there's no skelevator in here I'm vetoing this one so fast." He stepped forward and held the door to the complex open for her. "C'mon, might as well check it out."
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Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:36 pm
Danny laughed, throwing an amiable arm around his shoulder. "C'mon, stairs aren't so bad."
She pushed through the front door, finding herself in a little lobby of sorts. There were hallways on either side and an elevator in front of her. It was a tiny kiosk, nothing more than that, for taking in potential customers. Danny was struck with nervousness as she looked at the gorgon who manned the desk. "Um I'm ... I uh-"
"Appointments are booked for the next 5 months, please come back later we appreciate your business," the woman said without looking up.
"C-Claudia sent us? She's my mom? We had an appointment now ..." Danny attempted.
The gorgon stopped typing and looking up, squinting at them. "Are you ... Daniella?" She spat the name looking as though she'd smelled something bad.
"Yeah, but just call me Danny!"
"Charmed." By her face, she wasnt.
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Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 2:44 pm
Rikki leaned up on the desk next to Danny, looking at the gorgon lady behind it. Or, rather, he did for about five second until one of her snakes hissed at him. "Wah, s**t!" He reeled back, out of the snake's biting range. He kept a good six inches between him and the desk after that. He let Danny handle talking to her because it was her mom that had set it up, be he couldn't help but be a little shocked. Five months? What the hell had her mom done to get them into a place that'd been booked up for five months?
None the less he gave a charming smile and wiggled his fingers at the receptionist. (She wasn't impressed.)
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Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:05 pm
The gorgon placed a tiny sign on the desk that read "ON BREAK." After doing that, she calmly exited the desk and walked wordlessly towards the elevator.
They all stood in awkward silence as they made it to the third floor out of about four or five. The elevator doors wheezed open and they filed out, following the hissing tangle of hair to a room down the hall.
Abruptly, the woman turned. "This is the only room we have open. Please follow me."
"Can we uh. Can we just look around?" Danny wasn't really keen on having a tour, especially not with a lady who was just going to tell them boring things. That, and if they were under surveillance if meant they couldn't touch anything.
"No."
Well okay.
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Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 3:17 pm
Rikki hung back in the corner of the elevator furthest from the snakes, conveniently behind Danny. He didn't speak, just kind of watched the woman uneasily even as they exited the elevator and walked down the hall. He didn't trust angry hair.
The entire place looked too clean and taken care of. He could feel the money that went into it, and it was just... too nice. He squinted at the door to the available apartment and sighed. It might not feel so awful if they could just get out of this woman's company. "You're sure we can't look around on our own? For just a couple minutes? Please?"
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Posted: Sat Nov 09, 2013 4:22 pm
"No."
And that was that.
She let them through the bedroom (windows!) and the living room, following with the connected kitchen/dining room area, then to the bathroom. All the while she showed them closets, nooks and crannies. It was a small place, but definitely not as small as the dorms as Amity.
"Pleaaaaaaaaaaase." By now the gorgon had heard the request fifty thousand times throughout the tour and she was fed up.
"No!"
Danny dug through her messenger bag and pulled out a bag of seeds. "Please please please pleaseeeee."
A moment of silence as the gorgon looked the two over, then she snapped the seeds out of Danny's hand, turning to leave. "Five minutes. No more, no less!" As if to prove her point, she stared at her watch, marking the exact second with her own eyes and all of her snakes' eyes. With that, she was gone.
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:09 pm
Rikki's shoulders immediately slumped with relief. He felt so tense around uppity people. Eugh.
"Okay, five minutes," he said, turning to Danny. "What do you think of it so far? Kind of... Fancy." Somehow he managed to make that sound like a bad thing. He'd be much more at home in some beaten townhouse than a ritzy apartment, really.
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:18 pm
"Mmmm. It's okay. It's not that fancy." Said the fire demon who had visited upscale mansions for Christmastival parties her whole life. "We should look around for secret trap doors." Since the lady wasn't here, it seemed like the logical option.
Danny followed behind Rikki as they walked through the apartment, albeit in a much less narrower path considering she was opening every drawer and touching everything that the grumpy lady hadn't let her touch.
As they rounded back into the bedroom, Danny slapped Rikki's shoulder and said, "Ooooh ooh ooh, stand right there, right there." She pointed near the edge of the bed, and then hopped onto the bed herself. She pointed back down at the ground and said, "Yeah like right here. And face the wall!!"
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:32 pm
Rikki raised his brows but didn't argue. He didn't think there'd be any trap doors in an upscale apartment, but she'd proven him wrong before. Though it was an effort not to cringe and look behind them for the gorgon lady every time Danny slammed a door just a tad too hard.
"Danny that's not even our bed," he laughed, shuffling into place as she asked. "The gorgon'll feed you to her hair if you get dirt on the fancy sheets." He couldn't see what she was doing behind him, and that was a little worrying.
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:44 pm
Without skipping a beat, Danny slowly crawled onto his back and then reached a hand up to touch the ceiling. "It's like PERFECT PIGGYBACK HEIGHT!!"
This was apparently more exciting than anything else that had happened that day. "Up to you though, I mean my mom's probably gonna pay for it so she's kinda happy with wherever. She might come decorate it though."
They could always throw away the hideous porcelain skeleton tea set later.
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 9:55 pm
Rikki dutifully hefted her weight and tilted his head back until it leaned against her belly so he could look up at her. "Glad you're pleased with yourself."
He shrugged slightly, hindered by carrying her, and considered their options. "If your mom's paying, it might not be so bad. Might shut my parents up if we're somewhere nice, too." He hummed slightly. "I'll live here, but can your parents get the receptionist fired or something....?" If he sounded a little pleading and hopeful, it was because he really didn't like that woman.
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Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2014 10:22 pm
Danny began shimmying down off him, having been satisfied with the ceiling height but unsatisfied with sitting in one place for so long. "Yeah but your parents will shut up wherever 'cause I'll punch 'em if they don't." She fixed her sorry excuse for a shirt and shorts and said, "I mean unless they're nice people. They don't sound very nice from how you talk about 'em."
Yet another thing on a list of things Danny had forgotten was meeting Rikki's parents; the altercation was completely absent from her lexicon now. "I mean it's not your parent's or my parent's decision. Do you like it here or not, 'cause if not we'll move shop and set up your drums elsewhere." Come to think of it, this place didn't exactly look like it was friendly to noise. That might have to be another thing they arranged; soundproofing.
She cast a look back to the door and debated silently with herself for a moment. "Yeah I think we could get her fired. Oersted probably owns some company that's run by a dude that owns this place or something."
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