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 Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2011 1:54 am
It was a hot summer night and Ainsley had found herself unable to sleep again. She was so restless lately, and it didn't take her long before she rolled herself out of the bed and carefully slipped down the ladder to the floor. She paced lightly until finally stopping in front of the window, carefully staring at the double panes of glass that was sectioned off into six areas. It was a beautiful window, but it was in the way, separating the child from the outside world and the night sky.
There was one solution for this and to solve it the small palms of the child soon pressed against the window and she pushed both windows open. There was a slight breeze outside and when the windows were pushed open the wind gently brushed against the child's face, blowing her hair this way and that way as her elbows pressed against the window sill. She leaned over a bit, looking at the overhanging roof below before looking up to the sky, attempting to count the stars in the sky. It was surprisingly difficult, the longer she looked at the sky the more clearly she could see stars that had been nearly invisible prior.
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:11 pm
Pollux never thought much about running in the city or, running in the city with his uniform. This early in the evening, or late at night depending on your view, and not many roamed the streets. He was a man on a mission. With some new contacts down he had work to take care of at the office, and more then that, he had to take care of the fact he still had left over paper work to file and sort. A busy night, and with no plans to fight youma.
To Pollux, it was a good plan.
What he didn't count on was that he'd have to pass by the window of one tiny chibi senshi, unable to go to sleep, even if it was her power.
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:54 pm
The child's attempt to count all the stars had soon diminished into a lingering stare that soon fell down curiously to the street below. It wasn't nearly as pretty as the sky but it did prove a different kind of sight as a certain frost senshi passed by her window. Immediately, the child's fingers dug into the window sill and she leaned forward to get a better sight of the man as he moved by. It was Pollux, it was Pollux! The child pushed herself away from the window immediately and quickly began to dig around until she pulled out her henshin and powered up as silently as she could. There the tiny senshi stood in her bedroom with her bunny in her arms as she slowly moved back to the window. She had to hurry before he got away!
The child carefully swung her leg over the window and then slid down onto the roof where she watched the senshi move in the distance ahead of her before she dropped down safely onto the ground below, quickly making haste chase after her frost friend.
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:52 am
Navigating the city was easy for him, a second nature. Street names by day, markers by night, when the lights cast moving shadows, some which he might pause to peer into, just to err on the safe side. He never thought of the senshi energy signature, he wrote it off, thinking it was just somebody regular. Lots of senshi were in the downtown. It was common to pass by other senshi signatures. None were familair to him, they were just brushes of energy.
Besides, he only needed to worry about negaverse...or Chaonis...or Nemesis. Maybe not Nemesis, but the danger senshi he was sure would love to give him another round of exercise. He didn't need that and thankfully, he didn't sense any senshi that powerful nearby. Arriving at the building, Pollux pulled out his key. He was in a hurry to get started, not bothering to look behind him this time. No nega, no youma nearby. He was fine, safe.
Unlocking the door and stepping inside, his mind was so focused he didn't think to lock it behind him like he normally did.
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:03 am
The child struggled a bit as she ran over the street ways in her bunny slippers but she managed to keep up with the senshi of frost, at least within a distance that allowed the tiny senshi of sleep to follow Sailor Pollux as he made his way across the city to a part of town that the child didn't usually visit. Her eyes followed him and her surroundings, looking at all of the buildings that were all around them. Suddenly, her prey had disappeared into one of the buildings. Had her dreams been crushed? She hurried to the door and to her excitement, the door was open!
She looked around her, and then carefully she opened the door and stepped into the building that the senshi of frost had done so moments ago. Her eyes looked around the space she had entered, immediately trying to find the man she had followed all the way out here. She wondered where he went, her feet shuffling along the ground as she made her way into the building.
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:07 am
He'd gone into the back room to pull out some recent posters he planned to place out in the city, things to gather interest, notoriety. Tonight was a night planned to be laid back. But stepping into the main room, and seeing Hypnos standing there, Pollux stopped dead in his tracks. How had she gotten in? More important, had she been followed? Had she followed him If so he should have sensed it or just-
Looking at her, Pollux went to the door, locking it outright. Phone was pulled from subspace and opened, scanning the area. They were the only two in the area, the other signals having moved on. "Hypnos..." He wanted to be mad at her but really he couldn't. It was his own fault for being so careless. More so, it was his own fault for not bothering to actually use his phone to scan before even coming close to the building. He'd gotten complacent. Her presence reminded him of that. She was just as innocent as ever.
Rubbing the back of his head, Pollux went to his chair and fell into it, slouching. "How did you find me here?" A sigh. "And no, before you ask, I'm not mad at you more...upset with myself and my actions or lack thereof."
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 5:37 am
Sailor Chibi Hypnos' face had lit up when Sailor Pollux had come back, but the enthusiasm deterred a little bit when she seen his expression. Was he not happy to see her? She thought he'd be happy to see her! She moved out of the way when he went to lock the door, silent as he walked past her again to sit down on a chair. She stepped forward a bit before she stopped again, her feet crossing around each other, occasionally digging into the floor below her.
"You ran by my window, so I followed you," she admitted.
The air around the child felt heavy and there was an apparent sigh of relief when the man had told her he wasn't upset with her. Her worried position shifted and her posture improved with it, her face lighting up a bit more normally than it had been as well with the news. She looked at him still, but her eyes finally began to look around the warehouse curiously. She may have ran here behind him but wasn't sure where she was, not in the least.
"Where are we?" She inquired with certain curiosity. "What are you doing here?"
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Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:43 pm
There was a simple reason Pollux liked secrets. Mostly they provided security. Secondly, they also gave him peace of mind. Children to him, were terrible secret keepers. They talked ceaselessly, were careless, had little to no idea of the severity of issues at hand- his list went on and on. Pollux didn't mix well with children on a pretty basic level.
Or so he thought.
In reality he was rather fond of the fact children in being young, we less likely to deliberately cause harm, or, be greedy buggers, (the exception was those brats he saw around Christmas time. It was like they multiplied in the winter months). He also thought them innocent much in the same way his brother did. One of the few things the brothers wholeheartedly agreed on. Children were things that were in need of protection and quite often worth protecting.
Chibi senshi kinda left him a jumble though. Innocents exposed to war, to things that haunted the minds of adults. He didn't want to think of what it did for children. Sighing Pollux considered for a few seconds ushering her out. But then he knew he'd just end up worried and fussing over her. No, he'd just have to deal with it, and keep and eye on her, if only for his own peace of mind. "This is my office. Not my real office but, the one I use for my work as a senshi." Swiveling in his chair his watched her. "I wasn't aware I ran by your home." She seemed interested in exploring and that fine. He had work.
Papers littered the desk and he sighed. Work never ending. "As for what I do..." A small smirk. "What All senshi do, fighting. Mine is just more...scheduled." Telling a kid you took pay for fighting...not exactly a nice bomb to drop.
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Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2011 11:37 am
Sailor Chibi Hypnos was walking back and forth, checking out the place with great interest as Sailor Pollux explained what he was doing here. She'd never heard of senshi having an office before and she shot a look to Sailor Pollux curiously. He was like her papa! Always working, working, working at the office! She smiled faintly as she remembered the images of her father in her head. Her father was a successful business man, was Sailor Pollux too? What exactly did he do? She didn't have to wonder long before he told her.
"I do what all senshi do, mine is just more scheduled."
Or at least what's what she heard.
She stepped over carefully to the desk, peering at the surface carefully. There were a lot of papers there. It really was like her father's office, although she'd only got a peak once. She never got to help him, but perhaps she could help Sailor Pollux? Her lips formed a tiny smile as she thought about it, her fingers tapping lightly on the desk.
"Can I help?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:47 am
It had caught if completely off guard. He thought she'd just wander about, go inspect and investigate some more. But looking up from his latest file, Pollux saw the questioning eyes of the tiny chibi senshi. Her question was innocent enough, but his mind shot to the worst case scenario. Her getting files meant for some rather nasty work. No, that would hardly do. Leaning back into his seat Pollux considered his options.
He could just flat deny her, and leave her to her own devices. It was really the most simple of solutions. The mind of the senshi of frost however was always looking for another route, and soon a smile formed on his face. The senshi had an image of being the bad guys, the ones wrecking the city. Sure they might but mostly it was property damage, much better than people ending up dead. Still the city didn't like their image. But they didn't see a tiny chibi senshi, peering over a desk and looking quite like the little adorable child she was. They didn't see that. It might work.
"Actually yes." There would be more for that later. Right now he figured she could at least help him sort file names for the new cabnets. "See this stack of folders? I need them sorted. The stars indicate the piles they go into. Black stars in one pile, red in another, blue, gold all very simple no?" The stickers indicated the level of legality.
He debated the black marked folders. "And don't look in the folders. It's all very top secret." There. No worries. Right?
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:21 am
It was simple enough to please Sailor Chibi Hypnos, the child becoming excited when he said she could help! She didn't know what she had to do yet, but there was an excited expression lingering on her face as she waited and thanks to his prompt explanation, it wasn't long until she knew what to do. There was a pile of folders with her name on it and they all needed help to find their proper place, and grow tall!
"I can do that!" She said, skipping over to the stack of folders that was sitting there.
Her hand was on top of one of the first folders when she paused, being told not to look inside of them. It was top secret, but that didn't mean she didn't wonder what was inside of them. The roaming curiosity was definitely worse after the realization being made and she lingered on the first one, a big gold star on the top of it, trying to imagine just what was inside as she held it in her hands. The more she looked at it, holding it out to see, the more she realized that it was like the stars on her skirt. They matched! She giggled about it before she looked for a place to start a pile for the gold ones before repeating the task for a black and red folder, giving her three distinct piles.
There didn't seem to be a blue star one, and she had to be satisfied with three piles at the moment when she turned to look to Sailor Pollux again as she pointed out and said, "Is this okay?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 2:59 am
As he watched her enthusiasm for work, Pollux's thoughts lingered. She wanted to help, and senshi needed good PR. Heck, they needed a s**t load of it. But if they presented it in a way that wasn't just right, the attempt would backfire. Miserably so. No, if he wanted to use her in such a way he'd have to be careful about it.
He scanned through some of the files, looking at the gold star ones. Someone to help out a neighborhood watch catch a petty group of teens that had been tagging the area. Another file scanned over. Work a party? A...child's party no less. Some parents would go to any length for their child it seemed. Looking up at Hypnos's work, he smiled. "Perfect. Now, hand me the black and red, and I'll go and set them in the cabinets. I think tonight I'll go trough the gold files." Find a job for the cute chibi.
He paused. Maybe he was thinking about this the wrong way. Maybe she could just work here. He did spend a fair amount of time just doing simple if tedious filing and paperwork. Another set of hands no matter how simple were still another set of hands. "Do you want to help me some more?"
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:23 pm
Sailor Chibi Hypnos was pleased with herself, a smile on her face, when he said it was perfect. It was just what she had been going for and she happily scooped up the black files off the floor and then carefully skipped over to him with them, returning back to the piles to retrieve the ones with the red stars and repeat the same steps for those. She lingered for a moment when he said he would go through the gold star files, deciding to retrieve them as well and bring them over to him. However, she held onto these files so they wouldn't get mixed up with the ones he said he was going to put away.
She couldn't help but hug them loosely when he asked if she wanted to help him more, and almost with a squeal she replied to him with haste, "Yes please!"
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 2:45 am
As the files were placed under a very real lock and key filing cabinet, Pollux figured Hypnos had good intentions even if she had no idea just what her intentions might give her in return. Pollux was someone who wanted results for actions taken. He was one who wanted everything to have it's place. True, he had found his place more or less, but to what end would Hypnos find her own? Shaking his head it didn't suit the senshi of frost well to linger on such thoughts best left for the one they did matter for. That was, for Hypnos herself.
Pulling up a second chain and setting it up next to him, Pollux set a pair of note tabs in front of her. A small task but an important one in any event.
The gold star files were pretty mundane tasks. Neighborhood watches, investigating some petty crimes, spy on a man's daughter's boyfriend, (he went to Hillworth, case closed before it was even opened), nothing really substantial. Not for a chibi anyway. Handing her a file Pollux smiled. "This one is a red tab, it means I don't have anyone to work it." Another file. "Give this one a blue tab." A third file. "Yellow tab."
He figured to explain. "Blue are jobs you might be able to do, yellow are ones I might consider opening up. The blue..they're just if you'd want. Or, you can always just stick around here and keep the place clean or something." A hand waved in the air. "It always seems to gather more dust overnight."
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Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2011 4:39 pm
The child barely had time to react when before she knew it there were three files sitting in her arms. There was one with a red tab, one with a blue tab and one with a yellow tab. If she understood correctly, red tabs meant they were free to do since they didn't have anyone to work on it, blue tabs meant she could do it, and yellow tabs meant she could possibly do it. She was trying to remember them, setting the files them down on the table so she could give them corresponding red, blue and yellow tabs.
She just wanted to be helpful, willing to do whatever tasks Sailor Pollux had sent her way.
"You're very organized," she commented to him. She hadn't seen many senshi that were quite so organized, or even any that did things like this. All the senshi she met seemed to be focused on things the child didn't like, or really want much part of.
"How come you do this?" She asked, followed by a curious, "Do you do this alone? Is it lonely?"
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