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 Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:30 pm
Deciding that her social life wasn't going to go anywhere unless she actually made it a point to meet people in between getting her a** kicked on a regular basis, Madeline had decided that lingering around the dorms couldn't hurt that much. Especially when she'd gotten it in her head that certain prickly trainees might do good with some interaction.
Of course, aimless wandering wasn't always something that paid off.
Instead, the new Sun trainee found herself passing one of the dorm rooms that looked like a tsunami had consumed it whole. It was pretty far from where her room was, but hell, the door looked cracked open and well... it never hurt to know? Madeline pushed one hand to her hip, folding the other into a ball and knocking on the door - maybe a bit too hard, because it swung open under her fist. Well. Okay.
"Anyone home?" She asked, peaking her head around the door, auburn curls falling in waves over her shoulder. Her curious look soon turned into an appreciative whistle. Someone seemed to have their own personal library in here!
... Now if only she could find them.
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 8:41 pm
Ami had run to the labs for five seconds to get some heavy duty (possibly chemical) cleaner, and she had someone in her dorm. Being a hunter was really suffering.
"What the ******** are you doing in here?" Ami said, hands on her elbows, arms firmly crossed. This was an "I don't approve of you one bit" pose. Ami's stuff was her stuff and you didn't touch it.
Especially since she was near the books. The books were her babies, even though nearly all of them were too waterlogged to be read. Now they were just odd squiggles on the page. A real shining metaphor for Ami's current state, really.
For now, all she did was stare at the girl with a displeased face. One bad move and Ami would be dragging her a** to the training grounds so she could appropriately use her weapon without consequences.
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:02 pm
Blinking when the girl that apparently lived here showed up, Madeline turned away from the cool personal library and regarded her for a long moment before smiling. "Um," She said, twirling a piece of auburn hair around her finger, and then, completely forgetting whatever it was Ami had just said, "hey, those are a lot of books in there that look like they could use some medicine." She smiled, hooking a thumb in her belt loops and cocking her hip to one side.
"There was this one time when my whole ******** room got ruined and I had to figure out how to save waterlogged books - " She blinked out of the reverie and tried to swerve back onto subject, "I mean to say - do you want any help?"
You're room looks like it tried to drown itself.
She didn't say that part out loud.
"Oh, I'm Madeline, by the way." She introduced, a shark-like grin spreading across her face like no wasn't an answer she would take, even if Ami said it a thousand times to her out loud.
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Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2012 9:12 pm
"Did I ask for your name?" Ami said, annoyed that the girl had the gumption to keep talking ... and talking ... and talking. A hand was already on her forehead, kneading slowly. She really didn't need a headache at this hour.
She sighed and said, "Look I'll give you like ten seconds to get out of my s**t, and we'll pretend this never happened?" Ami shrugged her intermediate coat off and hung it on the small brown hook that was still mostly in tact by the door.
Honestly, Ami probably looked a little too dolled up to be cleaning, but her daily attire was always like that. Skirts and a presentable skirt, with a cardigan and all the accessories. Though a lot of hunters seemed to like slopping the trough, Ami wouldn't give up her fashion for anything. She'd wear her designer boots to the middle of the rainforest if she had to.
Well actually, she technically already had.
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 3:52 am
Madeline grinned, undeterred. "No, but a lady always offers her name." She quipped softly, hooking her thumbs in her belt loops and swaying on spot. The girl didn't exactly like taking no for an answer... and hopefully Ami wouldn't try to murder her one day for it.
Maybe.
Sighing in return, Madeline leaned against the doorframe, peering back in at the mess before looking back at the girl. Her eyes drifted to the attire before snapping back to Ami. "That doesn't sound like fun at all." She said, the most subtle pout in her voice before she tilted her body lazily against the frame.
"Hey, I just wanted to help." She smiled slowly. "You look like you appreciate books, and I do too, and I dont want them all to get ruined is all. Some of them look like they can still be saved, and two sets of hands work better than one." She almost went into a tirade about some book-saving mission she'd self-entitled herself to, but knowing Ami probably wouldn't enjoy it, she zipped her mouth shut and hovered in the doorway, either undeterred by Ami's hostile nature or very adamant about saving the lives of innocent books.
... And maybe a few clothes too, if the water had reached more than where she could see from her perch.
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:15 am
Ami hesitated, walking over towards her books and flipping a single sodden page. These books were really important to her, and if this girl said she could save them ... Would it be worth bowing her head for them?
Fun. That was Madeline's justification. If people could convince Ami with just the words "it will be fun," she'd be a way bigger pushover. Alas, it took a little to push her buttons and a lot to get her trust.
Just as the girl was about to leave, she said, "C-Can you really save them? The books." She looked down at them sadly. They probably meant more to Ami than any single person on the island meant to her. If there was even a chance ONE of them could be saved, she'd take it.
She just hoped this didn't mean she'd have to play "friends." Anything but that.
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:50 pm
Taking the question as an invitation to stay - at least for the moment - Madeline bounced a few paces into the room, surveying the damage before turning her head back to Ami with a smile. "I can try my best; I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Deus doesn't exactly have unused freezers laying around, but I know a few other methods to savin' books we can use." She waved a hand back and forth.
The girl glanced down at the waterlogged books after a moment of peering at Ami for what she hoped might be a nod of "you can stay", her lip jutting into a pout at the library and... well, the state of it.
It always saddened her to see books in such a dreadful state.
"I also have extra space in my room where we can dry them out if you need it," She said, tossing a thumb over her shoulder with a mild grin. "If you trust me enough to do that, that is."
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:56 pm
Ami didn't welcome her into the room warmly, but not getting turned away was welcome enough from Ami. If she wasn't asking you to leave, you were in the clear.
"There are a few freezers in the labs we use. I don't think anyone would notice a few books." She could put a note in her easily recognizable handwriting. That alone would keep most of the trainees off it.
Ami shook her head. "I don't." She trusted very few people with them- Tori, Sasha, Kat maybe if she liked to read. "They can't dry in here?" The closer Ami could keep them, the better she'd feel.
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:19 pm
Madeline bobbed her head towards the mention of freezers and smiled. "Thats a start then. The process is pretty simple. Freezing books just helps stop the mold process when you can't attend to them all right away... and you have a lot of books it seems." She twisted an auburn curl between her fingers. "We really just need space and lots of paper towels."
Blinking at Ami, the Sun trainee waved her fingers at her dismissively. "If you have enough room?" She smiled at her. "I was just offering, since its smart to lay them out flat and these rooms - " She extended her arms to either side as if to gesture to how the dorms weren't exactly the most spacey in the world, "aren't that big."
Pausing, Madeline shuffled her feet before gesturing to the girl. "We can get started whenever you want, doll."
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 10:51 pm
Ami cocked an eyebrow at the use of "doll," but if she was bothered, she didn't say so. "You have extra room, though?" she said, curious, but with a hint of suspicion. Ami was an intermediate trainee, so she couldn't imagine why a normal trainee would have more room than her.
Then again, she could just have less stuff. Ami would admit that although she kept it neat and obnoxiously tidy, there were quite a few books, pieces of clothing- miscellaneous things really- all around the room. It wasn't a messy room, to say the least, just filled.
She turned back to the books. "I suppose it doesn't matter. Do what you have to," she said abruptly. "I won't take something for nothing, though," she added, quoting one of her favorite disney villains. "How can I repay you?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:39 pm
"Well," Madeline said without missing a beat, turning to glance at Ami wryly, "I haven't exactly put much in my room yet. You've been here a lot longer than I have."
Gingerly, the girl stepped towards one of the water damaged books and picked it up, holding it with surprising gentleness. She loved books, and she hated seeing them damaged. It was almost as painful as seeing open wounds on real people, but at least this books didn't whine out loud.
"Alright, alright." She laughed and glanced back at Ami with a wry little grin. "We can start putting the books on flat surfaces to dry with absorbent papers in them to take out some of the excess water, and move anything that we can't get to right away into the freezers." She blinked out of her mini-ramble and beamed at Ami.
"A name," She chirruped in a pleased little tone, "you can pay me with that, alright?"
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:50 pm
Ami took an impulsive step forward as Madeline grabbed her book, but didn't say anything. Somehow, the girl managed to win Ami over with the way she was holding the book. There was just a connection between book lovers that you could tell without talking.
She listened as Madeline listed off the things she needed to do. It was quite a bit to do, but Ami was willing to do anything for her books. She liked books more than people.
"Ami," she said shortly, "Amalie Raine." Ooh wow look at you Madeline, getting a full name and everything, aren't you fancy.
She looked the girl up and down and said, "What's your weapon?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:18 am
Beaming at Ami when she noticed her closer than before, Madeline gingerly placed the book down in a dry area, trailing a finger over it in contemplation. It looked like it could be saved, it would just be a bit of work.
"It's a lot to do, I guess," She said after a moment, "but once you get into a routine of it, its easy."
And yes, she was ******** fancy.
"Ooh, Ami. Pleasures all mine." She said, grinning, because it sure as hell was. She moved around the room, surveying books and places where they could lay them down, touching some gingerly as if to assess how damaged they were.
The question came as a mild surprise, but after brushing away the laughter of Arsen in the back of her head, Madeline lifted her wrist, revealing the anchor bracelet - her weapons un-summoned form. "Arsenios." She said with a smile. "He's - ah," She paused, "an oversized spiked club. I tried to call him a baseball bat, but he's displeased by the mere idea."
Waving two fingers at Ami, Madeline gave a grin and leaned forward, pausing in her ambling around the room. "Yours?"
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:23 am
< You better say nice things. >
What, I'm sorry did you say something? I can't hear you.
< IS THIS BETTER AMI. >
Point taken.
Ami: 0, Junpei: 1
Ami pointed a finger to the small black and yellow scaled fish hair clip that mostly just accessorized her hair now that her bangs were cut optimally. "Jumpy," she said.
< Junpei. >
"He's a glaive," she said, ignoring his correction entirely, "How about I give you a training spar in exchange?" That would account for "something." She couldn't help it, she hated leaving people empty-handed.
Or maybe she just didn't want to be in anyone's debt.
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:31 am
Peering at the fish hair clip with undisguised intrigue, Madeline shuffled her feet and laughed at the name. "Jumpy, really? Cute." She rumbled, tilting her head from the fish to the anchor and back again.
"I've never seen a glaive in action before. Is it difficult to use?" Madeline began plucking books from places with tentative fingers, inspecting damages and laying them out where she could find place and where it was dry. "I hope this is alright to do?" She asked the other as an afterthought with a lazy, cat-like grin.
The offer was met with a blink though, and then Madeline laughed, her throat curling around a slight purr. "Oh, chica, that would be awesome." She bobbed her head with a grin, "I'd love that. I haven't found anyone to spar with yet, and being a Sun... well, I should."
After all, she was part of the suicidal division, the least she could do was try to train herself not to get killed.
It was almost painfully obvious that Madeline didn't even see it as a trade-off deal. This was just her helping Ami, and Ami being nice enough - or something, ha, - to offer her a spar.
Obviously she was on a whole different page, if not in an entirely different book.
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